Chapter 364: Zhao Xi

While observing the characteristics of the Rong army's arrangement, Zhao Xi, who ordered the whole army to change horses and prepare to give the Rong people a fatal blow, did not change his mind because of the enemy's quick reaction.

And when he saw less than 20,000 cavalry facing his army in a horizontal formation, putting their more than 10,000 foot soldiers behind him, Zhao Xi couldn't help licking his lips, and he was eager to try the simple and rough formation of the Rong army.

Obviously, the Rong army intends to use cavalry to hedge against itself, winning or losing a war, and a war of life and death.

"Is this the pinnacle of cavalry in the mouth of Zhu Lihua?"

Looking at the mixed cavalry battle formation composed of those short but burly Di people with red hair and tall Rong people with white and black hair, Zhao Xi snorted disdainfully after pulling down the mask on his helmet.

"If you hadn't fought with the people of Qin for four or five months, then I, Zhao Xi, might still be jealous of you.

But now that you have just fled from Huangyin City, and now you are in a hurry to line up, what qualifications do you have to compete with the elite cavalry of my Chu State? ”

Zhao Xi said to himself as he raised his Changge high, and took the lead in rushing towards the Rong army formation thousands of steps away on the opposite side.

He was closely followed by a soldier holding a huge Vermilion Bird battle flag, and the battle flag in the soldier's hand was waving in the wind as the war horse galloped, guiding the 20,000 Chu army to rush towards the Rong army.

At the same time, Lin Xu, who was covered with white hair, nodded slowly to Qiuzi, and saw that Qiuzi, who was also gray-haired, had complicated eyes and responded to Lin Xu, who had been sad for a day, and then personally held a horn and blew it "woo woo woo".

As the horn sounded, nearly 20,000 troops from various tribes who had been temporarily arranged into a team shouted the slogan of "Ula" together, beating their horses and rushing towards the red torrent on the opposite side.

In the blink of an eye, 40,000 cavalry were united.

And when Zhao Xi, who rushed into the Rong army array, seized the opportunity to stab at the Rong cavalry rushing on the opposite side, he was surprised to find that his steady blow was easily dodged by the Rong soldiers in front of him who quickly drilled under the horse's belly.

Surprised by Narong's skillful horsemanship, Zhao Xi was able to block the powerful attack that returned to the horse from under the horse's belly and swung a stick at him, and the two crossed paths and went to prepare for the next fierce fight.

But in this brief gap like lightning and flint, Zhao Xi suddenly deeply realized the reason for the affirmation and attention to the combat effectiveness of the Rong cavalry in the mouth of Zhu Lihua.

At this time, he completely understood that Zhu Lihua's words were by no means untargeted.

Because he could see that the soldiers of the Rong army, who had just fought him and almost suffered a loss, were just ordinary soldiers.

Because the cavalry was naked, it was obviously very different from the armored men of the Rong cavalry who constantly commanded and spoke.

A moment passed, and after fighting with more than a dozen Rong troops in front of him, Zhao Xi suddenly felt that his eyes lit up, and he realized that he had penetrated the large array of Rong troops.

But at this time, Zhao Xi's face was pale, and his whole body was even more tired and shaking.

He clearly remembered that in the dozen or so encounters just now, he had only stabbed one Rong soldier, and the rest of the Rong soldiers were able to easily defuse their attacks on horseback.

At this moment, Zhao Xi's heart suddenly retreated, and he regretted that he shouldn't have listened to Zhu Lihua's advice.

But this idea was only a flash in his mind, so after a long time, seeing that his warrior had turned his horse's head and re-arrayed, Zhao Xi once again waved the Changge in his hand.

......

"Run, these Rong people are ghosts."

"Run, these soldiers are too powerful, run, they're going to release arrows!"

"Run in the direction of Huangyin, don't run around."

When Zhao Xi looked desperately at the soldiers and horses under his command panicking and scattering, and even ignored the orders he had issued, he looked up to the sky helplessly and sighed.

He raised his arm and pulled the trigger of the light crossbow in his hand towards the several Rong cavalrymen who were about to rush in front of him.

"Whoosh."

In the sound of crossbow arrows breaking through the air, seeing several Rong cavalry falling off their horses with confused and unwilling faces, Zhao Xi sighed slightly, looked down at the light crossbow with no arrows, and then fled eastward.

After four rounds of hedging with the cavalry of the Rong army, Zhao Xi finally found that the cavalry of the Rong army was really as powerful as Lu Lihua said.

At this time, he regretted a little, he didn't follow the advice of Lu Lihua just now, but rashly started a war with the Rong army.

Not only that, but he was horrified to find that after the four rounds of hedging, the casualties of his soldiers and horses had been nearly 20%.

Zhao Xi knew in his heart that if he continued to hedge like this, he was afraid that after two or three more impacts, his soldiers and horses would be defeated.

But Zhao Xi, as one of the "Three Heroes" of the Chu State, was not the one who only knew how to be brutal and brave, he immediately changed his mind and gave an order, ordering the three armies not to turn around after the fifth charge, but to rush straight to the Rong army's infantry battle formation, which seemed to have been exhausted in the battle.

Although he also wondered why the Rong army's infantry was not protected by cavalry, he soon attributed this to the fact that the Rong army had not had time to prepare for the battle, so he wanted to take advantage of the weakness of the Rong army's formation to win the battle.