Although Xiahou Yuan gave the order to retreat, it was still quite difficult for more than 400 cavalry to break through in front of tens of thousands of troops.

Everyone frantically whipped their horses and fled desperately towards the rear.

The speed at which the cavalry fled as fast as they could, at least the foot soldiers under Gao Ran could not stop it.

Now they can only rely on the cavalry of the royal gate, only to hear the order of the royal gate, thousands of cavalry immediately rode in pursuit.

Although the cavalry of the Yuan army has suffered some losses until now, the overall number is still about 4,000, which is ten times that of the other party.

Even if the Cao Army's cavalry is so strong that it is strangely strong, it is impossible to make any moves against the sky in the face of such a disparity in proportion.

Wang Men can be said to have lost enough face today, and now he can only hope to wipe out the other party in order to save his face a little.

Wang Men's face was hideous at this time, and looking at his expression, it seemed as if he wished that his head could become hundreds of times bigger, and then swallow all the four hundred cavalry in one bite.

The four thousand knights of the Yuan army struggled to catch up, and they were not willing to give the Cao cavalry a chance to widen the distance.

Although the cavalry of the Cao army was equipped with stirrups and horseshoe, the quality of the horses alone showed that the Central Plains was indeed inferior to the north. Although the cavalry of the Cao army broke through the siege and fled, they were never able to get rid of the fierce pursuit of the cavalry of the Yuan army.

It's just that, looking at the cavalry of the Yuan Army tightly wrapped behind, Xiahou Yuan did not show any panic, but instead set off a sneer at the corner of his mouth.

The scene that happened next was like a nightmare for everyone present at Yuan Shaofang.

More than 400 cavalry of the Cao army actually put away their weapons together, but bent their bows and arrows, and immediately turned around and shot the arrows in their hands at the knights of the Yuan army who were closely behind him and only a stone's throw away from him.

Ride and shoot!

How can it be!

How could the cavalry of the Central Plains ride and shoot!

All at once the king's face turned green, and then from green to purple, and then from purple to white.

Could it be that Cao Cao spent a lot of money to invite the Huns or Xianbei people to serve as knights?

Otherwise, it would be impossible to practice mounted archery.

If you are a fierce general, it is nothing to practice the skills of riding and archery, but the problem is that there are more than 400 Cao Jun cavalry in front of you, all of whom can do this.

Wang Men only felt that he was already dizzy, and he didn't know what to say.

The difficulty of riding and archery training is not ordinary, that is, foreign races such as the Xiongnu and Xianbei outside the Saiwai lived on horseback when they were young, and they had been studying hard for more than ten or twenty years in order to make up a few troops with excellent riding and archery ability.

As for the knights of the Central Plains, even if they want to practice riding and archery, they don't have that condition.

However, the fact in front of the Yuan army was that the knights in front of the Yuan cavalry were hit by arrows one after another, fell off their horses and fell to the ground and died.

The cavalry in the rear could not stop their horses in an instant because of the dismount of the knights in front, and they could only continue to charge forward. The cavalry who fell off the horse were directly killed by arrows, but a few were trampled to death by the war horses that were driven by the crotch of their robes, and the situation was very sad and pitiful.

Riding archery is indeed difficult to practice, because you have to use both hands when bending the bow and arrows, you can't control the horse with your hands free, and it is difficult to maintain your balance on horseback. Especially when these Cao Jun knights had to make a turning action before, their bodies were more likely to be unstable. However, the advent of bilateral stirrups changed all this, and knights could still use the power of stirrups to keep their body center of gravity from tilting to the greatest extent when bending their bows and arrows, making the difficulty of riding and archery a lot less.

In the cavalry formation of the Yuan army, the knights in front of them fell to the ground one after another, although the number was small, only less than a hundred, but their fall hindered the speed of all the cavalry after all. Seeing that the distance between his side and the hundreds of knights of the Cao army was gradually widening, it was obvious that he could not catch up.

Xiahou Yuan took the remaining more than 400 cavalry of the Cao army, together with Guan Yu and Zhao Yun, and finally succeeded in breaking away from the battlefield and escaping.

Seeing this, Wang Men was very anxious, if he let these people escape like this, he might be blamed by Yuan Shao. In a fit of rage, Wang Men spewed out a mouthful of bloody arrows from the sky, and then fell straight to the ground.

Yuan Shao looked at the direction of hundreds of Cao Jun cavalry in a daze, his own army of more than 100,000 still failed to keep the other party in the end, a great shame, a great shame!

Now the depressed anger in Yuan Shao's heart is no less than when he heard the news of Yan Liang and Wen Chou's death a few days ago.

But for the cavalry and archery skills shown by the knights of Cao Jun, Yuan Shao was also surprised.

After the surprise, there was indignation.

"Cao Agui's Central Plains cavalry can actually use such riding and archery skills, why don't my northern cavalry have this ability? Although it is difficult to ride and shoot, no matter what skill, hard work and tireless training will eventually pay off, and the performance of my northern cavalry in this battle is far inferior to that of the Central Plains cavalry, which must be due to the lack of ability of Guo Yuan and Wang Men! ”

In his heart, his own soldiers would definitely not be worse than Cao Cao's soldiers, especially the cavalry, and the quality of the cavalry would not be inferior to the other party.

Since it is not a question of soldiers, it is obviously the incompetence of the generals who command the troops.

Poor Wang Men, I don't know how he would feel if he learned Yuan Shao's thoughts.

Although Guo Yuan and Wang Men are not famous generals, they are by no means mediocre hands. Guo Yuan originally performed in history, and Zhong Zhong's plan failed. Sun Zhan, the first official of the royal family, and Yuan Shao, the later officer, were both responsible for commanding the cavalry, and not to mention their level, at least in terms of experience, there was absolutely no shortage of them.

In any case, Guo Yuan and Wang Men may indeed have such and such deficiencies in ability, but they will never be classified as incompetent generals.

It's a pity that at this moment in Yuan Shao's heart, these two people are already worthless, especially one of them died for Yuan Shao.

As for the rest of the generals and ministers of the Yuan army present, they were all caught in the shock brought to them by the cavalry shooting of the Cao army.

Gao Ran touched his chin with an incredulous expression.

It turned out to be cavalry archery, and the cavalry of the Central Plains actually had the ability to ride and shoot.

What a horrible thing to do!

It's only 400 cavalry, what if it's 4,000? What about 10,000 rides?

It's terrifying to think about, 10,000 cavalry capable of cavalry shooting, even if it is placed on the northern grasslands, I am afraid that few people can match it.

If these thousand cavalry showed the strength of cavalry as soon as they appeared, then the losses of the cavalry of the self-army would definitely be more.

But this is not surprising, although the cavalry of the Cao army can ride and shoot, but after all, there are only a thousand, if the cavalry shooting is used at the beginning, although it will cause greater damage to the Yuan army, but the Yuan army will definitely make corresponding measures against this, and it will be difficult to retreat so smoothly. As one of the four pillars of Hebei, Gao Ran quickly figured out the key.

It is absolutely necessary to completely wipe out Cao Cao's forces in this battle, and he must not continue to be given a big opportunity.

This is Gao Ran's idea, and it is also the idea of everyone in Yuan Jun.

"Heh, although Cao's army was defeated, it also had a basis for advancing and retreating, and it was not fundamentally injured. It is even more surprising that its cavalry can ride and shoot at it. It seems that the next battle is probably quite interesting. In the Yuan army's array, a general with a square face was looking in the direction of Cao's retreat at this time, smiling and thinking.

This person is the most famous one among the four court pillars in Hebei - Zhang He, Zhang Junyi.