The enemy cavalry is gathering more and more, leading the light cavalry to chase out is a few thieves generals, extremely experienced, at this moment these people are solemn, keep issuing military orders, ordering the thieves and light cavalry to gather in one place, not to scatter at will, but to gather into a team, maintain a good formation.

The general who led the troops was Liu Zongdi, who was about thirty years old, was Liu Maoqi's distant brother, and he had followed Liu Maoqi since he was a young man more than ten years ago, and he had experienced countless wars in the past ten years, and other people on the battlefield would be flustered, but he had already regarded the war as leisure, and there was no scene that could make him chill and heartbeat.

Even if he encountered an unexpected situation now, the general in charge of the old battalion cavalry only squinted slightly, ordered the cavalry to rendezvous, and did not have too many frightened expressions.

Liu Zongdi ordered the cavalry of the old battalion to be armoured, in fact, most of them were military attachés from the head of the team to the head of the capital to ride their horses in front, forming a thick formation, most of them were holding long weapons, long knives, or iron spears and other long weapons, plus wearing iron armor, although the shape was different, it looked quite messy, but many years of field career made these thieves and armor extremely fierce, and the thieves and officers wearing iron armor kept ordering their subordinates to wave the flag, and gathered their subordinates wearing cotton armor or leather armor and chain mail into their subordinates, and then gathered the array as thick as possible.

All the thieves and cavalry are also quite experienced, and about seventy percent of the army of more than 1,000 people is from Li Kaiming's old battalion cavalry, if it were not for the need to retain a strong and experienced military mobile force, Li Kaiming would have disbanded this cavalry battalion long ago and ordered all the cavalry to go down to become military attachés.

Now the more than 1,000 cavalry gradually gathered together, the long and iron spears are either raised or flattened, like steel bushes in the flat field, all the thieves and cavalry have arrogant and violent expressions on their faces, many of the old soldiers are as experienced in a hundred battles as Liu Zongdi, and their bodies are covered with scars and scars, they don't care too much about the current emergency, and even just want to have a happy fight.

These thieves and cavalry had severely damaged the cavalry of the forbidden army in the battle a few days ago, as well as the cavalry guards who had chased and killed King Zhao, which showed that the Great Wei cavalry was not the opponent of these battle-hardened thief cavalry.

Their riding skills are practiced for many years in the constant flow and war, they can not get off the horse for several days and nights, eat and drink on the horse, even sleep on the horse, they can aim at the target when the assault, under the rapid high-speed movement of the accurate stab the opposite knight or war horse, they are extremely brave, many thieves can shoot bows and arrows on the galloping war horse, only rely on waist and leg strength to control the horse. At that time, this kind of skill was originally only possible for a few elite nomadic cavalry, and these thieves who had been fighting on horseback for many years, because of the open and flat terrain of the Central Plains, could also do it after many years of fighting.

These thieves rode bravely and did not pay attention to the unexpected situation, they were furious, roaring, while watching the signals of the officers, constantly adjusting the posture of the war horses, and the distance between them and their partners was also shortened as much as possible.

As they headed northeast, they spotted the Wei cavalry as they passed through several villages.

Some smoke and dust floated upward, and then the sharp-eyed thief rode saw the banner of the Wei army.

Flaming red banners danced through the sparse woodlands, on the side of the ridge trail and the official road of the Xinghua Army in the direction of the lower reaches of the Min River, and with the appearance of the first wave of Wei cavalry, more cavalry appeared in the distance.

After discovering the Wei cavalry, Liu Zongdi hesitated for a short time...... The task he received was to drive out the people outside the city of Fuzhou, clear the official roads, and cut off the city's foreign exchanges. With a force of more than 1,000 cavalry, the cavalry must be dispersed very much, and then it will take a few days to complete the task assigned by the big boss.

Before encountering the Wei cavalry, Liu Zongdi's mission goal was completed smoothly.

successfully spied on the reality of the city, and the red-robed high-ranking officials of the city gathered at the head of the city, but no one dared to open the city to drive away these thieves and cavalry and protect the main roads outside the city, which was equivalent to completely exposing the reality of the city...... Obviously, there is no cavalry in the city that can go out of the city to fight, and the officials and generals who defend the city do not have the determination and ability to counter the enemy cavalry that comes to attack, which shows that this city has fallen into a desperate situation, self-isolated, and lacks the ability to communicate with the outside world, dispatch, and flexibly counterattack. I thought that I could capture the city of Fuzhou and get the road to Fujian in a very short time

Dominance, even if they found out about the accident of the Wei cavalry, it could not make these thieves decide to retreat immediately.

As the thieves gathered in formation, smoke and dust gradually billowed up from the northeast, near the villages and official roads near Qizhou.

The beating red flags gathered more and more, and then you could see the cavalry riding horses and jumping in the distance, all the Wei cavalry wore pointed helmets, there were red tassels fluttering above the helmets, all the cavalry were wearing black iron armor, when gathered in one place, in addition to a red tassel and a waving red flag above the head, it was a wanton and dignified black.

"Xuanjia Elite Cavalry, Zhongshan Mansion Army?" Liu Zongdi's face became solemn.

The thieves also paid great attention to intelligence gathering, although their methods were quite clumsy, but with continuous efforts, they also tried their best to construct the general framework of the Zhongshan army.

The infantry of three corps, the sailors of one corps, and the cavalry of one battalion.

Not to mention the infantry and sailors, the cavalry is exactly the number of a battalion, more than 500 cavalry, and the cavalry played an important role in the war against the pirates in the Eastern Domain.

For such a well-armored, and experienced cavalry, Liu Zongdi did not dare to despise, his expression was extremely solemn, and when he saw that the Xuanjia iron cavalry on the opposite side was really only more than 500 horses, Liu Zongdi's face was slightly relaxed.

"Sure enough, it's more than 500 rides." Liu Zongdi said to the left and right generals: "Shall we fight a battle to check the quality of the Zhongshan Army, or just leave?" ”

Only the officers and a few veterans of the thief cavalry are wearing iron armor, and most of the rest are light armor, which is a group of light cavalry.

The number of people on the opposite side is only half of this side, but it is obviously a heavy iron armor, not only heavy iron armor, but also seems to be forged in one piece, it looks like there are no flaws, and the appearance of the armor is quite strange.

The iron armor and the mighty military power of the Xuanjia Cavalry put a lot of pressure on the rogues, which is why they don't need to fight with the rangers and dogs first, but gather the main force to form a formation.

The prestige of the Zhongshan Mansion army is not small, but if you want these rogues to leave without a fight, they are still a few points behind.

A thief army general grinned and said: "We have all seen Yue Zhi's subordinates of Captain Yue, and they have just defeated 80,000 officers and soldiers in Jianyang, and even the old man of King Zhao is also fast on the battlefield...... This Zhongshan King said that he could fight, I think it is in a place like Fujian Road to become famous, if you change the Central Plains four wars, the Liu family is handsome and a few of them, and we are in the prime of life, I am afraid that I have already tried out what the quality of Zhongshan King has come......"

"There is a lot of truth in that." Liu Zongdi nodded solemnly and said, "We men in the northwest, there is no saying that we will leave without a fight. Always hedge, try to color, if it's really powerful, it's not too late for us to avoid it. ”

More than 1,000 light horsemen, hedging with horses, it is estimated that more than 100 horses may be lost, which is already an overestimation of the Xuanjia Iron Cavalry of the Zhongshan Army. In a general hedge battle, the two sides fight each other's horses and add spears, but except for quite elite and experienced pawns who can hit the enemy, all attack actions are basically useless. The thousand-level hedge, one or two hundred people fell off the horse, and a large part of them were knocked off the horse, and most of the dead and wounded were trampled by their own side or the enemy's war horses, and there were very few who really died under the long sword and iron spear.

"Then let's hedge!"

"I, Qin Fengnan, why am I afraid of these useless Nanban?"

"It's good to kill people again, Jianyang fights, but I haven't been addicted to killing!"

In the area of Qin Feng, the folk customs are resolute and simple, honest and tough, heavy, light life and death, and can accept the military law of the Ministry of Le, there is the blood inheritance of the old Qin people, the Northwest Forbidden Army, and is considered to be the first strong soldier in the world by the great Wei Tianzi of the past dynasties.

And these thieves have been in battle for a long time, and have killed countless people, such people's mentality has long been alienated, not only regarding the lives of others as mustard, but also their own lives have long been ignored.

The Xuanjia riders on the opposite side do look quite sophisticated, not only the iron helmets decorated with red tassels, but also the iron masks that cover their faces.

Then there is the iron armor that is forged and struck, not like the thief riding here, there are shiny large iron rings of piercing armor, fine iron scale armor, and chain mail with rings and rings, leather armor made of cowhide or donkey skin, this kind of armor can not prevent stabbing, shiny and sharp long stabbing is in, and the sharp edge can easily break through the defense of the leather armor and go straight into the muscles. However, leather armor can resist knife cuts and arrow throws, and it is much better when worn than just wearing a robe.

Cotton armor and leather armor are also similar, but some thieves and soldiers use iron sheets to inlay the cotton armor, and the inside and outside are connected with rivets, after adding iron plates, the defense of cotton armor rises sharply, surpassing chain mail and leather armor, only under the real iron armor.

More than 1,000 thieves pulled the array apart and evacuated the queue as much as possible, and the team officers and sentry officers kept shouting, asking the brothers under their command to level out their weapons such as long knives and arrange them as neatly as possible.

The two wings were stretched out very long, which was to use the advantage of numbers to threaten the flanks on both sides of the Xuanjia cavalry of the Zhongshan army when hedging.

At the same time as the thieves were adjusting, the Xuanjia riders on the opposite side were also adjusting.

Of course, the leader of the troops was Zhang Huchen, and Gao Shilai and other military attachés of the cavalry battalion were also in the array.

"The thieves want to take advantage of the large number of people, pull out the array, and attack our cavalry battalion from the flanks on both flanks." Zhang Huchen said to Gao Shilai and the others: "In this case, when the horse is hedged, the array of thieves will be quite loose and evacuated." ”

Gao Shilai was famous for his calmness and martial arts among the three generals of the young tooth generals of that year, and after the training of the riding camp, in addition to the progress of riding martial arts, he was also more and more calm, and he already seemed to have the style of a general.

At this time, Gao Shilai glanced at Zhang Huchen, and when he saw the intention of this tiger general, he said with a smile: "The combat power of our army is far above the thief horse, so there is no need to be too serious." Our army does not have to open three rows of arrays, horizontal knives, one with two, one with two horizontal knives on both sides, so as to open two rows, just hedge against the enemy! ”

"Good, so-and-so thinks the same way."

The standard tactics of the cavalry battalion are three rows of impact arrays, the first and second rows are mainly long, used to break the formation of strong armor and long soldiers, and the third row is mainly horizontal knife hands. The three-row array, taking its thick and sturdy meaning, the first row is not good for the second row, and the second row is not good for the third row.

Even after the cavalry battalion was expanded into a cavalry army, it was necessary to train a multi-level shock array, and when encountering a thick set of enemy cavalry arrays, or even heavy infantry arrays, the iron cavalry or heavy cavalry should have a frontal and hard fight, and be tactically prepared to fight hard!

When the cavalry was insufficient, Xu Zi, the king of Zhongshan, was very cautious in using the cavalry, that is, to use a hammer to determine the sound or expand the results of the battle, and did not want to regard the cavalry as the main force of the attack, which would inevitably lose a large number of war horses and valuable knights.

And when the cavalry battalion expands the army, or even several armies, divided into several arms, such as heavy cavalry, iron cavalry, hussars, crossbow cavalry and other arms, the cavalry battalion charges head-on, crosses the trenches, rushes into the enemy camp, and hits the enemy's complete array head-on, which is also bound to be carried out in the future, no matter how precious the troops are, they will become decorations if they are not used to fight.

"Let's do it." Zhang Huchen waved his right arm down and said to Gao Shi: "I lead the front row, you lead the back row, the front row has nine sentinels, about 280 people, seven sentry posts in the back row, about 220 people, the front row is longer, the back row has more horizontal knives, and they are hedged against horses, and this battle will play the majesty of our Zhongshan Army Cavalry Battalion!" ”

"Yes, at the command." Gao Shilai actually wanted to lead the troops in the front row, the thrill of galloping, facing the enemy's sword, rushing into the enemy formation with his partners, swinging the shock, swinging the enemy spear, and the feeling of success and victory between life and death made this young man in his twenties quite addicted.

Zhang Huchen saw that Gao Shilai's throat surged a few times, and then this descendant quickly adjusted the array, and the cavalry of the seven sentries gradually formed a rear row, and then the head of the front row, the sentry officers blew sharp wooden whistles, in the whistle, the well-trained cavalry quickly formed a front row array, for a while the war horses neighed, but the knights were silent, only whistles, horses, and the crackling sound of the wind blowing the military flag by the river, and then there was the shouting and scolding of the enemy cavalry in the distance...... Zhang Huchen only has a sense of pride in his own family and a disgrace to the thieves.