Chapter 70: Heavy Cavalry

"Uderu, look at the military formation on the other side, how many cavalry do you need to be able to break their formation?" Zhang Juntai asked with a smile.

"General Hui, I only need to lead the 3,000 cavalry of my headquarters to disperse the formation of these thief troops." Utreo said confidently.

"That's good. Then you led your cavalry to break up the formation of the thief army, and then I led the army myself to press them down and crush them in one fell swoop. Zhang Juntai took out an arrow and handed it to Uderu and said, "This battle can only be won and not defeated." ”

Udrud took the order and returned to his cavalry formation, gathered his men, and then slaughtered the rebels from the army and went straight to the city of Zhangye County not far away. Udrus rushed to the front in the first place, shouting loudly: "Warriors, follow me to fight bravely to kill the enemy, and after the battle, the merit will be judged by the head." ”

A cavalry force consisting of Turks and Han Chinese slaughtered out of Zhang Juntai's army and rushed straight to the camp of the rebels. After trekking through mountains and rivers, they finally found a relatively gentle plain terrain under the city of Zhangye County, and those rebels hurriedly lined up, and had time to prepare horses and chariots to protect against the onslaught of cavalry. In order to pursue the psychological oppression of the opponent as much as possible, the Udro forced the opponent to disarray and increase the lethality of the cavalry. The line of 3,000 cavalry was deliberately stretched wide open, and swept towards those rebels with overwhelming momentum.

Those soldiers who had not fought for a long time looked weakly at the boundless cavalry group in front of them rushing towards them, and their hearts were already a little panicked. Fortunately, those main generals still knew some common sense of the art of war, and sat on their horses and drove their subordinates with their legs shaking to form a military formation with spearmen as the periphery, hoping that a miracle could happen to stop the impact of these cavalry on themselves.

But miracles are called miracles because they don't happen so easily. The hundreds of cavalry in the front row rode all the Dawan horses that Li Wenyuan bought from the sea market with a lot of money, and only the physical strength of the Dawan horse could support the heavy armor on his body for a long-distance charge. Not only were the riders heavily armoured, but even the horses they rode were wearing specially made horse armor.

The armor of the new cavalry is the armor that Li Wenyuan optimized for the defense of those weapons after weighing the anti-cavalry weapons commonly used on the battlefield during the Sui Dynasty in his mind. Tested at the beginning of the production of the armor, this optimized armor can knock a deep dent in the armor of the bright light even when facing it, and it will not lose a single bit.

Mingguang armor represents the most advanced armor technology of the Sui Dynasty, how many of these rebels in front of him can have it? The hastily lined up army formation was directly dispersed by these heavily armored heavy cavalry. The spearmen who were placed on the outermost periphery did not cause any damage to the cavalry, but many spears were shocked by the impact of the cavalry and directly turned into two. The spear-wielding infantry received the first wave of cavalry onslaught, and at that moment they were covered with flesh and blood, and countless casualties were inflicted.

Before the archers hiding in the formation could fire a second shot, they had already burst into the face of the cavalry. At the moment of life and death, these sappers couldn't help but have red eyes, threw down the longbow in their hands, and pulled out the knife at their waists, about to make a final fight. It's a pity that they tried their best to strike, but they could only split sparks on the armor of the cavalry in the front row, and they couldn't even leave a single dent.

Udrau took the lead, knocking down two rebel generals in succession. Later, he led the personal guard cavalry to repeatedly charge and kill in the rebel formation, cutting down the rebels' banners one after another. Seeing that the Udrus had broken up the rebels' formations, Zhang Juntai commanded the remaining troops to press and surround the rebels on all fronts.

Under the encirclement and suppression of the army led by Zhang Juntai, the rebels slowly gathered together, except for those main generals who resisted to the death and were killed, the remaining ordinary soldiers and lower-level officers chose to surrender to save their lives. Zhang Juntai was leading his own soldiers to patrol between the military formations, and suddenly saw a group of people riding horses, driving the carriage to flee to the northwest, and from time to time they looked back at their side.

When those people occasionally turned back, Zhang Juntai recognized that there was a Zhangye county guard inside. The county guard of Zhangye once came to Wuwei County with other county guards to report the situation to Li Wenyuan, and had a relationship with Zhang Juntai. Zhang Juntai ordered someone to find Uderu, pointed a knife at the pair of people who were fleeing in the distance, and said to him: "You personally lead the horse and intercept those people for me." If you miss any of them, come back and I will ask you for your sins. ”

Udrul only named his own soldiers, and rushed all the way to the group.

Zhangye County Shouzheng took several civil officials to sit on horses and fled in the direction of Dunhuang County, when a subordinate next to him suddenly shouted in panic: "Master, there are pursuers sent by Zhang Juntai behind us. ”

Zhang Yejun was shocked when he heard this, and quickly turned his head to look behind him. Then he turned to the civil official who fled with him and said: "Listen to me, colleagues, let's abandon these carriages that slow down the speed, and just let us escape first." ”

Several civil officials around him were also shocked when they heard this: "Lord County Guard, not to mention the money on the carriage. But what about the family members we are waiting for are still in other carriages, should we give them up all together? ”

"Oh, colleagues. Their horses are obviously faster than ours, and at this time there is still no time to take care of these things outside of them. As long as we can escape to Dunhuang County and join Lord Li Liang. Presumably, Lord Li Liang will not treat us badly. When the time comes, the money and the beauties, won't they want as much as they want? If you stay alive, you will only have the blessing of life. ”

When those officials heard the words of the county guard of Zhangye, their faces were cloudy. Seeing the hesitation on the faces of these people, Zhangye County Shou secretly scolded these people in his heart for being indecisive and that he was really blind to conspire with them, so he didn't say much at the moment, and whipped the buttocks of the horse he was riding, and fled in the direction of Dunhuang County. Zhangye County Shou himself is a native of Yiwu County, and his family members are all in Yiwu County, and he doesn't have so many worries at this time.

The remaining officials saw that Zhangye County was fleeing first, and they had some thoughts of fleeing alone. These people were about to speed up the yardage and flee with the Zhangye County Guard, when they suddenly heard an arrow breaking through the air, the sound of the sound of the sound of the sound passed over their heads, hitting the back of the heart of the Zhangye County Guard, shooting the Zhangye County Guard from the horse, and falling to the ground I don't know if he was alive or dead. When several officials saw that the Zhangye county guard who was running in front of him fell off his horse, they slowed down their horses when they were afraid, for fear that the next arrow would shoot at them. They were caught up by the cavalry led by Udrus and escorted back to Zhangye County.