The battle north of Wancheng was only a little more than a moment, and the Jingzhou army's front had been torn apart by the Xuzhou soldiers, and there were not too many who were really seriously injured and fell, most of them were instinctively or forced to retreat after being slightly injured, and the more they retreated, the more chaotic the array became.

Du Zeng's subordinate Su Wen led hundreds of elite soldiers to fight fires everywhere, on the one hand, he forced back the Xuzhou soldiers to stabilize his position, and on the other hand, he also killed the Jingzhou soldiers who retreated or even fled from time to time. Xie Feng, the left deputy governor of the "fire robbery camp", was not angry when he saw this, and personally rode his horse to fight Su Wen, that is, he stood out his riding spear in the spear formation, prompted the surprise, and hit Su Wen's ribs. Su Wen shouted, grabbed the incoming spear, and broke it into two with a "click". Xie Feng's center of gravity is unstable, a stumbling, his heart said that it is dangerous, this manpower is as big as an ox, if there is no stirrup "invented" by the governor, I guess he would have been torn off the horse long ago.

Immediately abandoned the spear and took the knife, Su Wen also waved the knife to meet him, the two knives "dang" collided, sparks splashed, Xie Feng felt that his arm was faintly numb. But Su Wen was already injured, and there were no stirrups to step on under his feet, so he relied on his legs to clamp the horse's belly, and he was embarrassed by his strength, only more difficult than Xie Feng. At the moment, he didn't dare to fight, turned his horse and left, Xie Feng raised his voice and shouted, and the commanding soldiers once again tore apart the Jingzhou military formation in this section.

Su Wen, who was half covered in blood, hurried to Du Zengma and shouted: "General, the enemy army is very brave, and the front line is about to collapse, what can I do?" Du Zeng hesitated, and had no choice but to order: "Call Ma Jun to lead the cavalry." ”

Wang Gong hurriedly stopped, saying that the time had not yet come—"The enemy has only half of them facing me, and there are still more than 2,000 people behind the formation, even if the cavalry flanks are killed, I am afraid it will be difficult to penetrate the middle army." Du Zeng smiled bitterly: "If you send cavalry, there is still a glimmer of life, if you don't send it, the front will collapse, I'm afraid the big thing will go!" ”

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Pei Gai was under the banner of the Chinese army, nearly a mile away from the place where the front line was fighting, and it was naturally difficult to understand the battle situation just by looking at it from a distance, so it was all up to Zhen to send people over from time to time to report the situation.

At first, he was not very steady-of the demon moth who was afraid of going out again, after all, he had recruited a lot of troops to surround him, and during this time, he also practiced equestrian and even martial arts tirelessly, and replaced a good horse under his crotch that had been in battle many times; I believe that even if the elite of the enemy army suddenly kills in front of him, Pei Yuanjun is also capable of carrying the number, but it is really not good, and it should not be difficult to retreat with his whole body.

At this moment, Pei Gai is not just a marker and even a mascot like the Chinese army, but a real commander of the first army.

Although he has participated in several battles to suppress bandits and attack Dock Fort, the enemy in front of him is not more than 1,000 in most cases, and his own side often uses absolute superiority to fight against the opponent. And now there are no less than 10,000 Jingzhou soldiers in front of him, and the enemy is outnumbered, so he only sent Zhen Sui's "Fire Robbery Battalion" forward, and Liu Yetang's "Gale Battalion" as a reserve, and it is still firmly behind. Zhen Sui's subordinates want to fight with one enemy and four, can they really fight?

However, the news from the front line one after another is very gratifying, it seems that the Jingzhou soldiers' front has been torn apart in many places, and it is only a matter of time before the other party completely collapses. Pei Gai was thinking about the battle situation, Liu Yetang suddenly galloped over, and asked Pei Gai to ask: "It's time to Shen, if you can't defeat the enemy army, I'm afraid that they will escape to Wancheng, and with stubborn resistance, the sky will be dark at that time, which is not conducive to attacking the city - we can only leave it for tomorrow." It's better to order our troops to press on it and defeat the enemy in one fell swoop! ”

Pei Cai knew that he had the intention of competing for merit, but he didn't say anything, just smiled slightly, and asked: "Yetang, if the enemy army is secretly ambushing a sentry and peeking at the emptiness of my camp, and then rushes out from the flank, then what is good?" Liu Yetang shook his head, stretched out his hand and pointed: "This is a horse Pingchuan, different from Jiang Jigang in the past, if there is an enemy army killed, its traces can be seen several miles away, how can the governor be lost?" ”

Pei Cai saw that he was eager to go into battle, so he said okay - "Qing will go to the second battalion of the 'Gale Wind' left and right to help, leaving the middle battalion to guard. Liu Yetang was overjoyed and immediately took the order. However, he had only been gone for a short time, and he may not have officially entered the battle, when suddenly Wen Lang rode his horse close to Pei Gai, stretched out his hand and pointed to the west: "Governor, please look, there is an enemy attacking!" ”

Pei Cai put his hand on the awning, looked in the direction of his finger, and sure enough, he found a cavalry galloping out from the side of the enemy formation, about two or three hundred people, in a cloud of smoke and dust, as if he wanted to go around in a circle, bypass the battlefield, and go straight to his own Chinese army. Wen Lang asked, "Do you retreat into the camp, or stick to the place, or go out and resist the enemy?" Please also ask the governor to make a decision quickly. ”

Pei Cai smiled: "These hundreds of cavalry, I'm afraid it's all Du Zeng's cavalry......" Du Zeng has been wandering around the Yangtze River in Jingzhou all his life, the climate in Jiangbei is similar to Xuzhou, Pei Cai just pulled up hundreds of cavalry, could it be that Du Zeng has been repeatedly damaged in battle, but can there be more left? Perhaps a considerable part of them were brought from the north by the Fifth Monkey.

"He has cavalry, am I alone?" Pei Gai smiled coldly, and immediately ordered Wen Lang: "You can take the head of his cavalry to sacrifice me!" ”

Wen Lang was very excited when he heard this. His cronies, the main job of his cronies is to protect the safety of the lord, unless the enemy kills the Chinese army, under normal circumstances, he will not be able to fight a tough battle - maybe when chasing and killing the remnants of the enemy, he will be scattered out to pick up some leftovers. Now that he was able to lead the cavalry to meet the enemy, it was a rare opportunity, and he immediately patted his chest and said: "If you can't get the head of the enemy general, Lang will bring the head to see the governor!" ”

Pei Caixin said that you don't set up a flag casually, and immediately persuaded: "Don't underestimate the enemy and be reckless." Then he encouraged: "Don't defile the name of your ancestors!" "Don't you claim to be Wen Li's grandson? That Wen Yang personally led the army to charge into battle, shocked Sima Shi to death, and also broke the bald tree function, he is a first-class brave general in the late Three Kingdoms, so let me see how much you can do with Wen Yu.

Wen Lang didn't bring much, and his own generals galloped out with a hundred horses, and soon met the Jingzhou cavalry on the flank. As soon as the two sides approached, they fired at each other with bows and arrows, and in an instant, dozens of horsemen toppled the dust—most of them on the Jingzhou side.

The range of the two sides is not too much, but the Xuzhou cavalry has the assistance of stirrups, and when the bow is opened, it can stand up by stepping on the stirrup, which is more stable and relatively accurate. Moreover, Pei Gai once "created" two poems, saying "shoot the man first and shoot the horse first, and capture the thief and capture the king first" to teach his subordinates, so almost all the Xuzhou cavalry are aimed at the arrows issued by the opponent's war horse, and the target is both large and easier to accurate. If the war horse falls and the knight falls, even if you don't get knocked unconscious, without the assistance of the infantry, how much combat effectiveness can you still exert?

After a round of arrows, the knights of both sides went head-to-head. It is said that it is frontal, but in fact the two teams of cavalry are staggered, like two parallel lines close together, and immediately the knights each hold their spears and stab the enemy from the direction of the backhand. In this type of fighting, the role of stirrups is once again highlighted.

In the history of cavalry evolution, in fact, the role of the Takahashi saddle is more epoch-making than the stirrup, with the Takahashi saddle, the knight can be fixed from the longitudinal length, so that the power of the frontal stab of the riding spear is multiplied - otherwise the reaction force can directly push the person down from the direction of the horse's buttocks. However, in actual battle formations, it is difficult to encounter a frontal stab - not to mention the horse's head obstruction - and it is generally necessary to stagger the rider sideways at a certain angle, which requires the rider to be fixed from the horizontal direction as well. The stirrups give the rider stability laterally, so the more you stab on the side, the more prominent the role of the stirrups becomes.

The two columns of cavalry passed each other, and dozens of people were stabbed and stabbed to death by spears, and fell off their horses - it was still the Xuzhou side that had the advantage, and the exchange ratio was basically one to four. Moreover, most of the cavalry in Xuzhou are fully armored, and even wear not complete leather armor, and there are many metal parts inlaid with important parts. After all, this is Pei Gai's personal song, and no matter how much money you save, you can't save it on them.

Wen Lang was dazzled for a while, he couldn't find the opponent's cavalry, but just stabbed an ordinary cavalryman - try his combat skills, and he can't be a general of the first army. When they circled the horses again, they saw that the enemy army had thrown down dozens of corpses, but instead of turning around to fight, they rushed straight towards Pei Gai's Chinese army. The Xuzhou cavalry had no choice but to chase from behind, during which they shot vigorously with a bow and overturned more than a dozen horses.

Seeing that the enemy army was about to force the Chinese army, he saw that a rain of arrows suddenly rose in front of Pei Gai - he still had the "Gale" middle camp in hand, and there was no shortage of bows and arrows. In the midst of the shouting and neighing of horses, the enemy's cavalry charge was stopped, and Wen Lang was able to catch up.

Rushing to kill the enemy from behind, this pleasure is simply incomparable, the morale of the Xuzhou cavalry doubled, and the Jingzhou cavalry was in chaos. Wen Lang shouted to find the enemy general, and finally saw a horse turning his horse's head, coming head-on, and shouted loudly: "I am Ma Junye, the governor under the command of General Du, and the person who came is a common name!" ”

Wen Lang replied loudly: "Wen Lang, the grandson of Wen Yang, is also!" Probably because the name of "grandfather" was too loud, Ma Jun couldn't help but be slightly stunned when he heard this, and the action of riding a spear was a little deformed. Wen Lang took advantage of the situation to stab a spear, hitting the opponent in the chest - the opponent's spear pierced his fine iron chest, cut a deep mark, and slipped through.

The place where the two generals are fighting, it is only two hundred steps away from Pei Cai, and there is nothing to obstruct the line of sight, Pei should see it clearly, and he can't help but clap his hands with joy. Seeing that these enemy horsemen were no longer worried, he immediately waved the bamboo cane in his hand: "I'm about to gallop forward with iron horses, and end this battle!" ”

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This battle never began, and just a quarter and a half hours later, the Jingzhou army front had been torn apart in many places, and the general Su Wen was also seriously wounded, seeing that the front line was about to collapse. Du Zeng had no choice but to put all the reserve forces into battle one after another, and at the same time sent the cavalry in advance to try to surprise the Chinese army in the rear of the Xuzhou soldiers.

The commander of the cavalry was Du Zengai's general Ma Jun, who was originally of mixed blood in Guanxi Qiang and Han, good at horsemanship, and strong in martial arts, Du Zeng was very relieved of him. But no matter how brave and good Ma Jun is, after all, he is facing enemy soldiers who are several times or even more than ten times his own, and since Pei Gai has erected the Chinese army, I believe that the soldiers guarding the surrounding area must also be elite, and this raid will have a few percent chance of winning in the end, Du Zeng has no bottom in his heart.

Logically speaking, elite cavalry, which can be used as five or ten paces on a horse, can use mobility to mobilize the infantry and then tear its formation, then even if it is a hundred times the enemy, it is not enough for the cavalry to trample. The question looks at the organization and combat effectiveness of Xuzhou's front, Pei should not be like a person who "does not know soldiers", let alone a scholar, will he fall for Ma Jun? If the infantry is lined up in a close phalanx, covered by bows and arrows, and defended by spears, the same number of light cavalry is simply helpless.

But only in this way can we get a glimmer of life, otherwise we can expect to lose today. The defeat outside the city is actually not terrible, the terrible thing is that the Wancheng wall is endless, there are still many loopholes in the defense, once forced to retreat, morale is frustrated, I am afraid it will be difficult to defend it. At that time, there will be only one way to protect the fifth Yi to escape back to Xiangyang...... But I'm afraid that Zhou Yu will soon completely exterminate Du Tao and go north......

Du Zeng couldn't help but scold Xun Song in his heart, why didn't you old guy open the city and surrender early? We will wait until we have smashed the fortifications to the ground, and then we will bow down the noble head of your family...... Truly abominable!

Now he can only hope that Ma Jun will get lucky, but the front line is in a fierce battle, and it is impossible for the cavalry to cross the enemy formation and attack from the front, so he has to take a detour far away, even if he can win, he doesn't know when the news will come back, which will lead to the retreat of the Xuzhou front army or even a direct collapse. Will you be able to survive until then?

In the end, Du Zeng was forced to grit his teeth, clenched the spear that had just been handed over by the Ministry of Qu in his right hand, and turned his head to instruct Wang Gong: "Zici can return to the city as soon as possible and arrange the city defense, and I will personally go to block the enemy army to delay time." Wang Gong nodded and said with concern: "The general must be careful, but if you save your life, there will be a day of recovery." After speaking, with more than a dozen subordinates, he turned his horse's head and galloped towards Wancheng.

Du Zeng personally led his troops into battle, and the spear shook, and in an instant, he overturned several Xuzhou soldiers, temporarily stopping the collapse of one wing. However, the battle line was too long, he could take care of the east, not the west, only listened to the tsunami-like noise of the mountains on the west side, and when he looked up, he saw that the flags of Jingzhou were falling one after another, and the remnants were all retreating step by step, and I am afraid that they will soon be completely penetrated. Du Zeng's eyes were torn and he hurriedly swung his spear to reinforcements, but before he could reach them, he heard the heavy sound of horses' hooves roaring like thunder.

Did the other party also send their own cavalry? Du Zeng is worried and happy. Pei should guard Xuzhou, will be able to recruit a certain number of cavalry, but it is not unexpected by Du Zeng, he is worried that only the infantry phalanx, has made it difficult for his own side to resist, if supplemented by cavalry conflict, his own formation will collapse imminently...... Happily, if Pei should send all the cavalry, the chances of Ma Jun succeeding over there will be higher.

When he was suffering from gains and losses, he suddenly saw that all his soldiers were frightened, and they all abandoned their blades, turned around, and fled. Du Zeng raised his voice and shouted: "Don't go! Those who dare to shake the military formation will be killed! He raised his spear and immediately pierced one of his own military officers who was running with his head in his hands. But then he looked up, but he couldn't help but turn pale with surprise - this, this, this, what kind of cavalry is this?!