Cao Bao retreated with the handsome banner, and in an instant the position of the Danyang elite soldiers was a big chaos, but fortunately, the Danyang soldiers were not only well-trained, but also had an advantage in strength this time, although Cao Cao seized the opportunity to kill for a while, but it also failed to break the enemy's army, but barely suppressed the momentum of the Danyang soldiers.

"This Danyang elite deserves to be a large-scale elite class second only to the Xiliang Iron Cavalry and the Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry." Xun You stood on a high place and looked at the Danyang elite soldiers who were struggling to hold down the formation after the boss was in chaos, and said with a sigh.

Cheng Yu also had a touch of worry on his face, although the strength of the Danyang elite soldiers had been prepared before, but it still felt incredible to witness it in the field with his own eyes, and the people of Danyang may really be born for battle.

[The Danyang soldiers are so difficult, wouldn't the Xiliang Iron Cavalry be even more troublesome, not only are they huge, but they are also cavalrymen, which is a huge obstacle to the strategy planned by the uncle. Xun Yu thought with a dull expression.

Xun You really saw the Xiliang Iron Cavalry when he was a Huangmen squire in Chang'an, and that unit and what he thought were completely different concepts.

The regular army is equipped with auxiliaries, basically a regular army foot soldier will be supported by two or three auxiliaries, the so-called 100,000 troops actually refer to 30,000 regular troops most of the time, 70,000 or 80,000 auxiliaries, and the auxiliaries generally do not fight.

However, there are exceptions to everything, for example, there are no auxiliary soldiers in Danyang, and the auxiliary soldiers of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry are directly Qiang Cavalry, in fact, Xun You also knew that there were no auxiliary soldiers in the Xiliang Iron Cavalry at the earliest, but later after Li Ru came to power, he established an auxiliary system.

There are not many other Qiang horses in Xiliang, which belong to the flood level. Regardless of whether the combat effectiveness can be put on the table for the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, but no matter how it is said, the Qiang Cavalry is still a cavalry, and there is no problem in cleaning up the infantry.

When Dong Zhuo cleaned up Xiliang. On the one hand, it was necessary to weaken the Qianghu forces in Xiliang, and on the other hand, it was impossible for the Qiang people to feel that they were trapping them, so they obeyed Li Ru's construction and established the most neurotic auxiliary army system in the Han Dynasty.

Other people's auxiliaries are basically people's husbands, and the auxiliaries of the Xiliang soldiers are directly based on the Qiang cavalry, according to Dong Zhuo's words, you Qiang people are all good men. Attach yourself to the strong, then follow behind me, I have a bite to eat without you.

Don't care if Dong Zhuo's words are foolish. In short, when Dong Zhuo was alive, the Qiang people mostly followed the Xiliang Iron Cavalry to eat, and after a long time, they finally established a pyramid system, and the top was the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, each equipped with three Qiang cavalry as auxiliaries. Then the Qiang cavalry captured some more people as miscellaneous soldiers who followed.

This leads to a very hilarious situation. As soon as the Xiliang Iron Cavalry said that 10,000 people would be mobilized, then the mighty army of 100,000 drove over. The auxiliaries of other armies do not fight, and the auxiliary soldiers of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, as long as the Qiang Cavalry is led by the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, it is smooth and stress-free, of course, if there is no leadership of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, the Qiang Cavalry is a second-rate army.

The most pitiful place is that the Qiang cavalry is really attached to the strong and are used to it, as long as the Xiliang Iron Cavalry passes by, the Qiang tribe will have the Qiang Cavalry to automatically supplement the auxiliary soldiers of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, is it not very good, there is no need to conscript.

In fact, Xun You, who has really seen the Xiliang Iron Ride, clearly knows the price. That is, the speed of grain and grass consumption of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry is enough to make a normal prince crazy, and feeding 10,000 Xiliang Iron Cavalry with auxiliary troops is equivalent to feeding 200,000 infantry. Although people's combat power is also worth that price.

This is also why Li Yu, Guo Yan, Zhang Ji, and Fan Chou add up to only 50,000 Xiliang Iron Cavalry, but everyone believes in the claim of 300,000 Iron Cavalry, and this is also why Zhang Ji has to search everywhere to support his subordinates, because raising a Xiliang Iron Cavalry means that you still need to raise several times the auxiliary soldiers.

Having said that, after the death of Li Yu and Guo Yan, the leaderless Xiliang Iron Cavalry should disappear in the long river of history at this time without supplies, and I don't want Ma Chao to rely on his own bravery to build this pyramid structure of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry again, although there are more Qiang riders, but the foundation is still the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, which is the reason why Ma Chao beat Cao Cao's beard and abandoned the robe in the later period.

Otherwise, it would be a dream to rely on the second-rate troops like Qiang Cavalry to defeat Cao Cao so smoothly.

[The shape is not very good, if it is according to the combat effectiveness of the current Danyang elite soldiers, then the Xiliang Iron Cavalry in Chang'an who followed Dong Zhuo's southern expedition to the north is definitely only strong and not weak, and if you want to implement the plan, you can only rely on conspiracy, but unfortunately conspiracy is not the royal road, once you miss, it will ......] Xun You frowned slightly, and was not very optimistic about his uncle Xun Yu's strategy.

[Forget it, let's do the things in front of me first, uncle's wisdom is by no means so simple, let's talk about the problem of Xiliang Tieqi later. 】

Xun You looked at the battlefield in front of him, without Cao Bao giving orders indiscriminately, the Danyang soldiers actually relied on their many years of combat experience and without high-level command, relying on the control of the low-level officers such as centurions, military marquis, and Sima to stabilize the formation, and began to pull the situation back.

"Zhongde, it seems that we still underestimate the elite of Danyang, the strength of our infantry is still a little far behind them, and the order Xiahou Yuan to let a few people form according to the plan, to defeat the Danyang soldiers with the smallest losses, we can only rely on Cao Bao's chaotic military order to let the Danyang soldiers mess up." Xun You turned his head to Cheng Yu and said.

Cheng Yu nodded, and ordered to the few heralds who had been waiting next to the frame, only to see a few people get on their horses and rush towards the south.

However, after a meal, Xiahou Yuan, who was the fastest, had already led the army from the side and rear to Cao Bao under the commander's banner, and in an instant, there was a great chaos in the rear of the Danyang soldiers, followed by a chaotic transfer, so that the front army that had just stabilized was once again affected by the rear army and became a mess, and even because the formation collapsed for a while, the clouds dispersed a lot, and the Danyang soldiers who had just stabilized the formation instantly became worse.

"The rear army quickly reorganized its troops and formed a circle." Xu Sheng yelled, but as a military marquis, even if he knew the most correct way to deal with it, he had no way to pass it on, so he could only rely on Cao Bao's chaotic command to make the shape of the rear worse.

Cao Bao's upside-down command made the rear army face Xiahou Yuan's strong attack directly lost three, and the already bad shape became worse, and then without waiting for Cao Bao to make adjustments, Xiahou Tang led another group of infantry to directly break into the gun array under a rain of arrows, and then Xiahou Tang frantically killed the Danyang elite soldiers in the rear.

With the arrival of the second reinforcement on the battlefield, the Cao army, which originally had an advantage, was even more powerful, relying on the blood of the moment to directly suppress the Danyang elite soldiers, and then the third force led by Mao Jue directly rushed into the Danyang soldiers' military formation in Cao Bao's terrible screams.

As Xiahou Yuan shot off the handsome flag with an arrow from afar, Cao Bao, who was originally restless because he was afraid, couldn't hold back the fear in his heart anymore, screamed, ran in the direction of Yishui in a panic, and directly gave up the control of the Danyang soldiers, he really couldn't bear the atmosphere of death at any time on the battlefield, he was a celebrity, he was not a dead soldier! (To be continued......)

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