Qiu Li didn't expect that when the Zhongshan Army, which had been waiting for many days, appeared in front of him, there would indeed be such a scene.

Although separated by a long distance, but the light reflected in the sun, even from a distance, it is very different from the past, the cavalry of the Zhongshan people, like the arrival of heavenly soldiers, shining with speckled points of light, but full of majesty, so that people have not fought, they are three points shorter. If you really do make a move, I'm afraid you won't even have the courage to resist.

Of course, this does not mean that Qiu Liquid is afraid. He is a Hu man, but he attaches more importance to the loyalty and righteousness that the Central Plains people say. He was very grateful to Zhao Yong for not killing him back then, and he was also grateful to Zhao Yong for not only promoting him from Daijun to the Baijin Camp and becoming the elite of the cavalry of the Zhao army. This time, Zhao Yong handed over the elite Baijin Battalion to himself, didn't he just hope to be able to drag the Zhongshan reinforcements from Fanwu south and ensure that Zhao Guo successfully took Shiyi? It is no exaggeration to say that whether Shiyi can be successfully captured or not is all up to me.

Thinking of this, Qiu Ye no longer hesitated, tugged on the reins in his hand, and looked at the Zhongshan Iron Horse Cavalry who kept coming, he spit out the grass stalks in his mouth and said, "Get on the horse, line up." ”

The Hu people of the Zhao army and the people of the Central Plains have a big difference in their thinking about cavalry. For example, the people of the Central Plains felt that only by maintaining a formation on the horses could they ensure that they could gain an advantage against the enemy. However, Hu people say that compared with the opportunity obtained, the best choice is to ensure the endurance of the horse to the greatest extent.

You can always find that when Hu generals like Qiu Ye led the cavalry to fight, when the enemy was more than 20 miles away from them, they would lead their horses and wait until they were two arrows away from the opponent, and then get on their horses to meet the enemy. This is not to be overly confident, but to ensure that the horse has sufficient physical strength. The Hu people, who have been facing emergencies for a long time, have long developed the habit of facing the enemy in an instant, and the speed is brought to the extreme at the first time, completing the tactical maneuver against the enemy. And this tactic has become an important operational idea of the cavalry of the Zhao army.

But this time, Qiu Liquid obviously didn't want to do this. Although he didn't know who the opponent's general he was facing, just rushing at the opponent's iron-clad war horse was enough for him to think more carefully about the details of the battle.

Facing the cavalry of the Zhao army that suddenly appeared, Sima Xun in the horse formation, why wasn't he suddenly stunned? Soon, though, he calmed down. Since the other party dares to set up an ambush here, it means that he has realized that Fanwu's reinforcements are about to go south. The more this is the case, the more it shows that the other side is launching a frantic attack on Shiyi City, and it is no exaggeration to say that whoever can complete the killing of each other on this flat plain will completely change the direction of this Northern Expedition.

may know each other's thoughts, neither of them greeted each other in front of the battle, and coincidentally chose to attack at the same time. The two may not know that this may be the first battle between irregular heavy cavalry and light cavalry in Chinese history.

The light cavalry units of the Zhao army soon formed a charging formation and rushed towards the Zhongshan army. This cavalry of the Zhao army is different from other Zhao troops, to put it simply, the ratio of Hu to Zhao people in it is about seven to three, that is to say, this army is mainly composed of Hu people. This is also the reason why the commander will be Qiu Liu, not Li Zhuo.

The Hu people have fought for several generations on the grassland, and their proficiency in archery and horse riding is far from being comparable to that of the Central Plains people, or even the Zhao people. Moreover, many years of nomadic life have allowed them to develop their own unique combat characteristics. For example, the Hu people of the entire tribe will not be overly entangled in whether the formation is rigorous or not, because in their years of cooperation, they have developed a tacit relationship with each other although they fight separately. No matter how wide the two wings are stretched, there will inevitably be some people who maintain contact with the Chinese army and will not be disconnected. In the same way, when the troops need to expand their own front and let the two wings outflank in a roundabout way, the Chinese army will also make corresponding moves on its own, which is the philosophy of action of the steppe people.

Although Qiu Liquid did not order the two wings of the entire army, which were slightly behind, to open the formation to prevent a frontal attack from the place, the captains of each wing of the two wings consciously pulled away from the two wings, and began to leave the Chinese army immediately. But the bow and arrow in his hand were not idle, and he had already begun to shoot at the other side.

As the elite of the elite, the Baijin Battalion naturally has to be equipped with many advanced weapons first. For example, what they are using now is the strong bow that Zhao Guo bought from Korea. Zhao Yong had heard that South Korea was rich in weapons, and the strong crossbow was the best in the world. However, when I got it in my hands, I realized that the longest range of this so-called strong bow crossbow was only about 130 meters, and the effective range was actually about 40 to 50 meters, which completely shattered the illusion of the strong bow. But this is also very good for Zhao Guo. The bows and arrows produced by Zhao Guo himself could not reach this distance.

Therefore, when it reached about 100 meters, the bows and arrows of the Zhao army were opened one after another, and they launched a cavalry attack on the Zhongshan army. At this distance, the Zhongshan army did not have a good response plan at all, so it could only continue to advance towards the Zhao army under the rain of arrows. Facts have proved that the defense of the ironclad cavalry of the Zhongshan people is indeed very strong. If it were the same leather-armored cavalry, in such a dense rain of arrows, even if they were not killed immediately, they would be easily wounded, at least the attack of the military horses would be hindered. Obviously, if you want to inflict casualties on the Zhongshan army, this distance is still too far.

The first wave of the Zhao army's arrow rain attack did not achieve the intended effect, Sima Cheng obviously expected it, seeing that the cavalry troops had entered the effective range of the opponent, and if they ran leisurely like this, it would be over, so he immediately ordered the whole army to charge.

Iron horse cavalry, to be precise, is not a standard heavy cavalry, this is because, although iron tools have been greatly developed in the Warring States period, in fact, their quality and performance are far less mature than bronze technology, so they are more used on agricultural tools. And it is precisely because of the extensive use of iron tools in agricultural tools that the level of productivity of the whole society has developed. However, at this time, iron still could not become the main material of weapons, and even in the later period of the Three Kingdoms, iron gradually became the main material of weapons.

It is for this reason that the defensive performance of iron armor is very impressive at long distances, but within the effective range of the bow and arrow, its effectiveness is difficult to say. The iron horse cavalry in Zhongshan must also exchange fire with the Zhao army within this range in order to kill and wound the Zhao army. In any case, the brilliance reflected by the iron armor in the sunlight is also very terrifying.

Zhao Jun obviously also knew his own characteristics, and the Hu people's habits of prey from ancient times to the present made them react instinctively. At the beginning, the two wings of the troops, finally after entering the effective range, broke away from the Chinese army and made a detour to the two wings of the Zhongshan army, the wide battle line made the whole formation appear very sparse, and gradually moved to the sides, after entering the effective range, the second wave of bows and arrows began to fire, attacking the formation of the two wings of Zhongshan.

At the same time, the Chinese troops also immediately grabbed the reins, flicked their horses' heads back, and prepared to retreat. However, this did not cause the Central Zhao army to give up the attack, on the contrary, the cavalry of the Chinese army began to turn back and attack the Zhongshan army, inflicting damage on the Zhongshan cavalry.

I have to say that if it weren't for relying on his own iron armor, I am afraid that this wave of Zhongshan Army's charge would have lost seventy-seven, eighty-eight. In order to facilitate the charge to cause a huge attack force, the Zhongshan army did not adopt a general charge formation, but maintained a square formation from the beginning, due to the well-trained, even if this cavalry run, the formation is not too chaotic, rigorous and neat. So that the overall impact of Zhongshan people is very imposing. Sima Cheng also calculated the distance of Zhao's counterattack, and when he saw Zhao's central army retreating, he still had unabated momentum, and soon rushed towards Zhao's central army. Seeing that Zhao Jun was in front of him, Sima Xun hurriedly ordered: Bid for the gun!

The javelin should be one of the earliest weapons in Chinese history, and even in the entire human history, it was born at the beginning of human hunting and farming, and it was still a combat tool in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. However, with the invention of bows and crossbows, the accuracy of human weapons has reached a new height, and javelins have gradually withdrawn from the ranks of human weapons. But in the steppes, such weapons are still very popular. Especially when approaching the prey, the accuracy and convenience of the javelin far surpasses that of bows and crossbows!

Seeing that Zhao Jun was not too far away from him, the javelin of the Zhongshan Army was finally thrown. The javelin shone with a cold glow, and with a low whistle, it accurately plunged into the military formation of the Zhao army. Zhao Jun's horses were shot one after another due to the lack of armor, and some were not seriously injured, but the sudden attack made the horses suffer pain and neighed frantically; Some horses were stabbed directly to the vital point and fell to the ground, and even the rider with the horse fell far away, and was trampled to death by the rider who followed; More is the javelin piercing the vital point of the Zhao army from behind, the cold mang is like a god of death, taking away the lives of the Zhao soldiers, and for a while the neighing of the horses, the wails of people, and the screams of the horses falling to the ground have plunged the entire battlefield into chaos.

After the javelin attack, the Zhongshan army finally caught up with the Zhao army, and the powerful impact of the heavy cavalry instantly drowned the Zhao army in the hooves of the horse. Not only that, since it was close combat, the Zhongshan army also ruthlessly waved the weapons in their hands and launched a merciless attack on the Zhao army. And the weapon in their hands is not a sword, but one of the most commonly used weapons among the Hu people-copper-headed hammer.