Chapter 51 Cavalry Duel
Outside the battle formation of the Shu army
Once the battle began, the heavily armed Xiliang Iron Cavalry took the lead, and because they were equipped with chain mail, they were able to continue charging after being shot from a distance by the bow and crossbow of the Youji Raider. Ma Dai commanded the cavalry to maintain the formation in an orderly manner, and when it approached, Ma Dai displayed the unique three-stage assault tactics of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry.
I saw Ma Dai shouting: "Throw the javelin!" The standard-bearer waved the battle flag, the Xiliang cavalry collectively threw javelins, and the dense javelins instantly defeated the first wave of Wei troops! A javelin can pierce two or three people, and the middle of the javelin is killed instantly, and the scene is extremely bloody. The Ghost and Turquoise Rider had never seen such a tactic, and he was frightened for a moment.
Xiliang Iron Cavalry seized the opportunity, "Release the arrow!" "Quickly switch cavalry crossbows and fire intensively at the Wei army. Because it was a light cavalry, the protection was not strong, and the second wave was quickly overturned by the shooters.
When it came to the face-to-face engagement, Xiliang Tieqi took out the horse lance that had been prepared for a long time, "Prepare to fight and sprint!" "Because the Wei army has a short ring head knife, it is often rushed away by the horse lance ridden by Xiliang Tie just after contact. After charging down in three waves, the Youji Raiders lost thousands, which was a great shame for the Youji Raiders who had always been rampant in the north!
Tian Yu and Zhu Ling deserve to be famous generals, and they calmly analyzed the situation in the unfavorable situation in the first round. In view of the heavy loading advantage of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, they decisively gave up the charging style, and found that the Xiliang Cavalry had poor heavy mobility, so they switched to harassing the Xiliang Iron Cavalry by constantly wandering around the periphery and riding and shooting.
This move quickly achieved results, and because of the superiority in numbers and better mobility, the Youhe Raid continued to form an encirclement on the periphery and slowly consumed the Xiliang Iron Cavalry with bows and arrows. The Wei army was superb in archery, and constantly killed and injured the Shu army from the gaps in the armor and other places. The Xiliang Iron Cavalry rushed forward to fight, and the Wei army quickly retreated, and when the Xiliang Iron Cavalry turned back, the Wei army caught up and shot arrows, and so it was consumed back and forth, and the Xiliang Iron Cavalry was quickly tossed and almost collapsed. Through this seemingly scoundrel but effective guerrilla attack from the nomads, the Wei army began to slowly grasp the initiative on the battlefield.
Jiang Wei on the battlefield quickly realized the danger of the situation, the Wei army was shrinking the encirclement, after all, the Wei army was numerous, and if it continued to be consumed like this, let alone lure the Wei army into the battle, the entire Xiliang Iron Cavalry would probably be wiped out in the encirclement.
Must break through! Jiang Wei shouted to the generals and commanded everyone to break through in the direction of the middle of the formation, wanting to rush out before the encirclement was formed. This scene happened to be seen by Tian Yu and Zhu Ling, the thief captured the king first, as long as the commander Jiang Wei was taken, the Xiliang cavalry would inevitably be in chaos! Zhu Ling and Tian Yu exchanged glances, leaving Tian Yu to continue to command the Wei army, and Zhu Ling led hundreds of elites to quickly enter the battlefield and attack Jiang Wei!
Jiang Wei was organizing a breakthrough with all his might, completely oblivious to the danger that was quietly coming behind him.
"General be careful...... Yes! A scream came from behind Jiang Wei, and it turned out that Zhu Ling saw that Jiang Wei was unprepared, so he took his bow and arrow, and shot an arrow with a full string. Fu Jian, the general of Pingdong next to Jiang Wei, happened to see it, and he didn't have time to push Jiang Wei away, so he rushed over and blocked the deadly arrow with his body. Zhu Ling used so much strength that although Fu Jian was wearing chain mail, he was also pierced through the heart by an arrow, and he fell off the horse on the spot and died instantly.
"General Fu!!" Jiang Wei looked back when he heard the sound, and found that Fu Jian had died under the horse, and when he looked up, he saw Zhu Ling not far away pulling a bow against him, and immediately understood that it was Fu Jian who saved himself by blocking the arrow just now.
Tears of grief instantly wet Jiang Wei's eyes, Fu Jian, Fu Jian, you have a brave martial arts ability, I just wanted to join hands with you to calm the world, but I didn't expect you to die here today, what a jealous talent! Jiang Wei was so angry that he wanted to rush over and fight Zhu Ling to the death and avenge Fu Jian. But reason prevailed over emotion, and he understood that the top priority was to bring the Xiliang Iron Cavalry out of the encirclement safely, and then try to lure the Wei army into battle. Jiang Weiqiang held back his tears and glanced at Zhu Ling hatefully, "I will kill him one day!" "Let's continue to lead the army to storm the encirclement.
Under the desperate efforts of everyone, the Shu army finally broke through a bloody road, and the group rushed into the battle to avoid it with a little embarrassment. Seeing that the plan to destroy the Shu army's rangers was about to succeed, Zhu Ling was of course reluctant to let the Shu army slip away from his eyes like this.
"Give me chase!" Zhu Ling's eyes were red, and he roared loudly to direct the pursuit.
"General Zhu is slow!" Tian Yu in the back hurriedly caught up and grabbed Zhu Ling, "Your Majesty didn't let us pursue the Shu army, now that the Shu army has entered the battle array, Zhuge Liang's gossip array is unpredictable, it's better not to enter lightly!" Tian Yu said cautiously.
"What General Tian said is not right! At this time and then, Zhuge Liang's battle formation was complete before, and there were rangers guarding the rear. We have now defeated its rangers, the morale of the three armies of the Shu army will inevitably be frustrated, and the Shu army has just fled into the formation, I observe that its battle formation has been disrupted, at this time, take advantage of the chaos to break into the formation, with the powerful impact of my ghost and sudden cavalry, the infantry in the formation are all grass mustard, and they will definitely break Zhuge Liang's battle formation from the inside! Zhu Ling said confidently.
"This ......" Tian Yu was still hesitating, after all, the temptation to break Zhuge Liang in one fell swoop was too great.
Seeing that Tian Yu was still hesitating, Zhu Ling, who was worried about missing the opportunity, shouted anxiously: "General Tian, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for meritorious service!" You and I have not had a place to get ahead for a long time, are you willing to be only a pioneer and keep being subservient! Win Zhuge Liang, we are the first hero of Great Wei. Zhuge Liang is the cornerstone of your and my achievements! After speaking, Zhu Ling no longer paid attention to Tian Yu, and directly led the troops into Zhuge Liang's gossip array, Tian Yu still wanted to say something, worried that Zhu Ling would make a mistake, and also rushed into the battle array.
The Great War has just begun.