Thundered~

In the tremor of the earth, there was a rumbling sound of horses' hooves in the distance, and a black line slowly appeared on the horizon in the distance, and the black line gradually enlarged, quickly expanding from a line to a surface.

From a distance, it can be seen that the entire black plane is composed of countless black-armored cavalry, and the red tassels on the helmets of all the cavalry are like dazzling flames flickering from time to time.

"It's finally here!"

Looking at the rapidly approaching Yangwu Army cavalry cluster in front, below Pinggang City, Kong Youde, who was in the position of the middle army of the army, subconsciously clenched his fists and said in a low voice.

According to the news from the spies, there were 16,000 cavalry of the Yangwu Army attacking this time, and if you want to rely on the same number of infantry to resist the cavalry, it is impossible to say that Kong Youde is not worried in his heart.

Cavalry has always been the highest combat power in the era of cold weapons, the king of land warfare.

Heavy cavalry, armed with heavy armor and array-breaking guns, is the king of them, and is the best weapon used to cut through the enemy's military formation in the battle between the two armies.

Because of the scarcity of war horses and the high cost of forging heavy armor, the Central Plains Dynasty rarely had large-scale cavalry in all dynasties and generations, and most of them were light cavalry.

Kong Youde, who was born in the late Ming Dynasty and Gaizhou Wei in Liaodong, was even more clear about the power of the cavalry, and the reason why the Houjin was able to crisscross the pass was also the elite of the Eight Banners under his command, and the entire Ming Dynasty was only able to fight with Ning Tieqi.

However, even if they beat the drum in their hearts, this battle could not be avoided, but fortunately, they had a geographical advantage by leaning on the tower, and the long-range attack on the tower could well suppress the impact of the opponent's cavalry cluster.

The distance of less than two miles was instantaneous, and the cavalry of the Yangwu Army stopped at a distance of 600 miles from Kong Youde's army.

"Hiss~"

Between the sudden stops, the military formation of tens of thousands of people showed the slightest commotion, and only the neighing of war horses was heard.

The cavalry formations quickly and neatly lined up in front, and their uniform movements invisibly exuded a huge deterrent, and it was seen that many generals in the German formation were constantly neighing.

"Sure enough, it is worthy of the elite who swept Yongzhou!"

Looking at the black-armored and murderous Yangwu Army cavalry in front of him, Kong Youde frowned, and whispered softly with an ugly face, and the generals behind him also had ugly faces.

Most of these generals are veterans who have followed them since Liaodong, and with their eyes, it can naturally be seen that these Yangwu army cavalry is by no means fancy, whether it is the thousands of heavy armored cavalry in the middle of the Chinese army, or the light armored archers on both sides, all of them are elite cavalry that have been trained in war, and they are not inferior to the original Houjin Eight Banner Iron Cavalry.

The superb riding skills of these cavalry can be compared with the grassland cavalry, and the sophistication of their equipment is even more outrageous, especially the thousands of heavy cavalry in the Chinese army are all dressed in complete sets of iron armor, wrapping people from head to tail, only their eyes are exposed, like a steel fortress that can be moved.

Thousands of heavy cavalry formed a huge steel forest, and Kong Youde almost wanted to go crazy in his heart.

How much steel is needed to forge such a large amount of iron armor, if all of it is used to forge weapons and equipment, it can be used by at least 100,000 troops under his command.

Moreover, according to the battle report played by Zhang Wenhuan on the front line, the Yangwu army outside Liangkou Town has 4,000 armored cavalry with stronger impact and more than 30,000 light cavalry.

With such a scale of cavalry and sophisticated equipment, even the huge Ming Dynasty could not be formed, how did Sima Yu do it in just two years.

And all this is because Sima Yu has a treasury system, and he has continuously used the primary barbarian order, Sima Yu has conquered and surrendered more than 40 Xianbei people, and even subdued He Batduba, He Batsheng, He Batyun, He Batyue's father and son, and Hu Luguang, a famous general of Northern Qi.

Although He Baduba had been killed in battle, the two brothers He Bayun and He Basheng had already risen to the top in the Yangwu army, and He Bayue was still young and did not join the army.

Hu Luguang had already led 30,000 Xianbei cavalry to assist Xu Shu in conquering Jinzhu County and forcing Feng Shuangli to surrender.

Among these Xianbei people who surrendered, Qingzhuang accounted for a very high proportion and was extremely loyal to Sima Yu.

Therefore, for Sima Yu, the formation of cavalry sources is not a problem at all.

After the end of the war with Su Dingfang, Sima Yu activated some props again, and the ordnance supply gift box was one of them.

Now all the equipment equipped by the cavalry of the Xiao Cavalry Battalion comes from the ordnance supply gift box, spears, heavy armor, high-quality cold horses, plus the cavalry crossbow specially built by the Seiko Workshop, which can directly equip the Xiao Cavalry Battalion into the real heavy armored cavalry now.

Otherwise, even with the high output of the Seigong, it would not be able to keep up with the growth rate of the heavy cavalry of the Yangwu Army.

"Lord, let your subordinates lead the troops to break through the enemy formation!"

Under the banner of the towering Yangwu Army, looking at the Kong Youde army waiting on the opposite side, Huang Jingtian asked Sima Yu for battle.

In front, the 15,000 southern palace army was divided into three large formations, with pikemen in front, sword and shield men guarding the flanks, archers in the back and center, and rows of rejecting horses placed in front of the army formation, and the entire army was arranged in front of Hiraoka Castle in a conical formation.

Looking at the military array in front of him, Huang Jingtian couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

This Southern King Kong Youde was able to lay this foundation in Jinzhou, and he did have some real skills, the layers of infantry phalanxes were tightly sealed, the periphery was densely packed with horse rejection and spear arrays, and the internal hashed archery queues could best limit the impact of the opponent's cavalry clusters.

However, Huang Jingtian was not cowardly at all, and he was confident that he could break through the German army with the 6,000 heavy cavalry under his command.

In the previous raid battle, the flying feather cavalry commanded by Zhao Yun was like a bamboo all the way, and it went down to 7 towns in a row, but the Xiao cavalry battalion, which had just changed into a real heavy armored cavalry, had no chance to show it. Although, he is also a soldier in the Yangwu army, Huang Jingtian does not want to be pressed by the flying feather horse.

Now in this dignified array battle, it is the time for them to show their strength.

"Hehe, it's really valuable that Jingtian can have this fighting spirit. However, now the opponent is forming a formation under the city wall, obviously trying to use the tall wall of Pinggang Castle to use long-range attacks to suppress our army, although the cavalry battalion is full of heavy cavalry, but a direct impact on the opponent's army formation will inevitably lead to heavy losses. Our goal in this battle has been achieved, and there is no need to waste our troops in this Pinggang Castle. Since he Kong Youde wants to fight against the tide to reorganize people's hearts, then we can't let him down, let's give him a happy rain of arrows, which can be regarded as a year-end gift for him. The cavalry camp is in front, and the flying feather riders guard both sides, riding and shooting until the arrows in the quiver are gone! ”

A smile appeared on the corner of Sima Yu's mouth, and he refused Huang Jingtian's invitation to fight, and gave a decisive order.

In the entire southern area of Shiji County, except for the more than 10,000 defenders in Pinggang City, Nanwangfu has no extra troops to threaten them, even if all the arrows are used up, it doesn't matter.

"Whoa!"

Huang Jingtian and Zhao Yun bowed down to receive the order.

The army was quickly activated, and the 16,000 cavalry of the Yangwu Army rushed forward like layers of undulating steel waves.

"Archery!"

"Woo Woo Woo ~ "

Rushing to 300 meters in front of the enemy's formation, all the cavalry, whether it was the Xiao Cavalry Battalion or the Flying Feather Cavalry, fired at the same time from the sky, and the dense and continuous rain of arrows poured towards the sky above the Kong You German army formation.

Rounds

Longbow and fast horses, the best art of cavalry archery of the steppe cavalry were displayed in front of Kong Youde and them, and the dense and continuous rain of arrows poured down towards the army formation.

"Raise your shield!"

"Bell Bell Bell ~"

"Ahh~"

Seeing this, the lieutenant colonel of the German Army, who was guarding against the cavalry of the opposing side, hurriedly shouted, and the sword and shield men guarding the two wings quickly raised their shields and stepped forward, forming a dense shield array in front of the formation, and the crossbow arrows with a close range struck the shield wall and made a dense clanging sound.

The arrows fired from the feathered riders flew directly over the shield wall and shot at the defenceless pikemen and archers who retreated behind, causing a scream and pikemen and archers falling under the rain of arrows.

The Flying Feather Cavalry and the cavalry of the Xiao Cavalry Battalion, who were shooting back and forth, kept throwing arrows towards the military formation of the German army, bringing countless screams.

All the bows and arrows used by the Flying Feather Knights were compound bows with a range of more than 300 meters, and the crossbows used by the cavalry battalion also had a range of nearly 300 meters, far longer than the range of the German archers in Kongyou.

In the face of the Yangwu Army's steppe archer cavalry fighting style, Kong You's German soldiers could only rely on the limited shield wall formed by the sword and shield hand to resist, and they could not resist most of the arrow rain attacks, and they had to maintain the military formation to prevent the impact of the Yangwu Army's cavalry.

can only be passively beaten and withstand the attack of the Yangwu army.

Under this kind of non-stop shooting, the two pots of 40 arrows in the hands of 16,000 cavalry were quickly exhausted, and under the rain of arrows for nearly half an hour, more than 3,000 German soldiers were buried under the arrows, and countless people were injured.

"Listen to Kong Youde in front, my lord has a saying, this is the interest today, after the spring of the next year, my army will definitely set foot on Pinggang City!"

After the rain of arrows stopped, Huang Jingtian, who was wearing heavy armor, drove his horse to the front of the formation and shouted in the direction of the wailing Kong Youdean formation.

After this battle, the southern part of Shiji County under the command of Kong Youde has been full of ruins, hundreds of thousands of people have nowhere to place, coupled with today's battle of Pinggang City, the prestige of the Southern Wangfu will inevitably drop greatly, even if Kong Youde can barely calm down, his strength will inevitably decline, how to resist the invasion of the Yangwu army.

That's why Sima Yu made Huang Jingtian go to threaten so eloquently.

After finishing speaking, Huang Jingtian did not stay any longer, and before Kong Youde could reply, he turned around and slapped his horse away, and began to turn around with the army.

"Poof~"

Looking at the Yangwu army that was leaving, and sweeping away the wailing Chinese army formation, Kong Youde couldn't help but spew out a mouthful of old blood anymore, losing thousands of elites but not even touching the corners of the other party's clothes, he could only watch the other party leave, this battle was really wretched!