Before the invention of the bilateral stirrup, the tactics of the cavalry were far less abundant than those of later generations, and when the heavy iron cavalry first appeared on the battlefield, Xu Rong only saw the advantage of the terrifying momentum like a landslide when it charged, but he could not see the shortcomings of the heavy iron cavalry. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The heavy cavalry itself does not have the ability to fight independently, can only impact in a short distance, and needs the main battle infantry to trap the enemy for it to charge and kill, and the heavy cavalry itself has no combat effectiveness, only the ability to impact, because the heavy armor and high movement make it impossible to wield the weapon, and generally use the stabbing enemy that will not cause reaction force to the knight is destroyed once' Sex 'horse Shuo to attack the enemy, but it is obvious that the current Xiliang heavy cavalry is not equipped with such a horse lance, and tactically the heavy cavalry cannot be used casually, and can only be attacked when the enemy's position is in chaos, because no matter how many horses rush to the wall, they will be finished, and the human wall of the neat infantry position will always be thicker than the earthen wall.

The reason why Jin Liang didn't equip heavy cavalry was because he could see from the case of Genghis Khan's Mongolian light cavalry defeating the Western heavy cavalry, as long as the tactics of light cavalry were used properly, they could basically defeat heavy cavalry, and heavy cavalry was a very poor class of troops in terms of price.

Jin Liang had already learned from the spies scattered in Luoyang by the Ministry of Military Intelligence that Dong Zhuo had created 4,000 iron cavalry, and Jin Liang trained how to restrain heavy cavalry with light cavalry and how to restrain heavy cavalry with infantry.

Zhao Yun has already begun to lead the army alone, first lead 2,000 pikemen, wait for the 'day' to defeat Gongsun Zhan, and then give Zhao Yun a white horse righteous servant.

Jin Liang was ready, if Zhao Yun's 2,000 pikemen could not restrain the onslaught of the heavy cavalry, Jin Liang would learn Yue Fei's tactics of breaking the Golden Vulture Iron Floating Massacre, and send Pan Feng to lead 2,000 long axe soldiers to cut the legs of the heavy cavalry

Fortunately, Xu Rong had just started to use heavy cavalry, especially when he used heavy cavalry to break Cao Cao's infantry, Xu Rong was full of ambition and couldn't see the weakness of the heavy cavalry at all, and the spear array under Jin Liangbu played a fatal role.

Xu Rong saw that the heavy cavalry was finished, so he quickly changed his tactics, and the remaining more than 20,000 Xiliang light cavalry were divided into two, outflanked, charging and riding at the same time, trying to eliminate the pikemen.

Four thousand sword and shield soldiers flashed out from behind Zhao Yun's spear formation, they raised the wide wooden shields, scattered them to both ends, and divided them into two columns, one squatting and the other standing, stacking the wooden shields, and after a while, the wooden shields were put together into a tightly seamed wooden wall.

Xu Rong saw that Jin Liang only sent such a small number of sword and shield soldiers here, and also made a wooden wall, and laughed: "If it is a spear formation, I am still a little afraid, and it is really wishful thinking that such a wooden shield wall can block the attack of my Xiliang cavalry."

Xu Rong didn't care, and ordered the Xiliang light cavalry to rush forward, and the 20,000 Xiliang light cavalry rushed forward, unstoppable.

When Xiliang's men and horses were less than 100 steps away from the wooden shield, the 2,000 sword and shield soldiers all put down the topmost wooden shield, and 3,000 crossbowmen were exposed behind the wooden shield.

Xu Rong sadly discovered that it turned out that Jin Liang had a useful intention in ordering the sword and shield soldiers to form a wooden shield wall, and under the cover of the wooden wall, the three thousand strong crossbowmen of the Central Army flew to the shield wall and ambushed them without being detected by the Xiliang cavalry, waiting for the Xiliang cavalry to enter the effective range of the crossbow

The strong crossbow of the Central Army is the big yellow crossbow handed down in the Western Han Dynasty, which has been improved by Ma Jun, and the effective range is 300 steps, 250 steps can shoot through the leather armor, and 100 steps can shoot through the iron armor, these Xiliang cavalrymen are wearing leather armor, the horse has no horse armor, there is basically no decent protection, and there are thousands of cavalry to the distance of 200 steps

A thick crossbow arrow shot through, an arrow shot through the leather armor of the Xiliang cavalry, shot out from the front of the Xiliang cavalry, from the back, the end of the strong crossbow can still shoot through the leather armor of the Xiliang cavalry behind, many Xiliang cavalry exposed a big hole between the chest and abdomen, fell down from the horse without saying a word, and the Xiliang horses in the front rows were also shot through the stomach by the crossbow arrows, turned over and fell to the ground

The Xiliang cavalry, which originally galloped neatly, was baptized by several rounds of crossbow arrows, and the cavalry horses in the front rows were all killed by the crossbow arrows and fell to the ground.

The three thousand strong crossbowmen use the overlapping shooting method, that is, the front and rear rows are three columns, when the first column is fired, the second column is prepared, the third column is loaded with arrows, and after the launch, the first column retreats to the third column position to load the arrows, and the second and third columns enter the first and second columns, and they are fired in turn, and the continuous crossbow arrows pour down like a torrential rain.

The strong crossbowmen of the Central Army hold up the crossbow machine, open the string, hold it on the teeth of the crossbow machine, load the arrow in the arrow groove on the arm, wait for a while, and when they are about to shoot, they will raise the crossbow machine and aim through the Wangshan, the Wangshan of the big yellow crossbow is engraved with a scale, which is convenient to adjust the angle of the crossbow firing according to the target distance, and the shooting hit is greatly improved. Each crossbow shot at the Western Liang cavalry on horseback

In the past five months, these strong crossbowmen of the Central Army have received strict actual combat training with real arrows every day, and there are actual combat training every month, and now they are facing the galloping Xiliang cavalry, they are not panicked at all, and they are very calm and calm on the crossbow, crossbow, and crossbow, as if these cavalry in front of them are not the world-famous Xiliang cavalry, but the scarecrow when they train

Some well-trained Xiliang light cavalry hurriedly opened their bows and arrows and threw bows and arrows into the crossbow formation to fight back, but the bows and arrows they shot fell on the shield wall composed of the central saber and shield soldiers, which did not have much impact on the strong crossbowmen of the Central Army behind the shield wall

And at the moment when these Xiliang cavalry threw bows and arrows, countless crossbow arrows had already flown over strongly, with a piercing sound, the crossbow arrows broke through the leather armor of the Xiliang cavalry, shot through their hearts, and shot through the leather armor of the cavalry behind.

Xu Rong couldn't believe his eyes, in the blink of an eye, more than 5,000 Xiliang cavalry had been shot by the dense strong crossbow arrows of the Central Army, and the crossbow arrows fired by the strong crossbowmen of the Central Army could really be said to have fallen in the middle, and within a distance of two hundred steps from the strong crossbowmen of the Central Army, it became a forbidden area of death, and there were Xiliang cavalry who burst their chests and abdomen and died no longer dead, as well as the panicked Xiliang horses.

The army of this era has extremely weak psychological endurance, and can fight a tailwind battle, but it can't afford more than 20% of the battle losses, and without waiting for Xu Rong's order, the remaining more than 20,000 Xiliang cavalry can no longer withstand the powerful crossbow arrows of the central army, and they have turned their horses' heads and fled in all directions.

Jin Liang looked at the one-sided battlefield and couldn't help but secretly admire, the lethality of the strong crossbow to the string control who lacked heavy armor can be described as terrifying.

Jin Liang was greatly inspired by the history of Ju Yi's 800 first ascending crossbows and breaking Gongsun Zhan's tens of thousands of white horses, and within five months of his arrival in Xiangyang, he asked Zheng Hun's Ordnance Department to build not only thunderbolts, but also to vigorously improve the manufacture of large yellow crossbows and other strong bows and crossbows.

Jin Liang looked at the rhubarb crossbow and also remembered the glorious history of the rhubarb crossbow. When Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Li Ling, the grandson of Li Guang, led his troops to 5,000, went deep into the hinterland of the Xiongnu, and met with the main cavalry of the Xiongnu equivalent to 16 times that of himself, as a result, they insisted on ten days, fought thousands of miles, killed tens of thousands of enemies, and finally Li Ling's arrows were captured, before being captured, he said: Give my soldiers three arrows each, we can hold on to the border of the Han Dynasty, but unfortunately they have no arrows, they use the big yellow crossbow, 5,000 crossbowmen can be hard against 80,000 Hun cavalry.

The strong crossbowmen of the Central Army are all sitting on the ground, straightening their legs and pedaling the bow, sandwiching the crossbow arm between their feet, and winding their arms by their legs and waist, and then taking arrows and biting the strings to aim and shoot, because if you get up and pull the strings, it is a waste of time, and it obstructs people's sight, and it will destroy the formation and cause chaos.

The big yellow crossbow now used by the strong crossbowmen under the command of Jin Liang is improved by Sima Jun, the deputy capital of the Ordnance Department, and in the case of no change in range, two crossbow arrows can be fired at the same time on each big yellow crossbow, and a thousand big yellow crossbows can be fired at the same time, firing two thousand crossbow arrows, enveloping all the Xiliang cavalry within three hundred steps, and the Xiliang cavalry will not collapse.

Jin Liang saw that the Xiliang light cavalry collapsed and fled, so he ordered Zhang Liao, Wei Yue, Cheng Lian, Pan Feng and other cavalry generals to urge 12,000 central 'fine' cavalry to chase after them, while Jin Liang and Dian Wei led 2,000 dragon halberd cavalry to rescue Xiahou Yuan, Cao Ren, Le Jin, Zhang Fei and others.

There is a brigade under Jin Liang's command of 2,000 soldiers who are cavalry armed with halberds, but they make it not a stone dragon broadsword, but a slightly easier green dragon halberd, which is known as the dragon halberd horse, usually led by Dian Wei, is actually the "fine" soldier in the central army.

Jin Liang felt that a knife was too troublesome, so he swept it down one by one, the stone dragon broadsword was like a dragon, hovering in the air, and like a tornado, sweeping away the lives of countless Xiliang cavalry, the stone dragon broadsword waved a circle, there were seven or eight Xiliang cavalry covering their throats, turning over and falling, and when they fell to the ground, the blood on their bodies spurted out of their throats, and a cloud of blood mist rose to the sky.

Dian Wei followed behind Jin Liang, seeing that Jin Liang's knife skills were both powerful and 'fine', he was very impressed, Dian Wei felt that he couldn't do it now at all to kill seven or eight people with a halberd, and each of them was cut at the throat of the other party.

Almost in the blink of an eye, Jin Liang and Dian Wei's two thousand tiger halberd horsemen had slaughtered the four hundred Xiliang 'jing' horsemen besieging Zhang Fei, Le Jin, Xiahou Yuan, and Cao Ren, but Zhang Fei and the others had fallen into a state of madness, still waving their weapons with their eyes closed, and in their dying struggles, they didn't know that they had been saved.

Jin Liang looked at them with pity, and saw that they were still waving their weapons like cramps, so he instigated the red rabbit horse, waved the stone dragon broadsword, and circled around them, with four loud noises, Jin Liang shot down the weapons in their hands with the stone dragon broadsword, and shouted at the same time: "Reinforcements are coming!" ”

Zhang Fei and the four of them suddenly woke up from the state of madness, and as soon as they woke up, the pain swept over their bodies.

Zhang Fei's eyes widened, he couldn't believe that he was saved by Jin Liang, and he said two words with great difficulty: "Thank you!" ”

After saying these two sentences, Zhang Fei fell off the horse with a plop, unconscious, Xiahou Yuan, Cao Ren, and Le Jin fainted without even saying thank you.

Only then did Jin Liang remember that these four poor guys had been besieged by countless Xiliang cavalry for more than two hours, and the men and horses under their command were all dead and wounded, and they themselves were covered in bruises and exhausted.

Cao Cao and Liu Bei rode over and thanked Jin Liang for a thousand kindnesses, Jin Liang waved his hand and smiled: "I hope that the two of you, as well as Prime Minister Bao Guoxiang, from now on, can join hands with me to fight against Dong Zhuo and other wolf ambitions, and support the Han family, if anyone betrays us halfway, our Central Army will not spare us!" ”

Although Cao Cao, Liu Bei, and Bao Xin were very humble because they needed Jin Liang's rescue for the time being, they all had other thoughts about Jin Liang in their hearts, and when they heard Jin Liang say this, their eyes were filled with panic, because they had seen the combat power of the Central Army, which could really be described as the first army in the world.

Cao Cao, Bao Xin, and Liu Beiqiang smiled and said: "I don't dare to ask for ears!" ”

Cao Cao and Liu Bei sent people to carry Zhang Fei and the four to be treated.

Huang Zhongdu supervised the rear army to be captured and collected Xiliang war horses, while Jin Liang, Dian Wei, and Zhao Yun kept up with the pace of Zhang Liao, Wei Yue and other cavalry generals, and continued to pursue and kill Xu Rong.

Xiliang Xiao Cavalry Captain Hua Xiong repeatedly wanted to stop the pace of escape, turned around and fought to the death with Jin Liang, but was dissuaded by Xu Rong: "That black-faced Zhang Fei just now, you are not an opponent, but Zhang Fei, Guan Yu, and Liu Bei challenged Jin Liang together, but were defeated by Jin Liang, you have to weigh it yourself!" ”

Hua Xiong listened to Xu Rong's advice, no longer turned around to contact the central army, but urged the war horse, along the shallow place of Bianshui, crossed Bianshui, and fled straight to Xingyang City.

Xu Rong originally wanted to ambush on the other side of Bianshui and attack the pursuing soldiers of the Central Army, but the Xingyang side of Bianshui was very gentle, and the Xiliang cavalry could not ambush at all, and the Central Army was in hot pursuit, and the Xiliang Army did not have enough time to ambush, so they had to regroup, stand by the river, stretch their bows and arrows, and shoot at the opposite bank to prevent the Central Army from crossing the river.

The range of the bow and arrow of the cavalry of the Central Army is not much different from that of the Xiliang cavalry, so they shoot each other, and the casualties are similar.

Zhang Liao gave an order, the central cavalry retreated a hundred steps back, avoiding the cavalry of the Xiliang cavalry, there were 4,000 central cavalry to hang up the horse bow, take off the Shenma crossbow behind the back, the crossbow, the crossbow, the crossbow, the four thousand Shenma crossbow aimed at the Xiliang cavalry on the opposite bank, thousands of crossbows are vigorous.

This god horse crossbow is a five-arrow crossbow invented by Ma Jun, the crossbow arrow is made of iron, eight inches long, the five arrows are placed in a crossbow groove, and the plate machine can be shot out from the arrow hole once, and the arrow in the crossbow groove then falls into the arrow chamber, and then winds it, and can continue to shoot out.

Ma Jun's five-arrow crossbow is the same as Zhuge Liang's Yuanrong crossbow in history, but it has been improved, from the ten-arrow company of the Yuanrong crossbow to the five-arrow company, the range and shooting intensity have increased a lot, the effective range is 200 steps, 130 steps to shoot through leather armor, and 50 steps **** to wear iron armor.

Ma Jun invited Jin Liang to name the five-arrow crossbow, Jin Liang thought that this crossbow was used immediately, and it was invented by Ma Jun, and it was very powerful in the cavalry battle, so it was named the Shenma crossbow.

There are only about ten steps in the Bianshui that is more than two zhang wide, and the cavalry of the Central Army retreated a hundred steps, avoiding the cavalry of the Xiliang cavalry, but the Xiliang cavalry could not block the attack of the Shenma crossbow, Xu Rong hurriedly ordered the Xiliang cavalry to retreat, they retreated step by step, the cavalry of the Central Army advanced step by step, and the Xiliang cavalry withdrew from the shooting distance of the Shenma crossbow, and the Central Army had quickly waded through the Bianshui.

The Xiliang cavalry could not resist the attack of the Shenma crossbow and collapsed again.

Jin Liang, Zhang Liao and others all supervised more than 10,000 cavalry of the Central Army, taking advantage of the victory to pursue, Xu Rong saw that the number of Xiliang cavalry was still more than the number of cavalry of the Central Army, why was it chased by the Central Cavalry like a rabbit, he wanted to counterattack the whole army, but the defeat was like a mountain, Xu Rong could only temporarily gather three or four thousand people from the scattered Xiliang cavalry, but these three or four thousand people were slightly shot by the crossbow of the Central Army, and they scattered and fled.

Xu Rong couldn't help but secretly hate himself, why didn't he bring a strong crossbow, if he brought a strong crossbow, it would be better to use a crossbow to control the crossbow, so as not to be so passively pressed and beaten by the central cavalry. In fact, even if Xu Rong asked the Xiliang cavalry to bring Xiliang crossbows, it would be useless, because there was a lack of skilled craftsmen in the Xiliang army, and all the skilled craftsmen in Luoyang City were taken away by Jin Liang when he withdrew from Luoyang, so the strong crossbows in the Xiliang army were far inferior to the strong crossbows of the Central Army in terms of range and shooting intensity. The strong crossbow of the Central Army was not only improved by Ma Jun, its manufacturing process is also strictly standardized and processed, many crossbow craftsmen from Luoyang took the apprentices recruited locally in Xiangyang, and manufactured crossbow machines and crossbow arrows according to the standards of the Qin Dynasty.

The Xiliang cavalry was scattered and collapsed by the strong crossbows of the Central Army, while the cavalry of the Central Army quickly condensed into a powerful conical formation.

The forward of the cone-shaped formation is sharp and fast, the two wings are strong and powerful, and the enemy is attacked in a narrow frontal through the 'elite' sharp forward, breaking through and cutting the enemy's formation, and the two wings expand the results of the battle. There is no shortage of fierce generals in the central cavalry of Jinliang, and each brigade of 2,000 people has a general with strong martial arts as the head of the spine, and the vanguard soldiers on both sides of the spine are all great warriors with outstanding skills on individual horses, and they lead the central 'fine' cavalry after five months of strict combat training, like a sharp awl, stabbing into the messy military formation of the Xiliang army.

Xu Rong face' The color is gloomy, his heart is like ashes, he came out of Xingyang City this time to ambush Cao Cao, with all the strong Xiliang cavalry, there are 30,000 horses, in the ambush of Cao Cao's 30,000 horses killed and wounded more than 2,000 people, this consumption Xu Rong can still withstand it, but when he is full of ambition to meet the Jinliang Central Army, 2,000 ironclad heavy cavalry annihilated, the Central Army's strong crossbowmen shot more than 6,000 Xiliang light cavalry, Xiliang light cavalry was pursued by the Central Army when the escape was more than 3,000 shots, and was captured more than 12,000, most of the Xiliang cavalry who fled into Xingyang City were also wounded, and lost their armor and armor, morale was completely lost, fortunately, there were more than 10,000 infantry and more than 20,000 auxiliaries in Xingyang City, should be able to hold Xingyang City, but I don't know how Dong Zhuo, who has always trusted himself because he is from Liaodong and not from Xiliang, will send himself down. The central army set up camp two miles below Xingyang City relying on the mountain situation, and put on a posture of not breaking Xingyang City's vows not to rest.

Jin Liang rode a red rabbit horse and walked around Xingyang City, which had been run by Xu Rong for five months, the city walls were heightened, the moat was widened, and all the defensive equipment on the city was complete, which seemed to be very difficult to attack. (To be continued.) )