Originally, Xiahou Yuan thought that his more than 4,000 elite cavalry to deal with Wei Yan's 2,000 cavalry must be as easy as a cat and mouse, but he never expected that the enemy's short war horse had such strong endurance, the enemy's simple equipment had such a miraculous effect, and the enemy's rogue tactics were so terrifying. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Now, the situation has been reversed, and Xiahou Yuan's current more than 3,000 cavalry, under the pursuit of Wei Yan's 2,000 cavalry, is so panicked that he is like a mouse being chased by a cat.

Obviously, Wei Yan's two thousand cavalry can catch up with them with knives and guns at their current speed, but they still maintain a distance of fifty paces, while slowly pursuing, while firing their bows and arrows in pursuit, calmly destroying the living force of Cao's cavalry, like a cat and mouse, teasing enough and finally eating it.

In other words, Wei Yan might try his best to let the soldiers kill fewer enemy soldiers and try to focus on prisoners, but since the last time Cai Yang's men and horses were captured, Wei Yan found that the combat power of the Cao army was one of the best in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, but the Cao army had a very bad habit of slaughtering the city once in a while to maintain morale and combat effectiveness.

Especially Xiahou Yuan's army, looking at his biography, there will be a slaughter character after a while, and this slaughter is actually no different from the massacre after the Japanese invaded Jinling.

There were few ancient armies that did not slaughter the city, especially when the dynasty changed, even the sage Zeng Guofan, who was touted by some people, also slaughtered the city when his Hunan army broke through Jinling, which was comparable to the atrocities of the later Japanese invaders.

In ancient times, there were very few armies with strict military discipline that did not disturb the people, and the Yuejia army and the Qijia army could be passed down through the ages, which was enough to contrast with the military discipline of most of the ancient armies.

Wei Yan's current soul is a modern person, he can't accept the practice of using the slaughter of the city to improve morale and combat effectiveness, he prefers to use the idea of joining the army to work, with rewards, even if it is necessary to eliminate the psychological trauma of the soldiers in the battle, then he would rather follow the prostitute system of Guan Zhong and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, it is better than slaughtering the city.

Compared with the Quartet of different races, the population of Huaxia is not much, and there is no room for these butchers to slaughter again.

And the Cao soldiers, especially those who have followed Cao Cao for a long time, especially the Qingzhou soldiers, they have developed the habit of slaughtering the city once in a while, once this habit is formed, it is like a wolf who likes to eat human flesh, it is difficult to quit, rather than spending so much energy to transform them, it is not necessarily good to reform, it is better to kill them all on the battlefield at the beginning, if they survive, Wei Yan is also inclined to take them to mining and will not be incorporated into the army.

At this time, Wei Yan left two hundred cavalry, who were mainly responsible for cleaning up the Cao cavalry who were injured and fell off their horses, and collecting their horses and armor.

Wei Yan once sent people to visit Hua Tuo, Zhang Zhongjing and other famous doctors, hoping that they could come to Yiyang to open a medical center and train military medical talents, but those famous doctors did not come, Wei Yan lacked military doctors in the army, that is, it was difficult to take care of his own wounded, these enemy wounded, the injury was slightly lighter and could heal on their own, so he would be captured first, and the injury was so serious that he could not heal himself, so he would make up for it and let them die happily.

Xiahou Yuan ran and ran, and found that the war horse under his crotch couldn't run, looking around, the war horse of the cavalry under his command didn't want to run no matter how much he whipped, it was too tired, and some of the war horses simply knelt on the ground with a thud, and the cavalry who beat it was half dead.

He suddenly found that compared with Wei Yan's cavalry wearing light armor or no armor, the cavalry under his command were all wearing armor, either leather armor or iron armor, mostly mixed armor, this armor was too heavy, if the armor was taken off, maybe the war horse under the crotch could still run, so he ordered the armor to be removed.

Two or three thousand cavalrymen took off their armor and discarded one place, and after losing their armor, the weight of the horses was lightened, and they could run forward slightly.

But these war horses were so tired that they couldn't accelerate at all, and they still couldn't shake off the distance from Wei Yan's cavalry.

Soon, Xiahou Yuan found that his order to let the soldiers discard their armor just now seemed a bit stupid, his cavalry still couldn't run away, and the defense power dropped significantly, and under the rain of arrows chased by Wei Yan's cavalry, more and more arrows fell from the horse.

He once wanted his soldiers to follow Wei Yan's cavalry, ride on horses, turn around and shoot arrows, and restrain the pursuit of Wei Yan's cavalry, but they are unilateral stirrups and low-bridge saddles, so that they can't keep their balance, when they open their bows and arrows, it is very easy to fall off their horses due to inertia, and their cavalry basically has not done this kind of cavalry training, resulting in their archery has no accuracy at all, and they can't pose any threat to Wei Yan's cavalry at all.

Of course, more importantly, they have no arrows.

At this time, Xiahou Yuan's heart was full of despair, which was even more desperate than when he was defeated by Xu Rong when he followed Cao Cao to fight against Dong.

Now he can only hopelessly whip the war horse under his crotch and run as far forward as possible, hoping to run back to the camp as soon as possible and join Cao Hong and Yu Ban's infantry as soon as possible.

But the road seemed so long, he felt that he had been running for a long, long time, and he was still far away from the camp.

At this time, Xiahou Yuan had doubts about his cavalry's tactics of rushing and killing for the first time, how could he encounter Wei Yan, a cavalry who seemed to have nothing on the surface, and ended up defeated.

Xiahou Yuan ran and suddenly found that two dense forests appeared on both sides of the road.

He thought to himself, fortunately, Wei Yan did not arrange ambushes on both sides, so it is better for us to take our lives.

He was not wrong to think so, because when they came, they had sent troops to investigate, and there were no ambushes in the woods on either side.

So, he rode forward with confidence.

Suddenly, there were a lot of thick hemp ropes on the road ahead, and those hemp ropes were tightened, which was the legendary tripping rope, and the cavalry horses of the Cao army lost their front hooves, and the cavalry fell off their horses.

Seeing this, some of the cavalry of the Cao army tried to ride their horses to leap over the tripwire, and they succeeded, but their horses still lost their front hooves, and there were many horse nails scattered on the ground, piercing their horses' hooves that were not tied with iron palms.

Hundreds of cavalry in front of them lost their front hooves, and the horses fell to the ground and could no longer stand up, while the horses behind couldn't stop their momentum and crashed into the fallen horses in front of them.

At this time, five or six thousand Wei infantry rushed out of the dense forests on both sides, first the archers opened their bows and arrows for a while, then the spearmen threw javelins, and then stabbed with spears, and then the sword and shield soldiers rushed forward to make up for the swords, a series of extremely rhythmic attacks, so that the Cao cavalry was defeated like a mountain.

Cavalry is indeed the king of the ancient cold weapon era, just like the tank in the era of hot weapons, but the cavalry that has lost its speed advantage, like a tank with broken tracks, will be ruthlessly crushed by the infantry, sometimes the arms are very obvious, and once one side loses the advantage, the situation of the arms will be reversed.

Now, the defeat has been decided, Xiahou Yuan is completely desperate, no, he is not completely desperate, he still has a way to win in defeat.

Now, Xiahou Yuan turned his horse's head, jumped on his horse with his spear, rushed towards Wei Yan, and shouted: "Wei Yan'er, do you dare to fight me to the death?" ”