The sun was about to set on the Makino Plain, and the clouds sprinkled some afterimages in the fields, and in the light of the afterglow, staring at the enemy's right flank, Yu Xi glimpsed the long-awaited fighter plane.

Over the years, Yu Xi commanded more and more troops, from the first 25 cavalry in a small township, to the first 100 cavalry in the Lu country, and when the lord entered Qufu, there were already 500 veteran cavalry with a hundred battles. After more than a year of expansion, Dongzhao has a thousand horsemen.

This is only the number of cavalry in service, in the past few years, those who have been unlucky to fall from their horses and died, those who were killed by arrows during the charge, those who accidentally rushed into the enemy's spear array on the battlefield and were poked in a hole, fell off their horses and lame, broke their humerus, and had to retire and go back to work as pavilion officials...... At least a few hundred people.

Fortunately, there was a steady stream of Yu people and herdsmen from Jin and Lu to supplement them, and what Yu Xi had to do was to train them in horsemanship, and strive to make everyone a master of horseback riding. He often showed up to tell these recruits who had a low status with his own experience that they didn't have to live a hard life anymore, and they only needed to learn three things in the Zhao army: archery (spear throwing), horseback riding, and allegiance to the monarch!

People are like this, the legs of the cavalry: the consumption of horses is even greater, and in almost every bloody battle, a third of the horses are killed and wounded and cannot be used again. What's more, the age of the horses can't be compared with people, and it has been six years since the lord took him to hunt on Mianshang alone, which is enough to make a foal grow to the prime of life that can be ridden, and it is enough to make the fat and healthy war horse old enough to be sent to pull the baggage, but fortunately, the Zhao family has already controlled the horse trade with Dai Beirong Di, and it can barely be supplied.

In short, the people and horses around him came and went, but only the Dongzhao cavalry as a whole became stronger and stronger.

Yu Xi remembered that the lord had said that it cost money and food to raise a cavalry. It is enough to raise five to ten apprentices, having said that, Zhao Wuxian's investment in cavalry has never been pulled down, from horse harness to equipment, everything is not bothered to develop and replace. As the commander of this army, Yu Xi had to let the cavalry play the role of five or even ten times the role of a pawn. in order to live up to the high expectations of the sovereign!

During the march for the past half month, Yu Xi led the cavalry to wear lighter linen clothes and trot on spare pack horses to preserve the horse's strength. As soon as there is an accident, he immediately changes into leather armor and straddles the war horse that is also covered with a layer of leather.

Fang Cai engaged the army of Fan and Handan, and Yu Xi did not rush to charge and make meritorious contributions, but chose to wander.

He doesn't pride himself because he has more men under him, because no matter how well he trains. In the face of a tight array, the horses do not want to make a mortal charge. Elite cavalry must attack the enemy's flanks and backs at the right time if they want to inflict heavy damage on the toughest enemies.

Yu Xi is looking for an opportunity, marching and fighting, the steps should be neat, and the riding should be divided.

So after threatening the enemy's flanks and forcing them to flee again, the cavalry began to cruise. Each of them was armed with a bow. At this time, they scattered in threes, fives, and fives, and did not gather in clusters to give the enemy a chance to kill and injure themselves with a salvo. Instead, look for opportunities to get close to the pitch and disrupt the enemy's position.

The enemies are divided and the enemies are united, and in the dimming light of the evening they gather or disperse, they come out or don't come and go, like the sky falling. Go like thunder.

This is the so-called "Raven Soldier Star Array"!

"Woo woo woo ......"

It wasn't until the rear army where Zhao Wuxian's banner was located that the cavalrymen's familiar horn of charge sounded again. With a loud roar, Yu Xi stepped on the stirrup and stepped onto the war horse, as did the eight hundred comrades behind him.

Mounted archery weakens enemies. "This is like striking iron, the infantry is an anvil, and the cavalry is a hammer." Zhao Wuxian once said so, and Yu Xi took this sentence as a guideline.

"Right wing!"

With a kick in the horse's belly, he led the cavalry forward, and as they rode away, he pointed out the direction of the assault to the robes.

"Cut through the right flank of the enemy, and you can win!"

……

Although this area was opened up as farmland, the only ditches could not stop the cavalry from advancing at all.

Directly ahead, the soldiers of the Handan clan are in a bitter battle with the Lu people deployed there, it seems that the latter is more advantageous, and has more stamina: because the armor rate of the Handan soldiers is not high, the elite is concentrated in the middle army, here only the people in the front row have armor, but the people in the back only wear Ge linen clothes.

When they were entangled in the enemy head-on, and even the reserves had to be thrown in to fill the hole, the flawed back was the target for the cavalry to smash.

Lu Yan Gao saw all this clearly, and saw that the eight hundred cavalry were in a team of 100 people, lined up in a diamond-shaped formation, and launched a surprise attack towards the rear of the right flank of the Handan army.

The thunderous sound of hooves told everyone that they were coming.

Fierce and unstoppable, the knight in armor and without seeing his face, the roar of iron as he charged filled the whole world.

This is a huge psychological deterrent, Yan Gao has even seen that a hundred cavalry in the charge has even scared a thousand guards to disperse.

However, the Handan clan did not disperse, and the military officials shouted in high depth, asking them to line up and pick up spears to hold their positions. Although some people wanted to avoid it in horror, and some people fell to the ground in fear, many people subconsciously complied.

The Zhao cavalry rushed from the west, with the blood-red remnant sun behind them, and when they were three hundred paces away, they drew their weapons.

The thick back of the blade could easily withstand the stress of the fierce slash, turning the knights into attacking falcons, and the claws forged with iron tore through the enemy's thin defenses, and then continued to stab inward.

While Yan Gao was shooting arrows, he saw a spearman stupidly blocking in front of Yu Xi from a distance, but he was hit in the chest with a swing of his knife, cutting through the armor, leather, muscles, bones, and internal organs, and killing him instantly.

The sharp weapon stuck in his opponent's chest, but Yu Xi didn't stop, pulled out another knife from his waist with his backhand, and with a raised hand, split the shield of another Handan pawn in half, and then stopped his horse and beheaded him.

The head flew up, accompanied by blood splashing, and the cavalry around him did the same, and for a time blood flowers bloomed in the Handan army.

The right army of Lu in front did not waste the opportunity, they began to continue to harvest the enemy's lives, Yan Gao moved forward with an arrow, and later even led the archers to run forward, raising the big bow as they ran, and shooting another arrow at the enemy formation, exacerbating their confusion.

The enemy's right flank was completely finished, not only the front team had been penetrated, but under the impact of the cavalry, the rear team was also completely dispersed, one phalanx after another, and the Handan soldiers fell apart one after another, like ceramics that had been beaten by a hammer.

This time, the cavalry is the real Zhao Iron Cavalry, and they are trampling the enemy under their feet with real iron hooves!

Yan Gao knew that this battle was coming to an end, and for a long time, the thunderous neighing of horses and hooves was a sign that the war was nearing its end.

He watched the cavalrymen swing their swords and decapitate their heads in the crowd, staring at their blood-stained weapons with envy.

He patted the copper dagger on his waist regretfully, licked his lips and said, "The ring-headed knife from Taoqiu, I don't know when I can match it with one for our archers!" ”

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