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Qin and Zhao, who were horse herding brothers five hundred years ago, are now the two largest cavalry teams in the Central Plains, and today they finally meet each other. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Although there was a huge disparity in strength in the first battle, the Qin people still sang "How can they say that they have no clothes", and bravely launched a counter-charge against Zhao Cai, who was several times their size.

The gentle speed brought the chaotic sound of horses' hooves, and the speed of both sides changed from jogging to galloping, the horses' hooves were no longer chaotic sounds, and the dense hooves slowly merged into rumbling thunder, which could be heard on both sides of the river.

Most of the cavalry of the Qin people came from the west of Qishan, and Yu Mu, who had been herding horses for generations - that is, the descendants of the savages who had stolen Qin Mugong's horse more than a hundred years ago and saved his life in the battle of Korea. They are proficient in equestrianism, can open a strong bow, and have stolen Zhao's saddle and stirrups, which are even more powerful, and they are very good at riding a horse alone. However, after forming a cavalry team, there was not much tactical attention, basically approaching the back of a burst of arrows to disrupt the enemy formation, and then drawing out the sword to cut at close range.

In fact, this kind of charge assault is not skilled by the Qin cavalry, their tactics in the past are generally "a hundred steps away from each other, and the circumference is restored", constantly joining the battlefield, and constantly leaving the battlefield, as an auxiliary branch to create opportunities for the foot soldiers, how can there be a chance to have a pure cavalry battle like this.

Therefore, at the beginning of the start, Qin Qi was quite neat, and halfway through the run, because of the difference in the control of the horse's speed, he habitually opened his bow and shot a shot within 100 steps, and the array began to become scattered.

The cavalry on the Zhao side was different, in the Zhao army, no matter what kind of army, discipline was the first thing to be emphasized, and the generals attached much more importance to military discipline than personal bravery. Moreover, the cavalry standing in front of the Qin people today are all trained Shangjun elite cavalry, not Bai Zhai's cavalry who was temporarily conscripted.

They were mentally tenacious, and Qin Cai's stray arrows hit seven or eight Zhao Qi, causing them to fall off their horses, while the rest of them were still staring at the front. Commander Youcheng also ignored the light arrows flying from afar, and he urged the horse to run while observing his own array, which was something to care about.

The configuration of Zhao's cavalry is set up with a long for five cavalry, one official for ten cavalry, one rate for one hundred cavalry, and one general for two hundred cavalry. The two thousand cavalry, in a column of two hundred horsemen, galloped in ten rows in depth, and because of the wide spread, they almost completely occupied this stretch of plain by the river. Therefore, from the position of the post Cheng, the eyes are full of surging horses, and the rider is holding the flag of the flying falcon on the far right, effectively controlling the team, and the people in the same column look at it from time to time to maintain the speed of the horse.

They were twenty paces apart from each column before and after, and four paces from the left and right of each horse, so that they could maintain their formation when galloping, and the array was not confused by the Qin people's bows and arrows, but it still showed a slight bend.

The distance between the two sides is about 100 paces, counting the relative charge, this short distance is fleeting. The two sides approached quickly, and Zhao Qi could already see the tense faces of the Qin people and the moisture spewing from the horse's nose, and the bowarrow string that had just been put down seemed to be still trembling slightly, and the sword that was raised before reflecting the sunlight; The Qin people could also clearly see the red tassels dancing like fire on the top of Zhao Cai's arm, the white feathers that were about to fly with the wind, and the soil and grass clippings brought up by the hooves of eight thousand horses, as well as the cold light of the tip of the iron spear after the Zhangyu riding spear was flattened.

The cavalry hedged, killed and killed only in the moment when the horse's body was staggered, at this time personal combat skills and horsemanship were useless, and the only useful thing was the formation, except for courage.

Husband battle, courage also, the Qin people are better than courage, but Zhao Qi is better than the array, their flat cavalry formation is like a fast-moving horse wall, so that the Qin cavalry in front of them does not have much room to maneuver. In the face of the dense riding spears, even though the Qin people were not afraid of death, their horses panicked first, and instinctively dodged to the side, but at this time it was too late to retreat, no matter where they fled, they had to face the surging Zhao cavalry, and almost every Qin person had to face two or three flat riding spears.

The formation of the Qin cavalry became even more chaotic, and it almost became the "Qin Chen scattered and self-fighting" that Wu Qi evaluated the Qin army in later generations.

But they didn't have time to think, and in the next moment, with the shouts of killing that burst out from both sides at the same time, the two sides collided together!

Boom, the torrent of two horses collided head-on, countless broken spear shafts and armor fragments flew in the air, the loud noise was endless, the horses that could not avoid each other hit each other and shattered their bones, some riders were thrown out of the distance because of inertia, others fell to the ground with their mounts, and were trampled under the feet of the horse's hooves that came behind, making a terrible scream, and the more unfortunate ones were directly hit by the riding spear, and they were pierced through the heart.

Similar to the infantry hedge, the relatively dense formation of the Zhao cavalry took advantage, and more than 100 rear Qin cavalry in the front row were shot down at least half in the first round of confrontation. The rest of the people were lucky enough to pass through the first row of Zhao Qi, but before they could catch their breath, the second column of Zhao Qi twenty paces away came again, this time they did not raise their spears, but whistled with their sharp ring-headed knives. The spine of the ringhead knife is thicker than the sword, and with the help of the horsepower of the hedge, there is no need to swing it hard, as long as you grasp the handle of the knife when you pass by by and wave it gently, you can bring the flying limbs and a rain of blood. This kind of sharp weapon, which was extremely effective against cavalry, cut the throat, chest and abdomen of Qin cavalry, and some even had their heads cut off, and dozens of people lost their lives.

The interval between the two rounds is only in the blink of an eye, and there are many subsequent collisions of people turning over on their backs, and the place where Qin and Zhao met is full of dead and injured human and horse limbs, and both sides have no time and space to adjust, so they can only keep rushing with courage and fear! The difference is that the charge of the Zhao army is like a storm, and the Zhao cavalry who has completed the impact will continue to move forward for a certain distance, and then kill the generals back, but the Qin cavalry is like the end of a strong crossbow, and the number of people is getting smaller and smaller.

By the time the other two thousand cavalry of the Zhao clan were ambushed on the mountain and by the river, the battle was basically over, and the hedge between the ten rows of Zhao cavalry and the six or seven rows of Qin cavalry decided the winner in less than half a moment......

Eight hundred Qin cavalry rushed into battle, but in the end, only an old horse that had lost its owner was left limping out of the sea of corpses and blood, his eyes full of horror, and the saddle was empty......

As for those heroic riders, either injured or killed, in short, none of them survived through Zhao Qi's queue!

Shangjun Zhao cavalry casualties were not light, more than 100 people and hundreds of horses fell on the battlefield, the living people dismounted, they did not as usual to exterminate the barbarians busy cutting off the head of the merit, but one after another untied their heads, hung their heads, put their hands on their chests, and saluted the Qin cavalry who fell to the ground but still held on to their weapons, and respected their courage and fearlessness.

"There are many warriors in Qinchuan...... If it can be used by the Emperor, how good would it be to fight side by side with us? You Cheng sighed again, then put on his jacket and said to the soldiers: "What are you still doing in a daze?" Cut off the head, and send another horse to Peng Ya to deliver the letter. ”

"Tell them that Zhao's cavalry is coming."

"Tell them that no one in Hexi can stop us from going straight in."

"Tell them that we are going to drink Ma Wei water, and from now on, under the iron hooves of my Zhao cavalry, there will be no more land in the Qin State, and a city will be safe!"

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Legend has it that when the Duke of Qi Huan went on a northern expedition to the mountains, he got lost in a valley near the Guzhu Kingdom, and he could not distinguish between east and west, north and south, and could not distinguish between front and back, left and right. When he was at a loss, Guan Zhong asked Qi Huan Gong to let go of a few old horses that he had taken from Shanrong, and the old horses knew the way and finally led the men and horses out of the valley......

However, what the old horse of Qin brought back this time was not hope, but fear and bad news.

The old horse limped, with knife wounds and arrow wounds, and looked extremely tired, and there was no rider in its saddle, only a blanket from which blood oozed out.

The Qin people grabbed the neighing old horse, and the right commander of the Qin State stationed in Peng Ya opened the jacket with trembling hands, but saw that inside were the heads of the two or five hundred cavalry lords of the Qin State, as well as two other five hundred lords......

They glared angrily, but they did not bat at each other.

The right man shook his hand and put the head back.

When he looked up again, Peng Ya's Qin guards saw a scene that he would never forget.

Like a herd of cattle gathered together by the families of the great nobles of Weishui, dense cavalry formed several teams, passing through the gates outside Peng Ya City, about four or five thousand horsemen. After showing off their might, they did not waste time attacking Peng Ya, but divided into several wings and ran downstream along the river like a flock of geese flying south.

After losing those hundreds of cavalry, the Hexi Qin army has no mobile strength, so it can't be transferred out as a cavalry target, right? Peng Ya and other cities had apprentices, and it was okay to defend the city, but no one dared to go out of the city to prevent these Zhao cavalry from going deep into the rear.

"It's over......"

Qin Guo's right chief had black eyes, and he almost fell to the ground.

You must know that behind Peng Ya, there is a series of cities, Xincheng, Wang, Beizheng, Dali, Fushi, Shaoliang, these cities are connected with the long grain road of tens of thousands of troops of Qin and Wei in Hedong, and the lifeline of the right chief is ordered to guard, so far he is completely exposed to the edge of Zhao Cai! (To be continued.) )