Although Zhao Yun urged the team to hurry, he did not take it lightly, seeing the smoke and dust in front of him, the bright silver gun in his hand was lightly raised, and the well-trained soldiers of the Jingzhou Army quickly gathered up the long line of baggage convoys, and some soldiers rushed out of the team and guarded the front of the convoy.

The smoke and dust in the distance are getting closer, and it is already possible to feel that the earth is shaking slightly, Zhao Yun's heart is tight, it can't be Jingzhou's troops, Jingzhou's cavalry is not much, this expedition only brought 5,000 cavalry, looking at the posture on the opposite side, there are no less than 10,000 people,

Zhao Yun's spear was raised again, and he shouted in a deep voice: "Crossbowman, prepare." ”

With his order, there was a "click, click" sound from the team behind him,

Zhao Yun's face was solemn, and he shouted: "Shoot." ”

Just listen to the sound of "bang", a thousand crossbow arrows shot in the direction of the smoke and dust, these are the production of the research institute of the crossbow, and all of them are six-stone strong crossbows, need to use the strength of the waist and legs to open, the range and power of this crossbow are very amazing, but the firing process is relatively slow, this time the army carried a total of 3,000 crossbows, in order to ensure that they can be fired continuously, these 3,000 crossbowmen are doing crossbow, crossbow, and crossbow movements in turn in a group of 1,000 people.

At this time, the cloud of smoke and dust was still six or seven hundred steps away from Zhao Yun's rear army, Zhao Yun's eyesight was very good, and he could already see that it was a group of cavalry, the first wave of crossbow arrows accurately shot into the cavalry team, and he could feel that the cavalry group paused obviously, and then continued to rush over, but the second and third waves of arrow rain immediately fell in the sky.

The crossbowmen carried out two rounds of firing, and the cavalry on the opposite side had rushed to a distance of three hundred paces, from which the banner of the Western Liang Army could be clearly seen,

Zhao Yun waved his spear and said in a deep voice: "Zama nails, cloth car formation." ”

Because of the lack of horses in Jingzhou, in order to deal with the powerful northern cavalry, the Jingzhou army not only carried out a variety of training for the surname, but also developed some weapons and formations for the surname, the horse nail is one of them, that time in Yingchuan to save Cai Yong's family, Wei Zhongdao's horse was once pierced by a nail thrown by the Yellow Turban Yu Party, inspired by this incident, Liu Xin ordered the research institute to develop this new weapon, the horse nail, this kind of nail no matter which direction it is thrown, there will be two spikes facing upward, which can easily pierce the horse's hooves,

With Zhao Yun's order, a group of soldiers took turns to rush to the front, and threw the slender clay pot in their hands, the clay pot fell to the ground, smashed to pieces, and the zama nails in the clay pot were suddenly scattered everywhere, using the clay pot to cloth the zama nails can also be regarded as Liu Xin's invention, which was the idea he came up with inspired by the grenades of later generations, so that a large number of zama nails could be laid very quickly in front of the battle,

In fact, there is another way to lay Zama nails, the effect is better, that is, the clay pot is thrown out by a trebuchet, which can be thrown farther and a wider area, but now the situation is urgent, and the trebuchet is still some parts, and it is too late to assemble.

This cavalry is the team brought by Zhang Ji to sneak attack the rear army of Jingzhou, Dong Zhuo's cavalry has three parts, the strongest is the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, a total of 30,000 people in Luoyang, followed by the 5,000 Bingzhou Iron Cavalry who followed Lu Bu to surrender to Dong Zhuo, and there are 20,000 cavalry in the old army of Luoyang, the weakest combat power, this time, Zhang Ji brought 20,000 Luoyang cavalry,

There is Liu Xin's army stationed under Yique Pass, Zhang Ji is detoured to Guangcheng Pass, these Luoyang cavalry are usually undertrained, and it is inevitable that they will be in a hurry when they are about to fight, Zhang Ji originally wanted to quietly approach the Jingzhou rear army, and then attack from the flank of the Jingzhou army, who knows that these Luoyang troops don't know whether they are too nervous, or too excited, and they speed up when they are still far away, so they leak their whereabouts,

Not only that, these Luoyang cavalry also lined up in a dense formation when they charged, as a result, to their surprise, the Jingzhou army's crossbow arrows could be shot from such a distance, caught off guard, made a person turn over on his back, because the team was too dense, the person who was shot fell off the horse, and tripped many cavalry, and when the Jingzhou army's crossbow stopped, this cavalry has lost more than 3,000 people,

At this time, those crossbowmen have left the crossbow in their hands and replaced them with compound bows, the training of the Jingzhou army requires a soldier to master the use of a variety of weapons, these crossbowmen will not only use the crossbow, but also use compound bows, they will also pull out their waist knives and participate in hand-to-hand combat.

Especially in the rear army, which escorts grain and grass materials, Liu Xin has higher requirements for the soldiers, this is the difference between Liu Xin's use of soldiers, others use soldiers, and the elite are put in front, but Liu Xin will use the best soldiers to protect the grain and grass, because, Liu Xin knows that many battles in history were caused by the enemy's sneak attack on grain and grass, and he didn't want to repeat the mistakes of the past.

Soon, the Luoyang cavalry, who had just been complacent because the crossbow arrows of the Jingzhou army had stopped, greeted a wave of feather arrows again, this time it was a salvo of three thousand people, which was more dense than the crossbow arrows just now, and the Luoyang cavalry was once again shot on their backs, and the speed of the cavalry was too fast, and the crossbowmen only had time to shoot two rounds before they stopped, and they all drew out their waist knives,

Although it encountered the head-on attack of the Jingzhou army, the Luoyang cavalry lost more than 6,000 people, but the team was also scattered, and the effect of the bow and arrow shooting from the Jingzhou army would be greatly reduced.

Zhang Ji rode on a horse, pointed his spear at the Jingzhou army, and shouted: "Rush, kill." ”

As he gave the order for the final attack, the cavalry was faster, and at this moment, an accident happened, and the horses of the Luoyang army stumbled one after another, screaming and knocking the riders on their backs to the ground, and there was a sudden chaos in the cavalry.

But the momentum was so strong that they could no longer contain it, and many of them fell to the ground before they could shoot their bows and arrows, and before they could get up, the hooves of the horses with large bowls stepped over them, and the screams rang out,

In this short distance of 100 steps, Zhang Ji's cavalry suffered the greatest losses, and people kept being taken off their war horses, as if these war horses had become an alliance of the Jingzhou army, and the most hateful thing was that they didn't see any action of the Jingzhou army at all, and they were already frightened one by one, and they didn't know what demon magic the Jingzhou army had cast.

Finally rushed through this surprising and terrifying area, Zhang Ji's men were only less than 10,000 people left, but the shield array in front of them made them more confident, these shields were completely vulnerable under the impact of the powerful cavalry, as long as the shield array was broken, the infantry behind them would only be slaughtered,

Seeing that they were about to collide, the shield array suddenly loosened, and almost instantly, these soldiers holding shields and steel knives retreated more than ten steps, and what appeared in front of them was a long dragon connected by chariots, these chariots were covered with iron sheets, not afraid of fire attacks, thinking that they were connected with iron chains and mechanisms, and surrounded the grain and grass behind them.

The war horses couldn't hold back their footsteps, and they crashed into the car formation in unison, as if they had hit a stone wall, and behind the car formation were rows of pikemen, who kept repeating the mechanical action of "stabbing, receiving, stabbing, receiving", and no matter whether the stabbing was a person or a horse, a column of blood kept spurting out in front of them, and the chariot had been dyed a shocking bright red, and there were many cavalry who flew to the back of the pikemen and just fell to the ground because of the huge habitual effect of the war horse crashing into the chariot formation. was chopped into meat by a crowd of card knife hands,

Zhang Ji was in a hurry, whistled, gathered the remnants of the army, and there were only more than 1,000 horsemen left who could fight.

Zhao Yun saw it really behind the car array, took off the strong bow, and peeked at the war horse under Zhang Jizao, the "whoosh" was an arrow, the war horse neighed, turned down the dust, Zhao Yun waved his spear, rode his horse over the car formation, and entered the defeated army, picking left and right stabs, when they all fell off their horses, the Jingzhou soldiers behind also rushed up, and the Luoyang army was defeated.

This battle set a record in history, the infantry won more with less, defeated the best record of cavalry, Zhang Ji's 20,000 cavalry, less than 1,000 people fled, the rest were either dead or wounded, and the living became prisoners of the Jingzhou army, and even Zhang Ji himself was captured alive,

And almost at the same time, Zhao Cen, the lord of the Tiger Prison Pass, surrendered to the Kwantung Coalition Army, and the Kwantung princes learned that Dong Zhuo was going to give up Luoyang and retreat to Chang'an, and they retreated one by one, only Cao Ying led the headquarters to pursue, and as a result, he was ambushed by Li Ru, and almost the entire army was wiped out, and even Cao Ying himself almost became a prisoner of the Xiliang Army, although he killed Xu Rong, but Cao Ying was also greatly injured.

Knowing that Zhao Yun defeated Zhang Ji's cavalry, holding the battle report, Liu Xin still couldn't believe his eyes, the infantry fought like this against the cavalry, it was indeed unheard of, but Liu Xin was not carried away by the victory, he knew that the reason for such a result was that the Jingzhou army was well prepared, Zhao Yun commanded properly, the second was that the Luoyang cavalry was negligent in training, and the combat effectiveness was too poor, and the third was that the cavalry at this time had not really become the king on the battlefield, if it met the Mongolian cavalry of later generations, then the result might be completely different, on the other hand, Liu Xin also felt that it was a pity that due to the use of too many horse nails, the damage to the horses was very huge, and many horses could no longer be used as war horses, and could only be killed as rations for soldiers.

Looking at Zhang Ji, who was tied up by the guards and brought into the tent, Liu Xin couldn't help but hesitate in his heart, it was really difficult to kill or stay.