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Cao Zhen held a long knife and wore gilded fish scale armor, and walked at the front of the entire cavalry ranks.

Cao Zhen rode a black Xiliang horse, which not only had strong sprint power, but also had long-lasting endurance, so there was no need to change horses like the cavalry under his command.

Seeing that the cavalry of the Yuan army in front of him no longer ran forward, but began to turn around and line up, Cao Zhen's young face immediately ignited with a raging fighting spirit, knowing that he couldn't run away, so he didn't run

Come, let me show you what a real cavalry is

Cao Zhen raised the long knife in his hand fiercely, looked up to the sky and snorted: "Haha"

Seeing Cao Zhen teasing the sky with a long knife, the two thousand tigers and leopards who followed behind him quickly changed horses, and changed from the Hun bantam horse in charge of the march to the Xiliang horse in charge of the battle.

In just a few moments, the two thousand tigers and leopards rode into war horses.

Cao Zhen didn't even look back, the long knife in his hand was drawn forward, and he was obliquely guided to the sky at a forty-five degree angle, and then he snorted even more high-pitched: "Hey, hey, hey."

In the next moment, the tiger and leopard riders who followed behind him began to form a formation.

Half an hour later, the two thousand tigers and leopards had formed a large square formation with a width of more than 100 paces.

Although Cao Zhen is young, he has followed Cao Cao since he was eighteen years old, and his experience in cavalry can be said to be extremely rich, and the square assault array he is now putting forward is also very targeted.

Infantry formations are varied and varied, while cavalry formations are relatively simple.

This was mainly due to the fact that the cavalry was too fast, making it more difficult to form a formation than the infantry.

In cavalry combat, there are three main formations: the Blade Array, the Square Formation, and the Glaive Formation, and the rest of the formations are just variants of these three basic formations.

Among them, the sharp arrow array attack is sharp, and it can cut through the enemy formation in the shortest time.

The square formation is the most commonly used formation because of its thick formation, which is both offensive and defensive.

The Glaive is often used to encircle the weaker side with the superior forces.

It stands to reason that the strength of Cao's tiger and leopard cavalry is almost four times that of Yuan's Xiaocai cavalry, and Cao Zhen can completely use the glaive formation to encircle the enemy.

It's a pity that Cao Zhen's opponent this time is Tai Shici.

The battlefield chosen by Tai Shi Ci is very tricky, the left is a dense forest, the right is Rushui, and the narrow strip vacated in the middle can accommodate a hundred cavalry to spread out frontally, more than enough, and it is a little reluctant to accommodate two hundred cavalry.

In view of the terrain, it is impossible to use the Glaive Array, and the strength advantage of the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry cannot be brought into play.

Cao Zhen also did not use the sharp arrow formation, most of the sharp arrow formations are used when the troops are at a disadvantage, and the sharp arrow formations are generally used to deal with the infantry, specially used to chisel through the infantry's defensive array, and the sharp arrow formation also has a special requirement, that is, a fierce general is needed to act as an arrow, Cao Zhen does not think that he is a fierce general.

If Xu Chu is here, maybe you can consider using a sharp arrow formation, but forget it now.

With the pressure of the long knife in Cao Zhen's hand, the two thousand tiger and leopard riders slowly formed a formation, compared to the Xiao cavalry battalion, the riding skills of the tiger and leopard cavalry are obviously more exquisite, only half an hour, the two thousand tiger and leopard riders have formed a square formation of about 100 horses per row, 20 rows in front and back, and then with the momentum of overwhelming the mountains and seas, rolling towards the Yuan Jun Xiao cavalry camp.

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Tai Shici straddled his horse and held his bow, and looked coldly at the Cao army surging south on the river beach in front of him.

For Mangu's tactics, Tai Shi Ci has almost blind confidence, and he will win

Time passed little by little, Tai Shi Ci continued to estimate the distance between the two sides, and at the distance that could best save the horsepower of the Xiao Cavalry Battalion, Tai Shi Ci raised the iron tire bow in his hand.

The next moment, the war horse under Tai Shici's crotch began to jog at a uniform speed.

Immediately afterwards, the first row of horsemen behind Tai Shici also began to trot, and the remaining four rows of horsemen remained in place until Tai Shici and the first row of horsemen ran almost a hundred steps away, and with the second raise of the iron tire bow in Tai Shici's hand, the second row of horsemen in the original formation also began to gently urge the horses forward.

Mangu's tactics relied on cavalry and archery to win, rather than relying on the powerful impact of cavalry.

Therefore, the speed of the riding camp is always unhurried, maintaining the rhythm of continuous cantering.

When the two sides were less than five hundred paces apart, Tai Shici raised the iron-tired bow again and drew a circle above his head.

In the next moment, the front row of horsemen who followed behind them stopped their horses, then turned around and began to run back, and the second row of horsemen also stopped their horses, but they did not retreat for the time being.

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Cao Jun in front of the formation.

Seeing Yuan Junxiao turn around and retreat, Cao Zhen couldn't help but laugh.

These cowards, before the war started, were already frightened and were about to run away

It's also troublesome, but it also saves a lot of hands and feet, then, now, next, let the hungry ring head knife in the hands of the tiger and leopard cavalry soldiers drink the blood of Yuan Junxiao's horse, hahaha

"Hey, hey" Cao Zhen let out a long snort, and the long knife in his hand was violently pressed down from the air.

In the next moment, the tiger and leopard cavalry soldiers who followed behind him raised their swords one after another and held them high above the top.

In an instant, two thousand bright and cold ring-headed knives had been raised in the air, converging into a sea of cold knives on the river beach wasteland.

Almost at the same time, the Haw Par riders also urged their crotch mounts to start the final sprint.

Cao Zhen stiffened his horse slightly, and the mount under his crotch galloped diagonally to the side of the entire phalanx, giving way to the front, Cao Zhen, as a child of the Cao clan, would not take the lead and personally lead the troops to charge.

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Looking at Cao Jun's tiger and leopard riding closer and closer, Tai Shici's eyes were cold.

Because of the high-speed charge, the front line of the tiger and leopard cavalry has become a curve, which is normal, even the most well-trained elite cavalry, it is impossible to always maintain a straight line in the high-speed charge, and the tiger and leopard cavalry can maintain a formation in such a high-speed charge, which is already commendable.

In contrast, the performance of the Riding Battalion is much worse.

If the Xiao Cavalry Battalion starts to sprint at high speed, the result can only be worse, maybe the formation will disintegrate, this is also no way, a point of sweat and a point of gain, the Xiao Riding Camp still lacks training after all.

Looking at the gradually scattered front of the Xiao Cavalry Battalion, Tai Shi Ci frowned slightly.

However, Tai Shi Ci didn't care too much, although the Xiao Cavalry Battalion was not as good as expected, it was not expected to be bad, and it could barely cope with the decent performance.

Tai Shi Ci consciously controlled the horse's speed and conserved the horsepower.

The 100 horsemen who turned around and ran back were also looking back to observe the main general, adjusting the rhythm and speed.

At a certain moment, Tai Shici, who was running, suddenly stood up from the horseback, leaned sideways, and pulled the iron tire bow.

The next moment, the hundred horsemen who were running also stepped on their horses and stood up, leaned sideways, and turned back with their bows and arrows.

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Seeing Yuan Junxiao, who had "turned around and fled" in front of him, suddenly stood up from his horseback and pulled his bow and arrows, Cao Zhen, who had already avoided the side of the phalanx, couldn't help but be startled.

It can't be, it's absolutely impossible, it's definitely not true

How can this group of cowards ride and shoot, and how can they have the ability of Hu people to ride and shoot

The same question also rose in the minds of the tiger and leopard riders in the front row.

Then, before Cao Zhen and the tiger and leopard cavalry soldiers in the front row finished their thoughts, the first wave of arrow rain on Yuan Junxiao's cavalry had already fallen from the sky with a scream that broke through the sky.

Yuan Junxiao rode with wolf's tooth arrows, specializing in armor breaking.

However, except for Cao Zhen and a few dozen officers, the rest of the soldiers of Cao Jun's tiger and leopard cavalry were only wearing light leather armor, which could not withstand the shooting of wolf teeth and arrows at all.

In an instant, more than a dozen tigers and leopards were already shot by people or horses.

Two hapless tiger and leopard riders were planted from their horses.

The results of the first wave of arrow rain of Yuan Junxiao's cavalry can only be described as miserable, a salvo of 100 people actually only hit Liao Liao's more than a dozen tiger and leopard riders, among which the two fallen tiger and leopard riders are still Tai Shici's masterpieces, that is to say, after deducting Tai Shici's results, the first wave of arrow rain of Yuan Junxiao's cavalry almost did no harm to the tiger and leopard riders.

Fortunately, there is still a distance of nearly eighty steps between the tiger and leopard riding and Yuan Junxiao's riding, and there is still a chance.

Actual combat is always the best teacher, after two waves of arrow rain, after the initial tension, coupled with the distance between the two sides is also closer, the results of the Xiaocai battalion gradually began to become considerable.

When the distance between the two sides was less than fifty paces, the cavalry battalion fired a third wave of arrows.

This time, the tiger and leopard of Cao Jun, who was hit by the arrow, rode more than 30 horses, and more than a dozen people fell off the horse.

The horses that lost control immediately began to gallop left and right, and the front of the tiger and leopard riders was immediately chaotic.

The tiger and leopard riders in the back row who followed up didn't have time to dodge at all, and they violently crushed over the floor robe, and the dozen or so unlucky tiger and leopard riders were trampled into meat in an instant