The Liangzhou army is known for its cavalry, but few people notice that the Liangzhou army that got off the horse was actually stronger. For most of the Liangzhou knights who were skilled in riding, horses were just a means of transportation for them to get on the road.

After all, no matter how much they claim to be superb in horsemanship, for most Han Chinese cavalry, their riding skills are still impossible to beat those Qiang who stay on horseback all day, and even sleep on horseback.

Competing with the enemy on the battlefield for riding skills was not the best choice for the Liangzhou army. The real combat effectiveness of the Liangzhou Army still lies in the formation of the horses. Just like Hua Xiong, his true combat effectiveness can only be fully reflected when he gets off the horse.

Hua Xiong is nine feet tall and extremely powerful. The ring-headed knife weighing more than fifty catties, with the blessing of Huaxiong's navy blue wood attribute "Zhan Qi", although it is not sharp, it is durable and not easy to break. Wearing heavy armor, he braved the enemy's sparse rain of arrows to rush to the enemy's camp fence, and swung his heavy broadsword to strike out one after another, breaking open a big hole in the enemy's camp wall.

Then, in the face of the enemy's hastily formed gun formation behind the camp wall, Hua Xiong did not kill it alone, but waited a little, took the spear handed over by his subordinates, shouted, and threw three spears in a row, shooting five enemy soldiers in one breath, breaking the already untidy gun formation.

When the enemy was terrified by Hua Xiong's lethality, Hua Xiong took the opportunity to rush forward and disrupt the enemy's position. The knife rises and falls, but wherever he passes, there are stumps and broken arms!

This kind of lethality is not even possible for many generals at the level of "10,000 enemies"!

Just as Hua Xiong was killing everywhere in the camp and driving away the enemy's defeated soldiers, a drum suddenly sounded outside the camp, but an ominous omen rose in his heart.

- Ambushes?

Hua Xiong gasped. Striding up to a high platform in the camp and looking up. But I saw a path winding out of the low jungle to the west of the camp. At this time, an unknown number of enemy troops poured out of the forest path. Although due to the distance, Hua Xiong could not see the face of the enemy clearly. But by the speed of the enemy's march alone, he knew. This must be a strong army!

Hua Xiong, who had experienced a hundred battles, was not frightened by the sudden appearance of the enemy. However, at this moment, Hua Xiong, who is still sober-minded, must immediately decide on his own response strategy.

- Advance or retreat?

If it is a young military general who has just entered the battlefield, most of them will choose to continue to attack the enemy camp at this time. As long as the enemy's ambush is killed, you can capture the enemy camp and use it as a support for your own defense. No matter how tough the enemy is, there is nothing to be done.

However, in the eyes of the old Huaxiong, this approach is too risky. Even if there is a 60% chance of success, he will not choose. It may be humiliating to retreat immediately, but it is definitely better than losing your life. This is after learning that his enemy is the "Jiangdong Tiger" Sun Jian, Hua Xiong's heart should be cautious.

Facing the "Jiangdong Tiger" Sun Jian, Hua Xiong thinks that he is careful no matter what. It's all taken for granted.

With people hurriedly withdrawing from the enemy camp, Hua Xiong hastily reorganized his own team. Let this tun Ying step forward and set up a formation, prepare for being flanked, buy time for the other troops to straighten out their formations, and at the same time let the rest of his subordinates hurry up and get on their horses. As long as the main force is on horseback, Hua Xiong can be very calm no matter what choice he makes next.

At this time. The enemy's ambush has also reached the range of engagement. Due to the distance between the two sides, the specific situation of the battlefield can already be clearly seen by Hua Xiong. The number of this sudden enemy army is no more than 1,000, as long as the Liangzhou army is prepared. It's not hard to deal with. Hua Xiong, who realized this, couldn't help but feel a little depressed in his heart.

Seeing clearly the banner with the word "yellow" held by the "ambush soldiers", Hua Xiong felt that if he had not guessed wrong, the enemy general who led the troops should be Sun Jian's general Huang Gai.

Huang Gaizi is public, a native of Quanling County, Lingling County, Jingzhou. This person has not been in contact with Sun Jian for a long time, and was appointed as a military Sima by Sun Jian only a few years ago because of his outstanding bravery, and he is one of the newly emerging middle-level generals under Sun Jian. Therefore, Hua Xiong actually did not see Huang Gai with his own eyes, but only saw Huang Gai's name in the military newspaper.

- However, the guy who can be favored by Sun Jian, Wu Yong must be quite good.

For Huang Gai, Hua Xiong thinks so.

Huang Gai's troops came to the Huaxiong army and saw that there was already a small army of the Huaxiong army ready to meet the battle, and instead of rushing up in one go, as Huaxiong expected, they stopped advancing and began to wait and see.

- What kind of medicine is sold in this gourd?

Huang Gaijun's performance made Hua Xiong a little disappointed, and it was strange. With Sun Jian's character, he would not appreciate a general who showed cowardice in battle.

If the enemy rushes forward in one go, with the current hasty preparations of the Liangzhou army, it may not be able to cope with this wave of attacks. However, as long as Huang Gaijun hesitated slightly, the experienced veterans under Hua Xiong had enough time to form a team. If the other party dares to attack after the Liangzhou army is completed, it will be looking for death!

The current situation is obviously quite favorable to the Liangzhou army. The initiative on the battlefield was once again held by Huaxiong.

So, how will Huang Gai respond?

Huang Gai is more than eight feet tall and is good at making a pair of iron whips. Although he was a great warrior, he was known for his versatility on the battlefield. Seeing that the Huaxiong army was ready, Huang Gai waved the battle flag, Jin Duo's voice immediately sounded, and the whole army actually began to retreat in an orderly manner......

The retreat of the Huang Gai army caused an uproar in the Liangzhou army. However, Hua Xiong shouted hello to Huang Gai's quick decision. If Huang Gai dared to delay for a while, when the Liangzhou army eased up, he wanted to leave, but it would not be so easy.

Since the other party's ambush was not enough, Hua Xiong had no reason to let go of the enemy camp on the side of the main road ahead. He divided a canton's infantry, laid a defensive line in the direction where Huang Gai had come out, and once again urged the army to enter the enemy camp from the gap broken by the first attack.

Then, as Hua Xiong expected, the enemy in the enemy camp was really a soft persimmon. Although the combined forces of Yuan and Sun, who were in charge of defending the camp, were as high as 4,000 troops, they were not less than Huaxiong's headquarters in terms of numbers. However, Hua Xiong only personally led the team to charge again, and the enemy defending the camp broke and fled!

"Yuan Shu really raised a bunch of waste, far worse than his brother!"

Hua Xiong wiped a handful of sweat and commented on the cronies around him.

"Governor, do you want to pursue?"

Faced with the request of his subordinates, Hua Xiong thought about it and ordered his subordinates:

"Pass on a certain order, pursue ten miles and return, don't be greedy!"

"No!"

The Xiliang Army has always not been very strict with military discipline. Hua Xiong, the governor of the front department, ordered a pursuit of ten miles, and his subordinates said that they would pursue for fifteen or six miles before turning back. Hua Xiong knows this kind of small action that is common in the army, and he will not say anything about it.

Riding on a tall horse in Liangzhou, using a saber and a lance to harvest the enemy's life from the rear can be described as a happy life for the men of Liangzhou. Thousands of Yuan Shujun lost their armor all the way, and in the face of the pursuit of cavalry of no more than 600 people, no one dared to fight back.

It's just that the happy things in life are often not so easy to do. Sima of the Liangzhou Army, who chased out of Qili Land and led the team to chase and kill, suddenly felt that something was wrong with the surrounding environment. He hurriedly ordered his horse to slow down and be on guard.

I have to say that the battlefield intuition of this military Sima is generally quite reliable. Just after the cavalry stopped, an ambush soldier with the banner of "Sun" suddenly appeared on the small hill on the side of the road hundreds of paces away.

"There is an ambush again!"

Jun Sima immediately turned his horse's head and ordered his subordinates to retreat. His judgment was not unpleasant. However, the enemies who served as ambushes were undoubtedly extremely well-trained and elite soldiers. In the short moment when the Liangzhou army turned their horses around and wanted to turn the rear team into the front team, there was already a group of fast-legged enemies rushing down from the slow hills, moving and arranging a simple spear formation, blocking the road that the Liangzhou army had to pass through to retreat.

However, will this be able to stop the retreat route of the Liangzhou Iron Cavalry?

Jun Sima snorted coldly, and did not lead his subordinates to attack the rudimentary defense line arranged by the enemy on the avenue. There were an unexpectedly large number of enemies lurking behind the hills, and they were still appearing in a steady stream.

Even if the Liangzhou cavalry was able to crush the gun formations of the first group of enemies who occupied the avenue, they would lose speed by the enemy's counterattack. Once the cavalry loses speed and becomes entangled with the foot soldiers who keep rushing down from the hillock, that is the end of the more than 600 elite cavalry.

For the Liangzhou cavalry, even if there is no big road to walk, there are countless paths that can be passed on the gentle terrain around it. These knights, who were accustomed to running on the rugged paths of the plateau and mountains of Liangzhou, did not feel that there were any obstacles that could stop them on the vast plains of the Central Plains after they came to the fertile soil of the Central Plains.

It really doesn't work, those wheat fields that have been abandoned a lot are also places for cavalry to pass through. Even if the speed of the horses will slow down a lot in this kind of place, the Liangzhou cavalry does not carry any baggage, so they don't have to worry about the problem of soft soil at all.

The Liangzhou cavalry's attempt to return by a detour did not arouse Sun Jian's interest. This lonely cavalry hanging in the rear is still left to the bridge in the rear to deal with. Although the combat strength of the soldiers under Qiao Rui is extremely poor, after all, the number has reached 10,000. If such a superiority in strength would be defeated by only five or six hundred enemy cavalry, then Qiao Rui could find a rope and hang himself.

Of course, Qiao Rui may not be able to catch up with these guys with horses. As long as he can ensure the safety of his army's logistics, he can be considered okay. As for Sun Jian, he has more important things to do, that is-

Defeat Huaxiong's main force! (To be continued......)