Yan Liyou frowned.

Banquet Liyou raises the flag.

Yan Liyou was dispatched.

Five hundred elite guards cavalry, with the main general's banquet, are ready for battle.

These 500 guards cavalry are not only superb in cavalry and shooting, but also well-equipped. Although it is not as good as the iron cavalry of the royal court in Sweat Mountain, the standard of full iron armor is also one-third, and it has iron armor. When hundreds of people from Lejin's headquarters lined up a dense charging formation of five rows on the battlefield, Yan Liyou also commanded the personal guards cavalry to list a wide cavalry charging formation.

In front of these two elite cavalry, the other cavalry, whether it was the Xianbei nomadic cavalry or the Han army guerrillas, all became supporting roles.

This battle is not a decisive battle, but it is better than a decisive battle.

This battle will determine the will to fight when the two sides fight in the future!

Although the Han army often said that "one Han is five Hu", the Han here refers to the Han army that has undergone strict training; Hu here refers to the nomadic cavalry of a half-civilian and half-soldier nature.

If the cavalry of the Han army really faced the professional riders on the grassland, these barbarian riders who lived on horseback since childhood, as long as the equipment between the two sides was not too big, compared with the real combat effectiveness of the cavalry, it was actually better than the knights of the Han army.

It's just that with the low level of production of the steppe people, it is simply impossible to support a large number of professional cavalry. Therefore, no matter which grassland people, the main force that can be mobilized is still those nomadic herders.

However, the professional cavalry of the steppe is the spiritual pillar of the people of the steppe. In a word, it is:

I can't beat you, but there are always people in our gang who can beat you!

It was precisely because of the superb combat effectiveness of those full-time grassland cavalry that the Han Dynasty set up a "Changshui Battalion" among the five schools of the Northern Army to prepare these foreign mercenary cavalry. The combat effectiveness of the foreign mercenary cavalry that was incorporated by the Han Dynasty can often be called the strongest cavalry of the Han Dynasty.

Now, since the Taixing army has shown an elite cavalry, if Yan Liyou can't lead the personal guards and take over the attack of this group of knights, he is afraid that the rest of the troops will be defeated by this elite cavalry. If that's the case, the next battle won't be easy to fight.

Therefore, in any case, Yan Liyou must thwart the spirit of the Han army in the cavalry combat that he is best at. Otherwise, the demoralized nomadic cavalry will not be the opponent of the Han cavalry at all!

It's just that the formation of these Han cavalry seems to be a bit strange?

Yan Liyou followed the Xianbei king Tan Shihuai back then, which was an old man. For cavalry tactics, even if you are blindfolded, you can command a ** without leaving ten. You must know that the combat effectiveness of cavalry all lies in the impact speed of the war horse. In order to give full play to the speed of the war horse and avoid collision and accidental injury to one's own people, the distance between the cavalry should be at least one and five feet.

However, the cavalry of the Han army on the opposite side actually narrowed the distance between the cavalry in each row to only five or six feet. Are these men fools?

- Of course not.

Yan Liyou immediately dismissed this ridiculous idea. With just one foot soldier, you can fight with your own superior number of cavalry. Such a strong army, will come out of a bunch of fools?

With such a thought in his heart, the commander of Yan Liyou immediately became cautious.

-- These cavalrymen are really neatly arrayed!

But all the Xianbei people who saw the formation of the Lejin Department all expressed such feelings.

- Is this using cavalry as infantry?

The more Xianbei people looked at it, the more they felt that the formation of the cavalry under the Lejin Department was a commonly used formation for the infantry.

- Weird......

The speed of the formation of the Lejin department is very fast. Before the Xianbei people could make an effective response, five rows of 100 people were ready to go. Le Jin was in the position of the first person in the first row, raised the battle flag in his hand, and yelled "Forward!" ”。 Immediately, amid the rumbling hooves of horses, the Han cavalry maintained a complete horizontal formation, like a wall, slowly pressing forward!

The Xianbei people began to stir.

Even if the battle did not start, just with the momentum of the Han army's formation, it had already leaked the fact that the other party was very difficult to provoke. After fighting with Xie Xun's department for a long time, the nomads who had already lost their sharpness watched the enemy cavalry approaching in horror, and for a while, they didn't know whether to withdraw after releasing the arrows, or retreating immediately?

With this hesitation, the enemy cavalry had approached within fifty paces.

The sound of the bull's horn in the rear sounded, not a horn of retreat, but a charge horn?!

The military law of Yanliyou is very strict. Although the morale was low, most of the nomadic cavalry facing the Lejin Department subconsciously instigated the horses and launched a brave counter-charge towards the enemy.

In order to ensure the integrity of the cavalry line, the speed of advance was deliberately suppressed. And the Xianbei nomadic cavalry, who launched a counter-charge, because the distance was too short, the speed of the horses was not lifted, and they had already rushed in front of the Han army. So, an unbalanced battle began!

According to the common sense of cavalry charge, the Xianbei cavalry, which was very separated from each other, was shocked in the face of the extremely dense Han cavalry. Because, every Xianbei person who engages in the battle must face two or three enemy weapons at the same time!

The first row of Han cavalry uniformly used light spears. When the Xianbei people rushed to the Han army, they first had to face the heads of two or three, or even more spears. Although a single spear, when the two horses are staggered, it is difficult to have a high hit rate. However, can't stand the Han army's guns?

Therefore, half of the 30 or 40 Xianbei warriors in the first batch of the enemy were picked up by spears on the spot, and their deaths were unknown. There are also a few, even people and horses collided with the Han knights, which can be regarded as pulling a cushion before dying, and they did not die in vain.

The remaining half, the Xianbei warriors who were lucky enough to avoid the spear attack, before they could catch their breath, immediately faced the long knives of the Han knights in the second row!

The gap left by the Han cavalry was small. The Xianbei people, who had dodged the attack of the first row of spears, had little room to dodge when facing the Xueliang Ring Head Knife raised by the Han army. So, after eating a row of snow and bright knife light sweeping, those who were cut down and knocked off the horse by the strength of several knives accounted for eighty or ninety percent.

By the time a few Xianbei people with superb riding skills and martial arts skills rushed to the third row of Han army knights in fear, they couldn't bear the halberd in the other party's hand at all.

In the first engagement, Xianbei was completely annihilated, and the Han army lost three horsemen and four people.

The Xianbei people who rushed the fastest were naturally the bravest and strongest group in the tribe. As a result, when these leaders were completely annihilated in an instant, it immediately dealt a devastating blow to the morale of this Xianbei cavalry.

Many Xianbei people, who had completely lost their fighting spirit, did not care that they were in front of the battle, and were about to meet the enemy, and immediately turned their horses' heads, wanting to flee to the sides and to the rear.

Needless to say, this cowardly approach, the charge on our side, is a disaster. Before the Han army came to kill, because of the collision of horses between the escapees and the chargers, the Xianbei people removed at least twenty and thirty war horses!

So, when the Han army maintained a constant charging speed and killed it, hundreds of Xianbei people who were in chaos had only one way to escape.

In the first engagement, the Han army won completely!

"Why is the conductor of this banquet so chaotic?"

Zhang Mad watched the battle from the rear and suddenly asked.

Indeed, even Zhang Qi, who is not an expert in cavalry warfare, can see that the Xianbei people's tactics just now are very problematic. In the absence of preparation, a counter-charge was reluctantly launched. This kind of order can only be given by military idiots, right?

"Perhaps, what is the backhand of Yan Liyou?"

Zhang Yan thought about it and replied. Although he is only Xie Xun's deputy, after all, as the righteous son of the "great sage and good teacher" Zhang Jiao, in terms of identity, he belongs to the core layer of the Zhang family. Xie Xun was busy preparing his subordinates, and Zhang Yan was on the side, which was enough.

Yan Liyou is certainly not a military idiot. However, he didn't have any follow-ups. Because, the scene just now was a complete misunderstanding.

Shocked by the neatness of the Han cavalry line, the trumpeter of the banquet was in a trance, blew the wrong horn, and turned the order to retreat into a charge trumpet. The furious Yan Liyou, although he immediately slashed the wrong trumpeter to death, there was no way to immediately change this fatal mistake.

Seeing the cavalry of the Han army, he dispersed the unlucky Xianbei cavalry, paused slightly, sorted out the cavalry line, and rushed towards the Xianbei brigade again.

"Boys! Follow me! ”

The order of the banquet is the action of the guards. One hundred and sixty steps away from the Han cavalry, Yan Liyou led the personal guards, discharged the most common conical formation of the cavalry, listed a large formation, and prepared to compete with the seemingly thin Han cavalry.

Judging from the team alone, the scale of the 500 personal guards formation is far greater than that of the Han army front. However, if the formation of the Xianbei people looks like a big wooden mallet, the front of the Lejin Department can be said to be an iron shield.

The big gavel against the iron shield, who wins? Who loses?

The answer, in a moment's time, will appear.