vs 77 Confrontation and observation

Just when Zhang Madness assisted Guan Hai, collecting defeated soldiers, treating the wounded, and counting losses, a fierce cavalry collision was unfolding on a flat ground five or six miles away.

The two sides participating in the battle, on the one hand, were in the Han army camp with the Yitun "Yue Cavalry Battalion" as the backbone and the national soldiers and knights of Santun County, the main general Cheng Lian and the deputy general Song Xian, both of whom were brave and good at fighting. On the other side, it was composed of 100 cavalry of the Tianping Army and 300 cavalry of the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army. The main general is poisonous, and the riding skills of the deputy general Lejin members are quite uneven.

The strength of the two sides is comparable, weapons and armor or something, and the average difference is not much. On the surface, it seems that the strength is comparable. However, as soon as Pu fought, the strength and weakness were shown.

All the knights of the Han army have the ability to shoot arrows on galloping horses with one hand. The knights of the "Yue Cavalry Battalion" each have a crossbow, and the knights of the county soldiers have a crossbow and a bow.

On the other hand, most of the Yellow Turban cavalry could only be equipped with short bows of varying strength, and most of them could not shoot on bumpy galloping horses. Usually, they can only shoot arrows on horseback after they have stopped. Some of them have poor archery skills, and they need to jump off the horse before they can shoot arrows effectively.

When the two hostile cavalry, more than 500 paces apart, set up a formation and began to launch a confrontational attack, the tense atmosphere frightened the birds and beasts within a radius of several miles to the point that there was no trace of them.

As soon as the commander of the Han army gave the order, the Han cavalry sent a simple square formation, from fast to slow, and gradually began to accelerate the war horses.

On the side of the Yellow Turban Army, the formation was a little chaotic. In the face of the approaching Han army, Xiao Shuai Yu shouted a few times, and asked his subordinates to put on a chaotic formation at will.

In this group of chaotic cavalry, only the Lejin Department maintained a stable formation. In addition to Yu Poison's chaotic command, when he saw this scene, he couldn't help but admire it in his heart.

"Boom ......"

Although the total number of cavalry on both sides was less than a thousand. However, the sound of thousands of horses' hooves trampling the ground was like thunder, and the sound was amazing. Such a scene, even if tens of thousands of foot soldiers are fighting, I am afraid that it cannot be compared in terms of the magnificence of the scene.

From static to moving, first slow and then fast, the rolling cavalry torrent finally started, like two turbulent torrents, about to collide headlong together, bursting out the most brilliant sparks!

Four hundred steps.

Three hundred steps.

Two hundred steps.

The formation of the cavalry of the Han army, in the process of accelerating the horses, slowly changed, from a square formation to a glaive formation. The cavalry on both flanks crossed the middle, constantly rushing forward and extending outward, as if to surround the enemy army in one fell swoop!

Yu Poison sneered.

- The number of people is equal, and they dare to play surrounding?

Lejin is restless.

- The enemies are all veterans of the battlefield, and it is impossible to make low-level mistakes. There must be some kind of mystery in this change of formation.

However, today's situation is that the arrow is ready to be sent and has to be sent. No matter what Yu Poison and Le Jin think, they can't do anything. If you want to get a qualified cavalryman, you can't just give the infantry a horse. The cavalry of the Yellow Turban Army, after all, was not well trained, and they couldn't even quickly set up an assault formation, let alone change formation in a gallop.

One hundred and fifty steps.

Sudden change!

The two wings of the Han army, in a desolate sound of bull horns, suddenly split into three pieces!

The two wings of the Glaive Array broke apart from the middle. More than a hundred cavalry were divided from each wing, and they turned the direction of their advance, avoiding the front of the Yellow Turban cavalry, and spreading out to the sides.

At this time, all the knights of the Yellow Turban Army felt that something was wrong. Even the arrogant knights of the Yellow Turban Army would not think that this was the cowardice of the Han army and wanted to escape.

However, before they realized what was wrong with this, the distance between the two sides had already entered within a hundred steps!

Ninety steps.

Eighty steps.

Seventy steps.

Sixty steps.

Every cavalry of the Yellow Turban Army widened their eyes and held their breath to meet the impending brutal cavalry hedge. This kind of cavalry hedging, as long as you are careless and fall off the horse, you will be trampled into a pulp by the galloping horse that follows behind!

Fifty steps.

The two wings separated from the Han army are only fifty steps away from the Yellow Turban Army!

Two light clouds rose from the left and right ends, looming towards the Yellow Turban cavalry. That's two clouds of arrows!

"Snatch ......"

In the midst of the shouting and neighing of horses, sharp arrows bloomed in the formation of the Yellow Turban Army. The men and horses that fell by this were thirty together.

The morale of the Yellow Turban cavalry plummeted!

However, what is infuriating is that these archery guys, who are obviously within forty paces, finally pass by the knights of the Yellow Turban Army. Seeing the enemy fly away after killing and injuring a large number of their own side, such a blow made many Yellow Turban soldiers almost bite their back molars.

The cavalry of the Yellow Turban Army, morale drops again!

Before the Yellow Turbans could recover from the first wave of blows, the second wave of blows came again.

Rain of arrows, rain of arrows again!

The oncoming Han cavalry army, in the midst of these dozens of steps, has once again set up a vague cone-shaped formation. When the distance between the cavalry on both sides was shortened to forty paces, these well-trained Han elite cavalry, neatly using their short crossbows, faced the cavalry of the Yellow Turban Army and shot an arrow in the head.

Due to the distance, the crossbow bolts are also more powerful. The Yellow Turban Knight, who rushed to the front, fell a piece of "Hulala".

More than a dozen war horses that were on the ground created a small obstacle for the cavalry of the Yellow Turban Army who charged behind. Caught off guard, five or six horses tripped under their feet. These unfortunate horses, like their unfortunate owners, most likely end up being trampled into meat by countless horses' hooves.

The morale of the Yellow Turban Army has dropped again!

Yu Xuan, who was surrounded by more than a dozen guards, looked at the loss of the warriors in the front row in surprise, and felt discouraged in his heart, and had a trace of fear for the Han army in front of him for no reason. However, he is also a soldier with a firm heart and a lot of combat experience, and he knows that at this time, there is no way to advance or retreat. In order to boost morale, Yu Poison struggled and shouted loudly:

"The sky is dead, the yellow sky should stand!"

The guards on the side, who had already had a tacit understanding, shouted in unison:

"The year is in Jiazi, and the world is lucky!"

The encouragement of the main general made the remaining 350-odd Yellow Turban Army cavalry recover some morale a little. However, the Han army on the opposite side naturally has more experience in battle. When the front Feng Han army was less than ten steps away from the cavalry of the Yellow Turban Army, which had slowed down significantly, Cheng Lian, who was controlling the troops in the middle, also pulled his throat and let out a sharp howl that was not like a human voice:

"Han Army!"

This war howl, which was seriously out of tune, immediately triggered a reaction like a tsunami.

"Mighty!"

Echoing the slogan of the main general, the first row of Han cavalry straightened the spears in their hands, aimed at the opponent who showed obvious panic, and stabbed it flatly.

"Han Army! Mighty! ”

When the second call sounded, the first row of Han cavalry that broke into the cavalry formation of the Yellow Turban Army had already thrown away their spears and changed their weapons to ring-headed knives.

These elite cavalrymen of the Northern Army are not only excellent in horsemanship, but also proficient in various cavalry tactics. At that time, the soldiers of the Northern Army followed the famous "Liangzhou Sanming" and quelled the Qiang rebellion in the northwest, and learned the Qiang horseback riding and stabbing spear skills in the army.

Therefore, the cavalry of the Northern Army carried a light wooden spear with a length of one zhang. In the first round of charge with the enemy, the cavalry of the Northern Army can give full play to the advantage of the length of the spear, and give the enemy the heaviest blow in the first shot.

However, after the first face-to-face, the two sides usually engage in hand-to-hand combat, and the advantage of the spear is gone. At this time, according to the drill of the cavalry of the Northern Army, it was necessary to abandon the gun and draw the sword and engage in hand-to-hand combat with the enemy.

The sword light is chaotic, and the "Zhan Qi" dances wildly. The "Yue Cavalry Battalion" is worthy of being an elite division carefully built by the Han Dynasty, and almost every officer above the rank of commander has mastered some kind of "Zhanqi". In comparison, among the soldiers of the Han Army and the knights of the Yellow Turban Army, the people who have shone the glory of "Zhan Qi" are rare.

However, there is an extraordinarily bright bright yellow light, but it is as dazzling as the bright moon and the stars, the tiger and the domestic cat. If you use a foul saying in the 21st century to describe it, it is really: "Blind the eyes of the Han army"!