Chapter 175: Victory in the First Battle
"What kind of cavalry is this? And what tactics? Xu Rong, who was watching the battle from the back, was suddenly taken aback, and asked left and right, "Why has General Ben never seen it before?" ”
"yes, what kind of cavalry is this?"
"Even people and horses are wrapped in heavy iron armor, such a weight~~ can the war horse really afford it?"
"The war horse may be able to withstand it, but at most it can only run a few hundred paces with weight, and the horse's hooves will begin to break due to the heavy pressure, so that they lose the ability to continue running, but these guys have sprinted at least five hundred steps since they started the charge, how did they do it?"
The generals on the left and right whispered, and no one could answer Xu Rong's question.
"General!" While everyone was in shock, a junior colonel suddenly stepped forward and exclaimed, "Horse butcher, this is the horse butcher's army!" ”
Xu Rong's expression changed, and he said in a condensed voice: "Horse butcher? Horse leap in the loop! ”
The little school's eyes showed an inexplicable look of horror, as if he was recalling an extremely tragic memory, and whispered: "Before the villain came to Liangzhou, he was a soldier under Zuo Zhonglang's general Zhu Jun, and two years ago in Yingchuan, the Northern Army (the elite Central Han Army led by Zhu Jun and Huangfu Song) had a battle with the eight hundred Liukou of the horse butcher. ”
"Oh?" Xu Rong said movingly, "What is the result?" ”
Xiao Xiao didn't seem to hear Xu Rong's question, and whispered in a dreamy tone: "The villain will never forget that battle in his life, it was a group of devils, devils from the power realm, they were covered with heavy iron armor, and even the war horses under their crotch were covered with strong iron armor, and even the people and horses were dark and difficult to penetrate!" ”
"Hiss~~"
Dong Zhuo's army heard a sound of inhalation, and many generals looked up one after another, and sure enough, they saw that the surging cavalry exuded a dark palpitating dullness, and it really looked like a devil from the underworld!
The colonel continued: "The most elite longbowmen in the Northern Army, the longbowmen who once terrified the Xianbei people in Mobei, can't stop their rush at all! Sharp wolf's tooth arrows rained down from the sky like a dense rainstorm, but these devils were unscathed~~"
As if to verify what the colonel said, Dong Zhuo's army, which was rushing forward, suddenly swept a rain of arrows and shot down at the surging cavalry, and as the colonel said, the cavalry's charge was not hindered at all, and the speed was getting faster and faster.
The corners of Xu Rong's mouth twitched suddenly, his eyes showed a terrifying cold color, he was not afraid of the accumulation of arrows, there is really such a cavalry in the world!?
The Colonel's voice continued: "When the demons rushed in front of us, even the ground under our feet began to tremble, and many brothers struggled to raise their rifles and stabbed them in the chests, and the rifles in the hands of the brethren broke one after another, but these devils were unscathed, and then like rolling boulders, they slammed in viciously, and many brothers were knocked out of the air, and many brothers were trampled into flesh. ”
"The brothers desperately waved the waist knife in their hands and slashed hard at this group of devils and mounts, but this group of devils was really invulnerable, and the chopping knives on their bodies cut the brothers down piece by piece like harvesting wheat grass, but our waist knives could not cause them any damage~~"
Xu Rong's pupils contracted leisurely, and he clearly felt the fear in Xiao Xiaoxiao's heart!
The two cavalry teams that were surging against each other had already collided fiercely, and the endless neighing of men and horses suddenly sounded on the empty field, and the two hundred devil cavalry were like two hundred sharp knives, viciously poking into the surging and relatively dense Dong Zhuojun cavalry array.
The corners of Xu Rong's mouth began to twitch violently, and he clearly saw that the cavalry under his command was pierced by the heavy big guns in the hands of this group of devils, and was cut off by the horse chopping knives that came out on both sides of this group of devils' mounts, and many brave warriors and horses were knocked away by this group of devils~~
And the horse chopping knife in the hands of the cavalry under his command is not enough to kill these devils, Xu Rong clearly saw that the elite cavalry under his command avoided the horizontal slash of the horse chopping on both sides of the devil cavalry with superb riding skills, and then slashed viciously on the shoulder of the devil cavalry with the sharp horse chopping knife in his hand, but Xu Rong only saw a splash of sparks, but the devil cavalry was unharmed, and with a backhand, the heroic Liangzhou soldier was cut off the horse.
"Boom~~"
In the smoke and dust flying in the sky, the surging two hundred heavy armored iron horsemen penetrated the three thousand iron horsemen who Dong Zhuojun first launched the charge like sharp blades, and the two hundred heavy armored iron horsemen were like cold sieves, and the three thousand iron horsemen of Dong Zhuojun were screened the most tragic and cruel, and more than three hundred heroic cavalry became the souls of the heavy armored iron horses, while the two hundred heavy armored iron horses only lost more than a dozen horses.
The sprint of the heavily armored iron cavalry had just passed, and more tragic damage followed.
The earth-shattering sound of horses' hooves sounded again in the smoke and dust covering the sky ahead, and a more powerful ironclad cavalry rushed out of the billowing smoke and dust as if a divine soldier had descended from the sky, and in a roar like a landslide and tsunami, a full eight hundred sharp throwing spears swept into the air and shot down towards the frightened Dong Zhuojun cavalry.
The fierce wails resounded in the sky in an instant, these throwing spears were heavy and sharp, and the penetration of the throwing spears was doubled by the opposite charge of the cavalry of the two armies, so that they could easily penetrate the bodies of at least two cavalrymen in a row, or pierce a sturdy horse, and the unsuspecting cavalry of Dong Zhuo's army suffered the most tragic casualties, and fell in large swaths.
Although the two hundred heavy-armored iron horsemen disrupted Dong Zhuojun's formation, what really caused heavy damage to Dong Zhuojun was the throwing spear thrown by the eight hundred iron horsemen who were killed later!
The north wind howled, sweeping away the smoke and dust that filled the sky over the battlefield, and when the sparse remnants finally appeared in front of Xu Rong, he couldn't believe his eyes! Xiao Feng only had one round, and only half of his most elite three thousand iron horsemen were left!
"Kill~~"
Ma Teng is worthy of being a veteran on the battlefield, and he led more than 1,000 remnants of his troops to launch a just right charge.
In peacetime, charging the cavalry with the same strength of infantry is simply sending you to death! But the current situation is a bit special, Dong Zhuojun has just experienced the tragic killing and wounding of Ma Yuejun, is frightened and the formation is chaotic, and many generals and colonels have been killed in the charge, which has further aggravated the chaos.
The remnants of Ma Teng's army and Dong Zhuojun's remnants were soon entangled together, Dong Zhuojun had no intention of fighting, but Ma Teng's army was a trapped beast fighting, one eliminated the other, Dong Zhuojun's more than 1,000 cavalry remnants were actually killed by more than 1,000 infantry of Ma Teng's army, and they lost their armor and fled to the wilderness on both sides~~
"Wow~~"
When Xu Rong was secretly frightened, another thunderous howl sounded, and I saw that the tower-like man raised the heavy long knife in his hand again, and the remaining more than 180 heavy armored iron cavalry began to form a formation again, preparing for the second charge, but this time, the target of the heavy armored iron cavalry was Dong Zhuojun's rear formation - the 2,000 cavalry who gathered around Xu Rong and did not participate in the battle.
After the other 800 cavalry fired their spears, they also bypassed the two flanks of Dong Zhuojun, and entered behind the 200 heavily armored iron cavalry and began to form a formation again.
"Ahhh~~"
The tower-like man slammed the long knife in his hand forward, and nearly two hundred heavily armored iron horsemen behind him rode forward, and began to accelerate again, and with the acceleration of the running speed of the war horse, the cavalry array expanded to the two wings again, forming a wide charge front again~~
Dong Zhuojun was in the rear.
The general Hu Zhen leaned forward and said quickly: "General, quickly retreat!" ”
"Yes, General, get out of here." Another general hurriedly said, "This cavalry is too powerful, I'm afraid our army can't resist it, it's not too late to wait for the follow-up army to arrive and then come to fight, no matter how powerful this group of cavalry is, it is only more than a thousand people, but our army has at least more than 10,000 troops, even if it is flooded with a sea of people, it is enough to drown this cavalry." ”
"Yes, yes~~" Hu Zhen said repeatedly, "It's better to wait for the follow-up army to arrive and then turn back to fight, anyway, Ma Teng is now a lame lame, even if he wants to, he can't run away." ”
"Hmm." Xu Rongjue's nonsense was not unreasonable, so he nodded and said, "Okay, give the order to retreat, and wait until the follow-up army is gathered to fight." ”
Xu Rong gave an order, and the desolate horn sounded in the sky in an instant, and Dong Zhuojun, who was waiting for the battle, immediately began to change formations, and the rear team changed to the front team, and quickly retreated, and in less than a moment, the two thousand cavalry gathered more than a thousand remnants who had fled from the two wings and withdrew from the wilderness.
"Whew~~"
Ma Yue let out a long sigh of relief, and a boulder in his heart finally landed.
Fortunately, Dong Zhuojun was frightened away without knowing the truth, if this Dong Zhuojun did not retreat, he would rather suffer huge casualties than fight with Ma Yuejun to the end, Ma Yue really didn't dare to think about what the final result would be? Two hundred heavily armored iron horsemen are powerful, but they can only launch one charge!
Just now, Xu Chu once again formed a team and intended to charge, but it was just pretending, in fact, these heavily armored iron horses had already been exhausted, if they forcibly charged, maybe Dong Zhuojun would not need to kill them at all, and the war horse under his crotch would fall on the battlefield because of his lack of strength.
Also, the throwing spear of the eight hundred iron cavalry is certainly powerful, but it is also because Dong Zhuojun did not know the details and was caught off guard! If the two armies clash again, Ma Yue believes that Dong Zhuojun will never be as bad as the first time, at least not like this time~~
(To be continued)