In the face of the roaring waves of yellow people, the heroic private soldiers who lacked courage finally collapsed on all fronts!

"Kill!"

In pursuit of the enemy, the soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army descended the mountain like fierce tigers, desperate for their lives. For a time, the billowing yellow color quickly dyed half of the battlefield. If the situation is allowed to continue to develop, I am afraid that thousands of powerful private soldiers will lose more than half. And the main force of the Chinese army commanded by Dong Zhuo will also be cut off by the flank troops of the Yellow Turban Army!

However, the arrival of a team of Han cavalry immediately gave the excited Yellow Turban Army a blow to the head!

"Die!"

A member of the Han army at the head of the fierce general, riding on a tall horse, the horse lance in his hand stabbed. In the high-speed galloping state of the war horse, the general's action gives people a feeling of leisurely strolling. In just one breath, the man drove the horse to gallop five feet away, and the horse lance shook seven times, killing no less than five Yellow Turban soldiers!

The leading general was so brave, and the cavalry that followed behind was also extremely elite. In a shout mixed with the tone of the Qiang people, more than a hundred cavalry in this area, in a moment, swords and guns picked out more than 100 Yellow Turban Army soldiers who rushed to the front.

The Yellow Turban Army, which was originally high morale, was suddenly attacked by such a fierce counterattack by the enemy, and it was suddenly slotted. They temporarily stopped their advance, suspicious, and did not dare to attack those fierce Liangzhou cavalry.

"Stop! Stop! ”

Seeing the Liangzhou Iron Cavalry who came to help, they fought a counterattack against the pursuers of the Yellow Turban Army, and Tian Feng, a famous Jizhou scholar who was surrounded by the defeated soldiers, hurriedly seized the opportunity to shout and began to organize the formation. The powerful private soldiers under his subordinates saw the majesty of the Han cavalry, and their hearts were slightly frightened, and they involuntarily stopped retreating.

This scene was observed by Zhang Qiang, who was in the second formation, and he couldn't help frowning.

- These cavalrymen are so strong that they can charge the infantry of a large group?

Even if these infantry formations are loose.

――Unreasonable, huh?

As a master of horsemanship, he naturally knows how difficult it is to fight on horseback. Without stirrups, the cavalry had no strength on horseback, and if they were not careful, they would fall off their galloping horses. But the performance of the Han cavalry in front of him completely subverted the original cognition in Zhang Qiang's heart.

But on the battlefield, there is no room for arrogant and cranky thinking. In order to effectively contain the enemy cavalry, Zhang turned his head and shouted at the rear:

"Zhongrong! Shoot the horse! ”

After the Tianping Army joined up with the Yellow Turban Army of the brigade, many of the soldiers were scattered by friendly forces. At present, the troops that still maintain a complete formation are only Yu Ban and Shen Fu's department. However, Yu Ban's hundred-man team has fought many times in the previous battles that defeated Yan Liangwen Chou and others, and they are already quite tired. Therefore, this time, Zhang Madness ordered Shen Fu and Shen Zhongrong's generals.

Shen Fu, among the generals of today's Tianping Army, is not outstanding in bravery, and his art of war is not very clever. However, he has a lot of skills in how to win people's hearts. Zhang Qiang has calculated many times in his heart that this person's strength is not in governing the army, but in managing the people. In the future, if you get a piece of land in your hands, you can let Shen Fu turn into a civilian job.

"Whoosh ......"

With a wave of Shen Fu's raised right hand, the twenty strong crossbowmen under him immediately aimed their crossbows, which were more than four stones, at the cavalry fifty or sixty paces away, and launched a salvo. Although the arrows accidentally injured four or five Yellow Turban soldiers, eight or nine Liangzhou iron horsemen were also hit head-on by the crossbow arrows.

"Damn! God damn bitch! ”

The leader of the Liangzhou cavalry squad, Dong Zhuo's son-in-law, the general Niu Fu, cursed fiercely.

Although this salvo was vicious, it was undeniable that the arrogance of the Liangzhou Iron Cavalry had indeed been dealt a good blow. Although Niu Fu cursed in his mouth, he quickly gathered his cavalry, raised the speed of his horse, and killed to another battlefield to avoid the enemy's frantic shooting.

"Shen Fu! What are you doing! ”

This loud shout came from the arrogant henchman Zhou Cang. Unlike Shen Fu, who was born in the Han Army County, Zhou Cang is a disciple of the Taiping Dao who is rooted in Miao Hong. Seeing that Shen Fu had no scruples about accidentally injuring his own soldiers, Zhou Cang couldn't help but yell.

Shen Fu glanced at Zhou Cang and remained silent.

"Zhongrong, don't do this next time! If you are a first-time offender, you will be punished with half of today's dinner. ”

Zhang Yan said.

Although the Tianping Army is not large, it is still faintly divided into two major factions inside. The devout believers from the Taiping Dao were one faction, and the generals who surrendered from the Han army were another. There is also a Zang Ba, who is a supporter of his hometown and old friends, and a neutral faction between the two major factions.

In the face of the automatic division of his subordinates, although Zhang Qi has been trying to find a way to bridge, there are also some acquiescences. The Taizu of later generations who despised "Mao" once said that "there is no faction in the party, and there are all kinds of strange things". Zhang Mad did not think that with his political ability, he could prevent the formation of his faction. Besides, as long as it doesn't pose a threat to the position of the arrogance itself, he doesn't have so much leisure to care about these things.

Seeing that the Liangzhou Iron Cavalry had been killed elsewhere, Zhang Qiang supervised the advance of the troops again. When he came to the Liangzhou cavalry horse that was shot dead just now, he jumped off the war horse and observed it carefully for a while, but he was a little surprised.

"I see......"

Since then, the mystery of why the Liangzhou Iron Cavalry has such amazing combat power and such a strong melee ability has been seen through by insolence at a glance.

The reason is simple.

Because, the Liangzhou Iron Cavalry is actually equipped with an advanced horse weapon - bilateral stirrups!

Since coming to the end of the Han Dynasty, based on what he has seen and heard, he has always thought that the cavalry of the world is not equipped with stirrups. Having determined this, the arrogance was not prepared to make stirrups too soon. He even deliberately wanted to keep the stirrup a secret, waiting until he had a large number of cavalry, and then use it to give the enemy a hard blow.

Unexpectedly, all this is just arrogance and loneliness.

It turns out that the ancients were far smarter than they imagined. The reason why Liangzhou Iron Cavalry is famous all over the world is that it has a small merit of equipping bilateral stirrups. It is only because of the inconvenient transportation in ancient times that the spread of a new technology is much slower than that of later generations. And if you are not a person with a heart, you will rarely notice whether the knight on the horse relies on his legs to clamp the horse's belly to maintain balance.

Without external intervention, it may not be until decades before the bilateral stirrup becomes a common piece of cavalry equipment. At that time, it was already the late stage of the Three Kingdoms, and it was not far from the time for the Sima clan of the Jin Dynasty to unify the world.

According to the normal historical advance, around the time of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, due to the significant increase in the impact power and fighting ability of the cavalry, the heavy armored cavalry became the absolute main force on the battlefield at that time. This era in Chinese history was the only era in which heavy cavalry was the main combat force, which was hundreds of years earlier than the knightly era in Europe.

After exposing the little secret of the Liangzhou Iron Cavalry, he felt that he had been fooled and arrogant, and secretly decided in his heart that when he arrived at the Yellow Turban Army camp, he would immediately equip all the cavalry under his command with this kind of useful gadget!

――People have used it on a large scale, what else can they keep?

This battle has been fought to such a point, and the victory and defeat are already clear. The next battle situation, in the eyes of insolence, can be described as uneventful.

The Dong Zhuo personal guard led by Niu Fu, although the combat power is strong, after all, the number is too small. Coupled with being shot indiscriminately by Shen Fu, the guards were frustrated, and for the Yellow Turban Army, these strong Liangzhou iron cavalry only slightly blocked their own side for a moment.

Of course, on the battlefield, even a moment's blocking can sometimes be very useful.

If it weren't for Niu Fu leading the troops to block, Tian Feng's private soldiers resisted after being slightly organized, delaying for half an hour, it is difficult to say whether Wen Chou, who was seriously injured, and Gao Ran, who was slightly injured, could get out of danger smoothly under the onslaught of the Yellow Turban Army.

It's just that a quarter of an hour later, when Dong Zhuo's deputy general Fan Chou, who was not afraid of death, was swarmed by the Yellow Turban soldiers who were not afraid of death, slashed hard, and fell into a wounded retreat, and the resistance of Tian Feng's troops ended here.

However, it was precisely because of the delay of Tian Feng's private troops that Dong Zhuo finally retreated most of the Han army from the battlefield in time and retracted it to the Han army camp. Otherwise, those who were overwhelmed by the surging waves of Yellow Turban soldiers would not have only been more than a thousand Jizhou divisions on the left flank who had no time to retreat.

Although the process was full of twists and turns, the ending was not perfect. However, the most important point for the Yellow Turbans is:

They won after all!