Chapter 100: The Fierce Battle (11)

Zhao Yun and Gongsun Dawang waited for the order to attack, and when they saw that the order from Gongsun Xu's side had been issued, they immediately commanded their cavalry, and scattered in a Yanxiang formation and pounced on the retreating Wuhuan cavalry.

The reason why Zhao Yun put up the Yanxiang array to face the enemy was because of his trust in Gongsun Xu, and it can also be said that Zhao Yun's trust in trebuchets.

Zhao Yun firmly believed that as long as Gongsun Xu's trebuchet came out, no matter how strong the reinforcements on the Nanlin side were, they could only be directly defeated and left, and what he and Gongsun Da were responsible for must be to hunt down the deserters.

When chasing and killing the rout, if he wants to minimize the number of soldiers under his command, then his best choice is the Yanxiang Array.

He and Gongsun Da are sitting in the center, no matter how they change the formation, if they encounter the enemy's stubborn resistance, the cavalry on both wings can naturally outflank and give the enemy a three-sided copy, or attack on three sides.

As long as the enemy is not three-headed and six-armed, then the enemy will divide his troops or fight to the death.

If the troops are divided, the middle lane will directly choose to break through, and it will not give them a chance to stabilize at all.

After being combed by Gongsun Xu's trebuchet, the forces in the middle and on both sides will surpass the cavalry that resists and resist, and the cavalry of those rebels can be taken down in one fell swoop.

After the rebel cavalry took it, those infantry were toothless tigers, and the fish that had lost their scales was their meal sooner or later.

There are also several deformation schemes for this Yanxiang array, if the enemy chooses a direction to break through, then they can form a single flank or a separate defensive formation in the middle lane.

After this defensive formation is deployed, the cavalry outnumbered them will not be able to break through at all, and the men and horses on the other two sides will still form a kind of encirclement.

In short, this kind of Yanxiang array was quite effective against the fleeing cavalry.

This is also Zhao Yun's helpless move.

If Zhao Yun's subordinates were all well-trained elite cavalry, if the single combat ability of these cavalry could surpass those Wuhuan cavalry, Zhao Yun would directly lead his cavalry to charge the Wuhuan cavalry without formation.

However, a large part of the cavalry under Zhao Yun is the Tempest Bandits who have recently joined Gongsun Xu's team, and a large part of them are Wuhuan soldiers who defected and became Gongsun Xu's subordinates.

At the end of the Han Dynasty, he was able to command his troops to form a large formation, and he could basically be said to be a very good general.

Although Zhao Yun is not from the scholar clan and has not been instructed by famous generals, Zhao Yun has a very high talent for marching formations.

Zhao Yun can only be regarded as a military general who has just entered the stream at this time, first, he does not have a very good record, and second, he has no background and no one to support, only Gongsun Xu is extremely optimistic about Zhao Yun.

Zhao Yun belonged to that kind of all-round general, and he had already seen it at the first moment of the enemy's reinforcements' attack, when Wuhuan Nanlin led his men to rush into battle, he used the formation of Shuanglong out of the water.

It's just that this kind of double dragon out of the water has some new changes in the hands of Nanlin, the front is in the shape of a sharp knife, which can be thrown to both sides after penetrating the enemy camp, as if two dragons broke out of the water, each clashing to one side, to achieve the best strategic purpose.

This kind of double dragon out of the water large array for cavalry, can be said to be a model large array in the attack, as long as the soldiers are strong and strong, this formation for the infantry battle array has the greatest attack power.

Even if Gongsun Xu arranged cavalry on both wings and arranged other personnel, they would not be afraid.

As long as the vanguard is inserted into the infantry's position in the shape of a sharp knife, as long as it can attack according to his Shuanglong water formation, the speed advantage of the cavalry will not change in any way.

The speed of the cavalry remains the same, and there is no suspense about victory on such a battlefield.

In particular, it is worth mentioning that the cavalry used by Nanlin at the forefront is the invulnerable heavy cavalry, and with them charging in front, it can almost be said that nothing can stop them.

It's just that Nanlin's idea is too back, and he met Gongsun Xu, who didn't play cards according to common sense and got the weapon of killing against the sky, and after Gongsun Xu's two rounds of trebuchet attacks, the heavy cavalry and the most elite cavalry were killed.

Fifty hoplites could defeat hundreds of cavalry if they were placed on other battlefields, and even fifty hoplites could defeat thousands of infantry if they were to face the infantry alone.

The two hoplites who were not hit by the trebuchet would have made Gongsun Xu's battle formation chaotic for a while under normal circumstances, but Gongsun Xu didn't play cards according to common sense at all, and had already dug a lot of large horse traps in front of the big array, and the two heavy cavalrymen had not yet rushed to the edge of the big array, so they all fell into the horse trap.

At the end of the Han Dynasty, there were two kinds of horse pits, one was a small pit that was specially trapped in the horse's hooves, as long as the horse's feet entered the kind of horse pit, it could directly break the horse's feet, so that the war horse lost the ability to continue running.

The other is the large horse trap arranged by Gongsun Xu, as long as the war horse and the cavalry step on it, they will basically fall into this trap.

Based on the fact that Gongsun Xuhui personally led a large army to encircle and suppress the cavalry remaining in the middle of the battlefield, Zhao Yun led the cavalry to bypass directly from both sides of those Wuhuan cavalry and pounced on the rear team of Nanlin.

Zhao Yun shouted loudly as he marched: "The cavalry in the front row should pay attention to maintaining the speed of advance, don't mess up the attacking formation, take the small round shield well, and guard against the bows and arrows of the Wuhuan cavalry." All the archers are ready, waiting for the order to fire. Crossbowmen are in tip-top condition, and once they have made close contact with an enemy, they must aim before attacking. ”

Zhao Yun was also very helpless about the good and bad cavalry under his command, although the cavalry he led far surpassed the Wuhuan cavalry in terms of equipment and morale, but most of the cavalry had never experienced such a war, especially the newly collected bandits from the Wind Village, they were the most difficult to manage.

Although Zhao Yun and Gongsun Da scattered these cavalry of Tempest Village and separated them into their cavalry, they did not go through a long run-in and directly confronted Wuhuan's cavalry, although their chances of victory were great, but the number of casualties would also be large.

These cavalry are all Gongsun Xu's treasures, and losing dozens of cavalry will make Gongsun Xu feel pain, so at this time, Zhao Yun is extremely careful, and he has told these cavalrymen under him thousands of times to maintain a good formation and act in unison according to his orders.

Just as Zhao Yun and his cavalry had just bypassed the rocky area thrown by the trebuchet, they saw Moy leading his cavalry rushing head-on......