Chapter 953: Light Riding to Open the Way
To put it bluntly, the trick of the Tempest Cavalry is not a big deal, that is, to use the cover of the front army so that the enemy troops on the opposite side cannot see the situation behind them. When they brought into full play the advantages of the clutch soldiers and quickly evacuated to the two wings, the white horse elite who followed up was revealed.
White horses are not easy to collect, and even fewer are white horses that can act as war horses. Gongsun Zhan's 3,000 horsemen had accumulated for many years, and although the current Qingzhou power was larger, it was impossible to exceed too much.
However, Wang Yu still retained the cavalry establishment of pure white horses, and stipulated that only elite veterans who had beheaded more than level five could receive this honor.
During the Qin and Han dynasties, there was a system of twenty rank lords, which was pioneered by Shang Ying, with the lowest being a prince and the highest being a liehou. According to the regulations, as long as a soldier can kill the head of the enemy soldier on the battlefield, he can be given a knight. By analogy, a warrior who is qualified to ride a white horse in the Tempest Cavalry can be called a doctor!
Of course, these elites are all officers, and they are scattered and led in peacetime operations, but this time, Zhao Yun did the opposite and gathered most of the elites together.
These elite cavalrymen were white horses and white robes, and the half-body plate armor they wore was polished and shiny, like a silver mirror.
It's a summer day, and noon is the time of day when the sun is at its strongest.
The combination of the two results in an incomparably intense flash. It was also because the front army of the Wind Cavalry moved too fast and neatly, and this time it was sudden, as if someone had thrown hundreds or thousands of flashbangs at once, and people couldn't open their eyes.
The battlefield is changing. Even the slightest loss of consciousness can have fatal consequences. What's more, it is still in two cavalry teams that have raised their speed to the extreme and hedged against each other?
The lookout on the upper floor of the Chinese army witnessed this astonishing scene.
The sudden flash of light, like the blessing of the legendary fairy law, the enemy's combat power has been increased beyond imagination, the moment the two armies came into contact, the shining white horse knights turned into an indestructible sword, everywhere they went, destroying the withering and decaying. Invincible!
Because he was too shocked, the lookout was stunned for a while, and then under the reminder of the officer, he relayed the battle situation ahead in a panic, and only listened to the first two sentences, Cao Cao gritted his teeth and made a 'clucking' sound, and he hated it in his heart.
Thousands of precautions. In the end, it was calculated!
Those who don't know about military affairs may think that the advantage of the Qingzhou army is not very big, but Cao Cao has experienced a hundred battles, how can he not know the mystery of this? That's right, the only ones directly affected by the Qingzhou Army were the cavalry in the front two or three rows. But the problem is that cavalry is no better than infantry, and even if the array is dense, it can only be dense at best.
The cavalry in the front row can hold down the speed and maintain a dense formation. The impact of the first blow is guaranteed. But it is impossible for the latter to follow so closely, and it must be opened at a certain distance. so as not to collide with the front.
If nothing else, the first round of collision between the two sides will be a winner, and even if the tiger and leopard rider suffers a loss, the situation will not be one-sided. The gap in front of it will be filled by subsequent cavalry, and as the battle progresses, the two sides will consume each other, forming a melee. This is exactly what Cao Cao was looking forward to.
But now the situation has become tricky, the front army in the dense formation has temporarily lost its vision, and its combat power has been sharply reduced, while the Qingzhou army can use the strongest posture to face multiple enemies in a row. To put it mildly, this is a precedent, but the problem is that the opponent is not an ordinary person!
was grabbed by Zhao Yun, who was the best at finding flaws and grasping the fighter, and the consequences were very serious!
At the moment when the two horses were staggered, Zhao Yun's silver spear swept through Xiahou Shang's throat, and he didn't care about testing the results, he rushed into the enemy formation first.
"Keep up, don't fight!" He drank heavily, swung his left hand violently, and then another sword cut off half of the head in front of him, and the white horse turned into a white lightning bolt, which passed through the fountain of blood water, and it was not a drop of blood!
The impact of the cavalry relied on speed, and the two horses could not exchange a few moves at the moment when they were wrong. After the horse's body is staggered, whether the opponent is alive or dead is a matter for the companion behind him. All you have to do is keep your eyes straight ahead and try to cut down any enemies you can see as soon as possible.
The third opponent was about the same age as Zhao Yun, and there was obvious fear in his eyes, and he was obviously a rookie.
The inexperienced rookie made a fatal mistake, and he didn't think about what the best state was in a bloody battle, but he thought too much. Zhao Yun raised his arm and swung his sword, holding the spear that stabbed at his throat above his head. Then the sword flashed, and with the help of the inertia of the war horse, it slid past the mallet, cutting off the opponent's fingers, shoulders, and neck.
The silver spear in his right hand did not stop, and Zhao Yun opened his bow left and right, stabbing another enemy soldier off his horse.
"Kill them as soon as possible and open the way for the lord!" Zhao Yun shouted an order. The current situation is good, but it can't be thought that this is a peace of mind, the infinite power of the iron horse also has many limitations, the task of the light horse is to eliminate all the unfavorable factors, to ensure that the iron horse can unleash all the power without reservation.
Just like wind and fire, without the help of the wind, the fire cannot spread quickly, only under the blowing of strong winds, the spark of the stars, can ignite the prairies.
Zhao Yun swung his sword and slashed down an opponent, then removed another arm, and the silver spear in his right hand burst out with a little starlight, and wherever he passed, Cao Bing fell off his horse one after another. When I looked up again, there were no allies in front of me, left and right, and I saw a hideous and fearful face everywhere I looked.
Taking advantage of the fact that the enemy was frightened by the previous ferocious rush and did not dare to step forward for a while, Zhao Yun turned sideways slightly and observed the situation behind him with the corner of his eye.
The result made him very satisfied, relying on the sunlight reflection to snatch the first move, the brothers smoothly transformed the fish scale formation into a standard wedge-shaped attack formation in the process of impact.
This is the most conducive formation for assault, plus the cavalry that spread to the two wings under the leadership of Fang Yue and Qin Feng and also formed a wedge-shaped formation, the wind cavalry completed the transformation of the formation as if by magic, and suddenly changed from a big knife to a trident!
In the middle of the road, Zhao Yun himself was the tip of the spear, and he rushed forward, squeezing the tiger and leopard to both sides, while the cavalry on both wings gradually distanced themselves from the Chinese army and picked up bows and arrows. Shoot a rain of arrows from the side at the enemy who can't hold their feet and doesn't have time to turn.
Zhao Yun was very satisfied. Cao Xiu panicked.
The heavy losses are still secondary, if the current situation continues, the formation of the leopard rider is likely to be directly broken through by Zhao Yun! Although he didn't think that Zhao Yun could use the same technique to penetrate the tiger cavalry behind him, Cao Xiu also had the pride of being a world-famous general, how could he let the enemy gallop on his own territory?
"Come with me, kill Zhao Yun first!" The fierce battle in front of him did not allow him to carefully study the key points, nor did he need to. Relying on his keen battlefield intuition, Cao Xiu quickly made a judgment. Only to contain Zhao Yun, the spearhead. Only then will it be possible to block the enemy's momentum.
He left the Chinese army, broke into the crowd with all his personal soldiers, and rushed forward against the unstoppable enemy general.
The tiger and leopard cavalry was also demoralized by the bravery of the main general, and bravely launched a counterattack.
There are constantly people falling off their horses, and people are constantly being trampled into meat sauce by horses' hooves. But neither of us nor the enemy flinched. Death is just around the corner, and everyone turns a blind eye, whenever the comrades who stand in front of them fall. Immediately rushed up to fill his place.
The fierce battle was fought at the fastest speed, with hundreds of warriors falling from their horses at every moment, countless weapons clashing at each moment, and countless lives withering at every moment.
Both sides are the best warriors of this era, and both sides firmly believe that they stand for justice. Both rolled into the dirt together, shoulder to shoulder. Arm rubbing arm. The blood of both sides stained the wilderness on the north bank of the river red.
The cavalry sandwiched between the generals of both sides quickly turned their horses to avoid it, and cavalry combat required speed, and standing in front of their own commanders would only help. The distance of dozens of steps was instantly narrowed by the horse's hooves, and Cao Xiu clearly saw the blood stains on the white robe of the enemy general.
He secretly estimated the remaining distance, thirty paces. Twenty steps, ten steps......
"Give me death!" In the moment before stepping into the battle distance. Cao Xiu let out a thunderclap-like shout, and completed the action of opening the bow and releasing the arrow at the fastest speed in his life, and shot out the feather arrow held in the palm of his hand in less than a breath!
Arrows, three shots! The finished glyph shot at Zhao Yun!
Cao Xiu knew that his martial arts were not as good as the other party, and he was just sent to death in vain, but he had enough confidence in his archery skills, and he was bent on plotting against Zhao Yun.
In his mind, in the face of such a sudden blow, even if Zhao Yun could avoid it, he would have to be injured a little, at least he would be in a hurry. His own soldiers are all elite soldiers, and they took this opportunity to besiege them, and they were cut into meat sauce.
Cao Xiu's personal soldiers did not live up to his expectations, and at the moment when he drank violently, more than 30 horsemen urged the horsepower to the extreme, raising swords and guns at the same time, and only attacked and killed them.
They are all dead soldiers, and they have repaid their determination to die, and they only stare at Zhao Yun, even if they are trampled into pulp by the follow-up Qingzhou cavalry, they have no regrets.
The cold arrow and the siege coordinated seamlessly, killing Zhao Yun almost at the same time, and laying a net around him. No matter how you look at it, there will be no chance of survival again. Cao Xiu didn't even intend to observe the results of the battle, and hurriedly circled around the war horse, avoiding the large group of men and horses behind Zhao Yun.
However, before he could hold the reins, he saw a scene that he would never forget.
The figure of the silver armor and white robe seemed to have turned into a phantom, flashing twice in a row on the horseback, and it was actually two arrows that were destined to be killed one after another! Finally, the angle of the third arrow was tricky enough, and it was a dead angle between the waist and crotch, which could not be avoided, but this viper-like arrow was actually caught by Zhao Yun with his free left hand!
Zhao Yun shook his hand and threw out the feather arrow he had snatched as a hidden weapon, stabbing over a war horse that was running at high speed. Cao Jun on horseback soared into the air the moment his mount fell to the ground, and swooped down on top of Zhao Yun's head like a harrier. Zhao Yun ignored it, shook the silver spear, and greeted the enemies on the left and right like Ruixue, stabbing them into the dust. Behind him, two spears were raised in the air, and the volley stabbed the brave and flying foe.
"Enter!" This time Zhao Yun couldn't dodge, he was drenched in waterlike blood, he waved his hand and swept it, smearing his own blood and the blood of his enemies into the dust. Then without looking back, continue to move forward.
Rushing forward alone is not a vain personal courage, but with oneself as the blade and the brothers behind him as the blade, using skillful cooperation to open up the situation. Anyone who thinks that they can stop the momentum of the army by besieging themselves is very wrong.