Chapter 219: Cavalry Duel

Wei Yan won the first battle, the battle report soon reached the hands of Lu Bu, after reading the battle report, Lu Bu immediately sent people to call Jia Xu, Li Ru, Huang Zhong, Xu Huang and other people to the main account, after some discussion, Lu Bu decided to divide the army into two roads, force the river to cross, and take the south bank of Xihan and Donghan.

Under the planning of Jia Xu and Li Ru, the state army adopted the strategy of "encircling three ques and one", and broke through Lianghan in less than half a day, and under the leadership of Lu Bu, tens of thousands of troops drove straight into Anyi City, the western defense line of Jincheng County.

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sent Zhang Qian to envoy to the Western Regions to open up the Silk Road, but because the Xiongnu invaded the Hexi Corridor from time to time, the Silk Road would be blocked every once in a while, and Anyi gradually took on this special mission in this long time, as long as the Hexi Corridor was blocked for some reason, Anyi would become the throat of the Central Plains leading to the Western Regions on the Qinghai Road of the South Silk Road, and became the fortress of Anbian Fuyi.

The water is rushing, day and night. The ancient road on the riverbank, Anyi, an ancient post station, watches over the depths of the years.

The drums and beacon fires, the Qiang flute and the Hu Ji, the smoke and pastoral songs, and the Sheyan Qiuhong, deduce a grand symphony of time and space, and the wounds clearly visible on the city wall have witnessed its tragic and majestic, desolate and majestic vicissitudes of life.

The dawn dawns, and the east dawns.

After a night of rapid marching, more than 30,000 horses led by Lu Bu himself smoothly passed through a narrow valley of 60 miles from Xihan to Anyi.

"Zhongwu, send scouts to keep an eye on the movements of Anyi City, and bring military information at any time!" The army went out of the valley and looked out over the plains. Lu Bu immediately ordered Wei Gao beside him.

Wei Yue immediately promised loudly, rode his horse to the scout camp, and arranged dozens of horse scouts to scatter all over the plain.

Jia Xu urged the horse to walk to Lu Bu's side, raised his eyes and looked north, the sky was full of sunshine, and there would be a big battle about to be staged there. In the blue sky, from time to time, geese sing and go south, and a gust of wind hits, making people feel cold.

Lu Bu turned his head to look at Jia Xu, and said, "Military Division, how many soldiers and horses did you say Han Sui deployed in Anyi?" ”

"Coupled with the people and horses who returned from the two Hans, the number of people is only a lot more than us, although Anyi is a small county, it is the throat of the entire Jincheng County!" Jia Xu narrowed his eyes. Still not allowed to speculate.

Li Ru also came up and added: "If I were Han Sui, I would definitely send heavy troops to garrison Anyi, and if I was accidentally defeated, I could also use this road to escape to Xiqiang, but Anyi is just a post city, and the city walls are mostly piled up with river sand from Huangshui, and a little pile will collapse, therefore." The Han Sui army guarding here must have gathered outside the city, but if there is an enemy invasion. They will fight the enemy on the plains with superior cavalry! ”

When Li Ru said this, he turned his head to look at Lu Bu, and said, "Wenhou, we have to prepare for a vicious battle." ”

"Hmm" Lu Bu nodded, indicating that he agreed with Li Ru's opinion, and he was not afraid of a vicious battle. Along the way, he and his soldiers have experienced a lot, not a hundred but fifty, as for field battles, the state army has never lost. I believe this time will be no exception.

At this moment, a rapid sound of horses' hooves interrupted the conversation of the three of them, and the three of them raised their eyes to see Wei Yue galloping towards this side without stopping. "Lord Qiqi, the enemy cavalry has been found twenty miles ahead!" Riding a horse to Lu Bu, Wei Yue immediately surrendered his hand to report.

"How many!" Li Ru waved his feather fan and pointed at Wei Yue and asked.

Wei Yue didn't dare to slack off, and after a rough calculation, he immediately said: "20,000 cavalry, 10,000 infantry!" ”

Lu Bu was as calm as water, and immediately prepared the army, and he himself and Huang Zhong, Xu Huang, and Wei Yue pressed in front of the formation, and Li Ru and Jia Xu were protected by heavy troops behind the formation.

The wind howls angrily, and the dust and haze cover the sun.

Although the distance between the two armies was still more than ten miles, the sound of horses' hooves was clearly audible, and the ground under their feet clearly began to tremble, like the roar before the earthquake.

Lu Bu immediately crossed the halberd in front of the formation, his eyes looked at the west calmly, his face did not show the appearance of facing a great enemy, a gust of wind blew, tearing the red robe behind him to hunt, the two big red feathers on the purple gold crown fluttered with the wind, behind him, five thousand crossbowmen all bent their bows and arrows, one by one held their breath, and waited for the battle. Behind the crossbowmen were Lu Bu's 20,000 wolf riders, and at this time they all had swords and guns in their hands, glaring at the north.

Lu Bu touched the mane of the red rabbit horse, leaned over and whispered in its ear: "Old man, can't you wait?" ”

"Humph!" The red rabbit horse sneezed and kept stepping on the grass with his fiery front hooves, as if in response to Lu Bu's answer.

On the other side, Dou Kou, the cavalry commander of Han Sui's army, marched forward on horseback, and at the same time issued a military order to the generals on the left and right: "Pass my military order, Xu Xun will lead the foot soldiers to camp later!" Guo Mingdu led 5,000 cavalry to respond, Han Pheasant led 5,000 cavalry to the left, Lu Heng led 50,000 cavalry to the right, and Ben Shuai personally led 10,000 cavalry to the center! The three people listened to my orders, and first tested the combat strength of the state army. ”

"The last general commands!"

Dou Kou's subordinates led the order, and then separated on both sides like the word "product", Han Pheasant lifted the big knife, Lu Heng lifted the spear, and blew a sharp whistle in unison, each leading five thousand cavalry to follow Dou Kou's Chinese army left and right, and the Sangu cavalry maintained the "cone" word formation, advancing forward with a sweeping momentum, and everywhere they went, the grass and white dew all over the field immediately turned into a barren hillside.

Hearing that Han Sui's army was approaching, Huang Zhong took the Santing Mountain Chopping Knife and led 5,000 of the most elite soldiers of the Bingzhou Department to respond in the center, while plundering the formation for Lu Bu, while keeping a close eye on Xu Huang's troops who were preparing to meet the enemy's left flank.

"Boom"

The sound of horses' hooves was getting closer and closer, and there were only a few hundred zhang left from the crossbowmen phalanx of the Bingzhou army.

Lu Bu's face was still immovable, years of fighting had made him feel how to deal with everything in front of him, if his enemy was cavalry, at least when the cavalry charged to a distance of more than two hundred zhang, the eagle arrows shot could give the enemy the greatest damage.

"Charge the whole army and kill Lu Bu!"

Dou Kou was dressed in black armor, wearing a tiger helmet, wearing an inky black cloak, brandishing an iron lance and charging forward like a lightning speed, behind him, 10,000 of the most elite Xiliang heavy armored horses swept over, the mountains and rivers trembled, and the momentum was terrifying.

As the commander of the cavalry of the Han Sui Army, although Dou Kou is not well-known in the world, but in this fierce Xiliang territory, he is also a well-known general, whether it is the Qiang handsome or the reckless gathering of mountains and forests, will give Dou Kou a thin face, one of which makes him most proud is the Huangshui Battle of the year, when he was still young, but with a warm blood, he rode alone from the thousands of troops to kill the white tiger Qiang Hao handsome under the horse, it was because of that battle that he was appreciated by Xiqiang Beigong Boyu, but with the death of Beigong Boyu, He also naturally took refuge in Han Sui's account, and after ten years of hard work, he finally sat on the throne of the cavalry commander.

"Boom"

The iron hooves roared, and the distance between the two armies was only four hundred zhang.

Xu Huang's lieutenant general was a little nervous, and asked anxiously: "General, give the order to release the arrows!" ”

"Waiting!" Xu Huang clenched the big axe in his hand, turned his head to look in Lu Bu's direction, and ordered in an unquestionable tone.

"Boom"

The cavalry advance was only three hundred zhang away from the crossbow camp of the Hezhou army, and the sound of horses' hooves had trembled so much that the hand of the Hezhou soldier holding the bow trembled slightly, and the face of the enemy's commander was becoming clearer and clearer.

Lu Bu felt that the distance was almost enough, and turned around with the halberd in his hand: "Release the arrow"

Huang Zhong and Xu Huang, who were standing on the left and right sides of Lu Bu, shouted loudly after seeing each other: "Archers release arrows!" ”

With the order of the main general, the thousands of longbowmen behind Lu Bu, Huang Zhong, and Xu Huang turned their backs to the sky one by one, and sent out a round of back shots, and the arrows instantly rained down from the sky and fell into the cavalry of Han Sui's army.

"Crackling" "Dingdingdong"

Suddenly, the metal crisp sound of the arrow hitting the armor was like hail hitting the pot and pan, and it sounded one after another in the wilderness, like a sudden hail in the spring, and with a burst of heart-rending screams sounded on the plain, hundreds of cavalry fell into the torrent of iron cavalry, and the cavalry who was shot to the ground died fortunately, and the two words "finished" flashed in the minds of those who were not dead, and then they were greeted by the hooves of the horses like a torrential rain.

Three waves of continuous upward shooting, tens of thousands of carved arrows fell from the sky, landed on the armor weapons of the Xiliang army, emitting a rapid metal impact sound, under the melodious horn, and the majestic drum accompaniment, like a battlefield breaking the formation lamentation.

"Change the crossbowmen!"

Lu Bu waved the halberd in his hand and shouted loudly.

With his order, the formation of longbowmen and crossbowmen was staggered, the longbowmen retreated neatly, turned over their horses, and thousands of strong crossbowmen quickly ran to the front of the array.

Without waiting for Lu Bu's order, the crossbowmen consciously pulled the trigger of the crossbow, and the huge shooting force with a "whoosh" whistling sound, rushed towards Han Suijun, like a stormy wave slapping the coast, and instantly shot hundreds of horsemen, even though this cavalry was wearing fish scale armor, but under the shooting of the strong crossbow, it still suffered heavy losses, and many armor were pierced by the force of the strong crossbow, deep into the skin, and the blood suddenly spurted out like a fountain of water, and the Han Suijun on the horse unconsciously fell off his horse, He was then trampled into meatloaf, meat puree, and meat scraps by the iron horsemen who came from behind.

In the face of dense arrows like pouring rain, Han Suijun's cavalry kept waving their knives to block, and the pace of advance was suddenly sluggish, Lu Bu mentioned the horsetail, the red rabbit horse jumped high and four hooves, and the horse Lu Bu made a long halberd move: "And the state iron horse, although a certain charge", after the roar, the hooves of the red rabbit horse also landed, carrying Lu Bu like the wind rushed out.

Wei Yue squinted, the scar on his face was like a white centipede wriggling, it was so hideous, it was so terrifying, seeing Lu Bu galloping like a train, he immediately danced the iron spear in his hand: "What are you still looking at?" Follow the Lord to kill! ”

For a time, under the leadership of Wei Yue, Huang Zhong, and Xu Huang, 20,000 Bingzhou wolves rode like thunder, galloping like a tide, like a fierce tiger, pounced on Han Sui's Xiliang army, a duel, only within reach. (To be continued......)