The familiar scene also evoked Wang Yu's memories.

On the same day, under the Tiger Prison, in the first cooperation between him and Bai Ma Yicong, he perfectly defeated Hu Zhen's Xiliang army, and used a similar method at that time - mounted archery.

The opponent he faced this time was much stronger than Hu Zhen, and Wang Yu naturally didn't dare to treat Lu Yi as a fool, so he repeated his tricks to trick the other party. However, because of the effect of paper armor, the battle situation is rapidly approaching the battle of Tiger Prison.

In his previous life, Wang Yu had heard some sayings that the Mongolian cavalry in the Temujin era was unparalleled in cavalry and archery, and they relied on this trick to fight most of the Eurasian continent, so the Mongols were invincible in the era of cold weapons.

He scoffed at this.

The Mongols soared, on the one hand, and on the other hand, their army was better equipped and there were more professional troops. Tactics are just a relatively unimportant factor.

In the face of pre-Renaissance European countries, the tactics of mounted archery were very effective, and Europe at that time was desperately poor, and only nobles and knights could afford to wear armor. The heavily armed knights could not catch up with the Mongol light cavalry, and the infantry who temporarily pulled the strong Ding had no combat effectiveness, and it was normal to be bullied by the Mongols.

As for the Central Plains, the Mongols faced the opponent of the Southern Song Dynasty, the Southern Song Dynasty, which was the only one in the world.

Although the wealth of the Southern Song Dynasty was far above that of Europe, the army equipment was not much stronger than that of the Europeans, and worse than the Europeans was that the nobles of the Central Plains would not even go to the battlefield. Therefore, the Mongols who swallowed Liao and destroyed Jin were better equipped than the Song army, and it is not surprising that the Southern Song Dynasty was destroyed.

Therefore, those scholars who worship the Mongol Tartars have been emphasizing that the Han Dynasty did not have stirrups, and without stirrups, it was impossible to carry out real cavalry and archery warfare. As we all know, the era of strong men. The steppe aliens were filmed with no temper at all, and in the eyes of the Tartar admirers, it was obviously because the steppe people at that time did not know how to ride and shoot, so they lost to the Han people.

Actually, this statement is pure nonsense.

Cavalry archery is not as strong as imagined, and the range and power of cavalry bows are not as good as infantry strong bows, let alone compared to strong crossbows. In order to give the infantry array enough damage, the light cavalry had to fire a gallop shot from a fairly close distance to the enemy.

Moreover, when the hussars launched cavalry fire. Although there is no need to form a dense formation, if they want to give the enemy enough damage, they can't really not line up, so they run in front of the enemy formation in twos and threes, so that the enemy can't find the target to attack. As a matter of fact. Riding and shooting also rely on the coherence and concentration of the attack, just like the white horse Yoshiko showed.

Lined up in a loose horizontal formation, the previous group of cavalry swept half a circle in front of the enemy formation, and then quickly retreated. And just as they were out of range of the enemy's bows and arrows, the next group of cavalry arrived.

The horses rushed forward at a gallop, and after a distance of about seventy paces, the direction of the team changed again. Everyone turned the horse's head, from a straight rush to an oblique rush, and then from an oblique rush to a sweep, while rushing. After each of them had fired about three arrows, the distance between them and the enemy had changed from seventy paces to fifty paces, and the crowd suddenly turned their horses away. The tide retreated.

Immediately after that, another team of people. It is still dominated by feather arrow attacks, and those who are not skilled in archery are behind, rushing at the diffuse of the enemy array; Superb archery skills in front, while observing the enemy formation, while quickly taking accurate shots, hitting the enemy's dead ends. During the retreat, there were also people who kept immediately turning and attacking backwards.

When turning and feintting, the war horse does not run fast, and only when it launches a run, the war horse will let go.

This is a complete and mature set of tactics, which includes mounted archery, feints to attract the attention of the enemy, reasonable distribution of the horse's physical strength, mutual cooperation and many other factors. Only when the command power reaches a certain level, and the technical and tactical ability of the subordinates reaches a considerable level, can it be perfectly displayed.

However, even if the most perfect display is achieved, it cannot get rid of the weakness of bullying the weak and fearing the hard.

In the face of a morale-solid, well-trained enemy, there is very little room for mounted archery tactics to be used, as long as the enemy is in a position to shoot at each other. Relying on the speed of the war horse, the cavalry can achieve a three-to-one or even higher exchange ratio, but the exchange of cavalry and infantry in this way is a loss in itself.

Financially, it costs at least five times as much to raise a cavalryman as an infantryman; And the period of training a cavalry is also much longer than that of infantry; Coupled with the factor of war horses, there is really not much room for play in the battle of riding and shooting in the array.

Exceptions are made in exceptional circumstances.

What are special cases? That is, the cavalry wears armor and has a strong long-range defense, so the power of cavalry can be perfectly played. Under normal circumstances, the leather armor worn by cavalry is at most protected against stray arrows, and the cost of iron armor is too high to afford; Second, it is impossible for the iron riders equipped with human and horse harness to gallop back and forth like this.

The paper armor that Wang Yu came up with on a whim changed all that.

In terms of image, the rather bloated Youzhou cavalry looks very similar to the heavy cavalry, but in fact, the thick armor made of paper tendons and silk silk is not very heavy, and the weight of about thirty catties is not much of a burden for the horses from the eastern grasslands.

Moreover, in terms of defending against long-range attacks, paper armor also has similar performance to iron armor. From a certain point of view, the performance of paper armor is better than that of iron armor, because in addition to blocking arrows, paper armor can also act as a buffer, which is especially obvious when facing a strong crossbow.

If the crossbow bolts flying at high speed hit the body, even if the iron armor was transmitted and resisted its penetrating power, the impact of the huge kinetic energy was not so easy to withstand.

The moment the arrow is hit, the injury seems to be hit by a sledgehammer, which will make people unable to breathe, and no matter how bad their luck is, they may be directly pushed off the horse by this impact.

Paper armor doesn't have this problem. Because most of the impact force carried by the arrows is consumed in the process of penetrating the paper armor, and the transmission to people and horses is only 12/12. As long as the arrows were not powerful enough to penetrate the thick layers of paper and cloth thoroughly, the paper armor would be better protected against cavalry.

As for turning the armor into gold, it was Wang Yu's strategy formulated according to the characteristics of Bai Ma Yicong.

Whether it's a white horse or a golden armor, these pure, glowing colors can create quite strong visual effects that can cause considerable stimulation to the senses of both friend and foe.

This is the same reason that later generations of countries are keen to hold military parades, regardless of whether the new weapons and military appearance on display are of good use or not, as long as you see tens of millions of people, lined up in a neat queue. Wearing a uniform uniform, showing off polished weapons, and appearing in rows is enough to boost your own morale and suppress the morale of the enemy.

Wang Yu didn't know what kind of mood Gongsun Chan was in when he created the White Horse Yicong, but when he made the golden paper armor, it was out of this line of thought.

Now it seems that it worked well.

Under the double blow of incredible golden armor and the massive amount of damage caused by mounted archery. The Jizhou Army fell into a total passivity.

The momentum was huge, the continuous salvo could no longer be organized, and the counterattack carried out by a few soldiers under the command of the general was also very successful.

The best way to deal with a high-speed cavalry is to cover the shot, and an experienced officer can predict the movement of the cavalry. Then unleash a salvo of more than a thousand people, completely turning an area into a death zone. Such an attack was most effective against the light cavalry.

There was no shortage of experienced officers in the Jizhou army, but several counterattacks failed to work, and few enemy troops fell from their horses, but their own archers were retaliated by the enemy and suffered heavy casualties.

The thunderous sound of horses' hooves. The battle trumpets of the enemy, the screams of their comrades when they died, and the wails of the wounded.

All kinds of unfavorable factors converged, and the morale of the army became more and more low. The soldiers preferred to huddle behind their shields with their heads in their hands than to obey the orders of their officers, pick up their bows and crossbows, and carry out useless counterattacks.

Despite being at the front of the array. They saw very well that the enemy's armor was not really gold. When the arrow hits, it will not make a crisp and loud metal collision sound, but a muffled sound of 'poof, poof';

Although they also knew that the enemy was not really invulnerable, under the first few ** scale covered fire, from time to time someone fell off the horse;

Although they know very well that if the enemy keeps fighting like this, the battle will be lost......

However, the soldiers were still unwilling to stand up and fight back, and exchanged their lives for one-tenth, or even one-tenth of the enemy's casualties

Wish.

Comrades fell in pieces, but the enemy was tireless and would not be wounded, and there was nothing more demoralizing than this. That is to say, the ability of the Koji Yi to train the army is not bad, if it is replaced by a rabble like the Yellow Turban Army, the collapse will already begin.

However, no matter how high Lu Yi's ability is, it is impossible to train all 30,000 troops to become the first to die in such a short period of time. If this situation continues, it is only a matter of time before it collapses.

"Gongming, if you were Lu Yi, how would you deal with it?" Seeing that Lu Yi's flag was shaking desperately, repeatedly conveying the same message, but the front line was becoming more and more declining, Wang Yu knew that the most critical moment of this battle was coming.

"If you don't retreat, you advance!" Xu Huang's answer was very personal in his style.

"If, at the beginning of the engagement, after discovering the unfavorable, we retreat decisively, and our army will not be able to pursue it on a large scale, this battle will only be a small setback. In the future, when you study and understand the reality of the paper armor, it is not too late to plan a decisive battle. But at that time, Koji had already missed it, and now, the morale of the enemy army has been lost, and they are all supported by one breath, and once they hear the order to retreat, it will inevitably turn into a rout......"

Even if it is a retreat, there are two kinds of retreats: retreat to maintain order and retreat.

The former, although it is also lost, is often not too large; The latter is a precursor to the destruction of the entire army. Especially in front of an army like Youzhou Light Cavalry, retreating will only bring disaster to itself.

"So, he can only move forward and rely on melee combat to counterattack."

After thinking about it, Xu Huang added: "Judging from his bearing in the Battle of Guangchuan, he should have the courage to fight back, but with those famous soldiers joining the army, the Jizhou army may not be able to make a decision quickly." The slower they make decisions, the greater the hope of victory for our army. ”

Wang Yu nodded. He would make the same choice if he had changed places.

You can't fight from a distance, so you can only pin your hopes on melee combat.

Counterattacks can compress the space of the battlefield, making it impossible for light cavalry to run around. Against the enemy, the archers can fight and retreat, but in this way, the latter may not be able to bargain much, if they are too fond of fighting, they may even run out of horsepower and be defeated by the opponent.

It is true that horses run faster than people, but horses do not have the stamina to be stronger than people. You must know that in the cavalry warfare method, the cavalry needs to sprint repeatedly, although the horsepower can be recuperated through rotation, but the horsepower consumed cannot be quickly recovered after all.

What's more, there are not only Youzhou light cavalry on the battlefield. There are still more than 10,000 foot soldiers, and it is impossible for the cavalry to run away like this, leaving their comrades on the battlefield.

However, it was not an easy decision to make.

Paper armor has as many weaknesses as strengths, and it won't be much better than leather armor in melee combat. But the people who saw it for the first time may not be able to see it, especially Wang Yu who also made a gimmick of golden armor with a bad heart.

Dangling by the golden light in his eyes, and devastated by the rain of arrows in the sky, there are a few people who can think calmly. What about seeing the essence through the phenomenon?

Even if the generals have this vision and this courage, can the Jizhou soldiers, whose morale has fallen to the bottom, fully carry out the orders of the commander-in-chief?

Even if Koji Yi ruled out these unfavorable factors and seized the opportunity. Will he be able to resist his own hands?

While speaking, the flag of Jizhou finally changed.

"Woo...... Whining! "The desolate sound of the trumpet reveals a tragic mood;

"Knock knock!" The earth-shattering sound of war drums was even more connected, and without the slightest gap, a fierce battle spirit was about to come out!

"Up!" Those who could serve as shieldmen in the front row were the most daring soldiers in the army, and when they heard the sound of trumpets and drums urging battle, these strong men did not hesitate to pull the oars out of the earth. Firmly in front of him.

They have long had enough of this situation where they can only be beaten and cannot fight back, and now, the horn of counterattack has finally sounded. They can finally use their shields to clear the way for the army!

"Before!" The courage of the shield hand inspired some of the soldiers, and seeing that the army's heart was available, the generals of the front army did not hesitate to order to advance. The shield wall moves slowly. More than half of the spearmen followed them closely, followed by a roughly proportional number of sword and shield men.

Most of the crossbowmen froze in place. It wasn't until he found that the shield above his head and in front of him was missing, that he screamed wildly.

The casualties of the crossbowmen were not necessarily the highest, but their morale was definitely the hardest hit, because they had been fighting, fighting in vain and desperate.

Initially, the counterattack of the Jizhou army was very chaotic, which was directly reflected in their array.

Soon, though, the situation improved. Ignoring the chaos of one part of the army advancing and the other part hesitating, he did not dispatch the supervising team to suppress the pressure, but divided the troops along the way, and the main general's banner advanced with the front army, and ordered the deputy general and the army to rectify the rear army.

Looking at the evolution of the battle situation, Wang Yu's mood was quite complicated.

Xu Huang's judgment was accurate. The command level of the Jizhou Army should have different voices, and perhaps it was because of these different voices that Lu Yi did not seize the best opportunity to counterattack. After the dispute was fruitless, he took advantage of the situation, divided the army in two, personally led the soldiers who dared to fight as the forerunner, and left the lieutenant general who interfered with his judgment to wait and see.

If the battle ahead is favorable, these walls may soon follow; If it is unfavorable, there is a reckless righteousness in the way, and they have time to escape. I have to say that Lu Yi is quite decisive, and the choice he made is the wisest judgment in helplessness, and he is worthy of being a general.

It's a pity...... Wang Yu sighed.

He was at the wrong time, with the wrong group of companions, against the wrong opponent.

On his own side, there are also generals!

Needless to say, Gongsun Zhan, an old Han celebrity, Xu Huang is also the only party, and Guan Yu at his peak in history is a famous general!

"Where's Komei?" Wang Yu broke off his drink.

"Xu Huang is here!"

"Lead your troops and horses to break the enemy in front of me with me!" Wang Yu has no intention of rushing into battle today, the stage of Long Minao belongs to Gongsun Zan and Xu Huang.

"Whoa!" In the sonorous sound of iron armor, Xu Huang responded with his fists in response to his orders, strode off the high platform, and his majestic figure soon disappeared into the sea of people.

Not long after, the flag of the former army was raised, and on the blood-red flag, the word 'Xu' was hunting and hunting, the horns and war drums sounded in unison, and the battle horn was even higher than the wave.

The "Invincible......" shield man rose up and gave up the front row position to his companion behind him. In their place was a team of monsters wrapped in iron armor, and the five-foot snow-bright blade in their hands was even more shocking.

"Conquer everything!" Five hundred sharp blades were raised high, like the teeth of a savage beast, and it was one of the highest achievements of Han Dynasty weapons - the horse sword! The blades reflected the sunlight, and the brilliant light was connected.

"Long drive straight into the ......" Xu Huang stood in the forefront, raised his axe and pointed forward, and behind him, thousands of strong men holding long-handled axes formed a dense fish scale array.

The army that Xu Huang created single-handedly was a pure heavy army. Their tactics are to attack, attack, and attack! It's not the shield that protects them, but the armor on their bodies and the ferocious attack power!

From the very beginning, this army was branded with Xu Huang's personal mark, and together with Yu Ban's Imperial Forest Army, one attack and one defense, constituting the offensive and defensive poles of the Qingzhou Army infantry, Wang Yu's right-hand man.

It was precisely because of the great trust given to Xu Huang and this army that Wang Yu rarely watched from the wall in the fierce battle. In fact, if you don't consider the factor of position, Wang Yu is really unwilling to miss the upcoming showdown.

Xu Huang's urging battalion, formerly known as Baibo's elite Yellow Turban Army, every time he arrives on the battlefield, he will fall into a state of frenzy, fearless of life and death, and infinitely powerful; And the first camp of Koji Yi has the same characteristics.

The collision of these two famous players will of course burst out with amazing brilliance.

Of course, the situation is very unfavorable for Koji. Xu Huang's troops have been trained for more than half a year, and the level of training is far higher than that of Lu Yi's army, and more importantly, before this collision, Lu Yi's troops have been clumsy.

So......

"Invincible!" When Xu Huang's big axe fell heavily, and the five thousand Qingzhou elites drove forward, Wang Yu had already foreseen the final outcome of this battle, because this battle was unfair from the beginning.