Chapter 523: Cavalry Duel

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No one knows why the Eastern Army appeared here, on their way back to Guanzhong. No one knows when Neixiang City was captured by the Guanzhong army.

No one knows how many Kwantung Army there are, but from inside the city, from outside the city, the Kwantung Army is pouring out like a tide, as if the river has burst its embankment. The sound of war drums sounded everywhere, the rumbling war drums beat to the rhythm, and the dazzling mirror armor of the Kwantung cavalry reflected the sunlight and was brilliant. The knights galloped to the beat of the drums.

"Kill them." Rairokuro was ignited by the sound of the drums of war, and his whole body seemed to be on fire. He wielded a cavalry sword and roared loudly. Constantly changing horses and galloping all the way to this point, for this moment.

Rushing out of the city was the Han cavalry among the 20,000 cavalry who came to intercept, these elite cavalry from Huaihuang, at this time skillfully in accordance with the cavalry drills, carrying out a skilled cavalry cluster charge. They did not accelerate with all their might, but maintained the speed of a trot, and the cavalry lined up in an extremely dense array, with horses next to horses and shoulder to shoulder, charging at a uniform trot to the beat of the drum. With their hands off their reins, they all raised their cavalry swords and looked ahead.

The speed of the cavalry did not seem to be fast, but the array side by side, the shiny mirror armor, made them like a wall of steel, like a wall of knives rolling forward.

{The cavalry in Guanzhong, who boasted of being excellent, were all shocked at this moment.} They looked at the billowing smoke, the rumbling drums, and the dazzling light. Some people forgot to run away and just stood there in a daze.

"Shoot the arrows. Shoot the arrows! One of the lieutenants roared in a ferocious rage, and with a swing of his sword, he cut down the two soldiers who had fled in fear. While directing the assembly of soldiers. Dozens of soldiers heard his roar, dropped their saddles one after another, and hurriedly raised their bows and arrows to shoot arrows at the Kwantung cavalry that was pressing like a mountain. In an instant, dozens of arrows whistled and flew towards the Kwantung cavalry. But the Kwantung cavalry was still more than 100 paces away, and none of these arrows hit the target, and all of them fell far to the ground. The lieutenant is smoking, and there are only three shots in battle, and you have a enemy who releases arrows before they are in range, which is a waste of time for arrows. Soon. The captain organized a second round of archery, and this time more people stabilized.

Hundreds of people had been gathered in this area, and under the repeated shouts of the captain, no one shot the arrow early, everyone's lips trembled, their faces were pale, and they opened their bows to aim.

"Put!" The lieutenant was experienced, and at a glance, he knew that the enemy cavalry had entered within eighty paces. It should have been better to shoot at sixty paces. They were all cavalrymen, and they all had riding bows in their hands, and they were no farther than the longbows of the infantry. But in order to shoot more arrows, he only had to take eighty steps to release the arrows.

This time the shooting worked well. At least the momentum is much better than the last time. Hundreds of arrows roared out, and the sound of continuous bowstrings rang out, and all the bows and arrows were shot into the rushing Kwantung cavalry formation. And then what disappointed them was the most. Arrows were fired, but not a single cavalryman had fallen from his horse. The vast majority of arrows. Blocked by the steel helmets and breastplates of these cavalrymen, a small number of arrows were fired into other parts. It was also blocked by silk cloaks, waistcoats, and stab-proof boots. What's even more infuriating is that these damn cavalry are lined up in a dense array, plate armor after plate armor, so that their sides are protected, and it is easy to shoot them in the front, but it is too difficult to shoot and injure, not to mention that after these people are equipped with such luxurious armor, they actually carry a cavalry knife in one hand and a small cavalry shield on one arm.

This round of archery did not hinder these Kwantung cavalry at all, and they still maintained that unhurried speed and pressed up, like a wall.

"Fuck it!" The lieutenant spat fiercely and yelled loudly, "Get on the horse and go!" "After saying that, I didn't care about getting on the saddle bridle anymore, so I just lost the saddle and so on, turned over and jumped on the bare horse's back, and there was no time to saddle up." Rush with me! He carried the horse lance and wanted to lead the troops to rush out, but there were too many Kwantung cavalry. The cavalry that came out of the city were all cuirass armor, and they charged in unison. And in addition to these neat cavalry, flanked by the obvious Turkic light cavalry. These light horsemen were not equipped with the dazzling mirror armor, nor did they have the kind of fighting style of gathering and charging side by side. But these people are more terrible and terrible for the current chaotic Guanzhong cavalry.

The Turkic light cavalry gave full play to their natural riding and archery skills, and roared forward on the battlefield with their skillful equestrian skills, excellent archery skills, and flexible playing style. They tend to be in groups of about 100 people, and they do not fight in close quarters, but immediately ride and shoot. Fly to and fro, vertical and horizontal. The Turks scurried around like a gust of wind, shooting arrows non-stop, knocking the panicked Guanzhong cavalry to the ground.

Those cuirassiers always maintained a neat array, like an iron wall of swords, rolling in all directions among the cavalry in Guanzhong, breaking through the hurried cavalry group, and then ignoring it. There are Turkic light cavalry chasing and killing on both flanks, and this combination of Kwantung cavalry makes those Guanzhong cavalry run, unable to outrun the Turkic light cavalry, forming a formation, and unable to block the cuirassiers.

Although many of the cavalry in Guanzhong are from military families and are skilled in personal martial arts, when they face the cuirassiers, they often go over, maybe they are cut back with several sabers, no matter how powerful their skills are, they are invincible with two fists and four hands, not to mention that sometimes they are facing a row of cuirassiers. Fighting with the Turks was even worse, as the Turkic cavalry did not always charge in a row shoulder to shoulder like the cuirassiers, but the Turkic light cavalry rode in groups of at least three. The one in front rushed up with a knife, and the one behind might put cold arrows in the bow, which was impossible to prevent.

Many of the Guanzhong cavalry had a feeling that there were too many Kwantung cavalry, as if they were everywhere in all directions, and what caught their eyes was either groups of Turkic light cavalry or rows of cuirassiform Han cavalry. Every Guanzhong cavalry gang that tries to assemble to escape or fight will immediately be targeted, and then slaughtered.

In this chaos of soldiers, the most fatal thing is that the Guanzhong cavalry never saw the banner of their commander.

Chen Guogong Dou Kang was very unlucky, after arriving at the inner countryside city, he took a large group of officers and his staff into the city, but in the first round of surprise attacks, Dou Kang was targeted by more than a dozen sniper crossbowmen, and then more than a dozen crossbows, like a hedgehog, died on the spot. His officer corps and staff were also wiped out, and most of them were killed by arrows in the first round of blows. The rest were also killed by the cavalry who rushed out. As soon as the battle began, the commander of the army was killed, and even the banner was taken from him. In addition, many high-ranking officers were killed together, and when the cavalry in Guanzhong was raided, they were in chaos for a long time, and they did not form an orderly command. Some are running away, some are resisting on the spot, and some are scurrying around, not knowing what they are doing.

The Guanzhong army rushed to saddle the war horses when they arrived at the city, which was the biggest fatal mistake. When the Kwantung cavalry came out, many of them even had time to saddle their horses again. Many people panicked and simply rode bare-chested horses. Some of them, when they arrived at the city, gave the order for the army to disband and rest, and they not only saddled their horses, but also lifted all the armor on their bodies. On such a hot day, marching in leather armor and iron armor was indeed quite fatal, but when the raid came, it was too late for them to put on the armor again. Without armor and saddles, what kind of cavalry is cavalry?

Qin Qiong commanded the Turkic light cavalry to crisscross in all directions, not giving the Guanzhong cavalry the slightest respite. He and Lai led 20,000 cavalry here to command the cuirassiers, and he commanded the Turkic light cavalry, and the two sides had their own division of labor, to command the cuirassiers to kill from the city, and he commanded the Turkic light cavalry to kill from both sides. The cuirassiers charged in clusters with a neat and sturdy lineup, mainly using cavalry knives to fight with the enemy cavalry in hand-to-hand combat, giving full play to the excellent tacit understanding and equipment advantages of the Huaihuang cavalry. However, Qin Qiong's Turkic light cavalry gave full play to the flexibility and fierceness of the Turks, and entangled the Guanzhong cavalry to the death, not giving them a chance to escape.

The cavalry of the Turkic light cavalry gave great damage to the cavalry in Guanzhong, especially when many cavalry in Guanzhong had no armor and no saddle, and the cavalry and archery battle between the two sides was not at the same level.

The Guanzhong cavalry was completely in chaos, and Qin Qiong stood on a high slope, looking at this huge and chaotic battlefield, with an excited look on his eyes. With 20,000 cavalry against 20,000 cavalry, it was also after a long journey, but now the cavalry of the imperial court has beaten the rebel cavalry. Although the Huaihuang cavalry is young, but it is already a long-term battle, they rely on hard training, coupled with excellent equipment, as well as the usual rich nutritional supplements, so that the Huaihuang cavalry can even be proud of the cavalry in the world, they have their own pride, when they launched a cluster charge, the prestige of the ironclad cavalry will deeply deter the enemy, as long as the strength is not too disparity, there is no cavalry can stop them. They are not hoplites, but they have the same power as hoplites, but they don't have the explosive power and no endurance of hoplites.

And when equipped with Turkic light cavalry as auxiliary cavalry of the Huaihuang cavalry, on the battlefield, in the face of the same number of enemy cavalry, they can already proudly claim invincibility.

The battlefield of the inner countryside was well chosen, it was a wide plain suitable for cavalry combat, and it was most suitable for cavalry warfare.

Now, the cuirassiers have been crushed from the battlefield again and again, and the Guanzhong cavalry cannot gather and get closer at all, and now, the Guanzhong cavalry has only one way left, that is, to escape.

Qin Qiong was already waiting for this result, and when the Guanzhong cavalry began to break and flee, they would be finished. He would lead the Turkic light cavalry in relentless pursuit, chasing them into the sky and into the ground until they surrendered. (To be continued......) R1292