The two armies were in a tight formation, and there was also an air of slaughter on the battlefield.

Li Tong took a few personal guards, rode his horse on a small hill, and carefully observed the enemy lineup with a pergola, and his heart fluctuated.

"It is worthy of being the first cavalry in the world, realizing that he was ambushed, but the queue is not chaotic at all, not only that, but he can also dismount and equip himself in a good time, and will raise horsepower! It is no wonder that the lord has been forbearant and tolerant in the past few years, and would rather force the attack on the fortified position, but also give up Yanzhou, and not give the Qingzhou army a chance to attack......"

"Why should my father raise the morale of others and destroy his own prestige? A soldier is a strong soldier, but a general is a mediocre general, and his father has a clever plan, but he has not been brought into the net? At present, our army is more than twice as large, are you afraid that you will not be able to take him a nameless reckless man? ”

Li Xu is Li Tong's eldest son, just turned fifteen years old, followed his father to the first battle, and caught up with this world-renowned Central Plains war.

Although Qin Feng has old qualifications in the army, he has always been a deputy, his reputation is not obvious, and he has not even been a guard, Fang Yue, who is by Wang Kuang's side, is famous, where will Li Xu look at him.

"Father, what are you waiting for? Why don't you let the horse rush up and kill him? ”

Li Tong looked back and found that not only Li Xu was eager to try, but even his horse was puffing out of his nostrils, and he kept scraping the ground with his hooves.

Li Tong sighed, these young people don't know the severity, so they have to tell the generals who lead the team to step up the restraint of the troops, recuperate and recuperate, don't be impatient, and comfort his son: "Don't worry, the distance is still far now, slowly approaching is it, if the enemy army does not move, wait until about 100 steps and then accelerate as late." ”

I lined up for a long time on my side, slowly pressing forward, and I had nothing to worry about. People who have been on the battlefield for a long time know that this war is the most impatient, since their own family has the upper hand, as long as they keep it, anyway, everyone has time, and it will be seen who has good patience.

Li Tong is not greedy, with the quality shown by the other side, it is definitely impossible to turn the battle into a war of annihilation, if it can be done so easily, the gap between the casualties of the two sides these days will not be so large.

He just wanted to achieve a victory with enough weight to boost the morale of the whole army, so that he could better fulfill the requirements of the lord.

Li Tong is not unaware that with the progress of the war, it will not take a few days for the top leaders in Qingzhou to see through their own purpose, and they will soon mobilize more forces to join in, and the pressure will become even greater. But the lord has always been wise, and several military advisors are also wise men in the world, and the plan they have reached a consensus on will always be wrong.

If you work hard under the right goal, you will not do useless work, and your sacrifice will not be in vain, what you have to do is to strive to complete the task better.

Li Xu was still a little unconvinced, muttering something in his mouth, but after all, he still didn't dare to violate the military order, but just raised the spear in his hand high and shouted loudly: "The general has an order, move forward steadily!" Revenge for the thief, just in the near future! ”

"Kill the thief for revenge!" Eight hundred light horsemen shouted in unison, and the momentum was amazing.

This time, even Jia Xu and Zhuge Liang guessed wrong, the cavalry sent by Cao Cao to block the attack was not Dong Zhuo's remnants who surrendered and rebelled, but the old team he had carefully built in recent years.

Cao Cao's old team of tiger and leopard cavalry, light and heavy cavalry combined, the total number is about 5,000, training and fighting together for several years, and they are familiar with each other. In this battle, nearly 1,000 casualties were suffered in five days, and almost everyone had relatives and friends killed on the battlefield.

Under the command of Li Tong, Cao's light cavalry lined up in multiple horizontal formations, which were standard cavalry attack formations, with a fixed distance between each member of the same horizontal formation. In this way, it is better to prevent the enemy from firing a salvo of feathered arrows. When charging, the positions of the front and rear cavalry should also be staggered to avoid accidental injuries caused by the sudden decrease in speed due to contact with the enemy.

Compared with the white horse retinues who gathered and dispersed freely, this formation was slightly cumbersome, which also showed that the cavalry of the Cao army was relatively backward in terms of personal quality. However, Cao Cao has been operating hard in the past few years, and it is not easy to create such a cavalry, of course, it is not as easy as Wang Yu to directly borrow the light of Gongsun Zhan.

Moreover, bulky also has the advantage of being bulky, Li Tong's cavalry is well prepared, although they are not wearing heavy armor, but the weapons in their hands are the spears and horse lances that are most conducive to organizing the overall offensive!

Between the neat queues, rows of spears and heavy lances are lined up, both visually and practically, which is quite amazing.

Maintaining this state and slowly pressing it up will bring great pressure to the enemy, and if the enemy is a rabble, the morale may have plummeted, and even the whole army will collapse.

"Come on, Tempest Cavalry, let Ben General see your true skills, how to fight your way out of such a situation?" Seeing that the distance between the two sides had been shortened to within 100 paces, Li Tong made a gesture, and the entire army began to accelerate, like a mountain toppling, pressing forward.

"Shields, crossbows, and spears...... Isn't this just the use of light cavalry as heavy cavalry? It's just that ......" Qin Feng has been watching the enemy's formation, pondering what kind of response method should be taken. The result of the observation is that the enemy's cavalry is slightly inferior in quality, but it can be compensated for by the whole.

He took off his helmet, scratched his messy hair twice, bared his teeth and smiled: "Don't say it, the power of this move is also good, especially against our Wind Army, General Gongsun led everyone to beat those mongrel Hu Cavalry in Northern Xinjiang to the bumper......"

"General, how are we going to fight?" The person who served as Qin Feng's deputy was a military horse, surnamed Wu Mingcai, who couldn't help but be a little anxious when he saw that Qin Feng had words in his mouth, but he didn't give an order for a long time.

"How else can you fight?" Qin Feng smiled, his voice suddenly turned cold, and he snorted coldly: "The old way, shoot them with a horse!" ”

"Whoa!" Wu Cai hugged his fists to receive the order, turned over and got on the horse, raised his left hand high, opened his five fingers, and shouted loudly: "Brothers, get on the horse, face the battle, become stronger when you are strong, and show your real skills!" ”

"Kill!" The five hundred cavalry mounted their horses neatly, and without going through the steps of the whole team, the five hundred men suddenly accelerated in place like one person, and rushed forward like arrows from the string.

"Kill, kill, kill!" Seeing the enemy coming, Li Xu also roared wildly, he took the lead, and the eight hundred soldiers of the Cao army also entered a state of excitement, howling like a wolf, and trying to move forward under the urging of the war drums.

The two teams of knights who were hedging against each other ran faster and faster, and the smoke and dust kicked up by the horses' hooves covered the sky and the sun, covering each other's sight, but they could not shake the fighting spirit in their chests and the murderous intent in their eyes.

"Raise your shield! Crossbow! Li Tong rushed forward with his own soldiers and demonstrated to the brothers behind him. Raise your arms, sink your elbows, flatten the lance, straighten it, and rush to the slightly thin enemy formation with the speed of the horse.

The most powerful means of the Tempest Cavalry is mounted archery, but they are ambushed, their horsepower is weak, and they cannot make long-term high-speed maneuvers, so they can only choose between meeting and fleeing.

So far, the high-level leaders in Qingzhou have been a little slow to react, and they don't realize that they are not carrying out conventional battlefield shielding, so the light cavalry sent out is still a pure light cavalry, and they don't even bring much of a long weapon.

How useful can mounted archery be in this situation? With a distance of less than a hundred paces, the cavalry is hedged, can the most elite archer shoot two arrows?

This battle is won! Li Tong said to himself in his heart.

A dense sound of breaking through the air sounded, and at a distance of about fifty paces, the Tempest cavalry drew their bows in unison and shot the first round of arrows. Although there was a lot of smoke and dust on the battlefield and limited visibility, the quality of this round of arrow rain was quite high, and it neatly smashed into the chalk of the Cao army's cavalry array, and circled the death ground in a radius of more than 20 steps.

The proportion of shields in the cavalry of the Cao army is not small, but their shields can only block the frontal shots, and they do not play a big defensive role in this kind of dense projectile, the area of the shield is limited, but the density of the arrows is very high, and the whole piece is smashed down, blocking the head, not blocking the body, blocking the person, not blocking the horse, as long as it is circled, there is only the part of the person who turns over on his back.

"Pick up the spear and kill!" Li Tong shouted with all his strength, and the cavalry did not fail to live up to his efforts, ignoring the death of the robes around them, and desperately slammed the stirrups to the limit. They stopped shouting, held their breath, and heard no noise except the roar of horses' hooves and the sizzling of stray arrows.

That's right, the enemy's cavalry is very strong, and in the gallop, he actually exerts the skills that only elite foot archers have, and has a great restraint effect on his own multiple horizontal formations.

However, the distance between the two sides is too close, behind the other party is Pu Shui, the war horse has also run for a long time, and has lost the detour space, no matter how strong the kung fu of riding and archery is, there is no chance to play.

At most, as long as they endure one more round of shooting, it will be their turn to take revenge, the opponent's queue is relatively loose, and the results of crossbow shooting are quite limited, but can they avoid riding crossbows, can they still dodge spears and horse lances?

The spear of the forest was flattened, like the fangs of a beast, and under the dim winter day, it emitted a cold light that was not bright, but it was enough to make people feel cold. No one doubts the power of these fangs, and if you get close enough, you can devour them all!

Li Tong's belief in victory comes from this.

However, his belief lasted only a few moments. After the first round of arrows and rain, the wind cavalry did not rush to shoot the second round with their bows, and also did not have the intention of drawing their swords to meet the battle, but twitched the reins of the horse, turned the horse's head, and ran away to the left and right respectively!

Li Tong could hardly believe his eyes, although the cavalry is called a clutch soldier, but there must always be a limit, in such a cavalry hedge, to disperse the formation to avoid the enemy's edge, isn't this looking for death?

The 800 men under his command sent a total of eight platoons, a full 100 cavalry, how could they avoid it in such a short time? Well, the other party may have prepared in advance, and the horsepower is well controlled, so it is indeed possible to avoid this stance...... But the problem is that even if most people can avoid it, it is impossible for the first few rows!

After a while, Li Tong finally came to his senses, the vanguard of the wind cavalry did not have time to avoid the edge, and after these people found out about this, they actually gave up dodging directly, laughed and pulled the bowstring, and pointed Sen Han's arrow at the enemy who was about to kill him!

All the changes actually happened in the blink of an eye, and before Li Tong could recover from the shock, the two sides had already collided viciously!

In an instant, the smoke and blood light intertwined and soared into the sky, dazzling and gorgeous, as if the souls of the warriors were contained in it. (To be continued.)