Chapter 937 The Weak Soldiers
The long knife fell to the ground, followed by the body of the Qiang State cavalry being split in half, and blood suddenly came out, spraying everywhere.
It turned out that just as he was about to swing his knife to block the attack, the Green Dragon Glaive had already slashed through his body at a super speed, and the sharp blade had cut their bones in half, and all the nerves on their bodies were split open in an instant.
Blood poured out, and Guan Yu, who was rushing to the side, was not spared, his black cloak was stained with blood, and even the iron armor that protected his face was bleeding.
In the face of these, Guan Yu did not wipe it, but continued to rush forward with this blood. This scene brings others the feeling of extreme fear, as if the killing god rushed out of hell, which is daunting.
And the same scene is still happening to other Zhang family heavy riders...
To be able to enter the Zhang family and become one of them, all of them are veterans of a hundred battles with infinite strength. The cavalry of the Wuqiang State were cowardly before fighting, which could not hide from their eyes, seeing that Guan Yu, the general who led the team, was the first to rush forward and kill it, and the others were also unkind, and followed out one by one, waving their swords and chopping.
The bravery and martial bravery of the Zhang family's heavy cavalry made them quickly kill a bloody road, and countless cavalry of the Wuqiang State became a stepping stone for them to rush to the peak of victory.
In the face of all this, General Wei Fan's eyes had already widened, and an expression of disbelief was already on his face.
Wei Fan can also be regarded as a general of a hundred battles, he once started as a small soldier, and he relied on military exploits to achieve his current achievements, and he became one of the eight brave generals in the Western Regions.
Once upon a time, Wei Fan thought that there were few opponents in the world, what a kind of self-confidence and pride. And before, if someone told him that you can't defeat 3,000 enemies with 8,000 troops, he would definitely scoff, but now, this scene happened in front of him, which made him feel a sense of powerlessness in his heart.
From the beginning of this battle, he did not seize the opportunity, on the other hand, the opponent Zhang Jia's heavy cavalry, they first threatened themselves with bows and arrows, and then the iron chain array hit themselves hard, and now they were so unscrupulous in front of him. And looking at his own cavalry, he used to be so proud, but now, even the fighting spirit has been shaken, can such a cavalry team still win the battle?
The result is self-evident, if it continues like this, I am afraid that the elite cavalry led by him will be wiped out here.
Wei Fan can be called one of the eight great brave generals, and he naturally has the courage. But now he really doesn't want to fight, it's not that he's afraid, but that he's worried that all the elite cavalry will be buried here, and his lord Mu Kui won't spare himself, knowing that his family is still in the country, he doesn't dare to gamble.
"Withdraw!" Knowing that in the battle, in addition to losing more cavalry, it would be difficult to inflict heavy losses on the enemy, Wei Fan gave the order to retreat, and he himself didn't even have the idea of fighting with Guan Yu, so he directly tightened his horse's head and turned away.
Originally, General Guan Yu thought that there was going to be a tough battle to be fought, and even he was ready to cut off the head of the enemy general even if he was injured, but the enemy army actually withdrew without fighting, which made him feel like he was punching on the cotton.
But the other party finally withdrew, his own equipment was too heavy to be comparable to other cavalry in speed, Guan Yu knew that it was impossible to chase, and immediately he took his anger on the Western Regions Alliance infantry who were still fighting fiercely with the Southern Barbarian Army. If there are no cavalry men, then these infantry can be defeated.
Wei Fan retreated with the cavalry, leaving behind a group of infantry and became the opponent of the Zhang family's heavy cavalry. Under Guan Yu's main attack, the Southern Barbarian Army, which had been beaten to a certain demoralization, finally found its confidence and began to help the cavalry counterattack.
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On the frontal battlefield, Zhang Rui led the main force of Zhang's heavy cavalry to crush the Pu Dao soldiers in front of him, and waves of bows and arrows also fell like dense rain.
10,000 archers, 100 bows and arrows, this is a team with great lethality, especially in the face of cavalry, they can't better defend flexibly because they are riding on horses, this wave of bows and arrows down, it seems that the lethality should not be low.
This is just the result of the self-righteousness of the archers, when their bows and arrows came out of thin air, Zhang Rui and Zhang Feng and Zhang Shou did not have the slightest means of defense, what they wanted to do before, and what they continue to do now. Until the bows and arrows landed on their bodies and overheads, there was a crackling sound that kept ringing.
The bows and arrows did hit the team of the Zhang family's heavy cavalry, but the scene that made people expect to be killed by the arrows did not happen, those bows and arrows either fell on the silky cloak and slipped to the side, or they were shot on the extremely well-defended heavy armor, without penetrating a single bit.
The equipment of the Zhang family's heavy cavalry is the most powerful in the entire Celestial Empire army, and there is no one.
For such a team, Zhang Chao invested an unknown amount of financial resources, and it was precisely because of this that if ordinary bows and arrows could hurt them, it would be in vain to spend so much gold and silver. And at this moment, the huge cost finally played a role, the bow and arrow actually couldn't help them, except for a few bad luck, who happened to be shot by the bow and arrow to the gap in the armor, causing injury, more than ninety percent of the cavalry were all fine, and they could continue to raise their swords to attack.
"Oh my God, this is the devil, you can't kill it at all." After the archers sent out two rounds of attacks in a row, they saw that the heavy cavalry of the Zhang family as the target did not have any losses, but was getting closer and closer to them.
Faced with a cavalry team that was not afraid of bows and arrows, all the archers had a feeling of being unable to fight.
I don't know who was the first to say a running word, and then the original team of 10,000 archers began to disperse, divided into dozens or hundreds and began to flee frantically backwards.
The archers fled, which pitted the Pu Dao soldiers who were still desperately defending.
To put it bluntly, they are responsible for defense, and archers are used to attack, but now that the sword is gone, there is only a shield, and they can only be beaten passively, and it is only a matter of time before they are breached.
Not to mention, the shield was already riddled with holes.
The archers are there, at least there is a belief to insist, but when they are gone, the Pak sword soldiers can't defend themselves, and the originally not strong front shows a small opening from the corner next to it. Next, this opening is getting bigger and bigger, and it begins to spread violently.
When the Zhang family rushed out of the small mouth, brandished the giant knife and began to slash left and right, more and more Pu Dao soldiers were indeed overturned to the ground, covered in blood.
"Run!" As soon as the battle line began to fall, the gains quickly expanded, and the unharmed soldiers fled backwards, leaving their slower runners to become ghosts under the sword.
Zhang Rui didn't expect things to go so smoothly, he could guess that the final winner must be himself. The Zhang family's heavy cavalry immediately attacked, and it was absolutely impossible to return in defeat, unless they were all killed in battle, which was originally a death order issued by Zhang Chao.
But for the front that could defeat the Qiang army so quickly, it was still somewhat unexpected for him. Fortunately, this change is good, seeing that the momentum is flourishing, Zhang Rui decided to expand the results of the battle and pursue the victory.
"General Zhang Shou, you take 5,000 people to reinforce General Guan Yu, and the others will follow me to kill!" Zhang Rui didn't want to waste a minute of his time, but he thought about the battle situation on General Guan Yu's side, so he said left and right.
"General Rui, you don't have to go, General Guan Yu has already killed General Wei Fan, this is the soldier he sent to report the news." Zhang Shou just wanted to lead the troops away, and then he saw the messengers around Guan Yu rushing over, and said happily after listening.
"General Guan is mighty!" Hearing Zhang Wu say this, Zhang Rui was also overjoyed. "Okay, that's the case, everyone is chasing together, this time we want to let the prestige of the Zhang family's heavy riding out!"
"Long live the Zhang family!" I don't know who shouted this, and the other more than 10,000 cavalry cheered together.
It is also said that with 20,000 people, he defeated nearly 50,000 soldiers of the Wuqiang Kingdom in two battlefields, including 8,000 elite cavalry, this achievement is enough for anyone to be proud of for a while.
With the entry of Zhangjia's heavy cavalry, the situation of the war changed dramatically.
Wei Fan fled in disarray with the soldiers of the Qiang Kingdom, and when he came, he brought 100,000 soldiers and horses, but when he returned, he didn't even have 30,000. There are also 30,000 horses and horses in the poor mountain country, which were also surrounded and annihilated under the joint efforts of the Zhang family heavy cavalry and the Southern Barbarian Army.
After the first battle, nearly 40,000 enemies were destroyed and nearly 60,000 enemy troops were captured. This was a big victory for the Celestial Empire's army, which only had more than a hundred thousand horses.
"Quickly clean up the battlefield, send a message from the front, reinforcements from the Western Regions Alliance are coming." Zhang Rui watched the soldiers happily cleaning up the captured materials on the battlefield, and said with a happy face.
This time, the response of the Western Regions Alliance was not slow, and three hours after Wei Fan set off with 100,000 troops as reinforcements, Mu Kui, the lord of the Wuqiang Kingdom, united the captain Tu and the black cavalry of the Loulan Kingdom, as well as the soldiers of the Qiuzi Kingdom in Heye for reinforcements.
If it weren't for the fact that the Zhang family light cavalry had been ready to stop the reinforcements, I am afraid that once they entered the battlefield this time, the outcome of the war might have changed.
Although the Zhang family's light cavalry only had 26,000 people left after the second prince of Zhang Xing took away 3,000 people, as soon as they appeared, they were shocked by the Western Regions Alliance, and a wave of bows and arrows flew out and forced the other party to put down their hurried steps.