Li Ling stood at the forefront of the 5,000-cavalry phalanx, looking at the ironclad cavalry who had already set up a charging formation in the distance, Li Ling had no expression on his face. He has washed the Qiang King City with blood, and even crossed the snow-capped mountains where the birds are extinct, and even died directly once before coming down from the snow-capped mountains, and his heart has already become tenacious.

Although Li Ling is not too old today, he is already worthy of the title of a famous general. The ironclad cavalry has the myth of invincibility, but in Li Ling's opinion, even if the evil ghost that came in front of him crawled out of hell, he would use the heavy sword in his hand to kill him upside down.

This is not only to fight for the glory of a soldier, but also because there is always a pair of trusting eyes watching you behind you!

Above the city tower, Huo Guang and Dongfang Shuo both stood behind the battlements, and their eyes both looked at the three hundred ironclad cavalry. Bai Zheng had long been familiar with the combat methods of the ironclad cavalry, but at this moment he did not pay too much attention to the opponent, but focused on Li Ling, although he and Li Ling were both generals under Huo Guang, but it was precisely because of this that he wanted to compare with other generals.

"Beat the drums, let's attack......" Huo Guang raised his arm and waved forward, and said with an order in his mouth.

The city tower suddenly sounded a war drum, this is a kind of drum sound that is not high in frequency and not in a hurry, and the second sound will only sound after a breath falls, but this drum sound is extraordinarily thick and powerful, as if each sound will echo countless times in the heaven and earth for a long time.

The drum sounded, Li Ling raised his heavy sword and pointed to the sky in front of him, and shouted 'rush .....' in his mouth, and then the war horse under his crotch rushed out first.

As soon as Li Ling moved, five thousand cavalry followed. At this time, Huo Guang and Dongfang Shuo were staring intently at the resting ironclad cavalry in the distance. I saw that this row of ironclad cavalry moved neatly and uniformly, leveling the iron spears in their hands, the head of the spear was parallel to the horse's head, and then the whole knight's body leaned forward slightly.

.....The neighing of the war horses sounded, and the ironclad cavalry of the rest surged towards the cavalry led by Li Ling like a flood that opened the floodgates. Although there were only about 300 horsemen, the sound of the metal impact made by the friction of the heavy ironclad made the 300 ironclad cavalry no weaker than Li Ling's 5,000 cavalry.

When the rest ironclad cavalry began to charge, the thousands of archers behind them followed, and the infantry phalanx behind them all put their arrows on the string.

The rest of the ironclad cavalry poured down like a stream of mercury, and when both cavalry accelerated to their optimal speed, the two cavalry finally collided together. The heavy sword in Li Ling's hand forcefully blocked the spear of a resting ironclad cavalry, and then the men and horses rushed through the gap between the two ironclad cavalry. When Li Ling's body was parallel to the ironclad cavalry, he raised his heavy sword with both hands and slashed at the ironclad knight beside him.

Li Ling's heavy sword weighs more than 20 catties, this kind of sword can't do any fancy movements on the battlefield, but it is extremely powerful to slash and block, if this sword is an ordinary leather armor or cloth coat, the knight will generally be cut in half. However, when Li Ling's heavy sword fell on the body of the Iron Knight, he obviously felt that he had encountered great resistance, and then a counterattack force was transmitted from the heavy sword back to his wrist, shaking Li Ling almost did not hold the heavy sword.

But fortunately, Li Ling's sword is also powerful enough, although it did not split the iron armor of the ironclad knight, but it still cut it off the horse. At this time, Li Ling looked back and found that except for a resting ironclad cavalry who had cut off his horse, the other ironclad cavalry were all intact, and under the charge of these ironclad cavalry, many soldiers in the front row of his side were pierced by the lance of the resting man.

And after this brief charge and engagement, these ironclad cavalry had already begun to turn the dock and retreat. Li Ling looked at the fallen soldiers nearby, and at least three or four hundred people were killed on his side in this round of charge.....

Li Ling also gasped for such a record, and just as the ironclad cavalry turned their horses, the thousands of archers who followed them had already escorted up.

"Set your horse, prepare to retreat......" Li Ling finally saw the power of this kind of ironclad cavalry, and now he already knew that he could not fight, so he ordered loudly and roared. Originally, he still wanted to have a big battle with these resting ironclad cavalry, but now he only wanted to complete the task assigned by Huo Guang.

Just when Li Ling gave the order, the resting archers had already entered the firing range, and the first wave of arrows fell into the Han camp like raindrops, and those resting ironclad cavalry who had not yet turned around and gone far, even if they were shot by a few arrows, they were not damaged because of the tightly guarded iron armor.

Under a rain of arrows, the Han army at the forefront could only use weapons to block the arrows, and lost the opportunity to continue to pursue the ironclad cavalry, and under this round of arrow rain, the Han army suffered some casualties.

However, at the same time as the rain of arrows fell, Li Ling's order was also carried out, and more than a dozen Han soldiers took off the horse ropes from their saddles and headed towards the nearest ironclad cavalryman. This time, whether it was the ironclad knight who rested in peace or the war horse under his crotch, they were all trapped in the rope by the Han army.

Huo Guang had been staring intently at the battle below, when the two armies intersected, under the spear charge of the ironclad cavalry, hundreds of Han troops fell off their horses together, which shocked Huo Guang's heart. It was the first time he had seen such an unequal battle, and then the rest of the ironclad cavalry quickly retreated, and the archers stepped forward to cover so seamlessly. Huo Guang knew that Bai Zheng's defeat was not unreasonable, his elite Hexi army could not block this tactic, and it was understandable that Bai Zheng could not fight.

"Mingjin retreats." Huo Guang saw that Li Ling had trapped a resting ironclad cavalry with a lasso, so he did not hesitate to order the troops to be withdrawn. Before the second round of the Ironclad cavalry was ready, the Han army had to retreat now, and any further fighting would only increase casualties.

At the same time as the second wave of arrows of the rest of the archers fell, the Han army decisively broke away from the battlefield and retreated towards Yucheng City, and at the end of the entire Han army, a rest ironclad cavalry dragged by dozens of ropes and men and horses directly from the ground into the city.

When the city gate was closed and the drawbridge was put away, Huo Guang, Dongfang Shuo, Bai Zheng and others had already gone down the city tower and came to Li Ling, looking curiously at the resting ironclad cavalry who had fallen to the ground motionless.

"The subordinates are incompetent, please punish most of them!" Li Ling knelt on one knee and said with his fists clenched.

In this battle, he was also completely pressed by the rest cavalry, except for the rest cavalry who dragged back, only he himself cut off a rest ironclad cavalry with a sword. That is to say, he paid hundreds of casualties, and in the end only caused two casualties on the opposite side!

"Get up, this tactic of rest is really powerful, and there is no chance of winning against us head-on, it's not a matter of ability." Huo Guang looked at the motionless ironclad cavalry on the ground, and did not condemn Li Ling.

"Take off his armor and see if he's dead?" Huo Guang approached the ironclad cavalry and ordered the guards beside him.

Soon several guards stepped forward and carefully took off the iron helmet of the resting ironclad cavalry, which was a helmet head that covered the entire head, and when the helmet was removed, Huo Guang saw that the resting man had bruises on his face, and his eyes should have been dead with his eyes closed.

"Back to the Grand Duke, this person is out of breath." One of Huo Guang's guards reached out and probed the snort of the resting man and reported to Huo Guang.

"Take off all his armor, and the horses as well." Huo Guang's body leaned forward slightly, carefully looking at the armor of this resting nobleman.

Huo Guang found that the armor on the resting nobles was not completely made of connected thin iron rings, their shoulders and chests were still a complete piece of iron armor, and the other body parts were chain armor. These thin iron rings are made like clothes, even including the fingers of this resting nobleman.

When the entire set of iron armor was removed, it took four guards and a stick of incense, and Huo Guang estimated that this iron armor would not be too convenient to wear. However, the iron armor of the rest war horse is much simpler, because the iron armor of the war horse only protects the head and torso, and is more used to resist arrows, that is, the battle armor inlaid with iron sheets, and finally draped on the horse's back and horse's head.

"Weighing." When the Rest armor was removed, the first thing Huo Guang did was not to observe and fiddle with the armor, but to weigh it.

Soon the guards weighed the two pairs of armor separately, Huo Guang had been standing by and watching, when the weight on the scale came out, the chain mail worn by the rest man weighed more than sixty pounds in addition to the helmet. Huo Guang knew that this more than sixty catties was the weight of this era, and if it was compared with later generations, it would be reduced by half, which meant that the weight of this chain mail was more than thirty catties. And that single helmet is relatively heavy compared to the whole set of armor, and its weight has reached about six catties of the Western Han Dynasty standard.

The weight of more than 30 catties of body armor is not too heavy, which is also entirely due to the fact that this armor is mainly made of small iron rings, if it is a whole piece of plate armor, it is estimated that it will weigh hundreds of catties.

Then Huo Guang and Dongfang Shuo and others carefully observed the structure and process of chain mail, and finally they came to a common conclusion, that is, this set of armor is absolutely valuable, aside from the value of the iron ingots required by itself, the process is also quite complex and cumbersome, and the manpower and material resources required to get this set of armor down should be worth no less than a small manor.

"No wonder these rest ironclad cavalry are at worst nobles with fiefs, and without the support of fiefs, ordinary people can't build this kind of armor at all." Dongfang Shuo tapped his hand on the helmet of the Iron Rider, and there was a bouncing sound on the helmet.

"These should not be the most elite of the Rest Iron Cavalry, judging by their numbers, it is likely that they are just some declining nobles, and their main force may be attacking the Otsuki Clan. There is not much time left for us, we must take Guishan City as soon as possible, without a big city like Guishan City to hold on, even 100,000 troops will not be able to stop the charge of tens of thousands of ironclad cavalry. Huo Guang saw some clues from today's resting ironclad cavalry, such as the fact that there was no commander-like figure among the three hundred resting ironclad cavalry, which showed that the form of their army was very loose, which was why Bai Zheng defined it as a mercenary at the beginning.

Huo Guang estimated that it was very likely that these three hundred nobles rested in peace, that is, some declining nobles who came to Dawan first with the main army, and they just wanted to make contributions in Dawan and obtain greater profits.

"Dawan's tens of thousands of troops are not to be worried, and now these more than 300 rest ironclad cavalry and their servant army have become the biggest obstacle to attacking Dawan!" Dongfang Shuo frowned, looked at the resting iron armor piled on the ground and said.

"This ironclad cavalry is indeed powerful, and the head-to-head duel is almost invulnerable, but its shortcomings are still obvious, not to mention that there are only three hundred ....." Huo Guang suddenly twisted his beard and said, then raised his head and looked at the sky.