It is said that 30,000 Wei troops from Tongguan rushed to the outskirts of Chang'an, and found that there were boundless cavalry in front of them. When they stopped their march in horror, they found cavalry on all sides.

It turned out that these cavalry were the 50,000 Xianbei cavalry who entered the pass with Zhang Bao, and now they also belong to a member of the Han army.

However, everyone is still used to calling them Xianbei cavalry, and according to the arrangement of the General Staff, they waited here early in the morning for the arrival of Tongguan reinforcements.

The place is open and not a good place for a sneak attack. The Wei reinforcements, who were in a hurry to leave, did not expect that someone would set up an ambush here. What they didn't know, however, was that this open terrain was just right for a cavalry charge.

What puzzled them the most was that there was such a large number of enemies, why the scouts and forward troops sent out did not react at all. Of course, they didn't know that their scouts and the two thousand forward troops had already been made dumplings.

The Xianbei cavalry had a total of 50,000 people, and in addition to the thousands of people who were stationed outside the gates, there were more than 40,000 people. The forward force of Wei only had 2,000 infantry, and the 2,000 infantry encountered more than 40,000 Xianbei cavalry, so they really couldn't escape.

The Xianbei cavalry didn't even have to charge, they just surrounded them and then used mounted archery against them. Like a cat playing with a mouse, like playing a game and competing in archery in the Naadam Conference1, a team of people took turns riding horses, shooting arrows at the Wei army while circling around them, and then counting the number of people killed by each team to decide whether they won or lost.

After a few rounds of arrows, the vanguard of Wei died in the hundreds, and the rest of the people saw this posture and knew that there was no hope of breaking through, so they chose to surrender one after another. It's rare to have such a good toy and such a good entertainment program, and the Xianbei people don't want to accept their surrender, and they want to continue playing.

Fortunately, Zhang Bao sent some Han officials to supervise them, and these Han officials immediately stopped them from continuing to slaughter the Wei army. After all, although they belong to Cao Wei's camp, they are also Han Chinese, their own compatriots, and no one wants to watch their compatriots slaughtered in front of them.

The Han officials immediately organized manpower to accept their surrender, and escorted the surrendered people to the garrison of the 1st Division, so that Zhang Bao could take over the prisoners. The more than 40,000 Xianbei cavalry continued to the east, until they came here and met the main force of the Wei reinforcements.

After the Xianbei cavalry encountered the main force of the Wei reinforcements, they had no extra words at all, did not call each other for battle, talk about a big reason, or greet each other's female family members, or put the raw ~ reproductive organs on their lips, and there was no classic scene of fighting alone.

Even the first small troops were sent to test each other to attack, as the leader Su Li immediately issued the order for a full-scale attack, he can't be blamed for being anxious, this is the plan formulated by the staff for him: launch an attack on the Wei army reinforcements as soon as possible, and destroy them as quickly as possible.

The reason why the General Staff issued such an order was that Wei would definitely have more than one reinforcement, and if it was delayed for too long, as soon as they had several reinforcements, the troops on the northern front who broke through to Guanzhong would be dead.

Moreover, according to the estimation of the General Staff, Wei will not only have many reinforcements coming, but they also have more than 100,000 or 200,000 soldiers in Chang'an City, including many of the elite like the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry.

Therefore, the strategy formulated by the staff is to eat up this reinforcement with lightning speed, so that the reinforcements from other roads and the troops in the city will not have time to react, so that they will not be able to cooperate with each other.

The Xianbei cavalry army was divided into four parts, one way to kill head-on, and two ways to outflank from both sides. The remaining road was less numerous, and they were responsible for going around to the back of the Wei army, that is, the direction from which the Wei army came, waiting there, and if the enemy broke down and fled, it was time for them to pick up the bargain.

The Wei army, which was marching on the road in a long snake formation, was unlucky, and they were immediately cut into countless small pieces, and then slaughtered.

It's not that the infantry can't fight the cavalry, but that is if they are well prepared. For example, the army should be lined up in a thick formation, the cavalry must first shoot with bows and arrows when they are killed, and some horse-repellent antlers should be used in front of the formation to block the cavalry's charge, and even horse pits, trenches, and tripping ropes must be arranged.

Then you also need the cooperation of the troops, the first line in front is to have several rows of pikemen, pikemen is the best type of troops to restrain the cavalry, of course, other arms are not impossible, it depends on the training level of the soldiers and the use of generals.

Some generals like to use the kind of long and big broadsword against cavalry, and the typical type of soldier is the Mo sword soldier of the Tang Dynasty, which is said to be able to cut off people and horses with a single sword. This kind of soldier is powerful, but you can imagine how high the quality requirements for this soldier are, and it is estimated that in this era of general malnutrition, there are not many qualified Mo knife players in the country.

In addition, there are people who use swords and shields to cut the legs of horses, and the two types just mentioned are long weapons, but this is a short weapon. The so-called one inch is long and one inch is strong, and one inch is short and one inch is dangerous, and this risk is not only for the enemy, but also for oneself.

After all, hand-to-hand combat, it is easy to hit the enemy, and the enemy is easy to hit himself, so it is not possible for ordinary people to cut off the horse's legs with a short knife, and they must be competently after long-term training, and the danger factor is much higher than that of using long weapons.

No matter what method the infantry uses to restrain the cavalry, there is a prerequisite, that is, to be well prepared and arrange a thick formation. However, the current Wei cavalry was on the march, and there was no time to line up at all, and when they were rushed by a large number of Xianbei cavalry, the formation was even more scattered.

The main general of the Wei State tried his best to gather a group of soldiers around him and form a thick formation to resist these Hu people who seemed to fall from the sky, but he couldn't do it at all, and the Wei army's formation was too scattered.

If the infantry wants to fight against the cavalry, in addition to the above factors, it also needs a very important factor, that is, there are enough people, usually twice or even several times more than the cavalry to be sure to fight the cavalry.

However, now the number of Xianbei cavalry is much larger than that of the Wei army, and it is a sneak attack launched when the Wei army is unprepared, and the battle situation is not suspenseful at all, and the Wei army is slaughtered one-sidedly.

This battle ended after an hour, although the main force of the Wei reinforcements lasted a little longer than the forward troops, but there was no essential difference, because their numbers were also much larger than the forward troops, so they all belonged to the end of the battle in a short time, that is, the objects of instant killing.

Note 1: The Damu Conference is a Mongolian festival that is held simultaneously in the Namuda steppe of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. It is dominated by events such as horse races, Mani meetings, Ordos weddings, and the memorial to Genghis Khan's mausoleum, which means "entertainment" or "game" in Mongolian. It is estimated that the Xianbei people also have similar activities, but it will definitely not be called the Naadam Conference, so I will use this name here.