Zhang Bao successfully deceived the reinforcements on the southern front of Wei with a trick, so that the Shu army could concentrate superior forces to deal with the tiger and leopard cavalry. Compared with the reinforcements on the southern route, the importance of the tiger and leopard riding is undoubtedly much greater.

The night is dark and the wind is high to kill people, and that night, the moon is not very dark, but the wind is a little high, and such a night can still kill people and set fires. The main force of killing people is still the Xianbei cavalry, and since the Xianbei Suli Department took refuge in the Han Dynasty, it has become a sharp butcher's knife in the hands of Liu Hou, and began to fight for the Han Dynasty to kill people everywhere.

Today is no exception, and they are also in the lead, but this time it is the most elite tiger and leopard rider of the Wei State who will be killed. At midnight, the 40,000 Xianbei cavalry rushed out of the gate and galloped towards the camp of the tiger and leopard cavalry at the fastest speed. After walking about two miles, they were discovered by the scouts of the Wei State.

"Hiss......" A sharp whistle pierced the night sky, and the sound shook for miles. Then, about a mile away, another whistle sounded, and then a chain reaction was set off, and at every distance an arrow shot into the sky, like a relay baton, until it reached the camp of the tiger and leopard riders.

This whistle sound is the sound of the Wei army scouts ~ arrows, which are used to quickly transmit signals. Although the Wei army did not have the same perfect signal transmission system as the Shu army, there were no hot air balloons, no binoculars, and no complicated system of flags, lights, and ciphers, they did have a way to quickly and easily transmit some simple information, such as enemy attacks.

This kind of sound arrow is exactly the means used by the tiger and leopard scouts to warn of enemy attacks. Although Zhang Bao also sent a scout team to strangle the scouts of the Wei State, in order not to be violent~ Lu Xianbei's secret that the cavalry was gathered here, he only sent a small number of waiters out.

After all, the first division was mainly infantry, and if there were too many cavalry scouts at once, it would easily arouse suspicion. In order to ensure the smooth implementation of the follow-up plan, Zhang Bao could only let the enemy's scout activities go unchecked.

The scouts of the Shu army failed to strangle the scouts of the Wei State, and it is reasonable that the Xianbei cavalry was discovered not long after they came out. What's more, there is a half-round bright moon hanging in the sky today, and the vision is still good, 40,000 cavalry, the dust raised, even the bright moon is obscured, and it is really difficult not to be discovered.

Besides, 40,000 cavalry ran together, not to mention looking, the earth-shaking sound of horses' hooves alone could not hide people. Almost at the same time as the scouts shot ~ the arrows, there were soldiers in the tiger and leopard riding camp who were specially responsible for "listening to the ground" to discover this anomaly.

In ancient times, when marching and fighting, there were not as many high-tech early warning systems as in modern times, and they could only rely on some primitive means to make warnings, and "listening to the ground" was one of them. The method is as simple as putting your ears to the ground and listening to the sounds coming from the earth.

If a large group of cavalry approached, and the sound of horses' hooves shook the earth, the person in charge of listening to the ground would hear this sound, and experienced people could even roughly estimate the size and distance of the approaching cavalry.

When the tiger and leopard rode in the camp, they also arranged for special listening experts to listen to the sound of the earth as an early warning. Now, this early warning method has finally come in handy, and the Xianbei cavalry is still a few miles away, and it is "heard".

In fact, Zhang Bao didn't plan to hide it, with such a strong force, where do you still need to sneak ~ sneak attack, just attack head-on. By the time the Xianbei cavalry arrived at the tiger and leopard cavalry camp, all the tiger and leopard knights had already hurriedly got up, put on their horses and were ready to fight.

Cavalry archery and cavalry charging into battle are the specialties of the Xianbei cavalry, and the tiger and leopard cavalry are ready to deal with these two tactics early in the morning and are ready to fight. They placed a lot of obstacles in front of the camp to prevent the other side from rushing to the camp, and behind these obstacles, there were dense archers.

You know, riding archery is not only nomadic will, there are also many people among the Han people who have mastered this technology, the tiger and leopard cavalry as the elite cavalry of the Wei army, its riding and archery skills are also very exquisite, everyone is equipped with a riding bow and arrows, they ask themselves about riding archery, and will not be worse than the Xianbei people.

However, the tiger and leopard riders who were waiting for the battle did not wait for the Xianbei people to rush to the camp without their lives, nor did they wait for them to rain arrows like locusts. They were very surprised to find that a group of Xianbei cavalry dismounted, carried a one-man tall tower shield, ran to the front of the team, and lined up a high shield wall.

Is this cavalry or infantry? How do you still row the shield wall? The tiger and leopard riders, including Dong Zhao, were all surprised, they had never heard of cavalry still lining up shield walls, isn't this a job that only infantry can do?

The cavalry must be flexible, maneuverable, and impactful, can quickly transfer, can harass out of nowhere, and can also violently collide with the large array, but no one has ever used cavalry to carry a heavy tower shield, and then dismount the shield wall, what is the Shu army going to do?

The answer was soon revealed, and I saw the lined tower shield wall slowly advancing towards the camp of the tiger and leopard riders. The entire tower shield wall is lined up in a straight line, advancing forward at the same speed, there is no confusion at all, there is not a trace of space between the shields, and the people behind the shields are well protected, and the enemy's arrows are not allowed to drill any holes.

It can be seen that these shield bearers are all well-trained shield bearers, and it is absolutely impossible for those Xianbei cavalry to be improvised pieced together. Dong Zhao's eyesight is good, and it can be seen at a glance that these shields are not simple, and they are estimated to be the elite shields of the Shu army.

His estimation was right, these people with tower shields were the tower shields of the first division, they rode the war horses of the Xianbei people, mixed with the Xianbei cavalry, and quickly rushed over to carry out the task, and now when they arrived at the place, they were the team that carried out the first mission.

As the shield wall continued to advance, the tiger and leopard riders also began to react, when the shield wall advanced to a hundred meters, Dong Zhao ordered the archers to prepare, when they reached seventy meters, Dong Zhao ordered to draw the bow, and when the shield wall finally entered fifty meters, Dong Zhao's order came down: release the arrows!

Because it is not good to ride on a horse, the riding bow is generally soft, compared to the hard bow used by those professional archers can shoot ~ to hundreds of meters, the effective range of the riding bow is generally only about 50 meters. Of course, it's not that the arrows shot by riding a bow ~ can't shoot farther, but beyond this distance, the arrows are equivalent to floating in the air, and there is no longer any lethality.

Beyond this effective range, the arrow will become "the end of the strong crossbow can not wear Lu Min", since the tiger and leopard cavalry is also a cavalry, of course, the cavalry bow they use is only an effective range of 50 meters, therefore, Dong Zhao can only wait for the shield wall of the Shu army to enter the range of 50 meters before ordering the arrows.

Listening to the sound of "whooshing" and "ding-ding-ding-ding", the tiger and leopard rode this round of covering shooting did not play any role, and the one-person-high shield wall completely covered the people hiding behind the shield wall.

Most of the arrows were silently inserted into the ground in front of and behind the shield wall, and a small part of them hit the shield wall, but the outer surface of these tower shields was covered with a thin layer of iron sheet, and those arrows fell down with only a dinging sound, and they could not damage the tower shield at all, let alone the soldiers hiding behind the tower shield.