Chen Mu still used the same tactics, but the Donghu army changed.

Instead of rushing straight into the infantry camp as they did yesterday, they first split into two teams and outflanked them in a roundabout way.

Chen Mu ordered the Great Xia cavalry to be divided into four teams, first rushing up to two teams, staggering with the Donghu army, slowing down the speed of the Donghu army, and then going up to two teams, inserting from the side of the Donghu army, cutting the Donghu army into two sections.

In this way, the speed of the Donghu army fell, and then the cavalry of the two sides began hand-to-hand combat.

After a while, Chen Mu saw that the other party didn't want to care about the infantry at all, but just wanted to consume the number of cavalry in Great Xia.

Seeing that he couldn't wait any longer, Chen Mu ordered the infantry to retreat to the east, and the cavalry continued to divide into four formations, surrounding the infantry to protect the retreat.

Of course, the Donghu army pursued, and as soon as they fled, they gradually left the grassland and came to the black land.

Soon, Chen Mujun came to a small mountain, which was the hiding place that Chen Mu had been optimistic about for a long time.

Chen Mu ordered the Invincible Flying Army and the Wudang Flying Army to go up the mountain, and then Li Feng continued to walk east with the cavalry.

When the Donghu army saw this, they decisively abandoned Chen Mu's infantry and continued to chase after the cavalry of Great Xia. They had already planned to consume the Great Xia cavalry, not to mention that their cavalry would not be able to go up the mountain.

After chasing, the leader of Donghu was surprised to find that since he crossed that mountain, he could not catch up with the cavalry of Great Xia.

General Donghu: "Why are the cavalry of Great Xia so fast?" Seeing that their armor is iron, and their weapons are longer, they should be much heavier than ours. ”

The leader of Donghu was also puzzled, "No matter how much, I don't believe that the cavalry of Great Xia don't need to eat, as soon as they stop, we will kill them." ”

The leader of Donghu thought very well, his own people all brought dry food, and the people of Daxia all cooked in pots, so they should stop.

The young general asked again: "Chief, will they also set a trap?" ”

The leader shook his head, "They don't have time to dig traps, and if they want to work on such a large number of cavalry, they will have to dig for at least ten days." And there was no mountain ahead, and there was no place for them to hide ambushes. ”

This time, the youngster was relieved and continued to chase forward.

After a while, the Donghu cavalry began to take out dry rations and eat them while riding.

Although they did not have saddles and stirrups, everyone grew up on horseback, and there was no problem with one-handed control of horses.

What they didn't know was that the Great Xia cavalry in front also took out food.

The Great Xia cavalry ate preserved fruits from the Dongyue region, which is also one of the specialties of the Dongyue region. The sugar content is high, which can quickly replenish energy, and the small size makes it easy to carry and convenient when eating.

Put the preserved fruit in your mouth and chew it slowly, without delaying the ride at all.

They chased and fled here, but Chen Mu and the infantry rested well on the mountain.

However, Chen Mu's body was resting, and his mind was not idle at all, he had been looking at the sun in the sky, calculating the distance between himself and the cavalry in his heart.

When the sun was up, Chen Mu ordered the whole army to go down the mountain and march towards the predetermined location.

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The heart of the leader of Donghu became more and more anxious.

It had been a while since they had lunch, but the distance between them and the Great Xia cavalry had not been shortened at all, and it was always a barely visible distance.

Could it be that the horses of Great Xia are more sophisticated?

Could it be that the Great Xia cavalry was more skilled?

How is this possible?

Just when he was about to get impatient, the speed of the Great Xia cavalry finally slowed down.

The leader of Donghu was ecstatic.

"Da Xia's horse is no good!"

"Let's chase it!"

"Soon we will be able to cut off the heads of the Great Xia people!"

The Donghu cavalry was also very excited, and urged the horses to chase forward.

They were right, and indeed quickly caught up with the Great Xia cavalry, and then began the long-awaited hand-to-hand combat.

It's just that the Great Xia cavalry did not panic as imagined, but resisted in an orderly manner.

Moreover, the Great Xia cavalry suddenly turned around and began to walk back.

The leader of Donghu saw it, only when they were going back to fight the infantry, but he was not worried, he believed that before the Great Xia cavalry and infantry would meet, the battle would be over here.

There are still more than 17,000 cavalry under his command, and even if one is replaced by another, all the cavalry of Great Xia can be wiped out.

He knew how difficult it was to assemble 10,000 cavalry, and if Great Xia wanted to assemble so many cavalry again to attack Donghu, he was afraid that it would have to wait until two years later.

And the Donghu people can lead the remaining cavalry to plunder the cities of Great Xia again, and they will have enough resources to survive the winter.

After two years, Donghu would have more cavalry, and Great Xia would never be able to defeat them.

With a happy and joyful mood, the leader of Donghu continued to pursue the Great Xia cavalry.

But gradually, he found that his war horses were getting slower and slower, and so were the war horses around him.

At this time, the cavalry of Great Xia actually stopped fleeing again, turned around towards them, and then launched an attack on the Eastern Hu army in the east.

And some of the war horses of the Donghu army did not listen to orders.

The leader of Donghu was in a hurry, "How can this be? What happened to our horses? ”

The young general next to him pointed to the ground and said: "We have been running for too long, the land here is harder than the grassland, and there are still a lot of gravel, and the horses can't stand it." ”

The leader of Donghu looked down and found that the hooves of the war horse had been worn out, and there was blood all over the ground. The war horse suffered, so he didn't listen to orders.

"Oops!"

"That's not right, why are the war horses of the Great Xia Army fine?"

They couldn't figure it out, and they didn't have time to study it, because behind them, there were shouts of killing.

It was Chen Mu who arrived with the Invincible Flying Army and the Wudang Flying Army.

The war horses of the Donghu army were out of control, and they were attacked by the Great Xia army on both sides, and their morale immediately dropped to the freezing point.

After more than an hour of slashing and killing, only a few hundred horsemen of the Donghu army fled, and the remaining 17,000 cavalry, even men and horses, remained here.

The Great Xia army only paid 4,000 cavalry and 1,000 infantry casualties.

This battle benefited from Chen Mu's carefully designed strategy, and what supported this strategy was the small horseshoe on the horse's hooves.

It is with this horseshoe that the hooves of the Great Xia war horses can be protected on such a road surface, so that the war horses are not affected by the terrain.

And Donghu's war horses are used to running on the grass, and they can't adapt to the hard ground and gravel here.

This small detail buried almost all of Donghu's cavalry.

After this battle, Donghu had no power to resist.

Chen Mu asked the wounded soldiers to clean up the battlefield here, repair in place, and take 5,000 infantry and 5,000 cavalry to pursue Donghu's cavalry.

Three days later, Chen Mu stood on top of the mound, looked at the Donghu tribe in the distance, and showed a victorious smile.