Ying Yuan came to the front team when he heard the sound, looked at the mountain situation and sneered and ordered: "The spare horses retreat, the three horsemen rush one after another, and the rest of the knights shoot the hillside to cover with arrows!"

The cavalry captain jumped on a boulder on the hillside and shouted, "The horses are a hundred steps back! Three-rider serial kill! Ready—kill!"

When the first three horsemen raised their swords and Pegasus to kill, the knights of the rear team bent their bows and fired a volley, and the rain of arrows immediately sealed the high slope of the mountain. Shouting to kill, Ying Yuan came to the rear team, and ordered fifty knights to dismount and climb the hill on foot, bypassing the mountain mouth and attacking the opponent's back. He himself jumped off his horse and walked up the mountain with two escorts, to overlook the battle situation from a high place and make a decision on the spot.

The two guards hurriedly found a rock on which to stand, and Ying Yuan came up to look at both sides, but could not help but be surprised—his own horse team on the right hand side was constantly rushing and killing, but there was no trace of horses in the mountain col on the left hand side. Rao is like this, but his flying horses have fallen to the ground one after another, and more than ten horses have fallen into the abyss of the canyon.

Ying Yuan's mind flashed, and he immediately stopped drinking, and ordered the trekking knights who had already gone up the mountain to descend the cliff and attack back and forth.

After a while, a tiger roar shook the valley from under the cliff. A horseman on foot went up the hill panting and reported that there were no enemy horsemen on the other side of the mountain, only seven or eight crossbows and a pile of rocks in the way.

Ying Yuan hurriedly walked down the mountain to take a look, only to see that the pile of rubble had been removed, and the crossbow machine was also being disassembled. The cavalry lieutenant reported that four groups of twelve horsemen had been shot by the crossbow machine and fell into the deep ravine. Ying Yuan frowned and asked, "Since there is no one to operate it, how did this crossbow machine be launched?"

The cavalry lieutenant reported that the bow and crossbow were machine-fired, and the enemy rode on the mouth of the mountain with four white and shiny ox tendon ropes, which could not be seen at all under the heavy snow-white light, and the horse team rushed to the ox tendon rope, which would drive the mechanism to fire three arrows in succession. Ying Yuan was angry and laughed when he heard this, and immediately ordered: "The three horsemen march forward to clear the road, all of them are on their horses and pursue, and they must be outflanked and intercepted before the blizzard!"

The knights of the Fan army were also enraged by this despicable petty method, and the smell of it was about to make everyone angry, and they let out a shout and whistled over the mouth of the mountain.

As soon as the mountain pass was crossed, the road widened, and the horse team galloped faster and faster. Seeing that the three horsemen of the outpost had already flown over the mountain pass, the ten horsemen of the front team also galloped in. At this moment, the thunder rumbled in the middle of the mountainside, and the knights had not yet distinguished whether this was the thunder before the blizzard, and the ten horsemen of the front team had been smashed by the rolling wood and stones that rolled in the air, and the follow-up ten horsemen who could not stop were also smashed into scattered evasions, and the main force that was rolling behind them suddenly squeezed in the narrow mountain road one after another.

Ying Yuan, who was in the center, didn't have time to disperse, and the rain of arrows on the mountainside was already roaring into the sky. The knights were furious, the front team roared and brandished their swords to shoot arrows, and the rear team shouted and bent their bows and fired at each other. In a matter of moments, more than a dozen riders fell to the ground with a bang.

Ying Yuan was furious, and was about to shout the order to fight to the death and kill the mountain pass, but suddenly saw that the arrow rain on the mountainside of the mountain pass disappeared, and the rolling wood and stones were no longer moving, and his heart lit up and raised his war knife and shouted: "This is a plan to delay the army! The enemy cavalry has fled! Rush out of the mountain pass and intercept it!"

With a roar that shook the valley, the crazy Fan army rode out of the mountain pass like a hurricane. At this time, the thunder was loud and the clouds were rolling, the wind was wrapped in the heavy snow, and the winter twilight suddenly turned into a vast white night.

Ying Yuan shouted hoarsely, "Spread your wings! Outflank the pursuit!"

As soon as the words fell, the flying horses suddenly divided into two teams and unfolded, stirring into the boundless snowfield like two fire dragons. Ying Yuan brought the most elite knights of Fanguo, the best at galloping fierce battles in the vast wasteland where ordinary people do not distinguish between north and south, and now this chaotic world of the storm and snow can be said to be the right place for this flying horse, without losing direction, without slowing down the two horses in turn, only in the direction of Zaoyang Road to pursue with all their might.

After about half an hour, the Fan Army's flying cavalry finally gradually bit in a hilly valley, and gradually surpassed the Jing Clan's horse team, which was also galloping in the wind and snow, burning like flames. There was a tiger roar in the middle of the army, and the two fire dragons rumbled together, supporting the wind and snow to envelop the opponents who teased them all the way. The snow bright sword flew and danced wildly, and a tragic fight to the death began.

Ying Yuan couldn't help but be surprised when he watched the slope of the mountain for a while. The tactics of this Jing's horse team are very different from the Central Plains cavalry, and it turned out to be the three-horse cone tactic newly created by Ji Duoyou in the Chengzhou camp.

The key point of this tactic is to reduce the "ten cavalry and one battle" used by the cavalry of the Western Zhou Dynasty to "three cavalry and one battle", and the cavalry's ability to change combat has been greatly improved. The basis of Gain's cavalry charge

This method is all skirmish, no matter how large the scale of the knights on both sides is involved, they will eventually start fighting, and it is impossible to fight in formation like infantry.

However, this kind of fight is not a duel between completely isolated samurai, but a battlefield fight in which the enemy cavalry can surprise at any time between each horseman. Only in this way, the knights need to cooperate with each other, not only to cover their comrades from surprise attacks, but also to fight freely, which becomes the best way for cavalry on the battlefield.

Although the ten horsemen are already very powerful, it is still difficult to achieve exquisite coordination in the battlefield where the smoke and dust are filled with the sound of killing, and the stray arrows are flying and the swords are intertwined. Reducing to three riders is to set the range of knights who can gallop in time to take care of them to an appropriate degree, and the flow of combat and killing is very smooth.

With the three cavalry cones as the minimum killing unit, Ji Duoyou has created a set of "three" cavalry tactics: three three cavalry cones plus a flexible strategy is ten horses, and the three cones cooperate with each other to kill, and the ten horses can become a small battlefield by themselves. In this way, 310, 311, 310,000, 300,000, the cavalry corps on the vast battlefield can become a strong force of iron flow with free receiving, smooth advance and retreat, and cooperative killing. If it weren't for this, Ji Duoyou's sweep of the five cities in northern Hubei in less than ten days would have become an impossible myth.

The mystery of the three riding cones lies in the fact that the smaller the horse team, the more powerful it is. Facing a three-fold enemy, the Jing Clan's horse team not only did not see any weakness between the left and right, but the battlefield of wind and snow was an intractable situation. In the middle of the battle, suddenly heard a carving in the valley, and the Jing horse team that fought for each "cone" roared, and each showed a short-handled iron axe, and the left axe slammed the enemy's war knife head-on, and the right hand war knife slashed fiercely. In a moment, there were many horses on the side of the Fan army, and the situation changed suddenly!

Ying Yuan on the slopes of the wind and snow did not panic. With the combat power of his own flying horse, even if he suddenly suffers a loss, he will recover quickly, no matter what, there are nearly one hundred and fifty or sixty people on his own flying horse, and the other party only has sixty or seventy horsemen, why are you afraid of fighting to the death? It's just this change, and a doubt suddenly flashed in Ying Yuan's heart - this horse team didn't take this opportunity to break through, but still stayed where it was and fought to the death, could it be that Fan Shizi had fled?

With a flash of thought, Ying Yuan suddenly saw a black dot flickering and dancing in the entanglement of the blood-red and snow-white horse team through the snowlight. Watching intently, he saw a black cloth wrapped around a knight's arm, and the movement of the people and horses was obviously a little unagile. Ying Yuan's heart suddenly lit up, and he shouted at the two escort warriors beside him: "Look at that black cloth man, shoot him off his horse, and rush out of the formation!"

The two warriors raised their bows and arrows, but they heard a faint scream through the wind and snow, and the black dot disappeared suddenly. At the same time, two samurai rode straight down into the formation to grab the man who had been shot over. At the last moment, the Jing horse team, which was entangled by the Fan army, suddenly flew out several iron axes from different directions, cutting melons and vegetables to cut off the heads of the two horsemen.

"Fight to the death! Capture the Black Cloth Man! Madame's bounty—" Ying Yuan finally couldn't bear it anymore.

The chivalry of the Fan army was greatly boosted, and with a shout, they changed horses one after another, and rushed into the battle circle to kill them. At this time, the trapped horse team changed again, and the black cloth man who had clearly been shot over and off his horse disappeared, and there were no clumsy people who were inconvenient to move among the fighting knights, and the remaining forty or fifty horsemen formed a large circle that echoed each other and fought again.

After looking at it for a moment, Ying Yuan was puzzled again. This horse team is clearly exhausted, and several people are already fighting on foot, why is there still no sign of breaking through? If the black cloth man is really the son of the world, could it be that he still wants to die with this horse team? It is clear that there was a glimmer of life to break through, why do they still die together?

Suddenly, Ying Yuan's heart lit up again, mixed with the anger of being teased repeatedly, and he shouted: "Get out of the battlefield! Chase Fanzhen—" A horse rushed down the hillside and galloped northwest down the valley first.

So the situation changed dramatically! The flying horses of the Fan Army, who tried their best to escape, became "fugitives", and the Jing horse team, which fought to the death, became "pursuers", tumbling and rolling in the wind and snow, entangled and fighting, galloping.

Even if the horses of the Jing horse team are equally majestic, they are not as good as the rotation of the two horses of the Fan Army. After more than two hours of bloody battle of life and death, the knight of the idle war horse had already lost his strength and died. Rao is like this, the Jing horse team can magically chase and entangle, and occasionally the knight kills the army, and he will immediately fly on the horseback to chase forward, completely without the formation of the three horse cones.

It is precisely because of this method of warfare that although the cavalry of the Ying Yuan could not all pursue forward at full speed, the knights of the Jing clan horse team were also rapidly decreasing one by one. About an hour later, when they came out of Zaoyang Valley, the Jing horse team that followed the Fan army finally disappeared.

At this time, Ying Yuan's horse team had only more than 30 horses left, but his foot strength was not reduced. Out of the valley, the wind and snow subsided slightly, and the Fanjun horse team that turned east vaguely saw a few shadows galloping in front of them. Ying Yuan roared Pegasus, and the horse team suddenly outflanked the snowfield.

At this moment, the two horsemen suddenly turned around and stood still, only to hear the sound of low popping, and the first few horsemen suddenly fell off their horses! Ying Yuan shouted angrily and released the arrow, and the Fan army horse team led the bow and fired a volley, and the two horsemen were immediately shot into red hedgehogs and fell to the ground.

However, at the moment when the army rolled up like a whirlwind, two red hedgehogs suddenly flew up from the snow and pounced on the first two horses!