Niu Jin is old.

When some people get older, their minds will become calmer and they will become less concerned about the influence of external objects.

But when some people get older, they will become impatient and fall into a more stubborn situation in their judgment of things.

Commonly known, relying on the old and selling the old.

With the withering of the older generation of generals in the Great Wei over the years, Niu Jin, a general who can barely be called an old minister of the Three Dynasties, has become more and more high in the Great Wei, especially when Niu Jin was reused by Cao Rong and commanded the elite cavalry regiment, Niu Jin's status has risen even higher.

The status is high, and the personality and temper will inevitably undergo some changes.

In addition, over the years, the Great Wei foreign war has not been smooth, especially Cao Zhen, Guo Huai, Cao Xiu and others who are in charge of the army, none of them can win the battle, which leads to Niu Jin's dissatisfaction with these leaders of the younger generation.

I think that at the beginning, when Emperor Taizuwu was alive, all the generals of the Great Wei Dynasty were good at fighting, from the Central Plains to Hebei, from Hebei to Jingxiang, almost swept the world, when did they ever be so aggrieved.

Liu Bei is just a defeated general under Emperor Taizu Wu, but now he is fighting Cao Zhen, Guo Huai and other generations are losing and retreating, and even Guanzhong is lost.

Sun Quan, although there is a victory in Chibi, but in the blink of an eye less than three years, wet beard, Hefei two battles, still put Sun Quan in the south of Huainan can not move, now in the hands of Cao Xiu, Jia Kui and others, Sun Quan has been able to go north to attack Qingxu and threaten Yanzhou.

These juniors can actually defend one side?!

Can they?! It can't be okay at all, you don't have that ability to know, right!!

At this time, Niu Jin, on the one hand, missed the moment when the famous generals of the Great Wei Dynasty gathered, and on the other hand, he was full of dissatisfaction with today's juniors, feeling that it was their lack of ability, which led to the loss of the city and the land of the Great Wei today.

Now facing Zhao Yun, who is also a general of the older generation, Niu Jin feels that he has the obligation to correct the names of the older generation of famous generals of Great Wei, and let the juniors know that now that Great Wei has fallen into such a situation, it is completely because of the incompetence of these juniors.

Obviously, Niu Jin was a little carried away, and he didn't remember the fact that he was not even a second-rate military general when the famous generals of Great Wei gathered.

In the face of Zhao Yun, Niu Jin has such a big confidence, also because Zhao Yun is too low-key.

After Zhao Yun defected to Liu Bei, he really didn't have any sense of existence.

In the battle of Changbanpo, although Zhao Yun was brave, it did not change the fact that Liu Bei was defeated and fled, and after the red cliff, Zhao Yun led the army to follow Liu Bei to fight the four counties of Jingnan, but the four counties of Jingnan almost fell from the wind, and Zhao Yun's ability was not reflected at all.

After the Battle of Sichuan, Zhao Yun led the troops to the two counties, but at that time, Cao Wei had a very low evaluation of Liu Zhang, just a dog guarding the household, and felt that no matter who Cao Wei would fight, he could achieve the same results as Zhao Yun.

During the Battle of Hanzhong, Zhao Yun showed a boldness, saved Huang Zhong, and set up an empty camp plan to scare Cao Cao away, but it still could not be changed that this was a risky move after the failure of the sneak attack on Cao Wei's grain and grass, and it could not reflect Zhao Yun's strategy and command ability at all.

In the two Northern Expeditions that followed, Zhao Yun was either a suspicious soldier or led the troops to attack, and there were almost no outstanding performances and achievements.

Therefore, in Niu Jin's view, although Zhao Yun is now ranked among the five tigers, he is just a first-class general like Lejin, and the gap with himself will not be too big.

And the most important thing is that Zhao Yun has never shown that he has the ability to lead the cavalry corps in battle, and Ji Han's cavalry corps is also newly formed, and the Great Wei cavalry corps, which has been in the army for more than ten years, is not at the same level in terms of soldier quality or combat experience.

In addition, Niu Jin's strength is now clearly superior. Therefore, it is really not to blame Niu Jin for being angry, he really feels that he is sure to keep Zhao Yun in Dali County.

And when he actually fought each other, Niu Jin also felt that his idea was right.

In the face of the seven thousand Liangzhou rangers who were waiting for the enemy in formation, Niu Jin was not polite, and directly let the light cavalry under his command put in a charging formation.

The reason for this was that Niu Jin found that Zhao Yun didn't know how to use the rangers at all.

Liangzhou rangers, the best tactics is to harass guerrillas, in the face of their own light cavalry team, the most correct response should be to avoid head-to-head combat, choose to detour the flank, and attack with the cavalry that the rangers are good at, rather than a formation, and the light cavalry charge duel.

The Rangers are almost unarmoured, and the Light Cavalry has leather armor as protection, so when the Rangers give up their cavalry advantage, make a head-on attack with the Light Cavalry, and duel with a horse pistol, the Rangers are bound to be at a disadvantage.

Therefore, when Niu Jin saw Zhao Yun let the rangers line up, he immediately strengthened his inner thoughts-Zhao Yun was just in vain, and he didn't know how to command the cavalry at all.

It is too common in ancient battlefields that a general is incompetent and affects the three armies, and a general who does not understand the command of cavalry has to command the cavalry, no matter how good his personal martial arts are, it is still difficult to escape defeat.

Therefore, Niu Jin immediately seized this opportunity and let his light cavalry launch a surprise attack, striving to defeat the Shu thief rangers in front of him as soon as possible.

And as the light cavalry of the Wei army launched a surprise attack, Niu Jin could obviously detect that there was panic in the ranger formation of the Shu thieves, and soon, these rangers did not dare to confront the Great Wei cavalry head-on, and began to retreat one after another.

This once again convinced Niu Jin that Zhao Yun really didn't understand cavalry at all.

The retreat of the Shu thief cavalry was either that Zhao Yun could no longer restrain the cavalry troops, or that Zhao Yun did not know what the result of the cavalry retreat would be at such a close distance.

In cavalry warfare, the greatest results are never produced in engagements, but in pursuit.

Now that the Shu thief cavalry has fled, and the rangers have no obvious speed advantage over the light cavalry, then the only result that these rangers face next is to be chased and killed by the light cavalry for thousands of miles, and there is no room for resistance.

The Shu thief will be defeated.

Thinking of this, Niu Jin couldn't hold back any longer, and with a wave of his hand, except for the 1,000 cavalry guarding by his side, all the remaining cavalry launched a charge and launched a final pursuit attack on the Shu army.

The Wei army attacked on all fronts, chasing and killing the rangers who were retreating and fleeing, but, chasing and chasing, the cavalry vanguard of the Wei army found that the rangers of the Shu thieves suddenly divided into two ways and began to retreat in the direction of the two wings of the battlefield.

Just when the cavalry vanguard of the Wei army was also preparing to divide into two routes and continue the pursuit. They were dumbfounded.

As the Shu thief rangers retreated to the two flanks and let go of the middle road, the light cavalry vanguard of the Wei army had no line of sight to obstruct them, and finally saw the killer plan arranged by Zhao Yun for them.

Two miles away, there have been 3,000 people, the cavalry of the Shu army, which is covered in darkness, is speeding up and rushing towards the vanguard cavalry unit of the Wei army.

And with the acceleration of this cavalry unit, the Wei cavalry can clearly feel the tremor of the earth, and as the distance between the two sides gets closer and closer, the Wei cavalry can also see clearly what kind of existence their opponent is.

"Heavy Cavalry !!"

On the battlefield, I don't know who shouted such a shout and exposed the origin of the opponent.

Next, there was confusion in the forward troops of the Wei army.

Some people have been in the army for a long time and know what happens to light cavalry when they meet heavy cavalry on such plains, and some people have been in the army for a short time and have no concept at all.

Therefore, some people are subconsciously slowing down and pulling the reins, and some people are still enthusiastic and rushing forward.

Niu Jin noticed the chaos of the cavalry forward for the first time, and at the same time, he was also surprised by the sudden appearance of heavy cavalry on the battlefield.

However, when he roughly judged the size of the heavy cavalry based on the smoke and dust in the distance, Niu Jin breathed a sigh of relief.

The number was about two or three thousand people, and it was not a large-scale heavy cavalry group.

That's easy to do.

Two or three thousand hoplites are indeed enough to decide the outcome of a battle against foot soldiers, but not necessarily when facing cavalry, especially light cavalry.

Niu Jin can be valued by Cao Rong, in charge of the elite cavalry regiment, and naturally has his own understanding of the tactics and command of the cavalry, so Niu Jin is also very clear about the shortcomings of the heavy cavalry.

Therefore, Niu Jin immediately ordered the Chinese army to divide their troops, make a detour to the two flanks of the main battlefield, attack the flanks of the heavy cavalry, abandon the horse pistol, and kill the enemy with cavalry shooting.

As for the former army, Niu Jin didn't care.

It's not that I don't want to care, but I really can't manage it, the sprint distance of the two-mile road, for the cavalry, is only a dozen breaths of time, I'm afraid that Niu Jin's military order has not been conveyed to the front army, and the front army has already engaged the heavy cavalry of the Shu thieves head-on.

Therefore, it is better to take advantage of the time gained by the front army to create opportunities for the Chinese army to change formations and make a detour to both flanks.

Although he was a little ruthless, Niu Jin's response was not wrong, as a battlefield commander, there are not so many women's benevolence that can be used for you.

But the problem is that after Zhao Yun saw Niu Jin's response, he only gave his order slightly.

Ordered the rangers, who had just divided their troops and retreated, to turn around, take advantage of their speed advantage to come to the flanks of the hoplites, and block the movement of Niu Jin's Chinese cavalry to the flanks of the hoplites with cavalry shots.

On the battlefield of the cavalry duel, because of the speed of the cavalry, as long as there is a slight block, it will be too late to make an adjustment order.

On the frontal battlefield, Cao Wei's light cavalry vanguard was facing the impact of the heavy cavalry of the Liangzhou Legion, and the two teams of thousands of people collided together with a "bang".

Then there was the one-sided slaughter.

Cao Wei's cavalry stabbed out the pistol, whether it was stabbed on the enemy knight or on the horse, the enemy army was immobile and the enemy stabbed out of the pistol, along with the impact of the mounts on both sides, the Wei army was often either fatal with a shot, or fell off the horse, and did not even have a chance to get up and escape, and was trampled back and forth by the war horses on both sides.

On both flanks, the Liangzhou rangers also launched their best guerrilla cavalry shooting, using bows and arrows to block the division of Cao Wei's cavalry, not asking for many kills, as long as they prevent the enemy from dividing their troops to the flanks.

And the rangers of the Wei army also knew that if they could not brave the rain of arrows to break through to the two wings, they would face the unilateral slaughter of the pitch-black cavalry in front of them like crawling out of hell.

Therefore, the light cavalry of the Wei army was also fighting for their lives, and they must repel the rangers on both flanks before the black cavalry killed in front of them.

In the cavalry duel between the light cavalry and the rangers, although the rangers had the advantage, the gap was not too big in the end, and the two sides also damaged each other.

But the problem is that the black cavalry is getting closer and closer.

(End of chapter)