Niu Jin finally understood how much mistake he had made.

He would actually wishfully think that Zhao Yun didn't understand cavalry, hehe, it's ridiculous, he really beat Niu Jin and found out that the person who really doesn't understand cavalry is himself.

In this cavalry duel, from the very beginning, Niu Jin had already fallen into Zhao Yun's command rhythm, and any response from Niu Jin was expected by Zhao Yun.

Now Cao Wei's light cavalry, with a heavy cavalry assault in front, has broken up and is fleeing behind them. The bows and arrows of the enemy rangers are suppressed on both flanks, preventing the light cavalry from expanding the battlefield space on the two flanks, and the heavy cavalry can be killed at any time. The light cavalry fell into an artificially formed narrow battlefield, and the proud speed advantage could not be brought into play at all, so they could only fall into a full-fledged passive beating.

What's worse is that the light cavalry, whether they stabbed with their rifles or fired with their bows, found themselves unable to threaten the heavily armored cavalry.

Not only the cavalry, but even the war horses are not a threat, and they are covered in iron armor.

I can't hurt the other party, but I keep fighting and damage. Who wants to meet such an opponent?!

As time passed, the damage of Cao Wei's light cavalry became more and more serious, and the enemy's heavy cavalry continued to fight like this, and it was only a matter of time before Cao Wei's cavalry collapsed.

The battle has reached this point, even Niu Jin knows that his defeat is decided, and the only thing that can be redeemed now is how much his loss will be.

Anyway, Niu Jin definitely doesn't want to be wiped out.

Therefore, Niu Jin did not hesitate to order that the Chinese army should retract its formation, not seek a breakthrough on both flanks, but retreat, withdraw directly from the battlefield, and preserve its vital strength as much as possible.

But if they just retreated, the enemy rangers would not just watch it, so someone had to be in charge of breaking the rear.

The forward cavalry, there is no longer hope, they have now broken down and lost their combat capability.

Therefore, it can only be himself, the coach, who is on the line.

Niu Jin did not hesitate to lead his 1,000 personal guards cavalry to break through, cutting off the more than 8,000 cavalry of the Chinese army, seeking a glimmer of life.

As long as these more than 8,000 cavalry can withdraw from the battlefield and withdraw to Chongquan County, then even if he Niu Jin dies here, it can be regarded as leaving a fighting force for Cao Zhen, a kid, so that he will not be unable to face the cavalry of the Shu thieves.

Therefore, with the determination to die, Niu Jin led a thousand guards and launched a counter-charge in reverse.

By the way, on the way to charge, Niu Jin did not forget to try his best to collect the defeated and retreating former army, so that they could break the rear with him.

Of course, Niu Jin is not brainless to use light cavalry to send him to death, he still has some strategy.

took the initiative to meet the heavy cavalry troops, but Niu Jin did not choose to face it head-on, but took advantage of the gap in the battlefield to use cavalry to attack and harass on the road of the heavy cavalry with a team of 1,000 people.

It is impossible for the Chinese cavalry of 8,000 people to divide the two wings, and there is not enough space, but it is still possible to move back and forth in the gaps of the battlefield with a small scale of more than 1,000 cavalry.

Although this is actually of little use, it can at least contain the advance speed of the heavy cavalry, and at the same time attract the Liangzhou rangers on both wings to divide their troops to encircle and suppress themselves, creating time for the Chinese cavalry to withdraw from the battlefield.

And for Niu Jin's reverse rush after the formation was broken, Zhao Yun nodded slightly, expressing his appreciation and recognition.

Not to mention Niu Jin's cavalry command level, at least this courage and determination is indeed worthy of appreciation.

Seeing that he had to fill it in, it was a fool's behavior, so when Niu Jin was decided, in order to avoid greater casualties, Zhao Yun was not surprised at all when Niu Jin chose to withdraw his troops in order to avoid greater casualties.

In other words, generals who do not withdraw their troops are incompetent.

Therefore, when the Wei cavalry appeared to retreat, Zhao Yun directly ordered the two wings of the rangers not to be responsible for guarding the two wings of the heavy cavalry, and directly increased their speed and made a detour to outflank the rear of the Wei cavalry.

Surround as many Wei cavalry as you can, and don't let them withdraw from the battlefield easily.

As for the broken rear troops led by Niu Jin himself, Zhao Yun only smiled when he admired it.

A cavalry of a thousand people, it is simply impossible to delay the assault of the heavy cavalry of three thousand people.

Therefore, Zhao Yun ordered the heavy cavalry to ignore Niu Jin's attack and continue to assault forward, destroying all the Wei cavalry that stood in front of him as much as possible.

As for Niu Jin's raiding troops. Zhao Yun chose the same approach as Niu Jin, let his personal guard cavalry gather, and by the way, he transferred five hundred rangers, and also gathered a team of 1,000 people, and launched a pursuit raid in the direction where Niu Jin was.

It's been a long time since I've been on the battlefield to kill the enemy in person, and if I don't move my muscles and bones again, the world will probably forget about Zhao Yun. Since you want to die, I dare to bury it.

Zhao Yun personally led the troops to raid, and this treatment is not available to ordinary people.

The last time Zhao Yun did this, it was when he was in Changbanpo, when Zhao Yun used hundreds of rangers to risk his life to launch a guerrilla raid on the world-famous elite heavy cavalry tiger and leopard cavalry.

Now, Zhao Yun, who is over sixty years old, once again raised his gun and launched a surprise attack on the enemy again. Only this time, the person who really needed to risk his life was replaced by Niu Jin.

Not to mention, this time he rushed into battle, Zhao Yun really faintly found some of the feeling of galloping across the Changban Slope back then.

And Niu Jin. Niu Jin did see Zhao Yun leading his troops to raid in his direction.

In fact, at this time, Niu Jin still had battlefield space to move, and he could lead his troops back before Zhao Yun's raid arrived. But Niu Jin knew that he couldn't retreat.

Once Niu Jin retreated, or avoided Zhao Yun's surprise attack and moved to the two flanks, on the one hand, he might encounter the siege of the Liangzhou rangers, and on the other hand, he might also disturb the morale of the army.

Niu Jin's purpose as the commander personally broke off the rear was to reassure all the retreating Wei troops and let them know that the commander would not abandon them easily, so that the Wei cavalry could retreat in an orderly manner.

But if even Niu Jin chose to retreat and flee for his life, then the Wei army, which was still in the process of retreating, would not retreat in an orderly manner, but completely fled.

Therefore, before the main cavalry of the Wei army withdrew from the battlefield, Niu Jin could not retreat, and he had only one choice - to face Zhao Yun's surprise troops and take the initiative to attack.

Moreover, this is also an opportunity for the current Niu Jin.

If Niu Jin can seize this opportunity and behead the enemy commander, maybe there is a possibility of turning the tide of the battle and turning defeat into victory.

Of course, Niu Jin also knows that this hope is not great.

Now that it's over, it's impossible for Niu Jin not to know that he completely underestimated Zhao Yun, whether it was courage, strategy, or decisiveness, he seriously underestimated it.

Since Zhao Yun dared to launch a surprise attack on himself, it meant that Zhao Yun had the certainty of a decisive victory, otherwise in such a dominant situation, there was no need for Zhao Yun to risk attacking him in person.

But. Now that the battle situation has collapsed to this point, the enemy army has been killed again, even if there is only a 1 in 10,000 chance, Niu Jin must also fight.

Probably, this is the price you have to pay for underestimating the enemy.

Therefore, Niu Jin did not hesitate, and took the more than 800 rangers left after the break, and faced Zhao Yun's more than 1,000 rangers, and launched a frontal charge.

In this charge, Niu Jin did not command at the rear of the team.

More than 800 light cavalry faced 1,000 rangers, and there was no need to command a battle of this scale, so Niu Jin stood at the forefront of the team and led the troops to launch a surprise attack.

And coincidentally, Zhao Yun's choice is the same.

In this way, the commanders of both sides of this cavalry duel faced each other on the battlefield.

Life and death often come in an instant.

Niu Jin knew that Zhao Yun was brave in martial arts, but Niu Jin thought that his martial arts were not too bad, and there was always a trace of luck in his heart.

Now that the two of them are old men in their sixties, if Zhao Yun has aged faster over the years, it is really well, okay, Niu Jin knows how wrong he is.

It was just a matter of a moment, the cavalry on both sides were staggered, Niu Jin didn't even see how Zhao Yun shot clearly, but with years of battlefield experience and intuition, he sensed the danger, and subconsciously dodged sideways but still didn't completely dodge, and was shot directly through the flank by Zhao Yun.

With Zhao Yun retracting the gun, as well as the speed assistance of the war horses under the crotches of both sides, Niu Jin's penetrating wound on the flank was torn into a big crack by the spear, and blood gushed out.

This time, he directly removed half of Niu Jin's strength, and he couldn't even hold the big knife in his hand in pain.

In fact, at this time, Niu Jin had almost lost his combat ability, and no one would blame him if he fled under the escort of the cavalry at this time.

But Niu Jin did not return.

The mistakes you make always have to pay a corresponding price.

He first looked at the less than seven hundred cavalry left behind him after a frontal impact, and then looked at the eight thousand main cavalry who were desperately retreating in the distance, and gritted his teeth, Niu Jin ignored the blood flowing from his waist and abdomen, struggled to raise the broadsword in his hand, and made the gesture of cavalry impact again.

In the face of such Niu Jin, Zhao Yun nodded with a serious face, showing his respect for Niu Jin's integrity, and then shook his head slightly, raised the spear in his hand, and all the cavalry accelerated and charged!!

This time, Niu Jin had no room for luck, and was stabbed in the chest by Zhao Yunjie's solid shot, and with the help of the sprint of the mount under his crotch, Niu Jin was directly knocked away by the sprint and fell off the horse.

And then there was no then.

Under the impact of the cavalry, there is only one fate for those who fall off their horses, that is, they are trampled into meat by the war horses.

The commander was killed, and the remaining Cao Wei cavalry did not have the courage to continue fighting.

The only thing that made Niu Jinneng a little relieved was that after his delay, the Liangzhou Rangers were not able to outflank all the Cao Wei light cavalry, and more than 3,000 cavalry escaped from the encirclement.

And at this time, Zhao Yun had no way to pursue these cavalry, his primary purpose was to eat the Cao Wei light cavalry that had been surrounded by the rangers, and this was not a very difficult thing after Niu Jin was killed.

The cavalry duel outside Dali County, Zhao Yun's Liangzhou Legion, won a complete victory.

(End of chapter)