The morning sun rises and the warm sunlight falls, dispelling the morning mist that dances with the wind.

Tens of thousands of horses' hooves trampled the ground, tossing dirt and weeds.

More than 10,000 cavalry of the Xuanwu Army set out from Bianzhou, almost paving the roads and countryside.

Li Yunze on horseback, holding a tablet in his hand, checked the Tianping Army more than 20 miles away through the drone, and was pulling out the camp after breakfast.

"Don't be considerate of horsepower, speed up!"

Putting away the tablet, Li Yunze ordered left and right, "Go out of the horse, none of the sentinels of the Tianping Army can be let go!" ”

If you want to fight a surprise battle, the most important thing is to be fast and not give the enemy a chance to react.

The Tianping Army set out from Yunzhou and was about to arrive in Caozhou.

Zhu Xuan planned to join forces with his younger brother Zhu Jin here, and then go south into Songzhou to join Shi Pu, who had set out from Pengcheng.

They also knew that the Xuanwu Army was strong, so they chose to attack Songzhou first to lure Li Yunze out, so that those quasi-allies who were still waiting and watching took the opportunity to launch an offensive.

Zhu Xuan didn't expect that Li Yunze had not only already attacked, but also smashed the first punch on his body.

The reason is very simple, if Shi Pu of the Wuning army is attacked first, Zhu Xuan and Zhu Jin brothers will converge, and the fifty or sixty thousand troops will gather together and have a sense of vigilance, and basically there will be no chance of a surprise attack.

These are all real strong soldiers of the Tang Dynasty, not a cannon fodder team composed of homeless people.

The armored cavalry is not invincible in the world, and tens of thousands of strong soldiers form a formation to fight the same hard.

Taking advantage of his unpreparedness to fight Zhu Xuan first, there is a great possibility of winning a big victory, and then taking advantage of the situation to sweep Zhu Jin, who is already very close to this side, basically even if the overall situation has been decided.

Shi Pu received the news that as long as he didn't have a bad head, he would inevitably retreat immediately.

And once the offensive in the east is disintegrated, the grass on the west side will definitely not dare to stand up straight.

These are all strategic plans, and now it's time to put them into concrete tactical execution.

Zhu Xuan's department, which is more than 40 miles away from Cao County, had breakfast at this time and set off for camp.

Tens of thousands of sergeants and accompanying auxiliaries marched in a long queue.

I drank a lot of wine last night, and Zhu Xuan's head is still a little groggy now.

When he was hanging around on horseback with his eyes closed, a lieutenant came to his side to report, "Jiedu, the horse sent out by the former army did not come back at the specified time." ”

"Hmph." Zhu Xuan, who was too lazy to open his eyes, snorted, "One by one, they are all stealing and playing tricks, haven't eaten enough in the morning or haven't slept well?" Specify where to hide again. ”

Cao County is still far from Li Yunze's territory, at least in terms of the speed of action in this era.

Moreover, Zhu Xuan didn't know Li Yunze either, he had heard of his achievements, but he didn't think that Li Yunze would go on an expedition of hundreds of miles to raid him.

He thought that Li Yunze, like other festival envoys, was the kind that relied on his strength to face each other head-on.

At this time, Zhu Xuan is very relaxed, because he can meet his younger brother Zhu Jin as soon as tonight, and tomorrow at the latest.

Zhu Xuan, who was thinking about his thoughts, was awakened by the anxious voice of the school captain, "Jiedu!" None of the horses sent out by the former army! Return!

Come!

！ ”

Zhu Xuan, who was a little groggy because of a hangover, finally woke up at this time.

He looked at the captain with an anxious face on the side in a daze, "None of them have come back?" ”

"Yes."

"Quick!" Zhu Xuan, who was pale, immediately shouted, "The whole army stops, and line up in armor!" Scatter the rest of the horses, hurry! ”

After all, he was an old soldier, and after being scared awake by the alcohol, he immediately made the most appropriate arrangements.

Horse scouts in the army have always been the most elite places, and in later generations, they were called scouts and special forces.

They scout for danger around the army and provide early warning to the army.

With the scale of Zhu Xuan's department, the number of scouts sent by the former army was at least more than 100.

So many scattered elites disappeared together, unless God saw that they were not pleasing to the eye and cleaned them up, otherwise there was only one possibility, that is, they were destroyed by the enemy.

"Li Yunze." The only thing Zhu Xuan could think of was this great enemy.

While frightened, he also admired in his heart, he dared to lead his troops across hundreds of miles, accurately find his position, or fight in a state of march, this is a real ability.

Zhu Xuan's order has been issued, but tens of thousands of people want to act, where is it so simple.

The Chinese army has stopped and is still armoured, but the front army is still moving forward, and the rear army is still carrying baggage.

In this era, there is no communication network, and communication basically relies on roaring.

As for the use of military flags or something, it is now a marching formation with a long snake formation, and whoever steps on a horse can see what kind of flag the Chinese army is fighting.

After the order was given, it plunged the originally smooth marching column into chaos.

After all, some people want to continue walking, while others stop, and there will naturally be chaos.

Just when the whole army was at its most chaotic, the sharp-eyed man noticed that the ground was trembling slightly.

In the dust, a dazzling light appeared in the sparse woods in the distance.

If you cover your eyes and look closely, you will find that it is not a luminous body, but a smooth and bright nail stomach reflecting the sun!

He wears an iron hood on his head and is covered with copper.

Wearing bright light armor, riding an ironclad horse.

He wears iron handguards on his wrists and black leather boots on his feet.

Lined with chain mail, covered with a crimson robe.

Mo knife flail and horizontal knife, heroic and famous.

Rows of armor soldiers wrapped in steel, riding war horses protected by iron armor, continued to emerge from the sparse forest.

The tall horses they ride are all available from the 'face curtain' of the horse's head to the 'chicken neck' of the horse's neck, from the 'dang chest' of the horse's chest to the 'body armor' of the torso, from the 'back' of the horse's hips to the 'parasite' on the erection of the tail.

In addition to the ears, eyes, mouth, nose and tail exposed, the knight and the horse were protected by armor all over their bodies.

Armored Ride!

In this world, the only one who can equip all armor soldiers with dazzling bright light armor is Li Yunze of the Xuanwu Army!

The characteristic of Mingguang armor is that it is bright, or how to call it Mingguang armor.

Correspondingly, there is really a kind of armor called Black Light Armor.

Not to mention anything else, rows of tin cans are constantly emerging in front of them, and this momentum and sense of oppression alone are enough to make the people of the Tianping Army swallow saliva.

Fortunately, it was the front army that faced the armor and cavalry, and they were all strong troops composed of regular soldiers.

Even though he was frightened in his heart, he didn't run away, but hurriedly grabbed his weapon and prepared to fight.

The ancient march was not the kind in film and television dramas, wearing armor and holding weapons.

It's impossible.

Because armor and weapons are heavy, and the physical strength of soldiers is very valuable.

Not only did they walk slowly, but they also had no strength to fight on the battlefield.

Therefore, the real marching soldiers are wearing single clothes, and the high-level ones can sit on the cart with the armor stomach weapon or something, and the less advanced ones can only be the armor stomach weapons and so on on on the cart, and then walk by themselves.

This method of marching saves effort, but it is very fatal when encountering a surprise attack.

This is why it is so important to explore horses in the army.

Li Yunze, who rode out of the horse, looked at the panicked Tianping Army in the distance through the eyes of his face armor, took a deep breath and raised the Mo knife in his hand.

The sharp tip of the knife pointed forward, and the armored cavalry, which looked like a moving fortress, began to accelerate in the direction pointed by Li Yunze's knife.

The battlefield is an open field, and the official road leads to the county seat of Caoxian County, which is dozens of miles away, and on both sides of the official road are large tracts of farmland.

Farther away was the water, and the direction in which Li Yunze and the others came was the sparse woods near Tu Mountain.

The environment here is very suitable for cavalry to exert their impact power, and this is also the battlefield that Li Yunze selected through drone observation along the way.

The horse's hooves flew and trampled the green seedlings in the field.

"After the war, we must compensate the local people for food and seeds." Li Yunze, who was galloping on his horse, still had the heart to think about the property of the local people, "If they don't pay compensation, they will starve to death." ”

The seedlings are trampled, which means that the harvest is not achieved in a year.

Those who have land have to sell it, and those who don't have land can only sell themselves.

If you can't even sell yourself, then you can only escape the famine.

If you can't escape the famine, then there is only a dead end.

In this era, when the warlords of the feudal towns were fighting, where would they care about the life and death of the people, they were not even benevolent and good people if they were cut with a knife, but they would be praised by writing poems.

Like Li Yunze, it is really unique.

The cavalry of the brigade began to speed up, leaving Li Yunze behind to protect him.

Most of them were armed with thick horse lances, and rushed into the far unformed Tianping army with a thunderous force.

The lance pierced the chest, and the horse knocked the man away.

Under the tremendous impact force, the first wave of impact alone led to the annihilation of the Tianping Army, which had hastily assembled to resist.

The bravest of the men died in battle, and the less brave men carried row after row of seemingly endless armored horses, and with each impact they were brought down in pieces, and the rest chose to flee without accident.

Those who run away will leave an explanation in their hearts, not that I don't want to resist, but that I was attacked and I can't resist without armor or weapons.

With an explanation in mind, it is natural to run faster.

Li Yunze drove the rout to the side of the Chinese army, which was the tactic he was most accustomed to using to roll up the bead curtain.

"The formation of armored cavalry was originally to deal with cavalry, after all, the Tang Dynasty iron cavalry has been famous for thousands of years." Li Yunze, who was a little absent-minded on the battlefield, even began to diverge his thinking, "I didn't think about it, most of the fights were foot soldiers." ”

This is mainly due to the fact that there are few horse farms in the heartland, and naturally there is a lack of cavalry.

If you really fight with the Shatuo Black Crow Army used by Li Ke, or the strong cavalry in the border areas, it will definitely not be as easy as it is now.

When I was thinking about my thoughts, the war ahead suddenly changed.

Zhu Xuan mobilized a group of elites who dared to die, and charged in reverse with a Mo knife.

The sharp Mo knife is specially used to cut the horse's legs, which is considered the most vulnerable place for armored horses.

After being brought down by several rows of heavily armored cavalry, the ground was stacked, and the cavalry behind them circled to the sides, ready to open up and charge again.

Unexpectedly, they gave up Li Yunze behind them.

As soon as the brave Mo swordsmen saw the banner held by the standard-bearer behind Li Yunze, they immediately rushed towards him with the Mo knife without fear of death.

The guards around him subconsciously wanted to pull the reins of Li Yunze's war horse, but they were pushed away by Li Yunze with a wave of his hand.

He even simply turned over and dismounted, grabbed the Mo knife with both hands, and rushed forward quickly, leading the guards to collide head-on!