The cavalry is fortunate to come and go quickly. Soon, Ma Chao, Ma Dai and Pang De led their troops to withdraw and kill towards the left flank. Faster than Ma Chao were Zhang Xiu and Yan Xing, who had already been sent to attack the left flank. When the left flank approached the camp of the Xiliang army, the two divisions finally caught up with the left flank and engaged in a fierce battle with it. The left flank of the official army was soon exhausted, and Ma Chao was about to catch up with him in the back, Dong Zhuo hurriedly led his troops to make a big turn and threw off the Xiliang Iron Cavalry.

Ma Chao only came to his senses at this time, and his worries were unnecessary. Because Dong Zhuo led the cavalry, and the siege equipment was in the 5,000 corpses, Dong Zhuo was unable to conquer the camp at all. The reason why Dong Zhuo did this was just to lure him into leading his troops to pursue, instead of beating the central army and the right wing of the official army. He was caught in the siege of Wei and saved Zhao.

Seeing Dong Zhuo's troops fleeing, Yan Xing and Zhang Xiu joined forces with Ma Chao. Seeing that his soldiers and horses were assembled, Ma Chao thought that Huangfu Song should also gather the officers and troops and fight him to the death.

But when Ma Chao looked back, Huangfu Song's banner, that is, the order flag, was transmitting the flag of withdrawing troops back to the camp to the officers and soldiers. Immediately, the officers and soldiers sang gold. The officers and troops poured into the camp in an orderly manner, and Huangfu Song also reserved the broken posthumous parts. Ma Chao saw that it was difficult to take advantage, so he also withdrew his troops.

This battle ended hastily.

Huangfu Song pressed his sword in one hand and strode through the barracks to inspect the wounded soldiers, and the barracks were filled with the wails of wounded soldiers. Huangfu Song saw that most of the military camp was full of wounded soldiers, or expressionless soldiers, and the hand holding the hilt of the sword exploded more and more.

He couldn't have imagined that this Jin Ma Chao would be so resourceful that he could take advantage of the fact that he didn't know that the main force of the Xiliang Army was here and made an offensive camp deployment as a fighter to turn a main battle and a field battle into a surprise battle. He and his officers and soldiers were unexpectedly under the assault, and they were powerless to fight back.

Huangfu Song subconsciously turned his head and glanced at Dong Zhuo and the strategist beside Dong Zhuo. He knew very well in his heart that if it weren't for Dong Zhuo's siege of Wei to save Zhao and lead away the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, the consequences would be unimaginable.

At this moment, Yuan Peng ran over panting, and just wanted to salute, Huangfu Song hurriedly grabbed his arm and asked eagerly, "Have the casualties been counted?" ”

"Yes, the car rides. The last general sent his troops to the battlefield to collect the remains of our soldiers, and after statistics, he learned that our army lost 17,000 infantry and 8,000 cavalry in this battle. ”

After hearing this, Huangfu Song's heart sank. He muttered: "In other words, the current strength of our army is only seventy-five thousand? ”

Yuan Peng lowered his head in frustration and couldn't speak.

Huangfu Song sighed heavily, his face was expressionless, and said, "Presumably, the casualties of the Xiliang army are far lower than those of our army. ”

Yuan said: "That's so. After the war, the last general personally led more than 1,000 people to the battlefield to collect the corpses, and clearly saw that most of the corpses on the battlefield were our soldiers, and very few Xiliang soldiers. ”

As he was talking, Bao Hong chased after him from behind, holding a full bag of things in his arms. Huangfu Song took a closer look, and what Bao Hong was holding was the equipment of the Xiliang Army.

Bao Hong said: "Please look at the chariot, this is the armor of the soldiers of the Xiliang Army collected by the last general." This is the broken gold knife, this is the basin collar armor......"

Huangfu Song had an idea and said, "Okay, you hold the knife and let the old man give it a try." ”

Bao Hong took out the broken gold knife from the scabbard and raised his hands horizontally.

Huangfu Song pulled out one of the guard's ring-headed knives and slashed at the blade of the broken gold knife. With a sound of "dang", the ring head knife broke in response, and the broken blade fell to the ground.

Huangfu Song's heart was in shock, and he eagerly snatched the broken gold knife from Bao Hong's hand, raised it and looked at the blade, and was surprised to find that the blade was not broken.

It is already staggering to be able to split the ring head knife, but it is not broken yet! Not only Huangfu Song, but also Dong Zhuo, Li Ru, Yuan Peng, Zhou Shen, and Bao Hong on the side were also surprised.

Huangfu Song angrily pulled out his well-trained saber, held the knife in both hands, held it high above his head, and slashed hard, and at the same time of "dang", sparks burst out.

Everyone saw that the blade of the broken gold knife was cut to the middle, while Huangfu Song's Hundred Refining Saber was unscathed.

Although this proves that the broken gold knife equipped by the Xiliang Army is not indestructible, it does not make everyone happy. Because the one who can cut the broken gold knife is the hundred steel-making knife of Huangfu Song, and the hundred-for-steel has to go through a hundred refinements, which is extremely labor-intensive, so there is no one in ten thousand, and it is generally only owned by generals. The ring-headed knife, which was easily cut off by the broken gold knife, was commonly equipped by officers and soldiers.

Huangfu Song, Dong Zhuo and others have been on the battlefield for a long time and are naturally familiar with weapons. They knew very well that this broken gold knife could only be cut to the middle and maintained continuously under the chopping of the hundred refining steel knives, and it could also cut off the ring head knife, indicating that this broken gold knife should be refined from fifty to seventy-five refinements. The more you temper, the harder and sharper your sword becomes. When the official army still commonly used the ring head knife, the Xiliang army had already used the seventy-five refining knife, which had to make everyone a little discouraged.

Huangfu Song looked at the basin collar armor in Bao Hong's hand again, and he could see at a glance that this basin collar armor strengthened the protection of the head and neck, and the armor basically covered the surface of the person's whole body, and the protection was very strong.

At the same time, most of the armor equipped by the officers and soldiers was armor; Although the iron armor rate is as high as 85%, it is not as hard as the basin collar armor of the Western Liang Army; And the coverage is not large, unlike the pelvic collar armor can cover all parts except the lower arms and lower legs, the armor of the officers and soldiers only covers the chest, abdomen and arms, and only the armor of the generals increases the protection of the legs on this basis; Moreover, most of the officers and soldiers did not wear helmets, and most of the soldiers wrapped themselves in scarves, and a small number of qualified soldiers and generals would tie a small piece of armor to their foreheads as helmets.

Huangfu Song drew his knife and stabbed at the basin collar armor again, and it took a lot of effort to break the fish scale armor of the basin collar armor. Huangfu Song, Dong Zhuo and others understood that this showed that the armor of the Xiliang army was much stronger than the armor of the official army, and it was difficult for short soldiers to break through. If you want to break it, you must use lances, halberds, spears, spears, and spears to stab with all your might; or slash with an axe; Or shoot with a crossbow to achieve it.

And this is very difficult to achieve on a chaotic battlefield. If the officers and soldiers could not use their weapons to break the basin collar armor of the Xiliang soldiers at the first time, they would cause serious damage to the Xiliang soldiers. Then there is no doubt that the Xiliang sergeants, who are equipped with sharper and harder weapons than the ones equipped by the officers and soldiers, only need to effectively counterattack once to break through the armor of the officers and soldiers who are far more fragile than the basin collar armor, causing serious damage to the officers and soldiers.

Therefore, from the perspective of equipment, there is a big gap between the official army and the Xiliang army. And everyone also understands that this gap is also one of the factors in the defeat of today's war; And it will continue to affect the next battle.