The death cavalry led by Yuan Zhong is the last hope for Xiangyang.

The essence of cavalry tactics is to use one's strong mobility ability to pull the enemy's formation, detour, outflank, and backstab raids, and then launch a charge when the opponent's battle formation is torn and disrupted to produce flaws.

Although Yuan Zhong is not skilled in martial arts, as the commander of Cao Wei County, and Xiangyang, one of the most important defensive cities on the front line all the year round, is certainly not a layman for cavalry combat.

However, this cavalry team of 500 people was limited by the current terrain and the encirclement of the Jingzhou army, and there was no room for detours, and they would face a death battle as soon as they left the city.

The only tactic they could use was the stupid way of play, which cavalry commanders often had the most taboo of all—a frontal charge.

Fortunately, Manzhong can be said to have armed them unreservedly in terms of equipment, and all the good goods in Xiangyang City have been taken out.

Horse armor, Xuan armor, and things at the bottom of the box were all put on this cavalry team.

Of the 500-strong cavalry team, nearly 200 of them have Xuan Armor, and the others are all well-equipped with leather armor, and the armor rate has reached a terrifying 100%, and the proportion of Xuan Armor is nearly half.

There are 500 war horses under the crotch, and most of them are wearing horse armor.

This is undoubtedly an armored cavalry corps, the so-called heavy cavalry.

Yuan Zhong and other peripheral soldiers on the "blade" of this cavalry team are all dressed in Xuan armor, and these elites who are armed to the point of war horses will be used as the vanguard of the physical charge.

As a northern regime, Cao Wei was a well-deserved expert in the Three Kingdoms when playing cavalry, and his tactics gradually evolved and improved in the battles against the nomads and the native Han people.

And Liu Han, even a horse general like Guan Yu, has stagnated with the development of cavalry tactics and tactics over time.

Because there are no war horses and no large-scale cavalry, it is naturally impossible to spend time studying every day, and there is no actual combat to test, which is understandable.

Cao Wei was different, even a nobody like Yuan Zhong, led this cavalry team, which also made Guan Yu, who was watching the enemy's formation, have a lot of gains.

"When the Seventh Army was flooded before, it never confronted Cao Wei's elite head-on...... I don't want Cao Wei's cavalry to gain more than it was at the beginning."

Guan Yu, who was assembling his own troops and at the same time mobilizing and commanding the army to encircle this cavalry, couldn't help but admire in his heart.

Yuan Zhong's 500 cavalry were not all "assault cavalry" armed with more than a spear and a lance, and even this traditional front-arrow formation was actually a "flat-headed arrow" and a trapezoidal structure.

After dealing with the Jingzhou soldiers who wanted to take the opportunity to rush into the city, the cavalry quickly adjusted the formation, and Yuan Zhong also retreated to the front of the cavalry formation.

On the flat arrows, as the cavalry that was about to charge head-on into the Jingzhou army formation, they did not carry their signature long-handled weapons.

Instead, he holds a shield in one hand and a single knife in the other, and does not seek to kill when fighting, just to maximize the probability of his survival while breaking through the enemy's formation.

These people only have two tasks: to hit people and survive.

The first two or three rows are all this kind of "mobile iron bucket".

The cavalry guarded in the rear of the formation were mounted cavalry archers of more than 100 people.

Before the cavalry engages the enemy, they will throw at the enemy line in an attempt to disrupt the enemy's position.

The shock cavalry armed with long-handled weapons were located on both sides of Yuan Zhong's front waist, and they were the real force responsible for killing and wounding the enemy after the cavalry archers and the front row of iron buckets broke up the enemy's battle formation.

For infantry spear formations that have lost their formation protection and are mostly unshielded, these mounted cavalry on tall horses are a nightmare.

"Kill ——!"

Bang bang bang!

Cao Wei's cavalry team, which was staring at blood-red eyes, crashed into the Jingzhou soldiers who were also staring at blood-red eyes with a straight head, and the muffled sound of flesh colliding and the harsh sound of broken bones and tendons was endless.

The piercing scarlet, along with the familiar smell of blood, began to spread across the battlefield.

Guan Yu's order was strictly enforced, and although this order would cause more casualties on his side in the face of the onslaught of enemy cavalry, no one disobeyed the order.

There can be no doubt about the military order, this is war.

Guan Yu naturally knew that his orders would bring additional casualties, but if he didn't take advantage of this rare opportunity to disintegrate Xiangyang from within, the casualties would be even more unpredictable in the long run.

Every famous general carries the burden of countless lives, whether it is the enemy's or his own people, the so-called mercy is not in charge of the army, this is the case.

The production of weapons and equipment in Linqiong was not large enough, and the equipment of ordinary soldiers of the Jingzhou army had not been improved, and under the suicidal charge of the 500 cavalry, hundreds of Jingzhou soldiers died on the spot.

Some of the soldiers who were knocked into the air were not yet dead, and were still wailing on the ground, but looking at the injuries, I was afraid that they would not be able to save their lives with the military medics.

"Gentlemen, there is a stone cart ahead, rush! Don't stop! ”

Yuan Zhong struggled to clench the horse lance in his hand, and his arms were already sore at this time, but he still gritted his teeth and held on, encouraging the morale of the cavalry.

The favored cronies who followed him were a little moved when they saw this, he knew Yuan Zhong very well, and knew that Yuan Duwei was already playing at a super level, and he couldn't help but wonder if there was a mistake in the intelligence, Yuan Duwei was clearly a great Wei Zhonglie!

The death squad smashed through the military formation of a Jingzhou soldier, and did not pursue expanding the damage, but immediately raised the speed again and rushed towards the first Lei Gong Cannon that was close at hand.

"Get on the rocket!"

With the order of the Great Wei loyal minister Yuan Duwei, the cavalry archers immediately changed to rockets, borrowed the Wei cavalry carrying torches next to them to ignite, and then shot at the Lei Gong cannon.

During this period, they did not dare to stop, not even slow down.

In the middle of the army, once it is blocked, it will be all over.

The cavalry in front struggled to kill the Jingzhou soldiers guarding the Lei Gong cannon, while the cavalry archers in the rear concentrated on throwing rockets.

The shooting accuracy in the ride is already impressive, not to mention that they still shoot.

Fortunately, the assembled Lei Gong cannon was large enough, and more than ten rockets were fired one after another when the cavalry passed by, and more than ten of them still successfully hit the target.

Yuan Zhong did not dare to confirm the results of the battle, and immediately ordered the cavalry to turn and rush to the next target before the follow-up Jingzhou reinforcements arrived.

However...... Today, when Nanzhong has been pacified for a long time, the number of qualified war horses in the Jingzhou Army's "amphibious" combat units has also increased a lot.

The total amount is still not large, and Guan Yu's 50,000 troops, counting the previous foundation, are only enough for less than 2,000 qualified cavalry.

In fact, just in terms of the number of war horses, another batch can be put together, and the reason why we have not been able to continue to expand the scale of cavalry is that the quality of personnel and cavalry training are the big problems.

In terms of the quality of individual soldiers, there is still a gap with Cao Wei's cavalry.

However, it is more than enough to deal with the five hundred elites who are full of favor Xiangyang.

Without him, just because it was the man who led the team.

"Nameless junior! Guan Yu, the general of the big Han chariot, is here, and he is rampant! ”

A roar resounded across the battlefield, and on the sturdy steed horse of jujube red, Guan Yu's long black and white hair was flying, holding the Qinglong Yanyue Knife tailored for him by Liu Chan, and the flying horse came!

(End of chapter)