Due to the hard-won war horses, the cavalry construction of the Thunderbolt army was very difficult. Taking the cavalry brigade of the Third Division as an example, after nearly a year of hard work, there are still only 1,000 cavalry, which is two-thirds of the total number of cavalry, and the quality of the horses is also uneven. The cavalry brigade still has a long way to go if it is fully equipped with one man and two horses.

In addition to the lack of mobility, the shortcomings of one man and one horse also allow the cavalry brigade to be equipped with light firearms, which also weakens the combat effectiveness. In view of the huge strategic value of cavalry, and for the sake of minimizing losses, the top brass of the Perak army was extremely cautious in the use of cavalry, and most of the time accompanied the infantry to protect its flanks, so as not to be attacked by the Mongol cavalry and fall into the dilemma of being "punished".

As the deputy commander of the Third Division, Hou Xing led the army from Xuzhou and was always cautious in the use of cavalry. When he arrived at the foot of Fushun City, Hou Xing set up the cavalry camp in the southwest, which was easy to defend and difficult to attack by the mountains and rivers, and was under the protection of the infantry camp.

In order to avoid unnecessary losses, Hou Xing only let the cavalry perform urgent and urgent tasks such as reconnaissance and communications. Even so, after the Battle of Fushun began, the cavalry brigade still lost more than 100 cavalry, most of which were lost in the confidential military intelligence transmission mission with Zan Wanshou. In terms of individual combat, the cavalry of the Thunderbolt Army was far more powerful than the Mongolian cavalry, which was not skilled in arching horses, and often lost more than ten people in the cavalry brigade in order to convey military information once.

Niu Lin also thought about eating the cavalry brigade of the 3rd Division, but the defense of the cavalry camp was no worse than that of the infantry barracks, except for the mines, trenches, and triangles, and even in front of the earthen wall, several iron thistles were pulled, which were specially used against the Mongol cavalry. What's more, if the Mongol army wants to attack the cavalry camp, it will inevitably be attacked by the Thunderbolt infantry camp from the back.

After much thought, he decided to take the infantry camp first. As soon as the infantry camp is breached, the cavalry camp can be drummed down. In his opinion, no matter how fast the cavalry of the Perak Army ran, they could not escape the pursuit of the Mongol iron cavalry that grew up on horseback. In order to prevent the Thunderbolt cavalry from moving, he asked the cavalry led by Orida to keep an eye on the vicinity.

In order to prevent the Mongol army from attacking the cavalry camp, Hou Xing not only strictly ordered to continuously dig trenches and build earthen walls, but also transferred 1,000 basic militia to assist in the defense. At the height of the Mongol-Han offensive, some people proposed to use grenades and ultra-light cannons equipped with cavalry for the defense of infantry camps, but Hou Xing categorically vetoed them. Except that although these two weapons are extremely lethal to infantry, they are not very effective against the enemy's siege weapons due to their range and lethality.

What's more, the Thunderbolt cavalry was not equipped with bows and crossbows, nor was it good at riding spears, and if there were no more grenades and small cannons, their combat effectiveness would drop sharply, and not only would they lose their ability to attack, but it would also be difficult to protect themselves. In fact, there was still a lot of fire oil captured in Xuzhou among the cavalry camps, and Hou Xing did not transfer it to defend the infantry camps.

Hou Xing knew that once the cavalry brigade left the camp, it would be attacked by the Mongol cavalry watching from afar. Under the high-speed hedge of the two sides, the Thunderbolt cavalry will definitely suffer heavy losses. It's just that the situation is stronger than people, and in desperation, he had to take his heart and order the entire cavalry brigade to be dispatched. At present, there are still more than 800 cavalry in the cavalry brigade, and there are still more than 200 cavalry in charge of the barbarian army, a total of more than 1,100 cavalry.

Hou Xing divided the cavalry into two parts, one with 500 Thunderbolt cavalry to launch a suicidal charge against the Mongol cavalry, in order to cover the 300 cavalry carrying fire oil to burn the enemy's siege weapons. The task of the Duzhang cavalry was to act as a vanguard, breaking away the Mongol army guarding the siege weapons. They all wore thick leather armor and iron plates on key parts, although they were not as good as the heavy cavalry such as the Iron Float, but they were also very threatening to the infantry.

During this time, the cavalry brigade remained in the barracks, and there were no military operations except for small-scale missions, and neither officers nor soldiers were really suffocated. After leaving the camp, the 500 cavalrymen who undertook the task of intercepting the Mongol cavalry turned against the enemy, despite the fact that their numbers were only half of the Mongol cavalry - Niu Lin transferred 1,000 cavalry to intercept the Banzhou army yesterday, and directly charged towards the Mongol cavalry who came on horseback.

The brute soldiers, who are loose by nature, have already been angry in the past few days. Seeing the sound of killing on the side of the infantry camp, they couldn't hold it back in their hearts, and they asked for battle many times to beat up the Mongolian army, but they didn't get Hou Xing's promise. Now that they had received the military order, they whipped their horses and howled towards the siege equipment, followed by three hundred Thunderbolt cavalry with fire oil.

A few miles was a very short distance for the cavalry, but it was only a matter of a moment. The cavalry, who had just finished raising the speed, looked at the rows of spears of the Mongolian army in front of them, and there was no trace of fear in their eyes.

At this time, the crossbowmen in the rear array of the Mongolian army were already ready to attack, and as soon as the cavalry in charge of the capital rushed into range, a dense rain of arrows fell one after another, but the effect was sparse, and only a few cavalry fell to the ground. Although the defense of leather armor is not as good as that of iron armor, it can defend against most of the feather arrows except for a few hard bows and crossbows. "There are only three arrows in battle", the speed of the cavalry is extremely fast, and the Mongolian army does not even have time to fire the third arrow, and the men and horses crash into the spear array.

The main task of Liu Yuanzhen's Mongol Han army was to assault the barracks, and it was the 2,000 new annexed troops that protected the siege weapons. Since the start of the war, the Thunderbolts have never taken the initiative to launch a surprise attack, and no soldiers have even left the camp except for the scouts, which makes the new annex soldiers slack off a lot. The Thunderbolt cavalry suddenly rushed out of the camp and attacked, which surprised the new general of the annex who guarded the siege weapons, and urgently ordered his men to gather into a defensive array.

More than 100 ballistae and trebuchets were lined up for more than a mile, and it was impossible for the new annexed army guarding to be in full formation in a hurry. He had to order his soldiers to form a defensive formation in the direction of the cavalry, while the rest of the soldiers lined up next to the nearest siege weapon. When the Thunderbolt army was at the forefront of the hundreds of new annexes to complete the defense, the cavalry was already approaching.

The new annexes hastily formed a defensive formation, with two rows of spearmen in the front, sword and shield soldiers in the middle, and crossbowmen in the back. Such a thin defensive formation was acceptable against infantry, but not against cavalry. Under the huge impact, the spears of the new annexed army were broken, and the more than ten cavalry and war horses that rushed to the front turned into meat skewers, and the remnants of the war horses and soldiers who fell in mourning smashed down the panicked sword and shield soldiers around them.

The tragic situation in front did not make the cavalry behind hesitate in the slightest - the horses were blindfolded. The bowl-sized horse's hooves struck the human body like a hammer striking a soft, juicy watermelon, carving a bloody path through the sword and shield hands and crossbowmen of the new annex.

The nightmare of the new annexed soldiers guarding the siege weapons has just begun. After the barbarians were in charge, taking advantage of the chaos, a large group of Thunderbolt cavalry followed. They didn't have powerful spears, but they did have weapons of greater horror than that. The cavalry rode forward and threw grenades at the new annexes as they tried to regroup. Siege equipment was a key target for the Thunderbolt cavalry, who first used grenades to disperse the newly assembled troops, and then removed the clay pots on horseback and smashed them on the siege equipment. When the pots shattered, the oil was ignited by the torches that were thrown, and a raging fire ignited in an instant.