20,000 against 4,005, it seems to be an advantage in troops, but in fact it is a disadvantage.

Since the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, after countless wars, an iron law has been summed up.

On the battle array, the heavy cavalry has always been one horse and ten.

Both, ten times the foot soldiers of the heavily armored cavalry, can barely confront it head-on.

There is no way, a heavy armored cavalry with men and horses and armor is enough to weigh thousands of pounds, like a steel chariot.

The impact of the wild run is extremely terrifying.

Thousands of heavily armored cavalry, like thousands of galloping chariots, if they are not ten times the number of the enemy, how can they stop?

Rumble!

The 20,000 Western troops marched for six or seven hours, and they were all extremely tired, so weak that they couldn't even pull the bowstring of the divine arm crossbow, where could they stop the wolf-like Qingzhou Iron Cavalry.

In just a few breaths, the iron cavalry cut through the front army and headed straight for the middle army.

The cavalry at the forefront of the Blade Array, their whole body wrapped in heavy armor, only revealing a pair of cold eyes, staring at Wang Yuan, who was surrounded by guards hundreds of paces away.

That's the look at your prey!

"Good thief, suffer death!"

Wang Yuan was furious in his heart, and pulled out the steel knife on his waist with a bang.

The captain of the personal guard grabbed him stubbornly, and persuaded him with an anxious expression: "Dutong must not be impulsive, the Qingzhou army's ambush this time is definitely not only cavalry." For today's plan, go for the best policy! ”

Wang Yuan knew in his heart that the guards were right.

Since the Qingzhou army has set up an ambush here, it will never have only cavalry, and when the ambush foot soldiers arrive, they will not be able to walk if they want to.

"Alas!"

Wang Yuan smashed his fist on the saddle, gritted his teeth and squeezed out a word: "Go!" ”

After that, he glanced at the cavalryman hatefully, and under the escort of four hundred personal guards, he turned his horse's head and rushed out of the Chinese army.

Liu Qi looked at Wang Yuan who had fled, a hint of banter flashed in his eyes, and he did not pursue, and continued to lead the iron cavalry under his command to divide the formation of the Western Army.

As soon as the commander fled, the already defeated Western Army completely collapsed and fled in all directions.

"Kill, !!"

At this moment, deafening shouts of killing came from the mountains on both sides.

Thousands of elite Xuanjia troops swooped down from the mountains to surround and kill the fleeing Western army.

Listening to the shouting and killing sound coming from behind him, Wang Yuan's face turned pale.

The ambush of the Qingzhou Army, both in terms of timing and location, was perfect, and they knew almost everything about their movements.

If you want to do this, it is impossible to rely on scouts alone, and there must be traitors to pass on information.

"After I go back, Bendu will investigate thoroughly and find out the traitor!"

Wang Yuan thought in his heart, and the horse whip in his hand was pulled down fiercely, increasing the speed of the war horse to the extreme.

However, the next moment, Wang Yuan's pupils shrank suddenly.

I saw that at the end of the official road, a hundred heavily armored cavalry were quietly arrayed, like tigers waiting for their prey to be delivered to the door.

Although there were only a hundred, no matter the momentum or physique, it was far superior to the cavalry who had just rushed into battle.

The first person is holding a horse lance that is more than a foot long.

The whole body of the horse lance is black, faintly glowing with cold light.

Horse lance withdrew from the war arena long ago.

Without him, with the popularity of heavy armor, it is difficult for horse lances to break armor.

The cost was expensive, and the role was frivolous, so it naturally withdrew from the stage and was replaced by a hook-sickle spear designed to deal with cavalry.

The hook and sickle is inexpensive, the head of the gun has an armor-breaking edge, which can break heavy armor, and at the same time, there is a backward sickle hook at the eight inches of the gun blade, which is extremely useful.

It can not only hook the enemy cavalry off the horse, but also cut the horse's legs.

After all, the heavy cavalry is all armoured, but no matter how the war horse wears armor, the horse's legs are always exposed.

There are only two kinds of people who still use horse lances.

Either a rookie who doesn't know anything, or a top fighter who is extremely confident in himself.

And, in the rear of the cavalry, there were three hundred heavily armored foot soldiers, with shields and guns, ready for battle.

There were wolves chasing after them, and tigers blocking the way in front.

What a desperate situation!

Wang Yuan's heart was ruthless, and he said loudly: "Rush over!" ”

"Rush!"

The four hundred guards behind him shouted in unison, and rushed away against the hundred heavily armored cavalry.

"Break the enemy!"

Han Zhen said lightly, and then urged the war horse to catch up.

"Dutong, let's entangle the anti-thief heavy horse, you find a chance to escape!"

As the guards were talking, they led more than 30 guards to cross Wang Yuan on horseback and protect him behind them.

Rumble!

On the narrow official road, two cavalry rushed head-on at this scene.

Cavalry frontal hedge, extremely rare.

Han Zhen took the lead, and the dark iron lance in his hand swayed a burst of wind, and it was withdrawn with a thousand momentum.

Bang!

One of the guards was drawn, and immediately his mouth spurted blood mist and flew upside down.

Gollum!

Wang Yuan swallowed, his face full of horror.

What kind of divine power is it to use a horse lance to whip people away?

Seeing that he was so brave, several guards raised their sickle guns in their hands and stabbed them fiercely.

Facing the hook and sickle spears stabbed from all directions, Han Zhen's face remained unchanged, and the iron lance crossed an arc and swept out.

Click, click, click!

A crisp cracking sound, mixed with screams, sounded the connection.

Under the sweep of the iron lance, the hook and sickle spears were all broken, and the terrifying force shook the tigers of the Western army along the barrel of the gun.

The iron lance, which weighed more than 20 catties, was extremely flexible in Han Zhen's hands, and when he waved it, he could only see black afterimages.

Anyone who was drawn collapsed in his chest and died on the spot.

Seeing that the guards were dying one after another, Wang Yuan's blood surged, his eyes were red and he stared at Han Zhen, and he rushed with his gun.

"It's a bit of a boldness!"

A hint of appreciation flashed in Han Zhen's eyes, and with a slight wave of the horse lance in his hand, he opened the spear.

The huge power from the spear made Wang Yuan look horrified.

Without waiting for all his reactions, Han Zhen slapped Wang Yuan's back with a backhand, pulling him off the war horse.

Although he didn't recognize Wang Yuan, the other party was wearing treasure armor and was guarded in the middle, so he was undoubtedly the main general.

Therefore, this lance left seven points of strength, otherwise Wang Yuan would definitely die.

But even so, Wang Yuan was not comfortable.

After falling heavily on the ground, he spurted out a mouthful of blood, and immediately his eyes turned black and he fainted.

……

"County magistrate, this battle battle killed 3,000, more than 13,000 prisoners, and more than 3,000 took advantage of the chaos to escape. Thirty-eight of our troops were killed, and more than 400 were seriously wounded and slightly wounded......"

Listening to the return of the secretary of the army, Han Zhen couldn't help but sigh.

Although only thirty people were killed, almost all of these thirty-eight people were brothers of the cavalry battalion.

The Divine Arm Crossbow is the Divine Arm Crossbow in the end, but that sparse salvo took away more than 20 lives, which is really terrifying.

If the Western Army is allowed to set up a formation, thousands of divine arm crossbows are fired in a salvo, and I don't know how many people will die.

Fortunately, more than 600 pairs of divine arm crossbows were captured in this battle.

This ambush came quickly and ended quickly, and the Western crossbowmen did not have time to destroy the core crossbow machine before they were disarmed and captured.

Counting the previous captures, the number of divine arm crossbows in the army is approaching two thousand.

There is no way, as early as when Yu Chaohuan brought the Divine Arm Crossbow, Han Zhen offered a reward, if a craftsman can reverse push down the blueprint of the Divine Arm Crossbow, and the imitation is successful, he will be rewarded with 100,000 yuan.

However, after all this time, there was no movement.

Therefore, now there is only one way to seize the source of the Divine Arm Crossbow.

"Liu Qi!"

"The last general!"

Liu Qi exuded a strong bloody aura all over his body, and there were still a lot of minced meat hanging in the gaps of the black light armor.

Han Zhen ordered: "Take a short rest, lead the cavalry battalion to the north immediately, support Nie Dong, and take Zhang Jun!" ”

"The last general commands!"

Liu Qi responded with his fists clenched, and began to organize the army north with excitement on his face.

Yang Weizhong was right, there was a previous battle in the Hushan Valley, and countless baggage and more than 30,000 prisoners of war were captured, so many people marched slowly.

Therefore, Han Zhen only brought a cavalry battalion and 4,000 foot soldiers in this ambush, and went into battle lightly.

The remaining foot soldiers were divided into two, and Wei Da led 3,000 foot soldiers, plus 10,000 prisoners of war, to attack Zhangqiu.

Nie Dong led 4,000 men, along with the remaining 20,000 prisoners of war, to the north of the new town.

Thundered!

After a while, the sound of galloping horses' hooves sounded, and Liu Qi led the cavalry battalion to leave.

Han Zhen will rest in Dahe Village, reorganize the prisoners of war, and wait for the arrival of the logistics baggage troops.

The heavy cavalry is easy to use, but it is an oil tiger, with four horses per man, that is, 20,000 horses, and the daily consumption of hay and intensive fodder is as high as thousands of stones.

Fortunately, the day before yesterday, more than 10,000 stones of grain and grass were seized from the Western Army, and a wave was replenished.

Two months before the start of the war, the grain and grass purchased from the south were continuously transported to Sunjia Town and Jieshou Town for stockpiling.

In other words, Han Zhen did not need to transfer grain and grass from Qingzhou, which was two or three hundred miles away.

In this way, it can not only save the transportation time and consumption on the way to transport grain, but also greatly reduce the transportation risk.

As long as Wei Da takes Zhangqiu, it can be used as a foothold of the Qingzhou Army in Jinan Prefecture and a transit station for grain and grass.

……

……

"Kill, !!"

The earth-shattering shouts of killing echoed at the foot of Mount Tai.

Rumble!

Explosions like thunder rang out from time to time.

Five hundred heavily armored cavalry rushed left and right in the battle array, as if entering a no-man's land, and the army formation composed of more than 20,000 forbidden troops rushed into scattered places and divided them into pieces of battlefield.

The three thousand Xuanjia Qingzhou foot soldiers, like an efficient and stable killing machine, constantly harvested the lives of the forbidden army.

The moment the firearm exploded, the Taining Army and the Tianping Army were already in chaos.

And the appearance of the five hundred Qingzhou iron cavalry made these two forbidden armies completely defeated.

"Run!"

After witnessing the commander of the Taining Army being beheaded by the heavy cavalry, the commander of the Taiping Army made Yan She completely frightened, and he didn't care about the soldiers who were still fighting, led hundreds of personal soldiers, and ran away.

The steel knife hung low, and after slashing through the neck of a forbidden soldier with the inertia of the war horse's charge, Peng Quan shouted: "Dutou, the enemy commander has run away, is it pursuing?" ”

Because of his physique and courage, after returning to Yidu from Guangling, Han Zhen threw Peng Quan into the cavalry camp and instructed Liu Qi to practice well.

Peng Quan did not disappoint him, and repeatedly made meritorious achievements in the suppression of bandits.

It's a pity that the progress of the night class hasn't kept up, and now it's just a team leader, and after mastering 300 words, you can be promoted to the head of the capital.

"Poor Kou Mo Chase!"

Wang Wu shook his head and commanded loudly: "Fifty people are a team, continue to divide the battlefield!" ”

The five hundred iron cavalry were divided into tens, and continued to weave back and forth in the enemy's battle formation.

Seeing that the two forbidden armies were completely defeated and the soldiers scattered and fled, Yu Jun couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Two thousand five hundred fought twenty-three thousand, almost ten times the difference in strength.

At first, there was some apprehension, but after the battle between the two sides, the strength of the forbidden army was far weaker than imagined.

Like tofu, it crumbles when touched.

Yu Jun roared: "Put down the blade, don't kill those who surrender!" ”

"Put down the blade, don't kill the one who descends!"

The Qingzhou army shouted in unison.

Hearing the persuasion from the other side, some of the forbidden troops actually showed a relieved expression, threw away their blades one after another, and shouted: "I surrendered, don't kill me, don't kill me!" ”

More forbidden troops scattered and fled, but Yu Jun did not chase them, and let them flee.

His task is to guard the first town of the border, prevent the forbidden army of the two prefectures from crossing Mount Tai, and go north to Jinan Mansion to support.

The rest is all trivial.

Looking in the direction of Jinan Mansion from afar, Yu Jun's heart was agitated, just waiting to defeat the main force of the Western Army.

This Shandong is surnamed Han!

(End of chapter)