As soon as Sun Ce and Zhang Liao talked about it, both sides were furious, so they stopped talking nonsense and directly launched a rush.

However, both of them are also veterans and will not act recklessly. said that it was a rush to kill, but it was still disciplined, and each left a reserve, and only let some of the men and horses test the depth of the enemy first.

Especially Sun Ce here, he also brought veterans such as Huang Gai and Han Dang to assist, as well as brave generals such as Zhou Tai and Jiang Qin to charge the battle. Even if Sun Ce wanted to be reckless, Huang Gai Handang would stop him.

Sun Ce knew very well that his strength was absolutely superior, at least more than ten times more than the enemy, and maybe even twenty times, but the vast majority of his own side were infantry, and if he let the cavalry go first, the numerical advantage compared to Zhang Liao would not be obvious.

Therefore, Sun Ce paid great attention to preserving the combat power of the cavalry, and just let Zhou Tai lead thousands of infantry to rush first, and put all the cavalry as part of the reserve, on the right side of the formation, with Han Dang in full charge, ready to make a detour at any time.

In today's battle, both sides lined up on the south bank of the Qinhuai River, Sun Ce's army attacked from northwest to southeast along the river, and Zhang Liao attacked from southeast to northwest in reverse. Therefore, the left flank of Sun Ce's army formation is close to the Qinhuai River, and the right side is relatively empty, with a slight detour space.

Sun Ce placed the relatively weak recruits and strong men on the left flank to prevent them from being shocked and the flank was unstable. The relatively elite troops were placed in the center and on the right side, especially all the cavalry were placed on the far right of the large array, so as to facilitate outflanking for a while.

If Zhou Tai could entangle and stick to Zhang Liao from the front, and then let the cavalry outflank and cut off Zhang Liao's retreat, it would be the best.

Han Dang's hometown is Lingzhi County, Liaoxi, a typical Youzhou person, and he can be regarded as one of the generals of the Sun family who are best at commanding the cavalry corps - another veteran Cheng Pu left in the Sun Jian era is a native of Youbei County, Youzhou, and his ability to lead troops is slightly above Han Dang, but Cheng Pu is now in Wu County to help Zhu Zhi and Zhou Yu stick to the defense, and he is not here.

The generals after Huang Gai were all recruited when Sun Jian came to Changsha County in the south to quell the rebellion, or even later, these people were generally southerners, who only practiced mountain warfare and water warfare, not cavalry.

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Sun Ce thought very well, but Zhang Liao was not weak, just by looking at the other party's charging formation, he could see Sun Ce's plan.

And when he found out that Sun Ce only used the vanguard infantry to rush and kill himself, and pinched the cavalry of the Sun family's army and refused to move lightly, Zhang Liao's face also became solemn.

So Zhang Liao immediately relied on the fact that his whole army was pure cavalry and that the change of formation was flexible, and issued a military order to change the formation to the line of fire of the general Cao Xing:

"Don't move lightly with your rear army! If I rush and kill the enemy and retreat, you will fight and shoot to contain the enemy's vanguard and cover my retreat! ”

Cao Xuan immediately received the order, and Zhang Liao divided the three songs into two parts, led two songs to try to kill, and left one song for Cao Xuan to prepare to respond.

The mobility of cavalry is much stronger than that of infantry, so as long as you keep your rear hand, in case the charge is unfavorable, you can still easily disengage, as long as there are friendly troops in the rear, it is easy to open the distance, and you will not be stuck by the infantry to cover the kill.

During the Han Dynasty, the cavalry of the northern states also had their own emphasis, Liangzhou horses were good at frontal charging and bloody hand-to-hand combat, and Youzhou cavalry was good at riding and shooting guerrilla fights like Wuhuan and Xianbei. The Bingzhou cavalry has both tactics, but they are not as professional as Liangzhou or Youzhou, but they are all-powerful.

Zhang Liao is a cavalry general in Bingzhou, and his style is similar to Lu Bu, although there are very few Bingzhou veterans under his command now, but when Xiapi was presented to Liu Bei by Chen Deng, he still surrendered with nearly a thousand cavalry.

Later, Guan Yu allocated Zhang Liao a few hundred horses, so Zhang Liao's subordinates were also good at both tactics, with light and heavy horses, which was very balanced.

Soon, with the sound of hooves rolling and shouting for killing, Zhou Tai's 4,000 infantry vanguard and Zhang Liao's 800 heavy cavalry collided head-on. Because they were all sports battles, Zhou Tai's troops could not form a tight spear formation, but they only fought separately in the charge, and they could not line up in advance to set up crossbows and shoot their positions.

As soon as they made contact, Zhou Tai's front-row soldiers were torn open by Zhang Liao, and they were killed with blood. There were also individual cavalry in Zhang Liao's army who were stabbed and cut off by spears, swords, and shields indiscriminately, and the people turned over on their backs and killed a mess.

"Hold on! Don't panic! As long as we entangle Zhang Liao, General Han will help us kill the traitor! Zhou Tai also got an explanation from Sun Ce before the war, knowing his mission, Rao is first wave of casualties was extremely miserable, and he did not retreat at all, still brandishing his war knife and slashing wildly, shouting hoarsely to boost morale.

The infantry should be ready to fight, set up a formation, and wait for the cavalry to collide.

As long as the pikemen are shoulder to shoulder, and the spears are facing outward, the cavalry will definitely pay a great price if they collide head-on. The range of the bow and crossbow in infantry combat and the power of armor piercing are also far above the cavalry bow, and even if the cavalry patrols and shoots at each other in front of the formation, the infantry is not afraid.

But today's situation is very special, Sun Ce's pursuit is to seize time and break through.

If he still fights in formation, then Zhang Liao will definitely not fight him immediately, and will only delay from afar.

When the time comes, it will drag on for an hour or two, Zhao Yun will arrive, and if it drags on any longer, Guan Yu will also arrive, then Sun Ce will be finished! Time is not on Sun Ce's side.

Therefore, Sun Ce had to take the initiative to make some sacrifices, and put on a posture of using light infantry and cavalry to hedge, preferring to let his own side suffer heavy casualties in the first wave in exchange for Zhang Liaoken to hedge against him.

Even if Zhou Tai's troops suffered heavy losses in the end, as long as Zhou Tai stuck to Zhang Liao and bought time for the friendly troops to wrap up, his task would be completed.

In such a situation, it is not surprising that Zhang Liao easily penetrated Zhou Tai's vanguard in the first formation and cut Zhou Tai's department into pieces.

Zhou Tai obviously had a five-fold numerical advantage, but the cavalry twisted into several wedge-shaped formations and struggled to pierce through them, and Zhou Tai's army could not give full play to the numerical advantage at all. After several points were broken through, Zhang Liao interspersed horizontally to tear and expand the gap, and Zhou Tai soon fell into chaos.

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Zhou Tai himself fought to the death, hacking to death several cavalry under Zhang Liao's command, and also hacking to death a tun commander, but he couldn't stop the trend of gradually collapsing.

Fortunately, his sacrifice finally bought time for the friendly army, and the second formation led by Jiang Qin had already come up.

Because he didn't need to rush for time like Zhou Tai, Jiang Qinbu lined up a tight spear formation, and the crossbowmen could shoot the formation, and pressed up steadily.

After Zhang Liaobu killed Zhou Tai, some cavalry officers under his command did not turn back and kill on impulse, but tried to continue to charge the second formation of the Jiangdong Army, but soon suffered a small loss in front of Jiang Qin's step-by-step fighting style.

Zhang Liao's cavalry had to leave dozens of corpses, and immediately retreated, turned their horses, and continued to pick soft persimmons.

The formation of Zhou Tai's army was already crumbling, and almost every time a tea was passed, hundreds of people could be broken and scattered.

But in this process, the more than 1,000 Jiangdong cavalry led by Han Dang finally came around from the right side and was about to maneuver into place.

Although Zhang Liao was brave, his keen observation was not disturbed by the bloody rush.

He still maintained the calmness that a good cavalry general should have, and seeing that he was about to be attacked by Zhou, Tai, Jiang, Qin, and Han Dang, he chose to order a retreat very decisively.

"The whole army retreats with me! Don't be in love! Cao Xing will answer us! Zhang Liao took the lead in rushing and killing, slashing left and right to kill a few people who stood in the way, and then led the team to retreat.

A small number of cavalry under Zhang Liao's command were sticky, and they failed to break away from the left and right, and paid the price of dozens of deaths, but after all, they still gave full play to the speed advantage of the cavalry, and fled in defeat and broke away from contact with Zhou Taijun.

Zhou Tai's light infantry had no position to speak of, so they could not organize bows and crossbows when Zhang Liao retreated, and only sparsely pulled dozens of arrows to see Zhang Liao off in the chaos.

"Chase! Don't let Zhang Liao run away! Zhou Tai also ignored the fact that his subordinates were already scattered, and still roared hoarsely.

He knew that the opportunity to stick to Zhang Liao was obtained by paying heavy casualties, how could he just let Zhang Liao get away like this?

Zhou Tai's own soldiers were no longer useful, so he pulled Jiang Qin to rush with him in the line of fire, and Jiang Qin also had to change his tactics on the spot, speeding up slightly, no longer caring about whether the formation was strict enough.

The faster you run, the more scattered the formation will be, and the higher the discipline requirements of the formation, the faster you can't run, and you must make a trade-off.

It's a pity that no matter how fast the infantry is, there is no way to take the cavalry who are bent on running.

On the other side, Han Dang, who came from the right side, was composed of pure cavalry, but if Zhou Tai and Jiang Qin were out of touch, Han Dang would not dare to go up alone, if he was caught by Zhang Liao and Cao Xing, the time difference was to kill a horse pistol, and Han Dang's more than 1,000 cavalry were here, then Sun Ce himself might not be able to escape.

And as Zhou Taijun pursued, they noticed a detail that they hadn't noticed at all during the battle just now:

"Why did Zhang Liao's cavalry run so fast? Won't his cavalry slip on the rotten snow that has been trampled repeatedly? Why can't General Han's cavalry outrun him? That's impossible! ”

Seeing Zhang Liao coming and going like the wind when he retreated, not affected by the snowmelt that was repeatedly trampled on the battlefield, Zhou Tai and Jiang Qin, who slipped almost a few steps in the charge, suddenly began to doubt life.

In the end, it was only after carefully observing the horse corpses and wounded horses left behind by Zhang Liao's cavalry killed in the previous melee that Zhou Tai and Jiang Qin suddenly realized.

"Zhang Liao actually wrapped straw in the horse's hooves in advance? Hateful! Our army is too lacking in the experience of cavalry combat on ice and snow! When the lord went out of the city, he must not have disposed of General Han's cavalry and horses like this! ”

Zhou Tai and the others quickly realized the seriousness of the problem, but there was no way to do it.

The cavalry tactics of the southern generals are not as good as those of the northerners, and many details and precautions are easy to be overlooked.

In addition, Sun Cejun had been surrounded in Moling City before, and he was not very familiar with the weather environment and geographical changes outside. How could Sun Ce have expected the snowy days and snowy land outside the city in the past few days to develop? Will the Qinhuai River be frozen?

These weather and geographical information are very easy for Liu Beijun, who controls the vast land outside the city, because the battlefield is always under their control.

As far as Sun Cejun, who was in Moling City, was concerned, their eyes were blackened, even if they knew that it had snowed in the past few days, they didn't expect that the potential battlefields would be affected by ice and snow to what extent.

The weather must be combined with the specific geographical environment of the specific location to deduce a comprehensive and complete battlefield environment.

Unexpectedly, wrapping straw in the hooves of Han Dang's cavalry was just the beginning of Sun Cejun's leakage, and they would have to pay more for the negligence of various details in the future.

The snow on the battlefield had not yet had much impact on both sides at the time of the first wave of charges. Because the two sides were hedging at the time, the snow in front of them had not been stepped on, and there was no slippery problem when stepping on it for the first time.

But when one side withdrew and the other side pursued, the snow in the places they passed was repeatedly trampled on, thawed and frozen, all wet and thin ice, Sun Cejun staggered after him, his steps were scattered, and even some of them trampled on each other after slipping.

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