A large number of cavalry rushed out from both sides, and the Dongwu soldiers, who were already flustered and depressed, immediately began to flee in all directions when they saw this situation, ignoring the reprimands of the generals!

However, facing the cavalry with their backs was the most wrong thing to do. Two legs, do you want to run over four legs?

Unfortunately, people tend to lose their minds in extreme fear.

Cavalry, cavalry everywhere, shining blades reflecting the cold moonlight, a massacre officially begins!

And Lu Zhen could only look at all this in despair, the 40,000 army that had collapsed, he had completely lost the ability to command.

He knew that he had lost, completely.

Because he did not have enough cavalry to resist, and the infantry had been routed and could no longer follow his orders. If the infantry does not form formations, then there will be no resistance in front of the cavalry.

As for where Xiwu came from so many cavalry, he was not very surprised, he just hated his lack of cavalry, which led to the fact that he had almost no power to fight back in the face of the enemy's charge.

The end of the Yuan Dynasty was a very special period, specifically because compared with the peasant rebel army at the end of other dynasties, which could only resist the four legs of the official army with two legs, the gap between the rebel army and the Yuan army in cavalry strength at the end of the Yuan Dynasty was not large.

This starts from the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty.

After the Mongols entered the Central Plains, one by one became big landlords, naturally unwilling to go to the bitter sheep as before, as time went by, they "gradually learned to cultivate and sow like the Han people", so that when Kublai Khan established himself as Khan in Kaiping, the Mongolian nobles under his command could not even match the army with horses, forcing Kublai Khan to urgently buy tens of thousands of horses from all over the Central Plains, before finally gathering cavalry and going north to compete with Ali Buge.

Isn't it a joke that the Mongols, who fight the world on horseback, can't even get together a horse? So after this incident, Kublai Khan successively established horse farms in Liaoyang, Datong, Taiyuan, Zhending, Yidu, Huaimeng, Qingchi, Nanpi, and Guangping. With the demise of the Southern Song Dynasty, horse farms gradually appeared in the south.

As a result, the rebel army at the end of the Yuan Dynasty was the richest group in the entire history of China, and they could even play a large-scale cavalry hedge with the Yuan army.

And Zhu Yuanzhang's hometown Huaixi, where there is the largest horse farm in the south - Huaixi Horse Farm.

Therefore, although Zhu Yuanzhang's navy is extremely crotch-pulling, the cavalry is extremely strong, and Chang Yuchun and Xu Da are all masters who are proficient in this way.

What is more unfortunate is that Zhang Shicheng's territory is in the south of the Yangtze River, where the waterways are vertical and horizontal, which is not suitable for raising horses, so there are not many cavalry under Zhang Shicheng, and even the war horses there are still produced in Huaixi Horse Farm!

At this time, the inferiority of Soochow in cavalry was completely displayed.

Without cavalry, Lu Zhen wouldn't even be able to make a decent resistance!

20,000 cavalry, unscrupulously trampled on Lu Zhen's troops, the soldiers of Eastern Wu cried and fled, and the soldiers of Western Wu rode their horses unscrupulously, they bent down at will, and with a wave of their sabers, several heads fell to the ground, and some soldiers tried to resist, but they were easily killed.

Some Eastern Wu soldiers were trampled by the tall horses, and half of their bodies were rotten into a pool of flesh and blood; There were also soldiers who were crashing into the horses' chests, and the huge impact instantly broke their bones and tendons.

The cavalry of Xiwu is so relaxed, and their commander is Zhu Wenzhong!

In the original history, after Zhu Wenzheng, the highest governor of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion was Zhu Wenzhong, which shows Zhu Yuanzhang's attention to this nephew, and also shows Zhu Wenzhong's amazing military talent, at this time he gave full play to it.

Lu Zhen reluctantly gathered more than 5,000 people, formed a formation, and marched backwards slowly, but he was surprised to find that although the cavalry found this force, they only followed behind, and at the same time stopped the rest of the rout from rushing towards Lu Zhen, and did not force the formation.

They seem to be driving, like wolves driving their prey into their traps?

Lu Zhen found out about this, but what could he do? About seven or eight thousand cavalry gathered behind them, constantly driving them out, and if the Eastern Wu army stopped, they also reined in their horses, and then entertained them with a rain of arrows, forcing Lü Zhen to lead his troops to continue to retreat.

Besides, even if you don't withdraw, what can you do? When the Western Wu army in the city frees up their hands, they will also die.

On both sides, there are also cavalry of Western Wu, and once the Eastern Wu army tries to flee in all directions, they will catch up, and they will not hesitate to slash it.

Lu Zhen kept retreating with his troops, and suddenly, there was a huge commotion in front, and the routs rushed to the rear, as if they had encountered something terrible.

He poked his head out of the crowd and saw a scene that made him desperate.

On the official road, directly in front of them, countless Xiwu soldiers lined up in formation, a large number of artillery and musketeers stood in front, and the soldiers behind bent their bows and arrows, obviously waiting for them for a long time.

Huge drums resounded across the battlefield, and the cavalry began to retreat in unison, surrounding them from a distance, as if watching a play.

Lu Zhen understood.

The reason why the cavalry didn't directly charge into battle was not that they couldn't do it, they just didn't want to pay casualties! After all, there are 40,000 people on their side, although the cavalry has crushed the Eastern Wu army, there are still some generals in the chaotic army who gather troops to resist like Lu Zhen, and if the Eastern Wu army scatters and flees, even if it is scattered to pursue, there will still be many fish that slip through the net.

The Western Wu Army, this means that the 100,000 people in Eastern Wu will be eaten in one bite, and there will be no one left!

What a big ambition, what a big appetite! The scariest thing is that they really did it!

Yan Ling was the commander of this 30,000 Western Wu army, his eyes flashed with a cold light, and after the cavalry quickly withdrew from the battlefield, he gave the order to attack.

The artillery fire continued, and the Eastern Wu army was once again caught in the fierce attack of the Western Wu army.

Moments later, the battlefield was in shambles.

Lu Zhen luckily did not die in front of this terrifying firepower.

He opened the corpse of his own soldier and sat up.

However, by this time, the Western Wu cavalry had begun to charge again, and the surviving soldiers had completely lost the will to resist, and they either knelt on the ground and kowtowed and begged, or were killed by the cavalry in the run.

Soon, the Western Wu army noticed this guy with obviously different armor, and they surrounded him.

Facing the Western Wu cavalry wielding a saber to surround him, Lu Zhen's palm stiffened, and finally let go weakly.

With a "dang bang", the long sword rolled down into the dust.

King Wu, Fei Zhen is not effective in combat, but he is actually a pseudo-king's subordinates who are capable like clouds, full of wisdom, and cannot be defeated!

Yes, the 100,000 troops of Eastern Wu were annihilated, the main general Lu Zhen was captured, 40,000 soldiers outside the city, more than 10,000 people were captured and surrendered, the rest were killed in battle, and only less than 100 people successfully escaped.

The city of Quzhou was turned into white land.

Of the 60,000 Eastern Wu troops in the city, only more than 3,000 survived, and the rest were all killed in the fire.

The Western Wu army lost about 1,000 people.

Victory!