It is said that after the defeat of General Fang of Dafeng State from Gulu Pass, he fled to the south without stopping with more than 40,000 remnants of more than 40,000 horses, passing through some small cities on the way, these small cities have few garrisons, and the city defense is not strong, and it is difficult to protect himself in the face of the attack of the Tufan army, so he did not dare to stay and garrison, and actually led his troops to go around the city and continue to flee south.

The defenders of these small cities, seeing that the large army had fled, knew that it would be difficult to hold on, so they abandoned the city one after another, and fled south with the large army.

When General Fang Ding led the army all the way to the north, until he almost escaped from the Northern Regions and came to Yonglin County, where the Northern Regions and the Central Plains meet, he dared to stop and rest for a while. At this time, he found that his team had more than 60,000 people. He learned from the report from Tanma that the Tufan army was chasing under the leadership of two generals, Dong Zanlang and Fu Zhe, and the number of men and horses was only about 60,000.

Knowing from Lu Chengyi, the chief soldier of the Yonglin County garrison, that there were more than 20,000 garrisons in the county, especially more than 10,000 heavily armored cavalry, General Fang Da stabilized his mind and felt that there was no need to run anymore, after all, the enemy's pursuers were only 60,000 people, and it was impossible to say that he would continue to run away with an army of nearly 100,000 people.

He decided to fight a big battle with the Tufan army here in Yonglin, and even from then on, it was not impossible to recapture Gulu Pass. After making up his mind, he immediately summoned Lu Chengyi, the chief soldier of Yonglin County, to discuss with Chai Yu, Duan Fei and other generals how to arrange troops here in order to annihilate the enemy army.

General Chai Yu's suggestion was to place the army at the mouth of a valley that the enemy must pass through when they came, and to intercept the enemy's pursuers in the valley. However, General Lu Chengyi believed that our army's strength was superior to that of the enemy, and that it was not conducive to giving full play to our army's superiority in strength to carry out operations within a narrow space, so it was better to release the enemy out of the valley and set up a position on the plain, and our army would take the lead in rushing through the enemy's camp with heavy armored iron cavalry troops, and the follow-up troops would follow up to form a situation of dividing, encircling and suppressing the enemy army.

General Fang Da thought that Lu Chengyi's suggestion was very good, and proposed that all the troops be arranged in the racehorse not far from the exit of the valley, with heavy cavalry in the lead, cavalry troops in the center, archers and crossbowmen on both sides, and spear and halberd infantry in the rear.

Fang Dingchao attached great importance to Lu Chengyi's 10,000 heavy armored cavalry troops, which made him feel that he was sure of victory. The heavily armed heavy cavalry has always been the killer weapon to break through the enemy's light cavalry troops, when King Wuyu opened up the territory and pacified the north, the fast horse cavalry for the ethnic minorities was the heavy cavalry this trick. With the developed metal smelting technology of the Central Plains, the war horses and soldiers are all wrapped in metal armor, and for the small weapons such as fast knife riding and shooting of ethnic minorities with few metal materials and immature smelting technology, this ironclad unit is simply invulnerable, forming an absolute crushing trend against the enemy on the battlefield.

The military advisor Mu Huai stepped forward and said: "The general of the auxiliary country is wise, and it is very safe to arrange the troops so closely, and the attack and defense complement each other, and they advance and retreat freely, but I think that all the troops should not be transferred out of the city to meet the enemy." The city is empty, in case of defeat a while ago, our army has no place to retreat, and it is bound to be captured by the enemy army. ”

Master Fang was a little unhappy when he heard this, and he was very disappointed that he had not yet failed to speak out of the teacher, but when he thought about his words, it was not unreasonable. After thinking for a while, he said to Duan Fei: "Then General Lao Duan will lead 8,000 people to stay in the city, and I have to trouble you to prepare wine, food and food in the city, so as to prepare for rewarding the soldiers of the three armies on the front line of my army." He laughed.

Although Duan Fei made miraculous achievements in capturing Gulu Pass and thwarting the battle of King Yuwen, and in the subsequent battles, Lord Fang also often saw Duan Fei being loyal and brave, but he was still a little wary of this rebel general in the Northern Regions, and it was best not to use it when he could.

After the arrangements were made, they each went down to give orders to the three armies, and the troops were developed out of the city, and they lined up in formation at the racecourse outside Yonglin City, and waited for the battle. It was not far from the exit of a valley in front of it, where the enemy would pass through the pursuers.

In order to play the role of the heavy armored iron cavalry, Fang Dingchao decided to release the enemy to fight on this plain, the iron cavalry troops in the speed of the advance is relatively slow, after breaking the enemy formation, the enemy can be forced into the valley behind, the valley is narrow, causing the speed of the enemy to scatter will also slow down, so that it is more convenient for the iron cavalry to take advantage of the victory to pursue. General Fang was thinking like this in his heart, and he seemed to have the certainty of victory.

Fang Dingchao led a group of Wenchen generals to line up in the formation, and in front of the formation was a heavily armored cavalry unit led by Lu Chengyi himself, arranged in three rows in a trapezoidal shape. The iron cavalry warriors are all in golden helmets and golden armor, holding shields and spears, and their momentum is mighty, while the war horses are covered in iron armor and skin, and the horses are covered with only their eyes. From afar, it looks like a cold and shining metal chariot.

Soon, in the dusty place, the Tufan army really appeared at the mouth of the valley, and chased the general out violently, and the troops of the two sides met head-on.

After seeing the neat queue ahead, the pursuing Tufan soldiers also reined in their horses and stopped the pursuit. The two sides formed a situation of confrontation from a distance.

Suddenly, the drums thundered, and the heavily armored iron cavalry troops here began to step on the drums and advance very neatly, and suddenly, the sound of iron hooves stomping on the ground resounded throughout the battlefield, shaking the sky and the earth, and making people feel frightened.

As the iron cavalry gradually approached the enemy, a commotion appeared in the enemy's position in the distance, and the Tufan cavalry in front of the formation began to turn their horses, as if they wanted to retreat.

The drums gradually increased the rhythm, the iron cavalry began to speed up, under its leadership, the follow-up queues also began to march towards the enemy troops, the soldiers with sharp blades, all of them were majestic and majestic, murderous and determined to force the fighting stars, and the momentum of breaking the enemy formation was like a sharp arrow, unstoppable.

At this time, the iron cavalry warriors who rushed towards the enemy camp all raised their spears and pointed directly at the enemy, and the iron cavalry horses under their crotches began to raise their hooves and forge ahead, accelerating towards the enemy camp.

However, after the Tufan cavalry in the enemy camp turned their horses from the front of the formation and withdrew, the large army showed no signs of retreating, but poured out from the back, and some unknown things poured into the front of the formation in a line.

Finally, the iron cavalry who rushed to the front saw clearly, and in front of the enemy camp was a herd of cattle, a group of huge bulls, black and oppressive, at least a few thousand. There was a cold glow on the top of each ox's head, glaring angrily at the iron cavalry.

This is not an ordinary cow, but a wild cattle on the northern plateau, with a huge size, thick skin and strong flesh, a whole body covered with thick long hair, and a pair of horns on the head are extremely solid and aggressive. After these cattle were trained by the Tufan soldiers, they were even more ferocious and abnormal, specially used to impact the enemy formation, and were invincible.

I saw that there were two extremely sharp knives on the horns of these cattle, releasing a dazzling cold light on the horns, which was specially prepared to deal with the heavy armored iron horsemen. It is conceivable that under the attack of such a sharp sword, the armor on the iron knights will be pierced in an instant.

The Iron Cavalry Warrior who rushed to the front hesitated a little, and then became a little frightened, slowed down his advance, and did not know what to do for a while.