Chapter 143: A Slanted Battle Situation

Heavy cavalry is also known as mounted cavalry, many of which are blown into the sky, as if they are invincible, of course, heavy cavalry does have a great role, and the short-range assault ability is the most deterrent of all arms. Unfortunately, in Chinese history, the intelligent and studious Han people often turned these hoplites into synonymous with tragedy.

China's heavy cavalry was often a freak of nomads after successfully entering the pass, in order to deal with the Han infantry phalanx more effectively, and was subsequently defeated by the Han with more advanced metal smelting technology, and finally had to return to the royal road of light cavalry and archery. Light cavalry archery is the king, the most efficient and powerful army in the cavalry era, and the most representative is undoubtedly the Mongolian cavalry.

However, the heavy cavalry of the Qian people is the ancestor of the Hu heavy cavalry, and the heavy cavalry of Shihu can be said to have set a precedent for the heavy cavalry of the Hu people. The Han nation in the Jin Dynasty before the millennium, basically not by the ethnic minorities like this, whether it is the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period or the Qin and Han dynasties, even if the Han Dynasty at the end of the court also beat the Hu people into dogs, and only the Jin Dynasty Sima family this group of guys can play a good hand of cards into a mess, no wonder the Jin Dynasty has become the most disgusting unified dynasty.

When the Qiang people combined their cavalry with the finest war horses and the smelting of the Han people, Shi Hu was almost invincible, and few people were able to defeat him in the field. Their appearance is also related to Chu Yun, the appearance of the heavy cavalry of the Qiang clan is a steel monster created by Shi Hu in order to deal with Chu Yun's iron-blooded army after Chu Yun defeated Shi Hu for the first time. Therefore, Shi Hu is the ancestor of the Hu heavy cavalry in this era (Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty had already begun to use heavy cavalry on a large scale during the Han period, of course, the heavy cavalry at that time was not heavy, after all, there was no horse pedal, just a simple armor, compared to the Huns who only wore clothes, it was considered heavy cavalry).

Shi Hu attacked Qianzhao at that time, and he didn't bring this special unit for the sake of speed, so he was regarded as an inheritance and cheapened Shi Di. In fact, Shi Le also has some covetousness for this army, after all, the heavy cavalry makes Shi Hu invincible, how can Shi Le not be greedy, but I don't know why, Shi Le still didn't intervene in the end, maybe Shi Le saw the weakness of the heavy cavalry. Even Chu Yun, a pseudo-military fan, can have several ways to deal with the heavy cavalry in his mind, let alone Shi Le, a hero. Heavy cavalry can only play its greatest role in special circumstances.

When the heavy cavalry was about to storm in front of the Mo Dao Formation, thousands of spears suddenly stood up, which Chu Yun had prepared a long time ago. Chu Yun had already used it to break the cavalry with a spear formation, it was cheap and effective, and Chu Yun didn't mind continuing to use it. Tens of thousands of spears with a length of more than ten meters were fixed on the ground, this scene was enough to make the scalp of the bravest warriors tingle, but the heavy cavalry could not stop if they wanted to, and the five thousand heavy cavalry carefully built by Shi Hu stepped into the grave.

The earth-shattering sound of impact and screams continued to sound on the battlefield, although many of the Ming army were killed by the steel fortress as high as a single point, but compared to the five thousand heavy armored cavalry of the Shi Di army, the casualties were much less.

The Mo Dao soldiers did not kill this group of monsters with their wide Mo knives, but the soldiers of the Zhendong Army came out of the formation, constantly slashing the opponent's horse legs with short knives, and then quickly killed them after they fell off their horses. Without room to sprint, the cavalry could only be slaughtered, and soon the five thousand men were lost.

And this scene made the heads of those light cavalry behind the heavy cavalry numb, and they quickly jumped their horses to flee the battlefield, and then surrounded the Ming army and began to shoot arrows. Wang Jie immediately ordered the soldiers at the forefront to put up the giant shields, and then the crossbowmen began to show their might, the crossbowmen under Chu Yun did not use rockets, but the crossbow arrows improved by Chu Yun were not small, and even the range was longer than that of bows and arrows, and the cavalry of the Qian tribe were shot off their horses one after another, and they really didn't dare to stay at this moment, and ran towards their own formation.

Seeing this scene, Zhixiong's nose was crooked, and he asked for the five thousand heavy cavalry from Shi Di's hands, and he wanted to fight a beautiful battle, but he didn't expect the whole army to be wiped out. He is a battlefield general, of course, he knows the advantages and disadvantages of the heavy cavalry, but he thought that the other party did not dig a horse pit and did not put other obstacles, which was a godsend opportunity for the heavy cavalry to show its might, but the Ming army had already prepared, whether it was a spear or a horse leg, it seemed to have been prepared for a long time, wasn't this a slap in the face?

Of course, the unsatisfactory spirit of the subordinates will not make his subordinates happy, and it is much better to kill a few of the generals who ran back just now. Zhixiong, who is not angry, is definitely a first-class general in this world.

Now attacking the Ming army's military formation is like a meat bun beating a dog, and the cavalry that plays his own specialty is targeted by the crossbow arrows of the Ming army, so Zhixiong immediately decided to make a detour to continue to attack the Ming army cavalry that he wanted to attack at the beginning. Those four men are in front of the cavalry, and I will make a detour to attack behind them.

I have to say that Zhixiong's idea is the most correct, and if it really starts, the Shi Di army will definitely be able to achieve the final victory by virtue of its superiority over the cavalry of the Iron Blood Tiger Army. At that time, the remaining infantry of the Ming army can only be slaughtered by others, and they can all be consumed to death.

But when Zhixiong was about to give an order, the Ming army commanded by Wang Jie actually moved, and saw that all the infantry of the Ming Dynasty marched neatly towards the front, and the target was the Shi Di army. Seeing this scene, several generals of the Qiang tribe were overjoyed, and they asked Zhixiong to fight, in their opinion, the infantry who left the position was to give them military merits.

It's a pity that no one in Zhixiong agreed, if something unexpected happened on the battlefield, then the commander of the other party was either an idiot or a trap, and judging from the destruction of the heavy cavalry just now, the commander of the Ming army was obviously not an idiot. At this time, if Zhixiong still bumps into it stupidly, then Zhixiong has lived in vain for so many years.

But Zhixiong's inaction angered one of his generals, this person is called Li Yan, deep Shi Di's trust, in the original history, Shi Di once led people to kill his younger brother Hejian Gong Shi Xuan, and later wanted to kill his father Shi Hu, this Li Yan has participated, it can be seen that Shi Di's trust in him, if it weren't for Zhixiong to come, the commander is likely to fall on Li Yan, who is only in his early thirties.

As the saying goes, people gather in groups, what kind of leader there is, what kind of courtier, this Li Yan is as greedy as Shi Di, and he is as greedy as Shi Di and has a violent personality, the most important thing is that he doesn't let anyone else go except for his master Shi Di, even if it is Shi Hu, let alone Zhixiong, an outsider.

Of course, there are several other generals who can see this, Shi Hu's sons are all ambitious, so Shi Di's army is not monolithic, Shi Xuan and Shi Tao are not much different in age from Shi Di, just because Shi Di is a little older than them, he became the lord of Si Lizhou and inherited Shi Hu's power, and the two of them have long been unaccustomed to it, so they wantonly wooed their brother Shi Di's generals, and because Shi Di was cruel and easy to kill, he treated his subordinates very harshly, so there were not many people who took refuge in the two. The order they got turned out to be to hold the whole army back and not let Shi Di win.

If Shi Ti fails, first, his father Shi Hu will not be killed by Chu Yun as a punching bag, of course, the two of them are not filial sons, but their brother Shi Ti's power is too great, if Shi Hu can come back, they may still have hope, if they can't come back, they will never be able to oust Shi Ti from power. And Shi Di is cruel to people, even his father and younger brother dare to kill, the two of them are living now that Wang Xiaoer's New Year is not as good as a year, they are really afraid that their brother will drink too much one day and click them all. At that time, it is estimated that the happiest person should be Shile.

In addition, if Shi Di fails, he is likely to die on the front line, and even if he goes back alive, Emperor Shi Le may revoke Shi Di's position, and then there will be hope for the two of them. Therefore, it is completely understandable what they ordered their men to do.

One of the lieutenants who followed Li Yan was Shi Xuan's younger brother, Shi Xuan, and he heard Li Yan scolding Zhixiong while drinking, so his eyes lit up and he came up.

"General, I think it was a mistake for His Highness to bring this old thing Zhixiong, you look at what he did, the first time he killed and injured more than 10,000 people, it was because he didn't want to attack the master invited by His Highness. The second time was to wipe out the 5,000 heavy cavalry left by His Royal Highness. This time it was even more excessive, I didn't know how to grasp such a good opportunity, and I was still hesitating, knowing that the fighters on the battlefield were fleeting. It's a pity that His Royal Highness didn't let General Li be the commander of the whole army. After saying that, the lieutenant shook his head regretfully, which made Li Yan even more angry. This deputy general is not an ordinary person, this person's name is Wang Luan, after more than ten years of mixing in the original history, he became the general of the left guard of Later Zhao, and he can be regarded as a senior general. He originally thought that Zhixiong had missed a good opportunity, but he was good at pondering, and he soon saw that the behavior of the Ming Army was very strange, and he should not have come to send him to death, so he was snubbed by Shi Xuan, and he immediately implemented his plan after taking refuge in Shi Xuan.

"Fuck it, I'm going to find Your Highness. Li Yan threw the empty wine bag on the ground, turned around and wanted to leave, but the deputy general grabbed him.

"Wang Luan, do you want to die? The furious Li Yan whipped Wang Luan's head, the helmet was knocked out, and a whip mark was left on Wang Luan's left face, and the blood lay out, but Wang Luan did not let go.

"General Li, now is the best moment to defeat the enemy army, General Li has nearly 40,000 troops under his command, if General Li defeats the enemy army, then General Li's position in the heart of His Highness will be unshakable in the future. Don't miss the time, General. Looking at Wang Luan's firm eyes, Li Yan thought for a while before pulling out the horse and leaving, Wang Luan was thrown out by the horse. He hurriedly raised his head and saw that Li Yan was galloping towards the battlefield, and a sneer appeared on his face.

I have to say that Li Yan's movements are still very fast, and this person still has control over his subordinates, he quickly sent a herald and ordered several generals under him to follow him into battle, they didn't know that Li Yan was disobeying the military order and attacking privately, so they all gladly accepted Li Yan's order.

Just when the Ming army was still thousands of kilometers away from the Shi Di army, and Zhixiong was about to give the order to avoid its edge, Li Yan's army moved, and the attack of 40,000 cavalry made the whole earth shake.

"Hahaha. Chu Yun couldn't help but smile when he saw the Shi Di cavalry who rushed out, he didn't expect them to cooperate so much, and the Mo Dao Array was laid out in an instant, of course, they had to have a bonfire party before they could see the strength of the Mo Dao Array. Countless exploding rockets spewed out with long black smoke, and the battlefield was instantly shrouded in gray smoke, and countless Shi Di cavalry were blown off their horses by the explosive rockets, and more were hit by the iron pieces that burst by the explosive rockets, and the horses were completely panicked, and the knights on the horses were even more confused by the sudden rockets.

The 40,000-strong army blew up the camp in an instant, and many of them crashed into the Mo Dao Formation in a panic, and they were instantly swallowed up by the flickering sword light. Zhixiong completely lost the command of the army, the smoke began to spread, and his flag could not be used, the veteran Zhixiong on the battlefield was a little helpless for a while, but the Mo Dao soldiers will not care about you, their task is to continue to push forward all opponents.

Whoosh, a series of arrows shot at Chu Yun who was looking at the battlefield, Chu Yun was looking at the battlefield intently, and he didn't seem to pay attention to the four opponents at all, they finally suppressed their fear of Chu Yun and began to continue attacking.

How could Chu Yun not pay attention to them, just put them aside and deal with them later, the three arrows Chu Yun let them shoot beside him, the huge explosion was much more powerful than the arrow that was shot at Shi Di Jun just now, Chu Yun suddenly disappeared in the explosion, when the smoke cleared, there was only a huge pit left where Chu Yun was standing, and the four of them were overjoyed.

"He died, he died. The archer was surprised at first, then laughed wildly, and could see that he was confident in his arrows. The other three people were also overjoyed except for the great monk, they didn't expect the task to turn around, just now the four of them wanted to give up the task after discussing it for so long, but the great monk didn't agree, and in the end they decided to give it a try, and they actually killed Chu Yun.

"Don't be careless, Ningbo car, you go over and take a look. The monk said to the great lama, the lama nodded, he had just taken two steps and stopped, this scene surprised the monk, the naked man wanted to go over to see, but was pulled by the monk.

Suddenly, the head of the big lama turned strangely to the back and looked at the three people in a daze, this scene startled the three people, a small wind blew, the lama's head rolled down, and rolled to the feet of the monk impartially, and the remaining three people knew that they were in big trouble.

Sure enough, Chu Yun's figure walked out slowly, with a smile on his face, but it made the three of them feel as terrifying as a demon from hell.

"Do you know that it's rude to disturb other people's plays? It seems that you gang of hulu are not disciplined, and since you are in such a hurry to send them to death, then I promise you. The body flashed to the naked man's side, and his hand became an eagle's claw to grab the naked man, and the naked man's body was so weak that he collapsed on the ground, only to see him crawling quickly like a snake, and he actually dodged Chu Yun's blow.

"Is this yoga?" Chu Yun was not annoyed when he couldn't catch it, he grabbed the archer with his backhand, this person panicked and blocked it with a giant bow more than one person high, Chu Yun snatched it over, and the archer's hands were all cut by the bowstring, but he didn't dare to fight back, he turned around and wanted to run, but how did he run past Chu Yun. Chu Yun came behind him again, and pulled out the quiver under his animal skin, where did the archer dare to turn around and continue to run forward. At this time, the monk, the naked man, and the archer fled in three directions, and Chu Yun drew an arrow.

"Don't you like archery very much? Chu Yun quickly took out three arrows the thickness of a child's arm, and as soon as the muscles in his hand rose, the bow and arrow were pulled into a full moon shape, and then he quickly shot the first arrow, and with a loud bang, the archer's whole person was blown to pieces.

"Fun, fun. Chu Yun's second arrow was aimed at the naked man, only to see the naked man's head rotate one hundred and eighty degrees strangely and glanced back, and then the whole body rolled into a ball of meat and rolled into the distance, Chu Yun shot out the second one, and he no longer paid attention to him.

Chu Yun's third arrow shot at the monk, and then the whole person also rushed towards the great monk like a sharp arrow, this guy Chu Yun is of great use, Chu Yun doesn't want to kill him directly.

There was an earth-shattering sound, and Chu Yun came directly behind the great monk, and a huge pit had already appeared in front of him, blocking the monk's path.

"Amitabha. Of course, the monk refused to be arrested, after he shouted the Buddha's name, the golden light flashed all over his body, the black qi in Chu Yun's hand flashed, and he slapped it, and the monk's proud defense was shattered by a palm.

"Monk, don't think that your Buddha light is the nemesis of my demon source murderous aura, if my kung fu is deeper, the situation will be reversed. Now you don't have anything to rely on, can we have a good talk?" Chu Yun grabbed the monk's placket and lifted him up.

"Yo he, I'm not dead yet, I have such a strong vitality. Chu Yun carried the big monk to the naked man's side, only to see that he was blown up to the point that only his head, half of his upper body and one arm were left, but he still did not die, and he struggled to continue to escape.

"I'm just soft-hearted, I can't see such a touching thing, I'll help you. Chu Yun kicked out, and the naked man's whole body was kicked out, Chu Yun watched his corpse fly into the distance, and Chu Yun nodded with satisfaction.

"Look at the great monk, am I very helpful to others, since he wants to leave, I will fulfill him. Chu Yun said to the great monk, and the monk shuddered.

And the victory or defeat on the battlefield was still not very clear, although the Mo Dao Array unexpectedly chiseled through Li Yan's 40,000 cavalry with its novel equipment, and killed and wounded most of them. But in the end, it was blocked by the infantry under the urgent command of Zhixiong, and they did not hesitate to use all means to hinder the advance of the Modao Formation, and the Modao Formation belonged to the heavy infantry after all, and the physical requirements were very high, and now they were almost at the limit, if it weren't for the crossbowmen behind the Modao Formation who suppressed the cavalry cavalry of the Shi Di Army, it is estimated that the Modao Formation would be as short-lived as the heavy cavalry created by Shi Hu. However, the cavalry of the Iron-Blooded Tiger Army has been holding still, which also makes Zhixiong not go all out to deal with the Mo Dao soldiers, so that the Mo Dao soldiers have a chance to breathe.

In general, there was still a stalemate on the battlefield, and although Shi Di had a bad personality, he did have some ability, he actually sent half of the 20,000 troops guarding him, which also included nearly 40,000 people killed in the battle, and Shi Di's army still had 80,000 left. However, the Ming army only had more than 60,000 people left, and the remaining Modao soldiers almost lost their combat effectiveness, and the Shi Di army still had an absolute advantage.

"Alright, it's time to finish. The murderous aura of the demon source in Chu Yun's hand swelled rapidly, and he took a picture towards the sky, and a huge Taiji diagram was formed in the sky. More than 100 cavalrymen in black armor rushed out of the valley, and the target was the general flag erected by Shi Di behind the battlefield.