45, the sound of the iron cavalry urging the horn (end)
As soon as the Xiliang cavalry moved, the sound was like thunder and the attack was rapid.
Although their fire attack was not effective, it also had some impact on the Cao army in the formation.
The dismounted archers of the Western Liang cavalry lit the torch and approached step by step. After reaching the range, they lit the strips and bunches of grass on the arrows, bent their bows and arrows, and shot rockets into the formation.
The Xiliang cavalry, who were still driving like the wind, used their horses to sail through the arrows from the formation and threw stones into the chariot formation. These stones wrapped in semi-wet weeds will produce smoke once they are ignited to disturb the deployment of Cao's army in the formation.
To deal with the enemy cavalry's fire attack and smoke disturbance, Yu Jin and Li Dian's response came in handy. Although the soldiers who were hit by the rockets would inevitably scream, they would at least extinguish the flames lit on their bodies. The rockets shot the food and supplies covered with wet mud and sand, which was difficult to cause a big fire. They were soon extinguished by the civilians and soldiers. The stones that were cast out of smoke would also be covered by the civilians in the array with mud and sand to isolate the thick smoke.
In this way, Cao's army, which resolved the fire and smoke attacks, relied on the vehicular barriers to deal with the Xiliang cavalry, became more comfortable, and gradually returned to its previous strong military appearance when facing various powerful enemies in the Central Plains.
From time to time, Xiliang cavalry passing by was shot down from time to time in front of the formation, and some cavalry were even shot several arrows with their men and horses, and fell to the ground in front of the formation, causing a large amount of dust.
The dismounted cavalry who were advancing in line and the archers who shot against Cao's army, were also shot from time to time and fell to the ground. The entire battlefield situation suddenly turned into an offensive and defensive battle between infantry and infantry.
Finally, the Xiliang cavalry who were approaching the barrier of the vehicle soon fought with Yu Jin's troops who were waiting for the barrier of the vehicle. Arrows on both sides came and went, spears were stabbed, shouting and killing, and various weapons fought, shouting and wailing. Hysterical voices burst out in the narrow space. Everyone was fighting desperately, and people kept falling down. Then the next soldier was rushing up with his armour.
The battle along the northwest corner was the most intense, and the soldiers under Yu Jin's troops faced the greatest impact pressure, but Yu Jin, who was commanding the battle, gradually calmed down.
On the plain, I had no danger to defend myself, and I used my footsteps to resist the cavalry, and was chased by the opponent's cavalry, and I had no choice but to do anything.
But now that his infantry has a barrier of luggage, these arrogant cavalrymen in Xiliang dare to dismount and fight with him. That is, they will attack the long-term with a short attack, and the arrogant soldiers will be defeated.
Yu Jin and his team were in a position that was advantageous to the territory. Although the Western Liang cavalry were not weak in dismounting and fighting in the field, the troops in Yanzhou were no longer the mobs that Cao's army had temporarily gathered when they attacked Dong.
Yu Jin believed that his own soldiers tempered in the Central Plains by hundreds of wars would never lose to these fierce Xiliang cavalry easily.
The battle situation gradually became stalemate. The Xiliang cavalry could not attack and was blocked by the Cao army. Moreover, in the view of Yu Jin, who was commanding in the formation, Cao's army relied on the barriers to attack and defend freely and retained their strength. Once the subsequent strength was strong, there was a great chance to counterattack for a while and defeat the exhausted Xiliang soldiers.
When Yu Jin was secretly planning for his subsequent counterattack in his heart, another wave of Xiliang cavalry rushed past again. However, this time they threw out no longer smoke-dumping stones, but iron hooks tied with long ropes. The hooked iron claws scattered on the barriers, some hooked on the side of the carriage, some hooked on the shaft and wheels, and some hooked on the sacks on it. The hooked hooks that were not hooked were retracted again with the light cavalry that was gone.
"No, the enemy cavalry wants to use a galloping horse to pull the car barrier!"
The chariot barriers set up by Yu Jin and Li Dian were all made of ordinary chariots, not war chariots such as Wugang chariots that the Han army had equipped. There were no large chariots and shooting ports on the outside of the chariot, and there were no iron cables under the chariot. I nailed the iron rods. This is a flaw in the entire chariot array.
As a cavalry general of the Xiliang Army who has been through the battlefield for a long time, Zhai Hao not only has rich experience in defeating the cavalry and using the cavalry to break the stage, but also has some experience in setting up formations such as spear formations and chariot formations against infantrymen.
Now, the grain truck that unloaded the livestock is pulled away by the power of galloping horses, which is an optional method to break the formation.
The Xiliang cavalry came and went like the wind, and was in the initiative to attack. After the Xiliang soldiers who were dismounting, they attacked the chariot formation and gave Yu Jin and Li Dian a huge pressure, the Xiliang cavalry, who were eyeing the chariot formation, seized a flaw in the chariot formation and used hooks to start the real offensive to break the formation.
The Cao army soldiers wanted to take the initiative to rush out of the barrier and cut off the rope behind the iron claws, but the Xiliang cavalry opposite was prepared. With a command, the arrows flew together and shot the Cao army that they wanted to rush out back.
The Xiliang cavalry, who had passed by from afar, carried shields on their backs and drove like flying horses. Very few arrows from the formation could shoot.
"Driving the car--"
The knight on the horse tied the other end of the rope to the saddle, and many war horses worked together in the same direction. The strong tendons of the war horses were prominent for a while. The knights on the horse tried their best to whip them. Two or three carts were thrust with a loud bang, and they were dragged away from the place one after another by the war horses.
Immediately afterwards, the fourth and fifth chariots.
The other Xiliang cavalry who were eyeing him were now seeing a flaw in the car formation, and instantly rushed up like a vicious wolf, trying to take advantage of the situation to break into the formation.
"Come with me and stop them!"
Yu Jin and his team were fighting hard with the Western Liang soldiers. They could not draw troops to block the suddenly broken barrier. They could only be led by Li Dian, who had left enough to resist. In the face of crisis, the young Li Dian did not shrink back, but bravely rushed up with the troops to face the cavalry, wanting to block the Western Liang cavalry outside the formation.
"Bang!"
The first Xiliang cavalry who rushed into the formation was unstoppable and instantly knocked away two Cao soldiers. The spear in his hand stabbed him and easily pierced the body of a Li family. However, before his spear could be pulled out, he was immediately stabbed off by several Li family members who rushed over again. He was seriously injured and fell off the horse and no longer had the strength to pull out the ring knife around his waist and continue fighting, but his eyes were still bright.
He saw one after another of his own cavalrymen and rush into the formation with horses.
"Build a spear and sting a horse!"
Li Dian followed his father and brother to fight, and had also competed with the cavalry under Lu Bu. He knew that the infantry must have a strict formation and the spear was external, and he could not be lucky or hesitant. He must have no life and be alive and with his flesh and blood to withstand these cavalry that charge into the formation.
As long as the first round of cavalry charge is blocked, the battlefield where corpses are everywhere will form a small barrier for one's own side, and the cruel and bloody tragic situation will make the cavalry in the next round of charge feel fear. The knights on the horse and the horses under their crotch will decay and they will shrink, so that the cavalry's rush can be curbed in one fell swoop.
On the contrary, if the infantry breaks into the formation by the cavalry's first round of charge, the entire infantry battle formation will undoubtedly fall into crisis. In the next second round, the third round of cavalry charge will be even more fierce until the infantry battle formation is completely torn apart.
The current situation is that the brave one wins when they meet on a narrow road, but in this narrow space, there is no way to avoid them. For both sides, it is even more dangerous than when they meet on a narrow road.
After Li Dian assassinated a cavalry, he shouted for battle loudly, motivating his own troops to fight to the death. However, facing the Li army fighting in the gap in the chariot array, the Xiliang cavalry who charged into the formation were not to be outdone. After throwing short spears at the infantry intensively arranged, they rode their horses with their spears and jumped into the formation.
"Rumor-Crack-Bang-"
Arrows and short spears intersected in an instant, and people and horses on both sides fell to the ground with a bang.
Then, the hot war horse rushed into the formation unstoppably. The knight's spear pierced the body of the infantry from a high position. The infantry's spear stabbed the horse but broke it straight away. The knight was stabbed off by the spear from another direction. The seriously injured war horse unstoppable knocked two infantry again and plowed open a bloody road.
Li Dian's spear finally broke two inevitably. He roared and wanted to draw out the sword sideways, but at this time another war horse rushed over, rushing forward, and actually knocked Li Dian, who was leading the way.
"Honor!"
The cavalry who knocked Li Dian and his horse were quickly poked out countless blood holes, but as Li Dian was knocked out, the entire Li family group seemed to have been instantly drained away. Many Li family members began to run towards Li Dian, who was covered in blood, and some began to ignore the formation and retreat with great strides, which made the Xiliang cavalry who subsequently charged the formation and tore the chariot formation in half at once.
"Care with me!"
Zhai Hao, who was commanding outside the formation, saw the cavalry charge successfully breaking the formation, and his eyes were full of tears, and he rushed to the cap angrily, raising his spear and shouting.
The Xiliang cavalry under his command were at least the old soldiers in the army who had followed him for three years. If it weren't for the time when the situation was at odds with success or failure, how could he bear to let them get off the horse and fight hard, jump on the horse to break through the chariot formation and spear formation?
The large Xiliang cavalry rushed forward bravely, following the bloody path opened by the comrades in the army, and rode their horses into the formation.
"Defeated, lieutenant, our army was defeated!"
Yu Jin heard the heart-wrenching wailing sounds of his subordinates.
Li Dian was severely injured and his life and death were unknown. The Li family members who had nowhere to be killed immediately collapsed. Only a group of Li family members guarded their heads and left their family members and fled without knowing where to go. Yu Jin's troops were unable to support them and were quickly defeated. However, except for the Bian River in the northeast, they were surrounded by heavy siege, but they had nowhere to escape. The Cao army soldiers could only protect Yu Jin and escape to the Bian River with their feet deep and shallow.
"Kill them all for me!"
After breaking into the formation, Zhai Hao, whose eyes were red, rushed in along the bodies of his cavalry. At this time, he didn't care which soldiers were Cao's soldiers and which ordinary civilians were conquered, and directly ordered them all to be killed, so as to give the Yanzhou troops who invaded Henan to a huge shock.
However, after Zhai Hao issued this military order, the sound of a trumpet blowing by a ranger came from a distance.
Chapter completed!