【Chapter 222】 Dragon and Tiger Fight for the Iron Cavalry
"Da da da da!"
"Boom--"
On the banks of the Bashui River, thousands of horses galloped, the sound of horse hooves resounded throughout the sky, and the earth shook for it. Even the clear and rippling river water suddenly roared, without wind and waves, rippling waves, stirring up layers, rolling up the mud and sand on the river bank, and mixing the clear water of the river.
"kill---"
Zhang Liao, who was charging forward, changed into a tall war horse covered with armor at some point, while the more than a thousand soldiers in front of the Wolf Cavalry were also wearing heavy armor, war horses wearing armor, and moving forward bravely.
"This is a golden sword and an iron horse, a heavy armored iron cavalry!"
During the charge, Li Li didn't care at first that the war horse under Zhang Liao was also wearing iron armor. It was not until he saw that there were a thousand heavy armored cavalry in the Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry Army that he suddenly woke up and exclaimed in amazement.
Yes, Li Li also saw Zhang Liao being defeated and returned to the formation before, and replaced him with a war horse covered in armor. He didn't care at the time and didn't think much about it. What he never expected was that there were a thousand heavy armored cavalry hidden in the Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry formation.
Heavy armored cavalry, this is the natural enemy of light cavalry!
The banks of the Bashui River are as empty as the wild. A thousand heavily armored cavalry can gallop and be invincible under the help of the five thousand wolf cavalry.
In this way, the Jinqiuwei was in trouble, danger, and hopeless to win.
"Tietuo, Ma Chao led the two wings of the Jinqi Guard to encircle! The other generals obeyed the orders and led their own soldiers to attack the heavy armored cavalry with the general! We faced the enemy with our swords, attacked with all our might, smash their heads! Kill with me——"
While running, Li Li made a quick decision and ordered the division of troops. He personally led dozens of generals and hundreds of personal soldiers to form a goose-shaped formation to face the heavy armored cavalry head-on.
"Hao!"
"Bang---"
As he was galloping on the horse, Li Li shouted angrily, and the sword in his palm suddenly flipped over, and the back of the knife met the enemy. He fought hard to shake the heavy armored soldier who was rushing towards him. But when the heavy armored cavalry suddenly sank the chest, spitting blood off the horse's back, knocking three or four heavy armored soldiers, then fell off the horse's horse's hooves and were then trampled into a pile of scrap iron and meat paste.
Li Liheng's sword immediately rushed to the front, and the iron-backed golden sword flew in his hand. Each sword was full of strength, with great force, great force, and extremely brave. Every heavy armored cavalry hit by his sword either had a sunken heavy armor on his chest and vomited blood and died. Or had a heavy blow to his head and died in an instant, but without exception, they were all shocked into the air and knocked down several armored soldiers behind him. Then they fell to the ground and became the souls under the horse's hooves, without a complete corpse.
Li Li was already familiar with such a fierce battle formation and was used to it.
However, this time the battle between the Jinqiu Guard and the Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry was different from usual. The appearance of the heavy armored cavalry shocked Li Li, which made him feel a strong sense of crisis, and even he voluntarily gave up leading the Jinqiu Guard to rush forward. He immediately led the generals of the Wuwei Army to form an assault formation, trying to kill and injure the heavy armored cavalry under Lu Bu's command.
The Wuwei Army started with light cavalry. Most of the tens of thousands of soldiers are light cavalry. Although the soldiers are brave and fierce, they are even brave and fearless. However, these Liangzhou men are flesh and blood. Faced with heavy armored cavalry wrapped in heavy armor, even if they are willing to kill the enemy, they are still willing but not strong enough. If they cannot break the enemy's heavy armor, how can they talk about killing the enemy?
Therefore, Li Li was unwilling to die in vain, so he mobilized them to attack and attack on both wings, thus staggering the iron hoof edge of the heavy armored cavalry and preserving the strength of the Jinqiu Guard.
But there must be people on the front battlefield to charge and resist the torrent of iron hooves of golden swords and iron horses. So Li Li took the lead in leading the generals to fight head-on. What is the mainstay? The person who can stand up in danger is the mainstay!
At the same time, Li Li also specifically explained the method of killing heavy armored cavalry, which is to surrender ten times with one force, and if the long spear does not pierce the heavy armor, then the huge force will shock him to death!
In the battle formation, the two generals Dian Wei and Teng Yu, who were closely behind Li Li, seemed to have returned to their days as Li Li's personal guards. They worked together to protect Li Li, rushing left and right, and according to Li Li's method of fighting the enemy, they vigorously bombarded and killed heavy armored cavalry, with significant results and many enemies.
However, many middle and low-level generals following them did not follow the orders. Especially the generals who were good at using spears and spears, they still thrust straight, but the guns could not pierce the iron armor of heavy armored soldiers at all, and then died tragically under the iron sword of the enemy soldiers.
At the forefront of the Wuwei Army, Li Li led generals such as Dian Wei, Teng Yu, Tarus, and Tiexiao to rush and fight hard, and fought hard to break out a path of blood.
On the surface, they seemed to be unstoppable, and the power of the heavy armored cavalry was just that, but in fact they were not. They were just a small group of major generals in the army with high martial arts skills. Therefore, although the heavy armored cavalry had amazing lethality, they were not enough in front of them, and could not stop their charge. They rushed into the enemy formation smoothly, killing and killing happily. However, the ordinary generals behind them were seriously injured and struggling, and several Wuwei generals were dismissed and died tragically.
This is a general with quite force. The hundreds of personal soldiers who followed the general were even worse. These personal soldiers were all fierce soldiers in the army who had been fighting for the rest of their lives, but they could not even try to exchange their lives in front of the heavy armored cavalry under Lu Bu. In the fierce battle, they could only kill one heavy armored cavalry on average. Some of them only killed the heavy armored soldiers off the back of the horse, and some were only stabbed the war horses under the enemy's crotch. In short, the personal soldiers led by Li Li and the heavy armored cavalry were extremely injured. There were only a few of them who could really follow Li Li to kill.
Li Li, who was leading the way, also noticed the heavy casualties of the personal soldiers behind him, but he was powerless and could only watch these veterans who had been through the battlefield fall off their horses and were trampled into meat paste by heavy armored iron hooves.
Out of the corner of his eyes, he noticed familiar faces screaming and died. Li Li was very sad, and he grimaced, his mouth twitched, and his face was covered with ferociousness. But this is a war, a cruel and ruthless war, blood-thirsty killing. In the fight, no one has the heart of compassion. Only by killing stops killing, blood-for-blood-for-tat killing, and tooth-for-tat killing can he get hope for survival.
The Wuwei Army and the Bingzhou Army under Lu Bu were originally without any grudges. They were both part of the Xiliang Army under Dong Zhuo, but they turned against each other because of a battle of intention and anger, and even the two armies fought each other in blood. It is difficult to say clearly who is right and who is wrong here. But there is no doubt that whoever wins this battle will be able to occupy the commanding heights of the truth. Whatever you say is what you say is, and people dare not refute it.
This is the way to survive in troubled times. Right or wrong is not important, good or evil is insignificant, big fists, strength, the strong prey on the weak, and the strong are respected. This is the hard truth.
Dong Zhuo was powerful and looked down on the world, why? Lu Bu was arrogant and domineering, with a high eye and no one else, why did he be so confident? Cao Cao in Yanzhou was not afraid of Dong Zhuo? Why was he so confident? Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu brothers were arbitrarily separating one side, expanding their territory, recruiting soldiers without permission, and ignoring the imperial orders. What are they? There are countless such things??????
In the final analysis, they rely on their strength. And their fists are big, and although they are violent, they are even more powerful.
Before coming to the Bashui River, Li Li didn't know what Lu Bu had to rely on to start this massive battle between the two armies, nor did he know why Lu Bu was so confident that the Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry Army led by him would definitely win.
Now Li Li knew about it and saw it. Because the Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry is not only brave, but also well-equipped. More importantly, Lu Bu is quite financially powerful and rich!
At this point, Li Li didn't feel that there was a big gap between him and Lu Bu. He was even complacent for a while, believing that Lu Bu and his Bingzhou Army were not afraid of it and were not a match for the Wuwei Army at all. This is the case.
But when the two armies stormed each other, Lu Bu taught him a lesson that was extremely vivid and remembered by him. The war was not only brave but also a profound foundation. To put it bluntly, it was gold, silver, and money.
The Wuwei army had strong soldiers, soldiers were brave, and the generals were brave. But the Wuwei army had a foundation too shallow, and Li Li's family was innocent. Wuwei County, Zhangye County and both vassal states were poor, and they could not provide Li Li with enough gold, silver and money, so they were unable to provide Li Li with excellent equipment. Therefore, even though Li Li had tens of thousands of war cavalry, there was no heavy armored cavalry, no horse in armor, and no heavy armored infantry. It was not that he didn't want it, but that he did not have the financial resources, and he could not cook without rice, so he could do nothing!
As the fierce battle formation was rushing, Li Li was distracted by listening to the screams of his personal soldiers. Although he was still fighting with his sword, his heart was thinking about many things he had never thought about before. Perhaps he had thought about it occasionally, but he was not as profound and thorough as he thought at this time. Perhaps it was because he had been able to gain a foothold in Liangzhou after many battles, which made him complacent and forgetful, and invisibly arrogance. Or perhaps he lived in a corner of Liangzhou and fought with Han Sui, Ma Teng and other poor soldiers for a long time, so that his eyes were limited to the poor and bad waters of the Western Regions, thus ignoring the wealthy Guandong princes and the powerful siege weapons they possessed, the armor and weapons with excellent texture.
He loses his ambition and does not want to make progress. He is a little rich and feels at ease and is self-righteous. This is the summary of Li Li's in the fight that he did nothing for more than three months, and it is also a self-examination and self-reflection.
Li Li, who was unscrupulous, instinctively rode his horse and ran. He tried to kill him several times, but he was repeatedly in crisis but did not know it. Fortunately, the two generals Dian Wei and Teng Yu always protected him, and tried their best to fight hard, which made Li Li distracted himself and safe, so that he could think of many unthinkable problems without being disturbed by external forces and sort out a path of a strong man suitable for the future development direction of the Wuwei Army.
"King, be careful!"
Just as Li Li clarified his thoughts and was clear in his heart, he suddenly heard Teng Yu's angrily shout in his ears, and then a cold light suddenly came into his eyes. In the flash of lightning, Li Li suddenly woke up, and his eyes burst out with cold murderous intent, and he suddenly waved his sword to slash at the oncoming blade.
That's right, that cold light is the light blade reflected by the long-handled sword cutting through the sky. More than ten steps ahead of Li Li, a general under Lu Bu galloped on his horse and swung his sword quickly towards Li Li. (To be continued)
PS: Second update is presented.
Chapter completed!