Chapter 214: Defeat is decided

So these people under Zhu Fu didn't even understand the horror and horror of the cavalry.

After recovering the morale of the group, the 30,000 soldiers under Zhu Fu began to fight with Huang Zhong's soldiers and horses.

In the battlefield of tens of thousands of people, the victory and defeat factors occupied by individual bravery are not particularly huge.

But personal prowess can ensure that you have a better chance of surviving in battle.

Although these people under Huang Zhong's command were all recruits, nearly half of them were recruits who had been integrated into the Zhou Dynasty and other Shanyue tribes before.

These recruits, in fact, don't have much combat effectiveness, but they have only been trained by Huang Zhong for a month or two.

Some people who have no combat experience will still have some timidity in the face of such a battlefield where tens of thousands of people are fighting.

But Huang Zhong's order made them dare not disobey, and they did not dare to have the intention of retreating, plus there was a group of teammates who were bravely charging around, and those recruits who were originally a little timid were soon infected by their enthusiastic companions and joined the battle to fight.

The four phalanxes planned by tens of thousands of people, sword and shield men, pikemen, and archers, each performed its own duties.

The killer cavalry has been wandering outside the battlefield, and only after the battle has entered a state of stalemate will they enter the battlefield in one fell swoop, completely crushing the morale of Zhu Fu and these people.

It didn't take long for the battle between the two sides to reach a fierce state.

At the beginning, Huang Zhong's side killed and injured several squads. In the blink of an eye, hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses died.

This is because there are still many recruits under Huang Zhong who are still afraid of the battlefield, and when they fight with Zhu Fu's soldiers and horses, they will be killed by the enemy troops who are frantically surging over at the slightest hesitation.

But with the death of the first part of the soldiers and horses, the remaining people gradually adapted to the tragic conditions on the battlefield, and began to use their potential in order to survive.

The death toll began to slow down, and after initially being overwhelmed by the enemy's numerical superiority, it gradually stabilized, and began to slowly change the tide of the battle and gain the upper hand by taking advantage of its own battle formation.

On Zhu Fu's side, because of the advantage in numbers, he didn't feel anything to be afraid of at first.

After launching several charges against the soldiers and horses under Huang Zhong's command, they also caused a lot of losses, 30,000 soldiers and horses, and in the blink of an eye, there were only more than 20,000 people left.

However, Zhu Fu saw that the number of opponents was also decreasing, and he did not feel that anything was wrong, but continued to increase his strength, allowing his soldiers and horses to charge.

In this way, it didn't take long for the two sides to fight at a stalemate.

Zhu Fu realized that something was wrong, they obviously had a great advantage in the number of soldiers and horses, but they couldn't completely wipe out the enemy army after the battle.

On the contrary, the enemy army was able to stalemate with them, and fought with them in a short period of time, and even faintly gained the upper hand.

Although this is due to the narrow terrain here, the same opposing soldiers are obviously superior to his soldiers in terms of individuals, which is also an important reason.

At this time, although Zhu Fu felt that something was wrong, he did not plan to give up, and still sent his soldiers and horses to attack Huang Zhong's people.

As long as he could kill two or three thousand more soldiers and horses under Huang Zhong, so that the opponent's people would suffer greater casualties, he knew that the opponent's morale would definitely drop, and then he would be able to turn defeat into victory and defeat the ambush in one fell swoop.

Zhu Fu fantasized and looked forward to his victory, but what happened next soon really made him feel hopeless.

The two thousand cavalry who had been hovering on the periphery of the battlefield finally entered the main battlefield at this time.

Although there were only less than 2,000 war horses, the combat effectiveness exerted by these 2,000 cavalry was much more terrifying than the remaining 8,000 people.

Two thousand war horses galloped and trampled on the battlefield, causing the earth to shake and thunder to shake, so that these people and horses in Jiaozhou have seen it.

The sound of the cavalry trampling immediately attracted the attention of these Zhu Fu's soldiers and horses, they had just turned their heads and saw the two thousand war horses galloping towards them, and countless soldiers were crushed by these war horses wherever they passed, and some of them were directly trampled by the horses' hooves, and they fell to the ground and were easily killed by the soldiers on the horses.

Some are afraid of the height of the war horse, and they are frightened to retreat directly, but they can not be killed, and the soldiers on the war horse, holding long and sharp spears in their hands, can directly penetrate their chests with a direct thrust.

No matter how thick the armor is, it can't be avoided.

These two thousand cavalry charged, and a single round trip was able to kill a large number of soldiers in this crowd. In just three or four charges, more than 5,000 of Zhu Fu's men were slaughtered, and in less than a quarter of an hour, the number of soldiers and horses killed by the cavalry was approaching 10,000.

After the cavalry joined the battlefield, in the blink of an eye, more than half of the 40,000 troops under Zhu Fu were lost.

There were less than 20,000 people left still struggling, and the 20,000 people, after seeing the dead and wounded of those men and horses, could no longer gather the lost morale, and they all collapsed one by one.

Especially when they saw the cavalry running towards them, they did not feel the slightest love of fighting and began to flee.

The rout of the whole battle started with the most marginal soldiers, who saw that the number of casualties on the core battlefield was too large and there was no chance of victory, and then some of the soldiers and horses had the idea of routing and began to flee gradually.

Soon it spread to all the soldiers and horses under Zhu Fu's command, and there were originally 20,000 troops left, but after being washed by Huang Zhong's cavalry several rounds, the number of people on the battlefield was sharply reduced again, and it didn't take long for only more than 10,000 people to remain.

And the men and horses under Huang Zhong's command only lost more than a thousand people at this time.

At this time, the number of soldiers and horses on both sides was close to parity.

At this time, Zhu Fu finally realized. This sudden blow made him understand that even if he had an army of 40,000, after being ambushed by the enemy, his morale had plummeted and he was no longer able to return to the sky, and it was impossible to have an even battle with the other side.

Not to mention that the opponent is evenly matched, I am afraid that I will be forcibly crushed by the other party.

Seeing such a result, Zhu Fu panicked himself, he was not his father Zhu Jun after all, Zhu Jun has been through a hundred battles and has been on the battlefield for decades, even if this is the case, Zhu Jun can turn the tide, calm down the troops under his command, and then fight again with Huang Zhong's manpower.

But Zhu Fu is still much younger than his son Zhu Jun, and he lacks experience on the battlefield. There is no domineering ability to command so many soldiers and horses, and it is also the soldiers and horses of Jiaozhou, and these soldiers and horses are not completely under Zhu Fu's dispatch.

So looking at the soldiers and horses fleeing one after another, Zhu Fu knew that he was powerless to return to the sky.