Chapter 1087: Reinforcements Arrive

Wang Qi hurriedly ordered Gong Zun and Liu Mao to retreat, and first held their cavalry into a regiment, and then said, the previous combat experience proved that only the army that formed a group would have a greater chance of survival on the battlefield.

The reason why he used a roundabout way to deal with the Xiaocai battalion was because Wang Qi relied on his strength and had an advantage in strength over the Xiaocai battalion, so he dared to carry out the outflanking operation with confidence and boldness.

But now that the situation has changed abruptly, it is likely that the reinforcements of the state army have arrived, and now Wang Qi can't even get a state army, and if he kills another group of men and horses at this moment, he can't cope with it at all.

But Wang Ji's order was given a little late, and before the herald arrived at Gongzun and Liu Mao received the order, the Yue Cavalry Battalion and the Tun Cavalry Battalion had already appeared, and they rushed all the way, and finally arrived at the battlefield before noon.

The Yue cavalry battalion and the tun cavalry battalion arrived almost at the same time, under normal circumstances, the marching speed of the Yue cavalry battalion was faster than that of the tun cavalry battalion, but in order to achieve the purpose of the two cavalry arriving at the same time, Deng Ai asked the Yue cavalry battalion to slightly suppress the speed to ensure that the two cavalry could outflank the enemy at the same time and cut off the retreat of the Youzhou army.

This battle was carefully planned by Cao Liang, either not to fight, or to fight a beautiful battle of annihilation, which can destroy the main force of the Youzhou cavalry in one fell swoop, and they have no chance to turn over.

In order to achieve this goal, Cao Liang made proper arrangements for several cavalry units of the Bingzhou Army, with the Xiao Cavalry Battalion acting as bait, and the Yue Cavalry Battalion and the Tun Cavalry Battalion outflanking them.

It stands to reason that 30,000 people eat 30,000 people, and Sun Wu doesn't have the guts, but Cao Liang has this appetite, which is completely based on the advantage of his cavalry strength, and entangles the 30,000 cavalry of Youzhou, just the light cavalry of the Xiao cavalry battalion is enough, and the archers and heavy cavalry with more terrifying combat effectiveness can form a crushing trend against the Youzhou army.

Cao Liang naturally has a full grasp of this battle, unless the Youzhou army retreats in Jixian County and does not come out, otherwise once the war starts, all the results are expected by Cao Liang.

So far, the Xiao cavalry battalion has completed their task excellently, dragging the Youzhou army to the death, because Wang Qi is in a hurry, the Xiao cavalry battalion has implemented a three-sided encirclement of the fight, although this style of play is more effective, but in the face of the counterattack of the state army, the defense is much weaker, and each is easy to be broken by the state army.

The coming momentum of the Yue cavalry battalion and the tun cavalry battalion is extremely ferocious, and the speed has completely subverted people's perception of cavalry, and even the tun cavalry battalion covered with iron armor has also accelerated its speed at the final sprint juncture, and pounced on the Youzhou army with lightning speed.

From hearing the muffled thunder to launching a surprise attack, the whole process was very short, and many Youzhou soldiers had not yet come to their senses, and the Bingzhou cavalry had already pounced.

It stands to reason that when the Youzhou army is fighting, it must also have patrol posts on the periphery, and once there is an emergency, it will be reported to Wang Qi and Gongzun Liu Mao and others.

But the coming of the Bingzhou army is too fast, and when the patrols distributed in the periphery find that there is an enemy attack, they also want to convey the news to the main general, but in the process of returning to the horse, they sadly found that his speed is not as fast as the Bingzhou army, you must know that the horses ridden by these patrol posts are the fastest horses in the army, but in the process of running back, they were caught up and swallowed up by the cavalry wave of the Bingzhou army, so until the Bingzhou army appeared in sight, Wang Ji and others also did not receive a report from the patrol.

The arrival of the Vietnamese cavalry battalion and the tun cavalry battalion brought about a sudden change in the battlefield situation, which was originally in a situation of equal strength, but it was reversed in an instant.

The archers have not arrived, the arrows come first, the arrows are the vanguard, the high-speed galloping horses make the range of the arrows longer, faster, and more powerful, those arrows can easily penetrate the armor of the Youzhou army, even if they are wearing the thickest and strongest plate armor, it is difficult to resist this lightning fast arrow.

The archers attacked the troops led by Gong Zun, and before the two sides engaged, Gong Zun's men and horses fell in a large area, and the lethality of the archers was simply appalling.

Gong Zun, a person who is good at riding and archery, is not unseen, after all, his own level of riding and archery is relatively high, but Gong Zun also knows that among the cavalry, there are only a few people who can have the level of riding and archery, and the vast majority of ordinary cavalry do not have the ability to ride and shoot, so most of the cavalry of the Youzhou Army are not equipped with bows and arrows, even if they are equipped with bows and arrows, most of the time they are furnishings, and only when they get off the horse or when they are stationary, they can release arrows, such archers are basically useless.

But the suddenly killed Bingzhou army was all archers, almost everyone could ride and shoot, and their archery skills were exquisite, no less than those like them.

Such a dense rain of arrows is indeed quite terrifying, the cavalry itself is not a strong defensive class, they rely more often on the advantage of speed and mobility to win, fast speed can dodge the shooting of the enemy archers, strong mobility can allow them to advance and retreat freely, can not fight can also run.

But in the face of the archers, Gong Zun has a weak sense of powerlessness, and he must not be able to beat it, the Youzhou cavalry does not have the ability to ride and shoot, and it is impossible for Liao Liao's few cavalry archers to pose a threat to the Bingzhou army, but if they run, they can't run, because the speed of the Yue cavalry battalion is faster than them.

Under the powerful attack of the Viet Cavalry battalion, the cavalry team of Gong Zun was almost in a state of collapse, they did not know how to resist the attack of the Viet Cavalry battalion, even if some people wanted to organize a counterattack and tried to fight the Viet Cavalry battalion in close quarters.

This may be what some people think, since it is not possible to fight from a distance, then try melee combat, no matter how powerful the archers are, they will not be powerful in melee combat, right?

But their counterattack seemed to be futile, because the Vietnamese cavalry did not give them a chance to get close at all, and in long-range attacks, the Vietnamese cavalry used a longbow with a long range and strong penetrating power. When attacking at close range, they use repeaters, which fire rapidly and cover a wider area.

Once the counterattack of the Youzhou soldiers enters the range of the repeater, it will be hit by more intensive arrows, and the death fan formed by the repeater crossbow will strangle any Youzhou soldiers who try to get closer, the closer the distance, the faster they will die, seeing that the Youzhou soldiers who are trying to fight back are like moths to a fire, and the other Youzhou soldiers suddenly dispelled the idea of counterattacking, and it was important to flee for their lives.