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Seeing the picture of smoke and dust rolling and rising into the sky in front of him, the Yedi army descended from Han Yong, and their breathing was stagnant.

Such a huge momentum can only be created by cavalry, and it is a rather large cavalry team.

But, the cavalry?

Han Yong's mood suddenly sank to the bottom, he led five thousand horsemen to the south to the west this time, which can be said to be a move of the Jedi counterattack, and the preparation is also extremely sufficient, especially for the enemy's military intelligence in all aspects, it is completely certain that there is no large-scale cavalry team in the Huainan army.

He also discussed with the King of Wei for a long time about the various difficulties that he would face in this battle, and in the absence of sufficient cavalry strength to counterbalance, the enemy army could only rely on strong fortifications and abundant armaments. However, under the onslaught of high-mobility cavalry, the Huainan army could only be reduced to complete passivity and could not make an effective counterattack.

But now, just looking at the scale of the smoke and dust, it shows that the Huainan Army not only has a large number of cavalry to meet the enemy, but also the scale of the cavalry is not inferior to the Yedi cavalry in Nandu!

"It seems that Chen Guang has been defeated......"

Han Yong muttered in his mouth, and then a trace of gloom flashed in his eyes, and he even had an urge to scold, such an important battle for survival, but Ye Di fell behind step by step due to the constraints of all parties and slow reaction, even if he was catching up now, it was still a step too late.

However, after the anger surging in his chest surged to his throat, it only turned into a series of slightly trilled chuckles, he forced himself to suppress his excitement, raised his right hand and pointed forward and said with a smile: "Southern thieves can also horses?" What a joke! Our army came south in a hurry, and it was lacking horsepower, and the southerners came to send horses in front of them, how could it be reasonable not to accept it! Armor and prepare for battle! ”

This word spread in the cavalry formation, and the surprise in the hearts of the ordinary soldiers was dispelled a lot, but some commanders of thousands of cavalry and hundred cavalry knew that the discovery of a large cavalry team of the Huainan Army here was a completely unexpected variable.

But at this point, there is no room for retreat, even if they retreat now, after three days and two nights of long-distance running, manpower and horsepower have been driven to a limit, and they will not be able to escape at all.

So they could only comfort themselves with the fact that the southerners were not good at horse warfare, and at the same time boost their morale and order the soldiers to prepare for war quickly.

Shi Kan was indeed well prepared for this counterattack, both men and horses were selected to use the best, although they had already traveled hundreds of miles, but at the moment of the crisis, the soldiers did not seem to be overly flustered.

The team quickly moved to a gentle high slope near the left, and then the soldiers were armored, these so-called armor naturally could not be as sophisticated as the Huainan army, unless Shi Kan completely ignored Liyang's defensive strength to get together, so most of them were just some key protections in key parts.

Among them, only the thousands of the most elite cavalry led by Han Yong could be equipped with neat armor, and even the war horses were covered with a layer of slightly heavy leather armor.

These knights, among them, there are many Xianbei, Karasuma and other Hu Yishou, all of them are sturdy, and their riding skills are even better, even if they gallop on horseback, and open their bows left and right. They are also the killer weapon of this attack, which was originally used to impact the dense infantry battle formation and strong barracks of the Huainan army that may be encountered, but now they have to be used in advance.

Han Yong is also full of confidence in the combat effectiveness of this team, even if the Huainan army takes the initiative with leisure and hard work, but in the real cavalry battle, Han Yong also believes that those Huainan knights will never be able to withstand the impact of this cavalry that is absolutely elite in Hebei.

The Yedi cavalry was still preparing for battle in an orderly manner, and the whole team was centered on the thousand elites led by Han Yong himself, with a thousand battle formations on the left and right as the flanks, and two thousand people on the rear flank.

From the arrangement of the military formation alone, we can see the elite of this cavalry team, under the team of 1,000 people, there are 100 people, 50 people, 10 people and other squads.

There is nearly a foot of space between the left and right sides of the single horse, which can greatly avoid the casualties of the dense accumulation of long-range bows. The front and rear rows are left at a distance of up to seven or eight zhang, which can not only ensure the continuity of the impact, but also reserve enough space for emergency adjustment of the battle formation.

Such an accurate assault battle formation was not set up under the frequent command of the generals, but was spontaneously adjusted by the comparison between the soldiers and soldiers. As the real elite cavalry of Hebei, this kind of war literacy has penetrated into their bones, and there is no longer a need for deliberate requirements.

After a quarter of an hour or so, the cavalry of the Huainan Army on the opposite side finally rushed out from behind a dense grass.

And after seeing the cavalry formation of the Huainan Army appear in the field of vision, the Yedi troops descended from Han Yong, and the corners of their eyes trembled slightly, I don't know if it was because of sweat seeping into their eyes or something else.

"Is that really the cavalry of the Southern Thieves?"

One of the generals muttered, subconsciously clutching the horse lance in his hand, if it weren't for the fact that this lance was a trait, the sweat gushing out of his palm was almost so slippery that he would not be able to hold it.

Neat, simply neat! The cavalry brigade on the opposite side, the edge of the formation was smooth and neat, as if a knife had cut out, like a moving wall, rushing towards this place quickly!

Although the distance between the two sides is still extremely far, many Yedi knights seem to be clenched tightly when they see the Huainan cavalry in such a neat formation, and then they wonder whether the previous perception that the southerners are not good at riding and fighting is correct?

The huge and neat military array rapidly expanded in the field of vision, and there was a powerful deterrent force that spread across this side of the world, and even the oppressed cavalry army formation shrank slightly.

"Impact, kill!"

At this moment, Han Yong didn't dare to slack off at all, raised his arm guard and touched the face armor lightly, and then let out a roar from his mouth.

The Yedi cavalry was worthy of being the elite of the Northland, and although they saw that the enemy army was far stronger than they expected, when the drum order sounded, they still tightened their horses and rushed straight to the opponent.

With the charge, the Yedi army also had its own fierce momentum spreading, two torrents flew down from the slope, although it seemed that the Huainan army array was full of the same majesty, but also had a sharp and violent aura in the military formation.

At this time, the cavalry battle formation of the Huainan Army also changed at this time, and the originally neat battle formation also separated from the Chinese army as the two wings began to accelerate again.

With the growth rate of the armies on both wings, the battle formation of the Huainan army has changed from the original square to a large concave pocket. Especially in the middle of the charge, the wings and feet were pushed out, making this pocket even bigger, and then turned into a hideous beast mouth!

This change, gradual and obvious, reveals a mechanical beauty. And although the Yedi cavalry is in the field of slaughter, such a change in formation is simply unheard of and unseen.

It wasn't until the distance between the two armies was extremely close that the Yedi cavalry who rushed to the front realized why the Huainan army's battle formation was so neat and strict.

It turns out that those galloping cavalry are not independent individuals, but the war horses are connected to each other by piso, five horses in a row, these five horses advance and retreat as one, and even the running speed of the war horses is extremely neat! In this way, it spreads to the entire military array, creating such a huge military formation that is terrifying!

That's exactly what happened!

Although the Yedi army was amazed by the ingenuity of the Huainan army, they actually used this way to make up for the lack of individual cavalry skills of the soldiers. As a result, although the mobility of the formation was slightly reduced, the firmness of the formation was greatly increased.

You must know that the clutch changes in the charge of the Yedi cavalry are all based on the tacit understanding honed all year round on the basis of the exquisite riding skills of the soldiers, which can give full play to the characteristics of the cavalry's flexibility and maneuverability, and the clutch can ensure the subtle connection between the front and back, the left and right, so as not to become scattered and disorderly.

It took only more than three years for Huainan to establish a town, and even if such a large cavalry team was created at the beginning of the town, and sufficient training could be guaranteed, it really lacked the training of real combat. If you want to reach the elite level of Yedi in terms of military formation changes, it's a dream!

"Lock the war horse, the trail! The clutch can be lost, what kind of cavalry is it? ”

After perceiving the mystery contained in the Huainan military formation, Han Yong sneered, the biggest advantage of the cavalry is flexible mobility, and the Huainan army's arrangement seems to ensure the integrity of the military formation, but in fact it obliterates this biggest feature. Cavalry battles, and even force the integrity of the battle formation, is simply stupid!

However, although there was a contempt in his heart, Han Yong still ordered the thousands of elites he directly led to slow down the speed of the charge, because if it was a head-on confrontation, such a dense military formation of the Huainan army was the nemesis of his team.

Even if he can break through the battle formation, the casualties will inevitably be heavy, and he can't afford to lose at the moment, so he can only hope to break through on both flanks, break through the enemy formation, and then rush forward, and get the maximum result at the minimum cost!

And the generals who led the charge on both wings were also generals who had been fighting in Hebei for a long time, and with the Huainan Army's flanks being pushed away, the previous tactics of rushing to the flanks were difficult to use. However, after the flank of the Huainan Army was deployed, the military formation inevitably became weak, and it simply rushed directly to the right.

The cavalry in the front line drew their bows and threw two arrows in the fastest time, and then they needed to quickly move to the side to make room for the spear cavalry in the rear to cut through the enemy formation, and at this time, the archers would gather in the rear again, and then rush back to continue to tear the enemy battle line with their bows.

This basic method of warfare, for the elite cavalry in Yedi, is as ordinary as eating and drinking, and it doesn't even need special instructions from the commanders.

However, when they were about to approach the firing range, the first round of arrow rain in the Huainan army formation was splashed, although this arrow rain was not dense, and the casualties caused were not many, but it made the Ye cavalry stunned, and the rhythm was a little disordered, which was originally enough for the distance of two arrows, but only one arrow could be sent out in a hurry.

After this arrow was issued, the effect was simply minimal, and it hardly caused any trouble to the Huainan army. This is naturally because the Huainan army's protection is several points stronger than that of the enemy, and even if some soldiers are injured, they can hardly affect their movements, and they are still dragged forward by their comrades.

The Huainan military formation seems to be weak, but at least it still ensures three columns in front and back, with the front row of horses and lances raised, the middle row of bows and knives, and the back row of bows and shields. Since the speed is not mentioned as the fastest, the recoil is stable, which is more conducive to riding and shooting, even if the average is only the number of arrows more, it is already an extremely obvious advantage to extend to the entire front!

Comparatively speaking, the Yedi charge was more coarse, and this phenomenon was more obvious under the two rounds of arrow rain, although the spear cavalry that charged the formation was still brave, but they were faced with rows of Huainan horse lance horizontal formation. Under the collision of the two directions, the rough rushing formation was directly flattened!

Although there is only one column of the Huainan army's lance array, but five people as a whole, although the momentum is not rapid, but it is steady, a horse of enemy soldiers roaring, even if the momentum is like the wind, even if it hits one person, but even if it is directly pierced by the horse lance handed from both sides! The horse fell to the ground, and before it even had time to roll, it was trampled over!

Occasionally, a war horse was injured in the column and it was difficult to walk, and the leather cord was cut directly on both sides, and the war horse was removed from the battle column. With a backhand slash on the horse's buttocks, the horse will rush straight to the opponent's army formation in pain, and will not drag down the main line of action.

Although it lost a certain amount of mobility, but in exchange for a more dense military formation, the next wave of enemy troops has not rushed to the front of the formation, the rear knights of the Huainan Army have drawn their bows again, and after colliding with each other, the enemy army has once again turned into a broken formation, and it will collapse as soon as it rushes!

If this is the third, the generals of Yedi have finally discovered this reality, the Huainan army formation seems to be weak and seems to collapse as soon as it rushes, but the problem is that when they rush to this position, they have become the end of a strong crossbow. It was as if the fragile withered pole was blocked by this thin wall, and it broke under the wall one by one!

"Retreat in formation, and fight again with the whole team!"

After the generals found out about this scene, they hurriedly shouted to adjust their tactics, and roared to assemble the battle formation and prepare to retreat. However, at this time, they discovered that the Huainan Army's originally open flanks were now like two arms encircled, swinging from the outside to the inside, and if they still wanted to withdraw from the outer flank, they would inevitably collide head-on!

"Inner knot, inner knot!"

The generals adjusted their military orders in a timely manner, and at present, because the two wings of the Huainan Army were too wide and the Chinese army was lagging behind, there was still a safe space in the battle array. So the soldiers turned their horses' heads inward, ready to make an inner circle and then withdrew.

But at this time, the soldiers of the Huainan Army on the flanks no longer ran in an arc, but ran diagonally, and the two wings that were originally expanded were stacked on top of each other, directly shortening the distance of closing.

Originally, due to the advantage of mobility, the enemy army may still be able to leave the battle with all its members, but with the change of the Huainan army's battle formation this time, it seems that the open mouth suddenly closes, and one-third of the total number of soldiers and soldiers of the enemy army charging this time is bitten and intercepted!

Although the enemy army has extremely high mobility, when the pocket battle formation of the Huainan Army is closed, no matter what you see from the left to the right, it is a slightly dull array of the Huainan Army, and at this time, the Chinese army, which was originally one step behind, also came up head-on, and directly shot these hundreds of enemy soldiers to death in the battle formation!

Han Yong had already led the thousands of elite cavalry to approach the battle formation at this time, preparing to wait for an opportunity to launch an attack while receiving the defeat. However, even in the midst of changes, the Huainan Army's military formation still maintained a high degree of orderliness. Even if his troops are more elite, it is difficult to produce any miracles in the face of such a tight military formation.

At this time, he still couldn't see the mystery of the Huainan Army's military formation: he took the initiative to reduce the mobility of a part of the cavalry through the company cavalry, ensured a complete formation while ensuring a certain mobility, and used a kind of thinking similar to foot combat to conduct cavalry field battles.

This is simply a hooligan style of play, not stepping, riding or not riding, and the requirements for equipment are extremely high, otherwise that kind of thin battle formation will not be able to withstand the chisel of light cavalry.

But it has to be said that this arrangement is very suitable for a novice in large-scale cavalry warfare like the Huainan Army, which can not only ensure a certain mobility, but also ensure the integrity of the military formation in the movement.

Although the current changes in this battle formation are still a bit dull, with the improvement of the quality and tacit understanding of the soldiers, it is conceivable that the lethality will be further improved.

At least in the current many tactical experiences in Hebei, Han Yong can't think of how to effectively break this kind of tactic, unless he can directly attack one place at any cost to break the surface.

But in normal thinking, cavalry is never used like this, which is equivalent to giving up its own mobility advantage, putting it in the same tactical thinking as the enemy army to fight hard, and using their own battle-hardened and absolutely elite cavalry to exchange their lives with a group of new recruits of the enemy army.

If Han Yong still had a large number of foot soldiers in this battle, he would not be afraid to shake the enemy army in such a tragic way of fighting, but now he dismounted and fought on foot, he couldn't afford to gamble.

At the moment, the only thing to rely on is to avoid the battle before the battle is through his own superior mobility, and if he fights hard, his five thousand horsemen may be grinded to death here!

And this is still in the case of the enemy's unfamiliar cooperation, and the connection of many changes is a little blunt. But even so, in this round of charge, nearly 700 Yedi cavalry were killed in the Huainan army formation!

In the highly mobile battlefield environment of cavalry field warfare, nearly 700 people died in a single impact, which is absolutely tragic! Moreover, these 700 people were completely surrounded and beaten to death, and the damage caused to the enemy was negligible!

Such an astonishing battle loss is enough to make people's hearts ache under any circumstances, not to mention that Han Yong only has more than 5,000 horsemen at the moment, which is already the only hole card they can turn the tables in this battle!

At present, the distance between the two armies is extremely close, and the cavalry of the Huainan Army is still moving towards it. The so-called lack of mobility, which is relative to the cavalry, but still maintains efficient mobility compared to the infantry, which is completely a strong mobile fortress.

Han Yong looked back and saw that no matter the soldiers in the army, there was fear on their faces at this moment, and they obviously didn't dare to face such a strange army head-on.

The more stalemate there is, the more detrimental it will be to oneself. After a long journey, the army is now completely relying on a morale to maintain. If the stalemate with the Huainan cavalry continues here, the morale will be even more sluggish, and the army will collapse without a fight!

"The southern thief is really not good at riding and fighting, and he has to use this bad method to stop my Hebei strong man a little! The horse seems to be fierce, but it is just self-bound, and there is nothing to be afraid of! ”

Han Yongqiang cheered up, ran in the army formation and shouted: "Our army came south this time, not to separate the victory and defeat with the southern thieves, but to intercept the grain route, plunder the capital, and cut off its retreat!" As for the confrontation between the two armies, there are tens of thousands of heroes who have their own kings to decide! The whole army got on the horse, and we bypassed here and went straight to the camp of the southern thieves! ”

Although Han Yong's shouting tone was still a little excited, there were very few responders in the army at the moment, and it was really a long journey and a fiasco in the first battle, so that what little momentum they had left was gone.

However, when Han Yong shouted for the whole army to mount their horses, the soldiers still mounted their horses one after another, because staying here any longer would only lead to faster death. And when Han Yong led the team to start running, the whole team had completely lost the rhythm of the previous one, and some teams even broke away from the team and ran to the suburbs.

The team avoided the front of the Huainan army's onslaught, but turned to the south and ran away, Han Yong still did not give up, wanting to bypass the Huainan army cavalry to attack the rear hinterland.

However, at this time, a burst of enthusiastic cheers broke out in the Huainan army array: "The slave thief is defeated, break the rope and attack!" ”

With this roar, the atmosphere on the entire battlefield was detonated again, and the officers and men of the Huainan Army cut the ropes connecting the war horses one after another, and then gained a more flexible speed and rushed straight to the enemy's rear.

At this time, the morale of the people and horses in Yedi had already been exhausted, and after hearing the cheers of the Huainan army and the magnificent picture of the galloping of ten thousand horses, they were even more frightened, and they all rode their horses to flee for their lives.

"It's an opportunity!"

The riots on the battlefield were soon captured by Han Yong. He is also a fierce general with rich combat experience, how could he not guard against the variables of the Huainan army's tail pursuit, seeing the Huainan army's company cavalry splitting up, his eyes suddenly lit up, and when even Zhenhua roared: "The southern thief army formation has been broken, return to kill the enemy!" ”

However, at this time, as the Huainan army rushed in, there was already chaos in the military formation, and the shock waves in the rear generally slapped forward one after another, and who would pay attention to Han Yong's roars! Soon, even he himself was embarrassed to be exempted, and the soldiers who were fleeing swept away to the suburbs, if it weren't for the dozens of personal soldiers nearby, I was afraid that they would also fall into the chaos of people turning over on their backs!

"Rush and kill, wipe out all the thieves!"

Han Huang, who had been in charge of the Chinese army, was also full of brilliance at this time, leading the soldiers of the overseer to change to a new war horse, and then rushed straight towards the fleeing enemy army.

He himself is a superb horseman, and his archery skills are unparalleled, he sits steadily on a horse, and his arms are open to the left and right. After chasing him for miles alone, he shot dozens of enemies, including even the most armored minions!

The officers and men of the Huainan Army did not dare to relax at this time, they themselves knew that this victory was well prepared, and if the one-wheeled cavalry battle was a one-wheeled battle, the enemy army was indeed extraordinary, at least on the way to flee, they could still ensure that the team would not disperse, but the odds of victory were still uncertain.

Therefore, the soldiers did not hesitate to beat their horses and galloped, and first overwhelmed the enemy with momentum. In the process of this pursuit, the shortcomings of the enemy's lack of horsepower were gradually exposed, and many people fell behind, and even the war horses were directly exhausted and died on the way!

For these outdated enemy soldiers, the Huainan Army will naturally not be soft, flip the gun in their hands, and nail them to death casually! The road of this pursuit, which was only a mess at first, gradually became bloody. The blood became thicker and thicker, and in the end, it even accumulated directly on the road into pools of blood of different sizes, and corpses were everywhere!

A pursuit lasted twenty or thirty miles, and even the officers and men of the Huainan Army gradually fell behind. After all, they had also traveled from a long distance, only a few hours earlier than the enemy army, and although they had been fully replenished at the slipway, it was not enough to fully replenish the physical strength consumed.

In the end, including Han Huang and his supervising soldiers, only more than 1,000 people of the Huainan Army were still pursuing. The enemy army was even more unbearable, most of them fell sideways, a few broke out into the countryside, and only a few hundred people remained in front of the flight.

"Continue the pursuit, you must get all the credit!"

Han Huang's limbs were also weak at this time, and even the armor was taken off and thrown on the way just to lose weight. He also has a lot of energy in his heart, because he wanted to besiege the thief general Chen Guang, he couldn't reach Henan at the first time, and as a result, many of the army's backward advances were very successful.

Although Han Huang also had the merit of trapping Chen Guang, he didn't feel that it belonged to him, and he was also extremely eager for great merit at the moment, so he didn't want to laugh at it.

Finally, several horses fell in front of them, and then the speed dropped sharply, and it seemed that an important general was left behind, and the other deserters reined in their horses and returned.

At this time, Han Huang and the others finally caught up, those deserters looked nervous and surrounded one person, and that person was also unkempt at this time, seeing that the Huainan army had surrounded this place, he staggered and pushed away the soldiers nearby, knelt on the ground and stepped forward on his knees, his tone was dry and hoarse: "River, Hebei crime, crime general Han Yong, knock on the prince, begging, begging for life......"

When Han Huang heard this, his thick eyebrows immediately raised, and he grabbed the bow on his saddle and shot an arrow into the ground where the man's forehead was against with the little strength he had left, just a little from his scalp.

"The thief who joined the slaves is also worthy of the surname Han! Bundle it up! ”

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