At this time, Xiahou Yuan suddenly raised his voice with a solemn expression: "Pass my order, cloth the shield array!" ”

As soon as Xiahou Yuan's order came out, all the generals on the high platform were stunned, but the heralds were all Xiahou Yuan's henchmen, and they conveyed the order without hesitation. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The order was conveyed quickly and in a timely manner, but the executor was not so decisive. There are about half of the recruits in the army, even those veterans, who had no subordinate relationship with Xiahou Yuan before, and of course they have no problem in carrying out ordinary orders, but they feel hesitant to give orders that are contrary to common sense and seem very abrupt.

Obviously, his side has the upper hand, so why give up the advantage and turn to the defensive? It's easy to deploy a shield array, but after the shield array is deployed, it's difficult to launch a smooth round of fire.

The army's sluggish reaction annoyed Xiahou Yuan. He shouted for the heralds, who rarely saw such a look from their commander. Knowing that the situation was serious, he desperately waved the flag and conveyed the order over and over again, but with little success.

In fact, apart from the initial command, he and his companions were doing futile work.

At the same time as Xiahou Yuan gave the order, the smoke and dust on the opposite side began to surge, as if time had been reversed.

Another knight led by "Guarding Tiger Ben ......" pointed his finger in front of his iron halberd and shouted wildly, with a hint of trembling in his final note.

Once upon a time, he was also shouting and fighting like this, and the iron horses around him were like clouds, vertical and horizontal, invincible, and the entire northern grassland would tremble for it. Whether it is Karasuma, Goguryeo, or the Xiongnu and Xianbei people, those uncivilized herdsmen only have to bow down to the ground and beg for mercy in front of the iron horse.

It's just that with the pacification of the prairie, he hasn't experienced such a bloody battle for too long. Several times he followed the lord to participate in the big battle, but the iron cavalry of the pro-guard army was guarding the lord's side, and did not go into battle to kill. He felt as if his body was about to rust. And the entire personal guard iron horse, in this comfortable life, the sharpness of the past is no longer there.

Fortunately, this time, the lord once again brought the Iron Cavalry of the Pro-Guard Army to the battlefield, allowing them to regain their former glory.

"Unparalleled in the world!" The battle horn corresponded, and the battle spirit that rushed to the sky was like a spring of the east wind, like a silver bottle bursting. Six thousand light horsemen, unstoppable, surging forward like mercury......

Silver light, dazzling golden light!

At this moment, only the flickering silver light dominated the battlefield, filling the eyes of tens of thousands of soldiers of the two armies; It shook their hearts, made them unable to think, unable to move.

Panic swept the Cao army soldiers again.

Li Dian exclaimed, "How is it possible? They didn't lose many people! ”

Like most of the generals of the Cao Army, he also thought that Li Yi's silver spear and silver armor of the iron cavalry of the pro-guard army were fake and bluffing. Even if Li Yi gathered all the silver of the Han Dynasty, he would not be able to forge six thousand sets of heavy armor. Not to mention a corner of the northern frontier.

After all, although Hebei's territory is wide now, most of them are newly conquered places, only Jizhou was still rich before, and even Youzhou and Bingzhou were wild places that almost fell into the hands of barbarians more than ten years ago. That is, in the ten years after Li Yi occupied these two states, there was some recovery.

Including Li Dian, many people believe that these 6,000 silver armor are just camouflaged with cloth armor and leather armor.

But now the truth is that they have been slapped in the face. Because the rain of arrows shot by the army did not cause any damage to the other party.

If it is camouflaged with cloth armor and leather armor, how can it have such good protection?

In fact, the guess of the generals of the Cao army, including Xiahou Yuan, was correct, these six thousand armors with iron horses were not silver. Moreover, due to the metallic nature of silver, it is not suitable for armor.

In fact, these 6,000 sets of armor are the fruits of the technology that Li Yi exchanged through the summoning system, and if people in later generations saw it, they would report a title: "Stainless steel!" ”

Yes, the material of these armors is stainless steel, ferritic stainless steel to be exact.

After conquering the Xianbei steppe, a Xianbei tribe paid tribute to a special piece of metal, and when Li Yi saw it, he recognized that this was red lead ore, which Li Yi knew contained chromium, which could be reduced with carbon and then made into ferritic stainless steel.

After five years of hard work by the R&D department, stainless steel was finally developed three years ago. It's just that the output is extremely low, even if the entire production capacity is started, only these 6,000 sets of heavy armor have been made up in the past three years.

And this battle with Cao's army was the first battle after the change of equipment of this army.

This time, it was not only the recruits who were panicking, but also the experienced veterans who could judge the number of cavalry through various details, and they were shocked to find that the cavalry that launched the charge was no less than just now!

"Is that the Silver Armor real?"

"Really, right? It's not true, how can it withstand an offensive like that just now? ”

The covering attack carried out by tens of thousands of strong bows and crossbows can cause much damage, and the veterans know in their hearts. At a distance of about 100 paces, the only ones who could retreat under such an offensive were those lucky ones and heavily armored infantry cavalry!

Of course, it is impossible for 6,000 people to be lucky, so the only reasonable explanation is that the armor on the enemy's body is real!

But...... Thousands of people and horses in full gear, is this kind of thing possible?

In addition to the panic, there was another layer of heavy doubts, and the soldiers of the Cao army could no longer see the flags waving in the rear, nor could they hear the continuous sound of horns and the sound of passionate war drums, but just stared at the silver light in front of them, as if they were in a dream that they couldn't wake up from......

Nightmare!

What woke them up was a terrible howling.

After entering the distance of eighty paces, the Northern Frontier Iron Cavalry launched a rush!

The howling sound of the arrows tearing through the air was terrible and piercing, and the trajectory of their flight was not as large as the arc of the arrows shot by the bow, but flew parallel into the air, and with the wild gallop of the war horse, they shot at the opposite side at an unthinkable speed, and flew into the enemy formation from the gap in the shield, bringing up a puff of blood and screams.

This is not an arrow shot from a riding bow, but a hand crossbow specially developed by Li Yi for these heavy cavalry.

The lethality of the heavy cavalry is brought by its powerful impact power, but it also has its own flaw, that is, the lack of long-range strike capabilities. If the previous guards were completely converted into heavy cavalry, then the powerful cavalry and archery abilities they had cultivated over the years would be completely abandoned. This is a great waste of the abilities of these cavalrymen.

Equipped with this hand crossbow, this waste is avoided. Because this kind of hand crossbow is easy to load, and there is no need to pull the bowstring, even after wearing heavy armor, it can still be completed.

Therefore, the rain of arrows of the Northern Xinjiang Iron Cavalry did not have the same huge momentum as the Cao army, but the coherence of the offensive was still above the Cao army's rotational fire.

Once in range, the Iron Riders continued to shoot arrows into the opposite array as they ranched. It seems that a long time has passed, but in fact, it is only a blink of an eye, and hundreds of people have fallen in the front row of Cao Jun!

In the battle of tens of thousands of troops, this is insignificant. However, if you strictly compare it, no matter who you are, you will be surprised, even in the previous rounds of powerful shooting, Cao Jun did not lose so many people.

Now, just a moment of exposure has produced several times as many victims as before.

"Fight back! Fight back! Xiahou Yuan looked at the fallen soldiers, his eyes were about to split, and his heart was like a knife.

In fact, it was too late for the Cao army to counterattack, because the vanguard of the Northern Frontier Iron Cavalry had already rushed into the front of the Cao army's array.

Like a group of bloodthirsty beasts, the Northern Frontier Iron Cavalry let out a heart-rending roar, and pounced with teeth and claws. In front of this group of fierce beasts, Cao Jiangshi, who was alive and well not long ago, was like a fallen leaf in a strong wind, and like a splash of water, being wantonly devoured by the enemy, powerless and helpless.

They forgot that their shields could protect them, and that their crossbows could kill their enemies, and they just stood there until they were pierced by the arrows or halberds of their enemies, or they were terrified by the screams of their companions...... They were stunned.

Xiahou Yuan's orders are not completely unattended, there are always some bold and calm, and besides, some of Xiahou Yuan's personal guards are also supervising the battle in front of the battle, these people are ruthless characters and will not be easily intimidated.

Whether it was a salvo or a sporadic shot, while the iron cavalry in the northern Xinjiang was galloping across and wantonly killing, the counterattack of the Cao army was also going on.

However, few successes were achieved. It was already difficult to shoot at a high-speed moving target, and it was easy to hit, but it was impossible to let the enemy fall off his horse, which aggravated the sense of powerlessness of Cao's soldiers.

The pride of the excellent equipment has been completely compared with the enemy, and if the enemy's cavalry cannot be restrained, what is the point of numerical superiority?

"Equip the Iron Rider! It's really an iron horse! It was easy to recover his language ability, and Le Jin directly let out a miserable howl, "Miaocai, you can't win the fight, withdraw it!" While the Iron Cavalry has just begun to charge, retreat quickly! Otherwise, you won't be able to run if you want to! ”

Although these words were very frustrating, Le Jin's wail still resonated with many people, including Mao Jue, and everyone echoed it, hoping that Xiahou Yuan would seize the opportunity and quickly withdraw with everyone.

Six thousand mounted iron horses and six thousand light horsemen are completely two concepts, although I don't know how Li Yi did it, but now that the situation is so critical, where is there room to explore the truth?

"Retreat?" Xiahou Yuan sneered, his face full of disdain, he raised his hand and pointed into the distance, and shouted, "Do you think that our two legs can compare to the four legs of a horse?" ”

"......" Xiahou Yuan's tone was very unkind, but no one cared about it at the moment, first, he was used to it, and more importantly, Xiahou Yuan's words were bloody for a while, and he pointed out the problems that everyone didn't pay attention to.

Isn't it, no matter how fast a man runs, he can be faster than a galloping horse? If they retreated, their generals and advisers with horses, as well as the hundreds of cavalry, might be able to escape, but the army of 30,000 foot soldiers would probably all be buried here. (To be continued.) )