A whole night passed, and the bloody battle reached dawn.

The eastern sky was full of morning glow, and the clouds were blue at first, and gradually red and purple, and then a round of morning sun came up from the mountains in the east, and everything on the earth woke up from a dream. It's just that today's morning sun seems to be stained with blood on the battlefield, extraordinarily bright red, and the blood-like morning sun shoots out thousands of golden rays, reflecting half of the eastern sky red.

On the tidal flats on the south bank, which are less than ten miles long, there are corpses with severed limbs and severed limbs. Countless blood stained the black land black and purple. Whether it was the soldiers of the Wei army or the infantry of Jianghuai, they fought for most of the night, and they were all extremely tired at this time.

In particular, the infantry of the Jianghuai Army not only carried a fifteen-pound lance in their hands, but also hung an iron shield weighing several pounds in their hands, and wore double-layered heavy armor. It can support until this time, and it is almost to the limit.

The attacking Wei soldiers had no hope of today's victory, and although these soldiers and horses were Li Mi's most elite trump card troops, they were only selected from the peasant army after all. Although at the time of the first battle, the momentum was magnificent, but the battle could not be fought for a long time, their morale gradually weakened, and they were even waiting in their hearts for the order to withdraw troops from the rear.

At this moment, the sound of drums and horns from behind the opponent's formation suddenly made the two warring sides nervous.

As soon as the Jianghuai infantry, which was already gradually exhausted, heard the sound of the drum horn, it seemed that they had suddenly regained the strength of their whole body, and they roared and fought back desperately. Rows and rows of lances were pierced, and the infantrymen shouted slogans while striding forward. The entire infantry formation was like a grand momentum, and the offensive was like a tide.

Wang Bodang, who was leading his troops to make the final assault, suddenly found on the horse that the opponent's huge trapezoidal infantry array. With the sound of the enemy's drums and horns, it was actually cracking to the left and right. Originally, they could not break through the top corner of the trapezoidal phalanx. It automatically cracked left and right.

Wang Bodang was still amazed by this sudden change. The soldiers of the Wei army, who were dense in front of the phalanx, burst out with the same noisy roar, carrying horizontal knives and spears, and rushed straight towards the mouth of the broken phalanx.

Outcome. This group of hundreds of soldiers who were going to compete for the first merit in breaking the formation were not happy for a while. It was already crushed into meat sauce by the rolling iron stream that suddenly rushed out from behind the phalanx.

The cavalry of the Jianghuai Army attacked, and Wang Bodang was shocked to find that it was actually an ironclad cavalry.

Before Chen Kefu's Liaodong broken barracks heavy cavalry became famous. The most famous heavy cavalry of the Sui Dynasty was Luo Yi's Youzhou Iron Cavalry. Or even further afield. In the era of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, whether it was the Northern Wei Dynasty, the Eastern Wei Dynasty, the Western Wei Dynasty, or the Northern Zhou and Northern Qi Dynasty, or the Southern Liang and Southern Chen Dynasty in the South, every long or short dynasty was once equipped with an armored cavalry outfit.

The armor cavalry is the heavy cavalry with iron armor. The pinnacle of real cavalry is also the most expensive class. For the era of chaotic war between the North and the South without a year and a month without war. Although the ironclad heavy cavalry burns money, the power it can exert at the critical time is something that every country does not dare to ignore.

During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the emergence of stirrups and the improvement of the saddle further improved the combat effectiveness of the cavalry, and also made the appearance of the heavy cavalry equipped with armored cavalry extremely powerful. During the Northern Zhou Dynasty, Gao Zhongmi, the general of the Eastern Wei Dynasty and the assassin of the Northern Yu Prefecture, wanted to rape his wife because Gao Cheng, the son of Gao Huan of the Eastern Wei Dynasty, rebelled in anger and surrendered to Yuwentai, the general of the Western Wei Dynasty.

Yu Wentai led the army to Luoyang to meet in person, Gao Huan got the report and led 100,000 troops to cross the Yellow River, according to the mountain as a battle, launched the fourth war between the two Wei, that is, the history of the mountain battle. …,

In history, Peng Le, a general under Gao Huan of the Eastern Wei Dynasty, led 3,000 ironclad heavy cavalry to rush into the Western Wei army, and all the way to the Western Wei camp were defeated. A total of 48 people including five princes, including Lintao and Wang Yuankhan of the Western Wei Dynasty, as well as the generals and staff officers, were captured. Gao Huan ordered the drum to attack and behead more than 30,000 people.

The next day, the Eastern and Western Wei armies regrouped and resumed fighting. Because a soldier of the Chinese army committed suicide on a donkey, and was scolded by the law enforcement officer and leaked secrets angrily, Yuwentai then learned of Gao Huan's own location, and immediately transferred the general Cai You under his command, and led 3,000 ironclad cavalry as the vanguard to attack Gao Huanzhong's military tent, and Yuwentai led the main force of the three armies to bypass both sides and attack the Eastern Wei army together. Gao Huan was in a hurry and could not meet the enemy, and almost all the infantry outside the camp were captured. Gao Huan of the Eastern Wei Dynasty finally escaped with only seven horsemen.

At that time, Cai You's ironclad cavalry armor was stronger than that of the Eastern Wei Dynasty, and the Qi people saw the iron cavalry of the Western Wei Dynasty and exclaimed that it was an iron beast.

In the historical record of the Battle of Bishan, Yuwentai and Gao Huan were both heroes, although they were called courtiers, but in fact they were the real emperors of the Eastern and Western Wei, and their sons each created the Northern South and Northern Qi on the foundation they laid. is such two heroes in troubled times, a generation of heroes, both of whom were almost captured in the same way. First of all, Yuwentai of the Western Wei Dynasty was defeated, the prince was arrested five, the general and staff were captured 48 people, and more than 30,000 people were beheaded. The first credit for the Eastern Wei general Peng Le and the 3,000 ironclad heavy cavalry led by him.

Immediately afterwards, Yuwentai of the Western Wei Dynasty also sent a fierce general Cai You to lead 3,000 ironclad cavalry to attack Gao Huan's Chinese army, defeated the Eastern Wei army, and almost captured Gao Huan alive.

This battle of Bishan was extremely tragic, and the famous generals took turns to fight, but whether it was Peng Le of the Eastern Wei Dynasty or Cai You, the iron beast of the Western Wei Dynasty, they all relied on this battle to make them into the ranks of peerless fierce generals. And the ironclad cavalry under their command has also become synonymous with fierceness and invincibility.

But with the passage of time, especially after the Northern Zhou Dynasty unified the north, and then unified the Central Plains. The war in the Central Plains gradually subsided, and the Sui Dynasty rarely sent a large army to fight a decisive battle.

Later, although Luo Yi had a Youzhou Iron Cavalry, the number of this Iron Cavalry was very small, although it deterred the Northern Xinjiang, but it did not have too amazing achievements. Until the time of the Third Liaodong Campaign, Chen Kefu broke through the 80,000 light cavalry of the Goguryeo people with 1,000 heavy cavalry in Xincheng. Immediately afterwards, on the battlefield of Liaodong, the heavy cavalry frequently showed its might, and broke the enemy army with a small number of enemies. When the prestige of the heavy cavalry of the Liaodong broken military camp spread to the world with the rise of Chen Kefu, the eyes of many people with a heart returned to the top of the heavy cavalry.

Among these caring people, Wang Shichong is one of them. At first, he suppressed bandits in Jianghuai, basically using platoons to meet the enemy, and then using light cavalry to break the enemy. As soon as his combination came out, it was simply an invincible hand across the Jianghuai, and the rebels from all walks of life had one to destroy one, and two to destroy a pair. But since he learned about Chen Kefu's achievements in Liaodong, his mind has become lively.

The Goguryeo people are different from the peasant army, and he understands this in his heart. He asked himself that if he led his Jianghuai army to Liaodong, he would definitely not be able to achieve the same record as Chen Kefu. Therefore, when Wang Shichong was suppressing bandits, he also began to use the wealth he collected in Jianghuai to secretly upgrade his troops.

Not only did he equip the infantry with a single spear with double armor and iron shields, but he also increased the number of light cavalry he owned several times. And behind the scenes, Wang Shichong has been secretly forming his own Wang's ironclad cavalry.

This heavy cavalry battalion, which cost the Wang family countless wealth and brought together the most elite soldiers of the Wang family, has never been publicly displayed. …,

Yang Guang never knew, neither did Li Yuan, who had worked with Wang Shichong, nor did Yang Tong, Duan Da, the king of Yue in the Eastern Capital. Even Li Mi, who thought he had defeated Wang Shichong not long ago, had never heard of the slightest rumor of this ironclad cavalry.

Now, like a tiger out of prison, Wang Xuanying, who has just taken over Wang Shichong's position as commander of the Jianghuai Army, has no intention of hiding such a strong army and horses at all. Facing the faint dissatisfaction of the little emperor and those officials in the Eastern Capital, there is also the undercurrent within the Wang family. Wang Xuanying did not hesitate, and directly sent out this ironclad cavalry, which was originally the last killing move of the Wang family.

The 5,000-strong ironclad heavy cavalry were all dressed in red iron armor, and even the color of the helmets on their heads was as bright red as blood.

Behind the Jianghuai platoon infantry array, which was open on the left and right, five thousand ironclad cavalry had already completed preparations such as armor and mounting, and everyone was holding a horse lance eight feet long, forming a huge arrow charge formation on the shore.

The sky is getting brighter and brighter, and the morning glow like blood in the east reflects the Jianghuai cavalry by the Yellow River, reflecting a delicate light like blood. A gust of morning breeze blew, blowing up the bright red helmets of all the knights.

Wang Wei, Yang Wei, Huo Shiju, Liu Changgong, Liang Dezhong, Dong Zhitong, and the six chief and deputy commanders of the Jianghuai heavy cavalry were all dressed in the same armor and lined up in front of the battle.

Wang Bian raised his horse lance high, and the five thousand knights, who had never shown their strength to the world since their formation, were solemn.

Suddenly, the raised hand pressed down hard, and the cavalry let out a deafening roar: "Jianghuai Iron Cavalry, invincible!" "This is the first time that the hoplites have shouted their way out to the world.

On the flagship of the Anlan in Hexinzhou, Zhang Zhongjian's face changed, first he was surprised and dignified, and then after a while, he became relaxed again. He pursed his lips and said as if talking to himself, "How did Wang Shichong give birth to such a stupid son, alas, it's a pity that Wang Shichong tried his best to hide this hand." But now that you've revealed yourself, I'm not going to let you keep this heavy horse. Hmph, even if you follow the cat and the tiger, but only with brave knights and excellent equipment, if you don't have an excellent commander, how can you have such a brave heavy cavalry. ”

The wind was blowing slowly, and no one noticed the rear of the battlefield, Zhang Zhongjian looked at the cold gaze of the tiger army that had just come out of the cage.