In the era of cold weapons, a brigade of nearly 100,000 horsemen had sufficient space to accelerate and charge, which could be said to be an unstoppable force.

Being in this torrent, rushing forward without hindrance, gives people a feeling that everything is under control and victory is in sight. This feeling is not at all something that can be felt when the cavalry charge is blocked, but for some reason, Ma Chao always feels that there is some uneasy element throbbing in his heart.

"It's a feeling...... No, there must be something wrong! The moment he heard the horn of the defeated horse in front of him, he could no longer control his emotions and shouted directly.

Ma Dai pressed the iron helmet on his head that was tilted hard, followed closely by Ma Chao's side, heard Ma Chao's shout, and asked worriedly: "Big brother, what's wrong?" ”

"Something is wrong," Ma Chao shook his head vigorously, threw out the rain that was flowing down his cheeks, and shouted: "Bo Zhan, try to investigate quickly, I want to know how the front army is fighting!" ”

“…… Here! Ma Dai hesitated for a moment before receiving the order.

This order is quite unreasonable.

Although the Xiliang cavalry army had many soldiers and horses, the queue was huge, and the distance between the front and back was several miles away. But the cavalry brigade ran at such a fast speed, if there was no obstacle, running from the middle army to the current position of the front army would be just a cup of tea.

Trying to get in touch with the front army and find out the situation of the war? Is this necessary?

What's more, the army has completely entered the rhythm of the charge, tens of thousands of cavalry rushed in one direction, in it, it was really like a light boat swaying in the stormy waves, following the momentum of the wave to go down, if you want to turn or turn around, then ten ** will be crushed by this huge wave.

To put it bluntly, the battle has been fought to this point, even if you know that the Qingzhou Army has set up an ambush, there is no way to change anything, all the chips are bet on the table, and the direction of the bet is also selected, and the only thing left is to fight with all your might, and then resign yourself to fate.

If it is necessary to stop the war horses, the rear army should barely have a chance to do it, but in Ma Dai's heart, a cavalry charge of this scale, and in such a plain terrain, there is no force in the whole world that can block it, even if there are any traps, they can rush through with strong strength.

What's the point of investigating the state of the former army now?

The biggest trouble is the current weather, in such a rainstorm, dozens of steps away, the scenery can only see a vague shadow, a hundred steps away, it is completely like two worlds.

The drums and horns on the battlefield are noisy, the two sides interfere with each other, and neither of them can take care of the details, and can only convey some established orders, such as forward, retreat, or some pre-planned tactics and plans.

If you want to find out the situation ahead, you can only order the warriors with super high riding skills, in the process of charging in the group, take the risk to step forward, and then pass the information back through some specific means.

This approach is quite dangerous, and the timeliness is not strong, so it is a little wrong to come back and sacrifice for Ma Chao's unfounded worries.

Therefore, Ma Dai felt hesitant, but from Ma Chao's expression and tone, he felt that extraordinary solemn aura. After a little hesitation, he still chose to believe in Ma Chao's intuition, but all famous generals will always have qualities beyond ordinary people's imagination in some aspects, just like the legend in the world, Wang Yu's divine prediction ability, and then like the eldest brother's battlefield intuition.

"You go forward, and when you see Ling Ming, tell him that if there is something wrong ahead, you can adopt the most suitable tactics and try to repay at the same time!" Ma Dai ordered a few guards and ordered loudly.

"Whoa!" Several guards responded with a promise, urged the war horse, raised the speed of the horse to the extreme, and disappeared into the rain curtain in a blink of an eye.

When the guards left, Ma Chao suddenly fell silent, no longer shouting like when he first launched the charge, but issued an order to let the middle and rear armies suppress the speed and not rush too fast. Because of his orders, there was even a brief disconnect between the Chinese army and the front army.

You know, in the midst of cavalry warfare, this is a big taboo!

Ten thousand horses galloped, the sound of horses' hooves was like muffled thunder, but several heralds who rushed forward were never visible, watching the cavalry around them gradually disperse, and began to beat the horse's belly with the soles of their boots to accelerate, and the green anger on Ma Chao's face became heavier and heavier.

......At this moment, a cavalryman suddenly emerged from the rain curtain and galloped in the opposite direction to the galloping army. Although the cavalry along the road saw that this was his own man, and tried his best to dodge, he could not avoid the great effect of inertia, and after drilling through the gap between the four rows of cavalry one after another, he finally collided with the fifth row of cavalry.

The two war horses that collided let out an earth-shattering neigh, and the cavalry that was affected around them were also shouting horses, desperately dodging, but where could they dodge?

The cavalry on the horse panicked, and the herald in the mud closed his eyes and waited for death, seeing that this person was about to be trampled into flesh along with the battle report, a figure suddenly rushed out obliquely, completely unaffected by the chaos, and accurately reached the center of the chaos.

It was a knight, a knight with extraordinary horsemanship! Not only did the horse run fast, but while galloping past the herald, the knight on the horse also used a means of hiding in the stirrups, grabbed the silk silk around the herald's waist with his hands, and lifted it directly from the muddy water!

Everything happened between lightning and flint, and even the herald came back to his senses after hearing his lord's question, and found that he had already turned around the ghost gate and escaped.

"Don't be stunned, tell me quickly, what's going on ahead? Is there something wrong? ”

"Enlighten the lord, the big thing is not good! The enemy troops put on a scattered formation, which seems to be a small threat, but in fact it is extremely terrifying! In the former army, General Ma had already died on the battlefield, and General Yang had gone deep into the enemy formation, and there was no news, and I am afraid that it was also more auspicious. General Pang said that it was too late to stop the attack now, so he could only survive in the dead and strive to break through the sky! ”

"How is that possible?" Ma Chao shouted in disbelief: "How can the stragglers be so powerful? ”

"The enemy army has a crossbow machine, which is said to be able to shoot continuously without interruption, and our army's paper armor somehow suddenly has no effect, and it was caught off guard and was plotted!"

"......" Ma Chao was so angry that he couldn't roar.

In fact, when the herald and his cavalry collided just now, he realized that something was wrong. The design of the paper armor anti-bow crossbow originally relied not on the hardness, but on the weakened buffering ability layer by layer. Arrows shot at paper armor, even at the end of a strong crossbow, can make a hole in the surface of the paper armor, the difference is only the size and depth of the gap.

Therefore, in addition to bows and crossbows, paper armor also has a considerable defensive effect on the attack of melee weapons.

But when it hit just now, the paper armor on the cavalry's body 'poof' and deflated, and it didn't play a role in buffering at all.

"It's rain, it's rain! On the surface, paper armor is afraid of fire, but in fact, it is most afraid of water...... We have been calculated, and we have been counted to death by Wang Yu's thief! Ma Chao gritted a mouthful of steel teeth with a 'gurgling' sound, a stuffy breath filled his chest, and his heart seemed to be pinched by someone's hand, and it could burst open at any time.

When Cao Cao sent the paper armor, he told him that the weakness of the paper armor was that it was afraid of fire, and it could not give the enemy a chance to carry out fire attacks, and it should also be protected from moisture. But to avoid dampness, this kind of precautions, is all weapons and equipment have, iron armor will rust when wet, leather armor will be moldy and even hairy, but such a scruple does not prevent the armor from drenching in battle.

Because of this common sense, Ma Chao did not deliberately do experiments to explore the weaknesses of the paper armor, but only carefully marched to the village, not giving the enemy a chance to set fire to attack.

Ma Chao has experimented, even if he is shot by a rocket, the knight wearing paper armor has every chance to abandon his armor to survive before being burned by the fire. But he never thought that what the paper armor was really afraid of was water, and it was not an ordinary fear.

After only a little time in the heavy rain, the solid paper armor became almost like paste and dough. Not to mention blocking arrows, Ma Chao even doubted that if it rained for a longer time, would these paper armors be blown out by the wind and fly out one by one? Thinking of the repeater in the mouth of the herald, no matter how dull the person is, he knows that he has fallen into the enemy's calculations.

"Wang Pengju, you are so ruthless, so poisonous!" Ma Chao screamed sadly, moved his spear forward, and shouted violently: "Order, the whole army will unload its armor, charge to the death, fight with all your might, and never die!" ”

"The whole army will unload its armor and never die!" The generals shouted in unison, and just passed on the orders layer by layer.

The soldiers in the paper armor had long felt that something was wrong, they didn't know that the defense of the paper armor had been neutralized, but they all had personal experience of the sharp increase in weight after the paper armor absorbed water.

The paper armor is not light, but after getting wet, the weight increases in multiples, and it feels similar to the iron armor, but it has lost its defense, so why keep it if you don't throw it? Throwing away the heavy burden and being inspired by the main general, the speed of the Xiliang army suddenly increased, and the momentum of the impact became more violent.

"Form a dense formation, advance as a whole, and charge the scattered formations of the enemy army!" The order issued by Ma Chao only pointed out the general direction, and when it came to the details, it still needed to pass through Ma Dai's layer.

Ma Dai is a very good lieutenant general, he has a good understanding of the main points of the message conveyed by the herald, and based on this, he broke down and refined the orders of the main general Ma Chao, and formulated the most suitable tactics for the current situation.

Although the crossbows of the Qingzhou Army are powerful, the deployment of the Qingzhou Army is mainly based on flank killing. In this case, simply force the front and not give the opponent's crossbow a chance to be powerful. Doing so will increase a lot of casualties, but it is better than just being beaten and not being able to do it.

As long as Wang Yu didn't have any other tricks, this battle would be won after all. This is not so much Ma Dai's judgment, but rather his expectation, the real feeling in his heart is actually that the entire Xiliang army is running wild on a road of no return.