Three Kingdoms: Prosper Han from the beginning of brushing favorability

Chapter 337: The great Han chariot general, Guan Yu is here!
The death-defying cavalry led by Yuan Zhong is Xiangyang's last hope.

The essence of cavalry tactics is to use one's own powerful mobility to pull the enemy's formation into detours, outflanks, and backstab. When the opponent's battle formation is torn apart and disrupted, creating a flaw, then launching a charge again.

Although Yuan Zhong was not skilled in martial arts, as the captain of a county in Cao Wei and staying in Xiangyang, one of the most important defensive cities on the front line, he was certainly not an amateur in cavalry combat.

However, this 500-man cavalry team was limited by the current terrain and the siege of the Jingzhou Army. It had no room for detours and faced a deadly battle as soon as it left the city.

The only tactic they can adopt is the stupid strategy that cavalry commanders often avoid - frontal charge.

Fortunately, Man Chong was able to arm them without reservation in terms of equipment, and all the good stuff that Xiangyang City still had was taken out.

Horse armor, mysterious armor, and everything at the bottom of the box were all put on this cavalry team.

In this 500-person cavalry team, nearly 200 people have mysterious armor. The others are all well-equipped with leather armor. The armor wearing rate has reached a terrifying 100%, and the proportion of mysterious armor is nearly half.

There are five hundred war horses under his crotch, and most of them are wearing horse armor.

This is undoubtedly a uniformed cavalry team, also known as heavy cavalry.

Yuan Zhong and other peripheral soldiers on the "edge" of this cavalry team are all wearing mysterious armor. These elites, armed to the point of war horses, will serve as the vanguard of the physical assault.

As a northern political power, Cao Wei was a well-deserved expert in cavalry among the Three Kingdoms, and its tactics gradually evolved and improved in its battles with nomads and the local Han people.

As for Liu Han, even a horse-riding general like Guan Yu, his cavalry tactics and tactics have stagnated over time.

Because there are no war horses or large-scale cavalry, it is naturally impossible to spend time studying every day, and there is no actual combat to test it. This is understandable.

Cao Wei was different. Even the cavalry team led by an unknown soldier like Yuan Zhong gave Guan Yu a lot of gains while watching the enemy's formation.

"When the Seventh Army was flooded before, we never had a head-on confrontation with Cao Wei's elite... I didn't expect Cao Wei's cavalry to be better than before."

Guan Yu, who was gathering his own soldiers and mobilizing his commanding army to encircle the cavalry, couldn't help but admire him.

Not all of Yuan Zhong's five hundred cavalry were "assault cavalry" armed with spears and spears more than ten feet long. Even this traditional arrow formation was, strictly speaking, a "flat-headed arrow" and trapezoidal structure.

After dealing with the Jingzhou soldiers who wanted to take the opportunity to rush into the city, the cavalry quickly adjusted their formation, and Yuan Zhong also retreated to the midfield position of the cavalry formation.

On the flat arrows, as the cavalry who were about to charge head-on into the Jingzhou military formation, they did not carry their iconic long-handled weapons.

Instead, he holds a shield in one hand and a sword in the other. He does not seek to kill when fighting, but only to break away from the enemy's formation and maximize his chance of survival.

These people only have two tasks: bump into people and survive.

The first two or three rows are filled with these "moving iron barrels".

The cavalry protected in the rear of the formation were more than a hundred mounted archers.

Before the cavalry engages the enemy, they will launch missiles at the enemy's position in an attempt to disrupt the enemy's position.

The shock cavalry armed with long-handled weapons are located on both sides of the front waist where Yuan Zhong is. They are the ones who are really responsible for killing the enemy after the cavalry archers and the front row iron barrels break up the enemy's battle formation.

For the infantry spear array that has lost the protection of the formation and most of them are not equipped with shields, these mounted cavalry on tall horses are a nightmare existence.

"kill--!"

Bang bang bang!
Cao Wei's armored cavalry with blood-red eyes stared straight into the Jingzhou soldiers who also had blood-red eyes. There was a dull sound of flesh colliding and the harsh sound of broken bones and tendons.

The dazzling scarlet color and the familiar smell of blood gradually began to spread on the battlefield.Guan Yu's orders were strictly implemented. Even though this order would cause more casualties to one's side in the face of the enemy's cavalry attack, no one disobeyed the order.

Military orders cannot be questioned, this is war.

Guan Yu was naturally well aware that his orders would bring additional casualties, but if he did not take advantage of this rare opportunity to disintegrate Xiangyang from within, the long-term casualties would be even more unpredictable.

Every famous general bears the burden of countless lives, whether it is the enemy's or one's own. This is the saying that kindness does not control the army.

The production volume of weapons and equipment in Linqiong was not large enough, and the equipment of ordinary soldiers of the Jingzhou Army had not been upgraded. Under the suicidal charge of the [-] cavalry, hundreds of Jingzhou soldiers died on the spot.

Some of the soldiers who were knocked away were not dead yet and were still wailing on the ground, but judging from the severity of their injuries, it was unlikely that military doctors could have saved their lives.

"Gentlemen, there is a stone cart ahead, charge! Don't stop!"

Yuan Zhong struggled to hold the horse in his hand tightly. His arms were already starting to feel weak due to his poor martial arts skills, but he still gritted his teeth and held on, boosting the morale of the cavalry.

Man Chong, a close confidant who was following him, was a little moved when he saw this. He knew Yuan Zhong very well and knew that Yuan Duwei was already performing at a super level. He couldn't help but wonder if the intelligence was wrong. Yuan Duwei was clearly Wei Zhonglie!

The death squads penetrated a formation of Jingzhou soldiers. Instead of seeking to increase the damage, they immediately picked up their speed again and rushed towards the first thunder cannon that was very close at hand.

"Get on the rocket!"

Following the order from Wei's loyal minister Yuan Duwei, the cavalry archers immediately put on rockets, ignited them with the help of the Wei cavalry carrying torches next to them, and then fired at the Lei Gong cannon.

During this period, they did not dare to stop or even slow down.

In the midst of a large army, once you are blocked, it's all over.

The cavalry in the front rushed to kill the Jingzhou soldiers guarding the thunder cannon, while the cavalry archers in the rear concentrated on throwing rockets.

The shooting accuracy while riding is already impressive, not to mention they are projectiles.

Fortunately, the assembled thunder cannon was large enough, and more than ten of the rockets fired one after another by the cavalry successfully hit the target.

Yuan Zhong did not dare to confirm the victory, and immediately ordered the cavalry to turn around and rush to the next target before the follow-up support from Jingzhou soldiers arrived.

However... Today, after Nanzhong has been pacified for a long time, the number of qualified war horses in Jingzhou Army's "amphibious" combat troops has also increased a lot.

The total number is still small. Guan Yu's 5 troops, including the previous base, only have less than 2000 qualified cavalry.

In fact, in terms of the number of war horses alone, another batch can be made up. The reason why the cavalry cannot continue to be expanded is the quality of the personnel and the training of the cavalry.

In terms of the quality of individual soldiers, there is still a gap between them and Cao Wei's cavalry.

However, it was more than enough to deal with the five hundred elites who favored Xiangyang.

Without him, just because it was that man who led the team.

"Nobody! The great Han chariot general Guan Yu is here, so don't be so arrogant!"

A roar resounded through the battlefield, and Guan Yu's long black and white beard was flying on a sturdy maroon horse, holding the Qinglong Yanyue Sword tailor-made for him by Liu Chan, flying towards him!

(End of this chapter)