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Chapter 247 0244 [Blocking War]

Twenty thousand versus four and a half thousand, which seems to be a military advantage, but is actually a disadvantage.

Since the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms to the present, after countless wars, an iron law has been summed up.

In the battle formation, the heavy armored cavalry has always been able to defeat ten.

That is, only ten times the number of infantry as heavy armored cavalry can barely compete with them head-on.

There is no way. A heavy armored cavalry, including man, horse and armor, weighs over a thousand kilograms, like a steel chariot.

The impact generated by the wild running was extremely frightening.

Thousands of heavy armored cavalry are like thousands of galloping chariots. If they are not ten times the number of the enemy, how can they be stopped?
boom!
The [-] Western troops had been marching for six or seven hours. They were all extremely exhausted. Their whole bodies were sore and weak. They could not even pull the bow string of the divine arm crossbow. How could they stop the wolf-like and tiger-like Qingzhou cavalry.

In just a few breaths, the cavalry penetrated the front army and headed straight for the center army.

The cavalry at the forefront of the sharp arrow formation was covered in heavy armor, with only a pair of cold eyes exposed, staring at Wang Yuan who was surrounded by his bodyguards hundreds of steps away.

That’s the look he’s looking at his prey!
"Good thief, die!"

Wang Yuan was furious and pulled out the steel knife from his waist with a clang.

The captain of the personal guard held him tightly and urged with an anxious look: "The commander-in-chief must not be impulsive. The Qingzhou Army is determined to ambush more than just the cavalry. For this plan, the best way is to go!"

Wang Yuan knew in his heart that the guard was right.

Since the Qingzhou Army has set up an ambush here, it will never be just cavalry. Once the ambush infantry arrives, they will not be able to leave even if they want to.

"Ugh!"

Wang Yuan punched the saddle, gritted his teeth and uttered one word: "Let's go!"

After that, he glanced at the cavalryman bitterly, and, escorted by four hundred personal guards, turned his horse's head and rushed out of the central army.

Liu Qi looked at Wang Yuan who was escaping, a hint of joking flashed in his eyes, and continued to lead his cavalry to divide the Western Army's formation without pursuing him.

As soon as the commander fled, the already defeated Western Army collapsed completely and fled in all directions.

"Kill!!!"

At this moment, deafening shouts of killing came from the mountains on both sides.

Thousands of elite Xuanjia troops swooped down from the mountains and surrounded and killed the fleeing Western Army.

Wang Yuan's face turned livid when he heard the shouts of killing coming from behind him.

The Qingzhou Army's ambush, both in terms of timing and location, was perfect, and they knew almost everything about their movements.

To achieve this, it is impossible to rely on scouts alone. There must be a traitor passing on the information.

"After we return, we will conduct a thorough investigation and find out the traitor!"

Wang Yuan thought in his mind, and whipped the horse whip in his hand, increasing the speed of the war horse to the extreme.

However, the next moment, Wang Yuan's pupils shrank suddenly.

At the end of the official road, a hundred heavily armored cavalry were quietly arrayed, like tigers waiting for their prey to arrive.

Although there were only a hundred, in terms of momentum and physical strength, they were far superior to the cavalry that had just charged into the battle.

The leader is holding a horse spear that is more than ten feet long.

The horse's entire body was black and faintly glowing with cold light.

Ma Shan had withdrawn from the war stage a long time ago.

Without him, with the popularity of heavy armor, it would be difficult for horses to break armor.

It was expensive and useless, so it naturally withdrew from the stage and was replaced by hook-and-scythe spears designed to deal with cavalry.

The hook-and-scythe gun is cheap to make. It has an armor-piercing edge on the head, which can break heavy armor. At the same time, there is a backward sickle hook eight inches away from the gun blade. This hook is extremely useful.

It can not only hook the enemy cavalry off the horse, but also cut off the horse's legs.

After all, the heavily armored cavalry is equipped with both men and horses, but no matter how armored the war horses are, their legs are always exposed.

Today, there are only two types of people who still use Ma Shan.

Either he is a new recruit who knows nothing, or he is an extremely strong man who is extremely confident in himself.

Moreover, behind the cavalry, there were three hundred heavily armored infantry, ready with shields and guns raised.

A pack of wolves chased her behind, and a tiger blocked her way in front.

Really hopeless!
Wang Yuan was heartbroken and shouted loudly: "Charge over!"

"rush!"

The four hundred personal guards behind him shouted in unison and rushed towards the one hundred heavy armored cavalry.

"Break the enemy!"

Han Zhen said lightly and urged his horses to meet him.

"Capital, we are entangled with the rebel heavy cavalry, you find a chance to escape!"

Just as the guards finished speaking, they led more than thirty guards to cross Wang Yuan on horseback and protect him behind them.

boom!
On the narrow official road, two cavalrymen collided head-on.

It is extremely rare for cavalry to face each other head-on.

Han Zhen took the lead. There was a burst of wind in the black iron stick in his hand, and he pulled it away with great force.

boom!
One of the guards was hit, and he immediately sprayed blood mist from his mouth and flew backwards.

Gollum!

Wang Yuan swallowed, with a look of horror on his face.

Using a horse to whip people away, what kind of magical power is this?

Seeing how brave he was, several personal guards raised their sickle-hook spears and stabbed him hard.

Facing the hook and sickle spears thrust from all directions, Han Zhen's expression remained unchanged as the iron spear drew an arc and swept out.

Crack clap!

A crisp cracking sound, mixed with screams, sounded continuously.

Under the sweep of the iron barrage, all the hooks and sickles broke, and the terrifying force caused the mouths of the Western Army guards to burst open along the gun shafts.

The iron rod, which weighed more than twenty kilograms, was extremely flexible in Han Zhen's hands. When he waved it, only black afterimages could be seen.

Those who were drawn had their chests collapsed and died on the spot.

Seeing that his guards were killed one after another, Wang Yuan's blood surged up, he stared at Han Zhen with red eyes, and rushed towards him with his gun raised.

"It's a bit courageous!"

A hint of admiration flashed in Han Zhen's eyes, and he fired the spear with a gentle wave of his horse.

The huge force coming from the spear made Wang Yuan look horrified.

Before he could react, Han Zhen slapped Wang Yuan on the back with his backhand, knocking him off his horse.Although he did not recognize Wang Yuan, he was wearing precious armor and was protected by personal guards, so he must be the general.

Therefore, seven points of power were left in this attack, otherwise Wang Yuan would definitely die.

But even so, Wang Yuan didn't feel comfortable.

After falling heavily to the ground, he spurted out a mouthful of blood, then his eyes went black and he fainted.

……

"Reporting to the county magistrate, in this battle, three thousand people were killed and more than 38 were captured, and more than [-] people took advantage of the chaos to escape. [-] of our troops were killed and more than [-] were seriously injured and lightly injured..."

Listening to the army secretary's report, Han Zhen couldn't help but sigh.

Although only 30 people died in battle, almost all of these 38 people were brothers from the cavalry battalion.

After all, the Divine Arm Crossbow was a Divine Arm Crossbow. Just that sparse volley took away more than 20 lives, which was really terrifying.

If the Western Army were allowed to form a formation and thousands of divine arm crossbows fire, it is unknown how many people would die.

Fortunately, more than [-] divine arm crossbows were captured in this battle.

This ambush started quickly and ended quickly. The Western Army's crossbowmen had no time to destroy the core crossbow machine before they were disarmed and captured.

Including the previous captures, the number of divine arm crossbows in the army is close to [-].

There was no other way. As early as when Yu Chaohuan got the Divine Arm Crossbow, Han Zhen offered a reward. If any craftsman could reverse engineer the Divine Arm Crossbow blueprint and successfully imitate it, he would be rewarded with [-] yuan.

However, after so long, there was no movement at all.

Therefore, now the only way to find the source of the divine arm crossbow is to capture it.

"Liu Kai!"

"The end is here!"

Liu Qi's whole body exuded a strong smell of blood, and there were many pieces of meat hanging in the gaps of the black light armor.

Han Zhen ordered: "After a short rest, lead the cavalry battalion to go north immediately to support Nie Dong and capture Zhang Jun!"

"The last general takes orders!"

Liu Qi responded with clasped fists, and started to organize his army to march north with excitement on his face.

Yang Weizhong was right. There was a big battle in the Hushan Valley and countless baggage and more than [-] prisoners of war were captured. So many people were moving slowly.

Therefore, Han Zhen only brought a cavalry battalion and four thousand infantry with him for this ambush, and went into battle lightly.

The remaining infantry was divided into two, and Wei Da led [-] infantry, plus [-] prisoners of war, to attack Zhangqiu.

Nie Dong led 4000 people and the remaining [-] prisoners of war, heading north to the new town.

Rumble!
Not long after, the sound of galloping horse hooves sounded, and Liu Qi led the cavalry battalion to leave.

Han Zhen will rest in Dahe Village, reorganize prisoners of war, and wait for the arrival of logistics troops.

The heavy armored cavalry is easy to use, but it is a fat tiger. There are four horses per person, which is [-] horses. They consume thousands of dan of hay and refined feed every day.

Fortunately, we seized more than [-] shi of food and fodder for the Western Army the day before yesterday and replenished it.

Two months before the war started, grain and grass purchased from the south were continuously transported to Sunjia Town and Jieshou Town for hoarding.

In other words, Han Zhen did not need to transfer grain and grass from Qingzhou, which was two to three hundred miles away.

In this way, it not only saves transportation time and consumption during transportation of grain, but also greatly reduces transportation risks.

As long as Wei Da captures Zhangqiu, it can be used as a foothold for the Qingzhou Army in Jinan Prefecture and a transfer station for grain, grass and baggage.

……

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"Kill!!!"

The loud shouts of killing echoed at the foot of Mount Tai.

boom!
Explosions like thunder sounded from time to time.

Five hundred heavily armored cavalry rushed left and right in the battle formation, as if they were in an uninhabited land, smashing the formation of more than [-] forbidden troops into pieces and dividing them into battlefields.

The three thousand Xuanjia Qingzhou infantry were like an efficient and stable killing machine, constantly harvesting the lives of the Forbidden Army.

The moment the firearm exploded, the Taining Army and the Tianping Army were already in chaos.

The appearance of five hundred Qingzhou cavalry caused the two forbidden armies to completely collapse.

"Run!"

After witnessing with his own eyes the commander of the Taining Army being killed by a heavy armored cavalry, the commander of the Taiping Army Yanshe was completely frightened and ran away with hundreds of soldiers without caring about the soldiers who were still fighting.

The steel knife was lowered, and with the inertia of the charge of the war horse, it slashed across the neck of a forbidden soldier. Peng Quan shouted: "Du Tou, the enemy commander has run away, do you want to pursue him?"

Since he was the best choice for his physical strength and courage, after returning to Yidu from Guangling, Han Zhen threw Peng Quan into the cavalry camp and ordered Liu Qi to train hard.

Peng Quan did not disappoint him, and made many military exploits in suppressing bandits.

It's a pity that the progress of night classes has not been kept up. Now he is just a team leader. He only needs to master [-] words before he can be promoted to the head of the capital.

"Don't chase after the poor!"

Wang Wu shook his head and loudly ordered: "Fifty people per team, continue to divide the battlefield!"

The five hundred cavalry were divided into ten and continued to weave back and forth in the enemy's battle formation.

Seeing that the two forbidden armies were completely defeated and the soldiers fled in all directions, Yu Jun couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief.

Twenty-five hundred versus twenty-three thousand, a strength difference of almost ten times.

There was still some anxiety at first, but after the battle between the two sides, the strength of the Forbidden Army was far weaker than imagined.

Like tofu, it crumbles when touched.

Yu Jun shouted loudly: "Put down your weapon, and those who surrender will not be killed!"

"Put down your weapon, I won't kill anyone who surrenders!"

The Qingzhou army shouted in unison.

Upon hearing the admonishment from the other side to surrender, some of the Imperial Guards showed expressions of relief, threw away their weapons, and shouted: "I surrender, don't kill me, don't kill me!"

More forbidden troops fled in all directions, but Yu Jun did not pursue them and allowed them to escape.

His mission was to guard Jieshou Town and prevent the imperial troops from the two prefectures from crossing Mount Tai and heading north to Jinan Prefecture for support.

The rest are all side effects.

Looking in the direction of Jinan Mansion from a distance, Yu Jun's heart agitated, just waiting to defeat the main force of the Western Army.

In Shandong, the surname is Han!

(End of this chapter)