The last three kingdoms

Chapter 998 Cavalry

Qi Hong has strengthened his defenses at night in the past few days. In his opinion, the Shu army is very likely to launch a sneak attack at night, completely disrupting the deployment of the Jin army. After all, when attacking during the day, the Jin army is more prepared than at night of.

It seems that Qi Hong made the wrong bet. The Shu army had no plans to move at night at all. The reason why they stood still for the past few days was not to find the Jin army's flaws, but to wait for the arrival of the Yong'an army and the arrival of the Yong'an army. Afterwards, a siege of Huguan was formed, and the Shu army launched an attack without hesitation.

The time point of attack chosen by the Shu army was at sunrise in the morning, and the sunrise in summer was earlier, between Yin and Mao. The main reason why Liu Yin chose this time was that it was cooler in the morning. In this scorching summer, the time of day in the morning is more suitable for launching an attack, as it can maximize the combat power of the soldiers. If everything goes well, the battle should be over when it is the hottest time in the afternoon.

As for whether he was caught off guard when he came to fight the Jin army, this is not Liu Yin's main consideration. Now that the situation in Shangdang is that Shu is strong and Jin is weak, and the Shu army has a clear advantage, Liu Yin doesn't need to think too much about such a battle. , as long as the normal level of the Shu army is fully utilized to win the battle, there will be no suspense at all.

According to the normal work and rest rules, the Jin army should be in the best condition at this time, but the fact is just the opposite. The emergency preparations every night make the Jin army, who is sleepless all night, have yin and yang upside down. High-spirited, but in the morning, like frost-beaten eggplant, listless, yawning, and sluggish.

In this case, the fighting spirit of the Jin army can be imagined.

However, the hasty battle also had to be fought, and the Jin army who had time to eat breakfast had to go into battle on an empty stomach to meet the enemy.

Fortunately, this Jin army is not a rookie who has just joined the army. At any rate, they have been fighting for a long time. Although the sudden attack of the Shu army disrupted the rhythm of the Jin army, the well-trained Jin army cavalry quickly moved forward. After the assembly was completed, under the leadership of Qi Hong, a cavalry battle formation with the shape of a dot was organized, and they went out to fight.

Lieutenant General Zhang Chi led a small number of remnants and retreated. In this outpost, Zhang Chi almost wiped out his entire army. After all, under the turbulent attack wave of the Tiger Cavalry Army, the team led by Zhang Chi was really too small. It can only be said that Zhang Chi was lucky to not be wiped out by the group.

"General Qi, the Shu cavalry's attack is too fierce, we can't resist the enemy at all." Zhang Chi reported to Qi Hong panting.

Qi Hong just nodded and didn't speak. His stern expression was quite serious. He didn't blame Zhang Chi, because Zhang Chi had done his best. How could Zhang Chi's team of sentry cavalry be able to stop such a large-scale attack of the Shu army? What's more, Zhang Chi's blockade more or less bought some time for the Jin cavalry to assemble, at least it gave Qi Hong a chance to get up from the bed, ride to the front line and gather the army.

This battle can be called a battle of life and death. Only by winning can the Shu army have a chance to stop the Shu army on the periphery of Huguan. If the battle is defeated, the Shu army will go straight to the city of Huguan. Huguan City will be full of difficulties.

Just as the Jin army formed a battle formation here, Fu Zhuo led the Tiger Cavalry Army and rushed forward. The power brought by the Tiger Cavalry Army was almost overwhelming.

Seeing that the Jin army had formed a spindle-shaped battle formation, Fu Zhuo sneered contemptuously, and ordered the Tiger Cavalry Army to launch an attack.

At the forefront of the Shu army's formation are cavalry archers who are good at riding and shooting. They launched the first attack in the cavalry battle.

On the horsebacks galloping at high speed, the cavalry archers sat firmly like a mountain. They all held their longbows tightly in their left hands and clasped their arrows in their right hands. They had already made all the preparations before shooting the arrows. The army entered within the range of a stone's throw.

The speed of the cavalry is so fast, and it didn't take too long from the beginning of the attack to the distance narrowed to an arrow. Bows and arrows were fired towards the battle formation of the Jin army.

Being able to shoot steady and accurate arrows on the back of a horse galloping at high speed is not a superb skill, but it is still of a certain level. Although there are many riders with such abilities in the Jin army, they have such abilities systematically. Cavalry is unimaginable for the Jin army.

The arrows shot by the horse archers seemed to disrupt the rhythm of the Jin army. Perhaps they were waiting for a decisive battle with the Shu army, but they did not expect that the sharp arrows of the Shu army would hit them first.

Caught off guard, Jin soldiers and horses were shot countless by random arrows and suffered heavy losses.

The arrows shot by the cavalry archers of the Shu army obviously did not pursue too much accuracy, but in terms of consistency, they maintained a relatively high level.The random arrows were random arrows, but almost none of them were shot randomly into the sky. They were all concentrated on the Jin army's position, covering all the Jin army in the battle formation sharply and domineeringly in an instant.

Qi Hong couldn't help frowning. He commanded the cavalry to fight more than once or twice. The Jin army's cavalry is characterized by strong impact and is good at hand-to-hand combat. He didn't expect the Shu army's long-range attack to be so sharp. If the Jin army had been attacking late like this, it would definitely be suppressed. Before the two sides formally confronted each other, they would have already lost a lot.

Qi Hong ordered the cavalry of the Jin army to immediately countercharge against the rain of arrows. Although the cavalry archers are powerful, they can only shoot one or two arrows at best against the extremely fast cavalry of the Jin army. , The cavalry of the Jin army may have rushed up.

The cavalry archers of the Shu army did not rush forward blindly. Seeing that the Jin army launched a countercharge, they immediately changed their formation. From a glance, it seems that the back wave swallowed the front wave, but in fact, in just a short moment, the Shu army has completely completed the transformation of formation.

The collision of the cavalry from both sides must have been earth-shattering. The two huge torrents of cavalry rushed towards each other with an irresistible momentum.

The pioneers of the two sides quickly intertwined together, shouting, and fighting in one place. The sound of ping -pong weapons was endless. That's how it started.

(End of this chapter)