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Chapter 320 The power of armored cavalry

A thousand Youzhou iron cavalry are like ghosts killed in the dark night, catching the county soldiers by surprise.

The sound of horseshoes rolling, the butter torches were thrown on the ground, the horses swung past, everyone was lifted up viciously, the horses trampled past, and the county soldiers in iron armor were knocked into the sky by the horses, and the whole person was like a broken sack Hit the ground hard.

After paying the price of dozens of cavalry casualties, the Youzhou cavalry broke through the shield formation and entered the massacre.Although the county soldiers are elite, the Youzhou iron cavalry is the first-class elite soldier in the entire Sui Dynasty. In order to defend against the Eastern Turks, the imperial court almost used the power of the whole country to form [-] heavy cavalry, and they were stationed in Zhuojun for strategic maneuvers.

The power of iron cavalry is hard to see directly in the era of cold weapons.Historically, since the Sui Dynasty, the Han people have reduced heavy cavalry and replaced it with light cavalry. The big reason is that most of the horse breeds in the Central Plains are only two to three hundred catties and cannot carry heavy cavalry. If they are equipped with horses that can carry heavy armor, It seemed too expensive again.

However, most European horses have Arabian horse blood, and they are easy to weigh seven or eight hundred catties, so they can meet heavy armor, so European iron can heavy riding has become a symbol of the times.

The war horses of the Tungusic nation that rose in Liaodong can bear heavy loads, so they are good at heavy riding. Historically, the Jurchens prefer heavy riding and light riding.Later, when Jurchen Guozuo declined, Monk Wanyan Chen’s loyal and filial army rose up with heavy cavalry, recreating the glory of their ancestors. Although the Mongols swept the world with light cavalry, they were not without heavy cavalry. After that, Manchuria in the late Ming Dynasty The Eight Banners is the last revival of heavy cavalry in history.
Facing the Youzhou iron cavalry, the county soldiers could not help but waver. Everyone is greedy for life and fears death. After the county soldiers resisted hard for a while, the current formation collapsed. Run after him and chase after him.Once the formation was broken, the Youzhou iron cavalry plundered the formation unscrupulously, almost becoming a massacre.

Seeing this scene, Su Su, beside Li Chongjiu, hurriedly said: "Xiao Jiu, this Luo Yi used Er Zhurong's tactics that defeated Ge Rong in the battle of Yecheng."

Battle of Ye City!
At that time under the city of Ye, Ge Rong led the uprising soldiers in the six towns, which claimed to have an army of one million, but Er Zhurong easily defeated them with [-] elite cavalry.The tactics Er Zhurong used was to lead his iron cavalry to attack Ge Rong's central army. After Ge Rong was captured alive, all the rebel army surrendered.
Luo Yi's current approach is exactly the same as Ge Rong's.Sealing the throat with one blow is indeed the most ruthless method.

But after a while, the county soldiers who blocked them were completely defeated, and they were chased and killed by Youzhou cavalry with horses.

"It's better to put Shuai Qi down!" Liu Yi, the governor of Anle County, was already pale with fright.

Su Su's face changed when he heard this, and he said, "What are you talking about?"

Liu Yi stretched out his hand and pointed forward, and said: "You can't defend even if you stick to it. The county soldiers who have just returned to reinforce you are still on the way, too late to return..."

"Furthermore, whoever brings down the handsome flag will be beheaded!" Li Chongjiu sternly said.When Liu Yi saw it, he immediately lowered his head and said, "Please forgive me, Marshal."

Li Chongjiu said in his heart that he had led the army to fight north and south for a long time. Although he had rarely fought against the wind, his soldiers were used to big victories and victories.

Li Chongjiu said: "The handsome flag is here, it must not be shaken, order all the troops to come to rescue."

At the same time, Hou Luoyi of Jingbian was holding a horse lance. He had just pulled out the horse lance from the chest of a county soldier. The hot blood in his chest splashed all over his iron armor, and it was covered with blood.

"It's a pity, you had the chance to cut me down, but even if you did, you wouldn't be able to hurt me with heavy armor. So your death is useless, understand?"

The dying soldier's eyes were wide open, blood spurted from his mouth unwillingly, and finally fell to the ground.

On the other hand, Luo Yi's personal soldiers also killed more than a dozen soldiers, and they all came forward and said: "Marshal, are you all right?"

Luo Yiyan said: "I can't hurt Lao Tzu, but I didn't expect that there are still a few of the soldiers in the county who dare to turn back. But so what, can I hurt Lao Tzu?"

All the soldiers laughed boldly.

At this time, one of them stretched out his hand and said, "Master Hou, the enemy's commander-in-chief flag is right in front of you! It seems to be forming a formation!"

Luo Yi's eyes jumped, he took off the iron mask inside the helmet, and said: "It's just such a small number of people, who don't know how to live or die?"

From a distance, Luo Yi saw that the opponent had more than 500 pawns, and the erected spears surrounded the big banner with the character of Li in the middle.Under the general flag, there was a man standing on horseback wearing a crimson cloak and heavy armor. It should be Li Chongjiu without a doubt.

"Revitalize the team!"

Seeing the other party's reaction, Luo Yi roared, and an officer waved the Luo Zi flag left and right, and then landed. In order to prevent the rest of the people in the night from seeing the flag clearly, the officer also shot in the direction of Li Chongjiu's flag. Three Ming Dysprosiums.

The formation of more than 1000 county soldiers was easily broken, let alone in front of them.

The blare was loud and loud, and the Youzhou cavalry who were chasing on all sides gave up chasing and killing the remnants of the defeated county soldiers and regrouped.

On the other side, Su Su saw that after Luo Yi gave up the pursuit of the county soldiers, the remnants of the county soldiers gathered again and went behind Li Chongjiu's flag with a dejected expression on their faces. As for those who lost their weapons, they also picked up whatever was handy around them.

"Didn't Luo Yi's move give our army a breather?"

"No, Luo Yi wants to see my general flag, so he wants to fight with me to determine the outcome. He has a lot of cavalry, so he is not afraid of such a conflict!"

Li Chongjiu saw that the soldiers from the left and right counties had given up their attack on the Khitan camp and were gathering. They did not move quickly, but marched in a dense formation.

Apparently, they also knew that the infantry who were not in formation were a piece of cake for armored cavalry, and coming to support was not to help, but to die.Therefore, even if the Chinese army had police, they did not advance quickly to support in the form of skirmishers.

Seeing the judgment made by the general of the county soldiers, Li Chongjiu couldn't help but nodded. This is the quality of a general.

"Xiao Jiu, they are almost finished gathering!" Su Su reminded from the side.

Li Chongjiu nodded, and at this moment the sound of horseshoes suddenly sounded, and Li Chongjiu saw cavalry from the right coming towards his camp!

"Who is it?" Li Chongjiu asked out loud.

Su Su frowned and said: "If there is another enemy coming, our army will be attacked on both sides!"

The scouts looked around for a while, and said, "It's too dark to see the general's flag clearly... Oh, I see it clearly, it's Yuchi, the capital of Zhuojun County... Commander, it's General Yuchi!"

Hearing that Yu Chigong had come, Li Chongjiu felt relieved, while the generals were overjoyed, just waiting for the sound of horse crowing.

Li Chongjiu felt the ground sinking, and Luo Yi led his Youzhou iron cavalry to rush towards his central army.

It turned out that Luo Yi saw Yuchi Gong coming to kill him, he was afraid of being blocked, and before the heavy cavalry were assembled, he rushed up with more than 500 cavalry around him.

In the night, there was a layer of streamer shining on the heavy cavalry armor, the blood-stained horse lance lay down flatly, and the cavalry longs in front of them formed a horizontal straight line.Many of these heavy cavalry were wounded in their armor, or were pierced with a few arrows. Obviously, they did not pay a price for defeating the county soldiers blocked by Li Chongjiu just now.

But even so, the power of the heavy cavalry made everyone's hearts tense at the same time.

Li Chongjiu felt the generals around him unconsciously swallowing saliva, and even Su Su couldn't help trembling his wrists.

Li Chongjiu immediately took out his five-stone Star Picking Bow from the horse's side, and with the strength on his shoulders, he shot an arrow at the leading enemy cavalry!
A cavity of blood pierced through, and the enemy cavalry who was rushing forward was shot in the chest by an arrow, and fell off the horse unwillingly, and the iron armor hit the ground with a muffled sound.

"Good archery!"

Seeing Li Chongjiu's arrow, the three armies cheered for it, and their nervousness stopped immediately.

Li Chongjiu won the power and was relentless, shooting five arrows in a row.

The bowstring breaks, the arrow shoots without fail,
The opponent's five riders were shot straight off the horse.At this time, the minds of the hundred crossbowmen were determined, and they would not move when the heavy cavalry approached.

When approaching thirty paces, the crossbowman ordered the general to fire arrows. A round of arrows was shot at close range. At the moment, more than 20 riders from the opponent were shot off their horses. More Youzhou cavalry rushed up.

"Spear!"

At the moment when the crossbowmen finished shooting their arrows, the former general shouted loudly, and three rows of spears stood forward, and the Youzhou cavalry charged forward as if ignoring the forest of spears.

Immediately, a spear broke and the horse neighed.

Li Chongjiu held his breath, held the bow in his hand, and looked around, looking for Luo Yi's trace.But this time he learned his lesson and hid very well.

Shout out!
Li Chongjiu shot another cavalry with another arrow, but at this moment the spear formation in front was already in danger, and even though the Youzhou iron cavalry suffered a lot of casualties, they were fighting for their lives at this moment.

"Don't be alarmed, Lord Shanggu, the Hualang army has arrived!"

At this moment, there was a burst of shouting from the crowd, and hundreds of soldiers rushed over in large strides, rushing towards the flanks of the Youzhou cavalry.

It was the Hwarang army led by Jin Chunqiu who arrived, unexpectedly, the Hwarang army was the first reinforcement army to arrive.

At this time, Youzhou cavalry rushed into the spear formation and fought with Li Chongjiu's personal guards, while Hualang's army came from the flank.

The soldiers of Hwarang are skilled in martial arts, and each of them has learned martial arts since childhood.

Hua Lang's army didn't panic when they saw the iron cavalry, so they fell on the ground and used a weapon like a simple knife to slash at the horse's legs that were not protected by armor.Some brave men even climbed onto their horses from the side, and stabbed the neck where the helmet and the breastplate meet with a sharp knife.

Resisted by Hwarang's army, the progress of the Youzhou iron cavalry was very slow.

And at this time, Yuchi Gong, who was wearing iron armor, also led the cavalry, and rushed in from behind.

"Don't hurt my junior brother!"

But after hearing Yu Chigong's loud shout, he took the lead, holding a majestic horse, and his black face blended into the night, looking even more menacing.Yu Chigong led the cavalry to rush in from behind, and fought with the Youzhou iron cavalry at close range.

A heavy cavalry alone doesn't have much to do against a light cavalry.

Therefore, Li Chongjiu couldn't help but feel relieved when he saw the two reinforcements arriving, but at this moment, a dozen or so enemy cavalry broke through the frontal spear array and came straight to the handsome flag.

(End of this chapter)