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Chapter 790 Cavalry Showdown
At dawn, Jieli had seen clearly the direction of Zhao Jun's main attack, and said to the left and right: "Zhao Jun's troops are weak in the northeast corner, so we can take advantage of this to break through." '

At Jieli's order, nearly [-] cavalrymen marched bravely towards the southeast corner of the Zhao army.The Zhao army is here, with three thousand Khitan cavalry and two thousand Mukun cavalry.

These [-] Khitan cavalry and [-] Mukun cavalry were following the advancing Yinghefu [-] cavalry to kill the Turkic army's escaped fish.

In the past, these brave Turkic cavalry who galloped on the grassland were scattered by the elite Xi cavalry, and they were defeated.The Khitan rangers and Mukun cavalry with mediocre combat effectiveness, with two or three hundred cavalry, chased the Turkic No. 30 troops and fought fiercely, which was very lively.

However, Jie Lifu's cavalry came like the wind.The Turkic cavalry showed their ferocious faces, rushing towards them like ferocious prairie hungry wolves.

The Khitan cavalry and the Mukunxi cavalry felt chills when they saw it. They fought against the wind and fought well, but when they encountered the Turkic cavalry's assault, they were shocked by the overwhelming momentum of the opponent before they even fought. up.

This was the aura of the Turkic lords dominating the grassland for hundreds of years. Although the leaders of the Khitan tribe shouted to the left and right to boost morale, the Turkic cavalry rushed in and easily killed the cavalry of the Khitan and Mukun tribes.

The 5000 men and horses were completely collapsed by a charge of the attached cavalry.The Khitan and Mukunxi cavalry were chased by the Turkic cavalry from behind, and fell from their horses one after another like chopping wood.

Zhao Jun's siege was opened by the Turkic cavalry.

Zhao Jun's general Er Tuo led [-] Xi tribe cavalry, and they just arrived.Although this group of cavalry is not as elite as Yinghefu's troops, it is also a division that has fought for a long time.

Seeing the collapse of the Khitan cavalry, the generals of the Xi clan couldn't help but burst into tongues.

The cavalrymen of the Xi tribe couldn't help but think of the time when the Turks ran across the grasslands and swept all the tribes and no one could fight them.Back then, the Shidexi tribe couldn't even be counted as a servant of the Turkic people.

Now [-] Shide Xibu cavalry collided head-on with the Turkic attached cavalry. Today's training equipment, Shide Xibu is not inferior to the Turkic people at all, and who is stronger and who is weaker in a head-on battle!
The cavalry on both sides, seeing each other's military appearance, immediately lashed their horses' buttocks with their whips.

But I saw that the cavalry on both sides had laid out a black line of [-] to [-] kilometers long. In the black line, thousands of horses were galloping. high.

The sun rose slowly in the east, and the light shone through the profile faces of every cavalryman running, casting shadows.Everyone unknowingly witnessed this moment through experience.

On one side is the veteran overlord on the grassland, the Turkic cavalry who have not encountered an opponent in the grassland for decades.

On one side is the cutting-edge cavalry on the grassland, the Shidexi cavalry who have swept all the ministries in recent years.

Who is better?
The cavalry on both sides decided to answer this question with swords and horses.

The two black lines of [-] to [-] miles gradually approached within three miles, and behind them were countless soldiers, their horses and horses' hooves pounded on the snow, and countless white snow and black mud were thrown into the air.

The sound of the horn to meet the enemy came, and the blood of the soldiers boiled at this moment.

When the cavalry were within one mile, the cavalry on both sides raised their bows and threw arrows at the opponent's formation.

In the hands of the cavalry, there are horn bows with the same length of more than three feet.The cavalry of the Shide Xi nationality imitated the formation of the cavalry of the Zhao army, which was quite different from the ordinary grassland cavalry.

However, the cavalry on both sides of Shi Dexi and the Turks used the same bows, but they were composite bows with strong tension and elasticity.The Turks come from the Cypriot, and the Cypriot is the Scythians. The Scythians are best at metallurgy and bows. In history, the Scythian bow is the prototype of today's Turkic bow.

The riding bows of the Shidexi tribe, after being reformed by Youjing craftsmen, have reached the level of Turkic bows in terms of range and strength with the exquisite bow-making technology of the Han people.

Therefore, there is not much difference between the bows and arrows of the two armies.

Such a three-foot-long horn bow can shoot arrows with extremely strong kinetic energy only by bending it at a small angle, and it is convenient for cavalry to shoot continuously!

The moment the horn blew, the cavalry on both sides drew their bows and arrows and shot at the cavalry on the other side.

So the cavalry who charged from both sides saw this scene at the same time.

The enemy cavalry approached quickly on the ground, while the densely packed arrows in the sky above them approached from far to near.

The arrow almost covered the sky, and fell rapidly at a speed that was hard to see with the naked eye!
At this moment, countless horses neighed, and the horses and cavalry rushing forward were suddenly shot into hedgehogs by countless arrows.

The cavalry in the rear was immediately covered by arrow rain, and some horses were still charging, but the cavalry on horseback had been pierced through the head by an arrow, and then one foot was caught in the stirrup and dragged forward by the horse.

Although some cavalrymen avoided arrows, their horses hit several arrows in a row, fell to the ground, and then slammed their horses and men on the ground at high speed, and were trampled into meatloaf by the cavalry behind them. .

This epic cavalry charge duel, enough to be recorded in the annals of history, was described by several novelists after being recounted by later generations who participated in this warrior.

A Shi Dexi official whose grandfather participated in this war wrote about the battle situation at that time. The soldiers charging forward faced arrows like locusts. , I can't dodge at all, even if I can dodge, I can't dodge the arrows coming from everywhere, so at that time, I can only do two things, one is to protect myself and the horse with the leather shield in my hand, and the other is to use There are various ways to pray to Tengger for good luck.

What happened afterwards was that after the cavalry of the two armies shot arrows, countless cavalry withered on the way to charge, and then the number of troops in the front army quickly decreased by one-third, and the remaining two-thirds of the lucky ones drew out their sabers , staring fiercely in front of the eyes, and roared at the other party.

I am ashamed that I had lost any reaction at that time, did not hit any Turkic people, and certainly did not allow any Turkic people to cut myself.

This memoir became a big seller because of its success in writing.

But the scene at this moment was a scene that the Xibu cavalry in the room were unwilling to recall. Many of the survivors from this battle were silent, and then they never mentioned it.

The fact is that the Turkic attached cavalry suffered fewer casualties from the arrows than the Zhao army because they were wearing iron armor.

Then the Turkic cavalry was in the frontal charge of the cavalry of the two armies, and their formation became denser.

The narrow road meets the brave to win!

The cavalry confronted each other head-on, just like the ancient generals singled out in the past. Two generals rode forward facing each other, each wielding their weapons and slashing at each other.

If the two horses face each other in the wrong stirrups, until the two horses separate, it is considered a round.

Therefore, it is often said that the generals of the two sides fought for hundreds of rounds, and there was no winner!
The history captain Yuchi Jingde and Li Yuanji were the challengers, and Yuchi Jingde took the opponent's Ma Yang head-on three times in a row.

In the history of the Central Plains, there was a lack of war horses, so there were very few battles. There were scenes of cavalry duels head-on, but for the grasslands, cavalry duels were commonplace.

For cavalry duels, unlike generals duels, personal skill is not important, what matters is cavalry formation!
(End of this chapter)