Qinglong Three Kingdoms

Chapter 764

The Huyi Battalion light cavalry led by Zhu Weijun Zhang Liao and the high-ranking Bingzhou Army launched a confrontational battle on the spacious plain in the northwest of Qi County.

Zhang Liao left about 2000 cavalry as the main formation, while Ma Chao and Cao Xing each led [-] cavalry to attack the high-ranking army formation ahead.

Gao Gan was not familiar with Zhu Weijun's light cavalry tactics. Seeing that Zhu Weijun had launched a charge, he led his troops and horses to charge slowly in the direction of Zhu Weijun.

He also left about [-] infantry as the rear army. In the central core of the front, [-] infantry were used as spikes to charge. The cavalry on the two wings also followed the infantry, ready to attack Zhu Weijun's light cavalry at any time.

In Gao Gan's view, Zhu Weijun's use of cavalry to attack his dense infantry formation was simply seeking his own death.

As long as his infantry formation stagnates the horse speed of Zhu Weijun's cavalry and makes Zhu Weijun's cavalry lose the advantage of horse speed sprinting, his cavalry can attack Zhu Weijun in turn.

However, the reality soon made Gao Gan dumbfounded. Zhu Weijun's light cavalry charged from the two wings, but they did not rush directly to his infantry formation, but rushed directly from the two wings. At the same time, the light cavalry on horseback also shot countless feathered arrows at the cavalry on both wings and the dense infantry in the center.

It can be said that the soldiers of Gao Ganjun did not see clearly what weapons Zhu Weijun's light cavalry was holding at first. After Zhu Weijun's light cavalry rushed closer, they discovered that Zhu Weijun's cavalry were actually archers.

As a result, the high-ranking army was not prepared to defend against arrows at all. They just put out spears and spears on the outside, and swords and shields in the middle. Against the current cavalry charge tactics commonly used by nomads, they waited for Zhu Weijun's cavalry to hit them and die.

But what they waited for was a rain of feathered arrows, so as the light cavalry of Zhu Weijun brushed from the two wings, the cavalry and infantry on the Gaogan army's side were shot to death and injured no less than 2000 people. Little mess.

On Zhu Weijun's side, Ma Chao and Cao Xing led the cavalry to quickly attack the formations on both sides of the high-ranking army, and then passed around the rear of the high-ranking army. covered the past.

This time, the soldiers of the high-ranking army were somewhat prepared. Many sword and shield players began to use double-arc hand shields to protect their vital points, but hundreds of soldiers still fell under the feather arrows.

"Woooooooo..."

At this time, Zhang Liao seemed to have seen through the weakness of the high-ranking army, and led the remaining 2000 cavalrymen to charge forward.

Perhaps because of the experience and lessons learned from the previous battle to intercept Han Sui, although the light cavalry led by Zhang Liao were still mainly archers, at this time behind Zhang Liao these cavalry also held a spear in their hands.

Although the equipment on their bodies is still the equipment of light cavalry, the spears in their hands allow them to raid the enemy's formation, and they have a certain ability to fight in close combat, instead of just being good at cruising around and attacking. .

Of course, Zhang Liao would not really use light cavalry to forcibly raid the enemy's dense army formation, that was something Zhang Xiu's heavy cavalry could only do.

Zhang Liao would only choose to attack after the enemy's army was shot down by his own light cavalry's bows and arrows. Only in this way could he deal a fatal blow to the enemy at the first time and quickly move the battle to the next stage.

At this moment, Zhang Liao led his troops forward and rushed forward, while Ma Chao and Cao Xing in front led the light cavalry behind them and crossed in front of the high-ranking army. After hearing Zhang Liao's horn order, they also changed their attack plan. They adjusted the attacking direction of their horses one after another, preparing to assist Zhang Liao's charge, and waiting to launch the next attack on the high-ranking army.

After two rounds of rain of arrows, the high-ranking army has already scattered the dense conical army formation in the center, and the cavalry on the two wings have also become scattered. Although the soldiers of the high-ranking army are still at a loss, they have not started to turn around and flee. , but morale has long since collapsed, and he was almost poked over with a finger.

Zhang Liao rushed to them with two thousand cavalry, and as the long lance lunged forward with the power brought by the horsepower attack, many soldiers in front of the high-ranking army became strings of people wearing long lances.

This action finally let Gao Ganjun know what he should do. A large number of soldiers turned around and began to flee for their lives. Thousands of people instantly entered a state of rout.

This just allowed Zhu Weijun's light cavalry to launch a sheep-herding chase against the defeated Gao Gan army. The experienced Zhang Liao, Ma Chao, and Cao Xing did not force the Gao Gan army's defeated soldiers too quickly at the beginning, but just drove these defeated soldiers to Gao Gan. The 3000 troops who stayed in the rear of the formation rushed to flee, preparing to use these defeated soldiers to attack the rear formation of senior officials.

At this time, Gao Gan was also a little dumbfounded in the rear army formation. His army was defeated almost before it fought. He still hasn't figured out what kind of battle Zhu Weijun's light cavalry was fighting, and how it was so easy. Let the battle situation become like this.

But soon the reality on the battlefield let him know that he had already been defeated. If he didn't retreat, the whole army might be wiped out here, so he retreated without hesitation with the 3000 people behind him.

All of a sudden, the whole army of high-ranking officials began to retreat. Of course, most of the soldiers who retreated from the front battlefield should be regarded as routs.

Zhu Weijun saw that Gao Gan had already retreated, so he didn't have to hold back any more. He immediately accelerated the speed of the horses under his crotch, and then Ma Chao and Cao Xing led the cavalry to outflank them from both wings, chasing them with bows and arrows. Gao Gan's fleeing soldiers shouted at them to surrender and not to kill.

Except for those cavalrymen on the Gaogan army who could speed up and follow Gaogan to retreat, the remaining about 3000 infantry naturally couldn't use their feet to outrun the horses of Zhu Weijun's cavalry, so many people stopped and surrendered.

Zhang Liao led more than 2000 cavalrymen and began to surrender these surrendered soldiers, while Ma Chao and Cao Xing continued to lead troops to chase and kill high-ranking officials, chasing them all the way from Qi County to Jinyang territory before they stopped.

As a result, Gao Gan came out of Jinyang with an army of more than [-], and the number of troops brought back to Jinyang in the end was less than [-], which made Gao Gan tremble with fear.

It's just that the high-ranking officials still have Jinyang City as their support. Naturally, the Huyi Battalion light cavalry led by Zhang Liao cannot forcibly attack Jinyang City, so Zhang Liao just led his army to approach and camp outside Jinyang City, blocking the high-ranking officials. He didn't dare to come out in Jinyang City, but Zhu Weijun didn't launch an offensive against Jinyang City.

Two days later, Wei Yan's Jingnan Battalion finally arrived outside Jinyang City, and the threat to Jinyang City became even greater.

Today's Wei Yan is also a little depressed. Since the first battle in Chang'an, the Jingnan Battalion he brought can basically only follow Zhang Liao's light cavalry. Many battles have been done by Zhang Liao's light cavalry without his army going up. up.

It can be said that Wei Yan's Jingnan Battalion seems to have become an auxiliary force for Zhang Liao's light cavalry, helping to receive the light cavalry to take down the territory.

This is not what Wei Yan wants to do, so how can he do meritorious service like this.

Now that he came to Jinyang City, Wei Yan finally made up his mind again. This time, it was his Jingnan Battalion's turn to take action. After all, he needed his Jingnan Battalion infantry to attack the city.

However, Jinyang City is not easy to capture, so after Wei Yan led his troops, looking at the Jinyang City standing on the Taiyuan Bungu Plain in front of him, he also felt that it was very difficult...

(End of this chapter)