Hua Xiong is still very solid in his basic military knowledge when he can become a cavalry commander.

So he wanted to take advantage of the enemy's disconnection to destroy Guan Yu and Zhao Yun first. Of course, he would not be so stupid as to rely on his personal force, but instead, eight thousand Xiliang cavalry rushed forward to bully the few.

After all, the enemy opposite him in this life is no longer a mere "horse archer".

When Guan Yu was already the reign of the Shao Emperor, He Jin enthroned the miscellaneous general and the prefect of Hanzhong. Although his personal bravery and reputation were not very strong, the enemy with the highest military value that he had ever fought against was Guan Hai.

However, Guan Yu's ability to command troops was already recognized in the circle. From defeating Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun, to suppressing the Yellow Turbans in Qingzhou, Baibo in Hedong, and the military achievements of suppressing the three major rebels were placed there.

In terms of personal force, what Hua Xiong feared was actually Zhao Yun. Zhao Yun had few deeds in his early years, but he became famous around Luoyang in the past two years. After all, it is easy to become famous if the emperor does a little deed at his feet.

During the Ten Constables Rebellion, Zhao Yun "killed the San Qingsou Gate Guards alone and seized the gate to rescue the lord. Empress Lingsi called him Yong and was named Changshui Captain for his bravery." This was done in front of Li Su, Yuan Shao, Cao Cao, Yuan Shu and others.

This happened on the eve of Dong Zhuo’s entry into Beijing. Who doesn’t know who the general Dong Zhuo’s army is?

So Hua Xiong decided to bully the few with the more, but in fact he was a little afraid that Zhao Yun would be challenged by one.

It would be acceptable to bypass Zhao Yun and fight a "famous general" like Guan Yu instead of a "courageous general".

Moreover, Guan Yu was the official prefect of the imperial court and was the commander of the princes. If he could kill Guan Yu, he would have much more profits.

Maybe all the Yizhou soldiers who challenged Dong would collapse, and the Jingzhou soldiers who affected Sun Jian would be greatly damaged, and Hua Xiong's promotion of the title is just around the corner.

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Let's stop talking, Hua Xiong's army is only a few miles apart from Guan Yu's army. Hua Xiong had just figured out these twists and turns in his mind that the two armies were already tense and were about to enter the distance of hedging.

Zhao Yun took the lead in the battle and challenged loudly: "I am Zhao Zilong, Changshan! Hua Xiong and Rat dare to fight me!"

Zhao Yun also had a shot with no dates. Even if the opponent did not respond, he could at least slightly hit the enemy's morale and let them know that their leader was afraid to fight.

"Stop talking nonsense, give it to me!" Hua Xiong was not vague, waved his hand directly, and ordered his left and right to beat Zhao Yun.

The few unknown small schools under Huaxiong's tent were all from other departments, Sima and Qu Junhou. Although he knew that his martial arts skills were definitely not as good as Zhao Yun, he saw that his people were in large numbers and everyone went side by side, so he became brave and flocked towards Zhao Yun.

"Despicable villain! Shameless coward!" Even though Zhao Yun had a calm temper, he was so angry that he was scolded by this style of fighting.

Since the enemy was not moral, he was not polite and directly pulled the horse and took the bow and arrow from the saddle. He looked at it and shot several arrows in a row. He shot the three Qu Junhou who rushed in front directly.

This move temporarily suppressed the charge of Hua Xiongjun, and all the officers subconsciously brought the reins to reduce the speed? They felt a chill on their backs.

"Despicable and shameless! He even brought a bow and arrow to challenge others! Fortunately, I didn't respond to the challenge? Otherwise, wouldn't it be encircled by Zhao Yun's secret arrow?" Hua Xiong saw it from afar. On the one hand, he felt scared. On the other hand, he also completed some psychological construction and found an excuse for his own fear of not being able to respond to the challenge.

After shooting several people, Zhao Yun immediately pulled the horse back and made a move. With a spear, he drew a semicircular arc inward, indicating that all the cavalry under his command kept their distance and retreated with cavalry.

Zhao Yun is also a master of cavalry training. These three thousand cavalrymen have been fighting since he followed Liu Bei to attack Zhang Chun? So they cooperated very well.

The most famous cavalry cavalry tactics? Of course, it is the "Pathian tactics" originating from the Central Asian prairie, that is, shooting around the enemy and keeping a distance. Those who have played the "Empire Age" know it. But that is to deal with slow infantry. If the enemy is also a cavalry, they can only use semi-circling tactics.

That is, when the cavalry on his side swept across the front of the formation side, and when they rushed to the top of the arc, they put a rain of arrows? Then they immediately retreated. This tactic is more suitable for long-range weapons with slow loading speeds, so when the European and Han dynasties used slow-loading crossbows on horseback, they developed the prototype of this tactic. Until the Western world appeared, the Dragoons needed to ride horses and use muskets to completely summarize and improve the semi-rotating tactics to the full state.

Of course, Zhao Yun's semi-circular tactic is still very primitive? He has been with Li Su for many years? He has discussed cavalry tactics while he is idle, and he is occasionally inspired when he is in the formation. Now he is here to try it out.

Anyone who has played the Glorious "Three Kingdoms" series knows that the tactics of the Qiang kings in all dynasties were melee cavalry tactics such as "breakthrough/assault", while the tactics of the Wuhuan kings were long-range cavalry tactics such as "railing/flying". This design is not without historical basis.

Because the Liangzhou cavalry in the late Han Dynasty was known for the heavy cavalry charge, while the Youzhou cavalry was known for the cavalry of the Wuhuan cavalry. The Bingzhou cavalry was the Southern Xiongnu's fighting style, and both were available. However, the scale of the Bingzhou cavalry of the Han people was too small, just as the direct troops of Lu Bu and Zhang Liao, so although they were elite, they could not be promoted on a large scale.

At this moment, Hua Xiong led the Xiliang cavalry, Zhao Yun led the Youzhou cavalry, and Zhao Yun was much smaller. Choosing the semi-rotation tactic of riding and shooting to pull the enemy formation is indeed the best solution.

Zhao Yun knew that the Xiliang cavalry had poor shooting skills on horseback, and most of the cavalry could not shoot arrows on horseback.

At least Li Su's improved double-sided hemp rope ring stirrups, and the archery was more stable than the cavalry in other camps. This was done during the Battle of Mianzhu. Although the improvement was not very obvious and the enemy would not notice the qualitative gap quickly.

As Zhao Yun retreated and shot, he disgusted Hua Xiong. Although both sides were moving at high speed and their hit rate was extremely low, it really made Hua Xiong anxious.

After a few minutes of battle, Hua Xiong's army was shot and killed dozens of people, and many more were injured.

The key is that Zhao Yun occasionally pretends to be insufficient in horsepower and cannot escape. When you chase Zhao Yun, Zhao Yun will turn around and kill a retaliation, take down seven or eight Western Liang cavalry before running, and cover up the archers and cavalrymen to keep a distance.

It is inevitable that the Xiliang Army will become looser and looser in the pursuit, and there will be no dense group to beat Zhao Yun on some battlefields. As long as Zhao Yun faces no more than ten enemy cavalry at every moment, the speed of rushing is simply giving Zhao Yun a head.

Hua Xiong estimated the time in his mind: "No, let Zhao Yun run back like this, and run five or six miles to get Sun Jian's main infantry support. It seems that it is unlikely to annihilate his cavalry before the enemy meets. These Youzhou people are really despicable and shameless. They know how to shoot arrows and dare not fight with our Xiliang warriors in real swords and guns."

Hua Xiong was thinking this way, but suddenly noticed a problem: Zhao Yun's cavalry was not all running so fast, because only two thousand of Zhao Yun's three thousand cavalry were leather-armored, and one thousand were iron-armored cavalry. Although these iron-armored cavalry also brought bows and arrows and kept harassing them during the retreat, they couldn't run fast, so they chose to go south to leave the battlefield horizontally, while Zhao Yun's two thousand leather-armored cavalry ran eastward and moved closer to the Sun Jian infantry in the back army.

Hua Xiong immediately reacted: this team of iron-armored cavalry knew that they were too heavy and not able to carry heavy weights. If they ran in the same direction as Zhao Yun, they would definitely fall to the end. They were surrounded by the Xiliang heavy cavalry of seven or eight thousand, so they chose to leave the main battlefield horizontally from the beginning.

More importantly, Hua Xiong saw Guan Yu's banner in that team of armored cavalry formation!

"I have always been afraid that Zhao Yun will be brave and dare not fight with Zhao Yun himself. Now Guan Yu is retreating south and is so far away from Zhao Yun. If I suddenly don't chase east and go south, as long as Guan Yu is surrounded by me, Zhao Yun will not be able to rescue him for the moment. Why don't he kill Guan Yu while Zhao Yun is away? When Guan Yu dies, Zhao Yun is afraid of giving up the head-on crime and has to fight with me again. Wouldn't he die by himself?"

Hua Xiong was so happy that he did what he said, and immediately waved his flag and horns, signaling Li Meng to continue chasing, blocking Zhao Yun, and preventing Zhao Yun from returning to Guan Yu (once the cavalry charge was too far away, he could no longer beat drums to command, so the military orders during mobile warfare could only rely on rough command of the trumpet)

Then Hua Xiong himself took his troops around him and turned to the south to rush towards the thousand iron-armored cavalrymen in Guan Yu.

It’s not that Hua Xiong didn’t want to assemble more cavalry to siege Guan Yu as soon as possible, and he had no choice. After rushing several miles away from the formation, the cavalry could not quickly command the entire army and immediately changed the target. The messengers were too late and there was no telegram or mobile phone.

Who made the order "change to attack Guan Yu" come up with Hua Xiong's temporary slap in the forehead after the troops were already out of touch, and it was not within the pre-war plan.

At this moment, the cavalry of the two armies had already rushed in a very chaotic manner, covering several square kilometers of battlefields. Other Xiliang troops could only watch Huaxiong's flag rushing south before they could follow the direction of the flag. Therefore, Huaxiong had to lead the way and use his flag to take the arrow to guide the new direction of attack.

After just two minutes of charge, Huaxiong's flag was only one arrow away from Guan Yu's flag. Two or three thousand Xiliang cavalry reacted and turned to the flag that followed Huaxiong one after another.

"The whole army uses his life to move forward! Killing Guan Yu is today!" Hua Xiong slapped his horse and danced his sword, and took the Guan Yu flag formation straight.

Guan Yu in the distance originally looked at the messy enemy soldiers, but he could not find Hua Xiong for a while. Until he heard this loud shout, his ears moved, his eyes narrowed, and he looked in the direction of the loud shout, and finally saw Hua Xiong's position clearly.

"A man, Zilong dared not respond to the challenge just now, but now he dared to take the lead in rushing forward." Guan Yu stroked his beard and thought to himself, whispering to the thousand iron-armored cavalry beside him to launch a counterattack immediately, and the target was directed to Huaxiong's direction.

Since you think you are not satisfied with riding and shooting, you will be satisfied once if you want to fight against the fierce cavalry!

However, since Zilong had passed the common name and curse just now and the other party didn't answer, Guan Yu would not be a common name anymore. How could he be worthy of being a common name twice for the cowardly villain?

So Guan Yu just dragged his sword and rode his horse quietly.

A person who refuses to fight one person in one person is not worthy of being accused of being challenged one person in one person again.

"Well? Guan Yu actually had the whole army hedge? He was brave, but what about Guan Yu people? They were all black armored cavalry, and no one saw that the armor was particularly shiny or had bright heart protection mirrors. Could it be that Guan Yu's armor was the same as ordinary cavalry?"

After a brief rejoicing, Hua Xiong also realized this trouble - most of the soldiers of the Xiliang heavy cavalry under his command were nothing more than better leather armor, such as using rhinestone and crocodile leather as armor, or wearing double leather armor, which could not be used as iron armor for everyone.

But one advantage of this is that it is easy to identify generals and soldiers through armor.

Guan Yu was so rich that all the members were wearing iron armor and dressed the same, but Hua Xiong was in a dilemma.

At this moment, the cavalry vanguards of the two armies had already collided with each other, with flesh and blood flying, gold and iron clashing, and heavy iron-packed meat hedging and chopping wildly, and the scene was extremely tragic.

Hua Xiong tried his best to cut off two Youzhou iron armored cavalry with two swords, and cut off several layers of iron armor in succession, which also made his sword slightly curled.

He was looking for the enemy, and noticed that there was another Youzhou cavalry general who rushed forward in front of him. The general's simple black armor was covered with a tattered gray-green burqa, which looked even more inconspicuous than other iron cavalry who did not wear robes.

But Hua Xiong could instinctively feel a danger. He was cautious and carefully scanned, and noticed that the man had a red face and a strong chin, his beautiful beard was tucked in his battle robe to avoid swaying with the wind when he was running, and he was dragging a big knife that looked sharper than his treasure sword!

"The red face, long beard, green dragon sword?" Hua Xiong subconsciously set up a sword and was alert to block the direction the other party was slashing.

"Huh——" A heavy and fierce wind whistled by. Guan Yu had dragged the Qinglong Sword for a long time and swung it hard with all his might. With a loud "clang" sound, the blade that rose from the ground made Hua Xiong's arms sore and numb, and his body was slightly lifted and fell backwards.

Fortunately, Hua Xiong is also a powerful general with high martial arts. Even if he does not have double-sided stirrups, he has excellent waist-horse skills. He puts stirrups on one foot and has strong waist strength. He immediately maintains the posture of holding a knife to protect his chest and abdomen without distortion. On the back of the horse, he stands up again in a posture similar to a half-carp thrust.

Unfortunately, when Hua Xiong had just gotten rid of the trend of falling back and sitting upright, he immediately fell into the trend of leaning forward and falling.

A stream of blood splattered up, even covering Hua Xiong's eyes.

It turned out that the attack of the knife just now was blocked by Hua Xiong with all his strength, but it only saved his life. When Hua Xiong fell back, the momentum of the Qinglong Sword was only slowed down slightly, and he had already taken the lead and cut off the head of Hua Xiong's mount.

If a person can block the back, the horse cannot. So when Hua Xiong turned around and sat upright, his face was covered with blood from his war horse. After the horse died, his front legs naturally fell down, and Hua Xiong was already thrown to the ground.

Guan Yu, who had rushed over, had killed several of the Xiliang soldiers who were blocking Hua Xiong, and turned his horse's head and rushed towards Hua Xiong again.

"Protect the Chief Commander!" Hua Xiong's personal soldiers had already reacted. Seeing that Hua Xiong's horse was dead, they tried their best to surround Hua Xiong to protect Hua Xiong. Someone asked the horse to let Hua Xiong get on the horse quickly and fight again.

Unfortunately, this chaotic protection could not stop Guan Yu at all. As the Qinglong sword flew, five or six Xiliang soldiers died instantly. Hua Xiong had just wiped the blood on his face, and heard the sword wind blowing, and knew that it was too late to get on the horse again, so he had to fight with the sword to resist.

Hua Xiong knew that this was the last chance, because Guan Yu rushed over. As long as he missed a blow, he had to rush over again and snatch the horse back. It was impossible to stop the horse and stop fighting with you in an instant.

Therefore, if you block this attack, you can wait until Guan Yu rushes over and then returns to the horse. Only then can you get on the horse! If you block this attack, the probability of survival will be very high!

Unfortunately, Guan Yu obviously understood this truth better than him.

"Drink—" Guan Yu rarely yelled before the knife, and increased the war horse to full speed. With a "clang" knife, Hua Xiong staggered and fell back, and the door opened wide.

"Wow--" Hua Xiong squirted a mouthful of blood in his chest, "Did I block it? Get on the horse quickly..."

With this idea in his mind, Hua Xiong was about to get on his horse, but another cool breeze came from the back of his neck. With a "pop", the head flew up, and blood gushed in the neck.

When the head flew in the air, Hua Xiong, whose consciousness had not yet dissipated, was still thinking: Didn’t he have already rushed over? Didn’t I have blocked this knife? Why can someone make up for it when he rushed over and couldn’t see the enemy?
Chapter completed!