"Bangbang..." The war drums that lasted for several miles roared together, and the formation was still very grand. Even veterans who had been fighting for many years could not help but have a surge in adrenaline.

Although Liu Bei's Yizhou army has trained hard in recent years, if you want to see the opportunity to see the actual situation, it is really not as good as the oldest group of veterans among the 170,000 Xiliang soldiers on the opposite side.

But no matter which side of the soldiers, they have to admit that the situation they face today is the only big scene they have seen in their lives. Even the princes had tried to fight Dong before, there was no such thing as the 260,000 people from both sides at the same time, fighting to the death on the same battlefield at the same time.

Liu Bei, Guan Yu, Li Jue, and Guo Si are the ones with the most experience among the generals present. They have never commanded such a large decisive battle scene.

Everyone has a sense of heroism in their hearts that witnesses history and personally participates in historical creation.

In Li Su's literary words, it is: I stepped into the torrent of history with one foot, and the long river of history flowed eastward, and it was divided into two at my feet.

Soon, the charge shouts of tens of thousands of cavalry on the left and right wings temporarily overwhelmed the drums, and also pulled the attention of Li Su and other generals in the central army.

The cavalry were fast and good at surrounding the enemy, so at the beginning of the battle, Liu Bei and Li Juejun both chose the cavalry to revolve around the enemy's flanks and obtain a wider front width of the formation.

For Li Jue, this is a textbook-style choice, and there is no other way.

For Liu Bei, in theory, he had other choices, such as letting the elephant soldiers appear in advance. However, in the military discussion last night, Li Su advised him and Guan Yu to hold back, calm down, and make contributions to the full battle to maximize the sudden power of the battle elephant. Liu Bei also agreed, so he still let the cavalry take the first formation.

Li Su discussed with Guan Yu last night: "The impact of the battle elephant is second to the point. The key is to shock the morale of the enemy, so suddenness is very important. You must wait until the two armies fight together. Once one side retreats first, it will suffer heavy pursuit and losses before taking out the battle elephant.

If the main infantry forces on both sides had not yet met in close combat, or even separated by several miles, the true power of the war elephant was exposed in advance, which might lead to Li Jue retreating early. In this way, even if our army chased and killed, it would not be decisively severely."

Li Su did not have much strength in tactical command talent for large-scale decisive battles in the cold weapon era, so he would not touch Liu Bei or Guan Yu's specific command and command. He was very self-aware of this.

But he knew that he had so much historical insight and influence from Sino-foreign exchanges. Now, no one in the world should be better than him in how to exert the power of the elephant soldier, unless Hannibal was reborn. Therefore, it would be of great benefit to give certain targeted opinions restrainedly.

Li Su kept silent about the part that had nothing to do with the Elephant Soldiers.

After considering Li Su's supplementary opinions, Liu Bei and Guan Yu formed today's overall specific tactics, and also explained them to Zhao Yun and Ma Chao.

"When we get into the battle for a while, if the Xiliang cavalry relies on the large number of people, especially the main force of the Xiliang infantry, the wide line of the battle line will be hard to circle the two wings, and we will follow it and we must not be closer than the Xiliang people, and we may even "expose the gap between the cavalry on both wings of our army and the main force of the central infantry."

Let Li Jue and Guo Si feel that there is an opportunity to take advantage of it, and then press all the central infantry to fight. At that time, Yun Chang and the King will naturally have other ways to defeat the Xiliang infantry that looked much more and had a wider line width."

Zhao Yun stared at Zhang Xiu on the opposite side, galloping to the distance of the right wing, circling each other, keeping a distance to shoot, while silently reciting the way Guan Yu explained his play last night.

Don’t worry that Guan Yu’s flanks are not protected! Don’t worry that Guan Yu’s front width is narrower than that of Li Jue and Duan Wei! It is to make the enemy feel that “storming up and fighting has an advantage for them.”

After completely letting himself go without considering the constraints of "disconnecting from comrades" and not considering the constraints of "out of touch with your comrades", Zhao Yun beats Zhang Xiu and is of course like walking in the garden.

Liu Bei's army had a total of 27,000 cavalrymen, and the Xiliang army opposite was only 40,000 (Guo Si was 20,000, Zhang Xiu was 10,000, Li Jue, and Duan Wei combined with 10,000), so the number of cavalrymen between the two armies was less than 50%, and Liu Bei's cavalry was not significantly disadvantageous.

However, the book gap between the number of infantry personnel of the two armies was very obvious. Liu Bei's army had 63,000 infantry and the Xiliang army had 130,000, which was more than 100%.

Such a comparison of strength led to "the two armies' cavalry fighting alone", and Liu Bei was not at a loss at all. Including the advantages of the riding and shooting of the metal double-sided stirrups and the wooden high-bridge saddle, the protective advantage of forging the steel chest deck, the overall combat effectiveness can still surpass it.

After all, the Xiliang Army had just popularized the double-sided hemp rope stirrups. Only the generals had observed Zhao Yun's equipment because they had fought with Zhao Yun several times before, so they followed suit and created hundreds of pairs of metal double-sided stirrups, but only the officers had the equipment. As for the technology of these things to spread to the Kanto battlefield, it would probably take another year and a half.

It is impossible to keep it completely confidential. After all, there will be casualties in wars. Individual equipment will always be seized by the enemy and then used to imitate and research. Things that are not protected from copycat technical content will always be confiscated.

"Swoosh swish swish swish" the sound of the ground feather arrow breaking through the air, and the general Zhang Xiu, wearing black armor, was a little scared several times. The bows and arrows of Zhao Yun's army on the opposite side were much more accurate than him. The two armies ran parallel across hundreds of steps and shot each other. The number of arrows covered by Zhao Yun's army was also obviously superior.

The reason why Zhang Xiu kept a distance at the beginning was to lead Zhao Yun away and let Zhao Yun be further away from Guan Yu's infantry main formation, so he didn't want to strangle him directly, and wanted to fly kites to get more distances.

Now seeing Zhao Yun following so simply and decisively, without hesitation, and taking advantage of the shot honestly and unceremoniously, Zhang Xiu finally couldn't help but get angry.

After all, he is a younger general, and he has a temper. His cunning is incomparable to his dead uncle Zhang Ji.

"Hmph, I heard that my uncle was intercepted by Zhao Yun's patrol when he broke through the river and fled. Today, he wanted to avenge his uncle!" Zhang Xiu turned around and saw that Zhao Yun had been drawn away from Guan Yu's right wing Xu Huang for several miles, and finally couldn't help but take revenge.

With a spear, the flag-holding officer behind him also turned the direction of Zhang Xiu's big flag. The more than 10,000 cavalry under his command turned around and rushed towards Zhao Yun's front army, from riding and shooting each other, tempting and pulling, and turning into a direct rush.

Of course, the cavalry directly commanded by Zhao Yun on the opposite side was only seven or eight thousand, and the number was still at a disadvantage compared to Zhang Xiu - because the cavalry on the left wing of the Western Liang Army was not only the 10,000 people led by Zhang Xiu, but also the cavalry of Li Jue and Duan Wei, and Zhao Yun also scored half of the cavalry as the back team to guard against that part of the enemy cavalry.

Similarly, at this moment, in the northwest corner of the battlefield, Guo Si's 20,000 cavalry were divided into two units, led by Yang Ding and Wu Xi, and they were separately dealing with Ma Chao and Hu Chuquan.

"Puchi phuchi--"

"Cruff-crunch-"

The sound of the gun blade, the sound of the sabre entering the flesh, the sound of the tooth of the metal plate armor being knocked down by the huge force of the sprint, and the miserable neighing of the cavalry and war horses instantly filled the battlefield.

The first wave of morale between the two armies was hedging by, and hundreds of people were directly dismissed. The sprint caused such huge losses, which really made the soldiers with few blood scared.

Zhao Yun has experienced many battles, and his spear never had any extra movements. He was like a cook who cuts a cow, entering the gap with no thickness, and having enough freedom. Whenever he encountered an enemy, the spear would push with the flow, and he would not use much force, and he would kill him as soon as he clicked.

It seemed that he was holding a gun, but a cooking knife for Matcha Mousse. It seemed to be lightly every time. But if he encountered the blocking of the enemy's weapons, it seemed to be able to increase the strength instantly to a thousand pounds. The enemy seemed to have a heavy blow, and it was difficult to sweep Zhao Yun's spear. It gave people the illusion that when they encountered the strong, they were strong.

Without looking back, Zhao Yun knew that he had assassinated nine people in this wave. However, the on-site experience of the cavalry under his command made him quite dissatisfied - he still lacked practical experience. He had been in the army for several years and had participated in some battles, but he had never encountered such a battle between the cavalry corps and the cavalry corps.

The Western Liang cavalry were good at using spears, and they all followed the style of Ma Chao. It was the peak of the melee cavalry in the late Han Dynasty. The cavalry of Bingzhou and Youzhou were not as good as those of the Western Liang people, and perhaps they could only find the place in riding and shooting or saber fighting.

In the wave of charge just now, almost all the soldiers under Zhao Yun's command were rushed down by the spears of the Western Liang cavalry. With the huge inertia of the hedging of the war horses between the two sides, they were stabbed in the front of the spear. Even if they were wearing a whole piece of wrought iron breastplate, they could not withstand it.

Because the damage of this huge force is far more severe than the blunt weapon trauma of a hundred pounds. Wearing iron armor at most causes the opponent's spear to be broken and the gun rod is broken, but the person who is hit will also be seriously injured in the internal organs and vomit blood and die.

Nearly a hundred cavalrymen with breastplate vomited blood and fell to the ground, although the losses of the cavalry in Xiliang were several times more serious.

"Don't rush forward! Keep a distance when you pass by the wrong person! Fight! Use a saber!" Zhao Yun turned around with the cavalry team to fight for the second wave, while trying his best to shout at the top of his voice, reminding his subordinates to pay attention to combat methods and tactical details.

Unfortunately, this kind of arrangement is too detailed, so how much the other party can remember when he comes on the stage, it is only for fate. Such a too detailed order cannot be conveyed by banners and drums. It is useless to rely on Zhao Yun to shout.

In fact, Zhao Yun had said that before the war, when he was training, it was because of the lack of acceptance of soldiers. Many people had never fought like this with the cavalry regiment of the regular army of Xiliang. When they went to the battlefield, their minds were full of blankness. They would still use the familiar tactics they had used when they rushed to the battlefield to abuse the enemy's infantry.

Remember the points and apply the points, you can only look at each soldier's own luck. After living through this battle, avoiding the Xiliang people's spear charges and assassination several times, and killing a few Xiliang soldiers, you can grow up after the war and engrave these precautions into your muscle memory.

After all, the reactions during battles are not based on the brain to think about, but they are all muscle memory and muscle reactions. How can you deal with them at critical moments? How can you deal with them? How can you have time to think about it?

After two more rounds of rushing, as both sides' horsepower decreased, the speed also decreased, and the formation became more and more chaotic, Zhao Yun and Zhang Xiu finally turned into the cavalry's circle and fight.

Zhang Xiu was not experienced enough. At first, he felt that the exchange he had with Zhao Yun was barely acceptable. Although he would continue to fight according to this exchange, Zhang Xiu must have been wiped out first, but Zhang Xiu believed that he was far from being destroyed before he could be destroyed. Li Ju Duan Wei could win a decisive advantage against Guan Yu on the front battlefield of the Central Army, and then attack Zhao Yun.

However, as the cavalry speed decreased, Zhang Xiu quickly realized something was wrong. After the huge inertia of the spear sprint was attenuated, the effect of facing the cavalry wearing breastplate on the opposite side was suddenly reduced by relying on the armor-breaking and assassination effect of the spear tip itself.

Unless it is a master like Zhang Xiu who has full force to penetrate the front, he can still pierce the breastplate when the spear tip is worn. However, if the martial arts are slightly inferior, as long as it is not pierced very well, it will easily be slipped and opened by the arc-surface breastplate.

When hedging at low speed, Zhao Yun's cavalry is easier to grasp the distance between the two sides. The angle that can be adjusted by the cavalry's rifle charge is very small, and it can only effectively stab the enemy who is more than half a foot away from you. A little further away will easily lead to the gun bar being overly tilted and cannot withstand the recoil effect of leverage. Even if you abandon the gun in time, you will easily be swept down by the reaction force.

Once Zhao Yun's cavalry keeps a distance, they can get a sabre and spear together. The blade length of the sabre created by Zhao Yunjun seems to be longer than the ring-headed knife. In theory, it is easy to sweep away under the action of leverage, and the reaction force causes him to have to abandon the knife.

But Zhang Xiu soon discovered the secret: the long sabre brought by Zhao Yun's cavalry was larger in edge arc and more curved than the ring-headed sword. Therefore, after the cavalry was hedging, they were able to remove their strength and prevent themselves from being knocked off by backlash or having to abandon their swords.

There is no way, the Han Dynasty military-style ring-headed sword is universal for infantry and cavalry. Infantry does not need to consider the issue of excessive relative speed and unloading force during charge and chopping, so there is no need to waste steel and increase the difficulty of forging to forge a more curved sword. The cavalry does not have special saber casting, so they can just use whatever infantry uses.

Zhao Yun's troops, the new swords that were equipped with when training troops in Yizhou in recent years, are approaching the curvature of the scimitars of the Turks and Arab countries during the Sui and Tang Dynasties. They have been specially designed for cavalry charge and unloading force buffers. They have achieved a larger range of lateral attacks, but their reaction force is smaller than that of the ring-headed sword.

This thing appears in conjunction with the breastplate, which means that the enemy who specializes in long spears will not allow the advantage of blunt weapons and inertial power to exchange life with you "equal" all living beings, but instead pull the enemy's cavalry to a relatively low-speed battle field, allowing the armor advantages of the Yizhou cavalry to exert their strength.

Who made the plate armor and the armorless beings in front of Juli equal? ​​If the breastplate party has, of course, you have to use your brain to give full play to your advantages.

Zhang Xiu had never fought such a battle and was extremely frustrated for a while. He found that only his cavalry rushed up at a high speed of more than 120 miles per hour could he fight a fairly acceptable exchange with Zhao Yun in a cavalry battle. Once the horse speed of both sides dropped below this, his people could only pierce their limbs or backs, otherwise piercing their chest and abdomen would be completely useless.

"Why haven't Li Jue and Duan Wei cleaned up Guan Yu yet? I've bought them enough time!" After Zhang Xiu passed by Zhao Yun again and narrowly opened Zhao Yun's attack, he became really anxious.

He was very angry, why the main infantry force of the central army did not make a breakthrough as planned and then came to support him.

Zhang Xiu was lucky because his brain could still undergo electrochemical reactions to keep thinking. Yang Ding, who was working on his other wing, was even worse than him, and his brain had stopped thinking.

Yang Ding was also caught by Ma Chao's cavalry three times after he was in a three-round battle. Ma Chao was caught with a chance and stabbed the horse with one shot. A hole as big as a bowl in his chest was directly exposed. Blood was like a spring, and his heart spurted out of the hole, and it bounced on the ground a few times.

Yang Ding, a guy who fought with Ma Chao three times, was able to rely on his own strength to suppress Ma Chao's besiege in the first two times. This time, Ma Chao finally got a revenge on his own.

Wu Xi, who was partnering with Yang Ding, was still alive, but he was also very uncomfortable. Several feather arrows of Southern Xiongnu cavalry were inserted into his iron armor. All the iron armor was not seriously injured due to the excellent quality of the iron armor. However, the cavalry around Wu Xi were all suffering under the kite of the Southern Xiongnu Shanyu guards. Those who did not have iron armor protection were shot to death from time to time.
Chapter completed!