() Chapter 117 The decisive battle begins

Zhang Xiu's Fenglei Cavalry, who shined last time, did not serve as the backbone of Liu Qi's army, but was lifted up. It was not that Liu Qi was not valued, but rather as a deterrent force, on the side of the entire army ten miles away. Liu Qi did not use this force first, which gave Cao Cao great concerns, allowing him to have constraints in tactical command and could not attack with all his strength.

After the deadlock, Zhang Xiu's Fenglei Cavalry began to play his role. During the fierce battle, the weaknesses of both sides will be infinitely amplified, and then they are attacked by the other party. It depends on whoever breaks through the other party's weakness first, and whoever gains the advantage in the war.

To put it, it depends on whether Liu Qi's Xuanxiang Formation can withstand the impact of Cao Cao's 100,000 troops, and consume part of Cao Cao's strength. This battle can be said to be a winner; if it cannot, Liu Qi's army was defeated by Cao Cao's army and defeated Liu Qi's army, and there will be no suspense in this battle. Zhang Xiu's Fenglei Cavalry can only be used as a rear rear.

The army of both sides slowly approached, only a few miles away from the enemy. They stopped and started to set up formations. Archers arranged around them to prevent the enemy from suddenly rushing to the battlefield. The army was the most vulnerable at this time. Otherwise, the ancients said that they could attack halfway, which meant that before the enemy had set up their formation, they could effectively defend and attack before attacking. However, Cao Cao's skill would not give Liu Qi or Pang Tong the opportunity; of course, Liu Qi would not give Cao Cao such an opportunity either.

When the formation was set, the attack or defense began. The Cao army was placing the main attack cone formation, and the sharp troops were all on the front, so that the front army could defeat the enemy in one fell swoop.

Cao Chun's Tiger and Leopard Cavalry, as the most powerful unit of the Cao army, was also the "arrow tip" of the "arrow" of the Cao army. He was unshirkable to take on the task of rushing to the formation. Behind were the 6,000 Western Liang Iron Cavalry led by Pang De and Liang Xing. Nine thousand cavalry were in the shape of "Pin" and rushed towards Liu Qi's army like an arrow.

The cavalry's charge speed has basically been increased. Next, it depends on the strong physique of the horse, the coordination of the cavalry, the cavalry's weapons and horses, the thickness of the armor, the strength of the cavalry, etc. The cavalry's charge is not very dense, and often each cavalry is separated by three to five meters, so that after someone falls, it will not affect the charge of the people behind it.

As the vanguard of this battle, Cao Chun was very excited, not for his meritorious service after winning, but for revenge, for the loss of the seven thousand tiger and leopard soldiers, for the dignity of the general he lost, and for the righteous reputation of the tiger and leopard cavalry.

The distance of several miles happened to be the fastest speed of the cavalry charge, and rushed towards Liu Qi's former army like lightning. The cavalry tactics in the late Han Dynasty were mainly tactics invented by Huo Qubing. The Han Dynasty's cavalry general Huo Qubing figured out a new tactic, chariot hanging. The chariot hanging is actually the power enhancement version of assault tactics, but it is much more domineering than assault. It is not like assault, but it pays more attention to the spacing between each cavalry, and cooperation is equivalent to a cavalry version of a cone formation. Cao Chun learned the superficiality of General Huo Qubing's cavalry tactics, but it was also amazing. Cao Chun's cavalry tactics during the Three Kingdoms period were also among the top few.

In fact, Huo Qubing's cavalry tactics were actually summarized based on Xiang Yu, the overlord of Western Chu. Xiang Yu, the leader of the rebel army in the late Qin Dynasty, in the Chu-Han era, was the first person in history to propose using the high-speed impact force of cavalry to fight blitzkriegs. In the era without stirrups, Xiang Yu thought of the mainstream assault tactics of later cavalry tactics. This was quite advanced in military history. Cavalry assault disrupted the enemy's formation, and infantry followed the pace of cavalry to annihilate the enemy's scattered and single. This idea of ​​collaborative infantry and cavalry combat was unprecedented at the time.

It was precisely because Xiang Yu's large-scale use of cavalry in the war with Liu Bang that Liu Bang realized the power of the cavalry and made up his mind to form a cavalry unit. Although Guan Ying, the commander of the first cavalry unit, appointed Li Bi, the surrendered general of the Qin State, and Luo Jia, to train cavalry as the captain, he was still tactical to imitate Xiang Yu's cavalry tactics. This indirectly laid the foundation for the later Han Empire to have a powerful cavalry unit.

Following closely behind were the 6,000 Western Liang Iron Cavalry led by Pang De and Liang Xing. The longest cross-section of the entire vanguard was one mile and half mile in length. The front was only a few dozen steps across the span. In order to ensure the impact of the cavalry, it "weeds" into it like a nail to destroy the enemy's military formation. The cavalry behind took the opportunity to attack in, open the gap, and instantly broke through the enemy's military formation.

Cao Chun stared at the front with cold eyes, and there was no trace of fear on his grim face. Three thousand cavalrymen, several miles away, arrived in an instant, Cao Chun shouted: "Cover the urethra!"

Three thousand Cao soldiers in green clothes and green armor neatly took out cloth strips to cover the horse's eyes. The horse was born to be afraid of sharp weapons, and the horse was not stupid. It rushed towards the sharp spear in a daze, which required the horse's eyes to cover. Because of habit, the horse would not stop and rely on its original speed to continue to attack the enemy's army formation.

Liu Qi's army was facing Cao's army. Cao Chun came up and attacked Liu Qi's most powerful defense front. I don't know if he was confident in the strength of his Tiger and Leopard Cavalry, or if he looked down on Liu Qi's infantry strength. No wonder Cao Chun followed Cao's battles in the south and north, and had never seen any powerful soldiers.

The eight hundred trap camps, known as "the ambition to trap the battle, and have no life" in the world; Lu Bu's "Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry" and Zhang He's "High-ups" were all defeated by Cao's army's "Qingzhou Army". As the "Qingzhou Army", no one can be the tiger and leopard cavalry selected from the "Qingzhou Army". Yes, except Zhang Xiu's original Xiliang Army.

Cao Chun didn't take Liu Qi's Jingzhou infantry seriously. Jingzhou Jiangdong was just a stronger naval army, and the others were not worth mentioning. With his contempt for Liu Qi's Jingzhou infantry, Cao Chun led three thousand tiger and leopard cavalry to rush towards the enemy formation.

It was so sharp. Especially the crossbow soldiers in Jingzhou were the best in the world, but Cao Cao had not yet fully appreciated its power. Although the reason for Xu Chu's vanguard was that it was a battle to defend the city and it might not be used on the plains, so Cao Cao didn't care at all. What role could the Zhuge crossbow, which was a major and dozens of kilograms, play in the battle. The battle still relies on the impact of cavalry and infantry.
Chapter completed!