Li Min laughed heartily, pointed his long sword at the soldiers who were in panic on the other side of Yingshui River, and said: "This is an ambush? There are no horses, no arrows and crossbows, what's the use of straight spears and short knives?"
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The main reason is that Li Min has captured a batch of war horses from Dong Zhuo's army. The sweetness he has tasted makes him want to stop. Although some of them are damaged, if they are recuperated, he can still have seventy or eighty horses available.
If you can collect the more than one hundred war horses that are resting behind the infantry formation in front of you, you can form nearly a thousand cavalry...
Scattered cavalry can be one to two or three at most, but cavalry in formation can be one to five, or even higher. In the Han Dynasty, the greater the number of cavalry, the stronger the army's combat effectiveness. Hundreds of cavalry and thousands of cavalry
The combat effectiveness is almost double the difference.
Looking at the tired knights who dismounted one by one, and observing that there were no archers in the infantry formation that came to meet the enemy, they only needed to cross the river and defeat these five or six hundred people. Those who were already exhausted
The cavalry became a thing in a urn...
Thinking of this, Li Min was so itchy that he ordered his soldiers to cross the river to pursue him.
Although there are only five or six hundred people in formation on the other side, there is no comparison with a pursuit battle. In a pursuit battle, as long as the party being chased runs fast and does not fall behind or is surrounded and caught, there will be no life.
It's dangerous, and as long as the pursuing party doesn't stumble, the risk will be even smaller...
But going into battle and forming a formation is completely different. Going into battle means a narrow escape from death, and this is true for both sides.
Regardless of whether they have an advantage or not, under sword and gun fire, even the dominant side may not be able to guarantee that there will be no casualties. Under the conditions of the lack of medical treatment and medicine in the Han Dynasty, even a small wound may lead to loss of life due to infection complications.
Although everyone on Li Min's side believed that there would always be victory in the end, before that, some of the first soldiers to fight would inevitably fall by the banks of Yingshui, dyeing the river red, and the fruits of victory would be the same as those of Yingshui.
No luck.
Their significance is to use their own flesh and blood to tear apart the opponent's formation. The sooner the opponent is defeated or eliminated, the more hope their side will have to survive.
Li Min was not stupid enough to directly order his few cavalry to cross the river to attack. Instead, he ordered the infantry who came one after another to form a square formation, and asked his archers to advance to the river first to prevent his soldiers from suffering during the process of crossing the river.
Upon seeing the opponent's approaching attack, he ordered the formed infantry to cross the river and seize the territory on the other side of the river...
Perhaps because of timidity, perhaps because there were no archers and could not compete, or perhaps for some other reason, the five or six hundred Dong Zhuo soldiers who were lined up in a row in the distance were somewhat commotion, but they did not step forward to stop Li Min's army from crossing the river.
Li Min's infantry quickly crossed the waist-high river, braved the fierce cold wind, and dispersed their formation to make room for the following troops.
Then the soldiers of the second group crossed the river. Dong Zhuo's army seemed to have some intention of attacking. They moved forward for more than ten steps, but stopped again. Because of the inconsistent actions of the left and right, the entire battle ended.
The array is twisted and twisted, extremely ugly...
When Li Min saw this, he pointed at Dong Zhuo's soldiers who were already in shape and said to Zhang An: "Have you seen it? It has lost its shape. With one blow, it will definitely be defeated!" Then he ordered the following cavalry and others.
The archers crossed the river together.
The cold wind was strong, and although the water in the river was not deep, I felt a bit chilly when I got wet and was blown by the wind.
Li Min also knew this, so without a second thought, he directly ordered the soldiers in the front line to go forward to engage in the battle, and ordered his 800 cavalry to be divided into two groups, the left and right, to extend to the sides and front in preparation for outflanking...
The war drums were rumbling. Li Min's front row of sword and shield soldiers would place their big shields on the ground every five steps. After taking a breath, they would pick up the big shields again and continue to advance. The shouts of shouts resounded through the Yingshui River, and their neat steps
The sound was so loud that the ground seemed to be shaking.
Dong Zhuo's army seemed to have fallen into despair. It did not have an advantage in strength at first, and then it was about to be hit by multiple forces. Moreover, it seemed that it would be surrounded and suppressed on three sides, and the formation became more and more scattered...
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Just when the distance between the two sides was getting closer and closer to about a hundred paces, Dong Zhuo's troops suddenly dispersed with a loud shout, turned around and ran away. The cavalry who were originally hiding behind the infantry also scrambled to crawl away.
Get on your horse and run away together...
Li Min's soldiers in the front line were originally ready to fight, but when Dong Zhuo's soldiers did this, he was stunned at first, and then he couldn't help but burst into laughter.
This time, even Zhang An, who had always been cautious, was a little dumbfounded. Now the battle turned into a pursuit battle...
The subsequent evolution naturally became that Dong Zhuo's small group of troops fled into the mountains in front, while Li Min's soldiers chased after them. From time to time, Dong Zhuo's soldiers who were lagging behind were caught up, and they were hacked to death by random blades, and their heads became
The treasure that was robbed.
This time, Li Min's cavalry gained more than the cavalry that chased Dong Zhuo before. They focused on a lagging Dong Zhuo soldier, rode his horse forward and cut him down, and then dismounted as if no one was watching, chopped off his head and hung it on the horse's neck.
Go up and chase the next target...
And those infantrymen could only watch with jealousy, spreading their legs and rushing forward desperately, hoping to capture something before withdrawing their troops. Even the armor, weapons, flags and other things that Dong Zhuobing discarded along the way were also thrown away.
They all chased and picked up at the same time.
Li Min was also rushing forward with the Chinese army. As soon as he turned around a hill, he heard a rumble of drums, followed by majestic shouts, and suddenly a flag was erected next to him with the message "China
The words "Lang Jiang Xu".
Xu Rong immediately stood under the flag, looking at Li Min's army that had been separated from the front and back due to the pursuit. He waved his hand expressionlessly and heard what seemed like thousands of wasps vibrating their wings at the same time. Arrows rained all over the sky.
Projected towards the position of the Chinese army where Li Min was.
Then rows of Xiliang cavalry emerged from behind the hilltop, waving their sabers, galloping down the horse, slashing left and right, breaking the Chinese army that had just endured the rain of arrows into two sections...
Li Min shouted anxiously, asking his soldiers to form a formation to meet the enemy. However, some soldiers near him heard his order, reluctantly gathered together, and raised their weapons tremblingly to face the enemy.
, and the other soldiers who were far away from the Chinese army were now in a state of chaos. How could you hear what he was shouting...
Please raise your hands if you pronounce the word min as (文)!
Well, let’s add a joke to save people from nagging about it...
Cao Cao admired Sun Quan very much and once said: "It's like Sun Zhongmou to have a son, just my children, bah!" So his son was named Cao Pi.
Sun Quan always remembered Zhuge Liang, so his son was named Sun Liang.
However, Liu Bei never forgot the Diao Chan he had seen that year, so his son was named Liu Chan.
