When the fire cavalry saw their chief officer being killed, they were confused at first. They could only ride on their horses and kill and rush around in confusion.
But after all, you are riding on a horse, standing high and seeing far away, so it is easy to find where your teammates are.
Therefore, those armies that were still breaking out towards the central army, had goals and directions, and were not in chaos were naturally seen by them, and they instinctively drove their war horses to move closer to the nearest such army.
"Command? We don't know how! Looking for fighter planes? We don't know how either! If we can, we will be the generals, why do we still need to be the leading soldiers?"
"Then how did you find the attack direction and loopholes among the chaotic army?"
"We really don't understand, but someone must understand!"
"Then how do you know who understands?"
"Just look at which team is charging the most fiercely on the battlefield and the enemies around you are the most fearful. Just lean towards them, or see which direction they are charging in, and just follow them!"
The fire cavalrymen remembered what they had learned while interacting with the Dragon Guards in Dragon City. They thought it was useless at first. As cavalrymen, they themselves were not lacking in education, so they naturally thought that they could become the protagonists.
It was only when they really fell into chaos that they discovered that they really couldn't do anything and had no time to look for the so-called flaws and direction.
Even if you ask them to distinguish between east, west, north and south, they can't do it, so they instinctively remember what Long Wei said and move closer to the team closest to them, charging the most fiercely, and the enemy's eyes are the most fearful.
"Meng Tian should be a famous general!" Even if he is an enemy, Xiang Yan has to admit that for being able to train such a large army, Meng Tian is already among the famous generals.
"Retreat!" Xiang Yan sighed. All he could do now was to assemble heavy troops, open the door, and drive the Meng family's fire cavalry out of the army, preventing the Meng family's fire cavalry from rushing into the Chinese army's tent.
Meng Tian and his fire cavalry finally rushed to a place thirty feet in front of the Chu army's central army's banner. However, the entire Chu army's central army's banner was already guarded by the royal city guards on three levels inside and three outside. They wanted to break into this place.
The last thirty feet were simply impossible.
"Kill!" Meng Tian could already clearly see the appearance of Xiong Qi and Xiang Yan under the banner, but he was still unable to break into them. He could only break out through the opening made by Xiang Yan with his long sword pointed diagonally.
A great battle also ended with the disappearance of the fire cavalry, but the entire Chu army camp was in a mess.
"Let's clean up the battle damage!" Xiang Yan sighed. The Book of Songs Swordsmen can only be used once, and then they are all scrapped. If Meng Tian comes again, how should they deal with it?
"Report the battle damage quickly!" After escaping from the Chu army's siege, Meng Tian also ordered to count the battle damage.
In this encounter, the Chu army suffered nearly 100,000 casualties, and the Meng family's fire cavalry suffered losses of nearly 20,000.
In addition to the number of dead people in the Chu army, there were more wounded soldiers; as for the Meng family fire cavalry, those who could not come back would really not come back, and almost none of those who could be injured by breaking through the heavy armor had minor injuries.
"Good news, bad news!" The deputy general waited until his body cooled down before he dared to take off his helmet and walked to Meng Tian and said.
"Bad news!" Meng Tian sat by the fire and said expressionlessly.
"In today's battle, we have suffered nearly 20,000 casualties, and there are less than 30,000 soldiers and horses who can fight again!" the deputy general said in a low voice.
"The good news is that because of these losses, our food and grass can last for three more days."
After listening to the deputy general's words, Meng Tian raised his head and sighed bitterly, this is not good news.
"Be prepared for a big battle. The losses in this battle are so huge. Xiang Yan will definitely not miss this opportunity and will fight back!" Meng Tian said solemnly.
If their formation was complete, Xiang Yan would not dare to cause trouble with them, but now that they have lost more than half of their troops, Xiang Yan can still at least piece together 200,000 combatable soldiers, and he will never tolerate them jumping around in front of him again.
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Facing 50,000 reorganized fire cavalry, Xiang Yan had no choice. Even if he wanted to fight, he couldn't spread out his formation. However, when the number of fire cavalry was reduced sharply, the Chu army could gather heavy troops and spread out their formation to besiege them.
Xiang Yan did the same thing, surrounding the Meng family's fire cavalry with his army in a concave moon shape. He only waited for the two wings to complete the encirclement before he could trap the Meng family's fire cavalry in the formation.
In the past, the Fire Cavalry could rely on their strong troops and horses to rush in and disrupt the opponent's formation, but now, they are short of men and horses, and it is difficult to break through the opponent's reorganized camp.
For example, a large army has a certain number of establishments, such as five thousand troops and ten thousand troops. The number of people is fixed.
When the fire cavalry is fully organized, it is easy to penetrate Chu's three to four thousand troops and penetrate all the way.
But now, the Chu army still maintains a force of 50,000 people, but the fire cavalry can no longer break through this road.
This is why the Chu army could fail many times, but Meng Tian could only fail once.
Although both sides suffered losses in this battle, the Chu army had an absolute numerical advantage after all, and their breakout was deliberately driven into a canyon area by Xiang Yan.
In this way, the advantage of their fire cavalry no longer exists. Xiang Yan only needs to block the front and rear ends of the canyon to completely trap them in the middle, and then slowly push in.
"I'm still a little young after all!" Meng Tian sighed.
After reviewing today's battle again, Meng Tian didn't feel that he had made any mistakes, and even tried his best.
But after all, it is not a battle of an order of magnitude, and no one else could have done it better.
"Be prepared to fight to the death!" Meng Tian put on his helmet and stood up. If he wanted to keep them all here, Xiang Yan would be prepared to lose more than half of them!
"Jiujiu and Lao Qin fought together to fight the national calamity. We will not stop fighting until the blood is shed dry!"
I don't know who sang an ancient Qin ballad in the middle of the night, which slowly woke up all the soldiers, and then they sang along in unison.
"Qin people are tigers and wolves!" Outside the canyon, Xiang Yan's face turned ugly. Naturally, he heard the humming in the canyon.
But it was precisely because of this that he knew better that if he wanted to annihilate all the Meng Family Fire Cavalry, their losses would become immeasurable!
On the second day, Xiang Yan ordered an aggressive attack towards the canyon, which was bound to kill all the fire cavalry in the canyon.
However, they also encountered a desperate counterattack by the Fire Cavalry. Both sides fought from Jinwuqi to Haoyuesheng before they had to call a truce.
On the third day, the war continued. No one gave up, and no one cared about the number of casualties.
The stream flowing out of the canyon also turned blood red.
Xiong Qi and Xiang Yan looked at the number of casualties in their hands, their faces extremely ugly. In just two days of fighting, they once again lost more than 50,000 people. Although the fire cavalry in the canyon also suffered heavy losses, they still held on.