Compared with Venterte's excitement, Zhao Yun sneered. He knew what the other party was thinking, but he just thought about it. Only the living people have the right to laugh.
"Rumble."
Upon hearing Zhao Yun's order, a thousand armored cavalry threw off their horses' hooves and trampled across the ground, like speeding rhinos, and killed Venterte's cavalry.
"No, the enemy has armored cavalry, the enemy has armored cavalry, avoid it quickly, avoid it quickly."
Venterte saw the armored cavalry rushing towards them. These Chinese people were so cunning that they actually hid the armored cavalry in the middle of the military formation. Now he finally understood why the other party wanted to outflank his two wings.
One is to make way for the armored cavalry, and the other is because they believe that the power of the armored cavalry can definitely defeat their own cavalry, so they outflank them in advance in order to maximize the damage to their own cavalry.
It was too late to react. The distance between the two sides was too close. It was not easy to turn around before the formation. Even if they were able to complete it with superb riding skills, the armored cavalry did not give them time.
The torrent of armor directly crushed the enemy at the front, and then drove straight in, directly killing thousands of people on horseback.
"General, leave quickly. I'll cover you."
Fortunately, Venterte was not at the front and had time to change his route to avoid the charge of the armored cavalry, but the enemy cavalry coming from around them was indeed difficult for them to withstand.
"Send people to kill, and report to the clan leader immediately. Don't let him send people to rescue. I'm afraid we will become bait for the enemy."
Now Venterte's soldiers have become extremely chaotic. The charge of the armored cavalry not only caused a lot of casualties, but also completely disrupted their formation. Now they can't organize an effective counterattack at all and can only go their own way.
In order to fight, resist the enemies outflanking from both sides.
"kill."
"kill."
Zhang Wei and Zhou Nuo's men also defeated Sanda Tehe's tribe and completed the encirclement with Zhao Yun's cavalry against Fanterte's cavalry. However, Fanterte still broke out of the encirclement at the end of the encirclement.
Retreat in the direction of Samarkand.
"Patriarch, something bad is going on. General Ventert is besieged by the enemy forty miles away from Samarkand."
Ventert was surrounded here, and news of that side had reached Samarkand.
"How many soldiers and horses does the enemy have?"
Hearing that Fanterte was surrounded, Sakun also stood up directly.
"It looks like the number of people is at least 20,000."
The scouts didn't actually see it clearly, but if the enemy wants to encircle and annihilate a force of 10,000 people, they must have at least 20,000 cavalry. This is the most basic.
"Immediately assemble the bodyguard cavalry. In addition, all the ten thousand soldiers recruited from the tribe are also mounted, ready to attack with me to rescue Ventert. Also, hasn't Kamil Khan come back yet?"
Hearing that the enemy had at least 20,000 cavalry, Sakun knew that something was serious. But now that he only had so few troops, every dead one would be one missing. So as long as there was hope, he would definitely not be able to sit back and watch Venterte be surrounded and annihilated. He would always have to
Try to see if you can save the other person.
"Chief, Kamil Khan is back."
Just when Sakun was preparing to send troops, Kamil Khan finally returned to the city of Samarkand with Terensa's tribe.
"Immediately order Kamil Khan to go out with me to rescue Venterte."
Hearing the return of Kamil Khan, Sa Kun was relieved. To be honest, the newly formed Ten Thousand Elites can only be regarded as semi-finished products. Although the personal guards under his command are highly capable and have armored cavalry, they are only a mere two thousand cavalry.
,
The 12,000 people who went to rescue Venterte really risked their lives. Now that Kamil Khan is here, he has more than 20,000 cavalry, which can be considered a bit confident.
Twenty-two thousand horsemen stepped out of the city gate of Samarkand and headed south, heading towards the battle site of Ventert.
They were running wildly, and Zhang Cheng and He Pu were not idle either. They were also running wildly in the direction of Zhao Yun, preparing to fight with each other.
"General, Samarkand has sent 20,000 cavalry troops, and they have already reached a distance of 20 miles."
The battle on Zhao Yun's side was about to end, and the scouts rushed over to report to him the news about Samarkand City.
"Twenty thousand horses are going to burn the boat. Send a message and ask, where are Zhang Cheng and He Pu now?
Let them call back quickly, and the whole army will end the battle immediately, take no prisoners, and then prepare troops and horses to prepare for battle."
Upon hearing that the enemy had come out with 20,000 cavalry, Zhao Yun immediately ordered the soldiers to end the battle and reorganize their formation to prepare for the enemy's arrival.
"Colonel, General Zhao Yun sent a telegram asking where our troops are."
He Pu and Zhang Cheng were running wildly, and the telegraph operator immediately came with a telegram to report to them.
"Reply to General Zilong, our troops have arrived twenty-five miles east of General Zilong."
After hearing Zhao Yun's telegram asking for the location, the two looked at each other and knew something must be wrong there.
"Twenty-five miles away, let the two men immediately turn north and attack the rear of the enemy's cavalry from north to south. The whole army is ready to follow me to meet the enemy and charge."
Hearing the distance between the two, Zhao Yun directly chose to let them turn north and follow Sa Kun's route to attack the enemy's rear from north to south. He himself went from south to north, encircling the enemy's 20,000 cavalry.
Nearly 30,000 cavalry began to form a mixed formation, with the armored cavalry still buried in the middle, waiting for the battle to break out and catch the enemy by surprise.
After the formation was completed, Zhao Yun took the lead and rushed north with his cavalry.
"Clan leader, we found General Venterte."
Sakun is heading south with his cavalry. What he is most worried about now is that Venterte will be surrounded and annihilated.
"Let him come to see me immediately."
Venterte came to Sakun covered in blood.
"Chief, return to Samarkand quickly. This may be a bait. There are 30,000 enemy cavalry and thousands of armored cavalry. We cannot resist forcefully."
Venterte saluted Sakun directly and told his guess at the same time.
"Quickly retreat to Samarkand."
Hearing Fanterte's words, Sakun's heart couldn't help but jump. No wonder he always felt something was wrong. It turned out that the other party was planning to fish.
"Withdraw to Samarkand."
"Withdraw to Samarkand."
"Withdraw to Samarkand."
Sakun's order was passed down from level to level, and then the army turned in a big circle and ran directly in the direction of Samarkand.
"General, the enemy suddenly turned around and headed north ten miles away. It seems that he is going to return to Samarkand."
Sa Kun's cavalry turned around, and Zhao Yun's scouts immediately sent the news back.
"Want to run away now?
It's too late, so the whole army speeds up, and together with Zhang Cheng and He Pu, besiege the enemy."
Zhang Cheng has turned to the road you are heading north, which will force his troops to move south. If you want to run away now, it will not be that easy.
"Clan leader, enemy soldiers and horses were found ten miles ahead. The number is about 20,000."
"General, we have found enemy troops ten miles ahead, numbering about 20,000."
Sakun and Zhang Cheng discovered each other's presence at the same time, and both sides were stunned. Sakun was stunned because he didn't expect the enemy's cavalry to arrive so quickly, and Zhang Cheng was stunned because the opponent didn't choose to fight Zhao Yun directly.
Headed north.
"charge."
"charge."
Although both sides were stunned for a moment, they unanimously chose to charge forward. One side wanted to stop the other side, and the other side wanted to break out of the encirclement.
"Where are the bodyguards and cavalry? Prepare to break the formation."
Since the formation was to be broken, armored cavalry must be the first priority. Sakun was not stingy and directly placed his bodyguard cavalry on the front line, preparing to break through the enemy's formation.
"Clan leader, you can hide the armored cavalry in the formation now, and when it gets close, order the soldiers in the front row to split and charge with the armored cavalry. The enemy will definitely be difficult to stop."
To be honest, the armored cavalry in Khwarezm are rarely put to use. After all, they are still mainly light cavalry here, and there are only two thousand armored cavalry.
Therefore, no matter the tactics or anything else, they are still at the most superficial level of deterrence. However, Ventelt saw Zhao Yun's use of armored cavalry today and decided to steal his skills.
"Where did you learn this trick?"
After hearing the other party's suggestion, Sa Kun couldn't help but be stunned, wondering how Ventert knew how to use the armored cavalry.
"I was defeated by the Chinese using this trick just now. This can be considered as learning now and selling it now."
Venterte also shook his head. Originally, he thought that the armored cavalry's charge was to crush the opponent openly, cause pressure, and make them collapse. If it hadn't been tricked by the Chinese today, he would never have thought that the armored cavalry could be like this.
use.
"The Chinese can use it like this because they must have gone through a lot of training and running-in before they can coordinate seamlessly. If we learn it rashly, if the front row does not split in time or splits in advance and the Chinese are on guard, the role of the armored cavalry will be reduced.
,
Instead of doing this, it is better to use the method we used before, using armored cavalry as arrows, crushing the opponent from the front, and carving a bloody path."
Although the Chinese methods are very insidious and suitable for small-scale combat, the current situation is that if they learn rashly, they are afraid that they will be like Handan. Not only will they not learn the Chinese tactics, they will not even be able to implement their own.
The armored cavalry is useless.
"The clan leader thought clearly, and I learned from it."
After hearing Sakun's words, Fanterte couldn't help but nodded. The other party was right. In the current situation, they wanted to open a bloody road, and they needed armored cavalry to clear the way.
Two thousand of the most elite armored cavalrymen from Hualazm were in the vanguard, and 20,000 cavalrymen were in the rear. They formed a front line and ran wildly toward the north.
"Enemies seen, archers prepare."
Zhang Cheng looked at the smoke not far away and immediately ordered to take out his bow and arrow and prepare for battle.
As the distance got closer and closer, Zhang Cheng and He Pu, who were rushing at the front, finally saw clearly the armored cavalry at the front of each other.
"No, it's an armored cavalry. He Pu, we split into two and charge into the enemy's formation from both wings."
Zhang Cheng and He Pu were both old men in the Yingyang Army. Ever since Zhao Yun got 5,000 sets of equipment, they began to wonder how ordinary cavalry should deal with armored cavalry.
The final result is that the same number of light cavalry must not fight head-on when facing armored cavalry. They must give full play to the mobility of the light cavalry and use armor-piercing heavy arrows to cause effective damage to the enemy. This is the only way to defeat the opponent.
Through normal training, Yingyang Army soldiers also summarized a set of methods to deal with sudden encounters with armored cavalry. It is too late to turn around and retreat. The best way to respond is to get out of the way and get out of the way of the enemy's armored cavalry.
Avoid them on both sides, and then attack them with armor-piercing heavy arrows.
