Following Ma You's order, four groups of 500 Yuma heavy cavalry, fully armed, took the lead and charged towards the Korean cavalry in the distance.
But the smile on Ma You's face did not last long, because he realized that the distance between the Korean cavalry and Wu Ji's army was too close, only more than one mile, which meant that he had to judge immediately
The Han cavalry on the opposite side took a roundabout attack route and sent out the remaining three thousand Yuma heavy cavalry to intercept it. Otherwise, once the Han cavalry on the opposite side rushed into the hinterland of Wu Ji's army, his Yuma army would face the risk of throwing a rat weapon at the enemy because of concern for friendly forces.
embarrassing situation.
"Left or right?"
Ma You frowned and thought for a moment, then gritted his teeth and issued an order, sending the remaining Yuma cavalry to attack from the left, that is, from the west, to intercept the attack of the Han cavalry on the opposite side.
At the same time, the Korean cavalry general Xin Zan was leading his cavalry towards Wu Ji's army. On their only way forward, four groups of 500 heavy horsemen quickly gathered together, preparing to fight with the Korean army.
Ride a spread hedge.
But unfortunately, as Ma You had expected, the Korean cavalry general Xin Zan had no intention of confronting Yuma's heavy cavalry. After seeing the fully armed Yuma's heavy cavalry attack, he immediately gave instructions,
He commanded his cavalry to make detours in an attempt to bypass the Yuma army.
As for the roundabout route, he also chose the west!
On the battlefield, two thousand Yuma heavy cavalry were seen charging straight ahead, while the Korean cavalry hundreds of feet away in front of them turned to the west.
"You guessed it!"
Seeing this, Ma Yu, who was among the 3,000 Yuma heavy cavalry dispatched for the second time, perked up.
In comparison, the face of the Han general Xin Zan on the opposite side was not so good-looking.
Because when he was leading the cavalry to bypass the Yuma Heavy Cavalry, he suddenly discovered that there was another fully armed Yuma Heavy Cavalry in front of him charging straight towards his side. He knew exactly what this meant.
"Damn it, I guessed it!"
Xin Zan cursed secretly in his heart, but at this time, it was obviously too late to make evasive moves, so he could only hope that his soldiers would exercise restraint and try their best to avoid the Shang Shui Wei Cavalry on the opposite side.
Because in a moment of heat, he rushes in and commits suicide.
"Boom——"
The 2,000 Yuma heavy cavalry that was dispatched first missed and were successfully evaded by Xin Zan's Korean cavalry. The last 3,000 Yuma heavy cavalry, led by Ma You personally, happened to run into Xin Zan's Korean Han cavalry who had just completed their evasive movement.
cavalry.
In just the blink of an eye, thousands of Korean cavalrymen fell off their horses and were trampled by the roaring heavy horses.
In the blink of an eye, thousands more Korean cavalrymen lost their lives.
In just a moment, Xin Zan lost at least two thousand cavalry, while Yuma's heavy cavalry suffered almost no casualties.
This made Xin Zan's fear of this Wei cavalry once again increase.
However, at this moment, Xin Zan did not care about the casualties of his cavalry. He galloped up his horse and directed his cavalry in an attempt to forcefully pass by Ma You's three thousand heavy horsemen.
At this time, Ma You also judged Xin Zan's intentions from the movement route of the Han cavalry on the opposite side. But what was embarrassing was that compared to the light cavalry, the heavy cavalry was too bulky and difficult to change direction during the charge, so he could only
He could watch helplessly as the large army of Xin Zan's army passed by him just a few feet away.
Of course, even so, hundreds of Han cavalry were killed when they passed by Yuma Jun. However, after paying a heavy price, Xin Zan's army finally got rid of Yuma's heavy cavalry.
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At this moment, what appeared in front of Xin Zan's cavalry were thousands of Wu Ji's soldiers who were waiting solemnly.
"kill!"
With his legs clamped on the horse's belly, Xin Zan raised his arms and shouted, giving the order to his cavalry to attack.
After hearing this, the Korean cavalry in the front team rushed straight towards the Shangshui soldiers on the opposite side.
"Accept the challenge!"
Wu Ji roared.
In an instant, the Shangshui saber and shield soldiers in the front row under his command stood up and raised their shields, preparing to resist the impact of the Korean cavalry from the opposite side.
"Bang--!"
With a muffled sound, about five to six hundred Korean cavalry crashed into the defense line of Wu Ji's saber and shield soldiers, which was like an iron wall. The sword and shield soldiers in the front row felt as if they were being hit head-on by the galloping cattle, and stars appeared in their eyes.
My arm felt numb for a while.
In fact, many Shangshui sergeants heard the sound of bones cracking in their arms. They were covered in cold sweat and gritted their teeth to barely maintain the posture of raising their shields.
In comparison, the five to six hundred Korean cavalry were not much better. They felt as if they had hit an iron plate head-on, and their heads were bruised and bloody.
"Blocked!"
"Blocked?"
At the same time, Wu Ji and Xin Zan had a sentence in mind, but the meaning was completely different.
Unlike Wu Ji, who was in high spirits, Xin Zan's eyes flickered. It was not difficult to see that his mind had been shaken. After all, the vanguard of his cavalry had been killed by the Wei army's defensive formation that was like an iron wall.
superior.
"What to do? What to do?"
Even Xin Zan, who has experienced hundreds of battles, can't help but feel a little panicked at this moment.
At this time, he was leading the cavalry of his team and was still in the middle of charging forward. He was still about sixty or seventy feet away from Wu Ji's army.
Maybe for infantry, sixty or seventy feet is still a distance on the battlefield, but for cavalry, this is just a blink of an eye.
In other words, the current situation no longer allowed Xin Zan to think carefully. He had to make an immediate decision whether to attack head-on or attack in a roundabout way.
But in the end, after a fierce ideological struggle, Xin Zan finally gritted his teeth, issued an order, and forcibly reversed the charge direction of his cavalry at the last moment, abruptly slowing down the charge of the cavalry, which was comparable to that of Wu Ji's army.
He reversed his direction and headed west in a moving route that was almost parallel to the formation of the sword and shield soldiers in the front row of Wu Ji's army.
It has to be said that only elite cavalry such as the Korean cavalry can perform such an amazing scene. If it is an ordinary cavalry, it is very likely that Xin Zan will order a change of direction at the last moment and collapse, causing self-trampling.
tragedy.
Seeing this scene in his eyes, Wu Ji couldn't help but feel a little dazed.
"Why... don't you attack?"
He looked at the Korean cavalry who were heading west one after another in disbelief, with a hint of confusion in his eyes.
But immediately, the confusion on his face was replaced by shock and anger, because he had realized the intention of these Korean cavalry-the other party was clearly trying to bypass his blocking infantry and attack the main force of the merchant navy.
You must know that at this moment, in the Shangshui Army's main force, whether it is the rear army's main formation where Su Wang Zhao Hongrun and Nanyan Army General Wei Mu are located, or the Chinese army under the command of Shangshui Army Vice General Zhai Huang, if these two are attacked by South Korea
A strong attack by the cavalry is likely to affect the entire battle situation.
Thinking of this, Wu Ji didn't care about anything else, waved his hand and shouted: "Block them!"
After hearing this, the sword and shield soldiers in the front row moved forward one after another, which caused some confusion in the front line formation of Wu Ji's army.
At this moment, Xin Zan's cavalry general "Fang Bi" seized the defensive loopholes exposed by Wu Ji's army, led thousands of cavalry, and finally tore through Wu Ji's defense line and rushed into the hinterland of Wu Ji's army.
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At the same time, to the north about a mile away from Wu Ji's army, the Youma army was slowing down to adjust its direction.
This is the point where heavy cavalry versus light cavalry is awkward. As long as the light cavalry does not want to tangle with the heavy cavalry, once the latter is thrown away, it will be difficult for the latter to catch up with the light cavalry.
For example, at the moment, Han divided Xin Zan's cavalry into two. One group was led by General Fang Bi and went directly to the hinterland of the Jijun Army, while the other group was led by Xin Zan himself in an attempt to attack the rear of the Shang Shui Army in a roundabout way.
formation, and what was Yuma Juqi doing at this time? Yuma Juqi was struggling to adjust his direction, and there was no time to rush to help.
"General Wu Ji... what's going on? The Shang Shui Army didn't block Han Qi's surprise attack? It's impossible. The Yanling Army could block it, so why did the Shang Shui Army get disrupted?"
Noticing the movement from Wu Jijun's side, Ma You showed a somewhat solemn look on his face.
Suddenly, he noticed Xin Zan who was attacking the Shang Shui Army's rear formation in a roundabout way, and he suddenly understood: It must be General Wu Ji who ordered the initiative to fight in order to prevent Han Qi from attacking the rear army. This led to the Shang Shui Army's formation.
Collapse.
It has to be said that even Ma You, who "knows the many shortcomings of heavy cavalry but is still keen on this type of soldier", felt powerless at this moment.
Because if the cavalry under his command were light cavalry, he could still rush back to help and lend Wu Ji a helping hand. Unfortunately, his Youma army is currently heavy cavalry. Therefore, unless he ignores the casualties of friendly troops, it seems that he is far away.
In the chaotic battle situation on Wu Ji's side, Yuma Chongqi obviously had no room to intervene.
"General Wu Ji..."
Ma You couldn't help but worry about those young generals of the Shang Shui Army.
It has to be said that Ma You's worries are not unnecessary, because at this moment, Wu Ji's army has been thrown into chaos by the cavalry led by Xin Zan's general Fang Bi, even though Wu Ji commanded the soldiers to make changes in the formation again and again.
, but still cannot stabilize the situation.
In this case, Wu Ji had his eyes fixed on Han General Fang Bi.
At this time, Han General Fang Bi led his cavalry to attack Wu Ji's army back and forth, while secretly expressing his disdain for the Wei army in front of him: Although this Wei army's combat effectiveness is indeed very strong, even if it is killed by his cavalry,
, the sword and shield soldiers still protected the crossbowmen on their own, making it difficult for the cavalry to kill the crossbowmen.
"...But the command of this Wei army is really terrible, and I don't know which crappy general is commanding it."
Fang Bizheng was thinking disdainfully, when suddenly, the war horse under his crotch shook and let out a mournful hiss, then fell to his knees with a thud, throwing him off guard.
"What's going on?"
Fang Bi, who was knocked to the ground and was dazed, stood up, and then he was shocked to see a spear piercing the belly of the horse under his crotch.
"who?!"
Perhaps it was the instinct of a military general that made Fang Bi subconsciously determine the direction in which the spear was coming. Then he was shocked to see a Wei general in bright armor waving his sword towards this direction. In just the blink of an eye, he
Then he rushed in front of him and raised the knife in his hand high.
"not good!"
Since he had lost his long weapon when he fell off his horse, Fang Bi, who was empty-handed, subconsciously pulled out the long sword at his waist, preparing to resist the Wei general's vigorous blow.
There was just a "bang" sound, and the long sword in his hand was cut off by General Wei. In fact, the opponent's blow still had a strong force and hit him hard on the shoulder, knocking off his entire left shoulder.
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"This strength... the opponent's arm strength is so strong?!"
Fang Bi only had time to express such emotion before he was killed on the spot by the Wei general.
"Plop." The body fell to the ground.
At this time, the nearby Korean cavalry were stunned.
After all, in their opinion, Fang Bi was considered a powerful general in the army. However, he was killed on the spot with two swords in front of that Wei general?
Just when they were stunned, the Wei general, or Wu Ji, the general of the Shang Shui Army, leaned over, grabbed the dead Fang Bi's breastplate with his left hand, and lifted him up with one hand.
He shouted loudly: "All merchants and soldiers will listen to the order. I am Wu Ji. The enemy general has been given the head. You must quickly surround and kill the rest!"
After hearing this, the morale of Shangshui's soldiers was immediately boosted. On the other hand, the Korean cavalry here were all at a loss.
"Huh, I'm still used to this..."
Throwing the body in his hand back to the ground, Wu Ji let out a long breath, and then he turned his attention to the direction where Han General Xin Zan led his army.
After a while, he said to several Shangshui soldiers around him: "Pick up some lances from the ground and give them to me."