The Warriors of the Three Kingdoms

Seven hundred cavalry launched a surprise attack directly from Hu Chi'er's rear, and the sound of horseshoes suddenly came from the battlefield.

Hu Chi'er didn't know what happened, but he only heard the neighing of an army of war horses from behind him.

He reacted, and when he turned his head to look behind, Liu Zheng's soldiers and horses had already reached him.

At the beginning when he heard the neighing of war horses, Hu Chi'er thought it was his reinforcements. After all, only Dong Zhuo could have hundreds of cavalry in the entire Yingchuan area, but he thought again, he didn't seem to have any. Seek support.

Taking a closer look, these cavalry don't look like Xiliang iron cavalry.

Xiliang iron cavalry are heavy armored cavalry.In addition to the thick armor on the cavalry, even the horses are also covered with a layer of iron armor.

Although this will greatly affect the maneuverability of the horse, it also increases the safety of the horse and at the same time increases the impact.A round of cavalry charges in the past can directly cause heavy losses to the enemy's infantry to a large extent, without the ability to resist.

But the cavalry that appeared in front of them, although they also had some iron armor, but most of them were placed on the top of the horse. On the contrary, they were cavalry on the horse, with a light figure, and there was nothing else except the weapon in their hands.

The most important thing is that on the heads of these cavalrymen, most of their heads are wrapped with a yellow turban.

People can recognize at a glance that these people are the Yellow Turban Army!

Yellow Turban Cavalry!

When Hu Chi'er saw these cavalry for the first time, he was stunned.

The Yellow Turban Army also has cavalry?

Chapter 75 Destroyed

Yellow Turbans and cavalry?

Hu Chi'er had never heard of such a thing.But even though he was terrified at this time, there was no way to relieve these yellow turban cavalry from rushing towards him.

At the critical moment, Hu Chi'er immediately ordered the remaining [-] soldiers and horses around him to block the cavalry.

"Quick, return to defense, go to stop these cavalry, don't let him charge over!"

In fact, if Hu Chi'er could calm down and form a formation of [-] cavalry, he would still be able to fight against Liu Zheng's [-] cavalry.

But in his panic, he simply forgot to form an formation to deal with the cavalry, but actually let the soldiers and horses under his command charge towards the cavalry, trying to use these soldiers and horses to fill the cavalry and alleviate the impact of the cavalry.

In this way, the three thousand recruits, who had never participated in any battles, were blindly commanded by Hu Chi'er, and the three thousand soldiers rushed directly to the horses of these cavalry under Liu Zheng's banner.

A confrontation ended in a fiasco.

Xu Huang led the [-] cavalry under Liu Zheng's command to charge. More than a dozen horses rushed to the front, holding steel spears. While the horses were galloping, they had already lifted the steel spears fiercely.

Taking advantage of the trend and attacking the nearest enemy army, he only exerted a little force to hold the steel spear, and the steel spear, which was nearly one foot long, pierced directly into the chests of those officers and soldiers.

The huge dive force directly let the steel spear penetrate the chests of those officers and soldiers, pierced through the chest, and even lifted people up, and stabbed the second person.

Just like the skewers that Liu Zheng had eaten, the steel spear in Xu Huang's hand pierced through several people in succession, and he gave up because it was too heavy to hold.

Discarding the spear, Xu Huang turned around and drew out a long axe, and began to hold the battle ax with one hand, chopping around.

Such a terrible fight, so that these recruits from the army have never experienced it at all.

After all, they are just recruits, and they have not experienced a few battles at all. Even if they were led by Hu Chi'er to encircle and suppress the remnants of the Yellow Turbans several times before, it was still a one-sided battle. It's been like this.

They have been indoctrinated before that the Yellow Turban Army is rubbish, vulnerable waste, but now, they understand how powerful the Yellow Turban Army is.

Just one face-to-face meeting, 500 soldiers and horses, killed and injured more than [-] people.

The rest of the officers and soldiers who were still behind and hadn't rushed in front of Liu Zheng's cavalry panicked.

Once the officers and soldiers in front died, they had to face these cavalry, but they had no ability to fight back, and they also developed fear. Everyone was afraid of death. If they went up to die, if no one used their lives to show their loyalty to them.

They are not willing to die.

Someone got scared and started to retreat.

This retreat made most of the officers and soldiers want to retreat. Many people immediately dropped their weapons and started to run away.

As soon as Hu Chi'er saw his men and horses, he started to run away at this moment. He also panicked, and immediately rode on the horse and ran around, roaring hoarsely, trying to stabilize the morale of the army.

He knew that once his men and horses ran away timidly, it would be impossible to escape from the cavalry. As Dong Zhuo's general, he knew very well that the cavalry was powerful, and the more they fled, the more they would be defeated.

"Come back, don't run, there is only a dead end to escape!"

Hu Chi'er pulled out the weapon beside him and slashed at a retreating soldier, while threatening many fleeing soldiers and horses.

But his threat is just to increase the fear of these soldiers and horses.

Soon, more than half of the [-] soldiers were wiped out by the cavalry led by Xu Huang, and the rest fled in all directions, but it was not so easy to escape.

Liu Zheng looked at these people who started to run away, turned around and shouted at Huang Zhong.

"Brother Huang Zhong, it's your turn to take action. Take a look at the training results of the past few days. These people are living targets!"

Liu Zheng immediately asked Huang Zhong to bring a thousand shooters, and pulled them out at this time.

The archers who have been training for a few days, although they have just learned archery, the hit rate is really not high, but Liu Zheng wants them to practice on the battlefield. Too much fear to be able to calm down and concentrate on shooting the enemy army.

"Get ready, draw the arrow."

"Pull the bow!"

"aim!"

"shoot!"

Huang Zhong had known Liu Zheng's intentions a long time ago, so he had been preparing all the time. When Liu Zheng gave an order, Huang Zhong had already given the order at any time.

Immediately, those archers trained by Huang Zhong shot the arrows in their hands.

At this time, thousands of arrows began to hit and scatter, and individually shot and killed those soldiers and horses who had escaped from the core battlefield.

However, the first round of shooting was not ideal for Liu Zheng.

The training time for these shooters is too short after all, and the hit rate is not high.

More than 1000 arrows were shot, but not many hit, and three or four out of ten arrows missed.It can only be said that one out of ten arrows can hit the enemy.

And it may not be the fatal point, even if the enemy is shot, it is not so easy to shoot the enemy.

However, Liu Zheng was not depressed. Archers are a surprisingly successful unit. It is impossible to change the situation of a battle with only a few archers.

Soon, a round of shooting ended, and the damage to the officers and soldiers was not much, but at this time, the fighting confidence of the officers and soldiers was greatly hit.

The appearance of the shooter is even more terrifying than the cavalry, that kind of mental pressure is terrible.

At any rate, the cavalry had to be in front of them to cause harm to these officers and soldiers, but the shooter was unwilling to take their lives a hundred meters away.

The officers and soldiers, who were originally lacking in fighting spirit, now have no desire to fight. The only remaining soldiers and horses, at this time, completely began to flee.

The remaining more than 1000 people immediately fled in all directions, and even the [-] vanguard soldiers who rushed to Yang Feng and Guo Taijun at the beginning also fled at this time.

Without the support of the headquarters behind him, the forward was powerless to resist Yang Feng and Guo Tai's coalition forces.

In just a moment, a battle involving nearly ten thousand people came to an end.

After half an hour.

The fighting outside the village had basically ceased. Liu Zheng led his men and began to clean up the battlefield.

Yang Feng and Mrs. Guo came to report the results of this battle to Liu Zheng.

"A big victory, a big victory, we actually relied on more than 4000 people to wipe out 5000 enemy troops in one fell swoop!"

Mrs. Guo was in a state of extreme excitement at this time. After destroying those soldiers and horses of Hu Chi'er, his whole body became excited. This was the first time that he had participated in the uprising for so long, and let him kill so happily.

Chapter 76 Dismount

"Killed 5000 people? It shouldn't be, some of them should have escaped."

When Liu Zheng heard Mrs. Guo's words, he felt a little strange, so he asked a question.

From Liu Zheng's point of view, he should have let some soldiers and horses leave, and let them escape on purpose.

Liu Zheng's purpose was to destroy the confidence of these recruits under Dong Zhuo's command, so it would not be good for Liu Zheng to wipe out this wave of soldiers. Instead, he would kill most of them and reserve a small part for them to go back.

After this small wave of soldiers and horses returned to Dong Zhuo's barracks, they would start to publicize the power and fear of these Yellow Turban soldiers under Liu Zheng's command, making them fear the Yellow Turban Army.

Only in this way can Liu Zheng's goal be achieved.

When asked by Liu Zheng, Mrs. Guo hurriedly changed her words.

"No, no, we just defeated 5000 troops under Hu Chi'er's command. The real kills were only more than 3000 people. Some of them were killed by us on the way of pursuit. It is estimated that more than 4000 soldiers and horses of Hu Chi'er should have been killed in the whole battle. , there are only a few hundred people who can escape back to Wuyang City."

Mrs. Guo's explanation made Liu Zheng not completely convinced, so he turned to look at Xu Huang beside him. Xu Huang was in charge of battlefield statistics on their side, and at this time he had almost counted the casualties of soldiers and horses on the entire battlefield. up.

"Qu Shuai, Mrs. Guo said, there is not much difference. I looked at the corpses on the ground. There should be more than 3000 people. Including the soldiers and horses we sent to pursue, about 4000 people were killed by us. Hu Chi'er is Fleeing with hundreds of remnants, I'm afraid they should have turned back to Wuyang County by this time."

Hearing Xu Huang's description, Liu Zheng nodded.

"Let's go back. Even if the defeated general returns to Wuyang City, he will be severely punished by Dong Zhuo for such a mistake. Whether he can save his life is still a matter of discussion."

"By the way, how about the casualties on our side?"

After Liu Zheng asked about the situation of the enemy army, he immediately asked a question with concern.

Compared with the loss of Hu Chi'er's troops, Liu Zheng is actually more concerned about how much his cavalry has lost. After all, if these cavalry under his command suffer a large number of casualties, there is no way to make up for it.

For Liu Zheng, every death is a pain in the flesh.

"Our casualties were not large. The archer battalion did not directly participate in the battle, and there was no loss. It was just that seventeen brothers died in the cavalry battalion, and more than 100 brothers suffered some injuries. None of them were serious injuries. They were half-trained. It should be able to recover within a month. Unfortunately, more than 30 horses are seriously injured, but they cannot continue to fight.”

Xu Huang's words made Liu Zheng's expression slightly gloomy.Although the casualties were not large, the loss of more than 30 horses meant that more than 30 cavalry could not continue to fight. He himself only had more than 700 cavalry.

Now more than 30 effective combat power has been reduced. For the cavalry on his side, it has been reduced by almost.One-twentieth of the strength.

"War horses, war horses, if we can get a batch of war horses in a short time, it will not only greatly improve our cavalry strength but also strengthen our cavalry team."

But for this kind of thing, Liu Zheng just thought about it in his mind and let it go.

After all, war horses are not so easy to get.This is the Yingchuan area, and it does not raise horses. If you want to get war horses, you can only get them more easily in the north.

If you want war horses in the Central Plains, you can only buy them from merchants, but ordinary horse merchants seldom come here. Even if a batch comes, many of them are ordinary agricultural horses, and even fewer want to reach the level of war horses. And the price of the war horse is at least [-] to [-] yuan.

Liu Zheng might still be able to buy one, two, or a dozen war horses, but hundreds or hundreds of war horses would cost a lot of money, far beyond what he could afford with his current financial resources.

If he got the ransom money from Cai Mao, Liu Zheng might still consider it, but now, this road is definitely not going to work.

And the only way to get a large number of war horses is to snatch them. Right now, Dong Zhuo has [-] Xiliang cavalry here.

If Liu Zheng wanted to get a large number of war horses, he could only defeat Dong Zhuo and convert the [-] cavalry under his command into his own cavalry.

But so.

It is far more difficult than buying some war horses directly from merchants.

Three thousand cavalry is not easy to deal with. At the beginning, when dealing with the more than 1000 cavalry under Huangfu Song's command, it almost killed Liu Zheng. Now Dong Zhuo's three thousand cavalry and five thousand elite soldiers and horses are extremely powerful. big power.

Fortunately, this time, Dong Zhuo's [-] new troops were eliminated without any risk, which can be regarded as a serious blow to Dong Zhuo's spirit.

Liu Zheng ordered everyone to spend ten minutes cleaning the battlefield.They quickly evacuated from the village.

After all, this place is not too far away from Wuyang City. If Hu Chi'er returns to Wuyang City with his remnant soldiers, he calls Dong Zhuo's reinforcements in Wuyang City, with the mobility of the three thousand Xiliang cavalry under Dong Zhuo's command.

Soon he will be able to kill a carbine and return to the vicinity of this small village.

So staying here is still quite dangerous. In order to avoid this from happening, Liu Zheng decisively took all the troops back to Shangcai County.

Sure enough, not long after Liu Zheng led his men and horses to evacuate the small village, outside the small village, in the direction where Hu Chi'er fled before, there was a sound of horseshoes.

A military general led two thousand Xiliang iron cavalry, and rushed to this place quickly.

But when he came here, he saw a mess on the ground, full of corpses, but he didn't see half of the Yellow Turban Army.

Hu Chi'er, who came together, looked at the corpses all over the ground, and there was no sign of the Yellow Turban Army, and he also looked frustrated, knowing that he was still late, and those hateful Yellow Turban remnants had already fled.

"General Hua Xiong, this is the place where I was ambushed by a group of yellow scarf thieves. They also had hundreds of cavalry. It was these hundreds of cavalry who killed our army and fled in embarrassment."

The leading long-haired man jumped off his horse, looked around on the ground, and kicked away a corpse on the ground.

Then he squatted down and touched the corpse.

"The body hasn't cooled down yet. It seems that he died not long ago, and these people should have left not long ago."

Although Hua Xiong knew that the battle had just happened here, he was able to judge the specific time more accurately based on the time when the corpse died.

But even if he judged that there were a large number of Yellow Turban soldiers here before, but now he has not seen a shadow of the Yellow Turban remnants, and he does not know where these remnants of the Yellow Turbans fled. Chase.

He could only sigh.

"Hu Chi'er, you trash, Mr. Dong gave you five thousand soldiers, and this is how you repay Mr. Dong."