Chapter 1462 Armored Cavalry Attack (Page 1/1)

The advantage of cavalry lies in the kinetic energy brought by speed. If speed is lost, the advantage of the knight is gone. Instead, it is difficult to avoid because of its huge size and can easily become the target of infantry siege.

Fu Ying has rich combat experience and has had experience in dealing with cavalry as early as when he was following Sun Jian. Peng Hu made meritorious contributions by beheading an ordinary soldier, and was one of the few warriors under his command. The two hundred spearmen led by Peng Hu were the suicide soldiers prepared by Fu Ying to deal with cavalry. They were treated better before the war than ordinary soldiers, and the rewards after making meritorious contributions were higher than ordinary soldiers. If they were killed in battle or injured, the pension would be doubled.

Of course, if you escape at the battle, the punishment will be very cruel. Not only will you be beheaded, your family will be implicated, but the soldiers of the same army will also be implicated. Once you go into battle, you will either die in battle or make meritorious service, and both will be one of them. If you want to survive, you can only work hard in daily life and strive forward before the battle. The rest depends on whether the soldiers are blessed.

Peng Hu and others beat Zhang's personal guards head-on with their flesh and blood, and paid the price of more than 30 people, blocking the knight's acceleration. Several war horses were pierced by spears and fell to the ground. The knights behind could not accelerate and were in a mess for a while. Peng Hu seized the opportunity and tried his best to stab a spear in his hand, stabbed a knight off the horse. Then he took off the steel circle with his left hand, protected his back, danced a battle knife with his right hand, and snatched into the knight with a low body. The sword flashed, and a horse's leg broke. The war horse was unstable and walked two steps arbitrary, and fell down with a bang.

More soldiers of the Jiangdong Army surrounded the two wings and killed the knights on the horses, spearmen, crossbowmen attacked the knights, and swords, shields and hands specialized in cutting horse hooves. The knights panicked and fell to the ground one after another. Many knights were suppressed by the horses and escaped, and were killed immediately.

Zhang Yan was shocked and ordered other knights to accelerate the assault, but the battlefield was chaotic, and people shouted and horses neighed. The knights had no room for acceleration. Before they could charge, Peng Hu and others had already arrived in front of them, roaring loudly, like a ferocious evil spirit, which was intimidating.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Zhang Yan shouted loudly and ordered his personal guards to come forward to block the attack, and at the same time mobilized the other battalions to encircle the two wings.

Fu Ying was prepared and commanded the command to assault forward, entangled Zhang Yan, and at the same time ordered several shooters to shoot with all their might, suppressing Zhang Yan's middle and senior generals and commanders and other commanders under Zhang Yan's command, and disrupted Zhang Yan's command system as much as possible. Zhang Yan was stunned by this combination of punches and couldn't take care of himself. He had no time to observe the entire battlefield. The battalions did not know what had happened to the central army, so they could only charge forward and beat drums to ask.

Dong Xi knew very well that he held his foot and ordered the crossbowman to shoot with all his might.

The soldiers of Jizhou Army who rushed to the front of the formation were shot so hard that they could not raise their heads. They suffered heavy casualties. Those who risked their lives to rush to Dong Xi's formation could not break through the sword and shield hands. The spearmen's blocking were cut down one after another. They originally hoped that the central army could provide support for the arrow formation, but the central army shouted and shouted to the sky, and the flags were shaking, and they had no response to their request for help.

The Jizhou army panicked, and the chargers began to waver. Some people began to retreat. Although the lieutenants shouted loudly, they could not control the situation. Instead, they exposed themselves to the Jiangdong Army's archers. Several feather arrows roared and the commander who rushed to the front was shot and killed on the spot. The other was also scared and turned around and ran away.

Taking advantage of the chaos of the Jizhou army, Dong Xi launched a counterattack. Two thousand people attacked, defeating Zhang Yan's front army. The remaining remaining soldiers did not dare to fight again and fled. Zhang Yan was commanding the central army to besiege Fu Ying. Seeing that the front army collapsed, Dong Xi was coming. Knowing that the situation was hopeless, he wanted to break through but was surrounded by Fu Ying. He had to raise the banner of Double Rabbits, sound the trumpet, and ask Gao Lan for help.

Gao Lan has been paying attention to the situation on Zhang Yan's side. His family background is average, and the number of troops he brought is limited. The starting point is not as high as Zhang Yan and others. This time he was promoted by his military achievements. There are many people who are jealous, and Zhang Yan is also one of them. Seeing Zhang Yan attacking, he knew what Zhang Yan wanted to do, and he was not too worried. Even if Zhang Yan lost to Dong Xi, he would not be in danger of his life.

He never expected that Dong Xihui sent someone to attack the Central Army and bit Zhang Yan. Hearing the sound of Zhang Yan's war drums asking for help, he felt a little unbelievable, but he was also alert. He had known for a long time that Sun Ce was good at training troops and the Jiangdong Army was good at fighting, and it was indeed well-known. In this way, with the same force, the possibility of defeating Lu Su was slim, and saving Zhang Yan might also trap him.

Gao Lan had almost no hesitation and ordered people to beat the war drum and ask Yuan Shao for help.

Dong Xi stood on the sand dune and looked at the Yuan army camp in the distance. When he saw the flags shaking and smoke rising in the camp, he immediately ordered people to slam the gong to remind Fu Ying. Fu Ying in the formation heard the crisp sound of the gong and repeatedly ordered, giving up the encirclement of Zhang Yan, and the entire army retreated quickly.

Zhang Yan's front army had collapsed, and no one stopped Fu Ying. Fu Ying's command was retreating, and he led his personal guards to break the back. Sitting on the horse's back, he watched the armored cavalry in the distance get closer and closer, and the three hundred armored cavalry were arranged in a horizontal formation and spread left and right. Although the speed was not fast, the smoke and dust raised were very wide, like a giant beast, rumbled over, and it was shocking just from a distance.

"Go away, go away!" Even Fu Ying, who had been through the battlefield for a long time, couldn't help but feel chill when he saw this scene and ordered his subordinates to speed up their retreat.

The Jiangdong Army was divided into several teams, running wildly, and the always-firm formation was a bit messy.

Zhang Yan escaped from death and sat on the ground. He pulled off his helmet, pulled open his breastplate, and gasped. The fierce battle just now scared him. Although Fu Ying retreated, his casualties were quite serious. Looking around, there were corpses in front of him. After a rough estimate, there were more than a thousand casualties.

"These Jiangdonger..." Zhang Yan swallowed, turned to look at the approaching armored cavalry, and shouted in a hoarse voice: "You should hurry up, catch up with them and kill them." After thinking about it, he muttered a few more words. "What kind of armored cavalry should be used at this time? Let Hu cavalry rush forward and kill them."

Zhang Yan's position was in a mess, and even the passage that should have been covered with defeated soldiers. The Arc Cavalry could not pass directly, so he could only circle around and gave Fu Ying more time. When the Arc Cavalry rushed to Dong Xi's formation, not only Fu Ying had already retreated to the dune safely, Dong Xi also retreated behind the dune. Only some injured Jiangdong soldiers fell behind and were chased by the Arc Cavalry, including Peng Hu. Peng Hu rushed forward, and was only a few steps when he was closest to Zhang Yan, but he also paid a heavy price. He was hit by several swords, especially a spear in his thigh, which made him stagger and unable to run.

Hearing the heavy sound of horse hooves behind him approaching, Peng Hu knew that he would be difficult to escape. His blood surged, stopped, turned around and inserted the spear's tail to the ground, and rode on the spear, aimed the tip of the spear at the rushing armored cavalry, and shouted: "Come on, I'll fight with you."

"Bang!" The spear tip pierced the chest of the war horse, but failed to pierce it. The handle of the spear was arched with force, hitting Peng Hu's chest and abdomen, bounced Peng Hu out. Peng Hu's throat was sweet and blood was overflowing from the corner of his mouth. He knelt on the ground with one leg, used all his strength, raised his head, and glared at the approaching armored cavalry.

The knight on the horse raised his spear, pierced through Peng Hu's chest, picked him up, and threw him out from a distance.
Chapter completed!