Chapter 838: Heavy Casualties

"Hoo, hoo..."

Blood flowed down Cao Chun's arm, panting for breath.

Cao Chun, as the leader of the tiger and leopard cavalry, joined hands with Cao Xiu, and inevitably suffered heavy losses.

Compared with Cao Chun, Cao Xiu's situation is not optimistic. He is dripping with blood, like a bloody man.

A solid bullet landed beside Cao Chun, killing the Tiger and Leopard Rider beside Cao Chun, his head was broken, and Cao Chun, who was jealous, couldn't help being shocked.

Don't allow Cao Chun to worry too much, the horses of Longcheng Iron Cavalry have already stabbed them!

The Xianbei cavalrymen's eyes were cold, and they wanted to put Cao Chun to death. The half-meter-long sharp blade of the horse lance stabbed straight at Cao Chun!

Cao Chun swung his heavy arm and knocked away the four-meter-long horse spear. The spear pierced through the armor of the Xianbei cavalry and assassinated him!

Cao Chun even picked it up and threw it aside.

The dragon city iron cavalry weighed at least two hundred catties, but Cao Chun easily picked it up and hit another dragon city iron cavalry.

Holding a longbow, Xia Houyuan shot and killed the dragon city cavalry on the opposite side amidst the chaos.

Xiahou Dun also charged forward.

Cao Cao personally slashed and slashed with his sword. The green sword pierced through the armor of the dragon city cavalry, and assassinated the cavalry inside!

From time to time, solid bullets fell, and even Cao Cao might be killed by the red cannon.

The battle was extremely fierce. Tiger and leopard cavalry have lost one-third of their lives since the start of the battle, and thousands of cavalry have died in battle.

Cao Cao also had blood on his face, and a pungent smell filled his head.

"Murong Ke's serial iron horse has never made any movement, just watching from the sidelines, could it be..."

"Murong Ke's goal is not the tiger and leopard cavalry, but the Shenji camp of the Chinese army?"

Guo Jia and Xun You did not participate in the battle due to lack of force, but kept observing from the rear.

They keenly discovered that Murong Ke's serial iron horses were like the Great Wall of Steel, motionless.

The deterrent power of the serial iron horse is no less than that of the Hongyi cannon.

"If it is really aimed at attacking the Chinese army, then the Chinese army will be quite dangerous."

"We must send someone to inform the lord, otherwise the chain of iron horses will rush into the Chinese army, and the consequences will be disastrous."

Under Guo Jia's order, an iron eagle scout cavalry immediately wrote important news on a note, ordering Zhanying to convey the news to Chu Tian.

"Sure enough, maybe the serial iron horse is the trump card of Mingguan, and the red cannon as a trophy is just a cover, and there may not even be many solid bullets..."

Chu Tian thought that the red-clothed cannon was just the loot brought back by Mingguan from the Battle of Songjin, and he might not be able to produce solid bullets by himself, so he probably realized Mingguan's intention.

After all, in the game, the destructive power of high-level heavy cavalry is no less than that of red cannons.

"Khitan Legion, cover the Shenji Battalion from the flanks!"

Chutian sent Yeluxiu and Yelu Xiezhen's Khitan army into the battle.

The Khitan cavalry used cavalry and shooting to attack the Liaodong infantry on the opposite side, trying to shake the phalanx formed by the Liaodong heavy infantry.

A cavalry rushed out from the opposite side.

When Yelu Xiuge and Yelu Xiezhen saw this cavalry, they were greatly shaken.

The Pishi Army, the most elite cavalry of Khitan civilization!

This is also the exclusive unit of Yelu Abaoji!

The two Khitan commanders, Yelu Xiuge and Yelu Xiezhen, were the former troops of Yelu Abaoji.

When they saw the exclusive arms of the old master, their expressions inevitably changed.

It's just that the chief commander of this cavalry is no longer Yelu Abaoji, but the general Lan Yu of Mingguan.

"Brother Yeluxiu, are we going to attack the Pishi Army? This is the Pishi Army."

Yelu Xiezhen looked at another Khitan general, Yeluxiu.

Yelu Xiezhen even knew some of the leaders and soldiers of the Pishi Army. After these people were captured by Mingguan, they surrendered to Mingguan.

That is to say, the Khitan tribe was suppressed by the princes of the Han Empire and divided into two. One part was captured by Chutian and the other by Mingguan.

"The King of Liao is dead, and the Pishi army has taken refuge with King Ming. They are already enemies, so there is no need to worry!"

Brother Yeluxiu commanded the cavalry, but without any pressure, he attacked the Pishi army!

The civil war broke out in the Khitan tribe, two cavalrymen fought fiercely, and cavalrymen kept falling off their horses!

Under the command of Sapphire, the Pi Shi Army confronted Brother Yeluxiu!

"Li Chengliang, you lead Guan Ning's cavalry to break through the formation of the Shenji Battalion. The Shenji Battalion has already consumed a lot of black powder."

Mingguan dispatched Guanning iron cavalry.

Guan Ning cavalry equipped with three-eyed firecrackers appeared at the forefront of the battlefield. The cavalry was ferocious, and the goal was to destroy Xia Liang's Shenji camp.

"The last general is willing to command a cavalry and break the enemy's formation!"

Chang Yuchun, the number one general under Mingguan, volunteered.

"It's not yet time... Zu Dashou, you command a cavalry to replace Murong Ke. I want to let Chu Zimou see whether his army can stop when groups of cavalry take turns attacking. My cavalry Legion is the most powerful cavalry legion."

Mingguan ordered one after another.

Zu Dashou was ordered to lead the cavalry to move to the Murong Army in the left army.

"Ming Wang ordered you to command the cavalry to attack the backbone of Xia's army."

Murong Ke received Mingguan's order, hesitated a little, and commanded the serial iron horse, and moved to the Chinese army according to Mingguan's order.

Murong Ke seems to be talking to himself: "In this battle, the chain of iron horses may wipe out the entire army."

At this time, Guan Ning's iron cavalry had already attacked the defense line of Shenji Battalion, and the three-eyed firecrackers shot at the infantry soldiers of Commander Mu Guiying in front!

Regardless of the shield or the infantry armor, they were unable to withstand the penetration of firearms, and were shot and killed by the three-eyed firecracker.

Mu Guiying desperately resisted the advance of Guan Ning's cavalry, and fought with Guan Ning's cavalry!

After shooting, Guan Ning cavalry used the three-eyed firecracker as a blunt weapon, and hammered the pawns along the way!

The three-eyed firecracker hit the infantry's helmet, causing Song Chongbu's head to vibrate, and he lost consciousness in an instant.

Mu Guiying's long spear swept across, killing several Guanning cavalry.

The three-eyed firecracker of Guan Ning's iron cavalry hit him, and after being knocked away by Mu Guiying, he picked it off!

Liang Hongyu's Jianyan crossbowmen and Shesheng battalion cooperated with Xia Liang's Shenji battalion to shoot from behind. Li Chengliang's Guan Ning cavalry turned on their backs.

Lead bullets and arrows roared, and the cavalry fell like harvested crops.

Even Guan Ning's cavalry, equipped with armor, could not withstand the dense lead bullets and arrow rain, and Guan Ning's cavalry fell off their horses and died unexpectedly.

Xia Liang stood on a high place and no longer went to the front to direct in person. After years of experience, she already had an unspeakable temperament.

Chu Tian has always respected him. As a veteran player, Xia Liang is enough to stand alone.

She is paying attention to the loss of Shenji Battalion, and she also has the authority to see the panel of Shenji Battalion.

"The number of people in the Shenji Battalion has dropped from 5,000 to 3,751, and their morale has dropped to 79. I don't know the various statistics of the opposing legion. Compared with their losses, they must have suffered a lot."

Xia Liang quickly analyzed the state of the legion under his jurisdiction.

After the battle, the morale and physical strength of each legion will drop.

Morale and physical strength are also important factors affecting the outcome.

If a major incident occurs, it may shake the morale of the army.

For example, when Guan Yu attacked Xiangfan, the rear was attacked by the Eastern Wu. Lu Meng crossed the river in white clothes, and the morale of Guan Yu's army dropped. When they arrived in Maicheng, there were only a few soldiers left.

Not to mention physical strength, many fierce generals were exhausted and were captured alive by the opponent.

"The attacking cavalry of the Ming army seems to be equipped with more primitive fire door guns than matchlock guns. Do you need me to send Polish wing cavalry to help your Shenji Battalion resist the enemy?"

Yekaterina knew that this battle was related to whether Chutian could unify the Han Empire, so she temporarily put aside her grievances with Xia Liang.

"Not yet, the Huben army has already stepped forward."

Xia Liang noticed that Chu Tian ordered Lingling Admiral Xing Daorong to be instructed by Chu Tian to command the Huben army to meet Li Chengliang's Guan Ning cavalry.

Naturally, Xing Daorong's cavalry is not provided by him as a legion bonus, but by Chutian's two cavalry characteristics, Fenglang Juxu and Canglang Bailu.

Xing Daorong rushed to the front with an ax on his shoulders. He chopped down with the ax and was blocked by the three-eyed firecracker of Guan Ning's cavalry. The heavy and sharp mountain-opening ax left a visible cut on the three-eyed firecracker. The firecracker deformed and was suppressed by Xing Daorong!

With the second axe, Xing Daorong's cavalry and three-eyed firecrackers were chopped into two!

"This battle will raise the prestige of the five tigers of the Northern Army!"

"Brother, Beihai Wu'an is here, Chang Yuchun is here to die!"

Wu Anguo raised his war hammer high and killed four or five people among Guan Ning's iron cavalry.

Ninth-rank cavalry is about as powerful as gold-rank general Mi Fang, and Guanning iron cavalry is seventh-rank heavy cavalry, which is equivalent to bronze-rank or silver-rank generals. It is also quite laborious for Wu Anguo to hammer Guanning iron cavalry.

The Huben Army is an eighth-tier heavy cavalry, fewer in number than Guan Ning's cavalry, but their individual combat power is stronger, with Chutian's general bonus, and Xia Liang and Xiao Chuo's halo of the whole army "the heroine is facing the dynasty", Wei Qing The halo of the entire army "Changping Hou", as well as Sun Bin's military advisor auxiliary characteristics, as well as various bonuses in official positions and military books, have become a sharp dagger that can tear Guan Ning's iron cavalry.

"The Ming army should have the halo of the whole army of Mingguan and Xu Da. Except for these two people, Chang Yuchun may not have the halo of the whole army...Murong Ke and Yu Wentai may have the halo of the whole army. No matter what, the opponent can definitely gather three The upper limit of the halo of the entire army. The black-clothed Prime Minister Yao Guangxiao, I don’t know if he has an auxiliary feature similar to Sun Bin’s. As for the book of war, I really don’t know if Mingguan also has it..."

Chu Tian knew that the Liaodong Army had always been strong, with a fierce and aggressive style, and it would be easy to destroy Koryo.

Only when you really fight the Liaodong Army can you feel the aggressiveness of Mingguan.

It was clearly Chutian who took the initiative to attack Liaoxi, and now the cavalry of Mingguan couldn't wait to launch round after round of attacks.

Zhang Bin, the conspirator who worked for the slave emperor Shi Le, was observing the situation on the entire battlefield, and he had the special ability "premonition".

This characteristic is the same as the "child of the plane", which is a metaphysical characteristic, and no one knows when it will take effect.

But when the two metaphysical characteristics are combined, the upper limit can be very high, and the lower limit can also be very low.

Sun Bin and Zhang Bin stood side by side, and the two military divisions attacked at the same time, paying close attention to every move of the Ming army.

"I have an uneasy premonition, my lord, please be careful of the cavalry of the Ming army."

Zhang Bin seemed to grasp some premonition and reported to Chu Tian.

"How?"

"The subordinates can't tell. This is a feeling like being submerged by waves."

"..."

Chu Tian knew that Zhang Bin had abilities similar to the prophets of Western civilization.

There is a delicate balance between the strengths of Eastern and Western civilizations, so many heroes have similar abilities.

For example, Jie Shika, a military general of the Kingdom of Bohemia in the Holy Roman Empire, used Chebao tactics similar to Liu Yu, a general of the Beifu Army of the Han Empire, in Queyue Formation.

Chu Tian always paid attention to Zhang Bin's premonition that he occasionally comprehended, so he took Zhang Bin by his side as one of the masterminds.

During the Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties, there were many think tanks at the level of masterminds, which were not inferior to those in the Three Kingdoms period. Cui Hao, Zhang Bin, Wang Meng, Xie An and others were all kings of the moment.

This time, Chutian also brought Cao GUI, but Cao GUI's characteristic of "going all in one go" has not been used yet.

Not only that, Chutian did not use the morale boosting abilities of Joan of Arc, Liang Hongyu, and Li Xiuning.

Before the morale dropped to a certain level, Chu Tian hadn't used all his strength.

He waited for the Ming army's offensive to end and when morale and physical strength were low, he decided to win or lose in one fell swoop.

Joan of Arc was holding the holy iris flower flag, and as far as she could see, the total number of troops killed by both sides in the war had already exceeded 100,000, and there were quite a few elite cavalry among them.

"Jie Shika's Chebao was transferred to deal with the Jurchen tribe, otherwise, it could play a big role in this battle."

Chu Tian looked indifferently at the battlefield full of corpses.

After this battle, hundreds of thousands of soldiers may be killed or injured.

It is impossible for the real big princes to fight with each other, and there will be fewer casualties.

In addition to the battlefield in the Liaoxi Corridor, Prince Yan and Hu Ma attacked Yuerhai, and the number of cavalry invested in the battlefield there may also be millions.

Therefore, there may be millions of soldiers killed in the Northern War.

In a major war, the casualties are the entire strength of a medium-sized civilization.

Not many civilizations can bear such a loss.

Even Chutian felt a little distressed about the loss.

After the Great War to unify the Han Empire, it is estimated that it will take several years to recuperate.

The continuous war also has a great impact on the hearts of the people.

"Urgent report! The two military divisions, Guo Jia and Xun You, noticed that Murong Ke's chain of iron horses was secretly mobilizing to the backbone of the Ming army. The target is very likely to be the backbone of our army!"

"Sure enough, the red-clothed cannon is only loud with thunder and little rain. It is used to attack tiger and leopard cavalry in order to attract my attention. Cavalry is Mingguan's winning trump card."

Combining Zhang Bin's premonition, Chu Tian roughly guessed that Mingguan wanted to use continuous cavalry offensives to break through his own central army.

"The infantry, including the Women's Army, were replaced with infantry armor, infantry spears, and long axes."

After Chutian guessed the intention of Mingguan, he immediately ordered the soldiers to replace the iron armor with stronger defense, and at the same time equip them with long weapons to attack heavy cavalry and war horses.

The defensive power of the infantry armor and the attack power of the long ax are amazing, but there are also disadvantages, that is, the cost is expensive, and the speed of physical energy consumption will increase to varying degrees, and the mobility will decrease.

Generally speaking, Chutian will not force light infantry to change into heavy infantry equipment.

But this time, Chu Tian was rich and powerful, so that each light infantry was replaced with heavy armor and heavy weapons, specifically to deal with Liaodong's heavy cavalry in this battle.