Chapter 1,223: A Tragic Victory

As everyone watched, a hundred thousand crossbow arrows were like a rain of arrows, heading straight towards the five thousand Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry they had killed. Facing the overwhelming rain of arrows flying from the sky, all five thousand Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry were quickly wiped out. Their deaths were only exchanged for the casualties of two thousand yuan of crossbowmen.

When the school captain who was fighting against the cavalry of Yingyang Camp saw this, he was so shocked that he did not even give the order to continue the attack. He just stared in the direction of Yuan Rong's crossbowmen with his mouth open. After hearing the news that the 8,000-yuan Rong crossbowmen had defeated the 5,000 Bingzhou wolf cavalry, they immediately turned to kill the Bingzhou wolf cavalry who was fighting against the Yingyang camp cavalry. At this time, only 1,500 of the 5,000 Yingyang camp cavalry were left. There were hundreds of cavalrymen, but the Bingzhou wolf cavalry opposite them only had more than 2,000 cavalrymen. The battle loss ratio between the two sides actually reached one to two.

Seeing Yuan Rong's crossbowmen coming towards him, the general of Bingzhou's wolf cavalry finally reacted. With a whistle, he led more than two thousand wolf cavalry to turn their horses and run towards the direction where another wolf cavalry was fighting.

Seeing this situation, Zhao Ling was so happy that he shouted: "The Yingyang camp is cleaning the battlefield, and the Yuanrong crossbow soldiers will follow our general to pursue the remaining enemies!"

"kill……"

After hearing the order, the eight thousand yuan crossbowmen shouted in unison and followed Zhao Ling toward the place where the assault cavalry was fighting a few miles away.

A few miles away, Hu Yandu was leading his assault cavalry to fight fiercely with the Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry. However, as time went by, Hu Yandu became more and more anxious. Seeing that his subordinates had already suffered casualties. There are two thousand horses, but there is still no news about Zhao Ling's army.

Although the assault cavalry was about the same strength as the ordinary Bingzhou wolf cavalry, they suffered two thousand casualties, and the Bingzhou wolf cavalry was not well-received. However, as time went by, Zhao Yun's side became more dangerous. As early as the beginning of the war, Zhao Yun had already said , his white horse Yi Cong could only try his best to hold back Lu Bu's most elite wolf cavalry. Now nearly an hour had passed, but there was still no movement from Zhao Ling's side.

Suddenly, Hu Yandu saw a large amount of smoke and dust rising from his horse a few miles away. Just as he was wondering, more than two thousand Bingzhou wolf cavalry suddenly came around from the trees outside. The knight sitting on the horse was fighting for his life. They whipped their horses and ran wildly in their direction. Behind them were more cavalry, but Huyandu recognized them at a glance as the Yuanrong crossbowmen led by Zhao Ling.

Hu Yandu was overjoyed and shouted loudly: "My sons, General Zhao has come to support us. Zhao's cavalry has been defeated!"

Hu Yandu's shout alerted the soldiers of both sides who were fighting. Hearing the words, the soldiers of Tang Army cheered and jumped up. However, the soldiers of Zhao Army were surprised and doubtful, and the weapons in their hands were also a little slow. In these moments, unexpectedly, More than a thousand wolf riders were dismounted by the assault cavalry.

After the two wolf cavalry merged, there were less than 10,000 cavalry in total. As for the Tang army, after Zhao Lingbu and the assault cavalry merged, the number increased sharply to 15,000 or 6,000 cavalry, especially the 8,000 Yuan Rong crossbowmen were given to the previous wolf cavalry. The officers were so frightened that after the captains of the two wolf cavalry groups met, they led the remaining cavalrymen and pursued Lu Bu's army in the direction they left without looking back.

Zhao Ling and Hu Yan both looked at each other, and both of them ordered in unison: "My sons, Zhao Jun has run away, let me chase him!" After saying that, the two led their own guards and chased in the direction where the wolf cavalry escaped. passed.

Upon seeing this, the Tang Army cavalry shouted loudly and followed closely behind them, chasing the Wolf Cavalry.

The two cavalrymen fled and gave chase, and soon found the two armies of Zhao Yun and Lu Bu who were fighting fiercely. At this time, Zhao Yun was in a very bad situation. Eleven thousand white horse Yi Cong faced off against ten thousand Bingzhou wolf cavalry, but after just over an hour, there were only four thousand left, while there were still more than six thousand of the ten thousand wolf cavalry led by Lu Bu.

In other words, Zhao Yun used nearly 7,000 white horse righteous followers in exchange for only 4,000 of Lu Bu's most elite Bingzhou wolf cavalry. This shows how powerful these elite Bingzhou wolf cavalry are under the command of the God of War. amazing. It’s no wonder that at Hulao Pass, Lu Bu only had three thousand wolf cavalry.

They killed the three armies of the Guandong princes and were defeated. Even Wang Wei died in the chaos.

Seeing that more than half of his 20,000 wolf cavalry were dismantled, Lu Bu was horrified. He didn't care to fight Zhao Yunhui any more, and led the remaining army back hundreds of steps north. Only then did he have time to carefully inquire about the course of the battle. The Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry are the most elite soldiers and horses under Lu Bu. There are only 30,000 in total. The remaining 20,000 are ordinary wolf cavalry and 10,000 are elite. It can be said that these 30,000 wolf cavalry are the foundation of Lu Bu's career. Originally, he was still furious that he had lost four thousand elites, but what he didn't expect was that in the blink of an eye, more than half of the twenty thousand ordinary wolf riders were lost, which made Lu Bu even more heartbroken.

He was about to lead his troops to fight Zhao Yun, but he was stopped by several generals under his command. Even if they were knocked to the ground one by one, they could not change their original intention.

In desperation, Lu Bu had no choice but to give up and lead the remaining soldiers back to his camp, while Zhao Yun also led all the soldiers back to the central army's position south of Huguan City.

This ended the battle. In the end, Lu Bu's 30,000 Bingzhou wolf cavalry was left with only 15,000 cavalry, while the Tang army's 36,000 cavalry also lost 15,000 cavalry. If not for the sudden build-up of Yuan Rong's crossbowmen, It was a miracle. The Tang army probably failed in this battle. If the cavalry failed, Huangfu Chaobo's idea of ​​capturing Huguan City would have to come to nothing.

When the cavalry battle ended, the siege of Huguan City officially began. After losing nearly 3,000 people, more than 10,000 Zhao prisoners finally paved all the siege passages of the Tang army. Although there were more than 30,000 Zhao soldiers in Huguan City, the city of Huguan City was not large. Even if there were sufficient troops, the number of troops that could be accommodated on the city wall was limited. Therefore, after losing 3,000 prisoners, the Tang army finally filled dozens of siege passages in the south and east directions.

On the watchtower of the central army, the army had begun to attack the city, but Huangfu Chaobo was not thinking about it. The attack on the walls of the two cities was led by Huang Wudie and Dong Fang, and Tian Yu was responsible for the support of the two troops.

Two hours had passed, but there was still no news from the cavalry led by Zhao Yun, which made Huangfu Chaobo very worried.

At this time, Guo Jia also put away the smile on his face, and looked in the direction of the cavalry leaving from time to time. Everyone knew that the battle situation of the cavalry determined the battle situation of the entire Shangdang. If the cavalry could win, then Shangdang would most likely be completely controlled by the Tang State. If the cavalry failed, the battle of Shangdang would have to end.

Suddenly, several white horse volunteers appeared in everyone's sight. They were the messengers sent back by Zhao Yun. They ran all the way to the periphery of the central army, then turned over and dismounted, and ran towards the watchtower of Huangfu Chaobo. When they ran to the bottom of the watchtower, the messenger ran to Huangfu Chaobo and said, "Report to the king! General Zhao Yun ordered his subordinates to come and report that our cavalry has defeated the Zhao army, and King Zhao Lu Bu led the remaining soldiers to retreat!"