Chapter 667 Cavalry Battle
You know, the nomadic peoples are at their weakest in this season. Winter has just passed, and both war horses and cattle and sheep have lost weight after a winter. Now it has just entered spring, and it is the time for war horses, cattle and sheep to fatten up. I didn't expect that at this time, the Han cavalry would actually hit the grassland.
Unlike the horses on the grassland, in winter, the horses of the Han cavalry are basically locked indoors. In addition, Gongsun Zan has already made preparations. Although there is no fresh grass for the war horses in winter, other refined grains such as black beans are indeed sufficient. Therefore, compared with the war horses on the grassland, the horses of the Han army are more energetic at this time.
At this time, Huangfu Chaobo handed over the command to Gongsun Zan very readily. Although Zhao Yun and Dian Wei have experienced several major battles, it can be said that for such tens of thousands of cavalry battles, except for Lu Bu and Ma Teng, there are probably few people in the Han territory who can compare with Gongsun Zan.
As the desolate horn from Gongsun Zan's central army came, facing the Xianbei camp that stretched for more than ten miles, Gongsun Zan took a deep breath, and then a series of orders came out of his mouth. Then, one by one, the messengers rushed out and headed towards the direction of the generals who delivered the orders.
Soon, the soldiers in the various formations who received the military orders quickly moved towards their positions. This time, Gongsun Zan was ready to use his most powerful Baima Yicong as an assault, followed by 20,000 ordinary cavalry, and finally the cavalry belonging to the foreigner. Gongsun Zan believed that 10,000 Baima Yicong and the two of them, who had a total of 5,000 personal guards, were enough to break through the Xianbei people's defense.
When Gongsun Zan arranged the army to prepare, nearly 30,000 soldiers in the Xianbei camp had already rushed to the outside of the camp to form a battle array. These should be the elite cavalry of this tribe. Behind them, there were still soldiers and horses gathering in the camp. Those should be the tribe's usual auxiliary soldiers and ordinary herdsmen.
Looking at the Xianbei soldiers and horses gathering in front of him, Gongsun Zan's face flashed a trace of ferocity, and then he slowly raised the lance placed beside the warhorse with his right hand, with the tip of the lance tilted towards the sky in front of him, and then shouted straight into the sky: "White Horse Yicong!"
"Where there is righteousness, we will follow each other in life and death, kill, kill, kill!"
"The Han army is mighty!"
"All soldiers, follow me to kill!"
Soon, the entire battlefield was left with only tens of thousands of Han soldiers shouting in unison, "The Han army is mighty, kill, kill, kill!" With the thunderous roar of horses' hooves and shouts of killing, tens of thousands of cavalrymen rushed straight towards the direction of the Xianbei army.
Facing tens of thousands of Han cavalrymen rushing straight at him, the Xianbei cavalry general felt a little nervous, but he had to order the army that had already gathered to rush towards the Han army. He had to lead these elite cavalrymen to stop the Han army and buy time for the ordinary cavalrymen behind to gather.
As the cavalry of both sides rushed closer and closer, they finally inevitably collided with each other. At this time, Zhao Yun and Gongsun Yue had already led their Baima Yicong to catch up.
"Boom..."
"Kill..."
With a loud noise, the cavalry of both sides finally collided with each other. Then, people kept falling off the horses and were trampled into meat paste by the horses that followed.
With several generals as the spearhead, plus the powerful combat power of the two guards and the Baima Yicong, the Han cavalry quickly killed into the Xianbei cavalry.
The people who rushed into the formation immediately divided into several groups, dividing the Xianbei cavalry into several parts. As time went by, the 30,000 Xianbei cavalry had been divided into several large and small parts, and could not form a system at all.
Then, Gongsun Zan and other generals who followed the Baima Yicong also led 20,000 ordinary cavalry to kill, and followed the gap opened by the Baima Yicong to kill into the middle of the Xianbei cavalry. After that, there were more than 20,000 cavalry of the players. Players like to beat the drowning dog the most.
Seeing that Gongsun Zan had led the Baima Yicong to disperse the Xianbei cavalry, the players were immediately as excited as if they had been injected with chicken blood.
They led their cavalry to charge at the Xianbei cavalry, regardless of the fact that the Xianbei cavalry they were fighting against were not the ordinary cavalry they had encountered before.
However, it was no wonder that they were so relieved. At this time, Huangfu Chaobo and Gongsun Zan, who were the first to engage in battle with the Xianbei cavalry, had already killed their way out of the Xianbei army and stopped more than a hundred steps behind them. Then, the army turned their horses around, and under Gongsun Zan's command, the army formed a formation again and rushed towards the Xianbei army.
Afterwards, the front and rear cavalry charged at the Xianbei cavalry, and finally made the 30,000 Xianbei cavalry unable to hold on. When the Baima Yicong passed through the middle of the Xianbei cavalry again, Gongsun Zan keenly discovered the changes in the Xianbei cavalry, so he immediately ordered the army that was preparing for the third charge to disperse to both sides, and drove the disintegrating Xianbei cavalry towards the Xianbei camp in the crane wing formation.
Tens of thousands of Han troops drove the Xianbei fleeing soldiers towards the Xianbei camp. At this time, nearly 20,000 ordinary Xianbei cavalrymen had gathered in front of the camp, but they were far less elite than the previous cavalrymen. Faced with their own fleeing cavalrymen and the pursuers following closely behind them, these cavalrymen were almost at a loss.
Fortunately, some people still reacted and shouted loudly to the fleeing soldiers in front to run to the sides of the camp. However, even if some cavalrymen tried to flee to the sides, Gongsun Zan had already anticipated this situation. When he saw the Xianbei fleeing soldiers fleeing to the sides, the white horse volunteers on the flanks immediately drove them to the middle.
Soon, most of the defeated Xianbei cavalrymen rushed into their own army formation, and the cavalry formation, which was not very strict to begin with, was scattered. Just as the Xianbei general Jie tried his best to restore the formation, the Han cavalry that followed closely rushed into the Xianbei cavalry again.
The Han cavalry with several famous generals successfully killed into the Xianbei army formation, and the cavalry that followed closely also killed into the formation. For a time, the formation, which was not very strict to begin with, became a mess, which was even worse than the situation of the first batch of Xianbei cavalry just now.
This time, Gongsun Zan did not order the White Horse Volunteers who had charged into the battle array to turn back and fight again, but instead handed the chaotic cavalry to the tens of thousands of ordinary cavalry that followed, while his own generals led the personal guards of the two families and the White Horse Volunteers to charge directly towards the Xianbei camp.
As the White Horse Volunteers army charged into the Xianbei camp, the war that had been prepared for several months was basically declared over within a few hours, which gave the players who accompanied them a more intuitive understanding of the powerful combat power of the combination of famous generals and special arms.