Chapter 706: Heavy Cavalry Charges

After the low morale of the soldiers was aroused, the morale of the soldiers in the army suddenly rose a lot. Many of the soldiers who were timid before were now determined, and the line between the soldiers became more strict.

But at this time, the cavalry of the Feixiong Army had already arrived more than ten steps ahead.

With a roar, followed by a series of huge crashes.

Then, Su Zhi, who was standing on the chariot, saw the heavy cavalry like an iron tower, directly crashing into his army.

"Boom..."

In the sight, the sword and shield soldiers outside the army were like flying kites with broken strings, and they were directly knocked over. The long spears that stretched out of the shield wall were bent into a bow shape due to the huge impact, and then the spears were straightened, and the spearmen holding the spears were also ejected. Although the blocked cavalry stagnated suddenly, the remaining momentum was not exhausted, and then they crashed into the second row of shields.

"Bang..."

The second row of shields were hit by a huge force, and although the soldiers were not knocked away, they also vomited blood and died. At this time, the surrounding spearmen also reacted and stabbed with spears, trying to stab the horses and knights to death.

At this time, the war horses and the knights on the horses were dizzy due to the collisions between the two generals, and they had no time to dodge the long spears stabbing from all directions.

"Puchi..."

The sound of the spear tip piercing the flesh sounded, followed by the neighing of the war horses and the screams of the knights. Then there was the sound of falling to the ground.

The same situation continued to appear on both sides of the army. Of course, the combat power of each soldier was different. In the army's defense line, some positions only broke through one layer of shield wall to stop the cavalry, but in some places, the cavalry's attack was blocked only after three layers of shield wall were torn.

What made Su Zhi feel relieved was that this round of attack by Dong Zhuo's cavalry was finally blocked, but the price was also heavy. According to his estimation, there were less than 7,000 sword and shield soldiers before the 20,000 soldiers formed a battle array. Just one round of attack by Dong Zhuo's cavalry caused him to lose an estimated 2,000 soldiers. There were also more than 1,000 spearmen.

Judging from the losses of the other side, it is estimated that the Feixiong Army lost only 300 to 500 soldiers, and the Xiliang Iron Cavalry lost a little more. The two together were less than 1,000 people. Fortunately, they finally blocked it. If they hadn't blocked it, all of his 20,000 troops would have died here today.

However, the first round of attack was blocked, but what about the next one? The first round was blocked, which had consumed most of the soldiers' energy. In addition, it was almost noon now, and the sword and shield soldiers suffered heavy losses. Can his army still block the next round of attack?

Fan Chou, who was outside the army array, saw that his full-strength attack did not work. Although he was surprised, he did not stop and immediately ordered the cavalry to leave quickly, and then returned to a place more than 300 steps away from the army array to continue to line up, waiting for a short rest before charging again.

Seeing this, Su Zhi immediately ordered the injured soldiers to be moved back to the formation, and then arranged the uninjured sword and shield soldiers on the periphery, and the rest of the injured sword and shield soldiers were arranged on the second or third layer, and at the same time, the formation was closed to make it tighter. At the same time, he ordered the soldiers to eat immediately, take a short rest, and wait for the second round of the Xiliang army to charge.

When Su Zhi ordered the soldiers to rest, hundreds of steps away, the cavalry of Dong Zhuo's army was also resting. The reason was that after leaving Anyi, the cavalry ran for dozens of miles, and then wanted to take advantage of the Sizhou army's unpreparedness to defeat the 30,000 troops in one fell swoop.

Unfortunately, things did not go as planned.

Although Su Zhi's army had no cavalry, it used hundreds of personal guards as scouts, which made Fan Chou's wish to launch a sneak attack come to nothing. So he had to use the Feixiong army to charge.

Originally, it was thought that with the strength of the Feixiong Army, it would be easy to break through the infantry's formation, but what was surprising was that the enemy's formation actually blocked the Feixiong Army's charge, and his own cavalry also lost nearly a thousand cavalry.

As a last resort, Fan Chou had to order the army to rest for a while and wait for the horses to recover some horsepower before attacking. He believed that if he attacked again, the Sizhou Army would definitely not be able to hold on.

Upon hearing the order to rest, the soldiers of the Dong Zhuo Army quickly jumped off their horses, took off the kettle from their waists, unplugged the kettle, and then raised their heads to drink two sips of the water in the kettle and then stuffed the kettle into the mouth of their horses, pouring most of the water in the kettle for the horses to drink. Then he took out a handful of beans from his cloth bag and held it in his hand to the mouth of the warhorse. While feeding the warhorse, he carefully combed the mane of the warhorse with his other hand and wiped the sweat off the warhorse.

A quarter of an hour later, with Fan Chou's order, the cavalry soldiers quickly arranged the equipment of the war horses, tied the saddle ropes tightly, and then hung their weapons next to the saddles so that they could take them out at any time. Then, they climbed on the horses, lightly lifted the reins, and slowly walked towards the designated position.

After the formation was formed, with a long horn sound, with the Feixiong Army as the vanguard and the Xiliang Iron Cavalry as the rear army, the cavalry of Dong Zhuo's army once again lined up and rushed towards the army of Su Zhi of the Sizhou Army.

This time, the cavalry did not attack from two sides, but from three sides, surrounding from the east, south and west respectively. On the north side, which was right in front of Su Zhi's camp, no cavalry was arranged to attack. This is also a typical tactic of surrounding three sides and missing one side, which can just break the determination of the Sizhou army to fight to the death. Unfortunately, the soldiers of the Sizhou army had already aroused the heart of fighting to the death, so how could they be so easily broken by them.

Facing the cavalry of Dong Zhuo's army that was pouring in like a tide, Su Zhi didn't know how long he could hold on, but he knew that he had to hold on. After the battle just now, more than 10% of the casualties did not reduce the morale of his soldiers. On the contrary, because of the death and injury of Ze Pao, they shared the same hatred for the enemy.

With an order, the soldiers who were resting stood up one after another, ready to meet the second round of charge of Dong Zhuo's cavalry. Many strong spearmen will go behind the front rows of sword and shield soldiers, replace those lightly injured sword and shield soldiers, and stand behind the erected shields themselves.

In this way, in a charge and fight, soldiers of different arms cannot be interchanged, but this kind of array defense is different. All you need to do is to withstand the impact of the cavalry.

And the injured soldiers who retreated did not retreat back to the formation, but took over the spears of the spearmen, like other spearmen, inserted the tail of the spear into the ground, and extended the spear tip diagonally outside the formation, then held the spear shaft tightly with both hands, quietly waiting for the impact of the cavalry.