Chapter 722: Cavalry Charge

After hearing this, Jiang Jian understood Fan Chou's intention. He looked back at the cavalry behind him. Except for the two thousand veterans who had been trained for a long time, the rest were newly recruited cavalrymen. After running wildly for several hours, they no longer looked like cavalrymen. They leaned on their horses and kept complaining. Looking at the Xiliang Iron Cavalry next to them, everyone was taking care of their horses as if nothing had happened.

Besides, Fan Chou's words were indeed unreasonable. It was impossible for them to die in their own affairs. It was just that war horses were hard to come by. Thinking of this, he looked at the warhorse reluctantly, and then looked at Fan Chou. Just as he was about to speak, Fan Chou also understood what he meant and said, "Isn't it just a few horses that you are willing to give up? These horses are from the Sizhou Army, not your own. It's a good opportunity to train your cavalry well. Didn't the general say that he would buy the warhorses for you?"

Having said this, Jiang Jian couldn't say anything more. He gave an order and ordered his cavalry to prepare for the charge, and also promised that the first one to charge into the formation would be rewarded with 10 silver coins. The enthusiasm of his cavalry was also mobilized at once.

With waves of shouts ringing among the cavalry, it only took half a quarter of an hour for the Hedong Army's cavalry to line up and prepare to charge the Sizhou Army's chariot formation.

With the roar of horses' hooves, the Hedong cavalry climbed on the warhorse again and began to charge the formation, accompanied by various strange cries of the Hedong cavalry accompanied by the roar of the warhorse. Standing in the formation, looking at the charging horses and the cavalrymen roaring on the horses hundreds of steps away, Hu Yandu smiled and said, "A bunch of rookies, just cannon fodder for Dong's cavalry."

As time went on, some of Huangfu Chaobo's words were gradually accepted by Hu Yandu and other close generals. Words like "rookie" and "cannon fodder" were learned from him. As the saying goes, if the superior likes something, the subordinates will follow it.

However, Hu Yandu was not wrong. When the truly elite cavalry charged, how could they roar like them? Aren't you afraid that a breath of wind would fill your mouth and choke you to death?

As he spoke, the charging cavalry was only a hundred steps away from the chariot formation. With Zhao Yun's order, the spearmen in the chariot formation were ready to prevent collision. At the same time, the archers behind the chariot formation were also ready to shoot arrows.

Seeing the cavalry getting closer and closer, with the military order "Archers, prepare to shoot!", the archers in the formation all pulled their bows and arrows, pointed the arrows diagonally towards the sky, aimed at the distance of sixty steps in front of the formation, and drew their bows ready to shoot.

"Fire!"

"Buzz buzz buzz..."

A burst of arrows flew towards the cavalry in front of the formation with a sharp whistling sound, and then only the screams of the cavalry and the neighing of the war horses were heard, and then the screams of the soldiers who were shot by arrows fell from the war horses, and the roar of the war horses falling to the ground.

However, the speed of the horses was too fast, and the archers only had three rounds of shooting opportunities, and then the cavalry collided with the chariot formation. With a huge collision sound.

"Bang..."

"Bang bang..."

As more and more war horses collided with the chariot formation, the chariot formation was soon knocked open, and the other cavalry that followed quickly rushed into the formation through the gap. After just the first layer of chariot formation, the cavalry that entered the formation had lost their horse speed and could only rely on the advantage of being on horseback to lean over and fight with the spearmen in close combat.

Although the chariot formation arranged by Zhao Yun was limited in the number of baggage carts, it was also arranged in two layers, and then there was a shield wall composed of sword and shield soldiers behind. However, looking at the situation in front of him, Zhao Yun did not think that these Hedong cavalry could break his two-layer chariot formation.

Sure enough, after the speed of the cavalry slowed down, the cavalry that rushed into the formation were surrounded and killed by the spearmen one after another, which made the cavalry behind dare not follow and charge back, and the hesitation before the battle increased the loss of the Hedong cavalry.

Seeing the cavalry losses getting bigger and bigger, Jiang Pei finally ordered the gong to call back the cavalry that charged the formation after a glance at Fan Chou. When he counted them, he couldn't help but get angry.

In just a short while, 5,000 cavalry actually lost 1,000 people in front of the Sizhou army, and the loss of 1,000 cavalry was exchanged for less than 20 gaps in the first layer of the Sizhou army.

Seeing this, Fan Chou also knew that it was impossible to rely on these new recruits to break through the enemy's defense. He looked up at the sky and saw that it would be dark in more than half an hour. He only had one last chance. Once it got dark, he would have no chance.

"General Jiang, gather the troops and prepare for the second attack. This time, I will send 3,000 cavalry to fight with your army. This is our last chance. Once it gets dark, the Sizhou army will definitely run away."

Jiang Jian was about to open his mouth to refute, but he opened his mouth but couldn't say anything. Finally, he had to go back to summon the withdrawn troops and remove the injured cavalry, and finally gather 3,000 cavalry. It's not that they are unwilling to send out more cavalry, but the pass ahead can only deploy so many troops, and it's useless to say more.

This time, the two cavalry were ready soon. With Fan Chou's order, the two 6,000 cavalry rushed towards the Sizhou army again.

Looking at the cavalry in front of him, Zhao Yun knew that Fan Chou was preparing for the final attack. His army only needed to stop his attack this time, or it would get dark. So even if Fan Chou was unwilling, he had no choice but to lead his troops to retreat.

Thinking of this, Zhao Yun ordered all the archers to be moved behind the shield wall, and then moved the Yuanrong crossbowmen and the Xianzhen camp crossbowmen behind the archers. At the same time, he ordered Hu Yandu's cavalry to be ready. He knew that if they did not fight against Dong Zhuo's cavalry, they would not give up easily.

Soon the soldiers in the chariot formation were ready. Not long after, the cavalry had reached a hundred steps away, and soon the cavalry entered the range of the bows and arrows. From the inside of the formation, the difference between the two cavalry can be clearly seen. Although most of the Hedong cavalry are equipped with cavalry shields, they still ride straight forward on their horses, while the Xiliang cavalry are all carefully curled up on the horse's back, using the cavalry shields in their hands to carefully protect themselves, and follow the Hedong cavalry behind them to rush towards the direction of the Sizhou Army formation.

With the order of the general in the formation, arrows rained down in the chariot formation. At this time, Fan Chou, who was watching the battle from a distance, also found that the number of arrows was obviously more than the first charge, but now there is no way, and he can only hope that his cavalry can rush into the formation.

However, as the cavalry got closer, more and more arrows were shot from the opposite side.