Early the next morning, the sheng flags outside Hanzhong City were densely packed.
In front of the city gate, Zhao Yun's 3,000 elite cavalry lined up in front, and behind him there were more than 2,000 elite cavalry and tens of thousands of foot soldiers from various departments to sweep the formation.
On the other hand, in front of the horse chao formation, there were only 3,000 iron horsemen, and the rest of the iron horsemen all dismounted and sat in front of the camp, quietly waiting for the battle in front of them.
When Ma Chao was dressed neatly and rode out of battle, the horsemen sitting on the ground behind him stood up one after another, turned over and got on the horse, and the movements were extremely skillful, as if this person was on the horse.
At the head of the city, Pang Tongyi looked at the Xiliang Iron Cavalry outside the city with envy, "In the past, Dong Zhuo relied on 100,000 Xiliang Iron Cavalry to enter Luoyang and control the government. ” "Sun Quan recruited only thousands of new soldiers and old soldiers from half of Nanyang County, and he fought in Guanzhong for nearly a year, but he relied on Ma Teng, Han Sui and other princes in Guanzhong to compete with Cao Cao, and this Xiliang Iron Cavalry is also a big helper."
A scribe standing behind Pang Tong frowned slightly, "Since Xiliang Tie is the best in the world, why don't he Ma Teng and Han Sui form an alliance to attack Chang'an, and after destroying Sun Quan, they can attack Hanoi and Shangdang." ” Pang Tong smiled slightly, "But it is precisely because of Dong Zhuo's death that the Xiliang generals are in civil strife, although this Ma Teng Han is a righteous brother, but they are wary of each other, if not, then Sun Zhong can get a place to be subordinate and raise tens of thousands of elite soldiers."
"Military advisor, the soldiers of Xiliang immediately bring bows, could it be that everyone can't ride and shoot."
Before Pang Tong could speak, he heard Zhang Lu laugh and said: "I have been guarding Hanzhong for many years, and these sons and daughters from the land of Sanfu under my command also have the kung fu of riding and shooting on horseback, but it is a pity that the more than 2,000 elite horsemen in my city do not have the ordnance rewarded by King Wu, otherwise they can go out of the city with General Zhao today to meet the Xiliang Iron Cavalry." ” "Since it is the wish of Brother Gongqi, after the war, let all the more than 2,000 horsemen be added to the Snapdragon Battalion and handed over to General Zilong to command, as for the ordnance, this city in my Han will be an important town for our army to advance north into Sanfu, and then there should be a craftsman workshop to move in."
Zhang Lu said that he was very good, he was able to recommend Jingqi and befriend Pang Tong and Zhao Yun, and his life in Jiangdong would naturally be better in the future.
Outside the city, the two armies were two miles apart, and with Zhao Yun and Ma Chao out of battle at the same time, the cavalry behind them had begun to disperse.
"Military division, General Zilong ordered to attack with a sharp arrow formation."
"Military division, the Xiliang Iron Cavalry formation is scattered, and it seems that Ma Chao ordered the tactics of wolves on the grassland."
Pang Tong stared intently at the outside of the city, and when the sound of two earth-shaking horses' hooves sounded, six thousand iron horsemen, the Xuanjia torrent and the white silver armor torrent in the distance quickly approached.
"Raise your crossbow."
With Zhao Yun's order, he took the lead in taking the longbow in his hand, stretched the bow and set up the arrows, and the three arrows were beaded, "Release." ” "Whoosh" shot at a distance of 100 steps, in fact, at the moment when the arrows were shot, the two armies were only about 80 steps apart, and the arrows were like locusts densely thrown towards the opposite side.
However, to Zhao Yun's surprise and delight, these elite horsemen behind Ma Chao actually took out their longbows from their horses, stretched their bows and arrows, and shot arrows on the way to gallop.
When Zhao Yun ordered the change of guns, the two armies were already within thirty paces.
The "boom" shook the mountains for a while, the horses collided together, the horse's head cracked and bloody at the same time, and the two sergeants sitting on horseback almost flew out on their backs, and the corpses on the ground were trampled on by countless horses' hooves, turning into a handful of bloody mud on the wasteland.
"Bell" Zhao Yun and Ma Chao fought in the crowd of ten thousand troops, and they were driven by the war horse under the seat, and they fought forward.
One shines on the face, does not entangle, and directly chisels through the enemy's military formation, both of them are masters of cavalry combat, and they are naturally decisive.
When they turned around, the sergeant watching from the top of the city immediately ran to Pang Tong's side, "Report to the military division, the casualties of both armies are three or four hundred. ” "Military division, if you continue to fight like this, I am afraid that the Jiangdong Snapdragon Battalion will be" Li Yan showed a little regret on his face, not long ago in the battle of Fangling, because of his mistake, the Snapdragon Battalion almost suffered more than half of the casualties, and later had to be selected from the tens of thousands of troops in Jingzhou to make up for 3,000 people, he still has a deficit in his heart, and now if he is riding to the death with Xiliang Tie, I am afraid that the gains outweigh the losses.
After all, in the land of Xiliang, as long as he is an adult man, he can almost fight on a horse, but under the rule of Jiangdong, there are not many people who are good at riding.
Before he got the land of the three auxiliaries, even Liu Qi regarded the only two cavalry as treasures, whether it was money, food, ordnance or food and rewards, he always supplied these two elite cavalry for the first time.
"It doesn't matter."
Pang Tong smiled and shook his head, he had cooperated with Zhao Yun for a long time, and he knew what Zhao Yun was thinking.
Li Yan's eyes wrinkled slightly, "General Zhao has always been cautious, since he promised Ma Chao yesterday to fight a decisive battle with iron cavalry, it was not to force Ma Chao's Xiliang Iron Cavalry to take care of" Pang Tong pointed to the outside of the city, "Positive, you look outside the city, after this second wave of charge, the casualties of our two armies are still not much different, you think, if 50,000 Xiliang iron cavalry and 50,000 infantry of our army fight, what is the victory?"
"If it is on the plains and wilderness, if there is no camp to hold on, our army is afraid that it will be difficult to win."
"But what if our army's 50,000 elite cavalry and 50,000 Xiliang iron cavalry fight?"
Li Yan was speechless for a moment, and then he spoke, "Military advisor, even if our army can find 50,000 good horsemen, allocate taxes from all over Jiangdong, and build 50,000 cavalry ordnance, where can we find 50,000 good horses?"
"Nature is the grassland north of Sansuke."
Li Yan's eyes were full of regret, "It's a pity that Ma Chao came so quickly, otherwise our army could have bought some war horses from the northland horse dealers, even if it is a good horse after castration, it is much better than this Shuzhong horse." ” Seeing that after the fourth wave of killings, nearly a thousand corpses had fallen on the iron cavalry of both armies, Pang Tong glanced at the drummer not far away, "Mingjin withdraws his troops." ” "Whoa."
When the sound of Mingjin came from behind him, Zhao Yun's elite cavalry was leaning against the city wall, and stopped charging for a while, but on the other side, Ma Chao was fighting bloodily, but he swept away the Xingzi for Pang Tong, and where could he stop the horse's legs under the seat, but when they charged forward, there was a sudden scream from the city wall, and Ma Chao saw a lot of black shadows come to the front in an instant, and immediately raised his gun, "Le Ma." ” "Phew" "Phew" Many horsemen forcibly tightened the reins, and the huge force almost suffocated the horses under the seats, and many of the horses raised their two front hooves, almost lifting off the cavalry behind them.
At the same time, dozens of huge arrows also fell in front of Ma Chao's military array, there were huge arrows several feet long, each one was so exaggerated, Ma Chao's face twitched slightly, and he looked at the city head intently, I don't know when, where the battlements of the city wall were, there were dozens of bed crossbows.
Ma Chao was jealous in his heart, "In this Jiangdong army, it is rumored that there is a thing that can quickly transport grain and grass in the mountains, but I never thought that there were so many bed crossbows in this Hanzhong city so quickly, so it seems that this Hanzhong is not able to take it." ”: