Chapter 113 – Ground Full of Blood

The two cavalry armies began to collide and charge in a fancy-free manner.

The terrain is flat and wide, which is favorable for the cavalry to spread out their line, since it is an excellent place for cavalry battles, it also means that this will be a place where people will die easily, and the speed of the deaths should be very fast.

The Qiang cavalry is the light cavalry of the light cavalry, on the one hand is poor, simply “heavy” up, on the other hand is all long arms like apes, brawn superb, which makes them almost every horse are horseback archer. With the Beiliang Xu family has a blood feud with the Qiang young thousand chief Ke Choke, finally no longer deliberately suppress the speed of the charge of the horse team, a wave of the hand, to a side of the black scarf blindfolded the horse’s eyes, the crotch mount’s step suddenly increased, if there is a viewer is located in the horizontal line to look at, will be these head of the horse in the gallop of the kind of muscle sense of the exhibition of the marvelous. The central plains in the charge blindfolded horses in the habit has never been popular, but in the grasslands is inherited for hundreds of years of old customs, the beginning is to ensure that the war horse in the face of the central plains infantry refused to horse square when fearless, but also deliberately let the horse “frightened”, in the cavalry and cavalry in the fleeting fierce collision before the cavalry vicious whip, can stimulate the war horse to explode more and more, and the horse will be able to make the horse to run, and the horse will not be able to run, and the horse will be able to run. Can catalyze the warhorse to burst out more foot power, with the speed of the warhorse to drive the cavalry charge penetration. However, the world’s elite cavalry, I’m afraid that only the Northern Liang iron horsemen do not care to use this kind of “carving small skills”, which is attributed to the Northern Liang each horse from the birth of the familiar, the major stables poured countless efforts, of course, there are countless amounts of silver. Bei Liang each eventually stepped on the back of a large battlefield ripe horse, there will be one or even several war horses died before.

On the battlefield, there was only the earth-shattering hissing sound from the more than 1,600 Qiang horses.

In contrast, the same light cavalry of three thousand dragon elephant army at this time, it seems particularly odd, before killing collective silence is a reason, more importantly, they are simply to take the light cavalry as a heavy cavalry call of the outlaws.

Dragon Elephant light cavalry in the spear accelerated charge, straight to the other side, and even give up a set of light crossbow splash enemy cavalry array of killing power!

The Northern Liang iron horsemen were good at fighting, and dared to fight to the death!

Central Plains military, has always been good at the combination of mounted and foot, the infantry in the center, the cavalry is located on both flanks, the latter is not used in the front of the battlefield, in addition to limited by the strength of the riding bow is inferior to the infantry crossbow, especially crossbows, natural factors, but mainly the cavalry’s own biggest advantage is the powerful mobility. In the long series of classic battles in the Spring and Autumn period, this indisputable stereotype of war was played to the fullest extent. As long as the title of the famous generals, even if the commander of the infantry, give him a thousands of people size of the cavalry, the same can be commanded in order, this is probably the so-called long illness into a doctor. At that time, a large group of high-level military generals of Liyang who suffered from war, can’t use the horse or can’t break the horse, then out of the door are embarrassed to say hello to their colleagues. But this combination of tactics, once moved to a place where supplies are difficult, it is inevitable that the soil is not suited to the current son of heaven after ascending to the throne of the North Mang initiative to launch a few big wars, it suffered enough, many of the initial situation seems to be in a good situation, were some of the battles that took place outside the main battlefield to destroy the North Mang Tuo Bao Bodhisattvas and Dong Zhuo successive generations of famous North Mang generals as an example, the two famous works, are relying on the The two famous North Mang generals, Tuo Bashi Bodhisattva and Dong Zhuo, for example, were famous for their long-distance raids of up to 1,000 miles on light cavalry, circling around to the rear of the Liyang army and directly destroying one or even several main supply lines. The famous generals of the Liyang court, especially the cavalry generals, were very annoyed by this, but for some reason, there was never a talented general who was able to break away from the cooperation of the infantry and go against the North Mang cavalry army, but even so, the cavalry army had to be cut off to take charge of its own, as well as a series of writings on the art of war derived from it, and Lu Shengxiang, who had been recruited by Zhao Yi to go far away from the banks of the Guangling River, and Xu Gong, who has never been able to go on the war outside of Serbia, each had their own books of war published, but it was only a matter of time before they were released, so they had no chance to go to war outside of China. They each have their own military books, but unfortunately the secret is not passed on to the world, but in the military internal reputation, Xu Snap is from the Gumiao Xu’s Longchamp General Xu Gong very much appreciated, that this person should be able to overshadow the “leading southeast wind” Lu Shengxiang. However, that year, that group of Liyang senior big figures have a number, if at that time to Chen Zhi Bao and Chu Lushan opportunity, then these two people will undoubtedly be in the north of Mang this new battlefield, a leap to become no less than the four great generals of the Spring and Autumn period of the figure of merit, but at that time, even if the new son of heaven for selfish reasons, willing to give Chen Zhi Bao the opportunity to show their hands, that a large group of “founding” elders did not agree to the “founding” elders. “The new emperor was willing to give Chen Zhi Bao a chance to develop his career even if it was for selfish reasons.

In close to twenty years of constant combat with the North Mang, the North Liang iron horsemen also gave birth to a set of highly targeted mature tactics. For example, the North Mang cavalry less crossbow and more bow, if not brawn is particularly amazing sharpshooter, unusual riding bow eighty paces away from the difficult to break armor, the two armies collided and rushed, the North Liang Iron Cavalry in Chen Zhi Bao under the influence of the perversion of the process of direct abandonment of the bow and crossbow shooting, by virtue of the superiority of the armour, let Mang cavalry thrown out of the saving shot, their side only buried head charge. Therefore, Chen Zhi Bao once had an arrogant assertion that made outsiders feel unimaginable: under the premise of roughly equal or even a small disadvantage in troop strength, the Northern Mang cavalry’s life is only enough to live for forty paces!

After all, outsiders were unable to witness this scene with their own eyes, and always held strong skepticism.

However, it cannot be denied that regarding the precious experience of more than 10,000 people of pure cavalry fighting against cavalry, throughout the Liyang Dynasty, I’m afraid that there is only the Beiliang Border Army that has been blessed with a unique talent. Don’t look at the court of Zhao room on the northwest side of the matter is like playing blind, but every time the wind blowing grass, the last gold strand weaving bureau LiXiFeng will not be tired of quietly pass the secret folding sent to the capital. And the content of these folders, Guangling King Zhao Yi and Yanzhi King Zhao Bing do not know how many favors and how many relationships to successfully buy, for many staff strategists to ponder over and over again.

At the same time, the Liyang court side of their own hands are not waiting to die, simply in the North Mang, together with the North Ryang as an imaginary enemy, thinking about how to really counteract the iron hooves of those war horses, from the smoke of the Spring and Autumn period to stand out in the central plains of the outstanding generals after all will not be what the wine bag, quite effective, the infantry formation of horseback troops distribution and weapons partner, can be said to be the peak of excellence. In the Yong Hui spring of the imperial examination, there are even meaningful similar related questions. This led to the emergence of many wild ideas in the answer sheet, although most of them were regarded as the nonsense of the scholarly spirit, but among them, there was an argument that suddenly shone after several years of silence, that is, to fight against extremes with extremes, that candidate who failed in the imperial examination at that time proposed to incline the financial and material resources to fully develop the heavy cavalry that can be said to be monstrous, and strive to cross the threshold of 10,000 people, and that is, sell the pots and pans of iron and steel, but also to Cultivate one or several heavy cavalry, set aside in the key towns not far from the border. His answer in the Liyang court at that time in the mud cattle into the sea, but in fact almost at the same time, the North Mang royal court began to crazy with silver to pile up the heavy cavalry, until many years after the Liyang court only after the realization, that is, now the North Mang with the name of the king’s account of the two iron cavalry, the heavy cavalry of the Yelu heavy cavalry and the heavy cavalry of the Muyong! The number of people can touch the threshold of 10,000, but even the layman of the civil officials, also know that to raise these two heavy cavalry, it is the same as cutting the country’s flesh and blood to feed these two taotie. Because the real cost of heavy cavalry is not in the establishment, but to raise soldiers. After the realization of the Liyang dynastic hall, forced by the dynasty and the field, especially the Ministry of War Gu Lu and the eastern border army of public opinion pressure, this is hard to follow in the North Mang ass back to create the Duo Yan iron horsemen and Yanmen heavy cavalry, the former less than eight thousand riders, the latter number is less than five thousand.

As for why that year to Beijing to catch the examination student will somehow die in a nameless alley, who cares?

However, if someone knows this secret, should be lamented, an unknown Jiangnan scholar pen a less than a thousand words of a small article, but will affect the life and death of two million soldiers in the desert border.

Eighty paces away from the enemy, the first row of the battle line spread out like a line of surging tide of Qiang horsemen skillfully bow and arrow.

The violent bumps on the horse’s back in the fast charge, the enemy cavalry’s armor, and the lack of time to change the shot in the rapid contact battle are all important reasons why the mounted archery can only be the icing on the cake.

Northern Mang’s regular border army’s gun and spear configuration is not bad, not to mention Dong Zhuo’s Dongjia army, but also those great generals and the order of the direct line of the army, it is completely up to the level of the elite border army in Liyang. Only this Qiang horsemen will be much shabbier, it is not that the North Mang is so stingy that it is not willing to pay out more than 10,000 refined guns and spears, but even if it is given to the Qiang horsemen who have their own set of familiar tactics, it will only be a snake to add to the foot and definitely not a gift of charcoal in the snow. The training of horses is already a headache, not to mention the strength of cavalry horse combat training? The relationship between the weight and length of the sword, spear and arm strength of the cavalry, how many killings and how many lives are needed to grind out an optimal answer? The precise area of the gun stabbing the enemy rider, the optimal angle of the sword chopping, the appropriate weight of the armor hanging, are different from person to person, are university questions, so all the qiang horsemen if the main combat weapon suddenly replaced with too extravagant and too unfamiliar spears and spears, so much so that the qiang horsemen dragged down the consistent speed of the transfer, then the qiang horsemen, once the flow of the state, either lucky, did not bump into the Longxiang army, as a joyful tour once, luck! Bad as the moment, ten thousand captain Jin multiply think don’t even need to think, turn around and run, try to sell those spears and spears for a run money.

Those who left their homes Hongjia north run the remnants of the Spring and Autumn Period, for the North Mang piggybacked on the many secret casting skills, but the North Mang’s massive shortage of iron, so that many of the South Dynasty craftsmen have become a bitter woman with no rice to cook.

Chen Zhi Bao once said: the northern barbarians with insufficient guns and spears are nothing more than a group of foot soldiers on horseback!

It can be said that Ye Baikui, the Sage of the Western Chu Soldiers who specialized in the matching of soldiers, pushed the cruelty of large-scale wars down to a peak step by step, then Chen Zhi Bao was the one who pushed and divided the huge wars to every small captain.

The latter not only remembers the name of every lieutenant under his command, but even their personal character and style of leading troops, as well as their comprehensive combat power under normal circumstances and their war potential in unexpected situations, everything is well known.

“Ancient military people like to describe the unpredictability of warfare with instantaneous changes. Chen Zhi Bao, has long been familiar with that ‘ten thousand changes’. He deserves the honor of being the first person to use military force since the Qin Dynasty, far surpassing his predecessors and peers.”

This kind of rotten sounding words of praise, randomly pick out a few books of war and admire the style of the white soldier saint of Jiangnan scholar, can say out.

But in fact, the person who said this is recognized as the chess game official son invincible Cao Qingyi, Cao Changqing.

Liuzhou did not hear the whistling of horns or the clamor of war drums.

It just quietly died in a rapid contact battle.

The two rounds of long-range mounted arrows from the Qiang Riders achieved sensible buildups, but it was only the size of the battle that took the Qiang Riders by surprise.

When an arrow accurately nailed into the face of a Dragon Elephant cavalryman, the cavalryman’s head was immediately torn back by the powerful arrow and swayed out of a magnitude, and then just fell down and died.

The masterless horse continued to charge forward inertially.

Many of the Qiang riders let out a cheer for it.

The arrowhead of a Qiang arrow struck a string of sparks on the chest armor of a Dragon Elephant Light Horseman, but failed to penetrate, but this Beiliang Border Army soldier’s luck was really bad, his horse was hit by another feather arrow with extremely heavy force on the neck of the iron armor gap, and the horse hissed, and the horse body slightly tilted and crashed into the ground.

The light horseman who rolled to remove the momentum quickly stood up, the arm he used to lift the spear first had been broken, but after he lost the spear, he quickly drew out the cool sword at his waist, and faced the Qiang horsemen who were only twenty steps away from crashing into him, and began to run forward in a straight line on a big stride!

Ke Chuo felt a sense of powerlessness deep in his bones, not only because these two rounds of intensive arrow rain only brought less than a hundred casualties to the Dragon Elephant Light Cavalry, but also because even though these enemy cavalrymen could clearly use their spears to pierce away the oncoming arrows, not a single one of them had made this kind of movement that undermined the impacting power of their spears!

Not a single rider!

The two armies rode out, and it was hard to tell the enemy from us.

The young commander’s recklessness brought disaster to the 1,600 horsemen that he and his clan had saved up for twenty years.

Even though the Qiang riders saw the opportunity is not good, that face to face a line of tide front line, the initiative quickly began to stretch to the left side slanting, hoping to rely on the speed of the Qiang riders to narrow the attrition of the frontal battlefield.

The front line of the Qiang riders was slightly slanting to the left.

However, the Dragon Elephant Light Cavalry responded almost instantly, tilting to the right as a whole to kill, and the thunderous sound of their hooves did not diminish at all during the change!

The rapid changes on the big battle line, apportioned to the positions of each two hostile riders, were actually not much.

The Dragon Elephant Army and the Qiang Riders were embedded in each other’s cavalry battle formation!

In just a short blink of an eye, a full three hundred or so Qiang riders were pierced through their bodies by a spear that broke their armor! These Qiang fighters were already dead before they were even completely detached from their horses!

Among them, dozens of Qiang horsemen’s bodies were even directly picked and hung in the air by the Dragon Elephant iron spear.

Above the line that symbolizes life and death, there were all the blood bursting out from the Qiang riders’ casualties.

There were also some lucky Qiangs who escaped the lances of the first row of Dragon Elephant cavalry, but were soon stabbed by the lances at the back.

Some of the more fortunate Qiang riders who managed to survive for a few more moments, even if they survived the lances of the second row of dragon and elephant cavalry, they were instantly killed by the third row of cavalry.

One Qiang rider’s shoulder was pierced by the second Dragon Elephant cavalry, he was shaken, and before he could rejoice, a third lance was drilled into his neck, and his body fell backwards, slid a short distance on the horse’s back, and finally crashed to death on the sand.

The vice general of the Dragon Elephant Army, Wang Lingbao, even directly scuttled three candy canes with one shot.

This charge.

Dragon Elephant Light Cavalry is as easy as a heavy hammer chiseling through gauze paper.

Scar-faced child Wang Lingbao flicked his wrist and slid those three Qiang cavalry bodies out of the iron gun, did not turn his head to observe the battlefield, and even the corpses on the ground did not look at a glance, and continued to gallop forward to kill.

The second Qiang cavalry was not far away.

Behind Wang Lingbao, the ground was full of Qiang cavalry corpses, full of blood.

Many of the Qiang horses slowly stopped after their masters died in battle and fell off their horses after running out for a short distance.

More than three hundred Dragon Elephant Army cavalrymen who were injured and fell from their horses, time and again raised their swords to stab those Qiang riders who were not yet dead.

Some of the Qiang riders spoke words that the Dragon Elephant cavalry did not understand, supposedly begging for mercy, but none of them were merciful with their swords.

Since the Great General led the hundred horsemen out of Liaodong, in the past forty years, the Xu Family Iron Horsemen have not had the habit of taking prisoners.

In addition to the 1,600 Qiang riders at the ends of the front line of more than forty riders, the rest of the Qiang riders only in three thousand Dragon Elephant light cavalry under a charge, so all dead.

In order to avenge the hatred and also to build up a career and break into Liuzhou, the young commander, after shooting one person and stabbing two people, also died.

One side killed very cleanly, one side died without dragging their feet.

Ke Choke’s original intention, naturally, is not to take the clan twenty years of hard work to save up 1,600 horses, to give Jin multiplied in the future in the North Mang dynasty to pave the way.

This Qiang clan in the North Mang border grassland is used to enjoying the victory of the Qiang clan, remembering the blood feud of twenty years ago, but forgot that they want to revenge the enemy, what kind of existence. Before leaving that in the end in fact can only be considered a foreign land home, he has heard of the Dragon Elephant cavalry in the last year to kill through half of the Gusei state, but he is also the same from the mouths of many people in the South heard that it was only Gusei several major military towns guarding the generals of the negligence of carelessness, but also heard some people say that as long as the Dong Zhuo or just any generals of the troops and horses, those deep into the hinterland of the Dragon Elephant army will absolutely one can not come back, the North Mang border army will be cut off the heads of those who have been thrown to the border line of the two countries. heads on the border line between the two countries.

Ke Chian came to take revenge, but unfortunately, his young son who is still waiting for his father to come home on the grassland can only wait for another twenty years before he can continue to take revenge.

For the Qiang people, the history of nearly a hundred years of exile was a constant traveling from one foreign land to another.

He lay in a pool of blood, the sunlight above his head piercing his eyes.

Then he realized that a shadow appeared above his head, it was a Dragon Elephant Light Cavalryman with both shoulders high and low because of his injuries, Ke Choke dying and trying to lift the war sword that was bound to his arm.

The light cavalryman in the costume of a lieutenant seemed to have noticed Ke Choke’s futile resistance, frowned, and chopped off the head of the young Qiang rider with a single slash, and after a little thought, chopped off the right hand of the corpse.

Then the lieutenant, like many of the Dragon Elephant Light Cavalry that were still able to fight, after cleaning up the battlefield, searched for a suitable warhorse, rolled onto it, and once again launched a charge.

In many rich places over in the Central Plains, no matter who kills who, most of them will be filled with soft intrigues and plots, that is, the deadly fights between gangs and gangs, there may also exist the competition of the official backers and the secret encouragement of the conspirators.

In the end, there, killing is not pleasant, and dying is not painful.

But on the next Liangmang border, death will be simple and as fast as the speed of the bow and iron hooves.

After killing through the 1,600 self-seeking Qiang cavalry ranks, under the leadership of Wang Lingbao and the two lieutenants, the Dragon Elephant Light Horse’s warhorse steps appeared to slow down and speed up with an implied regularity.

In this way, the warhorse could fully utilize the second wave of impulse to ensure an effective pursuit.

This is the invisible difference between a famous general and a mediocre general in the sand.

War, especially a localized battle, of course needed ten thousand enemies and a thousand enemies, but it was more necessary for generals like Wang Lingbao who knew the rules of the battlefield well.

Without the former, the battle would be fought more painfully, but without the latter, there would only be a rout.

About half a mile away, although the commander Jin multiplied was completely dumbfounded, but this middle-aged Qiang rider, who is more experienced in the battlefield than Ke Chieh, didn’t have any stagnation, and without saying a word, led the Qiang riders to retreat around the arc.

The reason why they didn’t turn around and flee after stopping their horses was because the Dragon Elephant Light Cavalry, which had negligible battle power loss, simply didn’t allow them to have this little bit of waste.

Wang Lingbao calculated the distance between the two sides and the speed of the horses in his mind, clipped his horse’s belly, and wanted to go to Xu Longxiang’s side to speak his mind. But this young commander of the Dragon Elephant Army had already raised his arm and made a simple gesture that everyone in the Northern Liang Border Army knew.

Fast riders blocking!

Xu Longxiang, who hadn’t shown much in the way of exaggerated combat power in the previous charge, had only killed three Qiang riders with his sword, all of whom had their heads chopped off with a single slash.

When Wang Lingbao saw his Lord Commander leaping up high and abandoning his horse, he instead started dragging his sword and running.

Wang Lingbao laughed and cried a little, this Lord Commander of ours ah really makes people helpless.

After Xu Longxiang made that gesture, the Dragon Elephant Cavalry behind him, which had been deliberately keeping their ranks in order, finally changed.

More than 400 horses with more explosive power instantly rushed out of the army.

These elite cavalry decisively followed the commander-in-chief who was the God of War in his heart, and went to intercept and kill the Qiang cavalry army which still had more than 7,000 soldiers.

For the great clans, it is said that the country can be destroyed, but the legacy of a family name cannot be destroyed.

But for an army, the spine supported by countless martyrs cannot be broken!

The backbone of the Northern Liang Iron Horsemen.

I’d rather shatter it than break it.

As for whether the North Mang has the ability to crush this spine, that will have to be mutual strangulation.

In Xu Longxiang faster and faster running way, a giant black tiger scurried to his side.

Then the four hundred fast riders behind the black-clothed teenager, and the more than two thousand Dragon Elephant light riders further back saw a scene that was odd to the extreme.

Xu Longxiang bent down without slowing down, pulled both legs of that black tiger with both hands, and with a spin of his body, he just smashed the black tiger into the center of that Qiang Rider army!

After the huge black tiger crashed to the ground with a loud bang, it then rolled over and over again.

It raised countless dust on the ground.

Countless mud-like corpses and a large number of people and horses tumbled over.

Scar-faced Wang Lingbao couldn’t help but twitch the corners of his mouth.

Those guys who were smashed would surely be in a lot of pain.

When the four hundred fast riders from the front were about to catch up with the tail of the Qiang Rider army, Wang Lingbao in the back glanced at the large pit that had been blown out by the Black Tiger earlier, and on those corpses that were as thin as mud, a large blood flower blossomed.