Immediately after Lu Bu's flying horse rushed into the Xianbei cavalry group that was in chaos due to a sudden surprise attack, Wei Xu and Cheng Lian also drove the Han army's cavalry under their command to divide into several groups, cutting through the layers of Xianbei cavalry like sharp swords. They intercepted and blocked them and charged into the heart of the Xianbei cavalry with all their strength. As the halberds continued to fly and the rain of blood burst forward, the speed of Lu Bu's attack, who was leading the way, naturally slowed down. At this time, following the passage temporarily formed by Lu Bu with his blood and life, his cavalry could only rush to the vicinity of Lu Bu's war horse, which was still showing off its might. Seeing that the cavalry had already rushed to his side, Lu Bu still danced the halberd in his hand like a wheel, harvesting the lives of the Xianbei cavalry. Bian Hao smiled and shouted: "Ha, ha, ha! Just follow me. Charge forward! Capture the bald man!" Roaring angrily, Lu Bu had already driven the seated war horse 'Red Rabbit Horse', and was wildly killing towards the depths where the Xianbei cavalry were gathered
Let¡¯s go back and talk about another battlefield that was also fierce and stalemate. It has to be said that as the two main generals of the 'Cao Group' at that time, the strategies and tactics used by Le Jin and Shi Huan were indeed innovative and practical. Arranging and mobilizing a small number of elite cavalry to launch a sneak attack on the Southern Xiongnu garrison camp, which disrupted the overall order of the Southern Xiongnu Mang Zhengji's command, which had an absolute advantage in strength, and delayed the deployment of the Southern Huns' cavalry and the entire army. Due to the short time, at the beginning of the war, the cavalry of the Southern Xiongnu Mang Zhengji could only stay in their simple military camp for a long time, wandering around in confusion and disorder!
In this way, sufficient time is bought for the infantry to advance. This allowed the starting infantry commanded by Shi Huan and the main infantry force commanded by Yue Jin to have ample time to position themselves and line up, making all preparations to block the reinforcement of the Xianbei Bald Cavalry cavalry from the Southern Huns cavalry, to the maximum extent possible. The channel for the Southern Xiongnu cavalry to reinforce the Xianbei Bald Cavalry was blocked. The most critical point is that Le Jin and Shi Huan took advantage of the temporary chaos in the military camp of Mang Zhengji of the Southern Xiongnu to advance the main force of infantry to a distance from the military camp of Mang Zhengji of the Southern Xiongnu. Within two hundred steps; and formed a strict blocking formation combining spear formations with bow and arrow assistance.
The great deterrence and effectiveness of the iron cavalry lies in the swiftness and erratic movement of the iron cavalry, coupled with the strong impact after activation, it has absolute lethality. Le Jin and Shi Huan quickly advanced the infantry to within 200 steps of the Southern Xiongnu's garrison camp led by Mang Zhengji, which almost completely restricted the movements of the Southern Xiongnu cavalry, making it impossible for the Southern Xiongnu cavalry to move. Unable to start quickly and form a strong impact.
Similarly, the iron cavalry also has one of its biggest weaknesses, and that is ¡®the most taboo thing about the iron cavalry is turning their backs to the opponent while running¡¯! It is conceivable that after the iron cavalry started to speed up, it could not control the huge inertia formed by rushing forward. Once the cavalry retreats and is chased down by the tide, it will basically be difficult to reverse the decline! Therefore, even if the cavalry of the Southern Xiongnu Mang Zhengji wanted to withdraw from the camp, regroup, reorganize the army, turn around and fight back again, it would not be easy to do so if the Han army followed them and attacked. If the Southern Huns cavalry wants to completely adjust from the stalemate and use the strong impact of the cavalry, then everything may be over! Maybe all the Xianbei Baldness Department went to 'his grandma's house'?
At this time, due to a sudden sneak attack, the two thousand elite cavalry commanded by Hou Cheng and Song Xian, who had picked up a "big bargain" from Mang Zhengji of the Southern Xiongnu, achieved the initial goal of "disrupting the Southern Xiongnu" at the cost of a small loss. After Mang Zhengji's mission of garrisoning the army camp, he had retreated behind the slowly advancing infantry brigade.
Le Jin was in the middle, dispatching and commanding the main force of the infantry. He was now leading with layers of spear formations, assisted by dense rain of arrows, and shooting with heavy and neat steps that made the earth tremble. Slowly advance towards the garrison camp of the southern Xiongnu Mang Zhengji. Of course, Le Jin's purpose was not to "delusion" defeat or eliminate the nearly 30,000 cavalrymen under Mang Zhengji's command. His purpose was only to implement an oppressive advance, forcing the southern Huns cavalry to be unable to carry out conventional "large-area furious attacks". Just tactics. Therefore, the actual advancement speed of the infantry brigade commanded and dispatched by Le Jin was extremely slow, not much faster than a 'snail's crawl'!
Of course, Shi Huan's troops, which had easily completed the tasks of deploying defenses and coordinating the return of Hou Cheng and Song Xian's elite cavalry, were naturally completely integrated into the main infantry force at this time. I also drove my horse slowly forward and was at the front of the infantry brigade, commanding and adjusting the overall advance formation of the front army at any time.
After suffering an "unexpected disaster" from the cavalry led by Hou Cheng and Song Xian in the early stage, they then began to accept the "baptism" of the infantry's "rain of guns and arrows"; they tried their best to drive away the "chaotic" desperate efforts of the Southern Huns' cavalry. Mang Zhengji, who charged forward and wanted to break the siege and reverse the situation, found that because the cavalry brigade was unable to form an overall "joint force", the result of the attack was "repeated defeats".??, on the contrary, the Southern Xiongnu's cavalry suffered heavy losses and numerous casualties. The Southern Xiongnu's cavalry was suppressed by the "rain of guns and arrows" from the Han army's infantry phalanx, leaving them in a state of overcrowding and struggling; while the Han army's infantry brigade was in an overcrowded state. It was still rolling up slowly like a heavy chariot. Mang Zhengji was so angry that he flew into a rage and roared loudly. He kept killing the retreating cavalry to vent his inner anger.
In desperation, Mang Zhengji gritted his teeth and decided to adopt the stupid method of 'breaking off the wrists of a strong man'! Shouting desperately, Mang Zhengji directed the nearly 10,000 cavalry in the front to continue to charge forward under the leadership of senior and junior generals, while he ordered most of the chaotic cavalry in the rear to withdraw. Li Xu, after reorganizing the team and gathering, carry out a large-scale powerful attack. Since the nearly 10,000 cavalrymen at the front were too close to the Han infantry phalanx, they could not speed up their horses at all. They could only carry out scattered attacks and fights as if they were "resisting on the spot." This way. Mang Zhengji simply used the nearly 10,000 cavalry at the front as a 'bargain' to delay the advancement of the Han army's infantry phalanx, and bought as much time and space as possible for the next large group of cavalry to attack.
Although Mang Zhengji¡¯s method is a bit ¡®stupid¡¯, it does have a great effect! After nearly half of the Southern Huns' cavalry at the front was lost, Mang Zhengji drove the Southern Huns' cavalry who had completed their formation and started a group charge to charge forward. Theoretically speaking, the number of infantry that can barely withstand the impact of iron cavalry must be at least twice that of iron cavalry, and they must also be strong in combat power, at the cost of more than double the losses. Otherwise, even if there are tens of thousands of infantry against thousands of cavalry, if the military discipline is not strict and the combat power is strong, the cavalry will be hit by the cavalry.
With the adjustment of the Southern Xiongnu cavalry tactics, the Han and Hu armies officially entered a stage of brutal, stalemate, life-threatening, blood-splattered five-step brutal fighting. At this time, the generals of the Han army, except for Le Jin, the commander-in-chief, who was still commanding and arranging the overall situation from the rear, Shi Huan, Hou Cheng, and Song Xian also rushed to the forefront, desperately driving the infantry, trying their best to The relatively strict size of each small square formation was maintained to withstand the crazy attacks of the Southern Huns' cavalry
As time goes by, it is inevitable that corpses litter the fields and rivers of blood flow! This is what ancient wars were like. At the cost of fresh lives, flying heads, and spraying of blood, the cruel and miserable scenes often made the gods cry! Now, the final outcome of the battle depends on whether the cavalry led by Lu Bu can quickly and successfully defeat the Xianbei Bald Tribe! The duty of Le Jin's troops is actually to pave a road to victory for Lu Bu's troops at the cost of "filling" the lives of the soldiers