Chapter 336: Overlord Jingqi Kaifeng battle begins
Chapter 336 Overlord’s elite cavalry begins the battle in Kaifeng
Chapter 335: Overlord’s elite cavalry starts fighting in Kaifeng
“Ding dong, Dian Wei’s skill ‘Flying Halberd’ is activated. During the throwing of the halberd, Dian Wei’s force instantly increases by 6, and Dian Wei’s current force increases to 118.”
Ran Min, who was pursuing with all his strength, was really startled by the sudden oncoming "cold arrow" and broke out in a cold sweat.
After dodging narrowly, Dian Wei threw his second flying halberd again.
This time it was really unavoidable, so Ran Min had no choice but to raise his spear and knock it away with all his strength.
"Ding…"
This spear knocked the flying halberd away with incomparable accuracy, but the huge force also made Ran Min's arm numb slightly.
Dian Wei Xu Ding took this opportunity to get into the crowd, and of course when Ran Min recovered, the two of them had already run away. Ran Min had no choice but to join the large army and massacre the small soldiers to vent his anger.
Yue Xi and Li Jin saw that the situation was not good and escaped in time. Although Qin Yong and other generals wanted to stop them, it was obviously not the best time now.
Now is the best time to completely defeat the enemy. The main purpose of everything is to win this battle, so naturally the pursuit is given up.
Xiang Yan gave the order to retreat, but a swarm of retreating troops was not his original intention. However, he had also ordered the cavalry troops to break up the rear during the retreat.
Although the Yellow Turban Cavalry team was also greatly affected, they did not flee. However, it was not enough to stop the Yanmen Cavalry.
After the two armies fought again, the Yellow Turban cavalry was defeated at the first touch. However, the Han army did not continue to massacre the infantry, but turned its attention to the Yellow Turban cavalry.
Qin Hao naturally had his own considerations for doing this.
The huge base of the crowd makes it no shortage of troops at all. As long as the grain and grass can afford it, the yellow scarf can even recruit another million infantry.
But cavalry is different from infantry.
The Yellow Turbans failed to capture Youzhou, so they had no source of war horses. After plundering the entire land of Guandong, they only collected 40,000 to 50,000 low-quality war horses, and all of them were used to form cavalry.
The 40,000 to 50,000 cavalrymen of the Yellow Turbans are more valuable than the 400,000 elites. If one of them dies, one will be missing, and if they are all used up, they will be gone.
In order to consume the important combat power of the Yellow Turbans, Qin Hao naturally wanted to catch the Yellow Turban cavalry and beat them up.
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After retreating to the main camp, Xiang Yan quickly mobilized the remaining 10,000 cavalry in the camp to prepare to defeat the Yanmen cavalry.
But Xiang Yan was disappointed that Qin Hao, who had taken advantage of him, did not continue to fight with him. Instead, he slaughtered the Yellow Turban cavalry in front and decisively led his troops back to the pass.
Yellow Turban camp, Zhangjiao tent.
Zhang Jiao also knew that Xiang Yan was not to blame for the defeat of this battle. Who would have thought that a counterfeit could actually cause a huge defeat.
After comforting Xiang Yan, Zhang Jiao immediately ordered the execution of a dozen officers who took the lead in escaping. They were the main culprits of the defeat.
“The last general was incompetent and failed to kill the Han general, and stopped Zhao Zilong in time, allowing him to kill General Xiang Yu’s stand-in, causing the entire army to collapse.”
Dian Wei took the initiative to kneel down to apologize, and then Xu Dingyuexi and Li Jin also knelt down to apologize.
“Get up, there are many talented people in the Han army, and you have done your best.”
Zhang Jiao will naturally not be too harsh on these four favorite generals.
After a brief moment of relief, Zhang Jiao asked the people on his left and right: "How many troops did our army lose this time?"
"Marshal Xiang ordered the cavalry to cut off the rear, which minimized the losses of our army's defeat, but the cavalry suffered heavy losses. In this defeat, our cavalry suffered a total of 6,000 cavalry injuries, and the infantry suffered 9,500 casualties. ." "so much."
Zhang Jiao's expression darkened, and he asked again: "What about the casualties of the Han army?"
“I’m afraid there are less than a thousand people.”
Yellow Turbans' 50,000 siege troops, 40,000 infantry and 10,000 cavalry VS 5,000 Yanmen cavalry, actually suffered 15,500 casualties, while the Yanmen Army's losses were less than 1,000.
With a probability of casualties of 1:15.5, this can no longer be described as a big defeat, it is simply a disastrous defeat.
"Through this battle, I discovered that our cavalry is far behind the Han army in terms of horses, equipment, training, riding skills, and fighting skills. What's the use of having more cavalry like this?"
Zhang Jiao was obviously extremely disappointed with the performance of the cavalry, so he spoke very seriously. Upon hearing this, the cavalry generals all stood up to apologize.
Seeing this, Fang La stood up and said slowly: "Master, in terms of cavalry, our army is indeed far behind the Han army. After all, this cannot be made up for in a short time. But according to my disciple's observation, our army is far behind." There are still elite cavalry among the cavalry that are comparable to those of the Yanmen Army.”
“Are you talking about Ziji’s ‘Overlord Cavalry’?”
“That’s right.”
The "Bawang Cavalry" is a cavalry under Xiang Yu. Although there are only 5,000 people in total, it is an ace unit created by the elites of the 50,000 Yellow Turban Cavalry. It has the best sources of soldiers, the most handsome horses and the most sophisticated The battle armor of the Yellow Turban is the most powerful in combat.
“After all, the Overlord Cavalry only has 5,000 people. It is impossible to defeat the elite border troops of the Han army, but it is enough to deal with the ordinary Han army.”
Zhang Jiao looked to the north and sighed: "In this battle, Zi Ji brought the 'Bawangqi' with him. I hope this good sword can be used on the edge."
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Hulao Pass.
After a great battle, Qin Hao also received the fruits of his victory.
“Ding dong, a total of 15,500 Yellow Turbans were killed in this battle, and I suffered 500 casualties. I was rewarded with 15,000 war points, which have been exchanged for 150 summoning points for the host. Currently, the host has a total of 750 summoning points.”
The Yellow Turbans thought that the Han army lost a thousand people, but in fact the Yanmen army only lost 500 people in this battle.
Five thousand versus fifty thousand, killing fifteen thousand enemies and only losing five hundred. This number is obviously extremely abnormal.
But if you think about it carefully, it’s completely normal.
Qin Hao used Po Jun as the vanguard, and four thousand fine cavalry rushed behind to kill, thus avoiding as many people as possible to fight the Yellow Turbans head-on.
The cavalry rushed back and forth to fight the Yellow Turbans, and only the Pojun camp could be fought. How could the Yellow Turbans block the Pojun's iron hoofs?
Of course, the victory of the Yanmen Army was not easy. After this battle, basically everyone was exhausted and most of them were injured. If they continued to fight, they would definitely suffer heavy casualties.
The intensity of the subsequent battle in Kaifeng was definitely not inferior to this one, and the current state of the 4,500 cavalry including the Po Army Camp clearly meant that they could not participate.
The next day, news came from Xuanyuan Pass that Lu Bu led his army to rescue Xuanyuan Pass in time.
As Liu Ji expected, Lü Bu led 20,000 cavalry out of the pass to engage in a decisive battle with the Yellow Turbans, but the Yellow Turbans avoided fighting. While retreating towards Kaifeng, they mobilized their troops to eat Lü Bu's 20,000 cavalry in one bite.
After receiving the news, Qin Hao also prepared his army and horses, ready to lead the army to Kaifeng at any time.
On the fourth day, the war in Kaifeng was about to begin, and Qin Hao also led 25,000 Yanmen cavalry and headed straight for Kaifeng in the southeast.
This chapter is to make up for yesterday’s chapter. There will be another update today, which of course may be late.
(End of this chapter)