Overlord!

On the battlefield in late autumn, strong winds raged, the sky and the earth changed color, and the sand and dust billowed, just like the birth of a yellow dragon. The cavalry of the Zhao army from Yuanju City galloped forward, and the neighing of thousands of horses shook the surrounding areas, as if they wanted to trample everything in their way into dust.

Faced with this moving scene, Gan Ning, in red robe and black armor, stands in the strong wind, with a figure as tall and straight as a pine tree and a fierce look in his eyes. He clenched his long arm tightly, and his arm muscles were tense, as if they were made of iron, standing in front of the entire army.

"Soldiers, follow me to defeat the enemy and show off the prestige of our country!" Gan Ning shouted loudly, his voice shaking the sky. After saying that, he spurred his horse on his hip and took the lead in attacking when the enemy was astonished. Like black lightning streaking across the sky, he led the elite soldiers of more than ten riders behind him to charge towards the enemy's formation.

The battlefield was extremely vast, and the charging of more than ten men from Gan Ning's army immediately aroused the anger of the Zhao generals.

The commander of the Hu cavalry was the right-hand Xiluo chief of the Shanyu of the Southern Xiongnu. He was known for his fierceness and cruelty. When he saw more than ten men under Gan Ning's command, he dared to charge into the formation and immediately shouted: "Charge forward and chop the enemy troops into pieces." !”

The next moment, iron hooves galloped, and thousands of barbarians rode up, each armed with bows, arrows, scimitars, and bones, and roared crazily towards Gan Ning.

Gan Ning took the lead, with excellent archery skills. He shot three arrows in a row. Three Hu riders fell down immediately. One of them was a small chief of the Xiluo tribe. He wanted to take advantage of the chaos in the Central Plains to plunder the Central Plains. , but before he could drink from the Yangtze River, he was shot through the chest and died on the battlefield!

This is cavalry shooting in the midst of galloping!

Under normal circumstances, one hundred arrows would not hit one. A hundred arrows were thrown by a centurion. It was not easy for the cavalry to kill three people in a queue of twos and threes.

But now Gan Ning killed three Hu cavalry with three arrows, which immediately shocked the Huns!

So superstitious Hu Qi dismounted his horse and knelt on the ground in shock, thinking that the god was here.

Although there were many Hu cavalry, they were overwhelmed by Gan Ning's anger at this moment, and their formation was thrown into chaos.

Gan Ning didn't know what happened to Hu Qi, but he would not miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. He immediately waved his long spear and rode his horse into the enemy's formation. Every blow was accompanied by the enemy's screams and fall to the ground. sound. His movement is like wind and lightning, rushing left and right, invincible.

More than ten cavalrymen also fought bravely to take the lead and fought to the death with the enemy soldiers. The light and shadow of swords intertwined, and flesh and blood flew everywhere. For a time, iron hooves flew on the battlefield, and the sound of the collision between the long spear and the iron cavalry was endless.

However, Gan Ning was challenging him with his light cavalry at this moment. Even though he was extremely brave, he was still outnumbered and trapped in a tight siege, fearful on both sides.

Gan Ning then ordered his personal guards to stand by his side. He shot from the left and right, but all of them fell down. Even though there were many horsemen, it was difficult to pull out more than ten horses at once.

So the chief of the Xiluo tribe, the chief of the Xiluo tribe, roared angrily and led the warriors of the tribe to attack Gan Ning's troops head-on.

The sudden cavalry attack was the most powerful military confrontation in this era. Two powerful forces collided in the air and sparks flew everywhere.

When Gan Ning saw this, he also put away his bow and arrows, raised his horse and stepped forward. His movements were sharp and fierce, and the enemy general was caught off guard and was stabbed by Gan Ning, causing blood to spurt out. He stared at Gan Ning with wide eyes and disbelief, and then fell off the horse heavily.

Hu Qi are not known for their bravery. In most cases, the Hu people are not as heroic and brave as Zhu Xia.

Especially Gan Ning's side were all heavily armored cavalry wearing black armor. In a head-on conflict, the Hu people's Zhajia was no match at all. Their horses clashed, and one after another the Hu people were severely wounded.

Since ancient times, the elite heavy cavalry of the Central Plains Xuanjia have been the nemesis of the Hulu in the grassland. When the Central Plains can organize a large number of cavalry for the Northern Expedition, the grassland usually has only one ending, and that is to be defeated and flee.

The same is true for Hu Qi at the moment. The Hu cavalry had already been robbed of their energy by Gan Ning's three arrows, and now they saw their leader fell from his horse. Their morale was suddenly greatly reduced and their formation was in chaos.

Gan Ning took the opportunity and led more than ten cavalry to launch a fierce charge. Breaking into the rebellious army, the enemies dispersed wherever they went.

Gan Ning even captured Yan Xin, the enemy's cavalry governor, alive.

When Quan Cong saw that Gan Ning had caused chaos in the opponent's Hu Qi formation, he immediately shouted: "March with drums, defeat the enemy and kill the thieves today!"

The five thousand disciples immediately launched a fierce attack on the enemy with all their strength. The vast army formation was like a mountain, and Hu Qi, who was already in chaos, had no time to reorganize his formation and immediately retreated.

Hu Qi's idea is very simple. A cavalry battle is inherently a battle of bravery. Since the cavalry array is scattered, no matter how many people there are, it is difficult to encircle the enemy. Therefore, even if the enemy is extremely brave, his side retreats slightly and reorganizes in the rear. That’s it.

If you can't fight for a hundred rounds, what is a horse army?

The cavalry is a turn-based battle, advancing and retreating, retreating and coming back again and again.

They are not infantry and need to defend the battle line.

If the cavalry loses its mobility, is it still called cavalry? It's more like calling him a stupid pig waiting to be slaughtered.

But they forgot that this was not a vast, flat and endless pasture on the grassland, where they could advance and retreat hundreds of miles to reunite and fight.

At present, the battlefield is only a dozen miles away. The battlefield is crowded with infantry and arrow formations at the rear. They retreat carelessly. Even General Yuan Jun has no time to quickly arrange a passage for them to evacuate.

The key is, Yuan Jun was up and down, no one expected that the other party would only challenge the light cavalry, but let a large number of their own cavalry retreat back!

At this time, the drum sound is still thunderous!

It’s Yuan Jun’s war drums that are thundering!

Amid the sound of war drums, there is progress but no retreat!

The Huns' unauthorized withdrawal plunged Yuan's soldiers into confusion and fear.

Among them, fear had the absolute upper hand. Ordinary soldiers could not see what the battle situation was like. They could only see the thunderous beating of their own drums. Just when they were about to fight to the death, a large number of friendly troops were defeated and returned.

This made them think that the army had been defeated by the enemy. Many soldiers who were originally ambitious and wanted to defeat the Song army were now discouraged and their formations became loose.

The general of Yuan Army's expedition to the south was Jiang Yiqu, a close confidant of Yuan Shao. During the previous battle with Cao Cao, Jiang Yiqu was entrusted by Yuan Shao to station troops in Liyang and support the entire army.

Yuan Shao is fully prepared. If he loses the battle with Cao Cao, he will be taken over by the soldiers of Jiang Yiqu camp. He, Yuan Shang, Jushu and others will go directly to Jiang Yiqu camp.

This is a general that Yuan Shao can trust with his life and his head!

Therefore, Yuan Shao overstepped his authority and established a puppet dynasty, directly promoting Jiang Yiqu to the rank of General of the Southern Conquest.

Even if Shen was assigned to control the Seventh Army with Chijie, he would not be able to control the military power and harm Yuan Shao. It is precisely because among the 130,000 troops on the front line, there are several generals like Jiang Yiqu who are loyal to Yuan Shao.

It's just that Yuan Shao employs people similar to Liu Yao. He likes to employ famous people. Although Jiang Yiqu is trusted, his talents are not much better than those of Cui Juye, Song Jinsheng and others. Even if they are slightly stronger, they are not much better.

He has a heavy responsibility and has also read some art of war. However, because he is not a warrior, he lacks a bit of courage and is unable to intimidate these proud and powerful generals under his command.

In particular, there were a large number of Hu bows and powerful horses in Yuan's army, and the Hu wind spread. These Hu chiefs and generals believed that they had contributed to the Zhao family and were always rude to the Zhao family's civil and military forces.

Jiang Yiqu usually couldn't suppress them, but on the battlefield, the consequences finally appeared.

These barbarians retreated without waiting for military orders. It caused chaos in the army!

Seeing this, Jiang Yiqu no longer ignored Yuan Shao's previous decree to treat Hu Yi kindly, and directly issued an order: "Order the crossbowmen to shoot all thieves! Anyone who dares to retreat will be killed without mercy!"

Don't use the perspective of future generations to measure the values ​​​​of current scholar-bureaucrats.

In the eyes of current Confucians, is Hu Yi considered a human being?

They are not the same species as the nobles of the Central Plains!

They just look similar. They are just a group of beasts that look like humans. To sum up in the original words of the scholar-officials: Those people are barbarians and lowly people, and cannot be treated with benevolence and righteousness, nor should they be punished with common courtesy.

So I can still be a little kind to him at ordinary times, but when the critical moment comes, he will kill the school without hesitation.

Following Jiang Yiqu's order, random arrows were fired from the front of the military formation, and a large number of horsemen fell down in response.

Hu Qi, who was rushing into the military formation, immediately became more frightened, and Yuan Jun's slightly loosened formation became stable again.

It can also be seen at this time that Zhao Jun may have some problems and shortcomings, but as elite soldiers, the three armies are definitely well-trained and follow orders and prohibitions.

At this time, Gan Ning had also arrived with his army. He lightly rode Zhao Jun's Hu cavalry, and the effect was already apparent. Zhao Jun had to stabilize their position to avoid being overrun by Hu cavalry, which put them on the defensive.

Being on the defensive is very deadly to an army!

Because the best defense is always offense.

The mobile team is to ensure that we can form a local advantage on the vast battlefield. Inflexible defense will only lead to defeat by a large enemy force. In war, mobility is the key to victory. Strategic maneuvering is an important means to grasp the overall situation and determine victory or defeat.

Zhao Jun, who was on the defensive, was unable to take advantage of its superiority in numbers, and was even attacked by Gan Ning's troops with wave after wave of frenzied attacks, making them almost breathless.

This was indeed related to the fact that Yuan's army was on the defensive as a whole, but it was also due to Gan Ning's bravery and determination. All his men moved forward bravely and fought for the lead without sparing any effort.

This made the Zhao army commander Jiang Yiqu greatly misjudge the size of the Song army, thinking that with such huge pressure, the Song army would number at least tens of thousands.

It is definitely not difficult for Gan Ning to have an elite force of 5,000 people and exert the momentum of tens of thousands of people.

What's more, he also had reinforcements from Lu Meng. In fact, there were indeed tens of thousands of Song troops participating in the battle.

Jiang Yiqu has not launched a counterattack for a long time, but Quan Cong has already lit the beacon smoke.

Soon Lu Meng personally led the cavalry to the battlefield. He took the lead and was a little surprised when he saw the current situation.

He thought that on the battlefield, both sides would be relatively anxious and suffer heavy casualties. Then he would take advantage of the situation and attack the enemy internally and externally with the infantry, thus defeating the enemy.

But now, the situation on the battlefield is one-sided. Song soldiers are everywhere shouting wildly and fighting fiercely, and the armies are fighting hard. The generals and commanders of all ministries raised their arms and shouted, urging the soldiers to march forward in all directions.

Yuan Jun was in a posture of strong resistance, and seemed to be in a tense situation. The front line had become loose, and it was somewhat unable to withstand the fierce attack of Gan Ning's troops.

Lu Meng was a little confused as to why Jiang Yiqu, who had been deployed for seven miles in front and back, did not decisively launch his formation and launch a counterattack, destroying more than 5,000 men under Gan Ning's command in one fell swoop.

I don't know why Gan Ning's command was slightly different from his own deployment. How could he dare to launch an all-out attack alone?

But now it was indeed the Song Army's fighter plane. He rode ahead and shouted: "Soldiers, follow me, Yun Che, to sweep in and crush the enemy in one fell swoop!"

"Ho~~~"

"Wan Sheng!"

"Wan Sheng!"

"Wan Sheng!"

Thousands of elite dragon and bird cavalry roared and launched an all-out attack. Tens of thousands of iron hooves trampled on them, and the ground shook in an instant!

The officers and soldiers of the Zhao army looked to the east in horror. Countless elite cavalrymen in red robes and black armor illuminated the sky and the earth, majestic the mountains and rivers, and pushed forward from all over the mountains and plains!

Its momentum swept across like a cloud, and the heaven and earth were eclipsed by it. The exquisite armor and the cold sharp blade enveloped everything.

At this time, one's own cavalry should immediately greet them, buying time for the infantry to adjust their arrangement.

However, Hu Qi just collapsed, and the various departments were separated, and there was no way to get together and resume the fight.

General Zhao Jun could only watch in despair as countless elite cavalry crashed into the flanks of the phalanx, unable to adjust in time.

In an instant, the sky collapsed and the earth shattered, and countless soldiers, halberds, and flags were destroyed.

The iron cavalry leveled all the square formations that had hundreds of steps in one wave, but before one wave was leveled, the next wave came again.

The Zhao army's formation collapsed. The red square formation of Zhupaoxuanjia visible to the naked eye crushed the khaki Zhao army's formation.

The Song Army's cavalry are unstoppable!

Zhang Fei, Huang Zhong, Han Dang and other fierce generals led dozens of cavalry to advance forward, killing all the way through the enemy formation, and suddenly reached behind Zhao Jun's display.

Zhang Fei was injured and coughed up blood, but he still shouted excitedly: "Quick! Quick! Raise my flag! The red flag is flying, the stars are sweeping, it will definitely frighten the enemy!"

Killing an array of tens of thousands of people, no one in General Zhao's army can stop him. At this moment, he is an absolute enemy of ten thousand people, a tiger and wolf general.

Of the more than forty elite dead soldiers behind him, only about twenty were left at this moment.

But as long as you survive, you will be a hero, and your future will be limitless.

Everyone unfurled their flags with high spirits, more than twenty riders dispersed, and soon more than twenty flags were flying continuously behind the Zhao army.

On the battlefield in autumn, the sky was filled with yellow sand, and more than twenty red flags were flying at this moment. The Zhao army, which was already at a disadvantage, was even more morale broken at this moment. Countless soldiers thought that a large number of enemy cavalry also appeared in the rear.

After all, it is easier for people to accept the fact that the enemy has reinforcements than a large formation with dozens of people killing tens of thousands of people appears behind the formation.

If the enemy really penetrated the array, it would be even more terrifying for Zhao Jun.

But no matter what, when the Zhao army saw a large number of Song army flags appearing in the rear, the morale of the army inevitably collapsed.

The Song army fought hard both inside and outside. From morning to noon, the thieves began to retreat. Lu Meng sent troops to take advantage of it, captured and killed thousands of people, threw them into the valley, and killed many people.

So the army entered the camp city. Jiang Yiqu was defeated in the first battle and did not dare to come back. However, Yingcheng defended itself, waiting for Yuan Shao's reinforcements.

Messengers asking for help arrived in Yecheng several times a day, like snowflakes.

Lu Meng once again used his unparalleled generals to win the first battle, defeating the Zhao army and attracting the world's attention to the Yanzhou Yuanju area. (End of chapter)