I seek economic hegemony in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 465 Head-on confrontation

Several rounds of light cavalry attacks were as powerful as thousands of horses galloping, with arrows raining down, but they failed to break through the Han army's formation.

More than an hour has passed.

At noon, the Wei cavalry stayed in the distance to rest.

Li Heng stood on the coach's podium, watching through a telescope.

He said to Lu Kang: "Send a message to Guanqiu Jian, order him to attack the left flank of the Wei army, break through the Wei army on the left flank, and take Xuzhou within a month!"

Lu Kang said: "General, the main force of the Wei army is very large. If we ask General Guanqiu to leave the main battlefield, I'm afraid..."

Before he finished speaking, Li Heng glanced at him and said calmly, "Sima Shi's main force is all in the middle. The armored cavalry over there has already started to move. The battlefield in the middle is the most tragic. Send the order!"

Lu Kang immediately said solemnly: "Yes!"

Dong Yun on the side couldn't help but ask: "Did they attack Xuzhou directly?"

"No, we are not going to attack Xuzhou directly. We are going to take Xuzhou, Yangzhou, and Yuzhou! We are going to make the horses drink from the Yellow River! We are going to attack Luoyang!"

Dong Yun only felt that the atmosphere suddenly became tense. Everything was fine in the morning, except that the Wei cavalry made intermittent harassment.

No matter how you look at it, this war looks like it can't be fought.

Why do we suddenly need to mobilize the main cavalry?
Is this going to decide the outcome?

"General, how many troops does Sima Shi have in the middle?"

"No less than fifty thousand elite soldiers."

Dong Yun stood on tiptoe and looked over. The Wei army formation in the distance stretched to infinity, with no end in sight.

This battle is not easy to fight!

"The Wei army has been harassing us with cavalry this morning. It seems that they don't intend to fight us head-on today. They may take the opportunity to mobilize troops to the left and attack Guanqiu Zhonggong!"

Dong Yun said suspiciously.

He looked a little nervous. After all, this was a situation that would determine life and death on the southeast battlefield.

If there is any mistake, all previous efforts will be wasted.

Ji Han's old ministers all had a deep understanding of this despair.

Back then, when Liu Bei became emperor, Shu Han controlled Jingzhou and Yizhou, and had a strong army and horses. It was able to compete with Cao Wei and Sun Wu, and was fully capable of competing for the world.

However, Guan Yu lost Jingzhou and Liu Bei suffered a disastrous defeat at Yiling, shocking the whole country.

From the peak to the fall, only a few years?
The gap between hope for reviving the Han Dynasty and despair was still deeply engraved in Dong Yun's mind.

If that man had not forcibly extended Ji Han's life for the next ten years, their dreams of leaving Shu County would have been shattered long ago.

Dong Yun took a few deep breaths, his palms sweating.

Was the Battle of Yangzhou the full revival of the Han Dynasty, or did all past efforts fail?
He is unsure!

But at this time, Li Heng's calm and powerful voice came to his ears: "Don't worry, Lord Dong. Sima Shi's main force is in the middle. He can't avoid fighting us! If we don't completely defeat this Wei army, the noble families in the Central Plains will think that they have the power to resist the king's army!"

Dong Yun's heart trembled and he turned to look at Li Heng.

"Only by destroying the military forces that the Central Plains families have assembled with their last strength can we return there and establish our own order. Trampling the blood and bones of countless people is a necessary price!"

Reaching a new consensus requires bloodshed!
As soon as Li Heng finished speaking, a scout came running over and shouted, "General, we have detected a large number of armored cavalry on the left and right wings of the Wei army!"

Li Heng looked over there through a telescope.

A few miles away, there was indeed a black mass flowing.

Look at the other side and the same thing happens.

"The harassment this morning was to consume our troops' physical strength." Li Heng said calmly, "Human physical strength is most easily lost between tension and relaxation."

Dong Yun understood instantly and asked in surprise: "Then... does the general have any plan?"

"no!"

"No?"

"Yes, not at all!"

"That……"

Li Heng said: "Let Wen Qin arrange the heavy cavalry to charge the Wei army's right wing, and the rest of the cavalry will act according to the situation!"

"promise!"

Dong Yun asked again: "General, the Wei army is now attacking our flank, do you have any countermeasures?"

"No!" Li Heng's answer was once again clear and neat, leaving Dong Yun at a loss.

“No…no?”

"No! This battle is very simple. The Wei army attacks us and we defend. We attack the Wei army and the Wei army defends. Let's see who is stronger!"

Gusts of summer breeze blew in from afar, sweeping up the mist from the rainy season.

A large number of Wei army cavalry spread out on the plain, and they surged forward like flowing water.

The horse's hooves stepped on the mud, making a clacking sound.

These Wei cavalrymen were dressed in heavy iron armor, and even their horses were covered in armor. They held long spears in their hands and wore bows around their waists.

Even when riding on a horse, you can see that their posture is upright and strong. From a distance, they look like moving iron towers.

These cavalrymen were transferred from the central military camp in Luoyang by Sima Shi. They were Cao Wei's most elite cavalrymen.

It was also evolved from the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry of that time and is a true ace force.

Their officers all met Sima Shi last night, so today, the Wei cavalry as a whole displayed an surging and passionate momentum.

There were three thousand such elite cavalry on the left wing alone.

Three thousand armored cavalrymen, spread out in a flat line, had no end in sight.

All that can be seen are the flags fluttering in the wind, the metal armor shining with cold light, and the herds of nimble war horses.

The left wing not only had 3,000 armored cavalry, but also 7,000 light cavalry, which had already been waiting there.

They cleared a large area for the armored cavalry and waited for orders from above.

Of course, Sima Shi not only deployed 10,000 cavalry on the left wing.

He also deployed 10,000 cavalry on the right wing, twenty miles away.

There were also 3,000 mounted cavalry and 7,000 light cavalry.

In the middle of the cavalry on both wings were the infantry ready for battle.

There really wasn't any tricks in this battle.

Both sides are on the plains and it is difficult to have a geographical advantage.

Both sides have sufficient military strength, so it is difficult to adopt the strategy of surrounding the enemy without attacking to tire them out.

Both sides brought out their ace cavalry, and scouts were deployed over dozens of miles in radius. It was difficult to make a long-distance roundabout attack by taking advantage of the information gap.

Both sides have already formed their battle arrays, and the main infantry of both sides have already deployed their troops.

This is also destined to be a war of attrition.

The heavy cavalry of the Wei army crossed the original position of the light cavalry and entered the left and right wings of the Han army.

They held long spears in their hands, had shields hanging from their waists, and even their horses were covered in iron armor.

From a distance, it looks like a huge black steel torrent.

The clouds in the sky were very low, and another rainstorm was about to come. The infantry on the left and right wings of the Han army were all ready for battle.

They stared at the cavalry group ahead that was becoming clearer and clearer.

In the humid air, the stench of horse and the smell of iron became stronger and stronger.

"Hold your ground and think about your family!"

The voice of the Han army officer rang out in front of the battle.

"Think about our children. If we retreat, the Wei bandits will march south, kill our families, kidnap our wives, and seize our fields!"

"Those are what we exchanged our lives for!"

"We must not retreat!"

The officer's voice floated in the wind, and the foreheads of the soldiers in heavy armor were already wet with cold sweat.

They took deep breaths.

The crossbowmen in the front row looked ahead and saw countless mud flying under the iron hooves.

At a certain moment, they saw the Wei army's heavy cavalry begin to accelerate.

At this moment, the world seemed to have fallen into an eerie silence, as if all sounds had disappeared.

All that was left was the ground beneath my feet beginning to tremble violently.

(End of this chapter)