Lu Bu: My wife comes from two thousand years later
Chapter 488: Chariot Charge
Since the war with Yanzhou, Zhang Liao has been in charge of the battle on the eastern front, and Xiahou Dun is also responsible for the defense of the east. The two have fought many times. However, because Xiahou Dun is cautious and steady, no matter how Zhang Liao deceives him, the other party will not leave the city to fight.
During the first three months, Zhang Liao's troops were unable to achieve a major breakthrough until Puyang was captured and Cao's army intended to shrink the front line, and he was able to capture Jibei, Lu and other places.
So since the war began, Zhang Liao has always been holding a grudge in his heart, a urge to confront Xiahou Dun head-on. Today, whether it was intentional or fate, it happened that Zhang Liao was facing Xiahou Dun's troops. Lu Bu and his wife had just worried about Qu Yi, and now they couldn't help but worry about Zhang Liao.
"General Qu has already cut through the enemy cavalry!"
Wang Yi, who had been paying attention to the battle on the left, reminded.
Everyone looked in the direction of the sound and saw that the 10,000 cavalrymen led by Qu Yi himself were like a sharp arrow, piercing through the middle of Cao's cavalry, leaving a bright red trail of blood on the battlefield. The Cao army, which had suffered heavy casualties, did not confront the Tang army again after gathering its troops, but turned to harass the part of the troops that Qu Yi had left behind to assist Gao Shun.
After breaking through the cavalry formation, Qu Yi saw the chariot formation in front of him and realized that something was wrong. He ordered the team in front to turn around. However, just as the order was about to be conveyed, he stood on horseback and looked into the distance, only to find that the enemy's chariot formation was distributed in a semicircle. His own cavalry was now in the middle of the semicircle. No matter which side they turned, their speed would be slowed down by the chariot formation.
He looked back again and saw that although the large infantry formation on the right rear had been breached in several ways, it did not collapse. What frightened him even more was that the enemy's large infantry formation was actually broken in the middle at this time. The back half of the rear formation became the front formation and was moving towards his rear. The shields and crossbows in the formation were shining brightly in the sun.
Qu Yi couldn't help but recall the scene of attacking Gongsun Zan outside the city of Yingtao. At that time, the infantry he led cooperated with Zhang Liao's cavalry to kill thousands of Gongsun Zan's cavalry in one breath. At that time, he also changed the rear formation to the front formation and trapped the enemy with the help of the terrain.
Today's terrain is a large flat land that is completely beneficial to cavalry, but the enemy has used chariots as high ground and hills.
If the cavalry loses speed, they are basically waiting to die. If they turn around at this time, most of them will be left behind by the enemy. The remaining people will not be able to break through the infantry formation behind them and will be wiped out.
Therefore, in a desperate situation, Qu Yi immediately made a life-threatening decision, which was to continue to attack the chariot formation. Even if he could not penetrate the enemy, at least he could kill more enemy soldiers and avoid being shot to death by the enemy without any resistance. But if he managed to penetrate the chariot formation by chance, the archers behind him would be like naked women, and he could only do whatever he wanted.
It was quite stupid for the light cavalry to charge the chariot formation, but Qu Yi had no other choice.
Qu Yi did not order a turn around, so the knights in the front could only charge forward under the rain of arrows. Although they were terrified, they had no choice but to charge forward at this time.
During the previous confrontation, because Cao's army deliberately avoided, the Tang army's horse speed did not slow down at all, and they still maintained the speed of charging. At this time, if the people in the front suddenly stopped, it would cause the knights behind to swarm and pile up, and they would still be dead under the enemy's dense rain of arrows.
Furthermore, if you disobey military orders on the battlefield, your death will be in vain and your family will not receive any assistance.
"Boom~~"
The moment the two armies collided, there was a thunderous roar on the battlefield. The knights on horseback flew far away and fell heavily to the ground, bleeding from all seven orifices and dying immediately. The soldiers on the chariots were also knocked flying, and horses and horses, or horses and cows, all let out shrill neighs.
A near-mutual loss? Seeing this, hope returned to Qu Yi, who had previously felt hopeless. He took a closer look and realized that the enemy, perhaps short of horses, had only one or two horses pulling each chariot, with some even using oxen. Furthermore, the enemy was stationary, so the force of the rapid impact from the enemy's ramming had caused considerable damage.
Dense rain of arrows continued to fall, and most of the soldiers were shot off their horses before they could break into the chariot formation. The injured war horses still rushed forward like crazy, following the horses in front.
"Boom-boom-boom-"
Amidst wave after wave of collisions, the chariot formation in the middle had been scattered, but the Tang army also paid a huge price in casualties.
"I didn't expect that this fellow Qu Yi would be so willing to use cavalry to ram our carriage!"
Cao Cao, who was watching the battle from the rear, looked grave when he saw this situation. If the enemy was allowed to break through the chariot formation, as long as there were only a few hundred cavalry left, they would rush into the team of archers and cause large-scale casualties to Cao's army.
"Quickly dispatch two thousand cavalry from the right flank, ready to attack the Tang army if they break through the formation. Whoever captures Qu Yi's head will be rewarded with a thousand gold and be granted the title of Marquis of Ten Thousand Households!"
Cao Cao gave orders loudly, and a determined smile appeared on his originally heavy face. Not long after the battle started, he had trapped 10,000 Tang cavalrymen. If he could kill another military district commander, it would greatly boost the morale of his own side which had been oppressed for a long time, and the chances of winning this battle would increase a little more.
At the same time, when Lu Bu on the stage saw that Qu Yi actually chose to ram the chariot formation, he immediately sent a thousand Flying Bear soldiers to go around to the north and prepare to meet Qu Yi who was about to break out.
On the battlefield, Qu Yi was paying attention to the progress of breaking the formation in front, while also keeping an eye on the movements of Cao's army nearby. Seeing a group of cavalry on the left bypassing the chariot formation and heading to the rear, he immediately understood what the other party wanted to do. Could it be that he, Qu Junyi, would die here today?
During his 18 years of military career, he has been on the verge of death several times. Death is not scary, but he does not want to die.
"Charge, charge forward!"
Soldiers rushed forward recklessly, and the thin chariot formation of Cao's army was finally broken. However, only more than a thousand of the ten thousand cavalrymen were left.
When these people rushed through the chaotic formation filled with corpses under the rain of arrows, nearly half of them were left behind.
This was also due to the Tang army's sturdy armor, otherwise these knights would have been killed or injured before the chariot formation was broken.
Once he passed the chariot formation, Qu Yi changed his previous idea of slaughtering the enemy's archers and simply passed through the bows and crossbows, running quickly along the south side of the battlefield. Two thousand cavalrymen of Cao's army were chasing him closely behind.
It's a matter of course. Some time ago, the Tang army had been chasing and killing the Cao army, but today the situation is reversed.
At this time, there were only more than 500 cavalrymen left with Qu Yi. He did not dare to engage in battle with Cao's army. He just kept riding his horse to escape. However, his horses, which had experienced two battles on the battlefield, were no longer strong enough. In the pursuit of Cao's fresh forces, his mounts kept falling down. Even the soldier holding the military flag was shot off his horse by an arrow because his horse lagged behind.
Qu Yi looked back and saw that Cao's army was about to catch up with him, but he turned around without hesitation, bent his bow on horseback, and shot down the Cao soldier who was rushing in the front. Then he turned his horse around, rushed over, bent down and picked up the military flag that had fallen on the ground.
In just this moment of turning around, Cao's army had caught up, and the remaining 300-odd Tang soldiers were surrounded. Qu Yi used the flagpole as a weapon, stabbing left and right. However, no matter how hard he tried to break out, facing an enemy force that was dozens of times his size, it was all in vain, and the soldiers around him fell one after another.
Just when he was in despair, he saw a cavalry galloping from a distance. It was the Flying Bear Army of King Tang. However, at this moment, two long spears stabbed at him from behind. The spear heads did not stab his back, but stabbed his armpits from the left and right. Then the two men worked together to throw him off his horse.
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