Three Kingdoms

  Chapter 221 Zhongfu

  Li Min laughed loudly, pointed his long sword at the soldiers who were panicking on the other side of Yingshui, and said, "This is an ambush? There is no repelling horses, and no arrows and crossbows. What's the use of straightening long spears and short knives?"

The main reason is that Li Min has already captured a batch of war horses from Dong Zhuo's army. This kind of sweetness that he has already tasted makes him a little bit unable to stop. Although some of them are damaged, there are still seventy or eighty horses available for them to recuperate. Drive, if you can take back the more than one hundred horses that are resting behind the infantry formation in front of you, you can form nearly a thousand cavalry by yourself...

  Scattered cavalry can be one to two or three at most, but cavalry in formation can be one to five or even higher. In the Han Dynasty, the greater the number of cavalry, the stronger the combat effectiveness of the army. There was almost a difference between the combat effectiveness of hundreds of cavalry and thousands of cavalry.

Looking at the tired knights who got off their horses one by one, and observing that there were no archers in the infantry battle formation that came to meet the enemy, they only needed to cross the river and defeat these five or six hundred people. Those who were already exhausted The cavalry became the thing in the urn...

  Thinking of this, the itchy Li Min ordered his soldiers to cross the river in pursuit.

Although there are only five or six hundred people lined up on the other side, this is not comparable to the pursuit battle. In the pursuit battle, as long as the chased party runs fast and does not fall behind or be surrounded and caught, there will be no life Dangerous, and as long as the chasing party does not stumble, the risk is even smaller...

  But it's completely different when the battle ends. Going out in battle means a narrow escape, which is true for both sides.

   Regardless of whether it has an advantage or not, under the knife and gun, even the dominant side may not be able to ensure that there will be no casualties. Under the conditions of lack of medical treatment and medicine in the Han Dynasty, even a small wound may lose life due to infection complications.

Although the people on Li Min's side think that they will always win in the end, before that, some of the soldiers who took the lead in the battle must fall by the banks of the Yingshui, dyeing the river red, and the fruits of victory will be different from those of others. missed.

  Their significance is to use their own flesh and blood to tear apart the formation of the opponent, and the sooner they defeat or eliminate the opponent, the more hope that their own side will have to survive.

Li Min was not so stupid as to directly order his few cavalry to cross the river and charge directly. Instead, he ordered the infantry who came one after another to form a phalanx, and asked his archers to advance to the river first to prevent his soldiers from being injured in the process of crossing the river. Seeing the opponent's approaching attack, and then ordering the formed infantry to cross the river and seize the territory on the other side of the river...

  Maybe it was timidity, maybe it was impossible to fight without archers, maybe it was some other reason, although the five or six hundred Dong Zhuo's soldiers lined up far away were a little riotous, they didn't step forward to stop Li Min's army from crossing the river.

  Li Min's infantry quickly crossed the waist-high river, and against the fierce cold wind, they spread out to make room for the follow-up troops.

Then the soldiers of the second team crossed the river. Dong Zhuo's army seemed to have the intention of attacking. They approached a dozen steps forward, but stopped again. Curved and twisted, very ugly...

Seeing this, Li Min pointed to Dong Zhuo's soldiers who were not yet fully formed and said to Zhang An: "If you see it, it has lost its shape. If you hit it, you will be defeated!" Then he ordered the follow-up cavalry and soldiers. The archers crossed the river together.

  The cold wind is fierce, although the river is not deep, but after getting wet and being blown by the wind, I feel a little chill.

  Li Min also knew this, so without further ado, he directly ordered the soldiers in the front line to fight forward, and let the 800 cavalry under him divide into left and right and extend to the side and front to outflank...

The battle drum was rumbling, Li Min's swordsman in the front row would put the big shield in his hand on the ground every five steps, and after a breath, he raised the big shield again and continued to advance. The sound made the earth seem to tremble.

   Dong Zhuo’s army seems to have fallen into despair. Originally, its strength was not superior, and then it was about to fall into the situation of being attacked by many times the number of troops. Moreover, it seemed that it would be surrounded and suppressed from three sides, and the formation became more and more scattered...

When the distance between the two sides was getting closer and closer to about a hundred paces, Dong Zhuo's army shouted in unison, and they scattered with a bang, turned around and ran away, and those cavalrymen who were originally hiding behind the infantry were also scrambling around. Get on the horse and flee together...

   Li Min originally had all the soldiers in the front line ready to fight, but when Dong Zhuo's soldiers did this, he was taken aback for a moment, and then couldn't help but burst out laughing.

   This time, even Zhang An, who has always been cautious, was a little dumbfounded, and now the blade battle has turned into a pursuit battle...

The subsequent evolution naturally became that a small group of Dong Zhuo's troops fled in front of the mountain, while Li Min's soldiers bit their tails and chased them. Looted baby.

This time, Li Min's cavalry gained more than the cavalry chasing Dong Zhuo before. They stared at a lagging Dong Zhuo soldier, rode forward and cut him down, and then they could dismount and hang his head on the horse's neck as if no one else was around. Go up, and go to the next target...

And those infantrymen could only watch with jealousy, striding forward with two legs, hoping to get something before they retreated, even the armor, weapons, banners and so on that Dong Zhuobing discarded all the way. They are all chasing and picking up.

Li Min followed the Chinese army and was also rushing forward. Just after turning around a small hill, he heard a rumbling drum, followed by a majestic shout, and suddenly set up a banner beside him, writing "Zhong Lang general Xu".

Xu Rong immediately stood under the banner, looking at Li Min's army who had been out of touch due to the pursuit, waved his hand expressionlessly, and heard what seemed to be thousands of hornets vibrating their wings at the same time, and the sky was raining arrows It was projected towards the position of the Chinese army where Li Min was.

   Then a row of Xiliang cavalry emerged from behind the small hill, brandishing their sabers, galloping down their horses, slashing left and right, splitting the Chinese army, which had just suffered the blow of arrow rain, into two sections...

Li Min shouted anxiously, ordering his soldiers to form an formation to meet the enemy, but only some soldiers around him heard his order, and reluctantly gathered together, tremblingly raised their weapons to the outside , and the other soldiers who were far away from the central army are now in a mess, how can they hear what he is shouting...

   Please raise your hand if you read the word Min as (text)!

   Well, let’s add a joke, so that no one will keep repeating...

   Cao Cao admired Sun Quan very much, and once said: "If you have a son, you should be like Sun Zhongmou, just my children, bah!" So his son was named Cao Pi.

   Sun Quan never forgot Zhuge Liang, so his son was named Sun Liang.

   Liu Bei has always been obsessed with Diao Chan, whom he met back then, so his son was named Liu Chan.

   Well, the above is all nonsense...

  (end of this chapter)