Chapter 205: Friendly Army Becomes Enemy Army

"Report!"

A scout from the front galloped over and reported: "Zhizhong, the enemy is found ahead."

Cheng Qiu frowned: "How many enemy troops are there, and who is the leader?"

The scout sent back: "The number of enemy troops should be around 10,000. There is a word 'Yan' written on the handsome flag, but I don't know who it is."

"Yan?" Cheng Qiu muttered something, but a look of doubt flashed in his eyes.

"I heard that Han Sui's son-in-law is named Yan Xing. Could it be that this person led the army? I heard that this person is quite brave." Huang Yan, the prefect of Jiuquan, replied.

"Yan Xing?" Cheng Qiu frowned, and said to the detective: "Go and investigate again."

The scout ran away, and Cheng Qiu said to Huang Yan: "Guardian Huang, you lead the army as a flank. Later, the enemy army will come slowly. A certain leader leads the army to fight, and the governor Huang leads the army to attack the enemy, how about it?"

Huang Yan nodded: "Let everything be decided by Cheng Zhizhong."

"Well, that's it." Cheng Qiu nodded, and then grabbed the rein with both hands, watching the front carefully, waiting for the arrival of the big battle at any time, and must not be trusted by the governor.

There was gunpowder smoke in the distance, and the sound of rumbling horseshoes came continuously, and a black line appeared at the junction of heaven and earth, and then the black line became thicker and thicker, and finally showed its prototype.

Tread Tread!

Tens of thousands of cavalry moved like a mountain, covering the earth in darkness, and countless war horses joined together, like a giant beast galloping slowly on the ground, opening its bloody mouth, trying to tear the world apart. Everything in between was swallowed in his mouth.

A black Yan character general flag stood upright in the center of the army formation, waving in the wind. Under the flag, the general wearing a black helmet and armor, galloping against the wind is Yan Xing.

Yan Xing took a look and saw the yellow general flag next to Cheng's general flag, and couldn't help but smile knowingly.

"Speed ​​up, speed up, crush the enemy!"

Yan Xing roared, and pointed the spear in his hand at a large flag with the word Cheng in the middle. Nearly ten thousand cavalry roared behind him, galloping like a stream, and charged towards the enemy on the opposite side.

This army is composed of all ten thousand cavalry. Even if the northwest is a land of horses, it is not easy to gather more than ten thousand cavalry. Han Sui's nearly one hundred thousand army is only thirty thousand cavalry, and the remaining seventy thousand are all infantry, and he specially allocated 10,000 cavalry to his son-in-law.

In contrast, although the Liangzhou coalition army on the opposite side has 15,000 people, it is half more than Yan Xingjun, but the cavalry of the two armies combined is only 7,000, and the remaining 8,000 are infantry. .

Among Cheng Qiu's 5,000 soldiers, there were 3,000 cavalry and 2,000 infantry. Seeing thousands of cavalry galloping from the opposite side, Cheng Qiu hurriedly put the infantry behind the cavalry and put the cavalry in front.

Liangzhou horses run rampant all over the world. Xiliang iron cavalry has been brave and good at fighting since ancient times. Compared with them, infantry are inevitably vulnerable.

"assault!"

Cheng Qiu also ordered 3,000 cavalry to launch an assault. After all, cavalry relies on impact. Most of the cavalry in this era are light cavalry. In the Battle of Jieqiao, Gongsun Zan's White Horse Yicong is an example.

Three thousand cavalry charged forward, Yan Xing's ten thousand cavalry and three thousand cavalry were getting closer and closer, Yan Xing couldn't help but let out a roar.

"kill!"

boom!

The two armies collided head-on, and Yan Xing was the first to charge into the formation. The cavalry from both sides charged head-on, brandishing the long and narrow sabers in their hands, and slashed at each other's chest.

Not only the cavalry on horseback were fighting each other, but even the war horses kicked from time to time. When they saw someone who was not pleasing to the eye, they immediately opened their mouths and bit them.

However, the number of Yan Xing's army is relatively large, and there are even fierce generals like Yan Xing who personally lead the army, so Cheng Qiu's three thousand cavalry can be said to be retreating steadily.

Yan Xing swept the spear left and right, and with one thrust, he knocked off a cavalry soldier. He had already picked off seven or eight Liangzhou soldiers on the way to charge alone.

Although the 3,000 cavalry quickly fell into decline, these were all expected, after all, the enemy's army was more than three times that of our own.

Although Cheng Qiu is in the middle of the country, but he has lived in the frontier fortress for a long time, he is quite skilled in military affairs. Although Yan Xing led the cavalry to forcibly break through the block of 3,000 cavalry, but as long as the defenders of Jiuquan County intercepted from the side in time, the 2,000 infantry would be able to attack from the front. Going forward will cause the two armies to fall into a melee and have a chance to win.

Because once the cavalry fell into chaos, they lost their impact and mobility. Cavalry without these two advantages may not necessarily be stronger than infantry.

But Cheng Qiu glanced at Huang Yan's troops on the right side in confusion, why didn't they attack at this time?

"Wave the flag, notify Huang County Sheriff, and send troops immediately!"

Cheng Qiu gave the order, and the flag bearers frantically waved the flag from side to side, signaling to the friendly forces on the other side to cooperate in the fight, but Huang Yan remained standing still, as if he couldn't see the waving flag.

Just when Cheng Qiu couldn't bear it anymore and was about to send scouts to report directly to Huang Yan, the Jiuquan County defenders finally moved slowly.

Seeing five thousand cavalry galloping out like a bolt of lightning tearing through the clouds, Cheng Qiu couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

As the five thousand cavalry charged closer and closer, Cheng Qiu suddenly felt something was wrong. The cavalry of Jiuquan County didn't charge into Yan Xing's cavalry formation head-on, how could they be getting closer and closer to their own two thousand infantry formation.

The remaining 2,000 pawns didn't think too much about it. After all, how could the friendly army charge directly towards him?

But as the distance got closer and closer, Cheng Qiu couldn't help it anymore, and shouted loudly: "Array! Form a dense array, sword shield hand erect shield, hurry up!"

The two thousand infantry were stunned, but most of them did not listen to Cheng Qiu's words. Only a small number of soldiers with strong vigilance put up their shields and stood ready.

And just when the formation of two thousand infantry was scattered, the five thousand defenders rushed straight up, like a huge palm pushed flat, and slapped fiercely on the army formation.

boom!

It was just an impact, and the formation of the two thousand pawns was immediately smashed, while the two thousand pawns who were hit head-on were immediately stunned.

Aren't we allies? Why didn't they attack the rebels, instead they killed us?

Under the domination of the unknown thought of the enemy and ourselves, when the 5,000 cavalry entered the formation head-on, the 2,000 infantry did not even raise their swords to resist, and directly collapsed.

"Don't be chaotic, get closer to someone, and form a resistance."

Although Cheng Qiu tried his best to shout, there were only more than 500 soldiers gathered around him. Most of the infantry were scattered by the cavalry and fled directly to the other side. After all, a brave man would definitely not be able to stop him. Crowds of cavalry charged into battle.