Chapter 587 Lv Bu Qilin Guard
W supravaged soldiers rushed into the flanks of the Youyan cavalry like they cut through the waves. Ten thousand elite infantry quickly followed and expanded their results. However, under the dispatch of Tian Yu, the central army of the Youyan cavalry gradually calmed down from the panic surrounding. They gradually formed a formation, surrounded Yan Gang and Tian Yu, who had retreated to the central army, and chose the Yan Xing Tiger and Leopard Cavalry in the north as the breakthrough point, and went to the north with all their hearts to kill the generals.
Even though Yan Xing's Tiger and Leopard Cavalry was brave, there were only two thousand horses. Once the more than 10,000 calm Youyan Cavalry pressed all the attack points on the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry, the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry lost three or four hundred people in an instant. Once the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry took on the task of blocking the enemy, they lost their speed advantage. They were also sent by Tian Yu, who was in charge, to divide and surround the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry, and three were surrounded by one and annihilated them. The Tiger and Leopard Cavalry gradually fell at a disadvantage. It is estimated that in a while, the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry would be defeated by more than 10,000 Youyan Cavalry.
Lu Bu originally thought that his 40,000 troops surrounded Yan Gang and more than 20,000 remaining soldiers, and then he would charge forward, and these Youyan cavalry would surrender. Unexpectedly, these Yan Zhao men were so bloody, and more than 10,000 people had been killed in battle. The rest were still fighting desperately. Moreover, among these Youyan cavalry, a deputy general who was good at using troops, decisively gave up his wings and only attacked Lu Bu's weakest Tiger and Leopard Cavalry. As long as the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry was defeated, these Youyan cavalry could break out of the encirclement and rush back to Yecheng to join their lord.
Lu Bu decided to use his trump card. He waved the Fang Tian Hua Ji, instigated the Red Rabbit Horse, and led the four thousand cavalry behind him. He rushed in to the front of the Youyan cavalry.
The four thousand cavalry armored and war robes behind Lu Bu are like Lu Bu, and they also hold a black halberd. They ride on a red war horse, like four thousand reduced versions of Lu Bu. When the red horse runs like flying, they look like red fire dragons. Lu Bu originally wanted to name his direct special cavalry Fire Dragon Cavalry, but because he is still a minister, he cannot covet it. Later, he learned that the Qilin is better than the tiger and no less than the dragon among the divine beasts, and is also a divine beast representing kindness and auspiciousness. He can bring peace to the world, so he changed his name to the Qilin Cavalry, and later he felt that the mouth was twisted. He was also renamed Qilin Guard.
The four thousand Qilin Guards represent the highest combat power of the Central Army. They are all brave and good at fighting veterans who have followed Lu Bu for three years of war. They shouted together with Lu Bu, and the sound of horses galloping in unison, just like a mountain collapse and a crack in the earth.
Yan Gang and Tian Yu looked at each other, and in front of them, the four thousand Qilin Guards rushed into the Youyan Cavalry formation like the broken Yellow River. The long halberds in the hands of these four thousand Qilin Guards were covered with blood, and a sea of blood was rolled up.
The flank of the front that Lu Bu chose was a point where the Youyan cavalry was relatively weak. Lu Bu's four thousand Qilin guards were arranged in a cone formation, which was the sharpest awl of the Central Army, and directly stabbed the Youyan cavalry formation.
Lu Bu sat upright on the Red Rabbit Horse, and Fang Tian Painted Gauld danced in the air like a blue dragon. Wherever he went, there were broken limbs and broken flesh and blood mist. There was never a single enemy. Even the famous Youyan general Yan Gang and Tian Yu dared not stop Lu Bu's edge.
Lu Bu was like a god of war in the Central Army. Under his powerful aura, each Qilin Guard elite cavalry exerted its strongest combat power. The four thousand Qilin Guards were not just four thousand elite cavalry, but four thousand Lu Bus. Four thousand Lu Bus swept across the country, and there was still that army in the world who dared to resist.
Lu Bu led the four thousand Qilin Guards like a bloody hurricane, and the strong wind swept the fallen leaves, rushing the Youyan cavalry, which had already been arranged in an orderly military formation, and it was a mess.
Guo Jia led the rear army. Seeing that Lu Bu's Qilin Guard had already come out, he quickly locked in the victory and issued the final order. Generals Cao Xing, Wu Anguo, Pan Feng, and Jiang Yiqu led the cavalry under his command and rushed towards the Youyan Cavalry who had been broken by Qilin Guard.
Yan Gang led the 30,000 Youyan cavalry from Yecheng to Huangze Lake, running for more than 80 miles, but it was already scarce. He confronted Lu Peng's three thousand crossbowmen for a while, and then passed through the tiger, leopard cavalry, serpentines, and Qilin Guards, which exhausted their strength. Many Youyan cavalry's horses could not run at all. Many Youyan cavalry's arms were numb and could no longer raise their spears. On the other hand, the cavalry and infantry of the Central Army were all new forces who had been resting for a long time. The quality of horse harnesses and weapons was much better, and a one-sided battle situation was quickly formed.
In this battle, the point that was ignored by Gongsun Zan but valued by Lu Bu was that the war horses of the two sides were very different.
The war horses rode by ordinary cavalry commanded by generals such as Cao Xing, Wu'anguo, Pan Feng, Jiang Yiqu were all short and like donkeys. They were called Northern Huns in this era. After a thousand years, they became famous Mongolian horses. Although the Mongolian horse was short and slow in sprinting, it had strong endurance and was very suitable for long-distance raids. A thousand years later, the Mongolian cavalry swept the Eurasian continent, half relying on Genghis Khan's unique tactical ideas and half relying on Mongolian horses.
In Lu Bu's Central Army, the war horses of special forces such as Qilin Guards, Tiger and Leopard Cavalry, and Euphorbia do not seem to be Mongolian horses, but in fact they are also hybrids of Mongolian horses and Western horses such as Dayuan horses. They absorb their respective advantages and look more perfect. In fact, in terms of long-distance raids and hardworking, pure-bred Northern Hun horses are better. Therefore, Lu Bu eliminated all kinds of interference and insisted on his own initiative to use Hun horses as mounts. In order to eliminate the big ones, Lu Bu eliminated all kinds of interference and insisted that ordinary cavalry under his command use Hun horses as mounts.
The family's concerns also held several long-distance horse racing in the army, from the northernmost end of Jizhou to the southernmost end of the army. The tall and strong Dayuan horse that the soldiers liked the most were far ahead at the beginning. After more than a hundred miles, it gradually slowed down. The Hun horse chased after it calmly. In the subsequent schedule, the Hun horses left the Dayuan horses far behind. After the entire schedule, the Hun horses were safe and sound, while the Dayuan horses were completely ran away and were abandoned. They could only kill the cooking horses.
The greater advantage of Mongolian horses is its vitality and endurance and adaptability to harsh environments. Mongolian horses have very low food requirements and rarely get sick. War conditions are very harsh. Food and clothing are often impossible to guarantee. People and war horses are extremely tired during continuous combat. In this case, horses are sick, but Mongolian horses can stay healthy under the harshest conditions. They are almost sick and have strong immunity. They are fine to throw it outside in winter, and they rarely have rotten hearts. They run on any road, gravel roads, or dirt roads. As long as they are not fallen, they rarely have legs swollen. As the saying goes, a horse made of copper mules, iron and donkeys. In Lu Bu's opinion, Mongolian horses are the only horses that are not made of paper. This is something other horse breeds cannot do. With this, Mongolian horses surpass other horse breeds.
Moreover, Mongolian horses can eat the coarseest horse materials, which is very easy to feed. Any kind of forage can be crushed and it can gain weight when eaten. It doesn’t matter whether it needs essential ingredients. Even if the mare is left with horse milk under the worst conditions, it can support its owner, which is something other horse breeds do not have.
On the other hand, the mounts of the Youyan cavalry are mostly tall and beautiful thoroughbred horses. They are tall and fast, but they are not resistant to long journeys and are also very coquettish and lose weight at any time. Gongsun Zan became famous because of his handsome appearance and was the son-in-law of Zhuo County. Therefore, Gongsun Zan attaches great importance to the appearance of war horses. The white horse he made looks very majestic, but his actual combat ability is not optimistic. The war horses riding by Gongsun Zan's Youyan cavalry are all tall and big horses, mostly with thoroughbred horses such as Dayuan horses. These horses run fast, but not long-lasting. Generally, they will vomit white smoke when they run thirty or forty miles, and pant when they run 70 or eighty miles. If they run again, there is a possibility of running away.
Relying on a powerful team of engineers, Lu Bu quickly built a floating bridge in the Yellow River and completed a feat that Gongsun Zan could not imagine. Lu Bu's army quickly crossed the Yellow River and sent Lu Peng to take three thousand crossbowmen to pretend to be suspicious in Huangze Lake. Lu Bu led other people and horses to ride Mongolian horses and Mongolian mixed-blooded horses around the main road and quietly ambushed the Heishan jungle more than ten miles away from Huangze Lake. Because the Heishan mountains are covered with dark charcoal and jungle covering the sky and the sun, even if Tian Yu had a thousand-mile mirror in his hand, he could not detect the existence of Lu Bu's team of troops from the Heishan jungle.
When Yan Gang led 30,000 Youyan cavalry to Huangze Lake, the Central Army had been waiting at the foot of Heishan Mountain for a long time, and had already accumulated energy for a long time, and had just waited for the Youyan cavalry to launch a fierce attack when they were tired.
The Youyan cavalry camp, which Lu Bu's Qilin Guard, finally formed, was in a turmoil. Cao Xing and other Central Army generals led more than 10,000 ordinary cavalry to launch a second wave of attacks. The already exhausted Youyan cavalry seemed to have become the last straw, and the defeat was about to be out of control.
Seeing this, Tian Yu was furious. Seeing Yan Gang's personal soldiers rushing northwards wholeheartedly regardless of the overall situation, Tian Yu had to personally lead the elite soldiers under his command to rush up against the Qilin Guard.
Tian Yu has always claimed to be a Confucian general, and he is the most unwilling to be a general who disregards the overall situation. He does not want to charge himself, but now the situation is imminent, so he has to take action himself, because in this case, he must snipe the source of the attack of the Central Army, use Gang to defeat Gang, stare at it, and fight Lu Bu's arrogance without taking any life and death to ensure the safety of other Youyan cavalry.
Tian Yu waved his long sword, and the light of the sword slashed down like lightning, slashing a Qilin Guard in front of him into both ends. Blood splattered on the red horse, making the mane of the red horse even more red. The Qilin Guards around him were all red. They rushed back and forth among the Youyan Cavalry just now, and the comrades had never died so tragically. The Qilin Guards shouted angrily and surrounded Tian Yu.
Although Tian Yu's martial arts are good, the Qilin Guards under Lu Bu are all elite soldiers selected from one hundred. Under Lu Bu's careful training, their military strength is at least seventy points. More than a dozen Qilin Guards surrounded Tian Yu in the middle. Tian Yu, whose military strength has just passed 80 o'clock, could not resist it, and was about to die under the Qilin Guard's long halberd. To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations. Monthly votes, and your support is my greatest motivation.m
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