When the distance between the Hu Cavalry and Han Cavalry closed to less than a hundred paces, both sides naturally nocked their arrows, but the difference lay in that the Han Cavalry, supported by stirrups and saddles, had more accuracy, while the Hu Cavalry relied purely on instinct.
In the world, any cavalry capable of mounted archery and making a na for themselves were all elite cavalry. Just look at the ferocious Xiliang Iron Cavalry, who hardly had any friends and couldn’t handle such high-difficulty moves!
An arrow storm burst forth, causing several Hu Cavalry to imdiately fall off their horses. However, whether it was the Han Cavalry led by Wei Yan or Guan Ping, they easily deflected most of the stray arrows thanks to being liberated by stirrups and saddles. Although they couldn’t completely dodge due to the sheer and unimaginable number, not many fell from their horses.
"Han Dynasty’s elite cavalry." Qiu Linbei smirked coldly, observing the cavalry of about two thousand, acknowledging as an enemy the combat capability of the Han Dynasty that these two thousand could certainly eliminate more than fifteen thousand Hu people before being annihilated.
"Only such people are worthy of fighting us," Chouhun said arrogantly, "Miscellaneous Hun, hmph!"
Huyan Chu glanced at those talking arrogantly, his eyes clearly revealing a trace of dread. Just this ordinary relief troop had such quality; the Han Dynasty was stronger than during the Tianshan Battle decades ago.
After a wave of arrow rain led by Wei Yan and Guan Ping, they suddenly spurred their horses, charging out directly. Cloud Qi from both sides had already entangled, and they could clearly see the other side’s facial hair and features.
Almost in the next mont, Wei Yan and Guan Ping whirled their weapons and charged into the army of miscellaneous Hun. The instant their great swords collided with the Hu Vanguard, they burst forth with trendous force, crossing horses, splitting the Hu Vanguard evenly in two.
Neither Wei Yan nor Guan Ping turned their heads; they only burst forth with even greater speed and montum, slashing towards the front, with the Command Banner of the left and right wings in front.
"Two worthless fools!" Qiu Linbei cursed coldly upon seeing this scene.
Wei Yan and Guan Ping naturally couldn’t hear Qiu Linbei’s words. After slaying the vanguard of the left and right wings, they had already collided head-on with the over ten thousand troops of the miscellaneous Hun on both wings. Instantly, blades danced, and blood splattered in all directions.
The fierce offensive, coordinated with the Han Army’s frenzied assault, imdiately suppressed the miscellaneous Hun at the mont of collision with only a tenth of their force.
The miscellaneous Hun surged like a wild tide, but the Han Cavalry broke through the waves like a flying boat, never pausing, advancing triumphantly straight towards the Command Banner.
With a violent shout from Wei Yan, the Flag Guard Officer along with the left wing’s Command Banner was chopped down by Wei Yan, and the right wing’s Command Banner was broken monts later as well.
The morale of the miscellaneous Hun on the left and right wings noticeably dropped, but amidst this vast tide-like offensive, Wei Yan and Guan Ping piercing through the left and right wings didn’t lead to any effective result against the Hu people’s offensive.
For a massive army numbering in the tens of thousands, killing over a thousand doesn’t affect the formation changes. In such a grand-scale battle, only two ways can end the war.
One is to rely on overwhelming strength to crush the opponent head-on, and the other is to let their morale collapse, naturally leading to disintegration. But for Zang Ba, who only has six thousand regular troops, neither of these is possible.
After Wei Yan and Guan Ping slashed through the vanguard of the left and right wings, cut down the Command Banner, and bloodily pierced through the Hu Cavalry, they suddenly found that the Hu army surge was still as before, rolling forward unchanged.
As for the passage they had fought hard to pierce through just now, it had already disappeared into the formation of the miscellaneous Hun. If not for the blood dripping from the blade, Wei Yan might doubt that anything had happened before.
The mont they discovered this phenonon, Wei Yan and Guan Ping abruptly pulled their horses around, turning their heads toward the direction of the charge. They indeed succeeded in penetrating the enemy’s two wings, but in strategic terms, it was completely ineffective, instead causing Zang Ba to be trapped in the boundless montum of the miscellaneous Hun army.
"They found out," Huyan Chu raised an eyebrow, a bit lanting when he saw Wei Yan and Guan Ping turning around. "But the Central Army shouldn’t hope to get out."
The combat power of the miscellaneous Hun was indeed terrible; compared to the Han Cavalry, calling it a marshmallow versus a toothpick might sound exaggerated, but it’s not entirely inaccurate.
Being cavalry as well, Han Cavalry piercing through Hu Cavalry happened from ti to ti, and Huyan Chu’s arrangent was set up for such a situation from the beginning.
Cavalry have long legs and high combat power, indeed allowing for breakouts, but if your cavalry break out and can’t shatter the formation of the miscellaneous Hun, isn’t this essentially dividing forces, weakening oneself?
Thus, in Huyan Chu’s arrangent, he chose enough numbers for the Hu Cavalry on the left and right wings. Enough that even if Wei Yan and Guan Ping broke through, killing a thousand more wouldn’t change the Hu Cavalry’s situation. In this way, the Han troops that broke out on the left and right were left outside, while the Central Army was tightly surrounded in the center of tens of thousands of troops.
As for the Han troops trying to break in, the Hu Cavalry previously charged by the Han Cavalry had surrounded behind them, and the sides beca the Central Army of the miscellaneous Hun. Hm, the strongest troops among the miscellaneous Hun, though still not rallying compared to the Han Army, definitely wouldn’t allow a breach like before. What’s guarding the sides now are valiant generals with Inner Qi Manifestation.
"Ding!" Wei Yan swung his blade down, and the previously unstoppable offensive was unexpectedly blocked at this mont. He couldn’t help but glance at his opponent, his expression growing more serious.
"Man, today your death is certain!" the opponent said to Wei Yan in awkward and harsh Mandarin.
Wei Yan did not speak much, knowing he couldn’t linger, imdiately accumulating power wildly, launching fierce attacks at the opponent, forcing him back in ten moves, and then spurred his horse toward the front diagonally, not wanting to be stopped again.
At this mont, Wei Yan’s complexion turned dark red. Taking a deep breath, it seed impossible to fight through without resolving these two guys, but they were both Inner Qi Manifestation...
With a roar, Wei Yan brandished his great sword, drawing both of them into the battle circle, [What is there to fear of the miscellaneous Hun’s Inner Qi Manifestation; today shall decide their slaughter!]
Guan Ping felt the imnse force transmitted from the great sword, the cold light in his eyes intensified, Inner Qi Manifestation military generals.
"You will die here," said the opposing Inner Qi Manifestation general, holding a chain spear, coldly looking at Guan Ping.
Guan Ping pursed his lips, disdaining to converse, his expression at this mont resembling Guan Yu’s extrely, but Guan Ping was completely unconscious of it.
Perhaps sensing Guan Ping’s disdain, the opposite person’s face turned even colder, shaking the chain spear, mixing Hard Force and Soft Force to stab Guan Ping.
Tightening the Green Dragon Saber in his hand, for so reason, Guan Ping felt not a trace of fear at this mont. The opponent seed so weak, why not give it their all?
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