Three thousand heavy cavalrymen and ten thousand light cavalrymen charging at each other. What a spectacular and shocking scene it was!
The viewers in the live stream watched everything from a bird's eye view, and this scene had the greatest impact on them.
Jiang Pengji seized the initiative. The people of the North borderline were passive in defense, but they soon displayed the qualities that a nomadic people should have. Their reaction quality was admirable. The Sixth Prince heaved a sigh of relief when he realized that Jiang Pengji's cavalrymen numbered no more than three thousand.
What was the use of three thousand cavalrymen charging into an army of more than a hundred thousand?
Moreover, these cavalrymen were all wearing heavy armor, and their horses were also covered in fish scale armor. How fast could they move?
The terrain of the Northern Frontier was relatively flat, and it had a natural advantage for the highly mobile light cavalry. This terrain also allowed the cavalry's roundabout tactics to be used to the greatest extent. In comparison, the speed of the heavy cavalry was a notch lower, and their marching speed was also slower.
The cavalry of the Northern Borderline was as fast as the wind, coming and going without a trace.
Even if they were robbed of the initiative, they would still be able to gain the upper hand by bypassing the front of the heavy cavalry and circling to the enemy's two weak flanks.
The North borderline knew about Jiang Pengji's plan in advance because of the spy who had pretended to surrender. They simply avoided the frontal attack and attacked the two weaker flanks.
Seeing that the battlefield was stabilized, the Sixth Prince immediately felt reassured.
The grassland was the world of the three tribes of the Northern borderline. It was also the home ground of the cavalry of the Northern borderline. If they fought head-on, Jiang Pengji and the others would return in defeat.
Fu Wang sneered, "Idiot —"
He couldn't take care of the entire battlefield, but when he learned that the Northern Borderline cavalry had avoided a head-on charge and turned to attack the "weak point", he knew that the Northern Borderline would suffer a great loss. It was true that three thousand ordinary cavalrymen charging into an army of a hundred thousand might not cause much of a stir, but this was heavy cavalry!
The spectators who were overlooking the entire battlefield were able to see it more directly.
[Glutinous Rice Ball Warrior]: Is the Northern Borderline too poor to form a cavalry unit?
Feng Ye You Ran Qu: "# picknose, isn't the Northern Borderline a poor countryside? Can't you see that their cavalry is basically made of rattan armor?"
The audience lived in an era of information explosion. If they wanted to know something, they could just search the internet.
Ever since they knew that Jiang Pengji was going to fight with the Northern Borderline, many viewers had looked up the relevant history.
Light cavalry had the advantages of light cavalry: speed and mobility. Heavy cavalry lost their advantage in speed, but their destructive power increased.
[Drunken Cloud Cat Demon]: The Northern Borderline is vast, and there is more room for light cavalry to survive. The cost of forming heavy cavalry is too high. Of course, they wouldn't choose heavy cavalry that would cost a lot of effort. It wasn't that they were ignorant, it was just that the Northern Borderline didn't have the soil for the development of heavy cavalry. They only remembered the speed of the light cavalry, but they did not know the cutting formation and destructive power of the heavy cavalry.
Guicai Guo Fengxiao: "Tsk, tsk … I feel sorry for the Northern Borderline. Letting the light cavalry make full use of their mobility to launch a sneak attack on the two flanks of the streamer's army is a good command, but they exposed their own army to the heavy cavalry's attack. To be honest, this is not the way to die."
Laosiji Lianmeng: "I remember that the warhorses that the host chose for the heavy cavalry camp are all heavy horses. They weigh between 700 to 1,200 kilograms and are taller than adult men." A warhorse weighed at least 700 kilograms, and an adult man weighed at least 70 kilograms. The armor, weapons, and miscellaneous items on his body weighed 30 kilograms. Think about it. More than 3,000 items weighing as much as 800 kilograms collided head-on. They didn't just move one or two, but more than 3,000 of them charged together. "
The Northern Borderline only cared about the small number of Jiang Pengji's cavalry and that they couldn't do anything. They forgot the terrifying destructive power of the heavy cavalry.
The cavalry of the Northern Borderline attacked one step slower than the enemy, but they took the initiative to fight with the two flanks of Jiang Pengji's army.
The left wing of the army was led by Li Yun. He had been waiting there for a long time.
The soldiers of the Horse Chopping Battalion were already in a battle formation. The spears that were specially prepared for the cavalry of the Northern Borderline had also been prepared. They were set up in rows.
The spears were two feet in diameter, with cross-shaped holes. They were checked vertically and horizontally. They were long and sharp at the end. Men and horses couldn't gallop.
This was a barrier used to stop the cavalry of the Northern Borderline from charging. The soldiers could also use it to form a horse formation to greatly limit the cavalry's charge.
"Raise your shields."
"First row! Stab. "
"First row, retreat. Second row, follow up."
Li Yun shouted. Immediately, specialized soldiers raised the correct battle flag and gave the command.
The cavalry of the Northern Borderline had a large number of people. Their reflexes were extremely fast. When the first batch of soldiers were pierced by the spears, the cavalry behind immediately circled around and attacked in a roundabout way. Li Yun commanded the soldiers to move the spears, exhausting the elite troops of the Northern Borderline as much as possible. When the line of defense was broken, the soldiers of the Horse Chopping Battalion put up their shields and formed a formation to resist the cavalry's charge. The soldiers behind then stabbed the enemy with their spears.
The cavalry of the Northern Borderline could not break the left wing's defense line in a short time. Instead, they suffered heavy losses.
Damn it.
Did this look like a weak defense?
In contrast, the battlefield on the right wing was different. The cavalry of the Northern Borderline acted as if there was no one there. They killed each other.
However, as they killed and killed, the Eighth Prince, who was commanding the battlefield on the right wing, realized that something was wrong.
Why were the enemies they were fighting with all the deep-faced barbarians of the Northern Borderline?
He immediately thought of the tribes that had pretended to surrender to Jiang Pengji. He was shocked.
However, there was no time for him to think in a place like the battlefield.
The cavalry of the Northern Borderline reacted too quickly. When the Eighth Prince realized that something was wrong, the troops of the Northern Borderline who had pretended to surrender to the right wing's frontline were mostly dead. She deliberately relaxed the right wing's defense line. Wasn't it to let the Northern Borderline shoot themselves in the foot?
Scheming against her?
When she, Jiang Pengji, dominated the interstellar battlefield, the fathers of these young boys were still little tadpoles!
"All troops, listen to my command …"
When Jiang Pengji saw that it was about time, the real bugle horn sounded. In an instant, it aroused the soldiers' fighting spirit.
At the same time, more than 3,000 heavy cavalry had already rushed into the army of the Northern Borderline.
To make a vivid analogy …
The heavy cavalry were bandits who entered the village. The Northern Borderline were the little girls in the village. Each of them was naked, without a single piece of clothing, and they looked shy.
Although this analogy was a little inappropriate, for the Northern Borderline, they had indeed suffered inhumane ravages.
It was difficult for one or two heavy cavalry to cause large-scale destruction, but what about 3,000 people moving together?
They trampled violently and cruelly ravaged along the way.
Like a huge chopper, they easily stabbed into the fat and tender pork and tore a big hole in an instant.
Regarding the heavy cavalry battalion that Jiang Pengji had invested a lot of money to build, the generals were perturbed and the strategists frowned.
Before this, there were heavy cavalry, but the scale was very small. It was difficult for them to achieve great things.
Firstly, there were technical limitations. The iron-making technology was not mature.
Secondly, there were financial limitations. The cost of making armor was too high.
In the eyes of the strategists and the generals, the heavy cavalry were not soldiers. They were a moving mountain of gold and silver.
They had no idea how powerful the heavy cavalry was.
Seeing the destructive power of the heavy cavalry from afar, Feng Zhen directly inhaled a breath of cold air and said, "Golden words."
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