"Sir, the cavalry of Richard's army and behind us are catching up. Should we stop and form a formation to fight the enemy?"

After receiving the report, Zhaowu Dizhe coldly glanced at the smoke and dust raised by the pursuers behind the team and ordered: "Send all the fangs to cover the infantry brigade, and the infantry brigade will be transformed into a quadratic array to continue advancing. If the enemy approaches, immediately drive them away with a bow and crossbow.

We cannot stop, otherwise the main force of the enemy infantry will follow us soon. If those cavalry dare to rush to our infantry array, let them know how powerful we are!"

After a simple adjustment, although Zhaowu Dizhe's horse speed slowed down, he still kept moving forward. Hundreds of fang soldiers holding bows were patrolling around the infantry formation. As long as Richard's elite cavalry dared to approach, they would be shot by arrows immediately!

The crossbows used by these Tang army field troops are all high-quality hard bows, and the arrows are also armor-piercing arrows specially used by Tang army field troops. They can completely penetrate light iron armor within a hundred steps!

On the other hand, although the elite cavalry of the border army are cavalry, they are not archers and cavalry, they cannot get close to the marching infantry brigade, unless they form a storm-route to kill them!

A small number of elite cavalry of the border army could not attack and delay the infantry brigade, because the hundreds of fangs would expel them vigorously.

Therefore, there is only one way to leave the enemy behind in front of 3,500 elite cavalry of the border army - strong attack!

That's exactly what they did!

The elite cavalry of the border army will not be discounted for Richard's military orders.

Without the officer's order, they quickly formed cavalry shock waves and divided into three directions, killing the Tang army field troops led by Zhaowu Dizhe at the same time!

After seeing this scene, Zhaowu Dizhe had to order the army to stop and form a formation to defend on the spot. He did not expect that these thousands of cavalry would really dare to charge against his infantry formation!

"Where did that Richard find so many cavalrymen who are not afraid of death?"

Zhaowu Dizhe muttered gloomy.

The cavalry on the opposite side has an advantage in numbers. If he is really determined to attack, his troops will probably be wiped out!

However, Zhaowu Dizhe had no choice. He could not throw away the last essence of the Shi Guofu, which had more than 2,000 people...

If he did that, even if he fled back to Shi Guo Mansion, he would not be able to resist Richard's military attack...

The most important thing is that Zhaowu Dizhe knew very well that once he ran away, the remaining infantry on his side would collapse immediately and descend in the wind!

Racha would rather stop and fight the chasing cavalry who had already started charging, what if he wins?

Hundreds of horse-controlled horse-driving fangs saw the elite cavalry of the border army charging forward. Because there were few people, they could only use their speed advantage to avoid it, giving up the infantry array in the rear.

The iron-armored cavalry on the opposite side looked completely professional assault cavalry, so the tooth soldier who cherished his life naturally did not want to take it.

After they fled to the outer circle, the elite cavalry of the border army with spears suddenly plunged into the square formation of the infantry of the Tang army field troops under Zhaowu Dizhe from three directions!

The spears of infantry and the cavalry of the elite cavalry of the border army pierced into the other party's bodies almost at the same time. Both sides were like a large car accident scene. The bodies of infantry flew one after another, and the galloping war horses and the cavalry above fell one by one!

In later generations, many people believed that cavalry charge against infantry formations on the battlefield of cold weapons was an impossible thing to win, but it was not.

In the era when firearms were not popular, except for siege battles, cavalry were completely the kings in field battles.

The reason why cavalry does not attack the formation of spear infantry formation is not because they cannot win, but because the war loss ratio is too much!

The cavalry attacks the infantry phalanx head-on, and the casualties ratio generally does not exceed one to one. This is obviously very unfair to the cavalry side. How much does it cost to train a qualified cavalry, and how much does it cost to train a spearman?

Therefore, even with the same number of people, professional impact cavalry can often destroy the elite infantry phalanx, but there are still not many generals doing that. It’s a pity!

However, Richard's cavalry was exchanged for fortune coins, and the price was the same as that of fourth-level infantry, so the cost was naturally infinitely closer to that of infantry.

What's more, because the maintenance costs of cavalry are too high, these 3,500 cavalry are naturally very convenient to use, but Richard's current territory cannot afford to provide maintenance on weekdays!

The cost of supporting a strong man is not comparable to the cost of supporting a strong war horse!

The reason why there are few cavalry in the Western Regions is closely related to the inability to raise horses here and the high maintenance costs.

Now Richard is a poor and down-to-earth grassroots class. If he has maintained thousands of cavalry teams, it will be a huge challenge to his logistics and finances.

Therefore, as long as the goal of strategic victory can be achieved and the sacrifice of these cavalry is valuable, Richard is completely unwilling to care. Anyway, these cavalry will not play any major role in the subsequent siege battle...

The elite cavalry of the border army attacked and smashed the infantry array in a round of attacks. The infantry was already fewer than the elite cavalry of the border army. In addition, the elite cavalry of the border army was brave and fearless, and the front line was soon destroyed!

However, these former Tang army field troops did not lose their reputation. They actually relied on their infantry bodies to fight one-to-one casualties with the brave and fearless frontier cavalry!

Just when the infantry array was about to hold on, hundreds of fangs rushed over from the flanks, trying to consume the elite cavalry of the border with their cavalry.

These fang soldiers had observed the powerful impact of the border elite cavalry throughout the whole process, but they didn't want to hedge against these young men...

However, how could the elite cavalry of the border army allow themselves to be consumed by the cavalry bow of the tooth soldier?

Soon, the elite cavalry of the border troops who did not charge rushed towards the teeth and surrounded them from all directions!

The number of elite cavalry in the border army is too great, so it is naturally impossible to throw them all in when charging. The infantry phalanx is so large that so many cavalry can't even move them away!

The speed of the war horses of the fangs did not have an advantage compared with the elite cavalry of the border army. Soon they were stuck with the elite cavalry of the border army. The two sides were caught in a state of fighting due to the pursuit. These fangs were the most powerful part of the Shiguo Mansion. Among them, the small officers at the level of the team entered the realm of flesh and blood.

Therefore, in the battle against each other, the individual combat power of the elite cavalry of the border army was obviously suppressed by the tooth soldiers!

However, the elite cavalry of the border army firmly occupied the advantage of numerical power and kept rushing into the battle group with the dignified momentum of bullying the few!

Although those fang soldiers can fight, the elite cavalry of the border army cannot be underestimated. In addition, the fierce and fearless fighting method of the elite cavalry of the border army, the fang soldiers with stronger single combat power are in a disadvantage!

When some of them realized something was wrong and wanted to escape, they looked up and they were already surrounded...
Chapter completed!