The Era of Generals

Chapter 474   Pre-arrangement

Heavy cavalry, the most powerful unit for charging on the plains, even has the title of invincible on the plains.

Juhe City extends in all directions, which is the most suitable terrain for the heavy cavalry to charge. Therefore, the rear gate seems to have the weakest defense force, but because of the presence of this heavy cavalry, it is the strongest defensive force side.

Just relying on the 100,000 light cavalry in Chen Shen's hands, do you want to defeat this well-trained heavy cavalry unit from the front?

Chen Shen is actually... not that inflated yet.

But he knew who would swell.

Of course, this is the expansion designed by Ouyang Lixing.

In the previous siege battle, Ouyang Lixing sent a small force to the rear city gate to test it out. The commander of this force was Chen Shen.

Chen Shen strictly carried out Ouyang Lixing's order. After protruding out of the rear city gate where heavy cavalry guarded, he did not forcefully attack, but retreated after a little contact.

In fact, if he wanted to retreat at that time, he could have retreated completely without loss, but Chen Shen gave Xu Tianci a taste of the sweetness at that time, and deliberately retreated a little slower, allowing Xu Tianci to seize the opportunity to fight a wave, making him Chen Shen lost a small part of his troops.

This gave Xu Tianci a message, letting him know that he couldn't beat him. Once the two armies confronted each other, he, Xu Tianci, would be on the stronger side.

And in fact, it is a fact that the light cavalry has nothing to fight when they encounter the heavy cavalry.

In fact, coupled with a little guidance, Ouyang Lixing created a situation for Xu Tianci. When Zheng Yuanyun was weak overall, it was Xu Tianci who suddenly emerged and became the strong among the weak.

There is nothing wrong with chasing and killing. After calculation, Xu Tianci knew that he could return in case something happened at the rear city gate, and he also calculated the furthest distance he could pursue. Whether he chases down the enemy or not, he will resolutely give up the pursuit and return to the rear gate.

Xu Tianci still has this sane sane, knowing that his most important task at the moment is to securely guard the rear city gate, so that Mr. Zheng has no worries.

At the same time, if he can annihilate this light cavalry unit before reaching the farthest distance, he will make a great contribution!

In the overall weak situation of Juhe City, Ouyang Lixing's attack can be said to be unscrupulous, and at this time, if he can bring Mr. Zheng a big victory...

In addition to boosting the morale of one's own side, more importantly, it can also make Ouyang Lixing dare not attack without scruples, but always beware of his sharp spear points.

From the overall situation, if Xu Tianci can win this victory, it will be extremely beneficial to him, Zheng Yuanyun, and the entire defenders in Juhe City.

In this way, Xu Tianci will of course try his best to catch up.

As a result, this pursuit led to a major event.

After Chen Shen was beaten once by Xu Tianci, he has been hiding and ambush here. This is a piece of grass about two miles west of the rear gate of Juhe City. It was not suitable for hiding at first, but now Juhe City is captured With soldiers approaching the city, Zheng Yuanyun's own strength was insufficient, and Ouyang's strict implementation of the siege strategy made it impossible for Zheng Yuanyun to send out scouts to investigate the surrounding details.

Of course, it doesn't matter if you don't investigate or not. Zheng Yuanyun is now just sticking to Juhecheng, and then waits for the reinforcements to arrive before launching a counterattack.

As for Xu Tianci, under the fixed thinking pattern, he did not expect that the cavalry would also serve as engineers. During the period of the truce between the two sides, a wide and deep trench was dug.

And when Chen Shen dug this trench, he spent a lot of thought.

This is a grass field, which could have been used to hide traps. After Chen Shen asked the soldiers to dig out trenches, he specially tested the weight of his own light cavalry when he was camouflaging, and tried his best to withstand a fully armed light cavalry. As a standard, it is enough to stand on it without falling off.

You must know that even if they are fully armed, light cavalry and heavy cavalry are naturally not in the same order of magnitude in weight. With light cavalry as the standard camouflage, heavy cavalry will definitely fall if they step on it.

Of course, this is only a rough reference. It does not mean that the light cavalry will not be crushed when standing on it, especially when the cavalry is running, the weight will actually change.

That's why Chen Shen acted in order to deliberately lure the enemy to go deeper.

Pretending to fight Xu Tianci head-on, but when the two sides were about to approach, he made a double move, skimmed past the heavy cavalry lightly and cleverly, and made a gesture of wanting to take the back city gate by force. Artifacts.

Xu Tianci didn't expect him, and even adjusted his charge angle without haste, wanting to give Chen Shen a hard time when he turned his head.

The acting skills exploded at this time.

Although the quality of Ouyang Lixing's soldiers is not as high as Zheng Yuanyun's, it is not so high that a small formation change will make mistakes, which is obviously for Xu Tianci.

That seemingly mistaken change of direction made the troops led by Chen Shen aim at the retreating position, which was the trench they had buried in advance.

And this change of direction did not escape Xu Tianci's charge angle, so Xu Tianci led the heavy cavalry to chase after it.

The lineup of the light cavalry was scattered at that time. On the one hand, it was to let Xu Tianci pursue without pressure, and on the other hand, it was preparing to lure the opponent into the trench.

You must know that Xu Tianci is naturally not a fool. During the pursuit, once he finds that there is a problem with the light cavalry's positioning, he will definitely become vigilant and detect the opponent's plot in time.

The scattered formation gave Chen Shen the opportunity to continue acting. Although the cover on the trench could bear the weight of a light cavalryman, to be on the safe side, Chen Shen still had an order in advance. As long as they were approaching the trench, they either went around In the past, you could either jump on your horse and jump over the trench.

It was precisely because of the scattered formation that the jumping of the light cavalry was not uniform, which made Xu Tianci further lose his judgment, and did not smell the danger from it.

True, the trench was only as wide as a hussar could leap, but that was enough.

You must know that once the heavy cavalry ran over, it was very difficult to brake. Not only that, but it was also unrealistic to get up once they fell, especially in such a chaotic scene.

The first wave of heavy cavalry fell into the deep pit, and the rear had no time to brake, so they could only watch themselves fall down with their horses.