Call of the Heroes of Chaos in Another World

Chapter 2700 Gongsun Bogui Blocks Chengfu, White Horse Cavalry Intercepts Qian's Riders

Chapter 2700 Gongsun Bogui Blocks Chengfu, White Horse Cavalry Intercepts Qian's Riders

Lei Zhaohai, this veteran general, ultimately died helplessly under Huang Feihu's gun.

However, before he died, he managed to injure Huang Tianhua.

To be able to seize a life-or-death opportunity with his frail old body and ultimately injure Huang Tianhua is truly remarkable.

On the other side, Ji Chengfu, with most of his main force, had successfully broken through the encirclement, but his escape was clearly not so easy.

Besides personally leading the main cavalry force to launch a surprise attack on Ji Chengfu while waiting in ambush, Xue Rengui actually had another backup plan.

Xue Rengui's army consisted of two elite cavalry units. One was the Black Cavalry led by Wang Yi, and the other was Gongsun Zan's White Horse Cavalry.

Now, the Black Riders, who are the main force of the raid, have already appeared. However, the other elite battalion, the White Horse Cavalry, has not yet shown up. This is naturally because Xue Rengui did not arrange for them to participate in the raid at all. Instead, he arranged for them to intercept Ji Chengfu halfway through his breakout.

Compared to the Black Cavalry, the White Horse Cavalry, as standard light cavalry, were not best at frontal charges.

Unless it is a last resort, like when Han Xin fought Yelü Abaoji in the Eastern Yi, if the White Dragon Camp light cavalry had not pressed forward, the entire battlefield might have collapsed.

For the sake of the overall situation, they were thrown directly onto the brutal battlefield, even placed in front of the heavy cavalry, the Azure Wolf Cavalry.

Otherwise, under normal circumstances, it would be impossible for such standard light cavalry to engage in direct combat with other cavalry. This is why, when faced with Xue Rengui's surprise attack, Ji Chengfu immediately ordered the former White Robe Army to withdraw from the battlefield.

A standard light cavalry head-on clash with the Black Cavalry, especially since this unit is currently in heavy armor Black Cavalry form, isn't this using their weakest point to attack the opponent's strongest point?

Even if all seven thousand White-Robed Army soldiers were wiped out, it might not be enough to deplete much of the Black Riders' strength.

Xue Rengui, too, did not send the White Horse Cavalry to the front lines.

Just when Ji Chengfu and most of the cavalry force thought they were about to break out, the White Horse Cavalry suddenly attacked from the flank.

Especially after Xue Rengui's prior instructions, Gongsun Zan did not act rashly. Instead, he took advantage of the speed and archery skills of the White Horse Cavalry to harass the flanks of Ji Chengfu's army.

"Ding, Gongsun Zan's White Horse skill effect two has been activated. When leading cavalry in battle, the commander's leadership increases by 3. The base commander's leadership is 94, and the current commander's leadership has increased to 97."

"Ding! Gongsun Zan's White Horse skill effect three has been activated. When leading his exclusive army, the White Horse Cavalry, into battle, his leadership and martial prowess increase by 2. The martial prowess of the entire White Horse Cavalry increases by 3, and their speed and morale are greatly increased."

Gongsun Zan's current leadership stat is 99, base martial prowess is 95, White Dragon adds 1 point, increasing martial prowess by 2 and 3 points, bringing his total martial prowess to 101.

"Ding! Gongsun Zan's White Horse skill effect has been activated. After this skill is activated, Gongsun Zan's own strength increases by 5, and his current strength increases to 106."

The casualties among the soldiers were not the most important thing, but the speed at which Ji Chengfu's cavalry broke through the encirclement was directly affected by the harassment of Gongsun Zan's White Horse Cavalry.

However, Ji Chengfu was temporarily unable to deal with Gongsun Zan. After all, given the speed of the White Horse Cavalry, even the White Robe Army, which was also in operation today, might not be able to catch up with them, let alone the other cavalry in the army. Whether it was the White Horse Cavalry or the White Robe Army, both sides were standard light cavalry, and neither dared to say that the other could absolutely surpass the other in speed.

Speed ​​was the biggest advantage of the White Horse Cavalry over Ji Cheng's cavalry.

Moreover, even if the Qian army cavalry catches up with the enemy, what can they do?

Ultimately, what they feared was not Gongsun Zan's three thousand White Horse Cavalry, but Xue Rengui's main cavalry force behind them.

If the White Horse Cavalry holds us back for too long, allowing Xue Rengui's main cavalry force to catch up, then we'll truly be trapped with nowhere to run.

In a desperate situation, in order to shake off the White Horse Cavalry as soon as possible and prevent Xue Rengui from re-encircling them, Ji Chengfu had no choice but to repeatedly cut off the tail to survive, constantly sending out cavalry to cover the rear and entangle the White Horse Cavalry in the opposite direction, trying to get more of the main force to break through.

However, Xue Rengui had already lost nearly 10,000 cavalrymen, and now, facing Gongsun Zan's White Horse Cavalry, Ji Chengfu had lost another 5,000 elite cavalrymen.

As a result, Ji Chengfu suffered a crushing defeat in this great battle, losing half of his 30,000 cavalry.

It seems that in this battle, they also annihilated 20,000 of the main force of the Han army, and the casualties of the Han army were higher than theirs. However, can the casualties of cavalry be equal to the casualties of the same number of infantry?

On this point alone, they had already suffered a major defeat. No force in the world would refuse such a deal: to exchange 20,000 infantry for 15,000 enemy cavalry, and they would be willing to exchange as many as the enemy had.

Even if the number of infantry were doubled, there would still be plenty of people willing to do this business.

There is absolutely no way to equate cavalry with infantry.

In particular, although they seemed to have annihilated all 20,000 enemy infantrymen, a considerable number of them were captured during the process; it was impossible to annihilate them all.

Just now, they were too busy to help themselves and could only hurriedly try to break through the encirclement. Naturally, they couldn't care less about the prisoners for the time being. From the commander-in-chief Hun Jian to the ordinary soldiers, they naturally fell back into the hands of the Han army.

Therefore, their numbers of enemy casualties were also significantly reduced.

This is only in terms of troop casualties. From a strategic perspective, after losing half of his main cavalry force, even if Xue Rengui's forces were dispersed and launched attacks from multiple directions, Ji Chengfu still lost the ability to pose a sufficient threat to Xue Rengui.

From a strategic perspective, this placed the Great Qian Dynasty in an irrecoverable predicament.

Thinking about the absolute strategic predicament that Daqian would face relative to the million-strong Han army in the north, Ji Chengcong felt a chill run down his spine.

Having suffered two crushing defeats at the hands of Xue Rengui, he was now an absolute traitor to the Great Qian Dynasty. If it weren't for his last breath holding him back, Ji Chengfu would have even considered committing suicide by drawing his sword at this moment.