The strongest devouring system in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 208 Natural Suppression

"Our mission now is to attack. Although the enemy may have 100,000 men, 8,000 of them have already been killed by Wu Hong in one charge. I believe that the remaining enemies will tremble under the iron hooves of Zilong's organization."

The people in his district were full of confidence in Zhao Yun's cavalry skills. The surrounding officers laughed when they heard Chen Er's words. Those who knew Zhao Yun well knew this.

Zhao Yun usually appears refined and gentlemanly, but once he steps onto the battlefield, he becomes a war god, and no one can stop the cavalry he leads.

Although we have now entered the age of firearms, which has limited the cavalry's charging ability, cavalry, as the king of charges, still has a natural advantage over infantry.

This is especially true for organizations like the Jingzhou organization, which haven't experienced much warfare. Yang Bo's eight thousand infantrymen just now perfectly illustrated this point.

They were routed with almost no damage to the cavalry in their territory, which laid the foundation for Zhao Yun's counterattack plan.

"Reporting to the commander, a scout has arrived and reports that the enemy's advance troops have appeared ten miles away."

Upon receiving the scout's report, Zhao Yun immediately ordered the entire organization to halt its advance, allowing the soldiers to rest and prepare for the upcoming battle.

Zhao Yun said to the cavalry squad leader who was reporting, "Have the scouts continue to investigate and make sure they find out the enemy's movements and approximate troop deployment! Also, how many follow-up troops they have. Be careful to conceal your whereabouts and try not to expose yourself."

"Yes, sir!" The cavalry squad leader received Zhao Yun's order and galloped westward.

"Prepare for battle!" After the scout squad leader left, Zhao Yun turned to Wu Hong and gave the order. Wu Hong immediately relayed Zhao Yun's order to the entire organization.

Zhao Yun turned to look at the cavalrymen behind him. Although the cavalrymen behind him were mainly newly formed troops, they had just won a victory and had been training hard every day. Zhao Yun had reason to believe that they would win again.

Five minutes later, the scouts at the front reported again: there were only 5,000 enemy troops ahead of them, and the nearest enemy main force was 30 or 40 miles away.

"Five thousand men, that's almost a match for them." Zhao Yun calculated in his mind. Although it was just a small piece of meat, since they had encountered it, they couldn't let it go. Zhao Yun ordered: "All units, charge! Rout the enemy in front!"

Uh...

As a bugle sounded on the flat ground, the bewildered Jingzhou soldiers had no idea what the bugle sounded. They halted their advance and looked around, trying to find the person who had blown the bugle.

However, they did not wait for that person, but instead were met with a thunderous roar.

"Is it thundering?" The rumbling sound made most of the soldiers think it was thunder, but only a few veteran officers who had served in places like Luoyang knew that it was not thunder.

Moreover, it's impossible for there to be thunder on such a clear early spring day; it could only be cavalry! It was the sound of a large cavalry unit organizing.

Where did these cavalrymen come from?

The Jingzhou organization has cavalry, but only a few hundred men, and they are all in Liu Biao's hands. So what are they encountering now?

"Enemy organization! Enemy organization!"

Some of the officers shouted, "It's the enemy!"

"Ready to fight!"

Some experienced Jingzhou organizers immediately issued combat orders, but many more soldiers and officers did not react in time.

By the time most of the Jingzhou soldiers had reacted and hastily adjusted their formation, Zhao Yun's cavalry had already clearly appeared before them.

Good heavens, a huge crowd of people! How many people are there? Some people who had dealt with cavalry before began to tremble. They did not want to have a direct confrontation with these cavalrymen.

However, things don't stop happening just because they don't want them to. Looking at the chaotic Jingzhou organization formation, Zhao Yun finally understood why Wu Hong was able to end the battle in ten minutes.

In Zhao Yun's view, the Jingzhou organizations before him were not even as good as some of the elite reserve divisions within the region he had managed.

"End the battle within five minutes."

Zhao Yun said to Wu Hong that he had no desire to attack such an enemy. He led the dragon cavalry to the side and only let Wu Hong lead the three thousand cavalry of the Southern Organization District to launch the attack. In Zhao Yun's words, this was called training.

If they can't even defeat these 5,000 rabble, then I don't think the cavalry of the Southern Organization District has any reason to exist.

These cavalrymen knew that this was just Zhao Yun's provocation, but it was precisely this kind of provocation that could ignite the soldiers' desire to win.

With the sound of a horn, three thousand cavalrymen launched an attack on the Jingzhou organization in a wall formation. After the advent of firearms, the cavalry's attack formation also began to change, transforming from the previous wedge formation into a more compact wall-shaped cavalry charge formation.

With a horn sounding, the district cavalry, which they had prepared, launched a charge. In the short time it had been, they had closed to within a kilometer's distance, and the slowly accelerating cavalry made the ground tremble violently.

These cavalrymen have no gentlemanly manners whatsoever. Their motto is to strike while the iron is hot. If they don't attack before you've even formed your ranks, are they going to wait until you've got your formation set up before attacking? They're not stupid.

After a burst of gunfire, the cavalry charged into the ranks of the Jingzhou troops. The panicked Jingzhou soldiers were scattered by the cavalry before they could even reload their ammunition. At this point, only three minutes had passed.

After breaking through the Jingzhou organization's ranks, Wu Hong led his cavalry to attack from the rear of the Jingzhou organization once again. After two waves of attacks, there was not a single Jingzhou soldier left standing on the battlefield.

The remaining Jingzhou soldiers were either lying on the ground groaning or kneeling on the ground trembling.

"Organize the group; mission accomplished!"

However, the cavalry had no interest in those kneeling and surrendering; they were cavalry, not a relief force.

These soldiers, whose morale and spirit had been shattered by the cavalry they had already subdued, would be of little use even if they were reunited by the Jingzhou generals, because they had lost their courage.

"Okay, assemble the team and continue advancing. Leave one platoon behind to clean up the battlefield and protect the wounded as they retreat to the rear," Zhao Yun nodded and said to Wu Hong.

Wu Hong immediately ordered a platoon to be assigned to protect the wounded and reunite them with Chen Er as soon as possible, so that the infantry division would have better battlefield rescue conditions.

"We move on."

This skirmish did not have a significant impact on the overall campaign; it only resulted in the loss of 5,000 enemy soldiers. For those soldiers, 5,000 men was nothing, and they could quickly rebuild another 5,000.