Yang Yuan has no objection to Zhou Zhu's decision.

And I appreciate his behavior of staying and leading the cavalry to break the rear.

"Be careful, just entangle with the barbarians for a while, and get out this morning!"

"yes."

Yang Yuan withdrew to Zhenman City with 1,500 cavalry, and Zhou Zhu led the remaining 1,500 cavalry to intercept the barbarian pursuers!

Zhou Zhu watched Yang Yuan leave, then turned around and said to the soldiers under his command: "Brothers, continue to eat and drink, and let those barbarians taste the power of our Xiaocai Army after they have enough rest!"

Zhou Zhu let the soldiers under his command rest for more than half an hour, and then mounted the horses to prepare to meet the barbarian cavalry.

In the north, in order to catch up with the Xiao cavalry army, each of the Golden Eagle (Wolf) guards rotated their horses with three horses. When the horses were tired, they would change horses. When the people were tired, they would rest on horseback, with their companions watching over them. Resting cavalry will not be let off their horses.

The tired eyes of the golden eagle (wolf) guard cavalry were bloodshot. They had been chasing for seven or eight hours, and they would reach Zhenman City in a few more hours.

It is impossible for them to catch up to Zhenman City, and even if the mission fails, they cannot take themselves in!

However, the Xiaocavalry Army is not far ahead, and they can catch up within two hours at most.

"Let the warriors of the tribe persevere. We have been chasing for so long, and the horses are almost exhausted. We must not let the brave cavalry in front run back to Zhenman City!"

The war horses of the Golden Eagle (Wolf) Guards are more precious than humans, and people can almost practice it, but the horses are not good enough, and they almost can't enter the Golden Eagle (Wolf) Guards.

When it came to the battlefield, it was only a few miles away from the other golden eagle (wolf) guards after running for dozens of miles. What else is there to fight in this battle?

 …

After the Xiao cavalry had rested, Zhou Zhu did not stay where he was and waited for the barbarian cavalry to catch up.

He decided to take the initiative and go up to intercept the Golden Eagle (Wolf) Guard in advance.

Everyone has been running for more than ten hours. We are tired, but you are not tired?

Now we have rested for more than half an hour and recovered our strength, how about you?

Imperial warhorses are faster than barbarian warhorses, so the Golden Eagle (Wolf) Guards should be more tired than the Valiant Cavalry.

Zhou Zhu deduced that the barbarian cavalry didn't have much time to rest, so they must be more tired than them.

They can also be regarded as half of them waiting for work, and the advantage of taking the initiative to attack is even greater!

"Be smart when you charge for a while, don't just rush forward, greet them with hand crossbows first, shoot me all the crossbows, bows and arrows you are carrying, and then think about melee combat, do you hear me clearly?"

"Listen clearly!"

"Well, that's fine. Our goal this time is to delay the pursuit, not kill them."

"When Marshal Ma Teng returns with the main force, it's time for us to fight for our lives!"

The Xiao cavalry army can be heavy cavalry or light cavalry. The combat skills of cavalry are not enough to be a hindrance. It mainly depends on the type of armor they wear.

This time, Zhou Zhu wanted to use ranger tactics to harass the barbarian cavalry.

This is the specialty of the barbarian cavalry, but now they are about to be attacked and killed by the Xiaocai army with this method of warfare!

where it feels...

The two commanders of the Golden Eagle (Wolf) Guard wanted to wipe their own necks with their knives in shame!

Shame!

Being defeated by someone with his best skills on his own territory!

Any man with flesh and blood would have to be ashamed to live on!

The commander of the Golden Eagle (Wolf) Guards was still a little ashamed. He dared to rush over when he saw Zhou Zhu leading more than a thousand cavalry. Their faces were flushed, their eyes were red, and their heads were almost smoking!

"Kill them! Don't let any one go!"

They have three war horses sitting down, and they can exhaust you to death if you are tired!

Zhou Zhu was not surprised to see the Golden Eagle (Wolf) Guard at all. He had already known which barbarian cavalry was chasing after him through the cavalry.

However, he was still a little surprised when he saw that the Golden Eagle (Wolf) Guards had three horses each.

"Could it be that the barbarians knew that His Majesty was ahead, otherwise how could they have made such a big bet?"

He knew a little bit about the Golden Eagle (Wolf) Guards. He knew that they were the elite of the two barbarian royal tribes. They had to choose not only the elite fighters, but also the best horses.

After catching up, the horses that the Golden Eagle (Wolf) Guards sat on were probably all the spare horses of the two tribes.

If you leave them all...

An impossible idea came to Zhou Zhu's mind.

"Unfortunately, I only have 1,500 cavalry. If there are 5,000 cavalry, I will definitely keep them with their horses."

"It doesn't need five thousand, three thousand is fine. You can't kill all the golden eagle (wolf) guard cavalry, but you can also kill their extra horses."

Without these horses, it will take at least two or three years for the Golden Eagle (Wolf) Guard to return to its full glory, let alone expand.

Zhou Zhu suddenly changed his mind, and shouted to the Xiaocavalry soldiers beside him: "When attacking later, attack their horses first, and I will let them walk back on two legs!"

When shooting a man, shoot a horse first, and when capturing a thief, first capture the king.

When the Xiaocavalry Army fought against the barbarians before, they rarely gave priority to attacking war horses. The soldiers of the Xiaocavalry Army not only loved their own war horses, but also loved other war horses.

Grab your war horse and it will be ours!

This time was different, he wanted to ensure that His Majesty could return to Zhenman City safely, and not allow the Golden Eagle (Wolf) Guard to continue chasing him.

So killing their warhorses first is a very wise approach!

Some warriors of the Xiaocavalry Army did not understand why they gave priority to killing warhorses. Even if they had no chance to **** the barbarian warhorses this time, they would still have a chance~ lightnovelpub.net~ to kill all such good horses?

What a waste!

But they will do it if they don’t understand it. Military orders are like mountains, let alone they don’t understand it, even if it’s completely opposite to their ideas, they have to implement it, and they can’t change it at all!

The soldiers of the Xiaocavalry Army first picked up the bow and arrow hanging on the horse's back, and after getting close to the barbarian cavalry, they let go of the taut bowstring.

"Xi Law Law!"

poof~~~

poof~~~

The horses fell to the ground one after another, making Golden Eagle (Wolf) Wei heartbroken, and then he became uncontrollably angry.

"You cowards, cowards, who have the guts to fight us head-on, even sneaked up on the horses, you are not worthy of being cavalry!"

The golden eagle (wolf) guard cavalry roared angrily, all of them were cursing and reprimanding the Xiao cavalry army.

The Valiant Cavalry Army pretended not to hear that all means on the battlefield were for victory.

Shooting and killing war horses is indeed more attractive, but in order to win, they are willing to bear the infamy.

The Golden Eagle (Wolf) Guard would definitely not watch the Xiaocavalry army shoot and kill their horses, and took out their bows and arrows to fight back.

On the whole, their bows and arrows are not as far as those of the Xiaocavalry Army, and the lethality of their arrows is also lower than that of the Xiaocai Army's stainless steel arrows.

But there are always some golden eagle (wolf) guards with good skills, great strength, or good luck who can kill several Xiao cavalry soldiers.

Once the battle of riding and shooting starts, no one can guarantee their absolute safety.

A quarter of an hour later, the Xiaocavalry accelerated to distance themselves from the Golden Eagle (Wolf) Guard.

They won the duel, although a little bit by force.

Their goal is the barbarian warhorse, which is bigger than the Golden Eagle (Wolf) Guard, so it is not surprising that they won.

After all, no matter how elite the Golden Eagle (Wolf) Guards were, they were not rich enough to equip every spare horse with armor, even if it was just thin leather armor!