Heavy cavalry, a unit that is extremely capable of charging on the plains, even has the title of invincible on the plains.

Iai Castle extends in all directions, which is the perfect terrain for heavy cavalry to charge. Therefore, the rear gate seems to have the weakest defensive power, but because of the presence of this heavy cavalry, it actually has the strongest defensive power.

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With just the 100,000 light cavalry in Chen Shen's hands, he wanted to defeat this well-trained heavy cavalry unit from the front?

Chen Shen is actually... not that inflated.

But he knows who will swell.

Of course, this was an expansion designed by Ouyang Lixing.

In the previous siege, Ouyang Lixing sent a small force to test the rear city gate. The commander of this force was none other than Chen Shen.

Chen Shen strictly carried out Ouyang Lixing's order. After finding out that there were heavy cavalry guarding the rear city gate, he did not forcefully attack, but retreated after a brief contact.

In fact, if he wanted to retreat at that time, he could have retreated completely unscathed, but Chen Shen gave Xu Tianci a taste of the sweetness at that time and deliberately retreated slower, allowing Xu Tianci to seize the opportunity to fight, which made

Chen Shen lost a small part of his troops.

This gave Xu Tianci a message, letting him know that he could not defeat him. Once the two armies faced off, he, Xu Tianci, would be on the stronger side.

And in fact, it is a fact that light cavalry has no need to fight when it encounters heavy cavalry.

Facts, coupled with a little guidance, Ouyang Lixing created a situation for Xu Tianci. Although Zheng Yuanyun was overall weak, he, Xu Tianci, stood out and became the strong one among the weak.

There is nothing wrong with pursuing him. After calculation, Xu Tianci knew that he could return to the rear city gate in case of an emergency, and he also calculated the farthest distance he could pursue. Once that distance was exceeded, no matter what

Whether he pursues the enemy or not, he will decisively give up the pursuit and return to the rear gate.

Xu Tianci still has this shred of reason and knows that his most important task at the moment is to securely guard the rear city gate so that Master Zheng has no worries.

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

In the overall weak situation of Iihe City, Ouyang Lixing's attacks were without any scruples. At this time, if he could bring Master Zheng a big victory...

In addition to boosting the morale of one's own side, more importantly, it also prevents Ouyang Lixing from attacking without any scruples, and instead has to be wary of the sharp tip of his spear at all times.

From the overall situation, if Xu Tianci can win this victory, it will be an extremely beneficial thing for him, Zheng Yuanyun, and the entire garrison in Ihe City.

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

As a result, this pursuit led to something big.

After Chen Shen was beaten once by Xu Tianci, he has been hiding and ambush here. This is a grassland about two miles west of the rear gate of Juhe City. It was originally not suitable for hiding, but now Juhe City has been

When the troops came to the city, Zheng Yuanyun's own troops were insufficient. Coupled with Ouyang's strict siege strategy, Zheng Yuanyun was unable to send out scouts to explore the surrounding details.

Of course, it doesn't matter whether or not to explore. Zheng Yuanyun can only focus on defending Juhe City now, and then wait for reinforcements to arrive before launching a counterattack.

As for Xu Tianci, due to his fixed thinking, he did not expect that the cavalry also served as engineers. During the truce between the two sides, a wide and deep trench was dug.

Moreover, Chen Shen spent a lot of thought when digging this trench.

This is grassland, which can also be used to hide traps. After Chen Shen asked the soldiers to dig trenches, when making camouflage, he specifically tested the weight of his light cavalry, trying his best to be able to withstand a fully armed light cavalry.

As a standard, just stand on it and you won't fall off.

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

Of course, this is just a rough reference. It does not mean that the light cavalry will not be crushed if they stand on it. Especially when the cavalry is running, the weight will actually change.

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

Pretending to have a head-on fight with Xu Tianci, but when the two sides were about to approach, he made a double move, and lightly and deftly passed by the heavy cavalry, pretending to want to seize the rear city gate by force.

Artifacts.

Xu Tianci didn't expect him, and even adjusted his charging angle without any haste, hoping to give him a hard blow when Chen Shen turned around.

It was at this time that his acting skills exploded.

Although the quality of Ouyang Lixing's soldiers was not as high as Zheng Yuanyun's, they would not make mistakes even with a small formation change. It was clearly for Xu Tianci to see.

That seemingly mistaken change of direction actually caused the troops led by Chen Shen to aim at the direction of retreat, which was the trench they had laid in advance.

This change of direction did not deviate from Xu Tianci's charging angle, so naturally, Xu Tianci led the heavy cavalry to pursue him.

The light cavalry's lineup at that time was scattered. On the one hand, it allowed Xu Tianci to 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 not a fool. During the pursuit, if he discovers that there is a problem with the light cavalry's position, he will definitely be alert and detect the opponent's conspiracy 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 cavalry, for the sake of safety, Chen Shen still had an order in advance. As soon as they approached the trench, they would either go around.

In the past, one could either jump on horseback and jump over the trench.

It was precisely because of the scattered formation that the light cavalry's jumps were not uniform, which made Xu Tianci further lose his judgment and did not smell the smell of danger.

Yes, the width of the trench was only as wide as a light cavalry could jump across, but it was enough.

You must know that once the heavy cavalry runs over, it is very difficult to brake. Not only that, it is also unrealistic to get up again once you fall, especially in such a chaotic scene.
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