He suddenly realized that compared with Wei Yan's cavalry wearing light armor or no armor, all the cavalry under his command were wearing armor, either leather armor or iron armor, mostly mixed armor. This armor was too heavy. If the armor was removed, the war horses under his crotch might still be able to run, so he ordered the armor to be removed.

Two or three thousand cavalrymen took off their armor and threw them away. After throwing away their armor, the weight of the war horses was reduced and they could still run forward slightly.

But these war horses were too tired before and could not accelerate at all, so they still couldn't get away from the distance with Wei Yan's cavalry.

Soon, Xiahou Yuan discovered that his order to ask his soldiers to discard their armor just now seemed a bit stupid. His cavalry still couldn't run away, and his defense was significantly reduced. Under the rain of arrows chased by Wei Yan's cavalry, more and more arrows were dropped.

He once wanted his soldiers to follow Wei Yan's cavalry, ride on horseback, shoot arrows, and restrict the pursuit of Wei Yan's cavalry, but they had one-sided stirrups and low-bridge saddles, making them unable to maintain balance. When they set their bows and arrows, they were very likely to fall off due to inertia, and their cavalry had basically not done this kind of cavalry training, resulting in their archery accuracy being no at all and could not pose any threat to Wei Yan's cavalry.

Of course, what's more important is that they have no arrows.

At this time, Xiahou Yuan was filled with despair, which was even more desperate than when he was defeated by Xu Rong when he followed Cao Cao to challenge Dong.

Now he could only beat the war horse under his crotch hopelessly and try his best to run forward, hoping to run back to the camp as soon as possible and meet with Cao Hong and Yu Jin's infantry as soon as possible.

But the road seemed so long, he felt that he had been running for a long time, and was still far away from the camp.

At this time, Xiahou Yuan had the first doubt about his cavalry's rushing tactics. How could he meet Wei Yan, a cavalry that looked like he wanted nothing, ended up in a defeat.

Xiahou Yuan ran and suddenly discovered that two dense forests appeared on both sides of the road.

He thought to himself that fortunately, Wei Yan did not arrange ambush on both sides, so our lives would be better than end.

He was right to think so, because when they came, they had sent troops to detect that there were no ambushes in the woods on both sides.

So he rode his horse forward with confidence.

Suddenly, many thick hemp ropes suddenly appeared on the road ahead. The hemp ropes were tightened, which were the legendary tripping ropes. The cavalry and cavalry fell off their horses one after another.

Seeing this, some of the cavalry of Cao's army wanted to ride their horses and jump over the squat rope. They succeeded, but their war horses still lost their hooves. It turned out that many horse nails were sprinkled on the ground, piercing their war horse hooves that had not been hit with iron palms.

Hundreds of cavalry in front lost their horses, and the war horses fell to the ground and could no longer stand up. The war horses behind could not stop rushing and hit the fallen war horses in front. For a moment, the people were on their backs and the horses were overturned and they were defeated.

At this moment, five or six thousand Wei infantry rushed out from the dense forests on both sides. First, the archers blew the bow and arrow and shot them, then the spearmen shot the javelin, and then stabbed them with long spears. Then the sword and shield soldiers rushed forward and finished the attacks. A series of extremely rhythmic attacks made the Cao cavalry defeated as if they were overwhelmed.

Cavalry is indeed the kingly army of the ancient cold weapons era. Just like tanks in the hot weapons era, cavalry that loses the speed advantage, like tanks with broken tracks, will be ruthlessly crushed by infantry. Sometimes the army is very contradictory, and once one side loses its advantage, the situation of contradictory army will reverse.

Now that the defeat is decided, Xiahou Yuan is completely desperate. No, he is not completely desperate, he still has a way to win in defeat.
Chapter completed!