"Fight to the death, no retreat!" Chen Xi's soldiers, even after being pierced by long spears, fiercely grasped the spears and desperately used their swords to chop at the enemies' horses' legs.
Some soldiers, risking being trampled into mincemeat, even rolled directly under the horses' bellies, severing the horses' legs with their own lives to halt the cavalry's charge.
Gradually, the cavalry's speed slowed, but the number of Chen Xi's soldiers also dwindled. There were even cavalry that charged all the way to the front of Chen Xi, but any who came within ten steps of him fell from their horses.
"Get out of my way!" Xuu Chu swung his blade, sending several of Yuan Shao's officers flying, and with all his might carved a path through the resisting masses of the Lyu Brothers' army.