Chapter 216 Comprehensive Defense
The loss of Anyi was within the acceptable range of the Northern Wei Dynasty.
After all, their combat goal has always been to drive away the Song Army, not to attack the Song Army in turn.
Abandoning the city allowed the Northern Wei cavalry to be more powerful.
Liu Yu opposite him obviously knew this too.
After capturing Anyi, Liu Yu did not rush to attack, but began to repair Anyi, hoping to build Anyi as a bridgehead for the Song Army to resist the cavalry of the Northern Wei Dynasty.
In this way, after the Song army captured Anyi, they became a little timid and did not dare to go out to fight with the Northern Wei cavalry easily.
That day, Liu Yu stood on the city wall in the north of Anyi and looked far away. There was a large amount of smoke there, which was the camp of the Northern Wei Dynasty.
The surrounding environment has also gained a little bit of green from the initial decline, which is a sign that spring is about to enter.
"Procrastinating like this is not the way to go."
The Song army's supply line was much longer than that of the Northern Wei Dynasty.
For every ten shi of grain transported from the south to Hedong, five shi of grain will be consumed on the road.
Even if Liu Yu's family has a great business, they cannot tolerate such consumption.
"Furthermore, Che Shi wrote to me a few days ago, saying that He Shangghi, the governor of Bozhou, concluded that Jiangnan might experience a drought. This cannot be delayed any longer."
Liu Yizhen can handle other things, but he really can't do anything about this drought in a short period of time.
Every day the army is on the front line, it consumes an astronomical amount of food. If there is another drought, Liu Yu will have to withdraw his troops.
"It would be best to end the war this summer."
Thinking of this, Liu Yu's eyes became firm.
"We will launch a general attack on the Wei army's camp in the direction of Pingyang tomorrow!"
Even at the cost of the lives of some soldiers, Liu Yu decided to storm the Northern Wei defense line.
Suddenly, there was another throbbing in Liu Yu's chest, which made him unconsciously cover the painful part again.
"I can still hold on."
After a long time, Liu Yu raised his head again and forced himself to swallow a mouthful of food.
The kid from Che Shi said that he is still waiting for my triumphant voice. I must finish these things!
the next day.
There was finally movement in the Song Army camp again.
This time was different from the past. The first thing the Song army launched in the military formation was tall chariots.
Chariot soldiers are undoubtedly the best unit to withstand cavalry, and their size is not weaker than that of cavalry, allowing them to reliably withstand Northern Wei cavalry.
The only weakness is its poor mobility.
But after all, Hedong is not Hebei or the Central Plains. There is no place for the cavalry of the Northern Wei Dynasty to gallop. They can only move around in one place.
In this way, the chariot can be regarded as the victory weapon of the Song army.
The officers and soldiers of the Northern Wei Dynasty also obviously saw the rows of stations of the Song Army and couldn't help but frown.
"Another chariot!"
This kind of retro tactic was really good in Liu Yu's hands, and everyone also had a headache when facing the tank.
Especially when the cavalry on horseback charges towards the infantry and when they charge towards the chariot, there are two completely different senses.
One is made of flesh and blood, the other is a lump of wood, and some of the lumps of wood are even covered with animal skins or iron plates.
Not to mention the role of the chariot, the strong psychological pressure alone makes people retreat.
only……
At this point, the Northern Wei Dynasty could no longer retreat.
If you don't want the flat bottom of Pingyang, there will be mountains further back.
It was completely the home ground of the Song Army.
Just as the Song army would not be stupid enough to fight the Northern Wei Dynasty in the plains, the Northern Wei Dynasty would not be stupid enough to fight the Song army in the mountains.
"The whole army attacks. This time, Liu Yu must be blocked here!"
Tuoba Si saw that Liu Yu was going to attack in an all-out manner, so he was naturally ready to fight.
The horses rumble and the chariots thunder.
The familiar sounds make people seem to have returned to the ancient battlefields of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.
At that time, Qin and Jin used chariots and cavalry to compete for world hegemony in this small land east of the river.
In the past, cavalry defeated chariots, but now, this is not necessarily the case!
Each chariot of the Song Army has twenty soldiers cooperating with each other. Ten of them hold large shields and short blades, and ten of them hold long halberds and iron swords. They use the chariot as a barrier and carefully stare at the Northern Wei cavalry on the opposite side.
Seeing that the Song army's chariot formation was getting closer and closer, beginning to squeeze the space for the Northern Wei cavalry to attack, Tuoba Si no longer hesitated.
"charge!"
Thousands of war horses are moving across the land.
The originally chaotic footsteps gradually became orderly after a while, just like the sound of thunder coming from the sky in ancient times, rushing towards the car array with great momentum.
The Song Army's chariot formation also stopped advancing and turned into solemn eternal stone statues, welcoming the baptism without saying a word.
Five hundred steps.
Two hundred steps.
One hundred steps.
The Song soldier at the front raised his halberd and roared in the most ferocious voice: "Fight!"
"war!"
With a loud noise, the two most elite armies in the world fought together again.
The armored war horses of the Northern Wei Dynasty rushed in front of the Song Army's chariots with all their strength. Some of them whined and then became silent, others started to struggle in pain, and some of them directly rushed through the first layer of the Song Army's chariot formation.
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When the two armies clash, there is no room for breathing.
An anxious and suffocating atmosphere passed through the military formations of the two armies, and no one was spared.
The horses were impaled and the chariots were scattered.
The battlefield at this moment is nothing but tragic.
This is an evenly matched game, and the battle is no longer about whose equipment is better or whose tactics are better.
The only question is which side wants to win more, or in other words... wants to live more!
This is the essence of war.
Strangling!
Liu Yu looked at the flesh and blood millstones intertwined between the two armies expressionlessly from behind, but he was mumbling something.
"wrong."
"Um?"
Xie Hui next to him looked at Liu Yu in confusion.
"The wrong number of people."
Liu Yu's eyes flashed with brilliance.
"The number of cavalry in the Northern Wei Dynasty is wrong! It is impossible for Tuoba Si to have a backup force when the whole army goes out to fight, unless he wants to die here!"
This kind of strangulation without any technical content, every more person has one more chance.
Even if Jiang Shang and Han Xin are resurrected, there will be no room for maneuver.
But Liu Yu keenly discovered that the number of cavalry in the Northern Wei Dynasty was much smaller.
"It is impossible for Tuoba Si to hide the cavalry. Hedong is not Hebei. There is no room for him to attack in a roundabout way!"
"So those cavalry must not be here!"
Liu Yu closed his eyes, but the map around Hedong appeared in his mind.
If I were Tuoba Si, where would I send the cavalry?
At this time, Tuoba Si, who was on the opposite side, also looked at the tragic situation in the middle of the battlefield with a livid face.
Although on average one chariot can deal with three cavalry, there is no doubt that the Song army can crush the Northern Wei cavalry in numbers.
The elites of the Northern Wei Dynasty who are now in the center of the battlefield are all real Xianbei people, and they are the fresh blood of the Xianbei people.
Every death means that the future potential of the Northern Wei Dynasty will be reduced by one point.
It will only make it more difficult for Xianbei, who is already struggling to rule Hebei.
"but……"
Now is not the time to think about this!
As long as Liu Yu can be defeated, these are all trivial matters.
"Mu Guan, Qiu Dui, you two must succeed for me!"
Chapter completed!