Chapter 450 Khan, are you going to drill the marmot hole too?
Jielibijia finally gathered four to five thousand cavalry, but he didn't know which direction to attack from?
Because the 'Gelulu people' on the opposite side obviously wanted to surround him.
The entire camp around Zetian Temple was set on fire, and there were scenes of Gaochang cavalry being chased and killed everywhere, leaving only a retreat route in the southwest for Jieli Pika.
These are not the most terrifying things. The most terrifying thing is besides the tens of thousands of Qingqi who surrounded Zetian Temple on three sides.
On the opposite side, there were thousands of knights in black robes who did not speed up, but slowly pressed forward. They were obviously saving their horsepower.
"This is not the Geluolu people from Saktu, this is Zhang's cavalry! It's Zhang's cavalry!"
Zuo Xiang Jie Jiamisi suddenly roared in fear, and all the high-ranking Gaochang Uighur officials and nobles outside Zetian Temple also realized something was wrong in fear.
Because the cavalry who came were not carrying the black flag and wolf-headed banner of the Geluolu people, but the three-chen flag of the Great Dynasty that was familiar yet unfamiliar to them.
Along with the Sanchen Banner were red, white and black banners with Chinese characters, which clearly showed that these visitors were not from Geluolu, but from the Liang Army in Hexi.
Lu Sanlang galloped over from a distance. He galloped up to Zhang Zhao and cupped his hands.
"King of heaven, please let Lu Sanlang be the vanguard! If it weren't for this beast Pugujun, my family would not be destroyed!"
"Heavenly King, a certain Guo Tiance, Guo Guangsheng, please fight!"
Guo Guangsheng and Guo Tiance's uncle and nephew also came over on horseback. In fact, these two people had been engaged in civil service and did not have much experience in leading troops in war.
But what we are facing now are the life-and-death enemies of the Guo family and the three Wang families of the five surnames of Anxi!
If Pugujun hadn't been afraid of being attacked from the east and west by the descendants of the Anxi Army in Qiuci and Zhang Huaishen, he pretended to be the Jiedu Envoy of the Yixi Province of the Tang Dynasty and trapped and killed Guo Guangsheng and Guo Tiance's ancestor Guo Dalang, the Anxi Army would not have been so miserable.
After Guo Guangsheng and Guo Tiance came out, Li Qilang, Li Wang, who had been helping Zhang Zhao with religious affairs, and Huixing monk Zheng Tong also rode out. They both petitioned Zhang Zhao on horseback.
"His Majesty! Please allow me to wait for the descendants of the Anxi Army to go to war!"
"Okay! Then we will tell Pu Gu Cunde openly and openly, let him open his eyes and see who is coming to kill him!"
Following Zhang Zhao's order, thousands of light and heavy cavalry collectively took off their black robes pretending to be Geluolu people, and a large banner of the Jiedushi of the four towns in Anxi of the Tang Dynasty was also erected.
"Revenge! Today, not a single descendant of Pu Gujun in Gaochang will be left alive!"
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And at Zetian Temple, Jieli Pijia understood everything as soon as he saw the large banner of the Jiedushi of the four towns of Anxi in the Tang Dynasty.
For so many years, the Gaochang Uighurs have been quite wary of the Guiyi Army, and the root cause is here.
Although neither the Gaochang Uighurs nor the ordinary people who returned to the rebel army, or even the ordinary dignitaries knew about it or had forgotten about it.
But as the khan of the Gaochang Uighurs, Jielipijia understood better than anyone else how the Gaochang Uighur Khanate was established.
"Come for revenge! Come for revenge! They have not forgotten this matter in the end."
Cold sweat fell from his forehead, and Jielipijia was still mumbling, as if he had forgotten to command the army.
Zhang Zhao, who was in the distance, asked Li Xiaojie to follow him with a banner as the Jiedushi of the Returned Army.
The six thousand light and heavy cavalry took off their black robes at the same time, revealing various types of cotton armor and chainmail armor. They began to accelerate slowly at a distance of four to five hundred steps.
The sound of hooves is like thunder, and the ground is shaking. The heavy cavalry enters the battlefield, usually walking first, then trotting, and finally charging at a gallop.
Moreover, the distance of a galloping charge is generally not long. In many cases, a galloping charge is only chosen when there is only a quarter of the distance left.
For charging heavy cavalry, maintaining a complete formation is more important than speed.
Of course, the armored cavalry of this era had less strict formation requirements than modern cuirassiers.
Because the armored cavalry of this era mainly relied not on impact power, but on the thickness of the armor and the power of the horse.
It was more like they squeezed in, relying on sophisticated equipment and horses to peel off the enemy's "shell" first, and then waited until the enemy was about to collapse before rushing in and taking them away in one wave.
From the Southern and Northern Dynasties to the Sui and Tang Dynasties, this type of charge was used. This method of warfare was very effective. Often hundreds of armored cavalry could defeat thousands of infantry.
But this method of warfare has a huge restriction, that is, they have to demand the best in armor and horses.
At the same time, the requirements for knights are higher, and only a family with martial arts prowess like the Guanlong nobles started by Li Tang can cultivate such cavalry.
But there is no such inheritance in Hexi now. Murong Nobunaga and Li Cunhui are not the general situation, but special cases.
Therefore, Zhang Zhao was considering whether to replace the heavy cavalry with a cheaper one that does not require eight years of hard training and ten years of training.
The three hundred cavalry he led personally were Zhang Zhao's test subjects.
They were not equipped with horse spears, but with extremely long spears that were easy to break, usually nearly two feet long.
The method of combat is to use small horned crossbows to shoot at a certain point of the dense infantry phalanx when approaching.
Then use a gun-clamping charge to hit the gap. After the spear in your hand is broken, you can turn around and use the remaining gun barrel.
Because there is a blade tip at the tail end, which can be thrown or stabbed, and then the saber can be used for fighting.
At the same time, these cavalry are also equipped with hard bows. When they cannot break through the infantry phalanx, they can dismount and serve as heavily armored archers.
Although the combat method is still complicated, one advantage is that it does not need to be cultivated from an early age.
Because this style of play relies more on overall coordination and proficiency rather than individual martial arts.
The six thousand light and heavy cavalry first started to trot, then slowly began to accelerate within three hundred steps, and then accelerated suddenly within a hundred steps.
The broken-eared horse that Zhang Zhao had carefully cultivated for several years showed its excellent combat power at this moment.
They carry more than one hundred or two hundred kilograms on their backs, and can shoot with the momentum of an arrow from a string.
Sixty steps!
As Zhang Zhao raised the carbine in his hand, the two elite cavalrymen with Chengjielang rank beside him also raised the small red triangular flag in their hands.
This is a marked queue for all the cavalry, so that they can approach around it.
The new type of cavalry that Zhang Zhao experimented with used a horizontal formation charge pattern, with 600 men lining up in ten columns and three horizontal lines.
There are thirty people in one attack, divided into ten large horizontal formations and twenty small horizontal formations.
Before the rapid attack, they were separated, but within twenty steps, under the command of two small red pennants, they would gather together very quickly.
Then they squeezed together tightly, exactly as required in training, with stirrups next to stirrups and cavalry legs next to cavalry legs.
The ones outside on both sides are also officers with at least the rank of Cheng Lang. They are used to control the formation, squeezing the soldiers with weaker combat effectiveness in the middle.
These six hundred people were crowded together as if they were one whole body, and even some of the cavalrymen in the middle of the team were pale and contorted in pain.
This is purely because of being squeezed. In the past, it even happened that the rider in the middle was directly squeezed and fainted during training.
On the opposite side, the Gaochang Uighur cavalry finally dispatched, but it was much more chaotic.
Their training intensity is not enough to allow the riders and horses to form a tighter formation. Compared with the Liang Kingdom cavalry, they are completely scattered.
Cold sweat and fear appeared on Jielipijia's face. Everything today was completely beyond his imagination.
Don't think that the horses of the heavy armored cavalry cannot run fast. On the contrary, the horses of the heavy armored cavalry can accelerate very fast in an instant.
Almost all of these horses are Bolts, who are not good at endurance but are definitely the fastest among all cavalry mounts in terms of explosive power!
Twenty steps, almost in an instant!
Zhang Zhao could already see the panic in the eyes of the cavalry on the opposite side.
At the moment when the other side lowered their spears, the Gaochang Uighur cavalry, which had maintained a certain formation and could keep moving forward even if they were a swarm of swarms, suddenly collapsed with a blast.
Countless horses screamed and fled around. No matter how the riders controlled them, creatures like this with a decent but not high IQ just wouldn't obey this order that they considered to be seeking death.
After all, war horses are not inhumane, and there is no need for them to kill the opposing war horses.
"It's awesome!" Zhang Zhao yelled wildly in his heart. This wall-mounted charge was really awesome, and it was able to frighten the cavalry on the opposite side and collapse.
In fact, this is what cavalry hedging is like. Because of the relationship between war horses and training, one party will always retreat when a collision is about to occur.
Or those who are better trained will retreat after being contacted by 20 or 30 riders in front.
Even elites such as the French cuirassiers and the Bear Guards cuirassiers during the historical war period.
When they were hedging, there would always be a rider or horse on one side who would choose to avoid or break up because they could not bear the huge fear.
Of course, there are exceptions. For example, it is mentioned in "The Science of Winning" that the French cuirassiers and the elite cuirassiers of the Mao Xiong have clashed on the battlefield many times.
As a result, when they were only twenty or thirty meters away from both sides, the horses of both sides chose to stop collectively. The embarrassed cavalrymen on both sides stared at each other with big eyes.
So much so that a tactic was developed in which the cuirassiers were also equipped with carbines. First, they would shoot each other and queue up to kill each other, and then beat one of the cavalry with muskets until they were frightened.
However, these all happened between the most elite cuirassiers in modern times. The cavalry under Zhang Zhao, who were still in the tenth century, would definitely not fight like this against the Gaochang Uighur cavalry whose armor was uneven.
Amidst the dust in the sky, an officer from Hanhai Town who had just burned down the Uighur camp in Gaochang reined in his horse and looked into the distance in surprise.
In his sight, the five or six thousand Gaochang Uighur cavalry collapsed like an avalanche under the impact of hundreds of the King's personal guards, running all over the ground like frightened wild boars.
The battle is over!
At the moment when the Gaochang Uighur cavalry collapsed, everything ended.
The combat effectiveness of the two sides was not at the same level at all, and one side was still attacked.
Jielibijia took off the armor he had just put on, and under the protection of dozens of cavalry, ran wildly from the southwest toward Gaochang City.
But he forgot one thing, that is, Chiting Shouchuo City was right in the direction he was heading.
Jielibijia led dozens of cavalrymen, followed by thousands of defeated troops scrambling for the first place. After walking less than a mile, he ran into Feng Hui's troops who had broken out of camp.
As the rumbling war drums beat, Feng Hui ordered the infantry to line up and block the path leading to Gaochang City, while the cavalry attacked diagonally from both wings.
Jielibiga, who was running around with his head in his hands, didn't know who knocked him off his horse. He hurriedly rolled into a ditch, trying to use the ditch and the corpse in the ditch with the yellow mud mixed with blood.
Evade search.
But unexpectedly, a sneer came, "Pugu Cunde, Your Highness, where do you want to run?"
Jielibijia trembled all over, raised his head and saw a pair of eyes sparkling with excitement. It was not his distant relative, the envoy sent by Pugu Cheng.
It turned out that he was the one who went to notify Chiting Shou to capture Feng Hui.