Chapter 772 Yang Conspiracy, the helplessness of the Turkic ministries
Unlike other places, although the grassland is vast, there are not many natural dangers. The characteristics of the nomadic tribes also resulted in the Turkic tribes not building cities for defense and residence.
The agricultural society led to the fact that although Dali had a vast territory, it could only be dominated by infantry.
The infantry may have some advantages when attacking cities, but if they fight on the plains, they will have no power to resist the cavalry.
In the battle on the grassland, since there are no natural barriers or cities, the test is the ability of the two armies to fight head-on.
The nomadic Turkic tribes were good at cavalry, so when fighting on the grasslands, the Dali army was naturally at a disadvantage.
In addition, using tents that can be dismantled and taken away as houses, the Turkic tribes can make their homes everywhere as long as they are on the grassland.
In other words, even if the Dali army wins, the Turkic tribes can just dismantle their tents and move to other places to live without being affected at all, and the Dali army, which is mainly infantry, cannot surpass the Turks in speed.
Various ministries.
Therefore, attacking the grassland has always been a big problem for Dali.
But, it's different now.
After leaving Yanque Pass, An Junshan looked at the 30,000 troops behind him with great pride in his heart.
The same applies to the relationship between him and King Yu whether he will accept the order of the foreign king or not.
As an innate military advisor and the commander of Yanque Pass, he naturally became the most powerful person in the army when Di Xin, the general who suppressed the pass, had little intention of going on a personal expedition.
Therefore, the troops and horses he led were responsible for the main attack route, and along the route were the most powerful tribes in the Turks.
There are 20,000 infantry and 10,000 cavalry of the Flying Leopard Army, a total of 30,000 soldiers and horses. What they want is to suppress the territory with a large army and use force to suppress the people.
The 20,000 cavalry of the Flying Tiger Army and the Flying Wolf Army were divided into five groups, responsible for containing and destroying the relatively weak tribes, so that they were unable and did not dare to support other tribes.
As long as they cannot be brought together, the Turkic tribes fighting each other will become a piece of scattered sand and be gradually eliminated by the iron hoof of Dali.
This was an outright conspiracy. Even if the Turkic tribes saw it, they would not dare to abandon the ordinary people in their tribes to join forces.
Those five groups were all cavalry. They might not be able to catch up with the cavalry in the tribe, but the ordinary people would never be able to escape.
The so-called "all the people are soldiers" only targets the people of Dali. Compared with the real army, the combat effectiveness of the Turkic people is nothing.
Therefore, when these small troops faced thousands of Dali cavalry, there was only one end, and that was to be wiped out.
Of course, even though this was a war, Di Xin would not go so far as to massacre ordinary people. The function of these five lines of cavalry was to eliminate the effective strength of the tribes they passed by, so that each tribe lost the ability to resist.
If everyone is slaughtered, regardless of whether this is cruel or not, it will waste too much unnecessary time.
After wiping out the effective forces of the Turkic tribes on their respective routes, the five lines of cavalry will converge at the rear, and then, together with the army from Anjun Mountain, they will surround and attack the strongest Turkic tribes.
The Turkic tribes on other routes did not dare to join forces because the five groups of troops were all cavalry. If they dared to join together, the five groups of cavalry would dare to bypass them and attack the empty rear.
The Turks are good at cavalry, so they also know the strength of cavalry. Therefore, although they drank poison to quench their thirst, they did not dare to leave their tribe.
This is the biggest weakness of the tribal alliance. When they invade, they can advance and retreat together. Once they are invaded, their first consideration is the survival of their respective tribes.
After losing their own tribe, even if they win the war, it will be no different from failure to them.
But the route Anjunshan is responsible for is an exception.
Along this route are the strongest tribes among the Turks, with a relatively large population. Therefore, even if they join forces, they can still leave some troops to defend their own tribes.
But this is one of the trivial reasons.
The biggest reason is that there are 20,000 infantry in Anjunshan's army, which greatly slows down the marching speed. Therefore, they are not worried that Anjunshan can bypass their coalition forces and attack the empty tribes in the rear.
And the mission of Anjun Mountain is not to eliminate these tribes.
After the five lines of cavalry were separated, they each had only a few thousand. They could handle small tribes, but if they encountered the strongest Turkic tribes, they would suffer heavy losses regardless of victory or defeat.
Therefore, the 30,000-strong army in Anjun Mountain was ostensibly responsible for the main attack, but in fact it was to contain these larger tribes, as they had no spare power and did not dare to divide their troops to support the smaller tribes on other routes.
When the five lines of cavalry converged, it was time for him to launch the main attack.
When the scout discovered the coalition of several tribes, he decisively ordered the march to stop, and then the engineering troops brought by the infantry dug trenches on the spot and established defensive fortifications as quickly as possible.
Although simple, it is enough to defend the Turks of the Turkic coalition with 10,000 cavalry flanking them.
Therefore, when the 20,000 cavalrymen who had united the strongest Turkic tribes arrived, they saw the fortifications erected by the Dali army in the distance.
Seeing that Dali, who was supposed to be on the offensive side, was taking a defensive stance, countless generals in the Turkic army bit their silver teeth into pieces.
The reason why they all chose cavalry was because they saw the plan of Dali's army and wanted to deal with the army led by An Junshan as quickly as possible, and then deal with the five groups of cavalry.
Twenty thousand versus thirty thousand, but one side is full of cavalry and the other side has twenty thousand infantry. Even if the number is ten thousand less, they are confident that they can penetrate Dali's army on the plains.
However, they hurriedly hurriedly, but they were still one step late.
Under normal circumstances, attacking a real city requires five to ten times the number of troops to be successful. Although the fortifications in front of them are not as strong as the real city, their numbers are at a disadvantage.
The cavalry are not good at attacking cities. Even if they manage to break through the fortifications in front of them when they are outnumbered, it will take a long time. If the losses are heavy, they will have no spare power to support those small tribes.
When the five lines of cavalry from Dali converge, they may even be turned over.
That's 20,000 cavalry. Even if their combat effectiveness is not as good as that of the Turkic soldiers, they are not easy to deal with.
But now, these Turkic army generals still don't know that the cavalry at Yanque Pass use training methods that Emperor Xin brought from other worlds that are beyond this world.
Although they have not yet experienced actual combat, the combat effectiveness of the Dali cavalry is no longer inferior to those of the nomads who grew up on horseback.