The battle goal was determined, and Zhao Si was not in a hurry. Like a very experienced hunter, he continued to test his opponent patiently, waiting for changes in the physical strength, morale, and various factors on the battlefield of both sides.
"Zhe Yanzhi, you lead five thousand cavalry to replace Yang Zongmin and continue to attack the right wing of the Tatar people."
Zhao Si looked down the telescope and ordered.
Through the telescope, Zhao Si saw that Quinn's cavalry had been fighting for half an hour. Due to excessive losses and exhaustion, they finally gave up and withdrew to their own formation.
Yang Zongmin's troops who were fighting against them were not willing to fight and led their troops back to their own formation.
"Here!" Zheyan responded, turned around and left.
"Zhe Yanzhi has changed his subordinates for the third time. Judging from the look on his face, he is very tired." Changsun Moli said.
"The third wave?"
"Yes, the first wave is to fight against the Chahan tribe's cavalry, and the second wave is to attack the left wing and fight against the Teredi tribe's cavalry."
"I've been fighting for so long." Zhao Si looked at the sky and saw that the sun had moved west to his right elbow. "What time is it now?"
"Four o'clock in the afternoon."
I have been fighting for seven or eight hours from when the sun first came up until now.
"It's still early. We are tired, and the Tatar people are even more tired. Let's see who can't stand it first!"
After saying that, Zhao Si turned around and cast his gaze back to the battlefield. The battle line, which was more than ten miles long, was still divided into three major parts, the left wing, the center wing and the right wing.
On the left and right wings, the Song army took the initiative to provoke and led the Tatar troops to come out to fight. On the center wing, the Tatar troops launched a counterattack, and the Song army went out to fight.
There were nearly ten thousand knights in each of the three major areas entangled together, fighting each other.
Their tricks are almost the same.
When they come out of their respective formations and approach each other, they will huddle together and shoot at each other at a distance of tens of meters.
As the capable warriors of the Khitan people on the grasslands, the Tatar people obtained much stronger bows and arrows than those of the Kled and Mongolian tribes. Many of them were made by Han craftsmen in Nanjing, Xijing and other places in the Liao Dynasty.
Compared with the bows and arrows made by the Song Dynasty, which improved materials and manufacturing techniques several times, although there is still a gap, a lot has been made up for.
After several rounds of shooting at each other, the two sides were almost face to face, waving sabers and spears, and engaged in a melee.
The weapons in the hands of the Tatar people were also specially provided by the Khitan people. The Khitan people were originally good at forging. The word Khitan means iron or sword in the Xianbei and Khitan languages.
Although the weapons they provided to the Tatars were not the most sophisticated, they were enough to compete with the Suzaku Army. Therefore, courage and luck became the dominant factors on the battlefield at this time.
The Tatar people are indeed brave and ferocious.
They often bear several wounds and have many arrows stuck in them. They still wave their weapons and charge towards the Suzaku Army. They are as wild as wild beasts, screaming and fighting the enemy to the end without retreating.
The Suzaku Army may not be as brave as the Tatars, but they are better than the others in their cooperation.
They usually work in teams of a hundred people to cooperate. If they are broken up, they will form a team of ten; if they are broken up again, they will try their best to form a group of three.
Although they may come from different centurions, who will be the sharp knife, who will be the supporter, and who will be the cover will be tacitly determined the moment they are put together.
This kind of situation where different teams are thrown together due to confusion is very common on the battlefield. This is a common item in the Suzaku Army's training exercises for many years.
The officers and soldiers of Suzaku have already become perfect with practice.
The vanguard and soldiers led by the centurion became the core point of dispersion on the battlefield. The soldiers, accompanying soldiers and sergeants formed a team to fight, like the iron filings around the magnet, involuntarily surrounding the centurion.
long, gradually forming a concentric circle.
The closer the distance is, the more support and cooperation you can get from other teams, and you are back to the situation of a hundred-man team fighting together.
Often after a battle, it seems that both the Tatars and the Suzaku Army suffered heavy casualties, and both suffered heavy losses.
However, the Suzaku Army always consciously maintained its local advantage in numbers, and was good at fighting cooperative battles. Therefore, in actual battle results, the Suzaku Army's casualties were 10 to 20% less than those of the Tatars.
The two sides take turns fighting. If one side is too tired or can't hold on any longer, it will take the lead to turn back to its own formation. The opponent will not pursue it and will withdraw its team and return to the formation. Then a new team will be sent to attack the door, attracting a new team of the enemy, and continue.
Fight.
With several rounds of battles, the consequences of the Tatars' inferior casualty exchange ratio gradually became apparent. The first to notice this was the Tatars' commander-in-chief, Khuridai.
He found that the available troops at his disposal were increasingly in embarrassment.
My troops and horses are not much less than those of the Song and Klie coalition forces!
The startled Kulidai observed carefully again, and he found that in the three major fighting areas, the ones who were often unable to hold on were the first ones to retreat, and those who came back in defeat were all Tatar people.
This made Kuridai frown tightly.
The fighting on the grassland is the same as other wars. It is very normal to kill from morning to night and for several days in a row.
They fight for a day, eat and rest at night, and get up the next day to continue fighting. Sometimes they fight from one side of the river to the other side of the river. From the beginning of the war to the end of the war, the battlefield moves hundreds of miles. This is a common thing.
At this time, the competition is about the resilience of their respective armies to see who can persist to the end.
The Xixia army had a small number of troops, but it was able to always suppress the Song army, never fall behind against the Liao army, and then dominate the northwest. This was because the Dangxiang people were famous for their resilience.
The Song army was weak, and its biggest flaw was its lack of resilience. Once the war lasted for a long time, it couldn't stand it and collapsed first.
The only people who can compete with the Dangxiang people in terms of toughness are the Mobei tribes who grew up in the bitter cold land. The Tatar people are considered the best among them. But after today's defeat, our side couldn't withstand it at first.
The astute and cautious Kulidai sensed the danger, and found that the general on the opposite side was a very patient hunter.
The two sides have been fighting for so long, and all the disadvantages and advantages have been revealed. All the shortcomings should be exposed. Perhaps the hunter on the opposite side has found his own weaknesses that he has not noticed yet, and is planning to launch a fatal attack.
One blow.
Weakness, where is the weakness of our army? Kuridai diligently observed the chaotic battlefield, his eyes sweeping back and forth among his own formations.
"Yang Keshi!" Zhao Si had already found the Tatar people's weakness, sensed that the time had come, and decided to launch a fatal blow.
"exist!"
"Are the Red Flag volunteers ready?"
"Replying to Your Majesty, half an hour ago you asked the Yi Cong team to start preparing. A thousand armored cavalry are already in armor and are ready to go!"
"Okay, you lead the Chiqi Yi Cong straight towards the middle road of the Tatar people, cut through it, and make a big hole. Wang Shunchen!"
"exist!"
"Your five thousand forward troops, I specially arranged to only go up and fight once. They are the best among the participating teams in maintaining their physical strength. I order you to lead them to follow the Red Flag Yi Cong and follow the opening they made.
Tear apart the Tatar people's military formation for me!"
"Here!"
"The rest of the troops should prepare immediately to launch a full-line attack on the enemy. Hu Luxiong, you lead three thousand cavalry as a pursuit reserve. Remember, keep an eye on the heads of Khuridai and Gumusi."
"Here!"
The war drums beat and the horns sounded, and a thousand red flag rebels appeared at the front of the Suzaku Army. They were all armored, and each of them was a steel monster that could run. Behind the saddle, there were two narrow vertical red flags,
Hunting in the wind.
Yang Keshi raised the lance more than ten feet long in his hand and shouted: "Where loyalty and righteousness follow, life and death follow! The sky can tell you, and the red flag is the proof!"
A thousand Yi Cong also raised their spears high and shouted in unison: "Where loyalty and righteousness go, life and death follow you! The sky can tell you, and the red flag is the proof!"
All the horns of the Suzaku Army sounded together. Hundreds of horns made a heroic and generous sound. This sound was the hymn of heroes. The carriage of the God of War swept across the banks of the Luqu River and the Mobei grassland.
Yang Keshi covered his ferocious mask, mobilized his mount, and rushed forward. Qian Yi Congjia also started up, and their heavy hoofbeats sounded like ancient gods, patrolling this area with a step of hundreds of miles.
land.
Two thousand red vertical flags whirred behind the saddle, like the wings of armored cavalry, wrapped in blazing flames, rushing towards the Tatar people.
Middle road?
Suddenly, when Lidai saw a Song Army cavalry slamming towards him like a red-hot hammer, he suddenly realized the biggest weakness and gap on his side.
On the left and right wings, the Suzaku Army has been taking the initiative to attack, while the Tatar people have been passively fighting. In the middle, the Tatar people have been unwilling to be outdone and have taken the initiative to fight, while the Suzaku Army has been passive.
On the wings, the Tatars are passive, but in the middle, they are active.
After several rounds of battles, the pressure exerted by the Song army on both wings increased, and suddenly Li Dai couldn't help but transfer the main force and elites to the two wings to fight.
In the middle, because it was our own side who took the initiative, or perhaps the Song Army secretly released the enemy, they seemed to be able to do it with ease and with little pressure. When suddenly Li Dai suddenly woke up, he suddenly realized that there was no team that could fight in the middle.
When I realized that I had been deceived, my first thought was to run away.
You are a genius, remember in one second: Red Oasis: This chapter has been completed!
