Seeing the overwhelming heavy cavalry charge, the soldiers of the Longwu Army no longer felt very strong at this time.
Adrenaline, once this thing starts to take effect, is more effective than any other stimulant. Even if the person is seriously injured and dying, a shot of this thing can make even a dying person suddenly jump up.
When the adrenaline began to spread, the fear and tension caused by the heavy cavalry group immediately weakened several times.
Now let alone the heavy cavalry group, even if the tank and armored group comes, we have to find a way to kill it.
Since Cao Xueyang dared to engage in a decisive battle with King Zhao's army, he naturally had a way to deal with the cavalry.
The tactics of the light cavalry emphasize "whenever encountering the enemy's formation, fight three, three, five, five, four, five" and the crow soldier's scattered star formation, which "comes like falling from the sky and goes like lightning."
The heavy cavalry has relatively high requirements for maintaining the overall formation. It emphasizes maintaining a relatively complete formation while running at high speed in order to exert its overall impact power. And its array cannot escape the traditional straight, square, and sharp formation.
, curve, circle five basic formations.
The impact formation used by King Zhao's army was the sharp formation.
The Rui Formation is a term used in Wu Qi’s Art of War. It is also called the Fire Formation (Yellow Emperor’s Five Elements Formation), the Mu Formation (Sun Tzu), and the Flying Bird Formation (Zhuge’s Art of War, Chapter 24). In Sun Tzu’s Art of War, it is also called the Flying Geese.
Array.
This formation is lower in front and higher in the back, taking advantage of the weakness and chaos. Because of the terrain, it is both advantageous and disadvantageous, so it can win the attack.
Generally used to complete the tactical purpose of assault and entrapment, they are arranged in a wedge shape, mainly to continuously tear apart the opponent's defense line by going deep. The weapon configuration from front to back usually adopts a combined formation of rifles, melee heavy weapons, and long-range projectile weapons.
Arrange.
As long as the enemy's formation is torn apart, no matter how many soldiers and horses there are, they will serve as food in front of the heavy cavalry.
Zhao Wangjun relied on such a move to defeat Houjin steadily.
It wasn't until Hou Jin learned about Tiefu Tu and Guaizima that he could fight in a battle.
But the Longwu Army was not Houjin, and they did not have the ability to confront heavy cavalry head-on. Both Zhu Shihong and Zhang Shimei firmly believed this.
They wanted to use the invincible offensive of the heavy cavalry to break the morale of the Longwu Army and even the entire Southern Army.
"Disperse!"
Under the order of the forward general, the forward of Longwu Army dispersed, revealing the Wu Gang chariot behind it.
It has a scarf and a cover, so it is called a Wugang chariot. It is two feet long and one foot four wide. It is guarded by a ring, a spear is tied outside, a large shield is built inside, and the body is covered with cowhide or rhinoceros armor.
This kind of chariot is a powerful weapon against cavalry. Li Ling, the grandson of the former Han general Li Guang, led 5,000 infantry in Junji Mountain and encountered 30,000 Xiongnu cavalry. The Han army surrounded the Wugang chariot to form a camp, with the front row holding halberds to guard, and the rear row guarding it.
The platoon held crossbows and fired. The Xiongnu cavalry attacked with bravery, and the Han army fired thousands of crossbows. The Xiongnu "still went up the mountain, and the Han army pursued them, killing thousands of them." The Han army beheaded more than 3,000 Xiongnu.
It’s just that the Wugang chariot is not a chariot in the true sense. It is a passive defense equipment. “The chariot is used for defense rather than offense”, thus limiting its popularization.
Especially the Great Zhou Dynasty, since Taizu founded the country, its national power has been strong and it has been expanding externally.
Although Taizong was posthumously named Wen and gave up some worthless land, he was willing to spend money on national defense construction.
The Sixth Army of the Emperor was organized by Taizong, and he also attached great importance to cavalry.
This resulted in the defensive Wugang vehicles having little market in the military.
When the Longwu Army was established, Cao Xueyang and Yang Qingyuan positioned it as a homeland defense army.
That's why there are these numbers of Wugang vehicles in the army.
After the Wugang car stopped, the Longwu Army soldiers immediately put down the handbrake and inserted four iron sticks into the ground to ensure that the Wugang car would not move like a mountain!
When Zhu Shihong saw the appearance of these chariots, his heart trembled slightly. It seemed that if he wanted to defeat the Longwu Army's formation today, he would have to pay a certain price!
Zhang Shimei, who was behind the military formation, saw such changes on the battlefield and immediately waved the command flag in his hand.
The light cavalry on the left and right flanks immediately filed out.
The emergence of these Wugang vehicles meant that after Zhu Shihong defeated the Longwu Army's formation, the subsequent impact force might not be enough to tear apart and destroy the Longwu Army's formation.
Therefore, Zhang Shimei ordered the light cavalry to advance in coordination. Once the heavy cavalry broke up the Longwu Army's formation, the light cavalry would cooperate with them to attack together to expand the results of the battle.
"withstand!"
The charging group of heavy cavalry crashed into the Wugang vehicle formation like a torrent.
Zhu Shihong took the lead, infusing the pear blossom mountain ax in his palm with true energy, and struck it down with a heavy axe. The Wugang chariot that was blocked in front of him was actually thrown away by Zhu Shihong's axe, and broke into two pieces in mid-air.
"Brothers, follow me and kill!" Zhu Shihong clamped his horse and rushed into the Long Wu Army's camp.
Seeing how brave their general was, the heavy cavalry of King Zhao's army was greatly boosted in morale. No longer afraid of the strength of the Wugang chariot, they rammed hard into the Wugang chariot.
This courage is commendable, but not everyone can use Zhu Shihong's ability to master the realm of heaven and earth.
The ordinary heavy cavalry collided with Wu Gang's chariot, as if they had hit a stone wall. The powerful force shook their bones, broke their bones, and seriously injured their internal organs.
Although the Wugang chariot creaked after being hit, it still stood firmly at the front of the Longwu Army. The four iron sticks inserted into the ground allowed the Wugang chariot to resolve the impact again and again.
The unparalleled impact of the heavy cavalry group's charge is being continuously neutralized by the Wugang vehicle formation.
"kill!"
As a cavalryman's mace hit the Wugang chariot heavily, the Wugang chariot could no longer withstand the repeated impacts of the heavy cavalry and was shattered to pieces under the blow.
Scenes like this appeared in many places, but the collapse of the Wugang vehicle array was all part of Cao Xueyang's calculations.
She herself is one of the most outstanding cavalry commanders in the world, so she naturally knows how to fight against cavalry.
The originally unstoppable impact of the heavy cavalry was no longer invincible due to the weakening of the Wugang chariot.
This simple car formation caused the thousands of heavy cavalry of King Zhao's army to lose their combat effectiveness.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! On the battlefield, the heavy cavalry that has lost its impact and fell is like a target, a military achievement that is difficult to move.
After breaking through the first line of defense, Zhu Shihong, the leader, encountered the enemy's horse and gun formation again.
The layer-by-layer layout of Longwu's military formation is resolved by strategic depth.
This is the flexible application of the strategic thinking of large-depth operations, and it is the tactical theory used by the Russian Empire to deal with blitzkrieg.
He can be used against the blitzkrieg of armored clusters!
Naturally, its abbreviated version can also be used to deal with heavy cavalry charges.
Cao Xueyang blocked four lines of defense on the charge route of King Zhao's heavy cavalry, stretching for nearly five miles.
The central army looks thick and heavy, but in fact it is clearly divided. The four defense lines have varying degrees of tightness, but are not as solid as the troops and horses on the two wings.
After breaking through the Wugang chariot formation, the speed of King Zhao's heavy cavalry had slowed down.
The formation of horse and gun resistance was enough to pose a considerable threat to them.
Between the left and right sides, there were soldiers attacking with large guns from time to time, making the slowed down cavalry an excellent target for them.
At this time, Zhu Shihong was no longer as arrogant as before. Although he was brave, he was not stupid, and he had already realized that something was wrong.
The Wugang chariot formation had completely destroyed the formation of the heavy cavalry charge, and the power of the cavalry charge in this situation was greatly reduced. However, under the obstruction of the horse and spear formation, the speed of the heavy cavalry further dropped.
"Tai Gong's Art of War, Six Taoist Strategies: Cavalry War": The cavalry has ten victories and nine defeats.
Whenever we use our cavalry to trap the enemy, but fail to break through, and the enemy feints to run away and returns to attack us with his chariots and cavalry, the cavalry will be defeated.
Zhu Shihong's heavy cavalry is gradually falling into this situation.
In fact, the Longwu Army was fully qualified to compete with Zhu Shihong's cavalry at the second line of defense, but Cao Xueyang still deployed four lines of defense just to completely trap the cavalry in the formation.
Heavy cavalry is almost invincible when facing infantry.
But for generals who are good at infantry combat and use infantry to defeat cavalry, the invincibility of heavy cavalry must be prefixed - at the right time.
Looking at the history books of the Spring and Autumn Period, the most famous assault cavalry was the Black Armor Cavalry in the early Tang Dynasty.
Every battle is fought with less and more is conquered.
It's not that its equipment and weapons are far ahead of the enemy, but that its commander accurately grasps the battle situation.
"Zizhi Tongjian" calls it "taking advantage of the opportunity to attack, destroying everything in its direction, and the enemy is afraid of it."
So why is the time right?
Among the ten advantages of cavalry warfare, taking advantage of an undecided enemy, covering up an unsecured enemy, attacking an enemy who is not in a position to attack, attacking an enemy without hesitation, messing with its weapon, suppressing its fear, and teasing an unarmed enemy are all considered to be the appropriate time for an armored cavalry assault.
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However, not everyone is Li Erfeng and has such an amazing sense of battlefield.
Although Zhu Shihong was brave, how could his grasp of the battlefield situation compare with Li Erfeng?!
Although Zhu Shihong already felt that something was wrong with the battle situation, he didn't know how to solve this problem. He could only continue to charge and penetrate the formation.
But just when he was about to continue leading the charge, a silver gun stopped him.
The person who came was none other than Mrs. Yang Si. She was dressed in red and had a pear blossom in her hand.
A silver spear danced like a pear blossom, and Zhu Shihong's pear blossom mountain ax didn't know where to start. He was forced to stop the impact by the shadow of the gun in the sky.
"Zhu Shihong, forget it now!"
Mrs. Yang Si is the commander-in-chief of the third line of defense. There are a total of 7,000 soldiers and horses here, all of them are hook and sickle gunmen, specially designed to restrain the cavalry.
Under the obstruction of Lady Yang, Zhu Shihong's heavy cavalry had completely lost its speed advantage.
As for Zhu Shihong's penetration tactics, once the offensive is blocked, it will be fatal!
"Twenty pear blossom spears are invincible in the world! I want to see if the marksmanship is really as good as it is boasted of!"
Immediately, Zhu Shihong clamped the curly-haired lion beast under his crotch and raised the pear-shaped mountain ax high to kill Mrs. Yang Si.
Zhu Shihong's martial arts is fierce and unforgiving, overwhelming others with force. Most generals with swords and axes are like this. The control of force is more important than their skills.
Zhu Shihong also knew in his heart that he had little chance of winning if he had to fight against Madam Yang for change. Only by fighting head-on could he defeat Madam Yang in the shortest possible time and get out of the predicament.
But Mrs. Yang's shooting skills were more agile and changeable than he imagined. The spear tassel danced like pear blossoms, and the shadow of the gun dazzled him, and there was no way to force her true identity out.
And among the pear blossoms in the sky, there are endless murderous intentions hidden. Once he relaxes his vigilance, the gun blade may stab Zhu Shihong's throat at any time.
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Not only Zhu Shihong, his heavy cavalry army also fought with the hook and sickle gunners of the Long Wu Army!
The gun is seven feet and two inches long, of which the head is eight inches. The head of the gun is sharp, with a laterally protruding barb at its lower part, and the hook tip is curved inwards.
The head of the hook-and-scythe gun is the same as an ordinary spear. It functions as an assassin. The barbs on the side can be used to chop down the enemy or hook the enemy, effectively preventing the enemy from escaping. Although the hook has an auxiliary effect in killing the enemy,
But it also has the function of preventing the tip of the gun from penetrating too deeply.
The heavy armored cavalry of King Zhao's army are all armored. Even if they stand and let the enemy chop them, the armor may not be broken. Only the lower parts of the limbs of the horses are not armored.
The side strike of the hook and sickle gun has a huge lethality on the horse's feet, cutting the horse's legs across the horse's legs, thus forcing the enemy to dismount and creating a fighting opportunity.
Although the heavy cavalry of King Zhao's army used high-quality war horses, the physical exertion on the horses under such an impact was also huge.
Without the impact of the heavy cavalry, they looked more cumbersome.
The hook-and-scythe gunners kept attacking, and the horses fell to the ground one after another amid the screams.
The cavalry of King Zhao's army did not sit still and kept firing crossbows, killing the hook-and-scythe gunners.
The two sides just touched each other, and the bloody level of the battle immediately reached full force.
After the heavy cavalry fell to the ground, it was difficult for him to get up by himself. The hook-and-scythe gunmen on the side swarmed up and assassinated him.
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In the formation of King Zhao's army, Zhang Shimei was no longer sure of victory when the battle began. He did not expect that Cao Xueyang's Longwu Army had such a complete and mature combat system of foot versus cavalry.
The always invincible heavy cavalry army actually fell into the Longwu Army's formation and found it difficult to break out.
For a cavalry general like Zhang Shimei, once the cavalry loses its impact, the consequences are self-evident.
At the same time as the Longwu Army Formation was unfolding, Zhang Shimei gave the order and the army attacked!
The elite infantry, together with the cavalry on both wings, rushed towards the Longwu Army.
Even without these 3,000 elite heavy cavalry, King Zhao's army still had advantages in strength and combat power.
The light cavalry of King Zhao's army wanted to attack the two wings of Longwu's army, but the layout of Longwu's two wings was even more solid than its front. With the cooperation of Wugang's chariots and powerful crossbows, it was really difficult to break through.
Although the light cavalry was flexible and mobile, its impact and attack ability were not as good as those of the heavy cavalry. They could only adopt a wandering fighting method and engage in a tug-of-war with the infantry of the Longwu Army.
This played into the plans of Longwu's soldiers. The order they received from the beginning was to hold on to the two wings to prevent the enemy's flank surprise.
Now the light cavalry of King Zhao's army are starting a tug-of-war, which is exactly what they want. As long as you don't want to break through the flanks, you can fight in any way.
Under Cao Xueyang's arrangement, the 160,000 dragon warriors had formed an iron barrel formation. Although they had sacrificed their mobility, their defensive attributes were almost full, and they were waiting for the elite of King Zhao's army to rush into the formation.
To break through the defense of this iron barrel formation, it is difficult to break through at a single point. The only way is to face the attack head-on.
And Zhang Shimei was also well aware of this and commanded his 200,000 troops to slowly press forward!
