"Tactics? What tactics?" Xu You exclaimed, startling the leader and making him very dissatisfied.
The enemy used a small group of troops to hedge against its own large group of cavalry, passing through the formation easily, and then followed the original path to fight back. If this is a tactic, it shows that the enemy has already calculated it accurately, and their cavalry can easily and easily
Isn't this contempt for the Xianbei people? What's even more depressing is that this is a bullshit tactic and completely useless!
"If he wanted to provoke, then I admit that he succeeded!" Kuitou said through gritted teeth.
"No, this is not a provocation. I'm afraid his purpose is..." Xu You twitched the corner of his mouth and showed a difficult smile. He was about to explain, but when the words came to his lips, he turned into an exclamation: "Oops!"
The leader was frightened by him. When he looked closely, he found that the role of the Han army's light cavalry was not to provoke him as he imagined, or to rush to fight. They were just creating a favorable situation for the friendly forces.
After the light cavalry broke away, more than a thousand cavalry formed a long frontal front, followed closely behind the light cavalry, and rushed forward. Because the light cavalry was too fast, the forward speed of the heavy cavalry seemed very slow, as if they were decelerating.
It seems, but in fact, they have entered the rhythm of charging.
The barbarian bull formation that Gongsun Zan saw before had turned into an iron hammer formation after the two horns were separated. With the heavy cavalry as the hammer head, it hit Hu Qi's formation with thunderous momentum.
According to the tactics discussed in advance by the leader and others, the Chinese army should extend as far as possible to the two wings, and the scorpion formation changed into a scissors formation, allowing the sharpness of the overweight cavalry to outflank and surprise the infantry behind them who were not in formation.
As a result, under the repeated attacks of two teams of light cavalry from Taishi Ci and Wei Yan, Hu Qi was blocked and could not avoid the two wings. It was like a narrow place where a big river flows, and someone suddenly threw a big stone into it.
It blocked the diversion of the river water.
Under normal circumstances, this would not happen. A thousand Qingqi could not contain the charge of a hundred thousand barbarian cavalry, just like a dam standing in front of a torrent, which would only be washed away.
However, Qingqi found that what Qingqi was blocking was not the main trunk, but the branches. Even if Hu Qi did not avoid the wings, his horse would still have room to run. Therefore, the pressure from General Taishi Ci was not too great to resist. The pressure was on Hu Qi's side.
With a team of 100,000 people, the tactical movement of the central army gradually moving away from the two wings is not as difficult as the ordinary infantry array changes. It places high demands on the riding skills of the soldiers and the organizational skills of the generals.
Although Kuitou and his army could make demands, they did not consider the problem of fault tolerance. As a result, they were interfered with by Tai Shici and his two men. His formation change suffered a shameful failure. The main force of Hu Qi could only follow the original line of defense.
He slammed into the Qingzhou Army's formation.
"Bastard!" Realizing the intention of the Han army, the leader was so angry that he yelled: "You are so cunning. You can come up with such a trick at this time. How despicable!"
Before the war, he tried every possible means to avoid a direct conflict with the cavalry. However, this mentality was calculated and exploited in a very targeted manner. How could he not become angry and angry?
"However, no matter how powerful the cavalry is, there are only more than a thousand. The battle line is so long that it is almost like a sieve. There is nothing to be afraid of! Blow the trumpet louder so that the warriors don't have to be afraid and go all out.
Charge forward, the enemy only has more than a thousand, and we have a hundred thousand!"
After all, he is a person who is used to being the boss. The leader quickly noticed his gaffe and regained his composure. He noticed the shortcoming of the cavalry array being not dense enough, and gave specific instructions: If you can't avoid it, just attack hard.
Well, there are many people here anyway.
The reason why the Qingzhou Army stretched the array so long was simply to protect the infantry at the back as much as possible. Even if the collision with the cavalry in front caused greater damage, it would still be bearable. In this way, together with the cavalry on both wings, they could attack the Qingzhou infantry on three sides.
Being attacked from both sides is not a bad thing.
After hearing the instructions from the Chinese army, Hu Qi, who was panicking, calmed down, increased his horse speed to the extreme, and collided with the oncoming steel giant.
Shanyu was right. The formation of the Han cavalry was very thin. There were only three rows in the horizontal line, and the gap between the columns was nearly five steps. Even if they couldn't win, they still had a chance to pass through the middle.
"Boom!" The cavalry charged each other so fast. Before the trumpet sound of the leader's trumpet stopped, the two cavalrymen galloping towards each other had already collided hard, making a huge noise.
In this battle, the heavy cavalry were all using long spears. The heavy cavalry charging with the long spears looked like a protruding and moving hill. All the cavalrymen who collided with it were badly wounded.
At the moment of the impact, more than half of Rulin's long shaft became curved, which was a unique behavior after the horse stabbed the target. The excellent performance of the shaft completely absorbed the force of the impact, and used it at the next moment.
It suddenly erupted, ejecting the corpse hanging on the front of the sword in the opposite direction, and smashed into the queue behind it like a meteorite.
Not all long spears have such good performance. There are also long spears that cannot withstand the huge impact force and break. However, this cannot change the power of the iron cavalry. The cavalry who lost their long spears threw away the broken spears and took out the long spears from under the saddle.
Knives or chain hammers started a new round of killing with a more violent attitude.
The chain hammer is a unique cavalry melee weapon of the Qingzhou cavalry. It is not a traditional weapon of the Central Plains, but a sharp weapon once equipped by the heavy armored infantry cavalry in the Western Middle Ages. The overall structure is very simple, with a wooden handle more than a foot long at the back.
The front end of the iron chain is connected to an iron chain more than three feet long. The other end of the iron chain has an iron hammer head with many protrusions on it, which looks very cruel at first glance.
This thing is very simple to use. You just swing it and smash it. You can't block it, and you can't use fancy moves. But just this move is well worth the cost of making a weapon.
The iron lump weighing more than ten kilograms was swung up, making a soul-stirring 'wow' sound, and then suddenly hit the opponent's face. Anyone who saw this scene would have their hands and feet half weakened before they could fight back.
The best way to deal with this kind of weapon is to use long weapons to knock down the opponent before he gets close, or to use the tactic of mutual destruction to force the opponent to rescue him.
But the problem is that those who use chain hammers are all armored cavalry. They don't care about the thrusts of ordinary long weapons. They will use the shield on their left arm to block and protect their vital points, and then when the enemy stabs or misses,
He struck with a hammer and smashed the opponent's head to pieces like a watermelon.
Some of the Xianbei leaders were furious. Unwilling to be beaten and unable to fight back, they gathered a few of their subordinates and wanted to use group fighting tactics to deal with the cavalry, so that others could attract attention and accumulate their own strength, ready to pounce on them even if they fight hard.
Even if they die together, they must tear each other off their horses.
As a result, a few people rushed forward in a swarm, but suddenly found that the enemy had become two. The Han troops in the front row slowed down their horses at some point, and the cavalry in the back row jumped in without losing any opportunity. The moment they rushed forward,
, just in time to catch up with this juncture of alternating back and forth.
With a horse pole and a chain hammer, several horsemen became moths fluttering into the flames.
The overall battle situation showed a one-sided situation.
One hundred thousand Hu cavalry swarmed up, seemingly overwhelming, with no end in sight. The only thing in the world could compare to it was the ocean tide. This kind of momentum should not be blocked by more than a thousand people anyway. But the Qingzhou cavalry seemed to
Those rocks that have existed for tens of millions of years, no matter how the waves beat and the tides and rains erode, they still stand proudly and remain motionless.
At least in the initial stage of the close combat between the two armies, Hu Qi's numerical advantage could not be reflected at all. The strong attack and defense of the iron cavalry itself, coupled with the powerful crushing force of the chariot formation, they could only wail and struggle hopelessly.
The leader and others were all pale. They had heard about how powerful the Qingzhou cavalry was, but they didn't expect it to be this strong. If there were seven or eight thousand such cavalry, the cavalry alone could kill a hundred thousand tribal warriors.
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Although they were trembling, they were also grateful.
Fortunately, the number of the opponent's cavalry was limited, and because they had to protect the infantry, they stretched the array very wide, resulting in many gaps in the middle of the array. Many tribal warriors were frightened by the power of the cavalry, so they simply deflected their horses and went around the cavalry.
.Due to the limitations of the iron armor, the iron cavalry does not have much to do against enemies on the sides and back. As long as it passes the front edge of the iron cavalry, it will be safe.
People who started doing this were just doing it unconsciously or by mistake. Soon, more and more people discovered this loophole and took advantage of it. If they had no other choice, who would want to deal with something that cannot be cut or beaten?
Is the monster trying his best?
Yes, the armor is not really indestructible, but if you want to destroy the armor, you have to exert force at a very close place and use a heavy weapon to strike with all your strength. The risk you take in doing so is too great. After all, the opponent is not a clay sculpture.
Puppet, the weapons in their hands are much more powerful than our own!
Therefore, from the perspective of spectators like the leader, the array of iron cavalry is like a very sharp comb. The teeth of the comb are indestructible and invincible to those who block it. The loopholes are also large and cannot fully achieve the purpose of protecting the infantry behind them.
"Huh, it's okay. Fortunately, the Han army responded in a hurry, otherwise today would have really ended badly." The leader took a long breath and wiped the cold sweat on his forehead with his sleeves, finally feeling relieved a little.
If the cavalry formed a tight formation, God knows how many tribesmen would be killed before they were exhausted. As it is now, although the scene is not very pretty, the casualties have been reduced after all, and the Chinese army has successfully fought with the Han infantry.
made contact.
Next, as long as the central army and the left and right wings defeat the Han army's infantry as planned, and the rear army consumes the energy of the cavalry in a wandering battle, we should be able to win.
However, God seemed determined to make a joke on him. Before he could finish wiping off his sweat, another sudden change occurred on the battlefield. (To be continued.)