The cavalry did move, but it was not the one led by Li Fusheng that charged into the camp, but two cavalry units on both sides of the camp, totaling more than 6,000, began to accelerate.
For cavalry, battlefield distance is extremely important. If a war horse wants to increase its speed, there must be enough distance for it to accelerate.
A cavalry that cannot charge is like a living target.
The purpose of later generations of ancient war movies is to pursue the visual sense, so there are often scenes of cavalry riding on horseback, drawing knives and starting to chop each other after a large-scale charge.
In fact, the most effective way to use cavalry is its speed and the terrifying collision given by its speed. Generally speaking, if the troops can be pulled out after a collision, after a short rest, , and then launch a new round of charge, repeated several times, this is the most correct way for the cavalry to open up.
Just like squeezing out toothpaste, use every method to squeeze out the last bit of toothpaste and brush your teeth again.
However, a cavalry unit that can achieve this level must be an extremely high-quality cavalry unit. A cavalry unit without discipline or organization and with poor quality of horses and cavalry may launch a charge. , just like eggs smashed on the wall, the flowers are scattered like this, and you can't collect them even if you want to.
Zheng Fan has personally seen the quality of the Zhenbei Army. He is really not worried about this at all. The cavalry on both sides have moved, but the part of the Chinese army where Zheng Fan is staying is not at all worried. Didn't move.
Zheng Shoubei is an adult. He does not have to run ahead to play with a horsetail like Liang Cheng.
So, Zheng Shoubei Carefully “get the big picture” here.
There were more than three thousand cavalry on each side, stabbing directly at the frontmost military formation.
This is the most "elite" among the three formations of this cadre army.
The Zujia Army is famous in Daqian for its military discipline and formation. As a newly emerging army, they have already established their own reputation and confidence.
However,
when facing this rolling iron hoof,
every soldier felt panic in his heart.
Pirates,
No matter how many and powerful pirates are,
it is impossible for them to create such a cavalry formation!
"Spear, press!"
"Swish! Swish! Swish!!!"
The spearmen in the front row squatted down and raised the spears in their hands diagonally upwards , with their back ends pressed against the ground, they used their flesh and blood to build thorns to block the charge of the cavalry in front.
The spearman in the back row holds the spear in his right arm, and his left hand is responsible for fixing and adjusting the direction, with the tip of the spear facing forward.
The densely packed spear points are the shell of the military formation, a shell covered with spikes.
However, many of them were already trembling in their hands and feet.
Facing the charging pressure of the cavalry is like standing there facing a motorcycle rushing towards you at full speed. Who can not be afraid?
We are all human beings, we are all living beings. Who wants to die like this?
But they knew that as the outermost being of the military formation, their chances of surviving after a big battle were really very low.
Especially the spearmen in the front row. Even if their spears can pierce the opponent's horses, even if their spears can knock down the opponent's knights, the terrifying inertia carried by the horses can still knock them down. Flying out, dying directly under such an impact is a kind of luck. The most fearful thing is the one who has broken countless bones but has not yet died.
In that state, every extra moment of survival is an extra moment of torture.
Afterwards, but after the charge occurs, they will quickly break away from the protection of the shield and charge forward. All they have to do is to block the charge of the cavalry with the spears and robes in the front row, and then go up and kill the cavalry.
After the shield soldiers, there are the archers and crossbowmen. In fact, they provide the real killing output of the military formation.
Although Zu Zhuming was born in a general family, his general family was really too shabby. In the final analysis, the prosperity of the Zu family was still due to Zu Zhuming’s personal ability, and he also had to thank those who Thousands of heads provided by southeastern pirates helped pave the way.
This is a man who is good at learning and studying war. When the official order was issued to mobilize the Zu family army to go north, Zu Zhuming was actually thinking about how to defeat the cavalry with foot.
No, to be precise, for a hundred years, as long as the generals of the Qian Kingdom still had blood and dreams in their hearts, they would sit there some nights, thinking about how to deal with the impact of the Yan cavalry.
The defeat a hundred years ago is an eternal pain in the hearts of Gan people. There are many people who are afraid of the Northern Expedition, but there are even more people who long for the success of the Northern Expedition!
Zu Dongcheng sat on the horse and issued orders one after another through the messengers beside him.
Changes on the battlefield always happen in an instant. The general is the brain of an army. Only under the command of the brain can the trunk make corresponding movements.
However, sometimes there will be problems with this coordination. Either the general is too mediocre and cannot make correct decisions in time, or the quality of the soldiers is not good. No matter how talented a person is, if he has a physical defect If he has a disability, it will be difficult for him to do heavy work well.
This is what a general needs to get along with his subordinates.
In the early years, in order to gain military power, the founding emperor of Qian State mobilized elites from various armies to enrich the Forbidden Army when formulating national policies. At that time, the Forbidden Army of Qian State was the most powerful military force in the entire country. armed forces.
Whenever there is war somewhere in the empire, the Forbidden Army will march out of the capital to quell the chaos.
It’s just that Emperor Taizong’s Northern Expedition destroyed the elite of the Forbidden Army in one fell swoop and turned it into a “silver wave”;
The second is the years of peace, which allowed the Forbidden Army to continue to corrode itself.
Although there has been no large-scale war between Yan and Qian for nearly a hundred years, the imperial army of Qian has begun to degenerate to the point where it cannot even quell rebellions within the empire.
When the Southwest Chieftains rebelled, the Forbidden Army was actually the main force in countering the rebellion, supplemented by the Western Army. Unexpectedly, the Forbidden Army's army of more than 100,000 people was unexpectedly attacked by wolf soldiers in the valley, which led to the The entire front line collapsed, causing the chieftains who were still waiting to see how useless the cadre team was to immediately join in. This made the situation in the southwest completely corrupt.
Whether it is the Zujia Army or the Western Army, they actually stood up on the corpse of the Forbidden Army. When the Central Army cannot shoulder its responsibilities, the expansion of local feudal towns is an inevitable conclusion.
In a vassal town, there will naturally be no situation where the soldiers do not know the generals and the generals do not know the soldiers.
Zu Dongcheng’s palms were full of sweat.
He knew very well that
Whether his ancestral army could really stand up depended on This is a move!
Since the Yan army on the opposite side has chosen their own side as a breakthrough point, let’s give it a try and see if you Yan people have such good teeth!
"Blast the drum!"
Zu Dongcheng ordered.
"Dong dong dong dong dong dong!"
The sound of war drums came, and the ancestral army began to change formations following the drumbeats.
Zu Dongcheng believed that his commanding ability would never be worse than that of the Yanmanzi general on the opposite side.
But what he didn’t know was that,
The Yan army,
simply... has no one to command.
At this time, the six thousand Zhenbei Army cavalry that rushed out from both wings were already at a certain distance, and all the knights began to draw their bows and set arrows.
"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!"
A hail of arrows from both wings were thrown over.
The knights unfurled their bows and nocked arrows on their horses while raising their arms. The legs are clamped on the horse's back, and the center of gravity reaches a balance with the running horse.
The pikemen on the outside of the military formation immediately suffered many casualties. At the same time, almost inevitably, the two wings of the military formation began to be compressed back.
People are all afraid of death. When facing the charge of the cavalry, everyone was already very afraid. Now that the arrows are coming, it is instinct to retreat a little, and then retreat a little more!
"Fire arrows!"
After Zu Dongcheng gave the order, the archers and crossbowmen in the military formation began to fight back.
The knights of the Zhenbei Army did not retreat from the rain of arrows like they did in the last test, but continued to move forward, and at the same time continued to draw their bows and set arrows, because the distance was close enough, and they could find the target accurately without having to throw the arrows. Head.
For a time, the death and injury rate of the ancestral army in the military formation began to increase rapidly, especially the spearmen on the periphery. They were not protected by shields, and the armor on their bodies was not very protective. Like sculptures, they were shot to the ground one by one.
This is warThe battle is cruel and the war is ruthless, but there is nothing that can be done about it. If there are no pikemen on the outside of the military formation to block it, they will not be able to withstand the cavalry attack later.
However, the Zhenbei Army also began to suffer casualties. Each of the cavalrymen was shot and fell down, or their horses were hit by arrows and fell to the ground.
However, the two knights of the Northern Suppression Army did not slow down, but continued to close the distance while continuing to draw their bows and arrows.
This is exchanging lives, this is fighting for courage!
The remaining knights who dismounted quickly gathered together and began to fire arrows. They did not remain dazed or separated from the battle, and tried their best to cover their robes.
Close, close, close,
Very close!
"Change the formation!"
Zu Dongcheng ordered.
The shield soldiers began to retreat, and the swordsmen began to move forward, preparing to meet the charge from the cavalry. At the same time, the crossbows in the military formation began to take aim.
The advantage of the bed crossbow is that it has a long range and high lethality, but its disadvantage is that the cocking speed is very slow.
"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!..."
Every shot of the bed crossbow is accompanied by a string of blood splashes.
However,
What shocked Zu Dongcheng was that
the two wings of cavalry, which had already charged into the formation to close the distance, actually turned their horses around at the last moment. .
This is a quick turn by the cavalry. This scene takes into account the coordination and discipline of the troops, as well as the cavalry's equestrian skills. If the control is not good enough, members of the family may collide with each other. This triggered a subsequent series of rear-end collisions, causing the troops to get stuck there.
Zheng Fan had seen this kind of tactics before. When Liang Cheng led the army, he took his barbarian cavalry to fly kites and defeated the guard of a convoy with basically no casualties.
In the outer area where the cavalry on both wings turned, hundreds of cavalry on each side did not choose to turn with the large army, but chose to directly attack the opponent's military formation.
Because the troops need space to turn, their departure can give their robes the space they need. In addition, the distance is already very close. At this time, if you rein in the horse's head and stop, you will soon be shot. hedgehog.
So, it’s better to just use this horse’s extreme speed to hit it directly!
"Puff! Puff! Puff! Puff!"
The horses were pierced by spears, and each knight was knocked down, but their people and their However, the war horse still smashed into the ancestral army's formation with extremely strong inertia.
The formation on both wings was directly knocked out of two large gaps.
"Hiss..."
"Hiss..."
Two gasps of cold air came out almost at the same time.
One of them is Zheng Fan.
Seeing so many elite knights attacking like this, Zheng Shoubei felt distressed. How much money would it cost to arm them? How much energy and cost would it take to defeat them?Cultivate it.
The sentence "Raise an army for a thousand days and use it for a while", at this time, received the most cold and cruel interpretation.
The other one was sent by Zhong Mao. He couldn't stand this method of using cavalry to smash the military formation directly. Moreover, these cavalry are really not afraid of death!
This is really... terrible.
No one wants to fight a group of lunatics who are not afraid of death.
The cavalry on both wings detoured back.
Some of the cavalry rushing into the formation had already rushed into the formation and began to kill, while some fell off their horses and continued to use saber steps. Fight, no one retreats, everyone moves forward!
At the same time, the two cavalry units on the east and west sides also began to launch. They almost seamlessly connected with the pressure exerted by the previous cavalry wings on the ancestral army formation.
When the cavalry on both wings retreated in a roundabout way, the two cavalry on the east and west sides began to press their bows and arrows to suppress them.
Everything is handled very well.
Because they are so familiar with each other, this is the fundamental reason why Li Fusheng can relax and sit back and rush to the camp!
The two cavalry units at the back who were responsible for cutting off the Qian Army's retreat also began to press forward at this time, putting pressure on the military formations on the east and west sides of the Qian Army, forcing these two military formations to be unable to attack Zu. The front-line military formation, dominated by the home army, provided support and response.
Zheng Fan suddenly felt like a pack of wolves driving away the pack.
Because the most elite and solid military formation at the front had begun to be flattened by two groups of cavalry, causing many chaos.
This kind of chaos can be seen even by a war novice like Zheng Fan.
First of all, this is due to the Zhenbei Army's excellent riding and shooting skills. Even on horseback, the lethality of their bows and arrows is not inferior to the bows of the Qian Army standing on the ground in the military formation. Crossbowmen, even to a certain extent, are still victorious!
Liang Cheng and Zheng Fan once talked about the cavalry charge. Liang Cheng said that even after the emergence of modern muskets and artillery, when the infantry faced a large-scale cavalry charge, if the formation was not stable, it would be better. , the firepower formed by muskets and artillery was also difficult to disperse the cavalry.
What's more, this era is still an era of absolute cold weapons. The scene of arrows being fired and the cavalry in front falling down as if they were lining up to be shot is almost impossible to happen.
Secondly, there were the knights who took the initiative to rush into the formation. Their impact was like two big rocks hitting the turtle shell of the Ganren Army Formation, seriously affecting the operation of the Ganren Army Formation. block.
These knights are not only good at horseback fighting, but also know how to cooperate in foot combat after falling from their horses. They often stand up in groups or in groups, even if they are the strongest in the ancestral army. When the swordsmen composed of soldiers faced them, with the same number, they were completely suppressed. They could only rely on the number of people to pile up. They needed to concentrate more strength here, and other aspects were naturally weak. .
In addition, the openings on the east and west sidesAfter the attacks came one after another, the ancestral army's military formation was like a piece of brown candy, being bitten and pulled repeatedly, leaving cracks and gaps, and they were all pulled out in one fell swoop.
Zu Dongcheng never expected that the ancestral army and the military formation that he was proud of would be as fragile in front of this Zhenbei Army as if he were in the capital on the Lantern Festival. Lanterns sold on the street.
The gap,
is so huge.
In fact, no matter how much you look down on the Yan people, you will even say that the Yan people's Zhenbei Army cavalry is the best in the world.
But neither the local generals nor the princes in the court really dared to look down on the Yan people's combat prowess.
Otherwise, there would not have been a situation where soldiers and horses from all walks of life rushed northward. After Taiwei Yang proposed a strategy to avoid the war, he could continue to sit in the position of governor of the three sides.
Everyone, in fact, you are still honest and upright.
Zu Dongcheng and Zhong Mao often heard their elders talk about the Yan people. Whenever they talked about the Yan people, they would naturally talk about the Yan people's Zhenbei Army.
The elders have actually paid enough attention to this Zhenbei Army, thinking that if this Zhenbei Cavalry, which is said to number 300,000, is really to be encountered on the battlefield, it will really be a headache.
But the current situation,
is it really just a headache?
It was not until this moment that the two young men from the Ancestor and Zhong families truly realized how terrifying the iron cavalry of the Zhenbei Army was.
This army has been fighting with the barbarians in the desert for hundreds of years. Their former opponents were the barbarians, a terrifying group of people who became excellent cavalry as long as their tribesmen reached adulthood!
But even so, his bones were broken bit by bit by the Zhenbei Army, and he was beaten until he lost his temper.
How do Ganren compare to barbarians?
Zu Dongcheng waved his long sword and rode forward, while Zhong Mao immediately shouted:
"Brother Dongcheng, you have to stay and command!"
p>"Once the front formation is broken, we are all doomed!"
Everyone knows that the front line is the strongest in the three-party formation. This is not just about the front line being broken. In the end, it will be as simple as causing the two military formations behind to lose their barrier cover.
Once the front formation is broken, firstly, the soldiers in the front formation will be defeated, and their own family will attack their own military formation. Secondly, the two military formations behind will also be broken. The strongest front formation will be broken. , the morale of the army will be weakened in an instant,
Then,
a rout,
this is how it begins...
This world Many things are unfair.
The same is true for the battle between cavalry and infantry. The cavalry feels that it is not easy to chew this bone, so they can easily stop it and then retreat. Anyway, your infantry cannot catch up.
And once the infantry is defeated, if they want to escape, can they escape with four legs?
In other words, once the front line is broken, it means that the 30,000-strong army will be here.The whole dynasty is in mourning!
Zhong Mao mentioned his horse and said:
"Brother Dongcheng, I will go with you!"
At this time, the man who had previously gone out in a roundabout way The cavalry on both sides began to charge again. At the same time, the cavalry on both sides finished their work and took a roundabout way.
This feeling is like four hammers repeatedly striking the Qianjun military formation.
At the same time, the cavalry under Han Laowu were restricted to the military formations on the east and west sides of the rear, especially the Forbidden Army formation, even after revealing the hidden crossbows and war weapons. After the car, facing the impact of the knights of the Zhenbei Army who were not afraid of death, they still showed a tendency to collapse.
At this moment, even if Han Laowu wanted to turn his horse's head to support the front army, he couldn't do it. First, the three thousand cavalry under his command were actually entangled by hundreds of the opponent's cavalry. It can't be pulled out. Secondly, once my cavalry withdraws, the Forbidden Army here will definitely blow up the nest!
You straight lady,
Why are these Yan people so fierce!
…………
In front of the military formation,
the charging camp, which had been formed early but had not been dispatched, began to move forward with the commander Li Fusheng’s horse. Speed up.
This true cavalry, this thousand-pole horse, this true elite among the elite, finally plans to join the battlefield!
War kills people, Li Fusheng knows this.
In the past period of time, various cavalry units had actually suffered a lot of casualties during their raids.
But these are necessary and will definitely happen.
However, this kind of casualties will not be too many, because it will not last forever.
As long as the front line of this cadre army is defeated,
The remaining tens of thousands of cadres on the remaining battlefield will be scattered like birds and beasts, like lambs running around in panic. , they will no longer have attack power and lethality, and their heads will be easily harvested by their subordinates while running.
Everything that happened before was actually paving the way. Now, the time has come!
Li Fusheng raised his horse,
Thousands of riders behind him made the same move,
Then,
Li Fusheng’s The horse tree was raised forward.
The next moment, a thousand horse trees were raised forward.
Li Fusheng's eyes were red, like a hungry wolf. I can’t wait!
"Give them one last shiver!"
Li Fusheng shouted:
"The ambition to break the formation!"
Thousands of people behind him The cavalry shouted in unison:
"Death or life!"
Suddenly,
the whole army accelerated,
like thunder from the ground Rushing forward,
Finally,
Thousands of knights from the rushing camp, led by their commander-in-chief himself,
ran into the already shakenIn the crumbling Qianjun military formation.
"Boom!"
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