Chapter 43: The Prisoner Under the Order
Staring at the three thousand heavily armored cavalry of the Sui army entering the Tang army formation, Li Jing slowly narrowed his eyes, and the water beads hanging on his eyelashes were connected, making his eyes a little blurred.
But Li Jing did not wipe away the water droplets, but his thoughts flew south. Can he carry the power of this battle and go south and enter Jingxiang?
He knew that the Tang army had not many people in Jingxiang, and was basically similar to him. He probably was temporarily transferred from Bashu, which was an opportunity.
Li Jing was very conceited at heart, but he admired Yang Yuanqing in this battle of the Central Plains.
The strategic deployment of the entire battle was planned by Yang Yuanqing. He was like a master of chess who made up his mind and then acted. He thought about the overall situation and walked step by step, using a clear plan to gradually force the Tang army into a desperate situation.
In particular, he took advantage of the conflict between Dou Jiande and Song Jingang and cleverly used counter-interference strategies to provoke the war between Dou and Song, relieved the worries of Hebei and caused the Qin Qiong army to join the Central Plains Battle, so that the Sui army's troops exceeded the Tang army, laying the final victory.
In this battle between the two fronts, Yang Yuanqing formulated a strategy of attacking and defending the west, fighting on the east and confronting the west, concentrating the elite troops on the east, while the western front was a slightly weaker troops.
It is precisely this strategic arrangement that made the 40,000 elite soldiers led by Li Jing all followed Yang Yuanqing for many years, had rich combat experience, and were the elites of the entire Sui army.
In the battle against Dou Jiande in the spring, they also participated in the battle. It was they who rushed into Dou Jiande's army camp from the flanks and defeated Dou Jiande's army in one fell swoop.
Compared with Yang Yuanqing's grand strategic layout, Li Jing is more skilled in tactical deployment. Although they have defeated the Tang army twice, he still does not look down on the Tang army.
The Tang army was also well-equipped, perhaps their combat experience was slightly inferior, and they were only stronger than Liu Wuzhou's army, which was still far from the Sui army.
But they were well trained. The lineup was neat, which gave them superior combat capabilities in formation, so Li Jing used heavy armored cavalry to disrupt the Tang army formation.
Li Jing watched the impact of the heavy armored cavalry. When the heavy armored cavalry smashed the chariot to pieces, he immediately called out, "Cabinets are ready!"
The battle flag was waving, and 20,000 cavalry lifted their spears, with uniform movements, showing their superb military qualities.
"Route to shock!"
The 20,000 cavalry were divided into one hundred rows. Each row was 200 people, with a distance of one meter and a neat line, as if it had been carefully measured. In addition to the spear, each of them was equipped with five short spears. Each short spear weighed about seven kilograms, made of fine iron, and threw it far by arm force. It pierced the enemy from twenty steps away.
This is another weapon used by the Sui army to kill enemies at a distance when they were unable to use bows and arrows in the rain.
The cavalry began to launch, holding spears in both hands. The war horses galloped, and the shouts of killing were shocking. The sharp spear tips in their hands shone red light under the rising glow.
This cavalry that was responsible for the mission of attacking the central army was the most elite army of the Sui army. It was the Fengzhou army at the earliest, and it had many years of fighting against the Turks. It had rich combat experience.
They are equipped with excellent cavalry bows, with an effective range of 100 steps. The only disadvantage is that they cannot be used in the rain. In order to make up for this weakness, each Sui army is equipped with five short spears made of fine steel, suitable for short-distance projection, followed by knives, spears and shields, fully equipped.
Three thousand heavily armored cavalry entered the Tang army formation, rushed around the Tang army camp, constantly tearing the Tang army's defensive formation, killing the Tang army's corpses everywhere and wailing all over the ground.
After fifty steps, Li Jing still did not give an order. Many Sui generals were in cold sweat. This was something they had never encountered in many years of combat. The attacking party actually launched a long-range projection with a short spear. This was Li Jing's tactical invention.
At this time, the Sui army suddenly accelerated, and the Tang cavalry quickly retreated, and the distance between the Tang army's troops began to widen. This was also Li Xiaogong's cleverness. He pulled the distance apart at the last moment, so that the killing area of the Sui army's short spear would be smaller.
The war horses galloped. The Sui cavalry shouted and rushed towards the Tang army. Thirty steps, Li Jing pointed his sword and shouted: "Capture!"
The drum sounded like thunder, and several rows of Sui cavalry in front of them suddenly projected out. Thousands of short spears projected out thousands of parabolas, and the short spears roared towards the Tang cavalry group like heavy rain.
Although Lee Hyo-gong had already thought of the power of the short spear, the final result still made him close his eyes in pain.
The powerful steel spears were intertwined into a dense rain, flying in the air, with a terrifying momentum, piercing the shield of the Tang cavalry, shooting through the armor, and penetrated their bodies. The war horses pounced on the ground and fell down. The cavalry screamed and fell from the horse. In an instant, people were on their backs and nearly four hundred people were shot over.
The fierce puncture caused a slump to the morale of the Tang army, and then thousands of short spears were projected out and densely penetrated into the Tang army's cavalry.
With just two short rounds of short spear projections, the Tang army lost nearly 800 people. After the two rounds of short spear projections, the ferocious Sui cavalry instantly rushed into the Tang army formation, which was already in chaos.
The Sui army obviously did not intend to fight together with the Tang army. They used a team of hundreds of people to fight flexibly, trying to disrupt the Tang army's formation with the power of the short spear.
They sometimes cooperate with each other, dissolve into one, and sometimes disperse, fighting each other. Although it seems scattered, it seems like a rope pulling them together. This rope is the command flag of the Sui army. The flags constantly change into various combinations, commanding the rhythm of the Sui army's offensive.
The Tang army's excellent training made their formation constantly dispersed by the Sui army, and continued to gather, and tenaciously resisted the Sui army's attack.
The Sui army's flexible combat methods and dense and consistent spear rain first killed the enemy in large quantities, and then collapsed and killed. This is obviously a tactic designed for the combat methods of large groups.
In weakly trained group armies such as Liu Wuzhou or Dou Jiande, the flexible combat of the Sui army was very sharp and could achieve extremely effective results.
However, the Tang army, which had strict defense and well-trained training, was able to withstand the combat method of the Sui army. Their respective advantages were fully reflected in this cavalry war.
At this time, the five thousand cavalrymen of Qin Qiong on the right wing and the ten thousand spear soldiers of Luo Shixin on the left wing also covered up, and they also attacked the two wings of the Tang army.
Two armies fought fiercely in the vast rain and fog, and the muddy ground and countless pools made the battle particularly exhausted.
At this moment, the Tang army's 50,000 troops were all pressed, and the Sui army still had 20,000 people waiting for orders.
Although the Sui army did not push the entire line, the Tang army's defeat was gradually emerging. The first problem was that the Tang army's 10,000 swords and shield army was against the 5,000 cavalry led by Qin Qiong.
The disadvantages of the troops and the flexible small-scale multi-point attack of the Sui army made the Tang army's team start to mess up, and they gradually became as small-scale combat as the Sui army. They were truly in their own formations, without unified command and cooperation, and they seemed messy. The Tang sabre and shield army was obviously at a disadvantage.
At this time, Li Jing saw that the time had come, he immediately ordered: "Shoot the rocket!"
A rocket rose into the air and dragged long black smoke through the air. Three thousand Sui army heavy armored cavalry suddenly broke out from the black pine forest behind the Tang army. They were lined up in an orderly manner, lined up in a complete square formation, with war horses fast and murderous intent soaring into the sky, sweeping behind the ten thousand swords and shield troops on the left wing.
With the emergence of the Sui army, the most sharp new force, the Sui army attacked forward and backward, the Tang sabre and shield soldiers finally could not support them, their morale collapsed, and they began to retreat.
The most important battle between the three armies is to coordinate. One leg must not be cut off. As long as one of the important troops is defeated, this kind of defeat is like the most ferocious virus, which instantly spreads to the entire army.
With the Tang army's left-wing sword and shield army defeated first, Li Xiaogong's army was immediately defeated in full swing, and the final of this Central Plains war finally came.
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Chapter completed!