Chapter 113 The ground is full of blood(1/2)
The two cavalry began to collide without any fancy.
The terrain is flat and wide, which is conducive to the cavalry's front line. Since it is an excellent place for cavalry warfare, it also means that this place will be a place where people are easily killed, and the speed of people should be very fast.
The Qiang cavalry is the light cavalry among the light cavalry. On the one hand, it is the jingling sound of poverty and cannot be "heavy". On the other hand, it is all long arms like apes and has super strong strength, which makes almost every one of them a magical archer on the back of the horse. Ke Zhan, a young Qiang captain who has a deep feud with the Xu family in Beiliang, finally stopped deliberately suppressing the speed of the horse's charge. With a wave of his hand, he covered the horse's urethra with a black scarf, and the steps of the mount under his crotch suddenly increased. If there were spectators on the horizontal line, they would definitely be amazed by the muscles that these horses held their heads in running. The habit of covering the horse's urethra in charge in the Central Plains has never been popular, but on the grassland it is an old one that has been passed down for hundreds of years.
At the beginning, it was to ensure that the war horses were fearless when facing the Central Plains infantry's phalanx resisting horse formation, and at the same time they could deliberately make the war horses "frightened". Before the fleeting fierce collision between the cavalry and the cavalry, the cavalry whipped it hard, which could give birth to the war horses to burst out greater force and use the speed of the war horses to drive the invasion of the cavalry's charge. However, looking at the elite cavalry in the world, it is probably only the Beiliang Iron Cavalry who disdained this kind of "carving trick". This is due to the fact that every military horse in Beiliang has gone from raw to mature, and the major horses have poured countless efforts, and of course, there are countless silver. Behind each mature horse in Beiliang who finally stepped onto a large battlefield, one or even several war horses died before.
On the battlefield, there were only more than 1,600 Qiang cavalry roars that shook the sky.
Compared with the two, the Three Thousand Dragon Elephant Army, which are both light cavalry, seems particularly strange at this time. The collective silence before the fight was one reason, and more importantly, they are simply desperate people who use light cavalry as heavy cavalry.
After the dragon and elephant light cavalry accelerated the charge, they headed straight to the other side, and even gave up the lethality of a light crossbow that splashed the enemy cavalry formation!
The Iron Cavalry of Beiliang is good at fighting and dares to fight to the death!
In the Central Plains, they have always been good at combining cavalry and infantry. The infantry is in the middle, and the cavalry is located on both wings. The latter is not used for frontal formation. In addition to the natural factors that are less powerful than the cavalry bow, especially the large crossbow, the cavalry's biggest advantage is its strong mobility. In a long list of classic battles in the Spring and Autumn Period, this indisputable war pattern was fully exerted. As long as a general who can be given the title of famous general, even if the infantry commander is given a cavalry of thousands of people, he can command with rules and regulations. This is probably the so-called long-term illness and become a doctor.
The large group of high-level generals of Liyang who were educated by the war at that time did not use cavalry or did not break cavalry, so they were embarrassed to say hello to their colleagues when they went out. However, once this tactic of combining cavalry and infantry was moved to a place where supply was difficult, it was inevitable that the local environment would be unacceptable. When Zi ascended the throne today, he took the initiative to launch those battles against Beimang, and many situations that seemed to be in good condition in the early stage were destroyed by some wars that took place outside the main battlefield. Taking Beimang Tuoba Bodhisattva and Dong Zhuo as examples, the two famous works of these two rely on light cavalry to reach their peak.
A long-distance raid of thousands of miles, he went around the rear of the Liyang army in one breath, and directly smashed a single or even several main supply lines. The famous generals of the Liyang court, especially the cavalry general, were very upset about this, but for some reason, there was never a genius general who had fought with the Beimang cavalry head-on with the cooperation of the infantry. However, even so, the signs of the cavalry that had to be separated from the cavalry and stand alone, and a series of military works that were derived from the subsequent emerged. Lu Shengxiang, who was recruited by Zhao Yi, and Xu Gong, who had not been able to fight outside the border, each had a military book. Unfortunately, it was a pity that he had not been passed down to the world.
However, it has a well-known reputation within the military, so Xu Xiao admired the Longxiang General Xu Gong from the Gumu Xu family, thinking that this person could have been the limelight that Lu Shengxiang, who was "leading the southeast" and "leading the charming style of the southeast". However, those senior figures in Liyang at that time knew it. If Chen Zhibao and Chu Lushan were given a chance at that time, then these two would undoubtedly become meritorious figures no less than the four famous generals in the Spring and Autumn Period in the new battlefield of Beimang. However, even if the new emperor was willing to give Chen Zhibao a chance to show his skills out of selfishness, the large group of "founding" veterans would not agree to have successors in the Xu family.
In the years of fighting with Beimang for nearly twenty years, the Beiliang Iron Cavalry also gave birth to a complete set of highly targeted mature tactics. For example, the Beimang Cavalry has few crossbows and many bows. If it weren't for the sharp-wielding force, it would be difficult for ordinary cavalry to break the armor outside 80 steps. The two armies collided and rushed. Under the influence of Chen Zhibao, the Beiliang Iron Cavalry was abnormal to directly abandon the crossbow and shoot. With the advantage of armor, the Mang Cavalry allowed the Mang Cavalry to throw it out and shoot, and the side just kept rushing. Therefore, Chen Zhibao once had an arrogant statement that made the outside world incredible: under the premise that the military strength was roughly equal or even a slight disadvantage, the Beimang Cavalry's life was only enough to live forty steps!
After all, outsiders cannot witness this scene with their own eyes and always have a strong attitude of skepticism.
But it is impossible to deny that the entire Liyang Dynasty had the precious experience of purely fighting between cavalry and cavalry, the entire Liyang Dynasty probably had the unique Beiliang border army. Although the Zhao court seemed to be pretending to be blind in the northwest border affairs, every time the situation was disturbed, Li Xifeng, as soon as he took office as a Jinlu Weaving Bureau, would quietly pass secret letters to the capital. The contents of these letters were Zhao Yi, King Guangling and King Yanchi Zhao Bing, who spent many favors and relationships to successfully buy them, for many staff members to think about it over and over again.
At the same time, the Liyang court itself was not waiting for death. It simply regarded Beimang and Beiliang as imaginary enemies, thinking about how to truly compete with the iron hooves of those war horses. The leading generals of the Central Plains who stood out from the smoke of gunpowder in the spring and autumn will not be a good bag of wine after all, and it is quite effective. The military distribution and weapon partners of the infantry and the army that formed a formation to resist horses can be said to have reached the pinnacle. In the imperial examination in Yonghui Spring, it was even meaningful.
Similar to related test questions, this leads to many wild ideas in the answer sheet. Although most of them are considered nonsense about scholars' enthusiasm, there is an argument that suddenly shines after several years of silence, that is, to fight extremes against extremes. The candidate who failed the imperial examination at that time proposed to tilt financial resources and material resources to develop the deformed heavy rider, striving to cross the threshold of ten thousand people, even if he sells his strength, he should also train him.
Break up one or several heavy cavalry and put it in a major town not far from the border. His answer was at the time when the Liyang court was muddy bulls into the sea, but in fact, almost at the same time, the Beimang royal court began to use silver to pile heavy cavalry crazily. It was not until many years later that Liyang court realized that the two iron cavalry of the king named after the national surname in Beimang are now named, Yelu Chongqi and Murong Chongqi! The number of people is just reaching the threshold of 10,000, but the civil servants who are outsiders know that
To raise these two heavy cavalry, it is equivalent to cutting flesh and blood from the country to feed these two Taotie. Because the heavy cavalry is really expensive, it is not about building the system, but about raising soldiers. Later, Liyang Court, who realized it, was forced to pressure the public opinion of the court and the government, especially the Ministry of War Gu Lu and the border troops on the east front, so he followed Beimang to build the Duoyan Iron Cavalry and Yanmen Cavalry. The former was less than 8,000 cavalry, and the latter was less than 5,000.
As for why the scholar who went to Beijing to take the exam for some reason died in an unknown alley, who cares?
However, if anyone knows this secret matter, he should be moved by it. A small article written by an unknown scholar in Jiangnan, less than a thousand words, would actually affect the life and death of two million soldiers in the desert border.
Eighty steps apart from the enemy and us, the front line of the Qiang cavalry, who were spread out like a surging tide, skillfully set up bows and shoot arrows.
The violent bumps in the horse's back during the rapid charge, the enemy cavalry's armour wearing armor, and the insufficient time to change the shooting in the rapid contact battle are all important reasons that determine that riding and shooting can only add icing on the cake.
The gun and spear configuration of the regular border troops in Beimang is quite good. Not to mention Dong Zhuo's Dong family army, even those generals and the direct subordinates who hold the throne, have reached the level of the elite border troops in Liyang. However, this Qiang cavalry is much colder. It is not that Beimang is so stingy that he is unwilling to take out more than 10,000 refined gun and spears, but even if he gives it to Qiang cavalry who has his own set of skilled tactics, it will only add to the snake, and definitely not a timely help. The training of war horses is already a headache, let alone the cultivation of cavalry's strength? The relationship between the lightness, length of swords, spears and the physical strength of cavalry and the cavalry's arms and physical strength, how many battles are needed
How many lives can one get the best answer? The precise area where the gun stabs the enemy cavalry, the optimal angle for the sword to chop, and the appropriate weight of the armor and helmets all vary from person to person, and they are all great questions. Therefore, if all Qiang cavalry suddenly replace the main combat weapon with too extravagant and too unfamiliar gun spear, which will drag down the Qiang cavalry's usual transfer speed, then once this Qiang cavalry arrives in Liuzhou, either has good luck and does not encounter the Dragon and Elephant Army, it just thinks that it has traveled happily once. It is not as good as the present. Jin Cheng, the leader of the ten thousand men, does not have to think about it, just turn around and run away, and strive to sell the gun spears for a run.
Those Spring and Autumn remnants who left their hometowns, Hong Jia, flew north to the north, brought many secret and superb casting skills to Beimang, but the large amount of iron deficiency in Beimang made many Southern Dynasties craftsmen become hard-working skilled women without rice.
Chen Zhibao once said: The Northern Barbarians who lack spears are just infantrymen on horseback!
It can be said that Ye Baikui, a Western Chu soldier who is good at matching troops, pushed the cruelty of the large war step by step to a peak, so Chen Zhibao divided the huge war into every little captain.
The latter not only remembers the names of each captain under his command, but also their personal character and style of leadership, as well as their comprehensive combat power under normal circumstances and their potential for war in emergencies.
"In ancient times, people liked to describe wars with sudden changes. Chen Zhibao had long been familiar with the "change" and the well-deserved first-class military use since the Qin Dynasty, far surpassing the sages and peers."
This kind of praise that sounds like a terrible street can be said by any scholar in Jiangnan who has read a few military books and admired the style of a white-clothed soldier.
But in fact, the person who said this is Cao Qingyi and Cao Changqing, who are recognized as invincible in the chess game.
Liuzhou does not hear the horns and the noise of war drums.
Just in this way, people died quietly in a hurry to contact battle.
The Qiang Cavalry's two-wheeled long-range cavalry and shooting achieved reasonable achievements, but the size of the military achievements made the Qiang Cavalry unexpected.
When an arrow was accurately nailed into the face of a dragon elephant light cavalry, the cavalry's head was immediately pulled back by the powerful arrow, and then fell off his horse and died.
The unowned war horse continues to rush forward inertia.
Many Qiang cavalry cheered for it.
The arrow of a Qiang arrow knocked out a string of Mars on the breastplate of a dragon elephant light cavalry, but it failed to pierce. However, the soldiers of the Northern Liang border were really bad. The war horse was shot into the neck between the iron armor by another extremely strong feather arrow. The horse neighed, and the horse's body tilted slightly and crashed into the ground.
The light cavalry who rolled and removed the rush quickly stood up. The arm of his spear had broken before, but after he lost his spear, he quickly pulled out the scalpel from his waist, faced the Qiang cavalry that was only about twenty steps away, and began to run forward in the straight path!
Ke Zheng felt a sense of powerlessness that penetrated his bones, not only because these two rounds of dense arrow rain only brought less than 100 casualties to the Dragon Elephant Light Cavalry, but also because even though these enemy cavalry could clearly use spears to push away the oncoming arrows, none of them did such an action that would damage the impact of the spear!
There is no one riding!
The two armies suddenly emerged, and the enemy and us were inseparable from each other.
The reckless and reckless young commander brought a catastrophe to the 1,600 cavalry he and his clan had accumulated over twenty years of hardship.
Even though the Qiang Rider saw that the opportunity was not good, the front-facing front line of the front line took the initiative to quickly stretch and slant to the left, hoping to reduce the loss of the front battlefield with the speed of the Qiang Rider.
The Qiang cavalry's forward line avoids slightly slanted to the left.
However, the dragon and elephant light cavalry responded almost instantly, and the overall tilted to the right and left, and the momentum of the horse's hooves thunder bombardment did not diminish in the change!
There are actually not many rapid changes on the battle line, which are divided into positions of every two hostile chasm.
The Dragon Elephant Army and the Qiang Cavalry are embedded in the cavalry battle formations!
In just one short blink of an eye, more than 300 Qiang cavalry were pierced by a gun! These Qiang athletes were dead before they completely escaped from the horse's back!
Among them, dozens of Qiang cavalry's corpses were directly picked up and hung into the air by the dragon elephant iron spear.
The line that symbolizes life and death was full of blood bursts caused by the casualties of the Qiang cavalry.
Some lucky Qiang people also avoided the spears of the dragon elephant light cavalry in the head row, but soon a hole was pierced by the spear behind them.
Some of the Qiang cavalry who were more lucky to live for a while, even though they survived under the spear of the second row of Dragon Elephant Light Cavalry, they were instantly killed by the third row of Light Cavalry.
A Qiang rider's shoulder was pierced by the dragon elephant light rider in the second front position. He shook it. Before he could be glad, he was penetrated by the third iron spear. The body leaned back and slid a short distance on the horse's back, and finally fell to the sand.
Wang Lingbao, deputy general of the Dragon Elephant Army, shot out three candied haws with one shot.
This charge.
The dragon and elephant ride are as easy as a heavy hammer to drill through the screen paper.
Scarfaced Wang Lingbao shook his wrist and slid the three Qiang riders out of the iron spear. He did not turn around to observe the battlefield. He didn't even look at the corpses on the ground, and continued to rush forward.
It is not far from the second Qiang cavalry.
Behind Wang Lingbao, the corpses of Qiang riders were covered with blood.
Many Qiang cavalry and horses stopped slowly after their masters fell off their horses in battle.
More than 300 injured and fallen cavalrymen of the Dragon Elephant Army stabbed the Qiang cavalry who had not yet died.
Some Qiang cavalry said words that the dragon and elephant light cavalry could not understand, and they should beg for mercy, but no one showed mercy under the knife.
Since the general led a hundred cavalry out of Liaodong, the Xu family's cavalry has not had the habit of taking prisoners in forty years.
Except for the more than 40 cavalry at the end of the front line of the 1,600 Qiang cavalry, the other Qiang cavalry were killed only once with three thousand dragon elephant light cavalry.
The young commander who broke into Liuzhou for revenge and made achievements was also killed after shooting and assassinating two people.
One side killed very quickly, and the other side died without being dragged on.
Ke Zhan's original intention was naturally not to use the 1,600 cavalry accumulated by his clan for twenty years to pave the way for Jin Cheng's future success in the Beimang court.
This Qiang athlete who was used to enjoying victory on the Beimang border grassland, remembered the deep blood hatred twenty years ago, but forgot what kind of enemy he wanted to revenge existed. Before leaving the hometown that was actually considered a foreign land, he heard that the Dragon Elephant Cavalry had killed most of Gusai Prefecture last year, but he also heard from many Southern Dynasties that it was just the negligence of several Gusai Army guards. He also heard that as long as Dong Zhuo or any general's troops were dispatched, the Dragon Elephant Army that entered the hinterland would definitely not be able to go back, and the Beimang border army would throw the cut heads on the borders of the two countries.
Ke Jie is here to take revenge, but unfortunately, his youngest son who was still waiting for his father to return home on the grassland could only wait for another twenty years before he could continue to take revenge.
For the Qiang people, the history of exile in the past century is constantly moving from one foreign land to another.
He lay in a pool of blood, the sun above his head was dazzling.
Then he found a shadow on his head, a dragon elephant light cavalry with his shoulders high and low due to injury. Ke Zhan struggled to death, trying to raise the sword that bound his arms.
The light cavalry in the suit of the commander seemed to notice Ke Zhu's futile resistance, frowned, and cut off the head of the young Qiang cavalryman with a knife. After thinking for a while, he chopped off the right hand of the corpse.
Then the commander was exactly the same as many dragon and elephant light cavalry that could still fight. After cleaning up the battlefield, he looked for a suitable war horse, turned over the horse, and launched a charge again.
In many rich places in the Central Plains, no matter who kills whom, most of them are full of conspiracies and tricks. Even the death battle between gangs, there may be competitions between government backers and secret instigation by conspirators.
After all, there is no way to kill people, and no pleasure to die.
But on the next Liangmang border, the death will be very simple, and it will be as fast as the speed of the crossbow iron hooves.
After the Qiang cavalry team who had been seeking death through 1,600 people, led by Wang Lingbao and two captains, the warhorse stance of the Dragon Elephant Light Cavalry slowed down and accelerated implicitly.
In this way, the war horses can fully utilize the second wave of momentum to ensure effective pursuit.
This is the invisible difference between famous generals on the battlefield and mediocre generals.
War, especially a local battle, certainly requires tens of thousands of people to fight against thousands of people, but it also requires generals like Wang Lingbao who are familiar with the rules of the battlefield.
Without the former, the battle will be more difficult, but without the latter, there will be only defeat.
About half of the inside and outside, although Jin Cheng, the ten thousand men, was completely stunned, this middle-aged Qiang cavalry, who was more experienced in the battlefield than Kezhan, was not at all dull. Without saying a word, he led the Qiang cavalry to retreat in an arc.
The reason why they did not turn around and escape after stopping their horses was because the dragon elephant light cavalry, whose combat power was depleted, did not allow them to have such a little waste at all.
Wang Lingbao calculated the distance between the two sides and the speed of the horse galloping in his mind. He clamped the horse's belly and wanted to go to Xu Longxiang to express his thoughts. But the young commander of the Dragon Elephant Army had raised his arm and made a simple gesture known to everyone in the Northern Liang border soldiers.
Quick ride to intercept!
To be continued...