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Chapter 179: The Wilderness of Yongzhou

The golden wheat waves rippled with the wind. Yuwen Wen was quite fascinated by the scene in front of him. There should be a good harvest this year, but the premise is that there is enough time to harvest, and not only the wheat but also the heads.

The mount was galloping in the wheat field under his crotch. He held the sword in his hand and placed it horizontally to the right. The speed of the horse running gave the sword a cutting force, easily breaking through the obstacles and cutting off the big head.

The cavalry swept through the crowd like a gust of wind, and with the blood splattering, there were many bloodless corpses in the golden wheat fields.

Xuanhu suddenly came to an emergency. The soldiers of Yongzhou in the west were ordered to reinforce. Most of the soldiers of nearly 800 were mainly infantry, but were attacked by enemy cavalry several miles outside the suburbs of Chengyang, the prefecture.

In the flat wilderness, it was very difficult for infantrymen who had no advantage in numbers to resist the impact of cavalry. Although the Yongzhou soldiers temporarily formed a round formation to try to protect themselves, they soon collapsed under the harassment of waves of cavalry and shooting by the enemy cavalry.

The moment of collapse occurs, the hunting begins, and the infantry fleeing with their backs to the enemy is like heavy wheat ears, waiting for the harvest of the sickle.

Yuwen put his knife into the sheath, pulled the reins, slowed down the mount, stopped in the wheat field, looked at the hunting scene in front of him, and was distracted for a moment.

Autumn is the season for hunting, and hunting is a popular social entertainment activity in this era. Men call friends, flying eagles and dogs, and women gather in the stumbling block to count the family's problems. Their liveliness is so lively that everyone from princes and nobles to ordinary people are obsessed with it.

However, for Yuwen Wen, hunting is boring because he is very busy and has no time to hunt and entertainment. Even if the large-scale hunting activities are military in themselves, he does not often organize his troops to go down to hunt.

In Xiyang 1989, Yuwen Wen did not hunt much except for the government holding regular activities every year to shoot wild ducks, geese and rabbits. The territory of Huangzhou is full of water and hills, and the hunting ground is much limited. It is not as good as the flying eagles and dogs when they were in Guanzhong.

Only in a wide and flat hunting ground can hunting have military colors and can train people's organizational and coordination skills. Yu Wen Wen believes that he already has such skills.

However, when he crossed the Tongbai Mountains and entered the boundary of Henan, he realized that he felt too good. He had been squatting in the south of the mountain for many years, and his command ability had begun to be alienated.

He is good at commanding infantry, but is a little unfamiliar with large-scale cavalry operations. When he commands this ambush battle that is like hunting, he doesn't feel like he uses his fingers, and he feels unfamiliar with it.

The dispatch of the infringe formation can be carried out through banners and commanders. The commander can arrange the defense and attack of the infringe formation with calm, while the cavalry combat is completely opposite. Once the cavalry moves, the response time left for the commander is very short.

The number of cavalrymen that are dynamic at any time is not bad. If the number is thousands, the difficulty of command will suddenly increase, which requires a high level of demand for the head coach, and Yuwen Wen found that he did not seem to have such ability.

In short, he played too much with the stinky chess, and his ability to command large-scale cavalry combat was getting worse and worse.

The Huangzhou General Administration is located on the north bank of the Yangtze River. It has hilly terrain and is considered a water network area. Like many surrounding areas, it is not suitable for large-scale mobile combat of cavalry. Most of the areas he has experienced in wars in recent years are like this.

Because Yuwen Wen lacked horses, he didn't have many cavalry on hand, so his combat was mainly infantry. His main enemy in the past seven or eight years was the Chen Army, which was also tragic to the cavalry.

As the saying goes, Yuwen Wen did not get a good opportunity to train his ability to command cavalry combat. The result of playing infantry and water wars is that he is a little uncomfortable with large-scale cavalry combat in the plains.

Because of the lack of horses, Yuwen Wen's cavalry can be directly commanded by him for less than a thousand years, not to mention that he has to divide it into several strands to use it. It doesn't matter if he fights the Chen army, who was already short of horses in the Yangtze River Basin, but now he has begun to show his fear when he enters the Henan plain area.

Yuwen Wen led the three thousand cavalry borrowed from his brother, and was a rare luxury. As a result, he actually made a bump in command. Because the cavalry tactics and infantry tactics were completely different, and the tactics of small and large cavalry during combat were also completely different.

The cavalry with abundant horses has an attack range in the plain, with a large circle with a radius of hundreds of miles. In this era, the typical tactic of cavalry against infantry is to retreat one hundred miles away in the evening and whistle again the next day.

The attack distance of infantry within one day is about fifty miles, because in combat states, infantry must marching in armor and must ensure that they can physically enter the battle when they arrive at the destination.

If the infantry forcefully marched for 100 miles and arrived at the destination, there would be no combat power. Therefore, in the plains, the dining table was a dining table full of cups (tragedy).

In the water net area, infantry can use the advantage of the geographical advantage to prevent enemy cavalry from harassing, while in the vast plains, enemy cavalry can repeatedly harass them for more than a month. Even infantry who can fight will have to kneel down when they are tortured like this.

The end of an army lacks cavalry is that the range of activities is constantly compressed by the enemy. The ranger who was released from the sentry and the ranger who was not back, and knew nothing about the situation around the enemy. In the end, either someone would escape and would collapse without fighting, or he would have no food.

Will this be the end of the Hulin Army?

In this Yongzhou field, Yuwen Wen suddenly realized that his weaknesses must be faced: commanding large-scale cavalry operations will probably be unable to do it for a while.

Do three thousand cavalry dare to say that they are large-scale? Are you wrong?

That's right, the three thousand cavalry are still relatively elite, and they can be called large-scale.

When Gao Huan defeated the Battle of Hanling in the Erzhu family, the Erzhu family coalition forces had always had 60,000 or 70,000 troops, while Gao Huan's troops were about 20,000 infantry and nearly 3,000 cavalry.

The Battle of Hanling established Gao Huan's hegemony. Yu Wen, who is also a thousand elite cavalry, is just conducting a wretched sneak attack in Yuzhou, leading seven or eight hundred cavalry to steal the cat in this wilderness of Yongzhou.

It is important to be a person with self-knowledge, so Yuwen Wen does not intend to force himself to stand out. It is better for him to be a nominal commander in the next cavalry battle. At this moment, looking at the end of the battle in front of him, he felt that he had miscalculated for the first time:

Shi Wansui should be transferred to command 3,000 cavalry himself, so as to achieve twice the result with half the effort.

However, according to Yuwen Wen's arrangement, Shi Wansui defended Yuchi Youqi, who was most likely to advance westward on the front line of Jiangzhou, or Chen Jun, who was trying to counterattack, even if he wanted to mobilize now, it would be too late.

Even Yuwen Wen's Hulin Army might have just crossed Dayu Ridge at this time, so he could only use the borrowed three thousand cavalry to conduct a vulgar sneak attack...?

Several riders approached, and the first person was Yang Su, who was one-eyed. He rode his horse toward Yuwen Wen, and then asked, "The king summoned the officials to come, don't know what orders?"

Yuwen Wen did not answer immediately, but dismounted and walked in the wheat field, and Yang Su also dismounted and followed closely behind.

After walking a few steps, Yuwen Wen stopped and looked into the distance, looking at the vague outline of the city sun in the distance, and suddenly said: "The wild snake in Yongzhou has a black and white seal, and it has all the grass and trees to die, so it is bitten by people, and there is no one to control it..."

Yongzhou in "The Snake Catcher" was not Yongzhou where Yuwen Wen was at this time. Of course, Yang Su didn't know about this, he just followed him silently.

"These seven or eight hundred soldiers in the state are probably the last soldiers to be able to fight in the hands of the governor of Yongzhou. Now that the dust has settled, the city is just around the corner..." Yu Wen Wen suddenly changed the topic, and before Yang Su could speak, he immediately changed the topic:

"Envoy Yang, yesterday's military discussion was in a hurry, so I had no time to ask more questions. Now I have a little time to spare. I wonder what Yang Envoy Yang's opinion on the next situation?"

"King, the lower lord has a lot to say, I don't know..." Yang Su did want to make a suggestion. Yuwen Wen actually had three thousand cavalrymen in his hands. It was a time when there was great potential, so he didn't want to watch from the wall.

"Tell me, isn't it just right to talk about war on the battlefield?"

Looking up at the sky in the north, Yuwen Wen tried to see Yecheng thousands of miles away. Perhaps the Prime Minister Yuchi Dun, who was sure to win, was comfortably planning the rules and regulations of the new dynasty.

Thinking of this, Yuwen Wen sneered in his heart: Shi Wansui is not here? It doesn’t matter, isn’t Cobra Yang Su?
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