Chapter 419 There are always some geniuses who belong to war
The Huns no longer dared to fight Li Mu head-on. They began to use their familiar terrain to fight Li Mu. Although Li Mu brought a guide, he still did not dare to pursue the Hun cavalry that suddenly appeared and disappeared. Li Mu was afraid that the soldiers sent out would get lost and be ambushed. Zhao Kang took the cavalry to fight as he wished. He took a lot of guides and left the main army.
The cavalry led by Zhao Kang was about 10,000 people, and this number of cavalry was no longer small. The rest of the knights stayed with Li Mu. The former infantry and crossbow group has now become a mixed army containing four types of troops. Li Mu is not unfamiliar with such a mixed army. When he defeated the Huns, he used such organization, but the most important issue now is that he cannot catch up.
However, Li Mu was also very smart. The headquarters of the Huns had many old and weak people, as well as many livestock, which required water sources and were not as quick as the cavalry of the Huns. As long as they could catch these people, the Huns basically had no strength to dominate the grasslands, because this was the foundation of the Huns, which was equivalent to directly bypassing the soldiers to destroy the other people. No one could bear such a blow.
The Huns obviously knew Li Mu's plan. In order to prevent Li Mu from achieving strategic goals, the Huns began to harass tactics regardless of losses. The troops of the wise kings and Shanyu took turns to harass Li Mu. Li Mu and Sima Shang divided their troops and pursued them from two directions. This was to lure the other party out to fight with them in a decisive battle with them, and to prevent the Huns from achieving the goal of delaying time.
By this time, the three generals of Qin had all separated, and the weakest one was Zhao Kang, who had only more than 10,000 knights.
At first, after realizing that the Qin people divided the troops, Zuo Xianwang was very excited. He thought that this was the best opportunity to weaken the enemy. There were only more than 10,000 people on the other side, and they could destroy all of these people as long as they brought enough cavalry. However, the Youxianwang disagreed. He believed that this was the bait of the Qin people, and it was to seduce himself to gather the army. He must not touch these people. The young Zuo Xianwang did not believe in this evil and repeatedly asked to send troops.
The Right Xian King asked him to take his men to destroy the army.
Zuo Xianwang, with more than 30,000 elite Hun knights, began to look for the traces of this Qin cavalry, but he didn't know that Zhao Kang was also looking for him... Since Zhao Kang left the main army with his army, he has been training his cavalry. Some of Zhao Kang's orders looked very strange to the knights. Zhao Kang always asked the cavalry to form a long formation and asked them to advance neatly, not to go out, and to control their horses.
Sometimes, he even asked the knights to charge neatly. In the past battlefields, there was no formation in the cavalry fighting, because the cavalry was not used to rush forward, but was used to spy on news, cut off food, and pursue, so the cavalry just rushed up to kill people. I had never heard of any formation to make... Only Li Mu, who had asked the cavalry to attack when fighting against the Huns, made the first time.
However, in the face of Zhao Kang's many unreasonable requests, these soldiers could still complete them seriously. This is the Qin system, and they are not allowed to question their generals. In addition, Zhao Kang himself has extraordinary achievements and his father is Marquis of Wucheng... Zhao Kang began to take the knights and practice something that no one could understand while walking. In this way, after more than half a month of continuous marching, Zhao Kang met the cavalry of Zuo Xianwang as he wished.
The first time he encountered the opponent's cavalry, the warlike Zhao Kang issued an incredible order to retreat.
That's right, he actually ordered the retreat, and the soldiers were stunned. They didn't know what Zhao Kuo was going on. After the scouts on both sides met, they wanted to retreat. However, Zhao Kang looked at the sky, not knowing what he was thinking. He smiled and led the knights to escape quickly. The Zuo Xianwang was also a little confused at this moment. He didn't know whether the enemy really wanted to escape or seduce himself to pursue him?
He was not sure, of course he could only send a scout to pursue him.
The Qin State fought against the Xiongnu scouts quite frequently. Both sides were keeping a certain distance, but they did not dare to get too close. Zhao Kang was always deliberately trying to distance himself. King Zuo Xian always felt something was wrong, so he hurriedly asked for help from the back. The two armies slowly drove on the grassland... King Zuo Xian rode a white horse, and the horse slowly advanced forward. He frowned and thought about the enemy's intentions.
His own reinforcements have arrived, and the number of cavalry is close to 50,000, which is already a very large scale. What tricks does the enemy have?
At some point, the sky was covered with dark clouds, and the sky became a little dark in an instant. The strong wind blew everywhere, constantly blew the weeds on the ground. The bitter wind suddenly blew, constantly blew the sleeves of Zuo Xianwang. Zuo Xianwang rode a white horse and felt the strong wind. He liked this strong wind very much. Such wind was mixed with the smell of grass and trees, and it didn't look cold when it hit him.
It is a pleasure to ride a horse on the field under such strong winds.
At the moment when the wind was blowing, the scout suddenly came to report that the enemy stopped marching and turned toward his own direction. When Zuo Xianwang heard this, he was shocked. Could it be that the enemy's ambush was here? Zuo Xianwang was a little hesitant. He saw the Qin army in the distance. They lined up in a very neat formation. Just looking at his own direction, Zuo Xianwang noticed that most of them had no bows and arrows, and they all held spears...
Zuo Xianwang couldn't help but sneer. Without bows and arrows, they could only passively be beaten in the next battle... At that moment, Zuo Xianwang felt his face was wet. At some point, the rain fell quietly, and the rain began to nourish the earth with the strong wind. The rain was very small at first, but in a short time, the rain formed a rain curtain. The cold rain made Zuo Xianwang breath out a breath of air conditioning.
Suddenly, Zuo Xianwang was stunned. He raised his head and looked at the rain that hit his face. He instantly understood something. At this moment, Zhao Kang's army launched an attack... Zhao Kuo lined up the cavalry, and they raised the spears in their hands, as if they were steel forests. At that moment, under the impact of the rain, Zhao Kang's knights divided up a group to attack the enemy.
Not all the knights, but the first group of knights launched an attack, and the Huns pulled their bows and arrows. However, the rain affected both eyesight and arrows. The impact of rain on arrows is very huge. Whether it is accuracy or strength, bend the bow and shoot arrows under the rain like in the movie, and arrows cut the rain curtain. That is indeed very handsome, but it is a bit unrealistic, especially the arrows of this era...
The Huns also understood that at that moment, King Zuo Xian hurriedly ordered a retreat.
Zhao Kang's first cavalry hit the Huns hard, and then he kept not stopping like a chariot and neatly made a hole among the Huns. At this moment, the cavalry of the second row also launched a charge, followed closely, and continued to charge forward without stopping. After the second batch, there was a third batch. However, Zhao Kang did not rush out to fight in person this time. He commanded the army and relied on the sound of war drums to make them attack in turn.
Under the sound of war drums, Zuo Xianwang saw a cavalry that he had never seen before. Is this a cavalry too? He saw that the cavalry in front of him were at least two layers of armor, and even the horses under their crotch were protected with fur. Where did they get so many primitive armor? Oh, they seized from the Huns, and their fighting style was particularly strange. They did not fight on their own in the war, and they were not confused at all.
Start the attack in an orderly manner and keep a distance between each other. How did this be done?
What is the need to do this?
Of course, Zhao Kang quickly told him whether it was necessary to do so. When the Qin cavalry formed a long line and began to charge, the Huns could not play the role of bows and arrows, and the short soldiers could not touch the enemy. The spear directly penetrated the enemy in front of him and continued to advance without stopping. A torrent of cavalry directly hit the enemy in front of him and crushed them all the way. The Huns cavalry were dispersed because they had no formation. When encountering such an impact, they could only dodge.
After they dodge, they will face a second impact.
In this way, the soldiers of the Huns would become very chaotic and could not even face their enemies. They just listened to the sound of fighting in their ears. The only way for the chaotic army to deal with was to disperse. After dispersing, there would be a situation where the more was to fight less. When Zhao Kang first left Li Mu's army, he was thinking about ways to defeat the enemy. Later, he was wet for a few days and realized the huge effect of the rain.
The rain would make the cavalry and shooting skills that the Huns were proud of were useless, and the guide told him that it was rainy season now and there would be a lot of rain. Faced with the army that was good at cavalry and shooting, Zhao Kang came up with such a way to charge. When several groups of Zhao Kang's knights completed the charge and drilled through the enemy, the first group of knights turned around and started attacking from another direction. This is Zhao Kang's tactic. The cavalry should rush like this. Of course, if they faced the infantry, such a charge would definitely be eaten.
Unless there is a way to increase the strength of the cavalry so that they will not fall off their horses easily, Zhao Kang started to think while fighting.
Zuo Xianwang was evacuating with his army. He had been thinking about Zhao Kang's purpose before, but he did not notice the weather. Fighting in such rain was definitely not something that a wise general could do. In such a situation, he could only choose to retreat, but he was frightened to find that the knights of Qin had bitten them tightly and refused to let go. Zuo Xianwang was unable to advance and retreat, so he could only order the knights to scatter and escape.
He never expected that he would have to escape in such a panic with more than 50,000 cavalry, facing more than 10,000 people. When he found that the Huns were fleeing, Zhao Kang smiled and asked the knights to start chasing. The battle ended quickly, but the casualties caused were huge. The tactics that had just appeared in this world made King Zuo Xian break his teeth, but less than half of his knights escaped back.
Zhao Kang won a great victory in this battle, and the knights who followed him were of course extremely happy. They shouted to capture Shanyu, so Zhao Kang took them to continue looking for traces of the enemy. When Zuo Xianwang found Shanyu and Youxianwang and cried and told the news of his defeat, Youxianwang almost wanted to kill him. The Youxianwang was trembling and unable to speak, but Touman kept persuading him to calm him down.
"Well, after experiencing such a battle, the enemy will definitely not feel good. We can ignore this army..." The Right Xianwang could only comfort himself like this, but the straightforward Zuo Xianwang cried again. He lowered his head and said, "They did not suffer any casualties. Under the rain, our arrows could not be shot out..."
"You!!! Without bows and arrows, 50,000 knights, you can kill thousands of people even if you bite it!!"
Zuo Xianwang said seriously: "You don't know that their cavalry is arranged in a formation..." He was about to explain, but You Xianwang interrupted him. He did not believe in any formation, nor did Zuo Xianwang's words. He just wanted to cover up his failure. Only Tou Man, he frowned when he heard Zuo Xianwang's words. He seemed to think of something and said: "What exactly is the general of Qin State called Li Mu, and what is the other one called?"
"What does this have to do with war?"
"Of course it's related, alas..." Touman didn't explain. He looked at Zuo Xianwang and said, "Get up. Before you, You Xianwang had already been defeated... This is how the war is. There are times of victory and times of defeat. It doesn't matter." Zuo Xianwang stood up and looked at You Xianwang in surprise. He was also defeated? When talking about this, You Xianwang's face turned red and he was unwilling to say more.
This time, the Qin State divided the army into three parts. Correspondingly, the Xiongnu also divided the troops, and the Youxian King was also unlucky. He drew Li Mu, the title of Li Mu. As a result, when the Youxian King went to harass Li Mu, Li Mu first pretended to be defeated and poured out money and cloth to make the Youxian King lose control of the Xiongnu knights. Then he suddenly organized a cavalry to counterattack. The result was obvious that the Youxian King did not swallow Li Mu, and his teeth were broken by him, and almost all the troops were wiped out...
It’s better that Touman has accomplished his mission without suffering a great defeat.
These two wars made Touman, who retained his strength, dominate again, because now his troops have exceeded the two wise kings, but this is not a good thing...
"Oh, we are not their opponents. The opponent's general is very powerful and the system is more advanced than us... Let's leave, seek the protection of others, and end this war." Touman shook his head sadly and said to the wise kings on both sides.
Chapter completed!