Chapter 122: How Many Hus Is One Han?

In this way, at the time of the first charge, they had the upper hand.

But just like that, the Ming army may not be able to fight the 130,000 army with 50,000 troops.

Then there is the armor advantage of the Ming army.

At the height of the tile, there were nearly 100,000 armor cavalry, but after years of conquest, there were only 50,000 or 60,000 armor cavalry. With the exception of these armored cavalry, most of the cavalry were unarmoured.

And Shi Heng, as an excellent cavalry commander, naturally would not touch a stone with an egg. He naturally has his own way of fighting

He preemptively launched the attack, which was to put the tactical initiative in his own hands, and Shi Heng naturally would not go head-to-head with the tile spur heavy weapon. The army he chose to attack was the cavalry of the Watts, which had no heavy armor.

As a result, the two sides hedged, and the Watts suffered too much. The cavalry knife of the Ming army slashed on the body of the tile spur soldiers, and it was natural that the knife could bring blood, but the knife of the tile spur army was not necessarily cut on the Ming army.

It is true that chain mail is lower than heavy armor and armor piercing. But it still has its own effect, and the defense of the light armor is not low. The Ming army is naturally going to be cut to the point, there is no way to live, it is like a neck, even if the tile spur can't cut through the chain mail on the neck, but it is enough to break the neck.

If it is not critical, it can turn a serious injury on the wall into a minor injury, and a minor injury into a flesh wound.

In this way, the Varspurs felt that something was clearly wrong.

Shi Biao, as the vanguard, broke out of the formation from the Tile Thorn army with just one blow. Crushed the Tile Thorn's attempt to encircle the Ming army.

Shi Biao's eyebrows fluttered as he spoke, but Yang Hong secretly reflected in his heart and said secretly: "Isn't it, I don't know much about the combat effectiveness of the soldiers below?" ”

Yang Hong is a cautious person, but he is not a mother-in-law, and Yang Hong has not done anything that is not subject to foreign military orders.

For example, after he conquered Daning, after subduing the three guards of Wuliangha, he continued to go north, which was to cut first and then play.

It's just that he is willing to give up his mind after all.

It's not that he doesn't dare to fight a decisive battle with the tile spurs, but he is more willing to implement Zhu Qizhen's ideas.

Although Zhu Qizhen does not command remotely, the strategy of each battle, the extent to which it is fought, and the purpose of each battle must be explained in advance.

Yang Hong was specially advised by Meng Ying again.

He felt more and more at a time when responsibility was greater. Political considerations are becoming more and more important.

Although sometimes in a war, it is not only necessary to settle political accounts, but also military accounts, and the two may complement each other sometimes, but more often than not, they cancel each other out.

There is a lot of political reckoning. The sword is dusty.

Yang Hong is not unaware that after fourteen years of orthodoxy, the combat effectiveness of the Beijing camp has been improving with the efforts of money.

But the effect is so good, but I didn't expect it.

He didn't have to think about one in secret

A question, that is, it is fair to say that the cavalry of the Ming army and the elite of the tile spurs, how many horses can be ridden at a time? Can you be a two-rider?

This question is very important to Yang Hong.

Because of this estimate, when the army is dispatched in the future, it will be possible to know from the bottom of the heart.

If it is said that in the battle of Maoerzhuang, the Ming army overestimated itself and underestimated the tile spur army, and in this battle, it is obvious that the Ming army overestimated the tile spur army and underestimated itself.

Of course, the victory in this battle does not only show the improvement of the combat effectiveness of the non-commissioned officers, but also Shi Heng's superb command art. In the first round of the battle between the two sides, Shi Heng broke out of the encirclement, and he did not show any intention of fighting again at all, but retreated to the east.

This time, the tile spur fell into passivity.

Don't be reconciled yet.

He gave up most of the Mobei grassland, shaking the feeling of the tile spur in Mobei, only to find this fighter, where is he willing to let Shi Heng go.

This made the first mistake in command, that is, too eager to win.

The pursuit was also ordered first.

Shi Heng fled east for several miles before stopping.

On the whole, the organization of the Tile Spur army was not as good as that of the Ming army.

Shi Heng's 50,000 cavalry are all off-the-job soldiers, especially the Beijing battalion has been training for more than ten months a year, and the military formation, the march, the order, the fight, and so on are all among the training.

However, in addition to the tens of thousands of cavalry in the headquarters, the other Mongol armies could not do full-time training at all.

This is the gap in national strength behind it.

In the shortest possible time, Shi Heng completed the forward and backward turn of the army, and the deserters turned into a turn-over charge.

That is, the most familiar routine of retreating, luring the enemy, and counterattacking the Mongols was played in Shiheng. But the order to pursue was also given first, so that the various divisions were inconsistent, and it was the heavy cavalry that remained last.

Therefore, Shi Heng's department was like a treasure knife, which broke the tile spur that was chasing in the front, and then drove the defeated army into the tile spur army.

When Yang Hong heard Shi Heng commanding like this, he couldn't help but sigh secretly: "Good one, anti-guest." ”

A layman may not know what is so surprising about this kind of command, but Yang Hong knows the difficulty, and the most difficult part is not the combat action.

After all, this kind of rapid change in the formation of the front team to the back team, and the back team to the front team, is actually the most basic formation change.

When I was in Beijing, I don't know how many times I trained.

But how many times you have trained and how much you can play on the battlefield is a completely different concept. As long as the army can play a layer on the training ground, it is enough to be called elite.

And the army broke through the encirclement and retreated. It is easy to break the morale of the army, and everyone wants to escape, but even if the higher authorities order to fight reflexively, it is impossible.

Especially when the enemy is strong and we are weak.

And Shi Heng can do it

, the soldiers below did not hesitate, it can be seen that Shi Heng can win the hearts of the army.

It's just that Shi Biao didn't say anything about it.

Yang Hong couldn't help but ask, "Why didn't the young general say it." ”

Shi Biao said with a smile: "The last general below doesn't know what to say, the marshal led the army to collapse three or four formations of tile spurs, and the two sides fell into a melee, and I couldn't see the battlefield situation clearly at that time, so I always kept killing for three or four hours." ”

Shi Biao said this, and between the words, there was still some feeling of palpitation.

Yang Hong naturally knew that no matter what the reason for the Ming army's victory over the tile spurs, there must be a fierce battle. The vicious battle in Shi Biao's words is not surprising.

After all, if the tile thorn was really a soft persimmon, it would have been destroyed several times ago.

However, the doubts in Yang Hong's heart were still not resolved.

Without him, Yang Hong may have underestimated the strength of the Ming cavalry, but he still felt that the victory or defeat of the 50,000 cavalry and the 100,000 Watt Thorn army was unpredictable.

The best outcome is that both sides withdraw their troops, and the two sides will lose and suffer casualties. Then each said that his side had won big.

It was impossible for such a situation to happen, and the tile spurs retreated, allowing the Ming army to occupy the battlefield.

Without him, if you occupy the battlefield, you have the power to clean up the battlefield.

Many soldiers in the war could not die for a while, but were only injured. Not to mention that on the battlefield, there are many belongings, weapons, horses, etc. of soldiers and soldiers.

It's all loot.

The loss of control of the battlefield almost certainly certains the inevitability of defeat, and although there are a few cases that cannot be discussed in this way, most battles can be viewed from this perspective.

Anyone who loses control of the battlefield can be said to be defeated.

What is the reason why the Watters are willing to retreat?

This made Yang Hong hesitate all the time.

At this time, the army seemed to alarm something. A vulture flew up from above the ground, and in an instant it seemed that a black cloud flew above the ground, and countless scavenging birds flew up.

It seems that within a radius of thousands of miles from the entire grassland, birds of all sizes have flown here.

Alarmed by the army, they all flew into the sky at this moment.

Only then did Yang Hong realize that this was the main battlefield of the fierce battle.

What does it look like?

Countless corpses of men and horses swooped down on the ground, and in some places, some were sparse. The corpses in this place can still be intact, but this is not the case in the place where the fighting was most tragic at that time.

Layers of corpses had been trampled by countless war horses, and they had been trampled into flesh paste, and there was another layer of corpses on top of the meat paste. And then trampled on the meat puree.

Neither the corpses of the Tile Spur soldiers nor the Ming army could be identified.

The ground was covered with large black stains of old blood, long since dried up, but they were like paint, coating the earth. Most of them have been changed in color.