Chapter 396: Summary of Cavalry Battles
"Kill!" With the roar that shook the mountains, hundreds of Sui army iron horsemen slaughtered into the stunned Liu Heimin army. The army was like a tide, wedged into the unformed enemy army layer by layer, brandishing long knives and horse lances, and galloping wildly.
There is no suspense about the outcome of the victory, although Liu Heimin's guards are not afraid of death, and the number is twice that of the Sui army, but no one from top to bottom has thoroughly understood the cavalry tactics, and they can't give full play to the power of the cavalry at all.
On the other hand, the iron cavalry of the Sui army almost all participated in the war with foreign peoples, and they had powerful foreign cavalry as a whetstone, and the level of cavalry combat was by no means imaginable for the princes of the Central Plains, who mainly fought on foot.
is also cavalry, the Sui army is strong and strong, while the Liu army is weak and weak.
The formation formed by Liu Jun in a hurry was useless and full of flaws, and the Sui army cut into the weak point like a steel knife with a handle, dismembering Liu Jun, and the rest were swarmed by the rest of the soldiers, swallowing this piece of fat into their stomachs.
Liu Jun had no choice, even if he had sufficient troops, he also took care of one or the other because of improper tactics and lost the first move, and only clumsily coped with various attacks, and was beaten by the nose led by the Sui army. No matter what way you do, you can't save the defeat. Facing the dense formation of lancers, the Sui army immediately lifted the reins and swept over, and rushed into the weak point on the other side in an arc......
The Sui army became more and more courageous, shouting to kill the heavens, like an extremely sharp horizontal knife, unscrupulously killing and galloping in the enemy army, Liu Heimin's soldiers either fought separately, or scattered and fled, and large groups fled in all directions.
The Sui army was invincible,
Liu Heimin was declaring defeat everywhere, being repeatedly divided, compressed, and killed...... Corpses littered the field. Under the devastating offensive of the Sui army, the space was constantly compressed, the number of people was constantly reduced, and various defensive formations were in vain.
Liu Heimin knew that it was only a matter of time before he was defeated, so he had to break out from the flank with three or four hundred people, and fled east for dozens of miles in one breath before slowly stopping. The 3,000 cavalry that came now is less than 500. Filled with sorrow in his heart, he looked back at the sparse and bloody soldiers, and thought that he could not steal chickens, but would destroy the three thousand elite horsemen he had built with all his might, and he squatted in the field and cried loudly.
Everyone looked at each other, all shook their heads and sighed, Liu Shishan turned over and dismounted, came to Liu Heimin's side and comforted in a low voice: "Victory or defeat is a common thing in soldiers, big brother don't be too sad, although our army is gone, but the main generals and colonels are there, and we still have war horses, maybe we can regain our strength and rebuild our fine cavalry, and now we need big brother to cheer up and lead everyone back to Qi County victoriously!" ”
Everyone persuaded one after another, Liu Heimin wiped away his tears, got up and said to everyone: "The responsibility for this failure lies in my greed, I regret that I should not listen to Wang Xiaohu's advice, greedily collide with the Sui Dynasty, I, Liu Heimin, will remember today's shame and determine my ambition!" ”
Liu Heimin pulled out the dagger from his boots, and in the exclamation of everyone, he cut off the little finger of his left hand, and suddenly the blood gushed like a spring, and the two soldiers hurriedly bandaged him, and everyone persuaded together: "Please take care of the king!" ”
"The same cavalry! The officers and men of our army are also fearless of death, but why this fiasco? Liu Heimin sighed and said, "It was because our tactics were not good, and it was because we didn't understand the cavalry thoroughly that we were pressed and beaten." ”
"Their style of play is actually quite simple, but it's deadly!" Liu Shishan sighed and said with a wry smile: "Compared with the Sui army, we are completely infantry on horseback, our riding skills are not as good as people, our tactics are not as good as people, we will be shot if we stop and don't move, and we can only be beaten passively if we don't stop." And the Sui army not only had amazing riding skills, coming and going like the wind, dividing and merging, and the transfer of troops was completed in an instant, and then constantly hunted and killed our army, and when the time was ripe, it quickly gathered a large number of troops. After testing the reality of our army, he delivered a fatal blow, and almost without fighting, he was already killed with one blow. We can't deal with this tactical ...... of theirs."
Liu Heimin said with difficulty: "We have never had experience in fighting with cavalry, and we don't know many difficulties and problems of cavalry, and we don't even know how to use cavalry. Be sure to take this lesson and strengthen your training. ”
"Whoa!"
In this battle, Liu's army was defeated, but he also vaguely touched the door of the cavalry.
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The battlefield east of Juancheng in Dongping County, the war has been completely over, the wind is blowing, looking at it, the corpses are full of corpses, which are extremely eye-catching under the last fiery red glow, and the ground seems to have been washed with blood.
"Quickly clean up the battlefield, collect the remains of comrades, and recover crossbow arrows!"
This battle is over, but Yin Mingyue doesn't know if there will be a battle tonight or tomorrow, so she must recover enough crossbow arrows, "Time is half an hour!" ”
"Whoa!"
Yin Mingyue didn't have time to pay attention to this matter, handed over the task of cleaning up to the deputy general, and quickly returned to the camp with two hundred soldiers.
"General!" Several female soldiers stationed in the garrison stepped forward and saluted Yin Mingyue with fists.
Yin Mingyue nodded: "Quickly ask the princess to come down the mountain." ”
"I'm already here." Pei Qinghua walked out in a group of female guards.
Yin Mingyue glared at the female captain fiercely, and saluted: "The last general will see the princess." ”
"General Yin doesn't need to be polite!" Pei Qinghua's eyes swept over the returning soldiers, all of them were covered with blood that had not dried up, and the image was quite tragic, she endured the discomfort and took a deep breath: "More than a thousand soldiers, that's all left?" ……”
Yin Mingyue shook her head slowly and said, "There are still hundreds of people cleaning up the battlefield!" My Great Sui soldiers are all a hundred people, although the princess can rest assured. ”
"Hearing the general say this, I am relieved." Pei Qinghua saw that Yin Mingyue wanted to speak and stopped, and said with a smile: "What is the matter with the general, but when it comes to it, I will listen to the general." ”
"Although our army is not afraid of any enemy, but the princess is here, the last general will not dare to let go of his hands and feet to fight, and the enemy army is Dou Jiande's Xia army, the last general is no longer safe in this place, and he should go north overnight."
Pei Qinghua was surprised: "Isn't this a place controlled by Li Mi?" ”
Yin Mingyue nodded and said: "Dongping and Jibei are under Li Mi's control, but Dou Jiande's army passed through Jibei and arrived in Juancheng. Looking at the appearance of the Xia army, they did not have a battle on the way, and Li Mi's three thousand guards suddenly withdrew, and the two were obviously colluded together. ”
"I don't know anything about military affairs, everything is in charge of General Yin." Even if Yin Mingyue didn't ask for instructions, Pei Qinghua could only follow, and the other party asked like this, which was also to give her the respect she deserved as a princess. After being silent for a while, he asked curiously: "It's just that it's dark today, I don't know how the general plans to go?" ”
"The most dangerous places are often the safest places. I plan to stay in Juancheng tonight! Yin Mingyue said her decision.
Pei Qinghua was stunned, and then applauded Yin Mingyue's approach.
Li Mi did not dare to offend the Great Sui, and the same was true of the defenders of Juancheng, they lived in Juancheng with great fanfare and clarity, and Li Mi did not dare to use any means of it, because once they had an accident in Li Mi's land, the first object of the Great Sui's revenge was Li Mi.
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In the mountains and forests, a large battalion of 3,000 soldiers stood up, dressed and bannered by Dou Jiande's Xia army, but when they arrived at the big tent of the Chinese army, it was Xu Shiji of the Wei army who sat there, and he sat there to watch a map - the situation map of Jingzhou.
Xu Shiji was ordered by Li Mi to lead 3,000 soldiers to escort Princess Yan and her party to Dongping County, and then evacuated in advance on the grounds that the war was tight, in order to give Liu Heimin a chance to attack, so as to serve the purpose of causing trouble to the east, if Liu Heimin wins, then Xu Shiji will symbolically chase and kill for a distance, if the Sui army wins, he will pretend to be the Xia army for a second wave of attacks, in short, it is to provoke the battle between the Sui Dynasty and Dou Jiande.
In fact, Xu Shiji's decision to Li Mi was actually opposed, the strategy of the Sui Dynasty has been quite clear by now, and they are very likely to digest the gains of this year's war, and do not want to fall into the melee of the southern princes. Yang Tong wanted to sit and watch the big war in the south, and wait until the south was defeated and then raise troops to the south. As long as the south can't tell the winner, or there are many princes, Yang Tong will not meddle in the affairs of the south, and there is no need to provoke the Sui Dynasty at this time.
And Yang Tong is not a fool, how can he not see the strategy of this disaster? If he fails to frame Dou Jiande, but provokes the Sui Dynasty, the impact on Wei will definitely be no less than that of Dilong, but as a general, he can only try to do this well.
"General!" A lieutenant hurriedly walked in front of Xu Shiji, his expression very solemn.
"Bad news?" The general nodded silently, and he suddenly didn't know how to say to Xu Shiji.
"Say it!" Xu Shiji smiled bitterly, he probably thought of the current situation, the thousand Sui army was good, but the number was less than Liu Heimin, and the probability of successfully defeating Liu Heimin was quite low.
"Liu Heimin returned in a fiasco, the three thousand guards he regarded as a sharp blade were stripped of their clothes by a thousand Sui troops, stripped layer by layer, the Sui army smashed straight into the middle army, the two wings responded, outflanked in a roundabout way, Liu Heimin but whenever he organized resistance, they were instantly swept away by them with a thunderous momentum, like a bamboo... Liu Heimin's 3,000 elite horsemen were like children in front of the Sui army, and they were played with alive, and they did not cause much loss to the Sui army. The general looked at Xu Shiji and exclaimed, "The last general never knew that the cavalry could fight like this. When it comes to riding, I'm afraid the Sui army is unparalleled in the world. ”
"Liu Heimin failed miserably?" Xu Shiji especially disbelieved.
"Yes!" The subordinate general nodded and said: "Except for the frontal hard shock, the Sui army was damaged, and when they were galloping and fighting, they were almost playing. ”
Xu Shiji nodded silently and asked, "What about the Sui army, is it still in the garrison?" ”
Of course, he did not want to provoke the Sui army for the Wei State, but he was a martial artist, and there was no other way than to obey orders.
"Gone!" The general said with a strange expression: "It seems that he is planning to enter Juancheng." ”
Xu Shiji was stunned for a moment, his heart was relieved, and said, "Smart approach." ”
"General, what are we going to do?"
"If something happens to the Sui army in Juancheng, the responsibility is my Wei State, give up the attack, keep an eye on Juancheng tonight, and don't let a third party attack the city."
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