From the perspective of tactical choice, it is not a reasonable tactic for Liu Mengyang to let the vanguard rush forward regardless of it, because this will expose weaknesses.

But Liu Mengyang still did this, because he deliberately made this weakness, so that the Tatars had the courage to rush forward.

His subordinates didn't know what Liu Mengyang thought, let alone the Tatars on the other side.

After all, Liu Mengyang's idea is too shocking, and ordinary people can't understand Liu Mengyang's idea at all: don't seek victory or defeat, just kill the enemy.

The Tatars saw that hundreds of vanguard units of the Tang Army in front of them were coming out of the Stonehenge one after another, and at this time, Batu was also sitting hundreds of meters away in the final preparations, he rode his horse, running around in front of the cavalry of his headquarters, shouting all kinds of encouraging words.

Finally, I saw him holding his scimitar high and giving his final order: "Rush! ”

The thousand Tatar cavalry began to launch a tidal attack, and they did not rush up in a swarm, but, as usual, divided into three waves, each with more than three hundred horsemen.

The speed of the cavalry charge was very fast, and soon it entered the range of the Tang artillery, and the shells began to explode in the cavalry's charging array.

In order to obtain a greater lethal effect, the Datang artillery used expensive howitzer shells instead of solid shells, and the explosion of each shell would cause casualties among the Tatar cavalry, as few as a few or as many as a dozen people.

And the casualties caused by the shells are not the main thing, but the main thing is that the violent explosion of the shells and the thick smoke of the guns will frighten the horses.

Although firearms appeared on the battlefield in China very early, before the Tang Dynasty, the overall use was still not much, even if it was the Ming army, which claimed that the proportion of firearms and equipment had reached 10%, it was actually not much.

In the past, wars in East Asia mainly relied on bows, arrows, swords, and spears.

And many of the military horses were still not used to the explosions and thick smoke on the battlefield, so they were frightened.

In order to avoid horses being frightened on the battlefield, the Tang Army conducts habitual training for horses all year round, that is, an explosion at two ends in three days, so that the horses can gradually get used to the sound of explosions on the battlefield, so as to avoid being hit by the enemy's artillery, and the horses will run around.

But it is clear that the Tatar horses did not have such conditions, even if they had experienced a lot of shelling and made some targeted precautions, but their horses were still frightened by the explosion, and then caused chaos.

That is, the cavalry formation of the Tatars was not very dense, and even if it caused some chaos, it was quickly adjusted by those cavalry with superb horsemanship, and there would never be a complete collapse of the cavalry when it was shelled.

If this is the case, the Tatars don't have to fight, just surrender.

The Tatar cavalry continued to charge, and although the shelling killed and wounded many cavalrymen, it did not stop the Tatars from charging, but on the contrary made them faster, because the Tatars also knew that if they delayed the charge too long, they would suffer more casualties.

But as long as they rush forward, then the artillery of the Tang Army will lose its effect, and their artillery will not be able to fire at both sides.

The Tatar cavalry at the front, lying on horseback, the whole person rose and fell with the gallop of the horse, but they maintained a very stable posture, most of them were holding bows and arrows in their hands, and the sabers were also ready.

According to the normal engagement, they will charge to a distance of tens of meters to fire arrows, and then directly abandon their bows and arrows and rush forward with sabers to fight.

Three hundred meters, one hundred meters, and soon they just rushed up!

After crossing a hundred meters, they bent their bows and arrows, and after rushing dozens of meters, waves of arrows flew out of these cavalry, and then shot at the queue of the Tang infantry in front.

The vanguard of the Tang Army, which rushed out first, was about more than 300 people, and when they first rushed out, they did not list the hollow phalanx as usual, but listed a dense three-column horizontal formation.

At this time, they also began to shoot at the command of the officer!

After the shooting, he did not reload, but tightly held the rifle in his hand, the front end of the rifle was already equipped with a sleeve bayonet, and some soldiers in the back row began to throw grenades!

The intensive shooting almost caused the Tatar cavalry rushing to the front to fall in pieces like wheat that had been cut, and the subsequent explosion of dozens of grenades overturned one Tatar cavalry after another.

Such fierce firepower almost killed and wounded the Tatar cavalry in front of them nearly 100 meters!

But the Tatar charge has already mentioned the highest speed, even if the Tatar cavalry in the front row is dead and wounded, but the Tatar cavalry in the rear instantly passed through the white smoke raised after the grenade exploded, and then rushed to the front of the Tang infantry array!

In the next instant, the dozens of Tatar cavalry who rushed first hit the bayonet phalanx directly!

Suddenly, people turned on their backs, and the screams spread throughout the battlefield, even covering up the sound of explosions!

After seeing that his cavalry had successfully rushed up, Batu in the rear showed an excited expression, he waved the Mongolian scimitar in his hand, let out a strange cry in his mouth, and rushed forward with the last wave of about 400 cavalry!

In the face of a thousand cavalry charges, even the officers and men of the Tang Army, no matter how brave and good at fighting, would be unable to resist when there were only three hundred people!

The infantry's tight defensive line seemed to be like papier-mâché, and it was pierced in an instant, and a large number of Tatar cavalry swooped in through the torn gap, while slashing the Tang infantry on the ground with the scimitars in their hands.

However, although the infantry of the Tang Dynasty was torn apart, they did not fall into a complete collapse, but scattered to form a small team of more than ten or dozens of people to continue fighting.

These are not soldiers of the reserve division, but officers and soldiers of the 13th Infantry Division of the main infantry division!

They are all soldiers who have undergone perennial training, and they have already formed the instinct to obey orders during combat after being strictly brainwashed during the training process.

If it is an offensive operation, facing such a heavy loss, it will definitely not be able to continue the attack, but in the case of defensive operations, it will not collapse so easily.

Especially in the face of cavalry attacks, every infantry officer of the Tang Army knows that they must not be chaotic, even if they die, they must maintain the formation, once the formation is chaotic and completely collapses, then the enemy's cavalry can easily pursue and kill.

At the same time, when the Datang Army was defensive, its ability to bear casualties was far higher than that of the offensive.

So even if the Tatar cavalry tore through the defense line, it still didn't collapse at the first time!

The 300 infantry of the vanguard team suffered heavy casualties, and could only maintain a small formation to protect themselves, and were dissipating in the charge of the Tatar cavalry at a speed visible to the naked eye, while the infantry of the 13th Heavy Regiment in the rear continued to advance in a dense formation, and then intercepted these Tatar cavalry rushing in, and then used bullets and bayonets to kill the Tatar cavalry that had finally rushed over, but had already lost its impact!

The battle situation between the two sides at this time is like two spears colliding!

Each other is hitting their heads and bleeding!

However, this kind of death and injury was not taken into account by the high-level generals on both sides, Liu Mengyang was in the rear, in order to get a better observation angle, he stood on the roof of a tall four-wheeled carriage, and then watched the battle ahead.

With an expressionless face, he continued to issue combat orders, allowing the follow-up troops to continue to rush up!

In his sight, the three hundred infantry who took the lead had fallen in large numbers, and only a few dozen people were still standing in a circle to resist, but the Tatar cavalry in front of them roared as if it were endless.

These 300 infantry, it's over!

Even the five hundred infantry who rushed up in the second wave were in a bitter battle, and they were facing the onslaught of the Tatar cavalry!

At this time, both sides did not shoot arrows or shoot, but fought in the most primitive way, with the Tatars using sabers, and the Tang infantry using bayonets and waist knives.

This is definitely a battle of killing 1,000 enemies and losing 800 of yourself!

Xin Ai Huang Taiji in the rear just looked at the front of Batu leading a thousand cavalry to successfully rush into the array of the Southern Barbarians, and felt surprised, and directly ordered to launch a second wave of attacks, which was another thousand cavalry!

But as time passed bit by bit, he finally frowned when he saw that Batu's cavalry charge was completely covered among the many Tang infantry, and even the second wave of thousands of cavalry began to fall into a bitter battle!

The southern barbarians on the opposite side did not rush out in formation as he expected, but around the cleared passage, the passage that was no more than 100 meters wide continued to increase troops and rush up to fight with their own cavalry.

Although it seemed that his side had a great advantage in the current scene, as if he could completely break through the enemy's interception at any time, he knew very well that if he really wanted to completely defeat these 4,000 southern barbarians, he still needed to increase his troops.

But is it better to continue to increase the number of troops?

In this case, isn't it just a tactic to add fuel to the fire?

It's not just the other party who responds with refueling tactics, but he also engages in refueling tactics.

If you continue to fight like this, you will certainly have a great possibility of annihilating this transport force of the Southern Barbarians, but the losses you will suffer will not be small, will you lose 1,000 cavalry or 2,000 cavalry?

In addition, if he can see such a situation, can't the Southern Barbarian generals on the opposite side see it?

If they engage in refueling tactics, aren't they afraid of being completely wiped out?

Xin Ai Huang Taiji thought about it, but Liu Mengyang, who was opposite him, slowly showed a smile on the corner of his mouth!

That's it!

That's it!

Little by little, the two sides engaged in the most primitive hand-to-hand combat, and finally fell into entanglement, forcing the Tatars to continuously increase their troops, and finally fought a war of attrition.

Let this stone henge become a meat grinder for both sides!

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