Chapter 238: Objectives (continued)
In the wilderness, the infantry who lost their armor, the cavalry who rode their horses and charged, the young men who ran and shouted, the burning trebuchets, the flags that were thrown all over the ground, and everywhere was chaos.
The Anzhou cavalry, who rushed out of the city along the dirt mountain, made a mess of the siege position on the eastern outskirts of the city, and the soldiers and young men who ran and fled on foot were chased and trampled by them, as easily as cutting wheat.
The enemy army, which had been attacking the city with all its might, did not expect the defenders to dare to go out of the city to counterattack, and it was a large-scale cavalry attack, and all the counterattacks that were hastily organized were broken, and they were soon defeated.
Yuwen Wen, the king of Xiyang, who was riding his horse and charging into battle, chased and killed the rout, and the mount under his crotch was shot by a stray arrow, and the horse that was already covered in bruises screamed, and he couldn't stand the pain anymore, and his body was about to fall forward.
But after all, the carefully selected war horse was different from ordinary walking horses, even if he was seriously injured, he still tried his best to maintain his balance, and ran forward for more than ten steps, his speed gradually slowed down, and he exhausted his last strength before falling to the ground.
Yu Wenwen, who was riding on a horse, jumped off his horse before his mount fell to the ground, and it was only then that he noticed that his mount had several arrows in its body, which was similar to his own.
However, he has armor and armor made of cold-forged armor leaves, but the war horse does not, he has a few arrows stuck in his body, which looks like an arrow target, but it is only a slight flesh injury, and the war horse is covered in blood, and it can be called excellent endurance until now.
The war horse that fell to the ground was still panting, but it was too seriously injured and could not stand up, the huge horse looked at the master, as if tears were overflowing, Yuwenwen pulled out the dagger and gave his "comrades-in-arms" a good time.
Accompanied by the cavalry on the left and right to prepare the horses, Yuwen Wen put away the dagger, first pulled out the arrows inserted in his body, then turned over on the horse, and led his subordinates to continue to gallop on horseback, killing and wounding the enemy as soon as possible.
On the eastern outskirts of the city, the siege position was in disarray, and as far as the eye could see, Yuwenwen had achieved a lot of results in this battle out of the city, and he specially made the war horse not wear armor, just to highlight the mobility as much as possible.
The cavalry on the battlefield is divided into light cavalry and heavy cavalry, and the heavy cavalry of this era is the "armored cavalry" with heavy armor of people and horses, with high protection and strong impact, and it is really unstoppable once it rushes up.
However, armored cavalry is expensive, and horses have limited endurance due to their heavy burden, so in order to maintain a strong and continuous charge and detour ability, it is common for light cavalry to wear armor but not armor on the battlefield.
Yu Wenwen and the other Anzhou cavalry who rushed out of the city to fight, their horses were not armored, they were all light horses, in order to maintain a fast movement speed as long as possible, and to kill and wound as many enemy soldiers and young men as possible before the enemy cavalry reacted, and then retreat to the city.
So there is no room for delay now.
Now it is not a field wave battle, the enemy army has dug a long trench and built a long encirclement around the hanging gourd, and there are four large villages as supports, there is a complete encirclement network (defense circle), and there are cavalry loitering and responding on the periphery, and its strength is far above the Anzhou cavalry.
Yuwen Wen couldn't reproduce the glorious record of Er Zhurong with 7,000 cavalry to break Ge Rong's 300,000 soldiers, so he could only accept it when he saw it, he looked to the east, looked at the huge camp, looked at the long enclosure like the Great Wall, and was a little helpless.
At this moment, he suddenly noticed that a mound in front of the enemy's eastern camp was crowded with people, and a spear formation had been discharged, and his own cavalry was surrounding the mound.
Looking at it with a clairvoyant mirror, Yu Wenwen only felt that his breathing was about to stop: the flag on the mound showed that the prime minister and the king of Shu, Wei Chi Dun, were under the banner.
"How.... Wei Chi is here?! ”
Yuwenwen blurted out, and the cavalry next to him was stunned when they heard this, and then looked at each other: they saw the banner on the mound early in the morning, but the king of Xiyang kept charging with his head bored and didn't go to the mound, they thought that the commander had made a choice, so they didn't dare to say anything.
It turns out that the King of Xiyang has never seen it!
Yu Wenwen saw the embarrassed expressions of the soldiers, and he was embarrassed, he just rode his horse up the dirt mountain, and saw the enemy troops under the mountain, only to feel the blood surge, so excited that goosebumps all over the body rose, and after rushing down the mountain first, he fell into a "bloody pig state".
He only cared about rushing and killing, and completely forgot to observe the overall situation of the battlefield.
If Yu Wenwen is only a general of the first army, it is no problem to charge into battle as a leading soldier, but he is charging personally as the commander of the whole army, and he can't just patronize and cut people, and he has to know the changes in the battlefield situation.
Once the enemy army has a flaw, it is necessary to improvise, adjust tactics in time, and defeat the enemy in one battle.
This is the difference between the general and the handsome, and Yuwenwen's "pig sudden" is suddenly sexual, and he forgot about it.
If Wei Chi Dan was indeed on the mound, it meant that this person had already been watching the battle and watching the results of the siege of the city, so when Yuwen Wen rode his horse from the hanging gourd to the earth mountain, Yu Chi Dan should also be there on the mound.
However, Yu Wenwen didn't notice that the enemy commander was on the battlefield in person, and when he saw the enemy army at the bottom of the mountain, he was crazy, and he only cared about charging, and didn't think about rushing directly to the mound to behead him.
In other words, once he rode a horse and charged, he fell into a state of "pig burst", this problem did not change, and he was not a qualified cavalry commander.
His face was a little hot, Yu Wenwen didn't say anything, and led his subordinates to gallop in the direction of the mound, at this moment his idea was to make up for the dead, before the arrival of enemy reinforcements, attack the mound at any cost, and capture Wei Chi Dun alive!
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The mound was protected layer by layer by the spearmen who had been waiting for the battle, and the archers lived in the middle, bending their bows and arrows to face the Anzhou cavalry galloping in a circle outside, and the two sides confronted each other a hundred paces apart, but did not send an arrow.
Generally speaking, the effective killing range of the cavalry bow is about 50 paces, and the effective killing range of the infantry bow is about 70 paces, but the moving cavalry is not easy to shoot, and the cavalry does not need precise aiming to shoot the infantry in formation.
Therefore, once there is a situation where the cavalry besieges the infantry in formation, the cavalry still has a slight upper hand when the two sides shoot at each other, but now such a strange scene is really incomprehensible.
Yu Wenwen, who arrived in a hurry, saw his cavalry circling around the mound but did not attack, such a waste of time made him a little annoyed, but he did not attack, because the enemy army was indeed in full position.
The enemy soldiers gathered at the mound, with more than 1,000 troops, have formed a perfect spear formation, and a large number of archers, such a tight infantry formation, it is not so easy to attack, not to mention that the Anzhou cavalry does not have an advantage in numbers.
No matter how powerful the cavalry is, if you want to hit the spearmen in the formation head-on, that is to seek death, and only by constantly grinding with cavalry and shooting, forcing the opponent's main general to deal with the improper and chaotic formation, can there be hope of breaking the formation.
If the other party's main general is the first to escape, it will be much simpler, but Yuwen Wen listened to the general who surrounded the mound, the other party did not have the slightest sign of escape, and was in strict formation at the beginning, and the Anzhou cavalry could not rush in, and they could not take effective measures to break the formation in a hurry.
"Can't break the formation? Don't you have fire oil bombs? ”
In this out-of-town operation, in order to facilitate arson, Yuwenwen equipped the team attacking the camp and destroying the equipment with precious fire oil bombs, or the rope firing type, which is very convenient to use.
Although there were not many such fire oil bombs, he felt that if he wanted to deal with the enemy troops at the mound, as long as he threw all the fire oil bombs, there should be a chance to confuse the opponent's spear formation, and then the cavalry could drive straight into defeat the opponent in one fell swoop.
If the prime minister is delayed, then the mound is the most valuable target, as long as the other party is killed or captured alive, the besieging army will inevitably retreat without a fight, and the situation in the world will also change.
As long as you can capture or kill Wei Chi Dun alive, it is worth losing 3,000 cavalry, but you say "you can't break the formation"?
"King, King! There is a banner of the Son of Heaven at the mound! ”