Chapter 394: The Decisive Battle in Hexi (1)
(I plan to write about the Great War of Hexi, because the fourth volume that is about to start is the Great War volume, in order to avoid the repetition of a single plot.) So, at that time, everyone will have a good time with war addiction. )
Wei Qing defeated the 70,000 Xiongnu army in the court of the Xiongnu Youxian Wang, and after beheading more than 20,000, he cleaned up the inside and outside of the Youxian Wang's court, and then led the army back to Gaoque Pass for rest.
At that time, Qin Cheng had already won five battles and five victories in Hexi.
Qin Cheng led a hussar battalion of 24,000 light cavalry, adopted a roundabout side attack strategy, attacked five Xiongnu tribes in six days, beheaded more than 10,000 people, and marched triumphantly all the way, unstoppable, and turned the land of Hexi Xiongnu upside down.
Six days later, the hussars led by Qin Cheng rode lightly and rushed to the area of Gaolan Mountain.
Here, the hussars encountered the combined forces of the Xiongnu Luhou King and Zhelan Wang, who came to find the traces of the Han army.
The troops of King Luhou and King Zhelan were one of the few elite troops of the Xiongnu in Hexi, with more than 20,000 combatable soldiers. Not only that, because Yi Zhixian originally planned to attack Heshuo from Hexi with the Xiongnu army in order to achieve the purpose of flanking the Weiqing army, so at this time, the cavalry actually led by King Luhou and King Zhelan exceeded 20,000.
The prince of the evil king, Xiangguo and Duwei and other high-ranking officials, led the king of Hutu with five thousand elite cavalry, originally with the king of Luhou and the king of Zhelan, and prepared to act together, but this time because Qin Cheng led the army to raid Hexi, creating great chaos, so that the previous plan had to be shelved. It is precisely because of this situation that King Luhou and King Zhelan decided to come together with nearly 30,000 troops to meet the hussar army, and first solve this Han army that brought great trouble to Hexi.
When the two armies faced each other, the tacit understanding did not rush directly over, but stopped at a distance of five miles and began to adjust the formation.
The marching formation is naturally different from the battle formation, and in a face-to-face battle on the grassland, it is rarely necessary to seize any advantageous geographical advantages, and only need to spread out the general formation.
In the Xiongnu army array, King Luhou, King Zhelan, and Prince Hun Evil were immediately at the front, and all three of them were staring at the red Han cavalry in front of them.
"According to the report of the sentry cavalry and the defeated army, the army in front is the hussar army under the command of Qin Cheng, the left general of the Great Han Dynasty, about twenty or thirty thousand." King Luhou's eyes were not very dignified, only a strong battle intent. If anything else, it is a desperate desire to win.
"I heard that the heavy cavalry of the hussars was covered in leather armor and held eight halberds, which were difficult to penetrate with swords and guns, difficult to hurt by arrows, and were indestructible wherever they went." King Zhelan was much more cautious than King Luhou, and he said with a worried face.
When King Luhou heard this, his face also changed, after all, the shadow of a person's famous tree cannot be blown out.
"The two kings rest assured, this prince has received definite news, and there are no heavy horses in the hussars this time!" When the Evil Prince was less than a year old, when he said this, there was already a bit of contempt in his eyes, "In order to pursue the speed of the attack, Qin Cheng gave up the heavy horses with poor speed and durability, and even dared to try to run rampant in Hexi with only more than 20,000 light horses - this is simply a fat sheep sent to the wolf's mouth!" Today, when we wait for the army to arrive, the hussars will surely be defeated! ”
"Are the prince's words true?" When King Luhou and King Zhelan heard this, their morale was greatly boosted.
"How can Prince Ben talk nonsense about such a big thing?" The evil prince asked rhetorically, and then said with fighting spirit: "This time the hussars have become a tired army, and we will definitely win!" ”
"Good!" King Luhou and King Zhelan applauded at the same time, "When the formation changes completely, we will kill it immediately!" ”
At this time, the hussar army in front of the Huns.
"Report! General, the Hun army in front has begun to line up! ”
"Report! General, the Hun cavalry was not found in other directions! ”
"Report! General, the light cavalry is complete! ”
The herald clearly identified the flags of the hussar rangers of all parties, and reported to Qin Cheng one by one.
Qin Cheng shouted after hearing this, "Tell the captains of the various ministries and let them convey the following words of the general: This is a hard battle, and it is also a decisive battle!" If you win, then the shame of Hexi last year can be washed away, and you and Ben will be rewarded by Your Majesty and the people of the world, and they will be honored! If defeated, the Han army will no longer have the face to set foot in Hexi, and the hussars will no longer have the face to face their comrades in the northern army! Your Majesty once said that the hussars have not tasted a single defeat since the day they became an army, but they are always victorious and the army of tigers in the world!
"Today, if the hussars are defeated, they will never survive!"
Pre-war mobilization, that is the quality that a qualified general must have, Qin Cheng's words immediately mobilized the emotions of all the soldiers, and the 20,000 light horsemen were all moved.
Seeing that the morale of the generals was full and their morale was high, Qin Cheng raised his hand and waved his hand and said loudly: "Blow the trumpet, wave the flag, and the army charges!" ”
Le Yi pulled out the ring head knife, moved forward, leaned forward, and roared: "Hussars, charge!" ”
After saying that, the military formation slowly started, Qin Cheng and Le Yi took the lead, and the yellow flag fluttered high.
From the very beginning, the battle was destined to be a hard-fought battle of life and death. King Luhou and King Zhelan were ready to go, and they had already been holding back for a long time, and at this time, they were waiting for work with superior forces, so they naturally took a certain initiative.
Although the hussars are the best in the world, they have also gone through six consecutive days of fighting, and their physical strength is not as good as when they were at their peak.
The so-called strong division is nothing more than four aspects: courage, morale, obedience to orders, and superb skills.
As for equipment, in this era of cold weapons, where the difference in equipment is not too great, it is not a key factor in measuring the strength of an army.
Only when you have the courage can you not be afraid of the enemy, not afraid of death when facing the enemy, and not be in a hurry when fighting, forgetting your own fighting skills; If you have morale, you can go to the sea of fire; Absolute obedience to orders, in order to achieve a degree of advance and retreat, victory without forgetting, defeat without collapse; The superb skills include two aspects, one is the fighting skills of the sergeant, and the other is the coordination of the formation formation.
Since the establishment of the Hussar Army, on the basis of the consultation between Liu Mu and Qin Cheng and others, and then consulted Li Guang, and compiled a military training system that was extremely strict in Qin Cheng's opinion. Over the years, the hussars have also been working military training. Regarding the hussars' training achievements, Qin Cheng himself is still very confident.
Outsiders only know that the hussars are invincible in heavy cavalry, and it is difficult for ordinary cavalry to shake their blades head-on, but if the opponent of the hussars only knows that the hussars have heavy cavalry and ignores the rest, they will undoubtedly be defeated miserably when they reach the battlefield mountain.
This time, Qin Cheng did not take the hussar army to run for a long time, on the one hand, because the speed of the heavy cavalry did not meet the requirements of a thousand-mile run, and on the other hand, Qin Cheng had absolute confidence in the light cavalry itself.
The first decisive battle of the hussars in Hexi, the first hard battle, kicked off at the foot of Gaolan Mountain.
At this time, the two sides no longer have any whimsical plans, and there is no talk of any military planning and then fighting, only real swords and real guns face to face, only the frontal collision of the military formation!
"Kill!"
"Snow shame!"
"Hussars, charge!"
Every captain is raising his sword and shouting. Every sergeant is a vital part of the decisive battle, and he must do his best!
The two armies fought, and suddenly there was a bloody storm. The cavalry in front of the army formation tried to drive the war horses to charge forward, opening up space for the comrades behind to fight.
After the battle, the Hun soldiers, who had been in high morale, found that the hussar soldiers in front of them, who they thought had become a tired division and must be lacking in strength, did not have the slightest tired posture at all, on the contrary, these Han soldiers were alive and vigorous, and seeing them was like seeing an immortal enemy, and the long knife in their hands waved very fast!
King Lu Hou and others thought that because of their lack of physical strength, the hussars would inevitably be scattered after the charge and battle, and the soldiers would not cooperate effectively, so they could easily win a big victory, but when countless Hun cavalry who dared to fight and dare to rush were hidden in the well-coordinated Han army large and small formations, the king of Zhelan and others found that the military formation of the Han army, whether from the overall army formation or from the small Shiwu formation, was extremely tight!
The hussars told these Hun cavalrymen who thought they were elite with practical actions what is the real elite division, what is the real daring warrior, and what is the real best in the world!
The real elite is not the same as the combat power of ordinary sergeants, and it is by no means an empty word.
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The decisive battle of 50,000 people, both sides are determined to fight to the death to the end of their own elite divisions, from the beginning of the war, the generals of both sides did not intend to lead the defeated army away, but determined to fight to the last soldier.
The hussars had no way to retreat, and the Hun coalition army of King Zhelan and others, in this land, under the strong orders of Yi Zhixian, had no place to retreat when Hexi had been slaughtered red by the hussars!
The battle lasted for a whole day, and it was not until the sun went down that the sky and the earth, the clouds and the grass were as blood-red, and the fighting gradually stopped.
Corpses were strewn all over the field, and rivers of blood flowed like rivers.
In this battle, the hussars fought for six days with more than 20,000 light cavalry, and the 30,000 Huns who were waiting for work in a decisive battle, and finally, with almost anti-heaven combat power, killed more than 20,000 enemies, and won the first decisive battle in Hexi!
And the two Hun kings Luhou and Zhelan, who thought they would win this battle, never had a chance to see the Hun army defeat the Han army, because their heads had been separated from their bodies forever! The heads of their tribal warriors mingled and rolled down on the icy grass.
The prince of the evil king, Xiangguo, and Du Wei were captured after the battle, and they became trophies that showed the great martial arts of the hussars!
A big battle has come to an end, and the hussars' campaign in Hexi is far from over, and even the real battle has just begun!