The battle of Qiliba in the third year of Yongzhen left a strong mark in the history books of later generations, and countless soldiers and scholars spent countless hours studying the tactical changes of this battle, studying the advantages and disadvantages of the cavalry and the infantry.

In the end, it was concluded: If the Chuanyun Army did not have Li Ruyu's sword, if the Zhengjiang was not a gentleman's banner, the whole army would inevitably be annihilated, and if the general of the Western Army was not Li Su, he would also be torn to pieces by the Chuanyun Army.

But this battle really taught a lesson to later generations of soldiers and created a new tactic.

It turns out that a single cavalry army can also shake the cooperation of bows, infantry, and cavalry.

More than that, in the entire Yongzhen period of the world's wars, countless soldiers and strange people created tactics made this world's military path rise to an unprecedented height.

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Qiliba, two miles away from Yongchuan City, is a rare wilderness place on the road to Yongchuan to Su Town, in early spring, as far as the eye can see, a piece of white and green overlap between the green mountains.

The white is snow, and the green is wheat.

But at this moment, on the mouth of the Qili Dam, the iron horses neighed and trampled the wheat fields.

The nearby peasants were dismissed by the local officials long before the beginning of spring, and most of them were sent to the south of Yuzhou, where they would rebel against their hometown when the war ended, and some of them fled to Shuzhong without the government—which was generally not allowed.

After all, the population is the basis of war.

However, the war was imminent, and the local officials could not be perfect, so they could only move most of the peasants to the south of Yuzhou, and the few who fled to Shuzhong could only be resigned.

When the scout sent back the news, Li Su could only smile bitterly.

Sure enough, there was the most undesirable situation, Yongchuan's Cloud Piercing Army abandoned the city to fight, this raid, at least on this front, if it can't completely annihilate the Cloud Piercing Army, it will be considered a failure.

I just don't know how the front of Puzhou to attack Changzhou, I want to come to Changzhou to guard Xiahou does not have the courage of the gentleman's banner, if Xiahou can't hold Changzhou, he can wait for reinforcements on that front.

As long as one of the two fronts succeeds in taking a city, the situation will be favorable to the Western Army.

In this way, then I Li Su will try to see if I can completely annihilate the Cloud Army.

If it is done, Yuzhou will be at your fingertips.

The worst situation is to retreat to Changzhou, join up with another army, and continue to encroach on the forbidden forces in Chongqing with Changzhou as the foundation.

Li Ruyu and Junzi Qi lined up side by side.

Behind him, there were Xue San and Zhang Gui, followed by a thousand Xiangyang recruits, and finally the real elite of the Chuanyun Army, two thousand veterans who went south from Guanyu.

Looking at the light cavalry of the Western Army pouring into Qiliba, Junzi Qi raised his eyebrows: "One thousand." ”

Li Ruyu let out a sigh.

Fortunately, there are only one thousand, if the Western Army's light cavalry exceeds one thousand and five, it will be a huge threat to the Cloud Piercing Army, one thousand against three thousand, and the Western Army's light cavalry has little chance of winning.

Junzi Qi was a little worried, "I'm worried that this thousand light horsemen won't participate in the war." ”

If the person leading the enemy army has foresight, he will let the thousand light horsemen hide behind the foot soldiers, and find a way to bite the Piercing Cloud Army, instead of fighting the Piercing Cloud Army head-on.

After the 1,000 light cavalry of the Western Army, there were 8,000 foot soldiers, and they quickly lined up in formation, and then changed their formations, as expected by the Junzi Banner, the 1,000 light cavalry did hide on the left side of the defensive formation, and seemed to be prepared to encircle the Yun Army.

Junzi Qi was a little surprised after looking at it from afar, "Did you find it?" ”

Li Ruyu nodded, "This western army originally wanted to raid Yongchuan with a lot of siege equipment, but in order to pursue speed, they gave up the horse rejection pile and the deer (Zhai), but the trouble is that the other party actually brought heavy pawns, could it be that before the raid, did you expect that we would abandon the city?" It seems that the enemy generals are by no means general. ”

As the name suggests, the deer stake is made of sharpened trees or bamboo, and is generally made into a long row of sharp corners to block the collision of enemy cavalry.

Although the cavalry cannot be absolutely stopped in most battles, it can also cause a lot of battle damage to the cavalry.

Especially light riding.

Therefore, in a war, it is not that you will be able to win a big victory if you have an absolute advantage, but also depends on the tactical cooperation and the coordination of the troops, such as the light cavalry is very mobile, but if you encounter the archers and infantry equipped with a large number of crossbow arrows and bed crossbows under the heavy guard, you will be shot so that your father and mother do not know.

The crossbow arrows and bed crossbows of the archer infantry seem to be very lethal, but if you first charge with heavy cavalry and then assist light cavalry, the archer formation will be smashed into a pile of shit by the cavalry.

Li Su knew these common sense, so he was not afraid of the Cloud Piercing Army and was determined to shake it.

Junzi Qi and Li Ruyu also knew, so the two did not choose to charge immediately.

Three thousand light cavalry against thousands of foot soldiers, it seems that the odds of victory are very high, but in front of the opponent's array, there are hundreds of heavy soldiers lined up, and the devil knows how many bow infantry the opponent has...... The arrows of the Cloud Piercing Army, if they encounter heavy soldiers, they will not be able to break the armor at all.

Moreover, the enemy army still has a thousand light cavalry.

It can also be seen from this that the mountain-destroying soldiers are very important to the Western Army, but according to today's situation, Zhao Changyi and the black-clothed literati have long responded to the rebellion of the mountain-destroying soldiers.

Presumably, in the past two years, Shuzhong has created an elite team.

Li Ruyu reined in the constantly moving war horse and asked Junziqi, "How to attack, facing the crossbow arrows and crossbow guns of the archers and infantry to shake the hundreds of heavy pawns, I estimate that before the formation of the heavy pawns is broken, our Cloud Piercing Army will have to die three out of ten." ”

Junzi Qi was silent, frowning and staring.

As the Chuanyun army abandoned the city and attacked, the situation reversed, the western army that was supposed to attack the city became a defensive position, but the Chuanyun army, which was supposed to defend the city, was the attacker who held the initiative.

However, from the analysis of the coordination of the arms, the Cloud Piercing Army is at an absolute disadvantage.

The single cavalry army facing this kind of bow infantry, foot soldiers, heavy pawns and light cavalry auxiliary army, is basically looking for death - but who is the gentleman's banner, 7,000 people can attack 32 cities, and there are not too many examples of fighting at a disadvantage.

Suddenly raised his eyebrows and smiled, "Try? ”

There is no absolute certainty.

Li Ruyu pressed the sword, "You just have to try, you can't gnaw this hard bone, we will annoy him to death!" ”

That's the advantage of light riding.

Junzi Qi nodded, and said to Li Ruyu seriously, don't die, and then turned sideways, and made a gesture to the flag soldiers standing behind Zhang Guixue San, and with the red and yellow flags of the flag soldiers, the Cloud Piercing Army gradually advanced.

Li Ruyu also learned the gentleman's flag today and wore a white robe.

Unarmoured.

After seeing the flag, he immediately took the lead in leading the army to attack, with a sword at his waist and a gun in his hand - fighting on the battlefield, especially in cavalry combat, the spear is naturally more lethal than the sword, and if it is dismounted and fighting, the sword is more threatening than the gun.

War horses neighed, and dust filled the sky.

Everyone had swords in their sheaths and guns in their hands, but at the forefront of the formation was not the Xiangyang recruits, but the archers and cavalry composed of recruits and veterans, all holding longbows and carrying quivers.

A thousand Xiangyang recruits followed behind Li Ruyu, and the war horse under his crotch first walked slowly for dozens of meters, and then trotted, seeing that he was about to reach the land of two arrows, Li Ruyu waved his gun and roared: "Kill!" ”

A thousand Xiangyang children, all of them shouted and killed.

The horses accelerated, trotting to galloping, like a torrent, rushing towards the enemy formation two arrows away.

Iron hooves like thunder.

Behind this thousand Xiangyang recruits, two hundred meters away, there are two thousand old soldiers, and they also began to accelerate the sprint, if there is no accident, as long as the Xiangyang recruits crash through the enemy formation, these two thousand sons are enough to kill a pair in the opposite infantry formation.

This is the most basic formation for light cavalry attacks.

Nothing outstanding.

Li Su, who was in the center of the formation, saw this scene, and was slightly surprised, Junziqi was so capable, didn't he know that it was no luck to hit his defensive formation with such a formation.

Even if you can survive the rain of crossbows and crossbows of the infantry, and crash into the defensive wall of the heavy soldiers, it will slow down the mobility of the cavalry, and it is likely to be surrounded by foot soldiers.

How did such a gentleman's flag manage a thousand iron horsemen to go from watching fishing to Shouzhou?

Is the Zhenbei Army so unbearable?

Li Su did not dare to slack off, nor did he despise the Cloud Piercing Army, and did not hesitate to make a gesture to the flag soldiers beside him, and then the red and yellow flags waved, the war drums beat, and the formation of the army remained unchanged.

The earth shook like thunder.

The Cloud Piercing Army shot out like an arrow, pointing directly at the enemy's formation, and when it saw that it was about to reach the land of the archers, there was no need to give an order, and the five hundred cavalry archers, who had already been trained, did not hesitate to open their bows and shoot arrows.

Draw the bow again, shoot the arrow again.

Shoot three arrows in a row.

The arrows rained down, the whistling sound condensed together, like a muffled thunder rolling in the low air, and the arrows swept across the sky, shooting to the highest point like locusts, and finally splashing down like a rain dobsk.

This is the advantage of the archers, with the help of the war horse gallop, it is enough to have three more arrows than the archers, and when this wave of suppression is over, the Piercing Army will face the crossbows and crossbows of the enemy archers.

The archers were the first to suppress, and as expected, there were no crossbow arrows or crossbow guns in the enemy army, and in the forward camp, a black oppressive shield rose in front of the heavy pawn wall, and before the archers, there were also foot soldiers who raised their shields to protect their robes.

When the rain of arrows has passed, the archers and infantry will fight back strongly, and it will be a magnificent picture of people turning on their backs.

Li Su smiled.

If this makes you break my defenses, then how can I have face?

But the next moment, Li Su's smile suddenly froze, and he immediately ordered to change the formation without the slightest hesitation - he never thought that the purpose of the Cloud Piercing Army was not to collide with the formation!

After the cloud piercing army shot three splashes of arrows, there was no need for the flag soldiers to wave the flag, and there was no need for the war drums to beat, the five hundred archers quickly collected their bows, held spears, and followed behind Li Ruyu, who was dressed in a white robe.

Staggered the defensive wall of hundreds of heavy pawns!

Three thousand light horsemen, unexpectedly brushed the edge of an arrow, straight to the left, the purpose is self-evident, bypassing the heavy pawn defense, straight into the weak infantry array, once successful, will completely disrupt the defensive formation.

And at this moment, the 1,000 bow infantry under Li Su's command had already returned fire.

A barrage of bolts and ballistas.

Even though it is on the edge of a land of arrows, not everyone's riding skills can be so exquisite, especially the recruits of Xiangyang, many of whom have already rushed into the range of that land of arrows.

Crossbow bolts and ballista guns rain down the slope.

In the miserable roar of the war horse, there were constantly crossbow arrows shooting through the shield to the cavalry, and even crossbow guns directly shot through the shield, even the people and horses were nailed to the ground, and in an instant, the blood flowed into a river of Qiliba in an instant.

In this momentary confrontation of cavalry and foot shooting, only thirty or fifty people died in the Western Army under the arrows of the archers and cavalry of the Cloud Piercing Army, and the Cloud Piercing Army was even more miserable, leaving eighty or ninety male corpses on the ground after being killed in the oblique stab.

The brutality of war is on full display.

Although the price was paid, the Cloud Piercing Army also achieved its goal, bypassing the hundreds of heavy pawns, appearing on the left side of the enemy, regrouping in the shortest possible time, and then fearlessly colliding with the formation again.

This time, it's a real collision.

It was not the infantry formation that collided, but the enemy's 1,000-hidden light cavalry formation.

Compared with the infantry army, the obstacle of the Cloud Piercing Army to the collision formation is a heavy pawn, but the biggest threat is still this thousand light cavalry army...... After all, only this thousand light cavalry troops can bite the tail of the Cloud Piercing Army.

Li Su sighed.

is still careless to underestimate the enemy, one is that he did not see the other party's intentions in time, and the other is that this thousand light horses should not be placed on the left side, but should be placed in the rear.

This has created the current disadvantaged situation, and it is too late to let the heavy pawns move at this moment.

can only give up the car to protect the handsome.

Li Su ordered.

The drums of war beat and the flag-bearers waved.

The 1,000 light cavalry could not retreat, nor could they dodge, because if they dodge, the foot soldiers behind them and even the general Li Su would directly face the iron cavalry of the Cloud Piercing Army.

It can only be shaken.

However, the Cloud Piercing Army had enough space to sprint, while the Western Army's thousand cavalry could only sprint passively, and the result could be imagined.

Two torrents collide together.

In an instant, people turned on their backs......

The blood kept flowing, the people kept dying, and the horses kept falling.

After making a mistake, the Piercing Cloud Army reopened the front line of the enemy cavalry, but instead of continuing to charge the infantry camp, they turned their horses and continued to charge the enemy light cavalry.

The 3,000 Chuanyun Army, in front of Li Su's 8,000 foot soldiers, staged a massacre with absolute superiority in strength, the foot soldiers could only stand by and watch, and the archers and infantry did not dare to shoot crossbow arrows and crossbow guns.

The heavy pawn has become an ornament.

Three thousand against one thousand, although there are 1,000 recruits in the Chuanyun Army, the real main force is the two thousand veterans who went south from the north, and their combat power is unrivaled, even if they are veterans of the Zhenbei Army, they may not be comparable.

It was a massacre without any suspense!

After the two mistakes, the Chuanyun army has won a complete victory, the enemy's 1,000 cavalry army has been defeated, and four or five out of ten are killed in battle, this battle loss ratio is enough to completely collapse an army.

Returning to the Junzi Banner on the left side and waving his hand, more than 2,000 Erlang behind him reinvigorated the formation again, and immediately, the white-robed Junzi Qi and Li Ruyu, who was also dressed in a white robe, rode side by side, took the lead, and led the Chuanyun Army to collide again.

This time, it was the weakest infantry array on the flank.

The camp of foot soldiers without heavy pawn defense, in front of the cavalry, is the naked bride.

Let it be ravaged.

Qiliba, the cloud-piercing army of the Junzi Banner, showed the mobile advantage of the light cavalry, and in the case of impossibility, first disintegrated the enemy's 1,000 light cavalry, and then collided with the formation with an arrogant attitude.

Invincible, unparalleled in the world.

Not surprisingly, these 8,000 foot soldiers will be torn apart by more than 2,000 Cloud Piercing Army, and they will have no power to fight back, and the battle on this front in Yongchuan will come to an end.

Li Ruyu and Junziqi will create the first glory of Yongzhen in three years.