Chapter 347: Change
The prince ordered the war elephant corps of the Sackota Province and the Scythian heavy cavalry of the Western Governor's District, which had not been on the battlefield before, to be the vanguard of the way, and first attack the Han army blocking the retreat route in the south, opening the retreat channel for the entire Kushan army.
He himself led the royal guards, closely behind the war elephants and Scythian heavy cavalry, and together attacked the Han army in the south, opening the encirclement.
On the Han side, the 5th Cavalry Division and the 10th Cavalry Division of the Central Army, as well as the 30,000 Kangju cavalry attached to them, were responsible for blocking the Kushan army in the west.
The Han army, which was responsible for the most arduous task and was responsible for blocking the southern defense line of the Guishan army, was the most elite Pang De's third cavalry division and Huo Jun's sixth cavalry division, plus the most elite 30,000 archers of Kangju led by Kunbu.
Sima Yi was ruthless, even if the Guishan army could break through, they would have to peel off a layer of skin.
The Kushan cavalry from the Jehelum Legion took the lead in the charge, and they did not fight the Han army, but they were still fearless.
However, their fate was no different from that of their companions, although they attacked with one more division, but the Han army and the Kangju cavalry defending them on the opposite side also had one more cavalry division of the Central Army and 10,000 Kangju cavalry respectively.
The defending side still has the upper hand, the same equipment, the same tactics, so their fate is the same.
Soon fell into a bitter battle, and the two sides got together, but they finally completed the containment task assigned by the prince of Botuo.
The Khorasan cavalry, who were responsible for attacking the Han defense line in the east, were much more cautious, and they only tentatively launched an attack after suffering losses.
However, Prince Bo Tiao couldn't take care of them anymore, as long as he could contain the Han army in their respective directions, he didn't care what it looked like.
He was just urging vigorously, the war elephants and the Scythian heavy cavalry were desperately charged, and these two arms with outstanding protection performance were the most suitable to serve as pioneers.
He doesn't care about the number of casualties among the troops who opened the way, even if he dies, he won't feel distressed, and no matter how many deaths he has, he is not a Guishan person.
The mortar and crossbow arrows of the Han army obviously did not damage them enough, and they all had enough armor, so they quickly rushed to the front of the Han army.
However, something happened to the prince of Bo Tuo, the Han army did not throw a large number of grenades according to the usual practice, and they actually let go of the front line of defense and opened a hole.
The war-elephant regiments and the Scythian heavy cavalry immediately charged through this open opening, and then walked away without looking back.
At this time, the prince of Bo Tune remembered to urge his army to follow closely, and cursed incessantly: "These damned Scythians, white-eyed wolves who can't be raised, they just ran away?" Don't even care about the honor of the samurai? ”
"When I go back, I must punish them well, hurry up, keep up!"
While commanding the royal guards to step up the charge, Prince Bo Tiao found that those Kangju's grain trucks were also closely following the Kushan army to break through.
He didn't have much heart, with this food, he wouldn't go back to Guishan City hungry after breaking through.
Because just now, when the Scythian heavy cavalry charged, the prince of Bo Tiao had a wait-and-see mind, so the royal guards were far away from the vanguard.
By the time he began to charge with the royal guards, the Scythian heavy cavalry and the big stupid elephants had already escaped the encirclement and were gone.
They didn't have the kindness to help Prince Portune break through, and Prince Portune's careful thinking of killing people with a knife couldn't hide it from the Scythians.
After the Han army broke through the Scythians, they immediately closed the encirclement.
When the royal guards rushed within mortar range of the palace of the sun, they were immediately shelled by mortars.
The goal of the Sun Palace was too obvious, and the Prince of Bo immediately left his palace, but changed to a war horse and broke through with the royal guards.
At this time, there was a sudden chaos in the rear of the army, and the nearly 1,000 coachmen of Kangju, who had been captured earlier, unexpectedly got their long knives and short swords from somewhere, and fought with the surrounding Kushan army.
After grabbing the war horse, they fled one after another.
When Prince Bo was still wondering why they had fled, suddenly the wagons carrying grain and grass began to explode violently.
There were explosives hidden in these grains and grasses, and the frightened pack horses immediately pulled these grain carts around, and they turned into moving bombs.
The rear of the Kushan Empire's army was torn apart by them, and the queues and formations were all in chaos.
At the same time as the explosion occurred, the camp gate in the north was wide open, and more than 10,000 Han cavalry swarmed out, and 10,000 Kangju cavalry followed on the left and right.
Sure enough, the counterattack of the Han army began, and the explosion of the grain cart was a signal of the beginning.
What Prince Bo Tiao did not expect happened again, after the task was assigned and the responsibility was broken, the Parthian cavalry and Khorezm cavalry from Sistan, who were alert to the movement of the Han army camp in the north, turned their horses' heads and attacked the Kushan cavalry beside them.
They mutinied on the battlefield without warning, and each of them wore a white cloth or a white silk scarf around his neck.
However, the matter of making the prince of Bo Tiao more devastating was still to come, and the Khorasan cavalry, which was originally attacking the Han army in the east, had been delaying for time, and after this series of changes, they actually raised the white flag and surrendered to the Han army.
At this point, the situation of the battlefield took a sharp turn, and the Scythian cavalry and war elephants of the Western Governorate broke away from the battlefield and fled.
The Khorasan cavalry surrendered, while the Parthian cavalry and the Khorezmian cavalry simply mutinied.
At this moment, the Han army in the east and north was liberated and began to oppress the Kushan army.
And the Chinese army of Prince Bo was blown up by those explosives and was in chaos, and it was completely chaotic.
He ordered the trumpet to be sounded and commanded all the troops loyal to the royal family and the empire to attack south, and the Kushan cavalry in the west also turned to the south to break through.
However, the Han army and Kangju cavalry in front of them were entangled with the armored cavalry and archers.
The crown prince could only command the royal guards to charge in person and open a way for himself to live.
The golden armor had a strong reflection in the sun, and the royal guards launched a charge against the sun, and the dazzling reflection unexpectedly created a lot of difficulties for the Han army who wanted to shoot them with a repeater, and they couldn't stare at them!
However, the Han army also has a killer feature, and the unique horn sounds, like a wolf howl, soaring into the sky!
The array of the Han army in the south dodged to the sides, and a cavalry with black bodies slowly stepped out, and then spread out left and right, forming a thousand-horse-wide charge front, with a total of six rows.
In the middle of the first row of cavalry, there is a military general, who is also covered in black helmet and black armor, his body is larger than ordinary people, and his war horse is also a head taller than other people's war horses, holding a huge mace in his hand.