Chapter 293: Encirclement
The army led by Philesher in front of him quickly completed the transition of the entire cavalry team from advance to stop to U-turn and then to the final formation. But the reason why they can complete the corresponding transformation so quickly is only because they have relevant planning and training in place in advance. And when you are still some distance away from your destination, you start to slow down. However, the royal court guards who were chasing after them did not expect that the army of Philescher, who was being pursued by themselves, would suddenly stop and turn their horses, and then set up a position against them. Therefore, under the intention of calculating or unintentionally, the royal court guards who were chasing behind did not stop the pursuit at the first time, but chased forward for a mile before stopping the momentum of advance. Then he stood there and hurriedly lined up in the corresponding formation, thinking that the army of Philphra on the opposite side was going to fight to the death before dying.
However, it was not until the royal court guards set up a position to confront the army of Gulphosheth that the cavalry of Philsith in front of them had no intention of attacking them. This made the leader of the royal court guards who led the team a little puzzled, and his eyes were staring at the front of the opposite military formation at this time, and he turned his gaze following the movement of the royal court. He actually remembered the man of Livershth very clearly. Because he and Shibi Khan look so similar, it can almost be said that they are carved out of a mold. Therefore, there was no one in the steppe who did not know the existence of Philesah, before Philtith rebelled. The chieftain had a good relationship with Liversheth, and they often sat together and drank and ate meat at some point.
But after all, at this time and then, when they were able to sit together and have a drink, they were naturally friends. But now the two sides are their own masters, and they can't help but meet on the battlefield. It can only be said that it is very embarrassing, but it is unavoidable. The leader of the royal court guard also knew that all the tribes on the grassland now had all kinds of dissatisfaction with Tuoba Shishu. After all, the various reforms brought by Tuoba Shishu are a little too painful, and Tuoba Shishu is a little anxious in terms of reform. So in the process of drastic reform, I can't help but become more and more like Yang Guang in some forms. The radical reform behavior provoked fierce opposition from a large number of conservative steppe tribes, because Tuoba Shishu wanted to complete the reform of the steppe before the unification of the Central Plains. Therefore, for these people who hindered themselves from carrying out reforms, Tuoba Shishu was the most extreme method adopted: directly send troops to eliminate them.
But such an act undoubtedly provoked more rebellion from the freedom-loving steppe people, from the very beginning of the people who were sent to collect taxes from those tribes often died, to the later whole tribe that could not bear the reform of Tuoba Shi Shu left their homeland and moved south to the vicinity of the Great Wall. One is to escape the war, and the other is that the climate is relatively pleasant.
But no matter how advantageous the climate is, it is never the place where they often live, and it is inevitable that there will be some feelings of living in a foreign land after a long time. At this time, Philti was leading his troops to rebel against the rule of Tuoba Shishu, so the leaders of these tribes sent the young men of their tribes to join Gulphosheth's army. They only wanted to overthrow the rule of Tuoba Shishu as soon as possible, so that they could move their residence back to the place where they had lived for generations.
It was precisely this point that he saw that the time had come for him to be the most suitable for cavalry, and from today onwards, he would never be able to keep a low profile. He must stand up and lead the rebels to eliminate Tuoba Shishu, so that he can establish prestige in the hearts of these tribes in the steppe, so as to successfully obtain the Khan's throne after the war.
However, he did not expect that he had tried his best to expand his military power to the peak of his current power, and the first enemy he encountered was his former friend, and the army led by this friend was the royal court guard, which was the most powerful in the Eastern Turkic army. The combat effectiveness of this royal court guard army is very strong, and every time there is a battlefield, it is basically necessary to fight until the last soldier falls before it can be declared completely over, even if there is still a soldier in this army, it must be desperately wounded two or three more enemies before stopping.
So with this in mind, he chose this place for the battlefield, and in this position, he laid out a pocket array early, just waiting for all the troops to enter the pocket before closing their mouths and slowly annihilating them. Because they have been chasing from behind, the formation of the entire army in order to maintain the pursuit is relatively tight. When they suddenly stopped at this time, they didn't have time to care about whether they were separated according to the correct queue, so until this time, the formation of the royal court guards was huddled together, but there was no intention of scattering. Therefore, the army waiting on the periphery gradually compressed the encirclement towards the royal court guards in the center according to the plan. Every time it is compressed, the whole encirclement becomes a little more solid. When it was compressed to a certain extent, the leader saw that there was no hope of breaking through to the left and right, so he ordered his army to prepare for a final desperate fight. Under the encouragement of this leader, the royal court guards, who were originally in the encirclement, whose momentum and morale were somewhat weakened, were like chicken blood at this time, and they were not afraid of death to pounce and slam towards an encirclement. It was also thanks to the bad luck of these escorts, who chose to break through the defensive line composed of 40,000 Western Turkic elites.
When these elites were on the battlefield, they had even seen Li Wenyuan's muskets, how could they be shocked by the current situation? Therefore, in the face of the fighting style of the royal court guards who are not afraid of death and fight for their lives, this army composed of Western Turks can still deal with it calmly. Although the casualties were very heavy in the battle, there was no confusion in the formation. In addition, taking advantage of this opportunity, the encirclement shrank twice in succession towards the royal court guards, and almost one step further was about to fight with the soldiers of the royal court guards on the opposite side, so he stopped the pace of shrinking the encirclement.
Watching the situation on the battlefield from afar, he saw that the encirclement he had arranged had finally worked, and this could be regarded as a sigh of relief, and the royal court guards on the opposite side were all cavalry riding excellent war horses. The cavalry is good everywhere, but the only drawback is that once the space for maneuver is lost, then the combat effectiveness of this cavalry is inferior to that of the infantry.
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