Chapter 944: Battle of Danshui (2)
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On the dirt slope where Zhao Hongrun watched the battle, Zou Xin, the battalion general of the second battalion of the Yanling Army, and the second general Sun Shuke, the battalion general of the third battalion, came to Zhao Hongrun's side on a war horse and congratulated him with a smile.
"Why are you here?" may be in a good mood, Zhao Hongrun smiled and joked to the second general: "I left my post without permission, and I dare to wander in front of this king, this is unreasonable." ”
Hearing this, Zou Xin and Sun Shuke knew that it was a joke, so they smiled and asked a certain king for forgiveness.
Today's battle situation is commanded by Qu Cheng, the general of the Yan Ling army, and Yan Mo, the deputy general - Qu Cheng is responsible for commanding the main battlefield, and Yan Mo is responsible for guarding against the flanks, that is, guarding against the 7,000 cavalry of Feng Ying's army.
As for the two generals Zou Xin and Sun Shuke, they were respectively responsible for guarding Han generals Storm Kite and Jin Huang. According to Zhao Hongrun's estimate, during the period when his Wei army attacked Feng Ying's army, there was a chance that Storm Kite and Jin Huang would come out to join in the fun, in order to avoid being attacked from three sides at that time, Zhao Hongrun asked Zou Xin and Sun Shuke to guard against the two Han generals.
However, so far, whether it is a violent kite or Jin Di, there seems to be no intention of coming to support, so it is no wonder that Zou Xin and Sun Shuke came to Zhao Hongrun's side, after all, these two generals are really a little idle.
"Your Highness doesn't seem surprised by the excellent performance of the Horse Army?" General Zou Xin saw that Zhao Hongrun's face was as usual, and asked with some doubts.
In his opinion, the performance of the Youma Army today is not inferior to the performance of the "Battle of Hyun Castle" a few days ago, and even the dominance of the entire battlefield is still better than that at that time, as if a tiger entered the flock of sheep, killing those Korean infantry all over the corpses, which greatly boosted the morale of the Yan Ling soldiers and soldiers, and also shocked the Korean army.
"Brilliant performance?"
Zhao Hongrun shook his head slightly, in fact, in his opinion, the performance of the heavy cavalry is not outstanding, because the power of the heavy cavalry is so terrifying, how can the light infantry of the Korean swordsmen resist it?
It is undeniable that the combat effectiveness of the Korean sword soldiers in complex areas such as mountains and forests is indeed excellent, even the heavy infantry of their Suwang army cannot win steadily, but that is only on a local battlefield. In such a large-scale corps war as in front of us, the effect that the Korean light infantry can achieve is actually far inferior to that of the Wei heavy infantry.
Take the heavy cavalry of the horse as an example, the heavy infantry of the Wei State can block this heavy cavalry under the premise of not hesitating casualties, and use the tactics of the sea of people, because the heavy weight of the heavy infantry of the Wei State is very large, therefore, the heavy cavalry of the traveling horse will inevitably decay if it wants to fly a heavy infantry of the Wei State, and the speed will inevitably decay.
And once the speed of the heavy cavalry is reduced, then the fate of this cavalry is to be completely annihilated, because without the assistance of friendly infantry, the heavy cavalry has little ability to counterattack without the speed of the horse charge.
Of course, if you want to block the heavy cavalry, it is not surprising that the heavy infantry of the Wei State will have to pay several times the price of casualties.
But then again, although they had to pay several times the price of casualties, the Wei heavy infantry still had a chance to block the heavy cavalry, but the light infantry of the Korean swordsmen could not do this - because they were too light.
To deal with the heavy cavalry, apart from the traps, there are only two conventional tactics.
One is to exhaust the physical strength of heavy cavalry, such as light cavalry, in the absence of friendly infantry assistance, heavy cavalry in the field encountering light cavalry, as long as the general of this light cavalry knows how to deal with heavy cavalry, then heavy cavalry is definitely a dead end.
The second is to limit the charge speed of the heavy cavalry.
The heavy cavalry is different from the light cavalry, it is a tactical unit that relies heavily on friendly support, and in a stalemate battlefield, there is no way to "get out of battle and return to charge" like the light cavalry, once the heavy cavalry loses speed, it will be thrown to the ground by the enemy infantry.
And once they were knocked down, the heavy cavalry with extremely heavy armor had little ability to fight back, and they could only watch as the enemy soldiers stripped off their thick armor and then killed by the other side.
So how to limit the speed of the charge of the heavy cavalry?
Regarding this point, Zhao Hongrun remembered that there were many ways to limit the speed of heavy cavalry, and the most direct of them was to rely on their own heavy infantry, that is, heavy infantry.
The heavy armor of the heavy infantry can prevent them from being directly knocked into the air by the heavy cavalry like the light infantry, and it cannot even slow down the heavy cavalry.
Just like the defense line of Feng Ying on the battlefield at this moment, it is a defense line with the thickness of two thousand infantry phalanxes, representing the depth of the defense line of two hundred infantry - to put it bluntly, the ranger cavalry that storms the defense line needs to pass straight through two hundred Korean soldiers to kill the hinterland of the Korean army, that is, the position of the Korean crossbowmen.
If it is heavy infantry, the depth of the defense line of 200 soldiers can block the heavy cavalry. But unfortunately, the infantry of the South Korean army was almost all light infantry, so that they could not stop the heavy cavalry at all, and the latter chiseled through the deep defense line of 200 soldiers in one go, killed the place where the crossbowmen of the South Korean army were, and began to rampage, killing and killing.
In this case, in fact, it is already possible to pronounce the defeat of Feng Yingjun.
If Feng Ying was smart, he should have withdrawn his troops at this time, abandoned the Danshui military camp, and left an army behind, or simply sent to death, and the rest of the army retreated quickly.
Because at this time, Feng Ying's army still had a chance to retreat, and once the infantry of the Yan Ling army was inserted, Feng Ying's army would lose more than that.
While Zhao Hongrun was observing the situation on the battlefield, in the Danshui Han camp, the Han general Shangdang Shou Feng Ying also watched the situation on the battlefield.
When he saw more than 2,000 traveling horses and Wei cavalry slaughtering into the belly of his army as if they were in a no-man's land, he finally realized that the tyrannical kite's fear of the "Shangshui Traveling Horse" Wei cavalry was not unreasonable.
This Wei cavalry is really too domineering and too frightening.
"It's time to withdraw ......"
Feng Ying told himself secretly.
Although he was unwilling to give up the Danshui camp built in the past few days, Feng Ying also understood that if he did not order the whole army to retreat, the army under his command was likely to lose most of it in the Danshui area - maybe the 7,000 cavalry could escape, but the remaining 20,000 infantry would inevitably suffer heavy losses.
"But before retreating......
Feng Ying carefully glanced at the battlefield, suddenly pointed to a dirt slope in the distance, and said in a deep voice: "Order Fei Yang, tell him to lead the cavalry to launch a feint attack on the flank and rear flank of the Wei army, and support the evacuation of the army." …… Also, send a team of cavalry to go around that dirt slope! ”
Beside him, a guard took a closer look at the dirt slope that Feng Ying raised his hand to point, and vaguely saw dozens of horsemen standing there, and he had guessed a little in his heart: On that dirt slope, there must be a commander of the Wei army.
After about half a pillar of incense, Feng Ting's general order reached the ears of his cavalry general Fei Yang, who led 7,000 cavalry to attack without saying a word.
Seeing this, Yan Mo, the deputy general of Yan Ling, who had long been guarding against the movement of this cavalry, immediately commanded his corporal to line up to respond to the battle, and pushed the crossbow chariot, a war weapon, to the front of the battle.
There is no way, for the Korean cavalry with extremely strong mobility and very flexibility, the Wei army can only rely on the crossbow as a weapon of war, and the strong crossbow of the Wei soldiers alone still cannot completely limit these cavalry.
But to Yan Mo's surprise, the seven thousand cavalry of Feng Ying's army did not seem to have the intention of attacking Yan Mo's army, they made a big circle and attacked the rear of the Wei army in a roundabout way.
Seeing this, Yan Mo frowned and turned his head, and when he noticed the dirt slope behind him, his face suddenly changed: Not good! The target of the enemy cavalry is His Royal Highness King Su!
At the same time, on that dirt slope, Zhao Hongrun, Zou Xin, Sun Shuke and others also discovered the roundabout behavior of Feng Tingjun's cavalry.
As soon as he calculated the other party's movement route, Zhao Hongrun shook his head and said helplessly: "This Feng Ting, if you want to withdraw, you have to come to scare this king......"
Hearing this, General Zou Xin said with a smile: "The Danshui military camp in which he invested a lot of manpower was taken by His Highness in one fell swoop, and of course he couldn't swallow this breath in his heart. …… Anyway, Your Highness, we have to transfer. ”
"Hmm." Zhao Hongrun nodded, drove the war horse, and returned to the main formation of the Chinese army of the Yanling army, accompanied by Zou Xin, Sun Shuke, and the second general Sun Shuke and the Zong Wei.
On the way, they were protected by the troops sent by Yan Mo, the deputy general of the Yanling Army.
In fact, as Zhao Hongrun expected, the 7,000 cavalry of Feng's army only turned around on the dirt slope, and then scurried back and forth on the periphery of the rear army of Yanling's army, organizing a charge against the Wei army, bluffing Zou Xin and Sun Shuke, two generals, hurriedly returned to the army and commanded the soldiers to meet the battle.
Although they didn't think that this Han cavalry would really choose to attack, after all, they didn't dare to take it lightly if it happened.
At the same time, on the main battlefield, the heavy cavalry gradually showed fatigue due to physical strength, although it was not surrounded by the Korean infantry, but the speed of running and charging had obviously slowed down.
However, at this time, the vanguard of the Yanling Army who assisted this heavy cavalry had already arrived, and the infantry of the Yanling Army, led by the two generals Zuo Xunxi and Hua Yu, inserted into the battle situation in time along the passage that was impacted by the heavy cavalry of the traveling horse, and cooperated with the heavy cavalry of the traveling horse to divide and encircle the Korean soldiers on the battlefield.
In this case, Feng Ying could only choose to abandon his subordinates, who had been surrounded by the Wei army, and let the Chinese army and the rear army withdraw north at full speed.
Qu Cheng, the general of the Yanling Army, who was in charge of commanding the battle, wanted to chase after him, but when he learned that the 7,000 cavalry of Feng's army was threatening the flanks and rear army, he could only give up the pursuit while he was victorious.
It is no wonder, after all, although the infantry of the Yan Ling army can block the charge of the Korean cavalry, but it is when the infantry is in formation, if the soldiers under their command are allowed to pursue Feng Tingjun, the Wei soldiers in pursuit of the latter can not stop the attack of the Korean cavalry.
"Take it when you see it."
Qu Cheng said secretly.
Although it feels a pity, it is not worth it if the cavalry of Feng Ying's army is taken advantage of by the cavalry of his Feng Ying army because of the pursuit of the defeated Korean army.
Thinking of this, he no longer paid attention to the Han soldiers who had fled, and set his eyes on the Han soldiers who had been surrounded by the Yan Ling army on the battlefield.
On October 25, Wei general Qu Cheng attacked Danshui, defeated Han general Shangdang to defend Feng Ting, killed nearly 10,000 enemy soldiers, and captured Feng Ying's Danshui camp.
Unfortunately, before evacuating, Feng Yingjun set fire to the grain storage field in the camp, so that the Wei army did not grab much food from Feng's army.
But in any case, so far, the three "Ten Heroes of the Northern Plains", Storm Kite, Jin Di, and Feng Ting, have all suffered defeats at the hands of Su Wangjun, which makes the prestige of "Wei Gongzirun" more and more resounding.
However, even after defeating Feng Yingjun, the food problem of Su Wangjun's army was still not solved.