Chapter 179: The Wild of Yongzhou
The golden waves of wheat rippled in the wind, Yu Wenwen looked at the prospect and was quite fascinated, there should be a good harvest this year, but the premise is that there is enough time to harvest, and it is not only the wheat that is harvested, but also the human head.
His crotch mount galloped through the wheat field, and he held his saber to the right, and the speed of the horse's gallop gave the saber the cutting power, and he easily broke through the obstacle and cut off the great head.
The cavalry swept through the crowd like a gust of wind, and as the blood splattered, the golden wheat fields were filled with blood-spurting headless corpses.
The Yongzhou state soldiers to the west of it were ordered to reinforce, and most of the state soldiers of nearly 800 people were mainly foot soldiers, but they were attacked by enemy cavalry with a similar number of people in the suburbs of Chengyang.
In the flat wilderness, it was very difficult for the infantry without numerical superiority to resist the onslaught of cavalry, and although the Yongzhou soldiers formed a temporary circle formation to try to protect themselves, they soon collapsed under the wave of cavalry attacks of the enemy cavalry.
The moment of collapse represents the beginning of the hunt, and the fleeing foot soldiers with their backs to the enemy are like heavy ears of wheat, waiting for the harvest of the sickle.
Yu Wenwen put the knife into the sheath, pulled the reins, slowed down the mount, stopped in the wheat field, looked at the hunting scene in front of him, and lost his mind for a while.
Autumn is the season of hunting, hunting is a popular social entertainment in this era, men call friends, flying eagles and lackeys, women gather in the barrier to count the shortcomings of the family, its liveliness can make the princes and nobles, down to the common people are obsessed.
However, for Yu Wenwen, hunting is very boring, because he is very busy and has no time to hunt for recreation, even if the large-scale hunting activities themselves have military colors, he does not often organize his subordinates to hunt.
In the eight or nine years of Xiyang, Yuwenwen did not have much hunting activities except for shooting wild ducks, geese and rabbits when the government held routine activities every year.
It is only in the wide and flat hunting ground that hunting has a military color, and can exercise people's ability to organize and coordinate, and such an ability, Yu Wenwen thinks he already has.
However, when he crossed the Tongbai Mountain-Dabie Mountain Range and entered the Henan boundary, he found that he felt too good, and he had been squatting in the south of the mountain all the year round, and his command ability had begun to be alienated.
He is good at commanding infantry, but he is a little unfamiliar with large-scale cavalry combat, and he doesn't feel like a finger when he commands this ambush battle like a hunt.
The scheduling of the infantry formation can be carried out through the banner and the herald, and the defense and attack of the infantry formation, the commander can calmly arrange, while the cavalry combat is completely opposite, once the cavalry moves, leaving the commander with a very short reaction time.
The cavalry that is in motion at any time, the number is less, but if the number is thousands, the difficulty of commanding it suddenly increases, which is very demanding for the commander, and Yuwenwen found that he didn't seem to have that ability.
In short, he played too much chess with the stinky chess basket, and his ability to command large-scale cavalry battles became less and less effective.
The Huangzhou Governor's Mansion is located on the north bank of the Yangtze River, with hilly terrain and Hubo, which is regarded as a water network area, and like many surrounding areas, it is not suitable for large-scale mobile combat of cavalry, and most of the areas he has experienced in the past few years are like this.
Because of the lack of horses, Yuwenwen did not have many cavalry at hand, so the battle was mainly infantry, and the main enemy in the past seven or eight years was the Chen army, which was also sad by the cavalry.
As the so-called rookies pecked each other, Yu Wenwen did not get a good opportunity to exercise his ability to command cavalry battles, and the result of playing too much foot combat and water warfare was that he was a little uncomfortable with large-scale cavalry operations in the plain area.
Because of the lack of horses, the cavalry that Yuwenwen can directly command in his hands is less than a thousand for many years, not to mention that it is divided into several shares to use, and it doesn't matter if he fights the Chen army that is already short of horses in the Yangtze River Basin, but now that he has entered the Henan Plain, he has begun to show his timidity.
Yu Wenwen led the three thousand cavalry borrowed from his brother, which was a rare luxury, but the command was actually bumpy, because the cavalry tactics and infantry tactics were completely different, and the tactics of small cavalry and large cavalry were also completely different.
The cavalry with abundant horses attacked a large circle with a radius of 100 li on the plain, and the typical tactic of cavalry against infantry in this era was to retreat to a distance of 100 li in the evening and roar again the next day.
The infantry's attack distance in a day is about fifty miles to the limit, because in the combat state, the infantry must march in armor, and must ensure that they arrive at the destination and have the physical strength to enter the battle.
If the infantry forcibly marched a hundred miles, they would not have combat effectiveness when they reached their destination, so they rode on foot in the plains, and it was a dining table, all of which were cups (tragedy).
In the water network area, the infantry can take advantage of the geographical advantage to prevent enemy cavalry from attacking and harassing, while in the vast plain area, the enemy cavalry can repeatedly attack and harass for more than a month, and the infantry who can fight again will all kneel when they are tortured in this way.
The fate of an army's lack of cavalry is that the range of activity is constantly compressed by the enemy, and the rangers who are sent out to scout have no return, and they do not know anything about the surrounding enemy situation, and the final outcome is either someone flees and collapses without a fight, or there is no food.
Will this be the end of the Tiger Forest Army?
In this field of Yongzhou, Yu Wenwen suddenly realized that his weakness had to be faced: commanding a large-scale cavalry battle, I am afraid that he will really not be able to do it for a while.
Three thousand cavalry dare to say massive? Is there any mistake?
Make no mistake, three thousand cavalry, still the more elite kind, can already be called large-scale.
In the battle of Hanling in which Gao Huan broke the Erzhu clan, the strength of the Erzhu clan's coalition army was removed, and there were always sixty or seventy thousand, while Gao Huan's troops were about 20,000 infantry and nearly 3,000 cavalry.
The battle of Hanling laid the foundation for Gao Huan's hegemony, and now there is also Yuwenwen, who has three thousand fine horses, but he only engaged in a lewd sneak attack in Yuzhou, and he led seven or eight hundred horsemen to steal chickens and dogs in the wild of Yongzhou.
Being a man is self-aware, so Yu Wenwen doesn't plan to force his head, and in the next cavalry battle, it is better for him to be a nominal commander, and at this moment, looking at the battle that has ended in front of him, he feels that he has miscalculated:
Shi Wansui should be transferred over and personally command 3,000 cavalry, so as to achieve twice the result with half the effort.
However, according to Yu Wenwen's arrangement, Shi Wansui defended Wei Chi Youqi, who was very likely to advance westward, or Chen Jun, who was vainly trying to counterattack, even if he wanted to mobilize now, it would be too late.
Even Yuwenwen's Hulin Army didn't know that he had just crossed the Great Yuling at this time, so he could only use the borrowed 3,000 cavalry to carry out an obscene sneak attack... Is it?
As the number of horses approached, the first person was the one-eyed Yang Su, who rode his horse and leaned towards Yuwenwen, saluted and asked, "The king summoned the lower officials to come, I don't know what to order?" ”
Yu Wenwen did not answer immediately, but dismounted and walked in the wheat field, and Yang Su also dismounted and followed.
After walking a few steps, Yuwenwen stopped and looked into the distance, looked at the vague outline of Chengyang in the distance, and suddenly said: "The wild of Yongzhou produces strange snakes, black and white, touching the grass and trees to death, to bite people, there is no one to resist..."
The Yongzhou of "The Snake Catcher Says" is not the Yongzhou where Yuwenwen is at this time, of course, Yang Su doesn't know about this, he just follows silently.
"These seven or eight hundred state soldiers, I'm afraid they are the last soldiers in the hands of the Yongzhou Assassin History, and now that the dust has settled, Chengyang is just around the corner..."
"Yang Yuanjun, yesterday's military discussion was in a hurry, and the widow had no time to ask more, now I have a little leisure, I don't know what Yang Yuanjun thinks about the next situation?"
"The king, there are a lot of things that the lower officials want to say, I don't know..." Yang Su really wanted to suggest, Yuwen Wen actually had 3,000 cavalry in his hands, and it was when there was a lot to be done, he didn't want to watch from the wall.
"Say, isn't it good to talk about war on the battlefield?"
Looking up at the sky in the north, Yu Wenwen tried to see Yecheng thousands of miles away, perhaps the prime minister Wei Chi Dun, who felt that he was in control, was comfortably planning the rules and regulations of the new dynasty at this time.
Thinking of this, Yu Wenwen sneered in his heart: Shi Wansui is not here? It doesn't matter, isn't this cobra Yang Su there?
With this poisonous snake here, even if you can only use 2,000 cavalry, it will make your intestines rot!!