And now, what Meng Tian knows is that if the cavalry he led at this time is against the cavalry of the previous Great Qin when he unified the Six Kingdoms, he will definitely be able to defeat five with one enemy, which is the benefit of the update of tactics and armor weapons to these Great Qin cavalry.

Of course, Meng Tian knew Seleu's cavalry, knew that they were very strong cavalry, and their combat experience was also quite rich, but at the same time, he also knew that Seleu's cavalry had no formation.

And it was Yinggao who really proposed to apply the formation to Daqin's cavalry.

Just before they attacked the Mauryan Dynasty, Yinggao once proposed to generals such as Han Xin and Meng Tian that compared with the previous cavalry fighting alone on horseback, should five or ten or dozens of them be used as a combat unit, and then make some cooperation between each combat unit, so that once faced with an enemy who only cares about rushing and killing, can it play the role of one enemy against two, or even one against five, and one against ten.

Although Yinggao did not specifically say what kind of cooperation should be made between each combat unit, but this proposal alone made Han Xin and Meng Tian feel like an initiation, of course, they were thinking about how to improve the combat effectiveness of the Great Qin cavalry almost every day, but no one had ever thought of Yinggao's method.

Yinggao's proposal is indeed to complicate the previous simple battles, it may be very difficult to train, and it will be even more difficult to apply it in battle, but once it is successful, the effect will definitely be better than before, I don't know how many times.

Therefore, before attacking the Peacock Dynasty, all the generals of Great Qin who could command the cavalry were studying the formation that Yinggao said.

Five people in formation, ten people in formation, fifty people in formation, the formation when charging, the formation when defending, the formation when fighting positionally, there are too many things derived from this, and after a few months have passed, they have only studied two or three formations and let Daqin's cavalry start training.

At that time, the formation was indeed a bit immature, but after attacking the Peacock Dynasty, both Han Xin and Meng Tian began to concentrate on studying the problem of the formation, and made great progress in more than a year.

This war against Seleuc was also the time when Han Xin and Meng Tian wanted to apply the cavalry formation well. And this kind of confrontation is the best test of the formation.

Antiochus III personally led his army, and when he knew that the number of enemies was the same as him, and that he was also led by the other party's commander, his heart was full of fighting spirit, thinking that as long as his cavalry suffered less losses than the other party in this battle, no matter how equal it was, it was equivalent to giving Daqin's army a hard blow, letting them know that Seleucus was not so easy to attack.

Both sides have their own ideas, but of course, all this, of course, will not be able to see the result until the two groups of armies actually clash together.

This time, because of the suddenness of Daqin's cavalry, Antiochus III attacked very resolutely, and both sides also had the heart to do such a battle, so the confrontation was inevitable.

In just an instant, two groups of 200,000 cavalry rushed to one place.

Once such a situation is formed in this era, it will definitely not stop easily unless there are very heavy casualties on both sides or one of them.

The Seleucian cavalry is indeed well-trained, after they saw the Great Qin cavalry in front of them, they all had only one belief in their hearts, that is, to kill the enemy in front of them as soon as possible, the previous combat experience has clearly told them, in such a situation, fear of death can only make them die faster, only to kill the enemy without themselves alive, is the best way to save their lives.

But as soon as they fought, the Seleucian cavalry found that their enemy was very different from what they had faced before.

When the Seleucians were at their peak, the cavalry of Great Qin formed a small group, all of which were using their defensive weapons to block the enemy's attack.

On the horse, the body shape is very difficult to control, and the cavalry of Great Qin was able to control the war horse to form a small team of several people, which was obviously achieved after very hard tempering.

The first round of the Seleucian's vicious offensive was dissolved by Daqin's defensive formation, and seeing that their training had been effective, Han Xin and Meng Tian were relieved, just this seemingly simple defensive formation, it was not something that could be practiced overnight, the reason why two people each came out with 50,000 horses, not more, the reason was that these 100,000 people were very skilled in the formation, and some were not, which was enough to see how difficult the training of the formation was.

"What kind of road is the cavalry of Great Qin, won't they attack?"

Antiochus III also saw the situation, for Daqin's formation, he was still very surprised at the beginning, because in the past, this kind of battle, it was basically you a knife down, I shot down, one side crazy slashing, the other side is on the defensive as soon as the situation is still very rare, because in the war, everyone knows that the best defense is to attack, blindly defending, even if you defend well, there will eventually be a time when you will be killed by the enemy.

It turned out that Antiochus III's fears about the Great Qin cavalry were unnecessary.

After catching the first wave of Seleucian attacks, Daqin's cavalry was still close to each other, but the technique changed, the two people in front of the head were still defending, but the few people in the back changed their strategies, they began to draw their spears hanging on their horses, and stretched out from the gap in their companions' shields, each shot would almost be an enemy's life.

Just this seemingly simple action, it was also after years of training by the Great Qin cavalry, originally even they didn't know what the use of training these things was, after all, the Peacock Dynasty had also been defeated by them, and they didn't believe that there was any force that could be worth their effort to practice such a complex formation.

And because the formations all need to be trained on the galloping war horses, in the process of training various formations, Daqin's cavalry really didn't have the slightest casualties, and the people who were not meticulous in the previous riding training almost all died under their own horses' hooves.

After the pain at the beginning, when they practiced all those formations very skillfully, their confidence was completely raised to a different level, just like the current war, when the moment they fought with the enemy, Daqin's cavalry knew that the enemy would definitely not be able to kill them, this is the confidence brought to them by long-term formation training, in their eyes, although the cavalry of Seleucus can be regarded as imposing, but it is just a group of stragglers, There are no rules.

Daqin's cavalry began to counterattack, still five people, or ten people formed a small team, advancing and retreating together, with a different division of labor, the Seleucian cavalry faced them as if they were facing hedgehogs who didn't know where to start, and when they hesitated, their lives were harvested.

Antiochus III had been secretly observing the situation on the battlefield, and when he found that more and more of his cavalry were helpless and slaughtered in the face of small groups of the enemy, a feeling of unease rose in his heart.

He had to admit that Great Qin's tactics were much more advanced than them, and he also knew that if he didn't take measures, this battle would be a fiasco waiting for him, and in this case, even if his 100,000 troops were all consumed, he would only be able to take away the lives of 20,000 or 30,000 people on the other side, which was a situation that the Seleuks had never encountered.

If that really happens, then he will lose not only these 100,000 people, but also the confidence of all the soldiers under his command in this battle.

"Give the order quickly, retreat, retreat at all costs!"

Not long after the battle began, Antiochus III gave such an order, and when the Seleucid cavalry warriors heard this order, they turned their heads and rushed back to one of their cities, as if they had been granted amnesty.

Although the battle had not been long in coming, the 100,000 cavalry that Seleuc had already lost as much as 20,000 or 30,000, and Great Qin, that is, only lost a few thousand, which was a very alarming gap, Han Xin and Meng Tian both believed that if Antiochus III was replaced by a general with little combat experience, it was estimated that when he found that his side was not superior, half of the people he brought would remain.

"General, the Seleucians think that they have discovered a formation that cannot deal with us, and they have begun to retreat, should we pursue it?"

Not long after the Seleucians began to retreat, Han Xin, who was in command of the Chinese army, received such a news, he thought for a while, and then ordered: "Don't pursue at will, just shoot with my Great Qin's Qin crossbow, once they withdraw from the range of our Qin crossbow, return to the empty city we passed through before Zhihong to rest!" ”

As far as this war is concerned, Han Xin knows that the days are still long, and he can't get carried away because of this victory, this time the-for-tat is just because the generals in the city in front of Seleu ran away with people, whether it is Daqin or Seleuc, he didn't expect such a situation, he can take advantage of this battle, but if you want to use this battle to settle the situation, it is almost impossible, without understanding the enemy's defenses, go deep behind the enemy, Definitely not a good idea.

In this way, because of Hu Hai and Zhao Cheng's escape, this time the battle of hard power between the two sides ended, and the Seleucians hurriedly ran back to the city on which they relied for their defense, while the cavalry of Daqin returned to the city where Hu Hai and Zhao Cheng were located before without hurry.

"Quickly check it out for me, how did Hu Hai and Zhao Cheng, the sons of Great Qin, run to such a place? We helped them when they were in need, and when we needed them, they didn't hesitate to say goodbye! It's not that they can't run, but they told me before they ran! Great Qin's cavalry scared them out before they arrived! ”

The defeat of this battle, what made Antiochus III the most angry was naturally Hu Hai and Zhao Cheng's farewell, if they had run earlier, Antiochus III would not have been so passive, they actually ran on the eve of the Great Qin cavalry attacking the place, this has to be said to be completely killing Antiochus III, otherwise people would not be so angry, right?

Although Antiochus III's generals also knew that the top priority now was not to find out where Hu Hai and Zhao Cheng were, but to quickly find a way to figure out how to defend their city, but Antiochus III spoke, and no one dared to refute it, so his subordinates could only agree to Antiochus III's conditions and investigate the matter.

At this time, in fact, it was very difficult for the people under the command of Antiochus III to find out where Hu Hai and Zhao Cheng went, and the route they escaped from had already been planned, although they brought tens of thousands of people, but almost all of them passed through barren places along the way, until they arrived at the new city that Zhao Hu had been developing with all his might.

After arranging this matter, Antiochus III decided not to mention the matter of facing the cavalry of Great Qin, but focused all his attention on consolidating his own defense system.

Now the situation is very obvious to him, he will definitely not be able to do anything on the frontal battlefield, if he wants to keep his Seleuc, he can only put down his posture and do a good job of defense, because compared to Daqin, he is really a complete weakling.

On Han Xin and Meng Tian's side, although this battle did not reach the situation they wanted because of Antiochus III's very high vigilance, they saw the success of the formation through this battle, and this was the biggest gain from their hard training in the past two years.

The cavalry with the formation is facing the cavalry who does not know the formation, that is, at least one enemy and five are in the situation, which is the cavalry of Daqin itself is already convinced.

That night, Han Xin and Meng Tian sat in Han Xin's big tent, discussing the next step, although Han Xin was the main general of this war, and he was indeed an energetic age, but Meng Tian must have more combat experience than Han Xin after all.