The ancient Chinese art of war, since Sun Wu applied the phrase of Lao Tzu's so-called "governing the country with righteousness and using soldiers with oddity" to the art of war, expounding that "all those who fight, with the right fit, and win with the odd", in addition to Sun Bin further expounded the Qizheng idea of "the hair is right, and the one who is not sent is strange", in the field of "the change of Qizheng", for thousands of years, only Li Jing, the general of the Tang Dynasty, has had a more detailed understanding of this debate.

Chinese words: What the public is right, will be surprising, and there is no restraint in succession. In his opinion, Zhengqi is not immutable, but according to the actual situation, the generals decide what is a regular soldier and what is a strange soldier.

"Our army attacked Yixian this time, and most of the soldiers and horses led by them were cavalry, and now they meet in the field, if they use chariots against chariots, they will definitely hit stones with eggs, and they are fragile." Zhao Xi looked at the ever-changing trend on the field, and was still looking for the best time to change his moves, and said to the generals beside him: "But the advantage of our army lies in the sharpness of the cavalry. It is the old man's original intention to take the benefits of my cavalry as the main soldier and the chariot soldier as the strange soldier to cleanse the enemy. ”

When everyone heard this, they all woke up, and then they knew why Zhao Xi didn't send out the chariot soldiers in such a battle situation, it turned out that he stayed behind as a follow-up.

"This person in the sub-period, in my opinion, has always been cautious about the enemy, and at the beginning he put some pressure on him, the original intention was to let him attack with all his strength, if he was under a little pressure, he would not be able to let go so much. But now, it's time to put some pressure on him. Zhao Xi said schemingly, at this moment he was like a hunter, watching his prey fall for it.

As Zhao Xi's opponent, Ziqi is indeed a little confused.

Judging from the scene, the Yan army did have the advantage, and the assault of the chariot soldiers would soon pass through the infantry formation of the Zhao army, and the attack of foot soldiers and infantry soldiers also accelerated the occurrence of this situation. In order to hasten this change, Ziqi also sent his own cavalry, preparing to cut off the connection between the opponent's infantry and the follow-up troops.

In fact, except for the other side's cavalry and chariot soldiers who did not join the battlefield, half of Zhao's troops were already on the battlefield. He didn't believe that with the remaining troops, Zhao Xi would turn the tables.

But why, Zhao Xi just didn't use the cavalry troops he was proud of? Could it be that he was really confident that with these cavalry, he could crush all his troops?

The heavier this doubt, the more Zhao Xi's words just now echoed in his ears, the more unwilling he became. Although he saw the strength of the Zhao army under the city of Turbidity, he still wanted to see the flaws of the Zhao army's cavalry through this kind of field battle.

"Order, the cavalry will speed up the encirclement and completely eat the opponent's foot soldiers." Ziqi said. I want to see how calm Zhao Xi is.

With the order of the sub-period, the sound of the snare drum of the Yan army became more and more urgent, and the soldiers in front heard the sound of the drum from their own side and knew that this was a signal to tighten the encirclement. Then the fight became even more brutal.

Yan Zhao Nan'er has never lacked blood. And this time, it is precisely the two national men who are the least lacking in blood, engaged in a contest of life. One gritted his teeth and insisted, never admitting defeat, and the other resisted with a shield and never retreated. War horses neigh, war knives curl blades, blood watering the green grass, bones nourishing the earth, all the nutrients of human beings fall here.

Finally, the chariots of the Yan State rushed out of the infantry formation of the Zhao State, and after adjustment, they began to rush towards the archers and chariots of the Zhao army on standby. And the cavalry on both wings also tightly controlled the situation on the field, wrapping the foot soldiers and apprentices of the Zhao army in the battle, ready to eat the foot soldiers of Zhao State in one go.

"Almost." Zhao Xi looked at it and said, "Order, the cavalry on the left flank stepped forward to fight against the enemy's chariot troops. The cavalry on the right flank was on standby. ”

As soon as Zhao Xi's order was given, the cavalry troops on the left flank roared forward and charged forward, and the target was the chariot troops of the Yan Kingdom.

Since its birth, the chariot has become the protagonist of the war, mainly because in the case of the large-scale mass production of bows and crossbows, the strong speed advantage and impact advantage can quickly break through the enemy's weak areas, so as to expand their own results.

After the archers and crossbowmen are formed in a separate column, although they can effectively kill the chariots, due to their own mobility problems, they cannot be compared with the chariots, and they cannot directly fight against the chariots, so the chariots are very important in the battles of the Central Plains countries.

But when this scale reaches the grassland, there are problems. The people of the steppe mainly used archery on horses and bows, and when the bow and arrow became mobile, the damage to the chariot soldiers increased almost geometrically. This is also why, Yan and Zhao have more defeats and fewer victories against the Hu people.

Zhao Guo's left flank cavalry faced the menacing chariot soldiers, and after seeing the commander in front of him make a gesture to divide the troops, they naturally divided into two parts and launched an attack from the two left and right flanks of the Yan chariot soldiers. They skillfully felt the bow and arrow in the quiver behind them, put it on top of the short bow, and fired it without hesitation.

Although after nearly a year of practice, it can be seen that the cavalry of the Zhao State are still a little lacking in the kung fu of riding and archery on this horse, and it is obvious that there is still a problem with the crosshair. Fortunately, the purpose of this attack is to kill and injure enemy troops, and a long-range attack at such a close range, even if it lacks crosshair, does not have much effect.

And the Yan army chariot soldiers had just suffered a loss, and they were about to scatter fire, they couldn't look down on this kind of cavalry at all, and just wanted to teach them a lesson, they saw that the cavalry of the Zhao State did not attack them head-on, but divided into two parts, left and right, to attack their own two wings. Not only that, but instead of facing them head-on like other cavalrymen, they surrounded themselves and attacked with bows and arrows!

In fact, under the city of Turbidity Deer, they had already learned this method of warfare, and at that time they thought that only some of the elite cavalry of the Zhao State were fighting like this, but they didn't expect to encounter it again here today. And the way of attacking this time is obviously different from that of Turbid Deer City.

Li Yan's cavalry fighting method is more about borrowing the advantages of the formation and giving greater play to the combat effect of the cavalry. Especially under the city of Turbidity, the cavalry of the Zhao State was already small, and in the face of an enemy several times larger than himself, only through the effective deployment of the battle array could he maximize his combat effectiveness.

However, now, Zhao's cavalry is obviously superior, and if the formation is used again, it will not achieve the goal of a quick battle. Then Zhao Xi ordered that the attack method of the cavalry on the left flank was: harassment and division.

Just like just now, when the chariot troops attacked the cavalry formation of the Zhao army, the Zhao army decisively chose to divide the troops, not giving the Yan army a chance to attack them head-on, and when the opponent was on both sides, he carried out a rain of arrows attack, and regarded all the chariot soldiers as live targets. What's more, the cavalry of the Zhao State, who had moved out of the way, detoured behind the defenseless chariots of the Yan army, which achieved greater results than shooting head-on.

And the chariot soldiers, who had almost no ability to resist, should decisively choose to leave the uproar of the Zhao army's cavalry at this time and go straight to the Zhao army's main formation. But Yan Jun, who obviously couldn't breathe, was a little ignorant when facing such an attack method for the first time. Under the command of the general, he actually slowed down and turned, preparing to assault the cavalry of Zhao State again.

Defeat is doomed, just like the light cavalry in the face of heavy cavalry, if it is a head-on battle with the heavy cavalry, it is definitely a dead end, but choose to give full play to their flexible performance, interspersed with harassment in the opponent's formation, to achieve the effect of destroying the opponent's formation, and then dividing and encircling.

Sure enough, after a few charges, the cavalry of Zhao State was like a monkey, turning the Yan army's chariots around, but every time they faced the enemy, the Zhao army was like encountering resistance in the water, and decisively chose to separate, and then attacked themselves from the back. After several times, although the soldiers of the Yan army suffered few casualties, some of the horses were killed instantly because of the arrows, and some were bleeding excessively, and the strong amount of activity made these injured horses exhausted and soon fell to the ground. The Yan Army's chariot troops finally appeared in the lineup, and they were no longer monolithic.

At this time, the commander of the Zhao army issued another order, based on the Liuhua Array, to divide and besiege the squad, and through the advantage of numbers, kill the enemy in close combat, and soon kill the Yan army to the point of crying and screaming, fleeing for his life and collapsing. By the time the sub-period of the reaction had been ordered, it was already too late.

Seeing that his chariots were about to be wiped out, Zi Qi realized that the horror of the combat effectiveness of the cavalry of Zhao State was not only in terms of battle form, but also in terms of tactical thinking. The most important thing is that if you don't take any other measures, the cooked duck may fly away.

"Order, cavalry charge quickly, rescue chariot soldiers, quick! Fast! ”

Seeing that the situation on the field was developing towards him, Zhao Xi's face finally showed a smile. This battle shows that Zhao Yong's cavalry thinking is correct, and vigorously developing cavalry is in the interests of Zhao State. As long as the news of this battle is transmitted back to China, the status of the cavalry in Zhao will rise, and Zhao Yong's personal prestige will also increase.

"General, it seems that the Yan army is going to fight the trapped beasts."

"He wants to be a trapped beast, but I can't satisfy him." Zhao Xi said, "Order the cavalry on the right flank to charge, the target is the cavalry of the Yan Kingdom that is galloping to help, and I want to let them watch their comrades die on the battlefield." ”

With this cold-blooded order conveyed, the cavalry on the right flank, who had already been impatient, did not stop, and quickly launched an attack on the opposing cavalry. Because the battlefield was relatively close to them, they quickly crossed the left flank cavalry who were engaged in a stalemate with the Yan army, even if they told the Yan people that if they wanted to rescue their chariot soldiers, they should pass our level first.

But how effective was the cavalry on the right flank? Zhao Xi sneered and thought, it was not just Zhao Guoren, among the cavalry on the right flank, there were more Sanhu people recruited by Daijun!