Chapter 6 Zhao Yun's Road
If you want to talk about a tough battle, it is still on the plains, in the two roads of Zhao Yun and Yu Ban.
Let's talk about Zhao Yun first. Of the 15,000 Liaodong iron cavalry he carried, 2,500 were heavily armored soldiers and 2,500 were auxiliary soldiers serving heavy armored soldiers; The remaining 10,000 were light cavalry.
Jia Yi sent 10,000 infantry to follow Zhao Yun's troops from a distance, and the two fought cooperatively. Zhao Yun and they fought, and Jia Yi was responsible for cleaning up the battlefield and transporting prisoners and property, and among these captures, Jia Yi's Goguryeo Eight Banners Army could share some of them.
Along the north bank of the Yalu River, Zhao Yun swept all the way. On the second bank of the Yalu River, it is the most prosperous area of Goguryeo, with a very dense population and many villages and towns.
The practice of the Liaodong Iron Cavalry is: when encountering a small village, the light cavalry surrounds and fires rockets. After the villagers poured out, the heavy cavalry stepped forward to fight. The villagers' iron broadswords and spears could not leave even a white mark on the heavy cavalry, so they were cut off by the heavy cavalry.
Zhao Yun's cavalry was divided into five teams and advanced synchronously and side by side within 50 miles of the north bank of the Yalu River in the pattern of five longitudinal lines.
Small villages, small towns can be solved in this way. When you encounter a larger city, you will concentrate and attack.
At this time, Jia Yi's infantry was needed to come up and cooperate.
Zhao Yun's cavalry fired arrows together and suppressed the Goguryeo soldiers who were shooting arrows on the city wall. Jia Yi's infantry set up beds, crossbows, and stone-throwing carts.
After waiting for the bed crossbow, the catapult was in position outside the range of the Goguryeo soldiers.
Zhao Yun's light cavalry retreated. The heavy cavalry dismounted, and stood in front of the bed crossbow and stone throwing cart in armor, acting as the heavy infantry guarding the siege machinery.
Then there is the bed crossbow, the time when the catapult is powerful. The walls of Goguryeo are all earthen walls, and it won't take long for them to be blown down.
When the rift was torn wide enough, the heavy infantry was in front and the Goguryeo Eight Banners Army was behind, advancing into the city layer by layer.
Zhao Yun's light cavalry patrolled around the city, shooting Goguryeo nobles and civilians who fled out of the city.
Because the Goguryeo Eight Banners Army is an authentic Goguryeo, they shout surrender and don't kill! Believed by many people in the city, there were many people who surrendered, and the resistance was not very fierce.
Cleaning up the battlefield, guarding prisoners, and preaching policies were all done by these Eight Banner Army.
Zhao Yun's cavalry rested for a while, and then drove to the next area first. Jia Yi's soldiers were half a day apart from Zhao Yun's cavalry in the back, and they advanced forward like this.
After a few days of invasion and a few hundred miles of advance, Zhao Yun ushered in the main cavalry of Goguryeo.
I saw some black dots emerge in the distance, and as the distance approached, the black dots gradually connected into a piece and turned into a dark cloud, and then the black cloud surged bigger and bigger, covering the entire sky, which is called smoke and dust covering the sun.
On the entire reckless plain in the southeast, there are black cavalry, as far as the eye can see, there are Goguryeo cavalry, all wearing old sheepskin jackets and fur hats, boundless, like the waves of the sea, there are 40,000 or 50,000 people.
Four or fifty thousand black cavalry galloped across the plain, the earth trembled, as if unable to bear the weight, and the sound of horses' hooves rolled like thunder in the sky, resounding in the sky.
In this kind of encounter in which the enemy was several times larger than our army, the General Staff Headquarters headed by Li Shanchang had already made a plan, and also informed every general of all possible situations and the results of the deduction.
Because the command ability of the Liaodong generals was uneven, Gongsun Kang often trained them. It's not the kind of formal class. Instead, in small talk, in the gathering there was a miscellaneous indoctrination of some theories and tactics. The General Staff Department also regularly bound some research materials into a book and distributed them to every general at or above the rank of commander for reference and self-study.
With the expansion of the territory and the increase in the number of generals, Gongsun Kang is already considering holding senior military command training classes on a regular basis, or simply coming to a school of the nature of the Central Party School to train middle and high-ranking generals?
In this case, you can't be timid! You can't turn around and run away! It is necessary to meet the brave and the brave on the narrow road to win the fearless courage and kill the opponent! Then kill back, and slowly retreat separately to protect yourself.
Because now all the cavalry from Goguryeo came, Zhao Yun didn't want to retreat slowly and separately. He decided: kill and run.
Zhao Yun ordered to open a goose-shaped formation. The head of the wild goose, which is also the arrow of the attack, is the heavy armor. And Zhao Yun is the arrow of the arrow!
The enemy is getting closer. When he was a few kilometers away from Zhao Yun, Zhao Yun raised his spear.
The pro-soldiers next to him began to shout: "Liaodong Iron Cavalry, invincible!" ”
Under the leadership of his own soldiers, 15,000 Liaodong cavalry shouted together: "Liaodong iron cavalry, invincible!" ”
For a while, the Liaodong soldiers were enthusiastic, without any fear, they just wanted to kill the enemy!
Zhao Yun put down his spear, clenched his hands, and shouted: "Charge!" "Rush to the Goguryeo cavalry with heavy armor!
The Goguryeo cavalry was also very skilled, and began to draw their bows and shoot arrows while they were charging on their horses, and shoot them flat. But the alloy heavy armor of the Liaodong heavy cavalry is extremely tough. Enemy arrows simply do not penetrate.
Liaodong Iron Cavalry even has a mask made of iron, and when it is shot on it, it makes a clanging sound, and at most there are sparks, and there is no use for birds.
So soon, the heavy armor soldiers came face to face with the Goguryeo cavalry. The heavily armored soldiers wielded the third-generation Xiangyang alloy knife and cut off all the weapons, soldiers, and horses they encountered on the road. Soon a blank area was created.
The light cavalry followed closely, maintaining the formation of a goose-shaped formation, and at the same time shot the repeater crossbow in their hands towards the Goguryeo cavalry dozens of meters away on the two sides. The distance of tens of meters can be said to be a hundred shots. The 100,000 rounds of crossbow arrows in the rainstorm were enough to take the lives of nearly 10,000 Goguryeo soldiers.
After shooting the crossbow arrows, the soldier flexibly hung the crossbow on the saddle and took off the Xiangyang iron knife. Diagonally forward, with his hands held flat, the horse galloped.
In this way, in a wave, Zhao Yun led heavy armor soldiers and light cavalry to kill through the large army of Goguryeo cavalry. Took the lives of nearly 10,000 people in Goguryeo. The Liaodong Iron Cavalry suffered less than 1,000 casualties.
After the killing, the general cavalry's tactics are to rush out of a mile, restrain the horses, turn around and come back to kill again.
But Zhao Yun is in the second class! I saw that after he took the lead and ran out of the mile, not only did he not slow down and restrain the horse, but kicked the horse's belly and began to accelerate. The Liaodong Iron Cavalry had already understood Zhao Yun's intentions in advance, and now they all began to accelerate in the same way.
When the Goguryeo cavalry reined in their horses and turned their heads to fight again, they found that the Liaodong Iron Cavalry had run away like this. In the distance, only smoke and dust could be seen.
The Goguryeo leader had 50,000 alpacas galloping in his heart. Niang Xipi, didn't she shout: Liaodong Iron Cavalry is invincible. Why did you run away like this? Ran away?
Some of his subordinates came to ask: "The eldest prince, are we chasing the Liaodong cavalry?" Or move on and reclaim lost ground? ”
The big boss Baqi glanced at him: "Clean up the battlefield!" Set up camp on the spot! ”
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(End of chapter)