Chapter 220: The Sky Is Not Dead, the Yellow Sky Destroys First—10
It's just that this fourth giant is entangled with the nearly 100,000 Yellow Turban Army under He Yi at this time.
Although Suning and his subordinates rushed to the opponent with a decisive heart, they only identified a salient of the opponent through the simple tactics of dividing and encircling, and its number was about 5,000 men, and in this battle, the heavy infantry exposed their serious disadvantage of slow agitation. If they continued to participate in the rest of the battle, they feared that they would be surrounded by enemies several times their size, and they would be in an extremely dangerous situation, so Aetius led his heavy infantry army and immediately withdrew from the battle.
But He Yi's Yellow Turban Army did not stop pursuing them. Fortunately, Suning immediately sent light cavalry to cover their retreat into a mountain col.
This col is actually relatively flat, and logically speaking, it is not suitable for hiding soldiers, but in such a plain area as Yuzhou, it is good to be able to find such a col.
The next battle became much more interesting for Suning, who actually took advantage of the light cavalry's speed advantage to constantly attract those Yellow Turban soldiers to chase them and escape. And in the process of crossing the river, they occupy a great advantage due to the length of the horse's legs, so that they can easily get rid of the enemy's pursuit.
However, in this process, the biggest problem they encountered was that they were not familiar with the terrain in this area, so at the beginning, they would also face the situation of the market being besieged.
In this process, the best beautiful men will also be damaged, but Attila is very adaptable to this battlefield environment. He divided his men into three parts, one responsible for blocking the pursuing enemy, one responsible for retreating at full speed and closing the distance from the enemy, and the other responsible for resting during this time period.
After the enemy has been chasing for a period of time, the part that was originally retreating frantically began to stop and rest, and the part that was originally resting needed to take the initiative to attack and harass the enemy, so as to cover those teammates who had just come into contact with the enemy, so that they could smoothly get out of the battle with the enemy and evacuate at full speed.
Attila's method of fighting is simple and effective, but in the process of fighting, there have been some problems, that is, because the number of enemies is too large, so that the resting enemy does not want to be discovered by the enemy who is searching and advancing, and the retreating subordinates plunge headlong into the group of enemies who do not know the truth.
At this point, the local generals, who were familiar with the basic conditions in the Central Plains and knew how the number of infantry posed a threat to the cavalry, obviously had more plans for preparation.
Wen Ping, a southerner, knew how to use the superior strength of cavalry in places crisscrossing waterways. In principle, his tactics were not fundamentally different from Attila's, but the point was that he dispersed his troops into smaller units, with more troops, and at the same time he was given the opportunity to recuperate, moreover, he paid more attention to the reconnaissance of the surrounding terrain, repeatedly lured the enemy into a triangle formed by a river, and then took advantage of the cavalry, and those enemies launched wading assaults. Because the enemy did not think of this, they were quickly wrapped into dumplings, and they were wiped out by dividing five by two.
However, this strategy also has a few obvious weaknesses, that is, the number of enemies destroyed in a single time will not be too much, because most of the enemies who can catch up with them are the elites among the enemies, but being able to cut off the elites is also a big gain for them.
Another serious disadvantage, which is common to this tower, is that the dependence on the war horse is too great, especially for the physical strength of the war horse, which is a huge challenge. Moreover, this is not the Liangzhou grassland that the war horses are familiar with, if it continues like this, their loss ratio will be further increased.
Fortunately, at this time, Cao Cao had already led the Xiang Yong he had recruited to the place where Suning was entangled with the Yellow Turban Army.
However, today they joined forces, and their strength did not reach 1/6 of the Yellow Turban Army. As soon as Cao Cao saw Suning, he asked Suning to immediately withdraw from his position under his cover, but Suning sternly rejected Cao Cao's request, and he advocated fighting with the other party to the end.
This time, Suning planned a very different strategic deployment. He was going to use himself as a bait to attract He Yi to send heavy troops to pursue him, and then let the other armies find an opportunity to eliminate the Yellow Turban force in Runan.
However, Suning's plan, soon after it was proposed, was opposed by the majority of the people. The reason is very simple, not to mention that he personally made the bait, which would bring a huge threat to his personal safety, even if he could attract He Yi to send the main force to pursue, they did not have a favorable terrain on their side for a decisive battle.
But Suning told them that there would be no decisive battle this time, because after this period of consumption, the Yellow Turban Army, which was not undernourished, currently did not have enough strength, and when pursuing Tang from a distance, it was still able to maintain a complete structure, that is, he only needed to run all the way in front, and the Yellow Turban Army in the back would almost be in the process of chasing, so for Suning's subordinates, there was actually only one thing to do, that is, to send all the rapid mobile forces, Defeat the Yellow Turban Army that has lost its formation one by one! If this plan goes well, when Suning escapes from Runan County to Yingchuan County, he will leave behind a clear trajectory, that is, the evacuation formation formed by the golden army chasing him!
Attila was overjoyed to see such a situation, and for them, as long as it was not a phalanx, annoying Roman infantry, they had full confidence to defeat them, and this group of evacuated Yellow Turban soldiers basically posed no threat to them.
As a result, a large number of clinic bows were credited to Attila's account, and his men now only had to worry about one problem, and how long they could hold out before they could roll their blades.
In this battle, even Cao Cao, who had just come to report, gained a lot of credit by the way, and as for Suning's descendants, they were even more at Wang Lijuan's meeting to do some official positions! However, Suning sent a message from the way to escape, asking them to immediately stop the pursuit and stay in the border area between Yingchuan County and Runan County, waiting for their next instructions.
The generals didn't know what was going on over there, but Suning's order couldn't be disobeyed, so they immediately stopped the pursuit, rested quietly in place, and waited for Suning's next instructions!