Chapter 566: The Observation Group Returns Home

Liu Xuan stood alone in the rear and watched the thousands of troops in front of him go forward and succeed indifferently, for a group army chief of staff who had been following the Western Expeditionary Army all the year round, this battle was actually doomed in his eyes, or the outcome had become less important. The Great Qin army has the new weapons purchased from the Tang Dynasty but does not know how to use them, the tactical tactics are extremely rigid, so fighting in this way is actually fighting with human lives, and the two armies still rely on the courage of the soldiers to fight against each other, so what is the use of the endless military array in the end? How many years has such an empire been in Tessie? Liu Xuan was silent for a long time and then looked up at the battle formation of the Gauls opposite, as if he had found the answer from somewhere, the Gauls had not purchased artillery and muskets from the Tang Dynasty, so the entire battle layout was more of a continuation of the previous method, that is to say, in fact, the Gauls' tactics could reflect the level of the battle formation of the Taixi people, and Liu Xuan immediately began to recall after thinking of this, and immediately began to recall the battle layout of the Gauls before he checked the battle layout of the Gauls and suddenly discovered the mystery.

The Gauls' method was actually very simple, using the powerful arrows of the English longbowmen to forcibly open the situation at the beginning of the war, and disrupt the deployment of the Great Qin army. This point is actually a bit similar to the previous tactics of the Tiance Army. At the beginning of the war, he opened the way with crossbow arrows, and disrupted his opponent's originally neat military formation with a stream of powerful arrows, taking this opportunity to open up the situation for his subsequent charge. And in the middle of the battle, that is, when Daqin's heavy infantry phalanx gradually rushed towards the Gauls' main formation, the archers immediately separated, and released the heavy cavalry hidden behind the archers, with strong against strong, heavy armor against heavy armor, and forcibly used the advantage of heavy armored cavalry to attack Great Qin's heavy armored infantry phalanx. After using the English longbowmen to disrupt the attack order and attack speed of the heavy infantry phalanx in the early stage, once the heavy cavalry accelerated and rushed up, they immediately occupied the dominant position in the face of the infantry. What's more, behind the heavy cavalry, in addition to the archers who retreated, there were also the famous knights and Teutonic axemen, the best of the city-state's army. In this case, as long as Dodel's reaction is a little slower, then even with the help of artillery, it will definitely not be pleased. This tactic of the Gauls is simply a one-shot deal, and the cooperation of all departments must be completely in place, and there will be no other sudden changes on the side of Great Qin. Naturally, if it is a general change, it is not a big problem to regard the archers as firefighters, after all, the English longbowmen have always cooperated with the heavy armies such as the Church Knights and the Teutonic Swords and Axes in the arrangement of the Gauls, as long as the Gallic commander can control these troops in the hands of the Chinese army, and adjust them at any time for changes in all directions, then there will be no other mistakes. It's just that what the Gauls obviously didn't expect was that Dodell touched the two wings of cavalry in advance at the most critical moment, so that in the eyes of the Gauls, if the two wings moved, then the Chinese army would inevitably be implicated, so at this critical moment, they also competed with each other to take out the cavalry and Daqin came to a pair of Hu, but what they didn't expect was that the purpose of Daqin's cavalry was only to slightly block the advance speed of the Gauls, and the real purpose was to release the heavy cavalry behind the formation. As a result, the heavy cavalry hidden in the light cavalry directly blinded the Gauls as soon as they appeared on the battlefield, and the Gallic heavy cavalry, which was caught off guard, was hit by the Great Qin heavy cavalry that was driven to the extreme by the speed, and the people turned on their backs, and there was chaos. At this time, the heavy infantry that had been defeated was also reintegrated and then stepped forward with the heavy cavalry, and the two forces combined to push the line forward, the Chinese front was shaken, and the army was forced to retreat step by step, and the weakness of the Gauls' arrangement was also revealed at this moment, and the troops of the English longbowmen and knights were originally transferred to the right flank to deal with Rohmins, but at this time, after the frontal battlefield line was shaken, he was faced with an embarrassing situation with no soldiers at hand. If the longbowmen are sent back to help, then the advantage of suppressing the Great Qin cavalry on the left flank will be wiped out in an instant, and even with it, it will shake his right flank defense line, which will not only fail to support the frontal battlefield, but also is likely to cause the overall situation to be shaken. And when the Gauls were undecided, the musket team that had been idle after being withdrawn by Dodel was finally remembered by him at this time, and with a wave of his hand, he directly let these nearly 20,000 musketeers directly join the right-wing battlefield, so that the originally evenly matched right wing was suddenly directly collapsed by Daqin, and almost every time the 20,000 musketeers fired will bring boundless bloody rain, and the musketeers who let go of their hands and feet have no opponents at this time, and even when they first joined the right-wing battlefield, whether it was Daqin or Gaul, Both sides didn't take these musket teams seriously, but when these musketeers who stood up straight and straightened up and marched forward in a row as if they were lined up, every shot would knock the countless Gallic coalition troops in front of them directly to the ground, at first this kind of casualties were not considered by anyone, but when they continued to advance and even took the combat mission that should have been supposed to be the right flank cavalry on themselves, everyone could not ignore it. Even the cavalry corps on the right flank took the initiative to advance with the musket team at this time. In this way, the front line of the Gauls was shaken across the board, and the central front was directly beaten back by Daqin, and when the Gallic commander was still thinking about whether to transfer the longbowmen to the front line, his left flank was directly crushed by Daqin's right wing corps and musket team. This kind of collapse was terrible at this time, and even directly affected the ending that should have been a win.

"Finally a little bit of growth, but it's a pity that the power is only exerted at this time, which is really insulting to this firearm." Liu Xuan watched coldly, and naturally he was the first to notice the huge role played by the musket team at this time, even much greater than those artillery that were not used intensively. Liu Xuan has no intention of looking at the war until now, and when he saw that the figure of the Flying Eagle Brigade had gradually broken through from the left flank, he nodded, the Flying Eagle Brigade plus his own personal guards totaled only two hundred, which naturally did not play any role in this battle of hundreds of thousands of people, but it can be seen from their easy penetration that the Gauls finally transferred the English archers from their right flank, so that the way to get a headache is to bury the good battle situation in vain. In this way, all three fronts were shaken, and the final outcome must have given the Great Qin people the best chance.

"Chief of Staff, as instructed, we have already tried the combat power of the Gauls. The combat strength of their individual soldiers is not below that of our soldiers, but the other side does not pay much attention to cooperation in war, and likes to pay attention to personal bravery. The guard touched the blood on his face, shook his head and smiled: "We and the brothers of the Flying Eagle Brigade cooperate with each other, and we are invincible, and no one is our opponent. ”

"Anything else to discover?" Liu Xuan nodded, obviously expecting what the guards said, so he didn't show any surprise, but asked.

"And?" The guards raised their heads to show a confused look, but Captain Li of the Flying Eagle Brigade behind him took over at this time and said: "Chief of Staff Qiqi, the Gauls and the Great Qin people have the same origin in their tactics, so the number of people who fight and compete in the end is the number of people. And the last general found on the battlefield that although these people are very brave in battle, their endurance is not good, and once a protracted war occurs, they can't hold on at all, and this high-headed horse seems to have a lot of less endurance than our Datang war horse. ”

"Alright, this war is almost over, if you are wounded, heal quickly, and we will rush over and join Marshal Dodel at once." Liu Xuan nodded and didn't continue to ask, and led everyone towards the Great Qin Central Army. The war has been able to take the lead so far, Dodell is obviously ecstatic, and he is also elated after seeing Liu Xuan, and keeps saying some words of praise. At this time, the battle situation on the front line also changed drastically, and the Gallic side also decisively and quickly led the army to retreat after the collapse of the front line, and arranged for the archers to break off, and the rain of arrows in the sky continued to shoot out, so as to block the pursuit of the Great Qin people. And those heavy armor corps threw the armor directly out and then fled backwards without their lives, and some who couldn't escape simply raised their hands and surrendered. The war came to an end. However, Liu Xuan found that although the Gauls were defeated, they were defeated but not chaotic, and their basic main force did not even receive much loss, but the Great Qin people suffered a lot of losses in this battle, and the central heavy infantry phalanx was slaughtered by the other side at the beginning, and there were less than 10,000 survivors after the battle, and as for other battle losses, there were countless others, and even the musket team was taken away as many as nearly 10,000 people.

However, Dodell obviously didn't care much about this, or that he still needed to maintain the face of the Great Qin Empire in front of Liu Xuan, an outsider, and just took Liu Xuan to look at the nearly 10,000 captives, constantly boasting about how brave the Great Qin soldiers were in this battle.

"Your Excellency Marshal, since this battle has been won, why don't you take advantage of the victory to take Amiens City?" Liu Xuan was a little puzzled by his stoppage, and walked over and asked.

"Amiens has been taken." Marshal Dodel laughed and said, "Amiens City has no garrison after the defeat of the Gauls, so General Rohmon only rode his horse outside the city for a week, and there were people in the city who were willing to surrender." ”

"I see." Liu Xuan looked at the quiet towering castle in the distance and nodded, and said thoughtfully: "In this way, your army can rely on Amiens City to further approach the northwest, and in this case, I wish His Excellency the Marshal to make persistent efforts to end the war as soon as possible." For some reason, Liu Xuan always felt that something else seemed to be going to happen, but Datang and Daqin didn't have much to do with it, and he didn't bother to ask about these things. The viewing group had completed its mission after watching this battle up close, so after Dodel ordered the reward of the three armies, they hurriedly said goodbye, returned to Byzantium from the front line, and then bid farewell to Arthur and other reception officials of the Great Qin Empire, and began to whip their horses towards the border of the Tang Dynasty. At the same time, the secret guard who reported in the early stage also sent this news to Shule one step in advance.

In mid-December of the tenth year of the Apocalypse, Liu Xuan arrived in Baishui City covered in dust and braved the heavy snow along the way, and then continued to march eastward, rushing back to the base camp of the Shulexi Expeditionary Army before the New Year.

"Thank you Dashuai, this year's hot pot is not low." Liu Xuan saw that Wan Yi had prepared the hot pot in advance, and Gao Siji even took a group of staff officers to constantly serve all kinds of dishes, and couldn't help laughing: "I said two handsome, you are so deliberately so that I can't eat, the handsome is ordering the hot pot in person, and the deputy marshal is leading someone to serve the dishes, how dare I eat it?" If this were to be transmitted to the General Staff, it is estimated that the Chief of the General Staff would directly fire me. ”

"Don't worry, this hot pot is paid for by the handsome, and today I will take advantage of your light. Besides, when the chief of staff returns, I can be freed from these chores, so I'm sincere. Gao Siji sat next to him and beckoned the staff officer next to him to open another table, and looked at Wan Yi and sat down with a smile.

"Come on, come on, it's best to eat this hot pot in winter." Wan Yi said with a smile after greeting everyone: "The chief of staff has gained a lot compared to this trip, right?" Tell me, do you have any special observations? ”

Liu Xuan took out a thick notebook from his arms and handed it to Wan Yi and said with a smile: "This is what I have seen and heard on this trip, the marshal can watch it slowly, and the general one is that I think we should go to the emperor and send troops immediately after Da Shi and Da Qin have divided the victory and defeat." Great Qin is an era away from us, and they have no rules at all to fight. Moreover, the high-level officials were extravagant, treating the war as child's play, and the opportunity of the pre-military meeting was held in the commander's tent when the war was imminent. In the middle of the war, they didn't know how to use the new weapons, and the tactical literacy of cold weapons was even inferior to that of the Gauls. If it weren't for the accident, the Gauls were undecided, and they were afraid that Da Qin might not be able to win the battle in Amiens. Liu Xuan shook his head and said, "The marshal should let Xuan Yingwei find out how their navy fights, I always feel that their navy looks like it can fight more than the army." Liu Xuan's words made the two nod, Wan Yi put down the note in his hand and nodded: "I will arrange this, after I and Brother Si read this note, you will immediately send it back to the base camp as soon as possible and hand it over to the General Staff." ”

"Okay, in that case, I'm afraid the war on Taixi's side will only end in a while, so we can sit back and relax this winter." Gauss turned around and said with a smile: "Today is a big handsome treat, let's not talk about business, let's eat first, and then have a meeting after eating, and study this note of the chief of staff." ”

"Brother Si, how did I find out that you were so happy when I had a treat?" Wan Yi looked at Gao Siji's appearance, put down his notes, and scolded with a smile. But then he found that all the staff officers around him, including Liu Xuan, were covering their mouths and snickering, and suddenly they laughed too. For a while, the tent of the Western Expeditionary Army was also full of the sound of eating and drinking, and in order to meet the occasion, Gao Siji even directly took out some wine, so that everyone's laughter became louder.