Body 438 Heavy cavalry
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The sudden appearance of Liu Renliang made Li Hong's heart reassured, and as a result, those Silla outside the city, . Lewen Mobile Network
Originally, in the entanglement, whether to take the initiative to attack or passively defend the city, now there is no need to bother brain cells, after the arrival of Xiong Qu and Liu Xiang, Li Hong gave the order to take the initiative to attack the Silla and Baekje coalition forces at three o'clock.
Yin time, in the previous life, that is, from three o'clock to five o'clock in the morning, is said to be called Yin time, because the tiger is the most ferocious, aggressive and brave time of the day during this time.
Moreover, there is no time of the day darker than the darkness before dawn, and what is more advantageous is that the night battle at this time takes advantage of the inky night to provide cover for the premise.
In the same way, after engaging the enemy, the dawn will come soon after gaining the initiative on the battlefield, and there is no need to worry about the enemy being able to retreat again by night or turn the tide. Therefore, three quarters of the hour, this time node, is the most suitable time for night battles and sneak attacks.
Li Hong, who had been napping for about half an hour, listened to the noisy and slight sound of horses' hooves in the barracks under the city wall, took the cold wet towel prepared by Hua Meng and wiped his face, and after rinsing his mouth casually, he stood in the middle of the city stomping, looked at Xiong Qu and Liu Xiang intently, and each led 10,000 gold guards to set off from the two city gates.
As for the city, there are only 3,000 soldiers left in the floating slaughter camp, which are used as a symbolic force to defend the city.
As the city gradually became quieter, the triangular fire in the distance flashed several times again, and Hwa-muong also responded with a banner, and when Kim Wuwei quietly lurked on both sides of the Silla and Baekje camps, then Yoo In-rail would begin to follow Li Hong's orders and start launching a surprise attack from the rear of the Silla and Baekje coalition forces.
Wars are always cruel and merciless, whether it is a war between humans or between beasts of prey, in the final analysis, the purpose is the same.
For the sake of its own territory, the beast is willing to attack its own kind at any cost, and is more willing to attack what it needs in order to have a full stomach.
And there is no difference between the original intention of humans and animals to wage war, conquest seems to be a great, domineering word, but its meaning, after being used by humans in war, is just like animals, to make their territory wider, and to make their own things in their territory richer.
And once an invader breaks into their homeland, humans are like animals, either using their strength to drive away the invaders, or being driven by the invaders into another desolate and barren place and establishing their own territory.
In this era, whether it is the Turks, or the Murwei, the Tay, or the peoples of the Korean Peninsula, or even the Tang people, it is like the next complete food chain of the laws of nature, but the Tang people stand at the top of the food chain and become the rulers of this land.
Just like the tiger in the mountains and forests, it constantly patrols and expands its territory, bringing more fertile resources into its own hands, and a wider land into its own territory.
The sound of arrows sounded exactly three minutes in the silence and desolation, and the moon and stars were scarce, like a thunderclap, sounded over the camps of Silla and Baekje.
The rapid sound of the horn sounded in a few moments in the barracks of Silla and Baekje, and the sound of sparse draped battles, cold scolding, and ruthless orders sounded one after another throughout the camp.
Behind the stumbling horses and trenches, the soldiers of Silla and Baekje, under the orders of the generals who were also in a panic, quickly lined up with spears and spears in their hands, and behind them were archers bending their bows and arrows, and in the dark night, they pricked up their ears one by one to listen to the sound of horses' hooves that should make the earth shake when the enemy cavalry was speeding at high speed.
However, the truth did not correspond to their expectations at all, when they had assembled a complete defense at the front of the position as fast as possible, and the army behind them had also entered the defensive camp, and everything was ready, the deafening sound of horses' hooves and the killing of the Tang people that should have appeared in front did not appear!
Wen Junjie quickly ran out of Jin Famin's royal tent again, looked at the soldiers who were already waiting around him with an anxious expression, and shouted, "What the hell is going on? Why didn't the Tang people attack the camp? ”
It is impossible that the three arrows were heard by himself, and there was no bombing of the barracks, but why couldn't he hear the hooves of the galloping horses? Could it be that the Tang people are bluffing?
Xie Fu Lou was also worried, after learning the lesson of being annihilated by the Tang people during the day yesterday, today's own soldiers are all sitting in armor, afraid that the Tang people will stage another surprise attack.
But at this moment, when he had already set up a battle formation to meet the attack of the Tang people's iron hooves, there was no terrifying sound of iron hooves in his ears!
"Do you hear the sound of iron hooves?" Xie Flo, who also ran out of the king's tent, looked at the deputy general next to him and asked with some uncertainty in his heart.
"I didn't hear you."
"Wait, what's that sound?" In the dark night, Shevro felt the ground begin to tremble under his feet.
Shevro stared at his feet, feeling the slight tremor of the earth, and then suddenly looked up at the night sky again, pricking up his ears to hear the sound of hooves that seemed to hit his heart, coming from which direction.
"Boom, boom, boom......." Wen Junjie frowned, after the Tang people fired the arrow, it took almost a cup of tea before the sound of iron hooves appeared, how did you feel that something was wrong.
The sound of booming and booming was getting closer and closer, but whether it was Wen Junjie or Xie Fulou, they all found a question, why was the sound of hooves much slower than that of other cavalrymen?
"Are the Tang people playing tricks? Is it trying to deter us? Wen Junjie looked at Xie Fulou who ran over and asked as if asking for advice.
"I don't know, but the sound of hooves is weird, even better than ours...... Not good! This is heavy cavalry! The heavy cavalry of the Tang Dynasty! Shevlou's face turned pale all of a sudden!
Why didn't they think that since the Tang people had already charged with light cavalry during the day and annihilated nearly 30,000 of their own people, how could they not know that they and others would set up fortifications specifically for light cavalry!
So this time they switched to heavy cavalry to storm the camp!?
"No......."
As soon as Wen Junjie said the wrong two words, a herald actually rode a war horse and galloped past Jin Famin's royal tent, but before he could get close to Wen Junjie, he was shot by dozens of arrows that came out of nowhere.
In the dark night, a few lights near the king's tent witnessed the cavalry like a hedgehog with a dozen arrows stuck in his body, and then rolled off the horse, and the war horse continued to rush forward until it was about to reach Wen Junxie's side, and was shot to death by the archers!
"What people!" Wen Junjie swallowed back the words behind the word no, looked at the war horse that fell to the ground after raising a puff of dust in amazement, and walked over quickly.
Xie Fu Lou followed closely behind, and the two walked up to see that it was their own war horse, so Wen Junjie roared again: "Bring the person who fell off the horse." ”
The rumbling hooves were getting closer and closer, Wen Junjie and Xie Fulou looked at each other again at the same time, and they found that the soldiers behind them suddenly began to panic, and the rumbling sound, at this time, they heard it, it was coming from behind them, not from Liujing City in front of them.
"Will ...... Army...... I...... Behind...... Tang ....... The soldier who was shot like a hedgehog, with a helpless smile on his face, tried his best to finish the words of the general behind him before he breathed his last breath.
Wen Junjie glared around viciously, looking at the archers he couldn't see, the archers who were hiding in the shadows to protect the king's tent, and he was trembling with anger and didn't know what to say!
"Resist the enemy immediately!" Shevro looked at the herald beside him, if he reacted more slowly at this time, the heavy cavalry of the Tang people would probably rush into the camp.
As the orders of Wen Junjie and Xie Fu Lou were conveyed, nearly 70,000 soldiers in the entire camp, centered on the royal tents of Kim Famin, the king of Silla, and Yu Feng, the husband of Baekje, began to turn around and resist the enemy with great momentum, preparing to meet the Tang soldiers who appeared behind them out of thin air.
Heavy cavalry are fully armored cavalry, and in battle, even the entire face is hidden behind the helmet, leaving only two holes in the eyes to look straight ahead.
The war horse under the crotch is the same as the owner on the back, and it is also fully armored, and even the horse's face is covered with protective gear, but unlike the Western heavy cavalry, which will only reunite, the heavy cavalry of the Tang people is equipped with an important weapon of long-range crossbow arrows, which makes the heavy cavalry in the army, which was originally only a single ability to break down the enemy camp, become diversified.
In today's era, it can effectively equip a large number of heavily armored cavalry, and also give an army equipped with light cavalry to sweep the formation, only the wealthy Datang can assemble it.
The fully armored cavalry was an important means of fighting to break the enemy camp, because the weight of both soldiers and horses was heavier than that of light cavalry, so they were much slower than light cavalry.
However, the disadvantages can sometimes be turned into advantages in a vague way, that is, even Li Hong did not expect that the sound of the hooves of the heavily armored cavalry would disturb the judgment of the generals of Silla and Baekje in their position when they came from afar.
Therefore, when Wen Junjie and Xie Fulou were pale, still wondering where these heavy cavalry of the Tang Dynasty came from, the fully armored heavy cavalry, like the tanks of the previous generation, had already begun to crush the barracks behind them.
Because their attention was all focused on Liujing City, and they were caught off guard by the Tang Dynasty during the day yesterday, when their foothold was not stable, they were completely annihilated by the Tang Army's active whirlwind tactics, so they poured all the fortifications into Liujing City like frightened birds.
Therefore, at this moment, the fully armored cavalry of the Tang Dynasty seemed to be in a no-man's land, and at that speed that was not very fast, they began to crush and crush the rear of the Silla and Baekje armies.
Their heavy armor does not bend, they do not pursue, they can only shoot crossbow arrows, and then they hold their horse lances like bulldozers, and rush to the front of the enemy from the rear, and then slowly turn around, like harvesters, and harvest back and forth in the fields.