Chapter 291: The Battle of Riders

After He Zizhang decided to use cavalry and chariots to fight the duel, Dai Yan immediately gathered 2,000 people from the cavalry team, led by him personally, and fought a decisive battle with Pengcheng's army!

When he heard that Dai Yan wanted to play in person, Le Yi, the cavalry captain, immediately persuaded him: "Lord, for the sake of your safety, don't you go into the field in person, right?" From the last general, he will definitely be able to defeat the Pengcheng army! ”

However, Dai Yan said to Le Yi very resolutely: "Don't say it, this is a glorious battle, and it must be solved by me personally!" ”

Dai Yan wanted to fight on the battlefield in person, not because he was proud or reckless, but because he had to do it!

In the pre-Qin era, although the whole of China had not yet been unified, the various ethnic groups in China shared many common values, such as martial arts and glory. The biggest driving force for the Chinese nation to be martial is that the Chinese nobles are martial arts and are not afraid to go to the battlefield to kill the enemy!

In the wars of the Spring and Autumn Period, most of the nobles of various countries fought in person on the front-line battlefield, and the serfs who followed were just transportation logistics and waving flags. In the battle of Yanling in Jin, Chu, the king of Chu Gong personally fought against the Jin army on the battlefield, and was subsequently shot in one eye by Wei Qi, the ancestor of the Wei family.

After the king of Chu, who had suffered such a great humiliation, withdrew from the army, he immediately ordered his sharpshooter to raise Youji to teach the Jin people a lesson! So Yang Youji also personally went into battle and shot Wei Qi, the ancestor of the Wei family, on the battlefield!

This is the war of the ancestors of China in the pre-Qin era. Whether you are a great monarch like the King of Chu Gong, or a great minister like Wei Qi, you must personally go into battle to kill the enemy, and there is a danger of being injured and dying!

It is precisely by relying on this kind of spirit of the nobles who are not afraid of death and injury and go into battle in person that the whole world is extremely strong! Even in today's Warring States Period, wars in the world are extremely frequent, and this martial spirit is becoming stronger and stronger!

Why do the nobles of China like to carry swords? In addition to showing the noble status of the nobles, it is to declare force to the common people at the bottom, and subtly advocate the atmosphere of martial arts!

Dai Yan, who came from later generations, traveled to this era and became a ruler, and deeply understood a truth: the people are stupid, and the people are smart.

They are called stupid because they are too easily induced and exploited by the rulers. Take this war between Taoqiu and Suiyang as an example, this is obviously the contradiction between him and Suiyang, and the interests of Taoqiu merchants have been affected, but under his words, the entire Taoqiu instantly mobilized 100,000 troops to work for him.

The people are smart because they may be blinded by the lies of the rulers for a while, but their eyes are clear and they will not be blinded by the rulers forever! Their expressions won't show on their faces, but they will see with their own eyes what their bosses and managers do!

If the boss fights the enemy himself, then they will also fight for the boss spontaneously. If the commander grinds foreign workers, pursues the concept of "the son of a daughter, can't sit down", and keeps hiding in a safe place, then you really don't expect the soldiers to die for you!

Historically, the truly great commanders who have made outstanding achievements are all commanders who have personally fought with their soldiers. Zhao Yong, Genghis Khan, Zhu Di and even Gustav II in the West all regarded themselves as soldiers first, then as generals, and finally as kings! Only in this way will the army under their command have a soul, a bloody and martial spirit, and become a real army! And they can rely on these armies to make achievements and become truly admired commanders!

Dai Yan was even able to figure out the mystery of why some of the later rabbits were able to defeat the headmaster so quickly. When fighting against Neon, the commander-in-chief of the rabbit army in North China dared to set up his headquarters in the Jinnan frontline area, which was less than thirty kilometers away from his opponent! Such a short distance can be described as a real front line for modern warfare, which is dominated by hot weapons! And when the rabbit wrestled with the global hegemon Bald Eagle in North Korea, the Celestial Emperor Taizu dared to send his son to the battlefield in person!

Is this completely contrary to the practice of "the son of a thousand daughters can't sit down" a risky and useless approach? Far from it! Its high-level officials want to inspire the soldiers through such specific actions, and in this way, tell the soldiers that although my position is higher than yours, my life is not nobler than yours, and I need to fight on the battlefield just like you! This kind of concrete action is more important than the political one. I don't know how many times stronger the effect of the preaching and mobilization of the committee members in the rear!

It is precisely because of the determination of the high-level that the rabbit can infuse the army with blood and martial spirit from top to bottom! It is with this martial spirit that an army can truly become an army. On the contrary, the principal never paid attention to the cultivation of the soul of this army, and the army under his command had much more advanced equipment than rabbits, either German weapons or American weapons, and the officers under his command were all high-achieving students who graduated from military academies, and their command talents were much stronger than that of rabbits! But as a result, an army without bloodshed and martial spirit is just a group of cowards with weapons, and when it encounters a truly bloody army, it will be defeated as badly!

Today's Taoqiu does not have an absolute advantage in the entire Song Kingdom! Today, Dai Yan's army, a month ago, was just ordinary soldiers wandering around the city. In order for them to become a truly soulful army, it is necessary for him, the sovereign, to set an example, so that the soldiers can see his ways, cultivate blood, and inspire the martial spirit!

It was precisely because he understood this that he wanted to personally ride a horse to the battlefield and fight Zizhang!

And Dai Yan's opponent Zizhang may not understand what Dai Yan knows. But for the glory of his nobles, he also refused the suggestion of letting his subordinates replace him, and personally stepped into the chariot and fought against Dai Yan!

In the open field left by the armies of the two sides, the cavalry on horseback and the columns of cavalry were ready! Zizhang pretended to be a person who preached faith and righteousness and had an aristocratic demeanor, and even personally sent an envoy to Dai Yan's cavalry formation to pay tribute!

Dai Yan accepted the other party's homage and returned the salute. Then, the neatly arranged chariot soldiers, driven by the war horse, rushed towards the direction where Dai Yan was!

The impact of the chariot, when you don't see it, you can't imagine how powerful it can be. And when Zizhang personally led hundreds of chariots and rushed towards Dai Yan's cavalry array, Dai Yan seemed to feel that the earth was trembling!

Hundreds of chariots rushed over, making Dai Yan feel a strong pressure like a flash flood! It is no wonder that in the Spring and Autumn Period, chariots were able to crush infantry formations, and this kind of power was far inferior to even the direct impact of heavy cavalry! After all, cavalry does not have the sharp metal hub on the side of the chariot wheel, and it is impossible to harvest the soldiers with a sharp Changge in hand!

Dai Yan and the cavalry under his command stood neatly in place, watching the chariot on the opposite side rush over, and did not move. And when Dai Yan determined that the distance between the two sides was close enough, he immediately pulled out a Ming Di from the quiver on his waist and shot it towards the sky!

The sharp sound of the Ming Di spread in all directions and reached the ears of the cavalry under Dai Yan's command. Then, the cavalry, which was still neatly lined up just now, suddenly scattered in all directions like rippling water waves!

The chariot led by Zizhang rushed past the place where the cavalry was originally located, and such a vast chariot team failed to touch a Taoqiu cavalry, which made Zizhang angry!

Zizhang couldn't help but be angry, he was full of confidence, and when he had gathered momentum, he was ready to face Ziyan head-on, but Ziyan perfectly avoided his attack! This made him feel as if his fist was full of strength, and he wanted to give the opponent a huge blow, but in the end he was as weak as hitting the air!

Zizhang was extremely unwilling to do this, he stood on the chariot and gave orders, stopped the pace of the impact, and then, at a huge cost, made all the chariots turn around, and let the few infantry who followed behind the chariot quickly go to the end, and rearrange the chariot array!

However, what he spent so much time to complete, Ziyan on the other side did it easily. Seeing the opposite face Yan riding on the horse, and the horse under his seat, he snorted boredly, and Zizhang was angry!

Once again, he commanded his soldiers to charge in the direction where Dai Yan was!

With the experience of dodging opponents last time, Dai Yan became more calm and calm. The first time he saw the chariot impact that seemed to be like a landslide, it was really amazing, but now in his eyes, this chariot impact was like a giant attack with slow motion, although the power was very scary, but under the flexible reaction speed of the cavalry, the chariot could not touch a single hair of itself at all!

When the chariot rushed over, Dai Yan once again imitated the action just now, directly pulled out a chirp, and gave orders to the cavalry, so that the cavalry team avoided it again!

The two consecutive attacks failed, which made De Zizhang completely angry, and he even came to Dai Yan's formation in person and asked, "Ziyan, are you just a coward who can only escape?" If you still think that you are a descendant of Xuanniao, a descendant of the Imperial Father, don't hide next time and fight me head-on!" ”

Seeing Zizhang asking such an angry question, Dai Yan replied unusually calmly: "As a junior, I pay tribute to my uncle, so I avoided your attack twice!" Next time, I'll never avoid it again! ”

Zizhang heard Dai Yan's words, and went back with some suspicions. And in Dai Yan's heart, there is a kind of pleasure that the treacherous plan has succeeded!

Dodging the opponent's attack twice in a row, where is the real respect for Zizhang? He wants to drain the strength of the sub-chapter charioteers and greatly weaken the morale of the opponent! Now even Zizhang has come over to question angrily, so this shows that the other party is really anxious, and his opportunity has arrived!

He instructed the generals around him and told them how to attack the next class. And this time, when Zizhang's chariot began to charge, the cavalry under Dai Yan also launched a charge this time. Seeing that the two armies were about to charge face to face, and when they collided and passed, Zizhang's heart was full of excitement: this time Ziyan must be completely defeated from the front!

However, when the two armies were only a hundred paces apart, Dai Yan, who was in front of the cavalry, quickly pulled out two ringing arrows from the quiver and shot them towards the front left and right respectively!

The cavalry who had been following him immediately changed direction, dodged the frontal charge of the chariot troops, and charged towards the flanks of the chariot troops!

The two wings were outflanked, and it was Dai Yan who heard the cavalry tactics of the cocoon in the ears of later generations. After he trained the cavalry, he also practiced this tactic in many exercises and training, when Le Yi went around in a circle with the Chu army in Xiangyi for more than half a month, with the previous training and the current actual combat, the cavalry under Dai Yan was finally able to apply this tactic perfectly to actual combat!

Seeing that Zi Yan had once again avoided his attack, Zi Zhang's heart was furious! This time, he didn't want to abide by the basic rules of the battlefield anymore, and he didn't want to follow the etiquette of the nobles challenging each other anymore, so he aimed the direction of the chariot at the infantry units behind Dai Yan!

This punch, he must hit the opponent's body to be willing!

However, when this thought rose in his heart, countless screams rang in his ears! He handed over the control of the chariot to the right side of the chariot, turned his head to look at it, and was immediately stunned!

The cavalrymen, who were moving rapidly, drew spears from their hands, and when they approached the chariots on both wings, spears were thrown from the hands of the cavalrymen, and in this way they struck his soldiers! Countless soldiers were knocked down by such a brutal attack, and those unmanned chariots, driven by the speeding war horses, immediately began to lose control, causing the wings to fall into a state of collapse!

And when the cavalry had attacked his chariots, they began to target the infantry under his command. This time, instead of throwing spears, the cavalry took out their long wooden spears one by one and aimed them straight at the infantry running with the chariots!

Most of these infantrymen were frightened by such a rapid onslaught and did not know how to respond. And the few infantry who dared to fight back also disappeared quickly under the collective attack of the cavalry!

The entire infantry that followed the chariots suffered extremely serious losses at once, and after the cavalry all attacked, there were no more infantry running with the chariots!

In Dai Yan's mind, this cavalry attack was an incomparably perfect attack! And after this attack, the attack on the sub-chapter chariot troops has just begun!