Yang Su designed the phalanx formation, which was originally aimed at the Turks, who were known as the invincible iron cavalry in the world. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

According to his original idea, when the Sui army was attacked by the Turkic iron cavalry, 300 sergeants with a mixture of chariots, infantry, bows, and cavalry formed a phalanx, and used eight to ten chariots as the formation wall, which could not only prevent the largest infantry in the Sui army from being directly swept by the Turkic iron cavalry, but also effectively alleviate the rhythm of the Turkic iron cavalry attack. These chariot carriages were made of hardwood such as elm and willow, and were covered with iron sheets about half an inch thick on all sides, making it difficult for even fierce beasts such as tigers and leopards to break through the walls of the chariots and break into the formation, let alone the horses under the crotches of the Turks.

In the phalanx formation, the chariot army is responsible for driving the chariot to form a formation wall, and scattering obstacles outside the formation wall, making it difficult for the enemy cavalry to approach and break through the formation wall; Crossbowmen make two draws, hide behind the chariot, and alternately fire crossbows to shoot enemy troops outside the formation; The infantry was armed with long-handled weapons and was responsible for fending off enemy cavalry close to the wall. The non-commissioned officers of the three branches of the army cooperated with each other to ensure that in the case of a similar number of troops, the phalanx would be difficult to break through by the enemy's cavalry for a day or two.

When the enemy's combat strength is weakened, a small number of lightly armed cavalry in ambush in the phalanx can rush out of the phalanx, launch a counterattack against the enemy, cooperate with the infantry army, turn defense into attack, and repel the enemy army in one fell swoop.

Yang Suman hoped that relying on the phalanx and tactics he had painstakingly designed, he would be able to win Yang Jian's favor, and he would use himself as a general to personally lead the three armies to fight against the Turkic iron cavalry. But who knows, Yang Jian's interest in the formation is far greater than his interest in Yang Su himself, not only did he accept the formation map, but praised Yang Su fiercely in person, and ordered people to trace hundreds of copies, and sent them to the northern army, which was established as the basic tactics of the Great Sui army, but he praised Yang Su himself, if it wasn't for the urgent situation in Huazhou not long after, Dugu Hou recommended Yang Su in danger, and I don't know when this one of the top civil and military talents in the Great Sui Dynasty will be able to display his ambitions.

Without further ado, Yujuluo was captured because of Pei Qiantong, and wanted to urge the phalanx to attack this Turkic iron cavalry. However, once he really gave the order for the whole army to advance, he found that the original intention of the phalanx formation design was to defend rather than attack, and eight or nine huge chariots had to maintain the phalanx formation and press forward, and their movements were not only extremely slow, but they could not pose any threat to the Turkic iron cavalry that came like wind and went like rain, and at the same time that the entire formation moved forward, it also hindered the infantry and crossbowmen in the formation from cooperating with each other, complementing each other from far and near, and attacking the enemy.

Coincidentally, the Turkic leader who led the night attack on Lingshi Fort tonight was not satisfied with capturing a Pei Qiantong alive, but wanted to annihilate the hussar camp of the King of Jin in one fell swoop, loot Lingshi Town, and at the same time issued an order to his subordinates to attack the whole army, so that a major offensive and defensive battle was launched between the phalanx commanded by Yujuluo and the Turkic iron cavalry.

At that time, the Turkic iron cavalry crisscrossed the desert and was known as invincible in the world. According to the theory of one person and one horse, its standard equipment includes: a set of animal skin soft armor for each man and horse, which wraps the war horse and the knight on horseback very tightly; a longbow and two bags of sixty feathered arrows, so that the knight could shoot the enemy at a distance to the maximum; One weapon for each one, one weapon for the long and one for the long, and one for the short weapon to the Turkic scimitar, which can be used to choose different weapons against the enemy according to the different enemy troops encountered; At the same time, each Turkic knight was also equipped with enough drinking water and dry food for ten days, and even without effective supplies, he could gallop hundreds of miles and start a long run.

As early as when Yang Jian entered the reign of the previous dynasty, he wanted to build an elite cavalry unit equipped to compete with the Turkic iron cavalry, but the Central Plains had been in turmoil for a hundred years, and the national strength was extremely weak, so that the strength of the whole country in the Northern Zhou Dynasty at that time could not gather 10,000 war horses to form their own heavy cavalry.

The Turkic leader who led the night attack on Lingshi Fort gave an order, and the five hundred Turkic iron cavalry launched a fierce charge against the phalanx led by Yujuluo in three parts. Except for the sporadic Turkic cavalry who were shot by the bows and crossbows fired from the formation, and the people turned on their backs, in an instant, the Turkic iron cavalry of the brigade broke through the first line of defense formed by the arrow array and rushed to the front of the phalanx.

"The whole team stopped on the spot, marched forward, and fended off the enemy." Seeing the fierce attack of the enemy in the middle of the formation, Yujura had already advanced to the front of the formation, and hurriedly issued a second order.

Instead of the crossbowmen, a hundred and ten infantry armed with spears and hooked spears lined up around the wall, and at the same time, the entire phalanx, which was slowly moving forward, came to a halt.

The Turkic cavalry rushed down, and the large group of men and horses rushed to the front of the phalanx, and they all picked up the long-handled horse lances in their hands and smashed them into the Sui chariots lined up on the phalanx wall, wanting to directly smash the chariots, so that the Sui army had nothing to hide.

However, just as they were in a hurry to smash the chariot, break through the wall of the formation, rush into the formation, and completely annihilate the Sui army, a spear suddenly stabbed out of the formation, stabbing straight at the war horse under the crotch of the Turkic cavalry. Because I didn't expect that the Sui Dynasty army in the formation still had such a hand, many Turkic horses riding on were shot and fell down, and in the blink of an eye, dozens of Turkic cavalry were thrown to the ground by the wounded war horses, some were directly pierced by the Sui army's spears in the formation, and died, and some were trampled and injured by the war horses that rushed up later, and the sound of miserable howls was endless for a while.

The Turkic leader who led the team saw all this clearly not far behind, raised his sword sharply, and gave a second order in Turkic dialect: "Throw torches into the formation and burn them." ”

This Turkic iron cavalry chose to cross the Great Wall at night and loot the Lingshi Fort, which was taboo to light torches to illuminate and attract the attention of the Sui army in Jinyang City.

Seeing that the torches thrown by the Turkic cavalry into the formation instantly ignited the two chariots, and the fire in the formation became bigger and bigger, and the soldiers under his command also had fire on their bodies, and let out bursts of exclamations, Yujuluo was really red this time, and despite the fact that he still had arrow wounds on his shoulders, he raised his cloud sword into the air with both hands, and roared: "The formation is scattered, the cavalry is lined up, and they rush out of the formation with me to destroy this group of Turks." ”

In the 300-man hussar battalion that served as Yang Guang's guard, there were only 50 cavalry in total, and Duan Da turned around and chased Yang Guang and his party and took away 20 cavalry, so the total number of Sui cavalry in the formation was only 30 cavalry, and the number of Turkic iron cavalry outside the formation was more than ten times that of the Sui army.

Even so, after hearing the order to attack, none of the thirty Sui cavalry in the formation hesitated, each urging their horses, holding sabers, and shouting in unison and following Yujuluo to rush out of the phalanx and rush straight to the Turkic iron cavalry outside the formation.