Chapter 295: Great Sword Battle (1st Update)
Waterlogged water should have been a nameless river. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info but now because of the battle between Cao De and Li Dao here, it will be famous all over the world.
In this battle, Li Dao's army was mostly infantry, while Cao De's troops were mostly cavalry.
Li Wei's background was the Liangzhou Army, and the army that came out of Liangzhou was good at field warfare. At the beginning, when Li Dao and Guo Yan killed Li Ru and betrayed Dong Zhuo at the instigation of Wang Yun, there were not many Xiliang troops under their command who were good at field warfare. And they don't have many troops under their command.
Therefore, Li Dao Guo Yan began a recruitment fever. The army grew from more than 30,000 to 150,000 at once. Although Li Dao and Guo Yan still trained them according to the training methods of the Liangzhou soldiers, the field combat effectiveness of this batch of new troops was much worse than that of the original Liangzhou soldiers.
As a general who has commanded the army for many years, Li Dao naturally knows the shortcomings of his army, so Li Dao does not want to fight in the field. But now Cao De is forcing Li Dao to fight.
At first, in order to block Cao De in the Qinling Mountains, Li Dao discussed with Guo Yan and transferred almost all the troops to the field.
But the stinky and shameless Cao De actually shook a shot, making a mess of the defense plan that the two had originally placed. And Cao De also took this opportunity to rush out of the Qinling Mountains.
Moreover, Guo Yan was very unfortunate to have his head cut off by Lu Bu's halberd and became a headless ghost. Next, Cao De took advantage of Li Dao's failure to react and immediately captured the two adjacent cities on both sides of the waterlogged river.
Initially, Cao De's purpose was in Chang'an. But Cao De thought about it, if he didn't have a good competition with Li Dao and Guo Yan, wouldn't he have wasted this great opportunity.
Moreover, the current Li Dao Guo Yan is not a general under Dong Zhuo, but a great general who is above 10,000 people on the side of one person. If you kill two of these guys. Isn't there another big addition to your record book?
Besides, Liu Xie can't run away in Chang'an.
To the north was the army of the fierce Dong Zhuo's son-in-law, Niu Fu and Hu Zhen. Liu Xie had already been frightened by Dong Zhuo, and then let Liu Xie run to Dong Zhuo's people by himself. Will he go?
To the east is Cao Cao, and Cao De has not thought carefully about this aspect. How strong is Hangu Pass and Tongguan Pass, and how dangerous Hangu is. It is impossible for Cao Cao to come to Chang'an in a moment and a half. So, let's fight with Li Dao first, and then let's talk about it!
Therefore, Zhang Fei went out to battle and left the station with two thousand infantry. However, Li Dao sent 2,000 cavalry to meet the battle.
Since ancient times, the lethality of cavalry to infantry has been enormous. And the victory in this tentative battle was a great boost to the morale of our own soldiers. Therefore, Li Dao chose cavalry.
On the battlefield, the troops of both sides are about to collide.
Zhang Fei did not choose to stop the charge, set up a shield array and waited for the arrival of Li Wei's cavalry, but asked the soldiers to throw the shields in their hands as frisbees.
The cavalry of Li Dao's army were running happily on horseback, as if they had seen the scene of the enemy on the opposite side groaning in pain under the hooves of their horses.
But to their amazement, the first thing the enemy on the other side gave them was a shield that swirled and flew sideways.
Is there such a fun thing to do in war, and not only that, but behind the shield, it is not the usual bow and arrow, but a spear and spear more than a foot long!
The enemy on the opposite side actually threw out even the long weapon in his hand!
Infantry vs. cavalry, the most profound example in Cao De's impression is the national hero Yue Fei of the Han nationality. Yue Fei used to be a cavalryman who had defeated the Jin people with a broadsword.
Therefore, this battle example was moved by Cao De to the teaching example of the military department of Chengdu Academy.
And Yue Fei's approach was to abandon the long weapon, use the small body of the infantry to cut the horse's leg and the knight with a sharp broadsword, and cut the cavalry of the Jin people into a crush.
Therefore, Zhang Fei copied it, abandoning the shield and the long weapon. Rather than just lose it, it is better to throw it into the opponent's high-speed cavalry group in exchange for unexpected damage!
When the cavalry was charging, what they were most afraid of was chaos. If the cell in front of him falls to the ground for some reason, the reaction caused by it is a series of reactions. Therefore, although the shield and long weapon thrown by Zhang Fei did not cause much damage, the chaos was enough.
Soon, just as the running Blade Battalion infantry drew their ring-headed broadswords from their waists, the two sides began to collide.
Zhang Fei tilted his head and dodged the tip of the spear stabbed by the enemy, and then with a slight wave of the scimitar in his hand, the leg of the war horse under the enemy's crotch was cut off! Then the knight carried the man and the horse to the ground.
However, Zhang Fei didn't pay any attention to him, but picked up his scimitar and slashed at another enemy soldier. Because, the brother who followed Zhang Fei would naturally make up for the enemy who had already fallen to pieces.
The 2,000 Blade Battalion soldiers soon got into the 2,000 cavalry of the Li Dao Army.
Like a swimming fish, they swirled back and forth between the legs of the enemy cavalry, and occasionally slashed the belly of the horse with their ring-headed broadsword or cut off the calf of the knight on horseback.
However, the Blade Battalion fighters, who had almost abandoned their defenses, were also suffering from the slaughter from above.
Enemies can attack themselves from a high altitude with long weapons, and they can only get close to the enemy first and then take them down.
After all, this tactic was the first time that Cao Dejun had applied it to the battlefield. So there are still a lot of shortcomings.
For example, some soldiers broke away from the main force in order to avoid the onslaught of enemy horses. And as soon as he cut off the leg of a horse standing in front of him, the tips of several spears pierced him in the back.
Zhang Fei is a martial arts idiot, he doesn't care about the fight, just protect himself.
And the two commanders of the Blade Battalion who followed Zhang Fei to meet knew this. Therefore, they shouted in time: "Five Elements Array!" ”
It's a small formation. This formation is very simple, that is, four soldiers block their captain in the middle, and then the four soldiers block the attack from their own front, and then take the gap to kill and injure the enemy, while the commander who is surrounded in the center does not need to worry about defense, just kill the enemy.
This kind of small formation within a formation has been around for a long time. However, it is a bit inappropriate to use it in the current situation. But fortunately, you don't have to worry about attacks from behind.
The melee circle in the center of the battlefield had been covered with the dust that had stirred up, so Li Dao and Cao De, who were staying on both sides of the battlefield, couldn't see the real situation on the battlefield at all.
However, the battle circle is always moving. And the direction of movement is towards Li Dao's side. And, after the melee. Under the slowly precipitating dust, there are more corpses of horses, so Cao De and Li Wei can judge from here that it is actually the cavalry who are at a disadvantage now!
It can be seen from this that the infantry fought with broadswords against the cavalry, which was effective. And Cao De invisibly found a way to restrain the cavalry. However, Cao De noticed that this tactic needs to be improved. What I didn't notice was that the soldiers who could be used to accomplish this tactic had to be an elite division.
The battle circle was still moving, and although Li Dao could not see the real situation in the battle circle, Li Dao saw that Cao Dejun's infantry had abandoned their shields.
So, with a wave of his big hand, two thousand sword and shield hands, rushed to the battlefield with a roar.
There were more troops on the opposite side of Li Dao. Then Cao De also needs to increase his troops.
"Ma Chao!"
"Nephew here!"
"Guerrilla warfare circle, go to war!"
"No!"