Chapter 201: An army of 40,000 cavalry
Lanat. Gupta led an army of more than 200,000 Gupta Dynasty, all the way to chase and kill 10,000 heavy cavalry of the Qin army led by Sima Zhisuo, and after chasing for about 30 miles, he appeared in Ranat. What Gupta saw in front of him was not the heavy cavalry of the Qin army, but a huge and peculiar military array!
The Qin army really has ambushes! Lanat. Gupta was shocked! In this way, the 10,000 heavy armored cavalry of the Qin army should have come to lure the enemy! Come to think of it, Lanat. Gupta frowned tightly! But when Ranat. Gupta raised his head and took a closer look at the Qin army, which stood in the wilderness and was incomparably huge. Gupta almost burst out laughing!
I saw that the military formation of the Qin army stood in the open area of the plain, there was no danger to defend in all directions, the outside of the military formation was octagonal, and there were 5,000 Qin cavalry on each side, a total of 40,000 Qin cavalry, arranged in a gossip formation. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 The reason why the Qin army has a peculiar formation is because this army formation is not composed of a phalanx of soldiers, but a cavalry soldier!
Since ancient times, all military formations have been composed of phalanxes of soldiers, and the most powerful of them is composed of heavy armor soldiers. Because of the battlefield fighting, the pawn's mobility ability is poor, the battlefield reaction speed is slow, and the pawn is quite weak in terms of lethality and protection.
But how can there be a reason in this world for cavalry to form a military formation? Isn't this whimsical? Isn't this nonsense? In ancient wars, cavalry was the most dominant type of troops, and its battlefield fighting and mobility often determined the outcome of a battle! However, the general of the Qin army on the other side actually gave up the extremely valuable mobility of the cavalry, and instead used the cavalry as a pawn. Let tens of thousands of cavalry form a military formation, isn't this self-inflicted combat power? Isn't this about playing up your weaknesses and avoiding your strengths?
What's more, the number of soldiers who form an army formation has been fixed since ancient times, whether it is hundreds, thousands, or thousands. Generally speaking, forming a soldier formation with the number of 5,000 people is already the largest and largest! Because of the so-called military formation, it naturally requires everyone's full cooperation, and the more people in the military formation, the more difficult it will be to cooperate! Therefore, even if it is an unborn formation, there are only a few thousand people in a military formation at most!
An army of 40,000 men? Lanat. Gupta smiled coldly, even if the god of war descended to earth, he couldn't make 40,000 people cooperate seamlessly, right? With such a huge military array, is there still a little bit of military effect? The Qin army is so arranged, it is simply asking for its own death! Lanat. Gupta looked at the Qin army formation in front of him, and the worry in his heart because he was lured here by the Qin army finally disappeared!
Lanat. Gupta's various analyses are naturally in line with the art of war and tactics! But he didn't know that the reason why Sima Li, the left general of the Qin army, let 40,000 cavalry form this military formation, its purpose was completely different from the ordinary soldier formation!
According to Sima Li's idea, although the 40,000 soldiers and horses led by him are claimed to be the elite among the soldiers of various countries, they have only been handed over to the Qin army for unified training and command, and it is only a few months! In this short period of time, even if a formation like Li Quai, the right general of the Qin Army, is carefully taught and trained diligently, let alone let them form an army formation of 40,000 people, I am afraid that if they let 3,000 people form a military formation, their cooperation will not be intimate!
Sima Li knew very well that the combat effectiveness of these 40,000 soldiers from various countries was still much worse than that of the Qin army, and if they were allowed to fight in batches in a cavalry formation, they would not be able to escape the annihilation of the entire army in the end! In this case, this battle does not rely on manpower, but on the extraordinary lethality of weapons and ordnance such as crossbows of the Qin army!
And the reason why Sima Li let 40,000 cavalry form this military formation is not because he is full of confidence in these soldiers, but because he is full of confidence in these soldiers and the weapons and ordnance of the Qin army that have just been replaced! Especially the Qin Army's hand crossbow that was distributed to everyone, Sima Li was even more confident! Sima Li has this self-confidence, with the Qin army's strong bow and crossbow, his own army formation of 40,000 people will definitely make the invading enemy pay an extremely painful price even if he gets even an inch closer!
As for the enemy army, seeing that the Qin army was powerful in its bow and crossbow, it chose to retreat to Musang Mountain to reoccupy the main road under the mountain, which Sima Li was not worried about. Because as long as they dare to take half a step back from the army, their own army formation will change back to a cavalry formation, and the 10,000 heavy armored cavalry of the Qin army led by Sima Li will be killed in a batch, no matter how many soldiers and horses the enemy army has, they will be buried under the iron hooves of their 50,000 cavalry!
At this time, Sima Zhi, who had completed the task of luring the enemy, had already led nearly 10,000 heavy armored cavalry of the Qin army and rushed back to the battle to meet his father Sima Li. By the way, let these thousands of war horses rest in place, and the horsepower will be raised. After all, the heavy armored cavalry was extremely heavy, and the nearly 10,000 war horses, together with the nearly 10,000 heavy armored cavalry of the Qin army, were already sleepy and tired, and they couldn't afford to fight anymore!
When Sima Li, Wang Yanbo and others saw Sima Zhi coming back, they hurriedly greeted him, only to see Sima Zhi and other nearly 10,000 people, as if they had been fished out of the water at this time. Not only was his face covered with sweat, but even the clothes on his body were all wet with sweat, and even the heavy armor on the soldiers seemed to be soaked in sweat! And the war horses they were riding were all sweating profusely, snorting, panting, and looking tired!
The 10,000-heavy armored cavalry led by Sima Zhi is a rare elite division in the Qin army. After a fight, looking at how tired they looked, you can imagine how exaggerated the load of this so-called heavy armored cavalry must be! You can also imagine how fierce the battle was in those two hours just now!
Most of the 40,000 soldiers and horses from various countries present had never seen how the heavy armored cavalry of the Qin army fought, and when they saw their appearance when they returned, they were all secretly speechless! And silently told himself in his heart that these nearly 10,000 soldiers of the Qin army had just killed the enemy! It's time to look at yourself, but you can't let them compare!
Wang Yanbo laughed while helping Sima Zhi remove his heavy armor: "Sima Duwei, well done!" Look at the Gupta Dynasty army, obediently coming with you"!
Sima Zhi grinned when he heard this: "Hehe! It's not worth it! It's not worth it! After speaking, he turned his head and looked at his father Sima Li: "Ah Da, the enemy is coming, how to fight next?"
Sima Li looked at Sima Zhi, and a rare smile appeared: "Ah Zhi, you and everyone rest here first!" You don't need to wait for your contribution in this battle, and let the hundreds of thousands of troops of the Gupta Dynasty see how our Qin army's strong bow and crossbow are invincible in the world"!