Chapter 217: Junior General Xue Rengui
In Gai Su Yuanwen's temporary camp, a piece of paper armor that was split open, a heavy head and light handle suitable for slashing Chang'an saber was placed in front of him, Gai Su Yuanwen looked at it for a long time, the weight of the paper armor was less than half of the iron armor, but the bow and crossbow could not be pierced, and the big knife could not be cut, even if the warriors with heavier weapons in his own army, it was difficult to break through this kind of armor that was not too heavy with a clean knife, because there was a thin steel wire in the armor, if the machete was too sharp, it could cut the surface of the paper armor, However, it is difficult to cut the steel wire, but if the machete is too blunt and it is difficult to break through the paper armor, the blow force of the slash will be evenly distributed by the entire armor, and the force that really falls on the soldier's body will not exceed 30%.
Gai Su Yuanwen even tried to attack this piece of armor with water and fire, but it only confirmed that unless it was soaked in water for a long time, otherwise, this paper armor could not absorb much water, let alone rot lightly, and the effect of fire was slightly better, but it was not like cloth, which burned instantly, and it was already a better fireproof material than cloth. And it's a full fit.
Take a look at the strangely shaped crescent scimitar, although the blade is not necessarily how wide and thick, but it also has some weight in the hand, which proves that the material of the knife is very good, especially the corner part of the knife head is heavier, he has to say that this kind of crescent scimitar with a heavy head is the most suitable for slashing, with a slight wave, the heavy force of the knife head will inertia deepen the enemy's wounds, there is armor to break the armor, no armor can break the skin and flesh and hurt its bones, it is really a killing weapon of the cavalry, with a bang from the camp not far away, Gai Su Yuanwen seemed to understand something, that is, the gunpowder shell used by the Tang army was detonated by the person in charge of the inspection, and the Tang army was only better than these equipment. They are not stronger than us, but they have the best equipment for battle, armed to the teeth, and he wants to get it.
"Come on, give an order, gather people and horses for me to bite up, there is no need to fight, be sure to keep a certain distance from the Tang army, I will leave them all here."
Gai Su Yuanwen's face was full of greed. He is a general of a hundred battles, and as a general, it is not good to only use brute force on the battlefield, three thousand people, no matter how you say it, there are only three thousand people, even if he is defeated for a while, but there are still several times the strength of the enemy army available, and there are many ways to think of it.
"Report, General. A thousand-man hussar detachment of the enemy came from the left flank, less than ten miles away. ”
"Newspaper, General, a thousand-man light cavalry of the enemy is coming from the right flank. The distance is less than ten miles. ”
"Report, General, I found a thousand-strong enemy army in front of me, less than ten miles away"
When the Tang army was on the march on the grassland, most of the horses were released for thirty miles. When the horses thirty miles away report the news, the distance between them will be shortened, and the army will get the news. The distance between the two armies is about ten miles, and these ten miles are still the distance that the light cavalry scouts quickly pull away with light equipment, after all, on the endless plain, it is impossible for the enemy to set up an encirclement that is dozens of miles long, and it takes tens of thousands of troops to complete, and it is still a single-line encirclement that cannot withstand the charge, so when the whole cavalry fights on the grassland, it is either to bite and fight, as long as one party wants to escape, it is difficult for the other side to annihilate it all, ten miles away, the horse runs for less than half an hour, But it is enough for one side to easily jump out of the encirclement, so the battle of the whole cavalry army is either a surprise attack, or a long-distance attack, there is no other way, Hou Junji is relying on the 10,000 cavalry army already has the ability to run long-distance, so he dares to lead only 3,000 men and horses to almost enter the position of Goryeo itself.
"Revisit." Hou Junji issued a simple military order, the military flag in his hand waved, and the flag soldier in charge of the order immediately climbed to a high place, repeating the action of Hou Junji just waving the flag, the meaning of the flag was very simple, line up, prepare to meet the enemy.
Yesterday's First World War, Hou Junji has seen the strengths of the 10,000 cavalry army, which has almost the strong combat power of heavy banner soldiers, but has the speed and longer sustained combat effectiveness of the heavy cavalry.
Li Jing is worthy of being a capable person in military training, although the 10,000 cavalry army was built with millions of dollars in the Tang Dynasty, but the effect of this 10,000 cavalry is stronger than the 100,000 cavalry, at least he only used 3,000 cavalry yesterday to defeat Gai Su Yuanwen's tens of thousands of troops head-on, if all the 10,000 cavalry troops arrived in Liaodong, it is conceivable that yesterday's battle could directly destroy Gai Su Yuanwen, the strongest combat power of the Goryeo Kingdom.
"Report, General, the enemy's thousand-man squad stopped five miles in front of our army to the left and right, and set up an attack formation." Xue Li, the captain of the Ten Thousand Cavalry Military Academy, reported to Hou Jun.
Xue Lizi Rengui, is to participate in the selection of the first batch of sergeants in the Ten Thousand Cavalry Army, fourteen years old, arm strength is amazing, good at using the halberd, riding and archery is a hundred shots, in the selection of the army to get the best comments, so ten thousand cavalry into the army he became a chief, two years later, has been promoted to the captain, Hou Junji saw that his martial arts are strong, not very old, so he transferred to the side to listen to use, and the archery is good people, eyes are generally good, so when there is usually nothing to do, the tube of telescopes equipped with Hou Junji is generally in charge of him, five miles away, Saying that it is not close, saying that it is not far away, under the scanning of the telescope, Xue Rengui can already vaguely see the formation and banner of the enemy army.
"The thousand-person team, the three are missing one, does Gai Su Yuanwen think that yesterday's defeat was not bad enough? Since he wants to bring me some meat, even if there is a team of 10,000 people hiding behind him, I will eat it correctly. Xue Li, can you take down your battalion of soldiers and horses? "Hou Junji is also a person who has fought for half his life, and vaguely understands Gai Su Yuanwen's intentions, he wants to rely on the large number of people and constantly harass to drag himself to death, after all, there are only three thousand people on his side, as long as he divides his army into dozens of thousand-person teams to constantly harass, these people don't want to rest, and they don't sleep, as long as you are an individual, you can't hold on for too long, Hou Junji realized this, but there was no good way to crack it for a while, and he could only divide a small group of soldiers and horses to drive those thousand people away.
The three commanders of the 10,000 cavalry army each received 3,000 cavalry, and the remaining 1,000 were responsible for staying in the camp and training the reserves, and each commander had three lieutenants, each with 1,000 men, and each lieutenant had three lieutenants, divided into three battalions, in addition to the commanders and the captain's personal soldiers. There are about 300 people in each battalion, and the battalion led by Xue Rengui is naturally the brother he trained together in the camp of the Longshou Yuan Ten Thousand Cavalry Army, and the whole Su zhì is the top in the entire Ten Thousand Cavalry Army, although there are few big competitions within the Ten Thousand Cavalry Army, but he always remembers the day of the Ten Thousand Cavalry Army Formation Ceremony, a big man who is a few years younger than him said in his speech on the day of the ceremony, "Those who are soldiers must have Lao Tzu's determination and confidence to be invincible in the world, with this belief, Only then can you stand tall and show off your might in front of the enemy. ”
Xue Rengui was only fourteen years old at the time. Listened to it, took it seriously, so, in his heart, he, or the Ten Thousand Cavalry Army, was invincible in the world, so he dared to take a team of three hundred people and fearlessly rushed to the thousand-man team of the Goryeo Army.
"Lao Tzu is invincible in the world."
Xue Li, Xue Rengui's answer was the slogan of his battalion. Hearing this slogan, the three hundred cavalrymen who were nicknamed the invincible battalion in the Ten Thousand Cavalry Army also shouted a slogan and rushed out of the camp with Xue Rengui.
In a quarter of an hour, the Goryeo thousand-man team directly in front was completely defeated, and Xue Rengui's halberd cut off the head of the thousand-man general. Another moment, Xue Rengui's cavalry team had already approached the thousand troops on the left flank, and in less than a quarter of an hour, it was completely defeated. Non-stop, Xue Rengui led the troops straight to the right flank, and now he is much stronger than he was two years ago. After three battles in a row, he didn't feel tired, but the war horse under his crotch galloped at high intensity for more than an hour, and the pace under his feet slowed down, and he didn't care about chasing and killing those scattered Goryeo deserters, and when he heard the trumpet from the Chinese army, he had to pull out his horse and return to the camp.
"What a young general, he actually killed the leader of my three thousand-man team in a row, passed the order, the second echelon followed, and the scattered men and horses gathered around the rear of the Tang army, and stepped up the digging trap offensive after nightfall." Gai Su Yuanwen shouted angrily in a camp tent more than twenty miles away.
Hou Junji guessed right, Gai Su Yuanwen did hide 10,000 troops behind those thousand-man teams, and divided all the troops into ten echelons, planning to attack and disturb around the clock, not giving the Tang army time to rest, and even releasing horses, feeding forage, and the time for the sergeants to eat was not intended to be left for the Tang army, and he had already confessed that the Goryeo thousand-man team would collapse in all directions as soon as it encountered a strong impact, so that the number of people the Tang army could kill was very limited, don't look at Xue Rengui's killing of his three thousand-person squad, and the corpses that the Goryeo army really dropped were only three or four hundred, In this way, only the loss of three or four thousand people is needed to make the Tang army unable to sleep for a day and a night, and all men and horses are trapped.
What surprised Gai Su Yuanwen was that the young generals led by the Tang Army were too strong in martial arts, and they could kill and injure a few sergeants when their own army was scattered, and directly take the head of the leading generals, and one of the leaders even escaped a hundred steps away and was shot by him with an arrow in the crowd.
"It's a good killing, it seems that not many people in the army will dare to laugh at your slogan in the future." Hou Junji himself is a fierce general, so he also likes fierce generals, and the little colonel who can get his dignified prince and general to pat his shoulders and comfort, his future in the army is naturally immeasurable, but before he finished speaking, his face sank again, because the Goryeo people surrounded him from three sides again, it was still a thousand people, all light cavalry, this time they didn't even take weapons, all equipped with longbows, this time the distance between them and the Tang army was even pulled to about a mile, which was the distance to engage at any time.
"The general doesn't need to worry, the last general will bring people to kill him." The young man was praised by the general, and his face was naturally a little proud, but as soon as this proud color was revealed, he saw the general looking into the distance with a gloomy face, it turned out that those Goryeo sticks were coming again, Xue Rengui was about to get on the horse and fight again, but was stopped by Hou Junji.
"You are not tired, your brothers and war horses are also tired, they are tired of the army, you take people down to rest first, my ten thousand cavalry are all men who can fight and dare to fight, I must believe that your colleagues are no worse than you." Hou Junji patted Xue Rengui on the shoulder, and with a wave of his big arm, a banner with the word Di written on it came out of the military formation, followed by three hundred cavalry, and it was Dillon's Tiger Battalion that went into battle. (To be continued......)