Hou Sima Zhi of Zhending County was surrounded by guards from the crowded crowd, and finally squeezed over: "Father, you have to make a quick decision, the enemy is fierce, and they are all elite soldiers, the equipment is very powerful, there are tens of thousands of people, with heavy cavalry to charge at the head, the heavy infantry is unstoppable, and if you delay for a while, King Wu will collapse the whole army." Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Looking at his sweaty son, Sima Hao became even more angry: "Where are the hoplites and infantry? Isn't it that King Wu is afraid of war and lies about the military situation? ”

The only and most powerful use of heavily armored cavalry is to destroy enemy formations, which is equivalent to the function of tanks in modern warfare. In the ancient era of cold weapons, a stable formation is the basis for ensuring victory, high morale is the key to victory, once the formation is broken, the enemy's mental balance will completely collapse, which is why the defeat is like a mountain, the battle to a soldier and a pawn are more common in rhetoric, if a unit in the era of cold weapons by the formation of the confrontation, the battle loss of more than three percent, will form a rout, a pass ten, ten pass hundred, will inevitably bring about a great rout of the whole army, and the most effective weapon to impact the enemy's formation is the heavy cavalry, But in ancient times, heavy cavalry was not something that anyone could afford.

The first is the high cost of equipment, and the cost of a heavy cavalry is equivalent to that of an infantry team. Secondly, hoplites can only be used for charging, and once they are in a stalemate, hand-to-hand combat is their weakness. A cavalry from head to toe, even the body of the horse is protected by thick armor, the cavalry is very difficult to move freely on the horse, can only hold a spear, relying on the power of the group charge, oppress and impact the enemy formation in one go, if you fall off the horse, the cavalry itself even stands up is a problem, therefore, each heavy cavalry must be equipped with two horses and several auxiliaries at the same time to help him pierce and unload the armor, a thousand heavy troops of the auxiliary soldiers are often as many as four or five thousand people, several times more than the cavalry itself, very consuming troops. Finally, heavy cavalry is not capable of long-range combat at all, and its mobility is limited, and it often requires other multiple arms to work together to ensure safety. These factors have led to the fact that there are not many dynasties that can afford heavy armored cavalry, and in the Jin Dynasty, Sima Yan, Emperor Wu of the Jin Dynasty, was only equipped with 500 heavy armored cavalry troops in his heyday.

"Father, the child has seen it with his own eyes, those heavy armored cavalry are as many as thousands of people, all wearing black and black armor, and all the sharp spears in their hands, bows and arrows can't hurt them at all, just a charge, the defensive formation of the rear army was crushed, and the team was all compressed to the front of the city gate, and now they are desperately squeezing into the city, and King Wu's own army has also been disrupted by the rout, and now it is struggling to support, and the father must make a quick decision." Sima Su explained and urged his father in a loud voice.

Sima Hao glanced at the troops entering the city, and there was no end in sight in front of them, and they were almost in a state of stagnation, obviously because they encountered the stubborn resistance of Wen Yang in front, and the speed of the army's advance was blocked. And this southwest gate is different from the main gate, the terrain is not open, are some narrow paths, zigzag to extend out, it is the middle of the night, the line of sight is not good, the troops march slowly, and can not be expanded, so it is blocked into a pot of porridge. And it was for this reason that the follow-up troops could not enter at all, and the marching troops, which were still in order, began to show chaos at this moment.

Sima Hao was secretly frightened, scolding this Liu Ling in his heart, and also scolding the prince and himself. scolded Liu Ling because Liu Ling let herself jump into a huge trap. First let himself march in the middle of the night, in order to conceal his whereabouts, he naturally could not raise fire and send scouts, which allowed the enemy army who ambushed him behind him to quietly approach his rear army, although he still did not know where the enemy army who ambushed him came from and which way it was, but it is certain that the timing of the enemy's attack was obviously carefully planned and premeditated, and those who set off fireworks in the city were obviously Neiying, he had just entered the city, the team passed halfway, and the enemy army launched a surprise attack, Fight yourself in a dilemma. Then Liu Ling let herself choose the southwest gate to enter the city, which was obviously not an unintentional move. The terrain of this southwest gate is simply not able to deploy troops, and there is no other way than to form a long snake formation.

And he scolded the prince because he shouldn't have listened to his agitation, got on this thief ship, rebellion is not fun, if it doesn't work, the whole family will die, and now there is no way out, either help the prince become the emperor, or be beheaded.

And Sima Hao's most hated thing at this time was actually himself, military affairs, the place of death and life, the way of survival, he was still too light on the enemy, and he was too careless, he didn't analyze the opponent in depth at all, and figured out every step and link, so he rashly raised an army, and ended up in the enemy's full set, he even suspected that those troops who launched a strong attack outside the city were personally commanded by Yang Ke, and only he had the ability to mobilize so many troops to launch a surprise attack on himself. The more he thought about it, the more Sima Hao felt cold, he looked at his subordinates in disbelief, at this time withdrawing from the outside of the city, exposed under the high walls, it was impossible to calmly deploy the formation in a hurry, and the strength and situation of the enemy army outside the city were not clear, his own troops rushed to them without any obstacles, isn't it equivalent to sending them to death? For today's plan, the only way to go to the dark, that is, to speed up the passage, you can come in as much as you can, if you can't get in, you have to be prepared to forcibly close the city gate, and you have to be on both sides of the enemy, on the one hand, you have to guard against the enemy outside the city to attack the city, on the other hand, you must quickly break the defense of Wenyang, enter the palace, and assist the prince to seize the imperial power and control the emperor. As long as at that time, the Son of Heaven is coerced to order the princes, not to mention that there is a fake prince in his hands, he will have a chance to turn the tables.

Thinking of this, Sima Hao's cold heart settled down slightly: "Yi'er, don't go out of the city, hurry up and take people to the front, assist the commander of the front army, be sure to speed up the march in front and attack the palace." It's all about success or failure. ”

Seeing his son walking forward in the crowded crowd, Sima Hao let out a long sigh, he turned his head, looked at the soldiers who were still pouring in at the city gate, and was about to loudly command them to line up and not crowd, when a stack of loud noises passed, Sima Hao saw that the explosion and fire under the city wall of the southwest gate instantly reflected the sky, and the already chaotic team was completely caught in a sea of fire. At this moment, Sima Hao finally understood that Liu Ling had also prepared a killer weapon-fire attack. At this moment, the prepared fire-starting thing ignited the flames, and a mouthful of blood spurted out far away, Sima Hao screamed with all his strength, and fell from the horse.