Chapter 731: Mo Nan (17)
Whether or not you can complete the mobile transfer tactical action in the cavalry battle is quite representative and important for a cavalry team, and being able to complete the transfer tactical action in the gallop means that you can replace the tired war horse with a new war horse with a full body.
For cavalry, speed is life, and a cavalry that loses speed is worse than infantry. The pursuit of mobility is a lifeline for the same cavalry army in the battle, and the fact that one side has speed and the other side does not have speed means not only being caught, but also evolving into the side that loses speed being repeatedly rushed and killed, like a cat playing with a mouse to death.
The Hu cavalry that fell behind was completely finished, they were killed with knives in several repeated gallops and killings by about 2,000 Han troops, they were killed by war horses, and trampled to death by huge horse hooves, and the speed of death was beyond human imagination.
In fact, the Hu people really don't adapt to the tactics of the Han army, there is nothing wrong with them being nomads, and there is no mistake with horse control skills, but even if the Hu people have been with war horses since childhood, not everyone can ride a war horse to fight. In their concept, the war horse is used for transportation, and it still needs to land with both feet before the fight, whether it is to shoot waves of arrows to climb back on the horse's back and transfer, or it may be to run with the born legs after getting off the horse and fight into a ball, it should definitely not be like the Han army that rides on horseback whether galloping or fighting.
Incredible? There is nothing incredible, in the era when there were no stirrups and matching saddles, only a very few elites could do it if they wanted to ride a war horse all the way, after all, riding a war horse is a very high speed, and hand-to-hand combat will always stumble.
Imagine a person stumbling over an obstructive object without any point of force when he is moving at high speed on a straddle horse. It was definitely the man on horseback who was pushed off the horse because of the resistance. Therefore, even if the Hu people on the grassland are riding on war horses to fight the whole time, they are still relying on their superior sense of balance to be able to shoot arrows from a distance on horseback, not the kind of hand-to-hand combat.
In addition, what the Chinese ethnic group is afraid of is not actually the riding and archery of the Hu people. After all, the range of the horn bow is like that, how can it be compared to the range of the foot bow? If there is a confrontation between the foot bow and the horn bow, the cavalry holding the horn bow should be subjected to several waves of arrows before entering the range of the arrow.
The reason why the Huaxia ethnic group has no way to take the Hu people is because they have suffered from the loss of the Hu people and the Chinese people, and they have repeatedly found the traces of the Hu people a moment ago, and the Hu people have disappeared in the past. That is, the so-called coming and going without a trace.
What is it that makes infantry suffer more from fighting with cavalry? In the past when the infantry was exhausted, the Hu cavalry kept a distance from them and did not engage them, and used a series of false temptations or deterrence to intimidate.
The infantry didn't care, it would be cold, and a few waves of arrows came, waiting for the reaction to come, and the cavalry ran early. If the infantry is always on high alert, people's nerves are tense all the time, and it is extremely easy to get tired. This is also the result that the cavalry wants.
Once the formation of the infantry army is out of order, the infantry army that has lost its formation is a group of fish that have lost their ability to protect themselves, and that is the beginning of the cavalry attack.
Usually the cavalry against the infantry is just a few routines, but those routines are impossible to bypass the infantry army. And once the infantry army is defeated, it is definitely a scene of being caught and slaughtered by the cavalry, on the contrary, even if the cavalry is defeated, it can use the speed of the war horse to quickly pull away and let the infantry army catch up.
The Han army was now ahead of the Hu people in some of the tools of the cavalry. At the same time, the Han army's tactical use of cavalry is also stronger than that of the Hu people, who let the Han army have a king who has crossed over from more than 2,000 years later, and that king has studied the tactics of cavalry. Although not every tactical idea is correct, it is always better than the Hu people in their original state, right?
The cavalry to which Touman belonged lost more than a thousand people in less than two quarters of an hour of fighting with the cavalry of the Han army, and even the head of Elm should know that he was not the opponent of the Han army, so he naturally had to find a way to break away.
It was 10,000 when it came, and Touman's troops lost some of them in the battle with the rebellious tribesmen's cavalry. Lost some more when intercepting the Han army, after the horn of retreat sounded. The rest of the Touman's cavalry is in his early 7,000s.
After the cavalry belonging to the more than 7,000 Touman opened a safe distance from the enemy, the first thing they did was to replace the tired war horses. Their transfers are not completely stationary, either. It is a transfer action that maintains a low speed.
Qin Jia paid special attention to it when he saw that the enemy army was also doing transfer tactical moves, and he found that although the speed in the transfer was faster than that of the Han army, there were no Hu people who fell to the ground, and several of them even almost fell down, and they used their vigorous reach to grab a certain part of the war horse and climb up again.
"If the culture of the Hu people is comparable to ours, they must be a difficult opponent, but it is a pity that the Hu people will not have our culture." Qin Jia felt extremely happy in his heart.
In fact, whether it is this historical version of Lu Zhe or the historical version without Lu Zhe, when there is a real head-to-head battle, the Hu people are also inferior to the armies of the Chinese ethnic group, and the difficulty of the Hu people lies in the fact that they come and go without a trace, and they specialize in killing, plundering, and plundering the heads of the civilian Qian.
There was the Han army in the northwest, and the Han army and the cavalry of the tribes that had defected to the west, and the only way to make Touman's cavalry move was to the north or south. The north is the direction of Woye, and a new Han army will appear at any time, and the cavalry to which Touman belongs will naturally not move to the north, only to the south. Waiting to get out of a safe distance, they will turn northwest again, where their large forces are located.
What Qin Jia wanted was also for the enemy to move in the northwest direction, but he couldn't know whether the troops led by the legion commander had already arrived at the interception position, so he was also hesitating whether to delay the speed of the pursuit, but don't force the enemy too quickly, the result is that the friendly troops who should appear in the interception position have not arrived, and it should be a bamboo basket to draw water if these Hu people run away.
Ji Xin, who had been pursuing, heard the sound of a horn in his ears, and he turned his head to look at Qin Jia's troops, where there was a banner that was constantly waving the flag, and he also saw that some robes were cleaning up the battlefield.
The shaking flag is a kind of flag, which indicates the speed of letting Ji Xin suspend the pursuit, and it also signals Ji Xin to lead his headquarters to block the enemy's maneuver to the south.
Flag language is the ability to communicate simply, and more complex instructions are simply extravagant. And some unreliable film and television flags can be used for chatting? The flag language is not a Morse code, and the flag language is a specific set of signals, and it is pure nonsense to use the flag language to talk about it.
Ji Xin also ordered the trumpeter to blow the horn sound of "Woo woo woo", but he knew Qin Jia's plan. He knew better that they couldn't eat the enemy army in front of him just by relying on them, and if they really continued to chase, at most they would gnaw off a small part of each time, and they didn't know how long it would take to really distinguish the winner from the loser.
Of course, Ji Xin couldn't completely give up the pursuit, otherwise he would be telling the enemy army that the Han army had set up an ambush in a certain direction, which would be a very stupid act.
The Han army can still rely on the established flag signal for simple communication, but the Han army and those Hu cavalry who have a deal need to rely on fast horses to communicate.
The tribal cavalry who rebelled from Touman just now watched the battle between the Han army and Touman's cavalry carefully, and of course they were also surprised why the Han cavalry could always ride on horseback to fight, and wondered why the Han cavalry would not fall off their horses during the battle because of the effect of speed and resistance, compared to this, the Han cavalry was in an advantageous position in the battle with Touman's cavalry, but it was not worth making a fuss.
In the face of the strength of the Han cavalry, the tribes that rebelled against Touman did not hesitate to carry out the Han army's desired way of action, and the speed of the pursuit slowly slowed down, and then turned to make a gesture of going back to the original road.
The Han army was not chasing quickly, and the rebel forces who were also Hu people no longer pursued, Gu Lili did not feel strange in his heart that it was impossible, but before he could come up with a reason, part of the cavalry of the Han army began to approach again.
Gu Lili is naturally the commander of the troops sent by Touman, and now the Huns do not have the system of centurions, thousands, and thousands of commanders, etc., he is a tribal leader of the Xiongnu tribe, and is deeply loved by Touman, and he has no good impression of the Xiongnu and the Western Regions mixed-blood, and is also one of the people who advocate the elimination of the rebel tribes.
Why is Morton not liked by Touman? The answer lies in the fact that Mao Dun's biological mother was born to a woman snatched by Touman from the Western Regions, and although the Western Regions are Caucasians, they do not resemble Caucasians in appearance. In the aesthetics of the Huns, the people of the Western Regions are very ugly, so the Huns and the Western Regions are naturally extremely ugly in the eyes of many Huns. In addition, the most important thing is that Maudun's biological mother belongs to the type of family ruin, and the mother (parent) clan can't give any help, and the biological mother of Touman's other sons has a tribe as a backing even if she is worse.
On the grassland, they only respect the strong and despise the weak, so it makes sense that many Xiongnu tribes, including Touman, never hide their dislike or dislike Maudun.
Now Gu Lili still has more troops in his hands than the Han army, but judging from the actual situation of the battle between the two sides, he knows very well that even if his own side has a numerical advantage, he is not the opponent of the Han army. It's not a shameful act to be able to run away on the grassland, and since you can't beat him, of course you choose to escape.
Qin Jia and Ji Xin were working hard to force the enemy army in the direction they wanted, and when Gu Lili and his troops were constantly forced to the west, the end was already doomed. (To be continued)