489 The Only Hope

Without any accident, the two thousand foot soldiers on Dou Jiande's front line were easily defeated by the three thousand rangers led by Xue Wanche, and the next thing they had to face was Dou Jiande's real Chinese army.

This force, like the one led by Xue Wanche, was also three thousand rangers, and it is worth mentioning that this was also the only cavalry in Dou Jiande's army.

This cavalry was led by Su Lie himself, and at this time it was still a mile away from Xue Wanche's three thousand cavalry.

Su Lie originally thought that the elite infantry phalanx at the forefront would definitely become a nightmare for the light cavalry of the Youzhou Army; If the Youzhou army rushes into battle with light cavalry, it will definitely run into a head in front of the battle and break the bloodstream.

If the Youzhou army was charged by heavy cavalry, the infantry would pretend to resist and retreat to the slopes on either side, making way for a large road to lure them into the midbelly.

In the middle of the hinterland, Dou Jiande had already arranged a lot of horses, antlers and other things, and dug a lot of trenches and earthen walls.

If the heavy cavalry of Youzhou rushed to this place, Dou Jiande would repeat his old trick and use rockets to ignite the pre-prepared forage, oil and other ignition materials like last night.

If this is the case, the Yanyun Iron Cavalry on the edge of the Megatron North will be like a meat bun beating a dog, and there will be no return.

There is another possibility that Luo Yi chose to use infantry to take the lead, but this choice is unlikely.

The strength of the Youzhou army is because they have a unique heavy cavalry, - Su You's two thousand heavy cavalry has not been exposed, - the infantry combat effectiveness of Youzhou is not strong, the reason why Luo Yi is famous in the north is because the Yanyun iron cavalry led by him has repeatedly made the Hu people deflated and killed in all directions.

Luo Yi chose to use infantry to deal with infantry, which may be what Dou Jiande is most willing to see; In that case, there will be no surprises in the results of the first formation, and Dou Jiande will also crush Luo Yi's army with the strength of morale.

As Dou Jiande thought, Luo Yi really chose to use cavalry for the first impact, but Dou Jiande only guessed the beginning, but did not guess the result.

According to the pre-battle deduction, the infantry phalanx of this side will inflict heavy losses on the light cavalry in Youzhou; At the end of the day, Dou Jiande helplessly saw that the light cavalry in Youzhou had adopted unprecedented tactics, and his infantry only held out for two rounds before being attacked by the enemy.

Fortunately, his own soldiers had long known that Dou Jiande's current army totaled 80,000 people, and Luo Yi only had 20,000 people; Therefore, they did not retreat, and thus blocked the advance of Xue Wanche's cavalry.

After Xue Wanche rushed into the enemy formation, he had two choices, one was to maintain the impact of the cavalry and continue to charge forward, leaving the remaining enemy troops in the enemy formation to the infantry team that slowly moved up behind him; The second is to repeatedly charge and kill in the enemy's formation, and wipe out the remnants of the enemy army.

Xue Wanche brainlessly chose the second option, which was quickly proven wrong.

Xue Wanche underestimated the enemy's combat effectiveness and staying power, and he thought that the remnants of the German army in Dou Jian would soon lose their will to fight and eventually flee.

The fact is that Xue Wanche's cavalry crushed back and forth among the enemy infantry; They never lost the courage to resist, and under their entanglement, Xue Wanche's cavalry slowly dispersed and was difficult to gather.

After some fighting, Xue Wanche's team relaxed from the Mercedes-Benz, but it still needed a certain buffer time to get back into the Mercedes-Benz.

Just as Xue Wanche happily slaughtered these foot soldiers who would not retreat, the cavalry team led by Su Lie plunged in like knives, and soon broke through a big hole in Xue Wanjun's horse team.

Su Lie and Luo Yi seem to be the same kind of people, and he also likes to exchange the least price for the maximum benefit.

Previously, he ambushed the cavalry team at the back of the hillside, and only let the 2,000 foot soldiers in the first line, which made Xue Wanche think that Dou Jiande's vanguard was mainly 2,000 foot soldiers; If this was the case, Xue Wanche was not too worried about a small number of cavalry rising up to reinforce him.

It wasn't until Su Lie led the same number of cavalry to kill him that Xue Wanche finally realized that the rabbit he thought he had come out had suddenly turned into a tiger.

In the face of the sudden attack of Su Lie's cavalry, Xue Wanche could only respond in a hurry, he clamped the horse's belly and wanted to drive the war horse to block the enemy horse's charge; Helplessly, after the big battle just now, the war horse under the crotch was already tired, and at this time, in the face of the energetic enemy horse, it couldn't catch up with the opponent's footsteps at all.

In just one charge, the cavalry led by Xue Wanche damaged hundreds of horsemen, and its losses were much more than the infantry phalanx that had just rushed into the enemy's phalanx.

After rushing and killing for a while, Su Lie seemed to have tasted the sweetness, and after turning the horse's head, he led the cavalry team to rush into Xue Wanche's formation again. There were casualties on both sides, but Su Lie's fresh forces were clearly more ferocious, and the resistance they encountered was becoming weaker and weaker.

Xue Wanche regretted and was angry.

Regret that you shouldn't be greedy for exploits, otherwise your team won't lose mobility; The anger is because the fighters around them are gradually losing their fighting spirit, and they can only parry at this time, and I have the strength to fight back.

In such a state, there is no hope of half a victory!

Fortunately, the foot soldiers led by Luo Yi quickly rushed up, and Su Lie saw that he could no longer take advantage, so he walked away.

In just a few rounds, Xue Wanche's cavalry was reduced to two or three, and five or six hundred people died at once, which was equivalent to exchanging one cavalry for one foot soldier on the other side

In the battle of the Chinese army, Xue Wanche's cavalry first crushed the opponent's 2,000 infantry, and then was humiliated by the same number of cavalry, and there was almost no power to fight back.

Luo Yi has nothing to say about such a result, the reason why Xue Wanche did not continue to rush forward after breaking up the enemy's foot soldiers is still the defensive tactics he had arranged in advance.

The middle army of the Youzhou Army is only used for containment, and the real killer move lies in the 2,000 heavy cavalry left wing army led by Xue Wanjun.

Xue Wanjun had not yet launched a front, but the right flank of Wei Ting's defense had made contact with Dou Jian's German army in advance.

The right flank of the Youzhou Army under the command of Wei Ting had a total of 4,500 people, which was similar to the 5,000 cavalry led by Xue Wanjun and Xue Wanche, but their combat effectiveness was vastly different.

After comparing with the total strength of Dou Jiande's 80,000 army, Wei Ting also had a clear understanding of the strength of the troops under his command.

Wei Ting didn't want to go out and fight the enemy, but wanted to use the terrain to defend to delay time, as long as Xue Wanjun and Xue Wanche brothers separated the victory and defeat with the place, that was the time for him to counterattack

When will you be able to defeat an enemy who is twice your size with a small number of troops?

The right time, place and people!

Not to mention the time, the location is about the use of terrain, and people are morale; As long as you make reasonable use of the terrain and then use the last morale to fight back, you are not afraid of how many enemies there are!

The ideal is extremely plump, but the reality is often extremely skinny.

Just when Xue Wanche and Dou Jiande's frontline infantry began to entangle, Wei Ting also launched a charge on the hillside of the forward position, he obviously wanted to use the condescending terrain to defend.

The left flank of Dou Jian's German army, that is, against Wei Ting, was the 8,000 mixed troops led by Gao Yaxian, and they were not the main force of Dou Jian's German army's offensive this time.

If they all want to delay time by defending, then their understanding of the hill ahead should be the same; In fact, when Wei Ting began to order people to charge up the hillside, Gao Yaxian gave the same order.

The distance between the two sides and the hillside is different, and the choice of the first unit to charge is also different.

After Wei Ting's 1,000 archers rushed up the hillside, they quickly condescendingly used their long-range weapons to deal maximum damage to the enemy attacking from the bottom up.

In the first round, Wei Ting stood firmly on the hillside, and then the 1,500 shield soldiers he commanded and the follow-up archers also went up the hillside, the problem was that Gao Yaxian actually used a hard crossbow in the next battle.

Because of the appearance of the hard crossbow, Wei Ting chose to let the shield soldiers set up shields, and because of this, their attacks became dispensable.

Gao Yaxian's soldiers were almost twice as many as Wei Ting, and after using a hard crossbow to suppress Wei Ting's attack, his tricks also increased, and he even ordered more than a dozen catapults to be transported from the rear.

Wei Ting was obviously insolvable in the attack on the catapult in a small space, and the casualties were within the bearable range, but the blow to morale was fatal.

After Wei Ting's soldiers were helpless in the face of catapults and crossbows, Gao Yaxian finally launched a final charge against the hillside in front of him.

Gao Yaxian sent two thousand foot soldiers, who held shields in one hand and guns in the other, and slowly rushed towards the hillside in a neat line.

The pressure from the front made those Youzhou troops who lacked courage choose to break away from the battle formation and flee to the rear; Wei Ting seemed to have known that such a situation would occur, so he had no choice but to order the guards to kill these deserters one by one.

In addition to killing chickens and monkeys, the remaining Youzhou army had to hold on to their weapons and fight the enemy on the opposite side to find a way to survive.

In this state, it was obviously impossible for Wei Ting's right-wing troops to hold out until the news of victory came from the other two armies before carrying out a final counteroffensive.

However, as Wei Ting thought, the left flank of the Youzhou Army was obviously invincible on this battlefield.

Because of the light cavalry led by Xue Wanche, Yanyun couldn't get together eighteen horsemen, but even if there were only seventeen horsemen, what if there were only seventeen horsemen? Behind Xue Wanjun were sixteen of Yan Yun's eighteen cavalry, and behind him were more than 1,900 cavalry.

After the news of the stagnation came from the Chinese army, Xue Wanjun finally raised his spear and gave an order, "Speed up, out!" ”

Seventeen of Yan Yun's eighteen cavalry rushed to the front, and the two thousand heavy cavalry behind them spread out in a fan shape and rushed towards the local left flank troops.

The enemy in front of Xue Wanjun was a 10,000-strong infantry led by Dou Jiande's brother-in-law Cao Dan, who, like Gao Yaxian, was only aimed at defending against the Youzhou army from rushing to the Chinese army from both sides.

Dou Jiande put the main force of the attack in the Chinese army, and also assumed that Luo Yi's main offensive force was in the Chinese army.

The result of the infantry in the face of the heavy cavalry is conceivable, otherwise why use ten times and a hundred times the resources to train the heavy cavalry? What's more, Yan Yun's eighteen cavalry are also among them, although they are incomplete, but they are more than enough to deal with the 10,000 foot soldiers led by Cao Dan!

Just watching Xue Wanjun and them come out of the woods and charge, Cao Dan immediately thought of escaping.

If it weren't for Dou Jiande's emphasis on discipline before the war, he would have sneaked away a long time ago with his temperament.

But now, Cao Dan can only choose to fight and then die.