Chapter 789: How can you say that you have no clothes?
What kind of character is Maudun? He Xiongnu this ethnic group only appeared a peerless commander for hundreds of years, before the rise is a good forbearance and wise person, with thousands of horses began to use the method of raising cups to train the cavalry under his command, each cavalry under his command dare not say that it has been tempered by thousands of tempers, but it can definitely be regarded as elite.
It is not uncommon to train soldiers in the way of raising cups, and it is strange that Maudun can also make his cavalry completely obey orders, which is based on the oppression of his subordinates who disobey him and his subordinates' families will be reduced to slavery.
There is no more commanding prerequisite than obeying any order, and an army that can completely obey one man's orders is a terrifying existence. The military is inherently a collective, and the violence displayed by this collective, whether voluntarily or forced, is staggering.
With the blood of the enemy and his own people, Maudun fed an army that absolutely obeyed orders, and less than 5,000 of the original 20,000 men remained. The representatives of various ethnic groups did not know that such an army could suppress the Han and Qin cavalry, but it did not mean that they could also do it.
The shouts and shouts in various languages were very chaotic, and the cavalry of the 1,500 eastward migration tribes drove their horses forward in that chaotic shouting, because it was from the relationship between different ethnic groups, and the cavalry of the 1,500 eastward migration tribes were also destined to have their own ideas and tactics, so that the cavalry formation was pulled apart in the gallop less than a mile forward.
Waiting for those guys to leave, Mao Dun asked a few words to the person next to him, and after getting the answer, a painful expression appeared on his face.
"The preliminary estimate is that about 2,500 Han and Qin cavalry killed and wounded, and your own losses are about 1,000?"
"Yes, Prince. The losses on our side of the Qin army were fine, but the armor and weapons on the side of the Han army were very sophisticated, and our losses were relatively large. ”
The 13th Cavalry Regiment of the Han National Defense Army was originally adapted from the forbidden army, and they had just been drawn out from Nanling, and the soldiers of this legion were not bad, because they had just left Nanling, and they also used the recent scientific research results of the Han State. It is the first legion to be fully equipped with qualified iron weapons.
The merits of the wartime horse are important...... Wrong, it is the quality of the war horse that will determine the victory or defeat of the riding battle. However, there will be some inevitable situations in the gap in equipment, such as the bronze weapons of the Hun cavalry need to be repeatedly chopped to break through the excellent armor, and the bronze weapons of the Hun cavalry and the iron swords of the Han army will become two knots when they collide with each other.
The Han army rangers who participated in the war were stunned by the speed of the Huns riding across the West Pole horse, which does not mean that the Han army rangers are at a disadvantage in speed, and they are constantly attacked, and they can counterattack once in three or five times, and the weapons from the leading era can also easily break through the leather armor or sheepskin jackets on the Hun cavalry.
The 2,000 Han rangers lost about 1,200 men, and the number of Hun cavalry they killed and wounded was also 700. However, the Qin army was not in the leading position because of its armor and weapons. The cavalry of the Qin army lost nearly 1,003 before inflicting less than 300 kills and casualties on the Hun cavalry.
The Hun cavalry that fought with the Han and Qin cavalry was a unit that had been trained at great expense, and this army had previously galloped across the Western Regions to engage all kinds of enemies, and it had lost less than 3,000 enemy troops after destroying at least 30,000 or so, but now in less than half an hour, nearly 1,000 were lost in the hands of the Han and Qin cavalry?
Mao Dun's flesh hurt, especially when he saw that the remaining Han army rangers of less than eight hundred were forced to rush and even drove their horses into the Hun cavalry, his brows wrinkled directly into eight figures.
The Han rangers, who had been battered continuously, were indeed ruthless, and they had already tried to disperse and break through several times, but the disadvantage in the speed of their mounts allowed them to catch up very briefly even if they were too far away, and the afterfangs who discovered this situation had changed their previous orders. It is no longer scattered, irregular, and unorganized, and there is no chance of breaking through, so strive to pull more Hun cavalry to accompany the burial before being completely annihilated!
What makes a race strong? In addition to the achievements of this ethnic group in cultural and technological development, the blood of the ethnic group itself is also one of the indispensable. Many ethnic groups will be slaughtered individually or collectively in times of despair, but many more will burst out with the most tenacious efforts in the face of despair. The Han rangers, who were obviously at an absolute disadvantage, were the latter.
Zhang Cang, who led the troops to gallop up, naturally saw that the robes in front of him were already ruthless, and when his eyes moved, he also saw that there were about 1,500 Hu cavalry galloping straight up.
The 1,500 Hu cavalry roaring over were obviously trying to prevent Zhang Cang's troops from coming to the rescue, and their mounts were still Xiji horses, but they were dressed in a variety of ways. Some of them simply wore animal skins and held long sticks with sharp weapons, while others wore armor and held short metal weapons. Without exception, the better equipped Hu rides. Whether it is a cavalry or a mount, the more fancy.
"Columns—"
"Woo-woo-woo-"
Column !!
"Drink—"
Zhang Cang's more than 800 Han army rangers extended to the two wings, and the galloping rangers and the robes on the two wings gradually turned into a conical charging formation in the gallop.
Mao Dun, who was watching from a distance, frowned even deeper, this is the trouble of the nomadic race and the enemy of the advanced civilization, the army of the advanced civilization will always come up with some formations that allow the collective to give full play to the advantage, so that many times the nomadic cavalry has a numerical advantage and does not have to be restrained.
At this time, the Qin army on the other side also blew the horn, and the three thousand Qin cavalry moved in the desolate sound of "woo woo woo-".
Zhang Han's body rose and fell rhythmically up and down with the hooves of his mount, and he was constantly shouting something, and the Qin cavalry who were gradually galloping forward chanted an ancient voice......
"How can you say that you have no clothes...... Wang Yuxingshi, repair my spear. Enmity with the Son! ”
"How can you say that you have no clothes...... Wang Yuxingshi, repair my spear halberd. Work with the son!
"How can you say that you have no clothes...... Wang Yuxingshi, repair my armor soldiers. Walk with the son! ”
The horse's hooves are roaring, and the "Book of Songs" full of desolate charm? Qin Feng? "No Clothes" was being sung, and the Qin cavalry galloping at the forefront slowly flattened the wooden material cavalry spear obtained from the Han army, and the Qin cavalry in the middle queue held the cavalry bow in his hand, and the sword in the hand of the Qin cavalry at the back was tilted forward.
"Woo-"
"Hey!"
"Woo-"
"Hey!"
"Woo-"
"Kill !!"
At that moment, the expressions on the faces of the Qin cavalry were hideous, but their eyes contained an inexplicable divine perseverance, and the black army fell silent again. Under the sunset that gradually slanted to the west, the black cavalry marched in the cold glow brought by bronze.
The Qin army, which also used a cone-shaped charge formation, approached head-on and collided with the Hun cavalry that met the oncoming Hun cavalry first, this time it was not the kind of continuous band shooting, it was a covering diffuse shot of a "dark cloud" rising from the ground, the Qin cavalry and the arrows were shot to maintain a flat line and move forward together, the arrows fell first to bring damage, and then the front of the Qin cavalry pierced the flesh and blood.
The sound of the wood breaking in the roaring horse's hooves is inconspicuous, but the picture brought is that the stabbed Hun cavalry was penetrated by a huge force and let out a scream, and the cold spear tip was thrown out with the dead Huns, and the corpse may have hit another cavalry and caused a burst of people to roll over on their backs, or it may have fallen to the ground and been trampled by the horse's hooves into a pulp.
It must be stated. Cavalry warfare is never stationary, the dominant Hun cavalry has been charging through and turning back and forth repeating the charge, Zhang Han led the army to support when the Hun cavalry chiseled through again, and the cavalry of the two sides of the enemy and us also collided directly face to face.
In the short encounter, I don't know how many people fell from their horses, and everywhere you could see the sawdust scattered after the spears were broken, and the wailing and screaming were so rapid. The length of the Han army's standard cavalry reached four meters four, allowing the Qin cavalry to take advantage of the long weapon, and the moment the two sides collided, the black Qin cavalry tore open the Hun cavalry in an instant, but the Qin cavalry was not without trouble. Some of the West Pole horses scurried after losing the control of the Hun cavalry, and the chain of collisions occurred, and the formation of the Qin army was distorted.
Mao Dun had already ordered someone to blow the order to break away from the retreat of his subordinates who had clashed with the Qin army, and the Hun cavalry who participated in the battle fought with about 2,000 Qin cavalry for a while. The casualties themselves were not so sharp, and the battle also consumed the body of the Hun cavalry participating in the battle, and the remaining 1,600 or so Hun cavalry were obviously at a numerical disadvantage in the face of the 3,000 Qin army.
The staggered and passing of the cavalry battle actually happened between a few breaths, but it was in the time of a few breaths. Originally, there were about 1,600 Xiongnu cavalry, but after the separation, there were less than 1,200 left, and the cavalry of the Qin army also dropped from 3,000 to about 2,800.
Mao Dun took the initiative to order the troops to break away from the battle, and Zhang Han, who had completed the goal of rescuing his subordinates, joined up with the remnants of the previous battle, and immediately pointed his troops to another place, which was not conducive to the Han army rangers commanded by Yu Ya.
As a general's consciousness, Zhang Han was already making a summary of the war on the way to the rescue. He was fully aware of the lethality of the lancers when charging at high speeds, and the results he had just achieved were only a few arrows, and more from the contact battles of the lancers.
"Is the tree material made into a gun barrel?"
Obviously, when the cavalry fights, it is impossible to form a dense array of arrows, and both sides are in a moving posture, and the farther the arrows are shot, the worse the lethality, the Qin army's plan to develop ultra-long-range crossbow cavalry is obviously not suitable, and it is urgent to find a new cavalry development plan, and Zhang Han seems to have found it?
Of course, this is not to say that arrows are useless against cavalry, but that arrows that cannot form large-scale coverage are less lethal to cavalrymen who can move quickly, especially if the cavalry can predict where the arrows will fall, and arrows that do not have a coverage pattern are relatively easy to dodge.
If a large number of crossbowmen form an arrow formation and have fortifications as a support, a covering arrow array mode can be formed, and it is still very lethal in the face of the attacking cavalry in a defensive posture.
Historically, whether it was Wei Qing's infantry corps, or Li Ling's defensive arrow formation, or Li Guangli (the general of the second division) in the back, they all made full use of the situation and used a large number of bows and crossbow troops to achieve a brilliant battle loss ratio, but the premise was that the Huns were mainly on the side of the attack, and they were all in a defensive posture. And if the crossbow troops were replaced without fortifications to rely on, the Hun cavalry would always be able to inflict very severe losses on the crossbow troops, and the crossbow troops would become the side with heavy losses. Why is this happening? That's because the cavalry that has completed the acceleration can move at least fourteen meters per second!
Just when Zhang Han led the army to rescue his subordinates, there was a burst of shouting from another battlefield, it was Zhang Cang who was the first to shout, and then the shouts of the eight hundred Han army rangers before they were about to collide with the enemy, they were shouting loudly: "My king is supreme!" The Han army is mighty! ”
"My king is supreme" was the slogan of the forbidden army before the war, and it was only a matter of nearly three months that they were reorganized into the Wehrmacht sequence, and the habit has not been changed for a while.
Every army will shout slogans before the war, the slogan of an army represents the characteristics of an ethnic group (country), the stronger the taste of royal power, the stronger the army slogan is definitely related to the ruler, the battle cry of the East is related to the ruler, and the Central Asia and the West, which have a strong religious meaning, will pray to the god of faith before the war.
More than 800 rangers of Zhang Cang's department approached less than 200 meters with the cavalry of various ethnic groups moving eastward, and the Hu cavalry of all ethnic groups also issued their own shouts, and the battle horns of all kinds of languages have history that belong to the meaning of the language, and they simply can't hear "Juan Arakba (above the true God)" now, and it will not appear until about 1,000 A.D. when Muhammad became a prophet and the Arab Empire rose.
The cavalry of various ethnic groups had a variety of weapons, and among the long-range weapons, there were even stones wrapped in ropes and constantly swinging the wheel to swing out, and of course, there was no shortage of the most common images such as bows and arrows.
It is not an uncommon act to throw stones with a rope, in fact, as early as the fifth millennium BC in Central Asia, West Asia, and Europa, this type of army appeared, and they can be called slingers or grenadiers, which has a long history.
A burst of long-range kills greeted each other, and Zhang Cang's troops and the cavalry of various ethnic groups quickly collided. At this time, the importance of formation is reflected, and the cone-shaped formation of the Han army rangers immediately chiseled the cavalry of various ethnic groups without any formation when the two armies collided, and cut the cavalry of various ethnic groups like a change cone.
Mao Dun, who beckoned the troops to come back, saw that 1,500 cavalry of various tribes were cut open by about 800 Han army rangers.
"Those idiots really think that the Han army is easy to bully?" Mao Dun's Guan Er turned into a sneer, and turned his head to the clansmen next to him and ordered: "The west is already vacant, swim for a while, find the right time to rescue some of those fools, and then break out of the breakout." (To be continued......)