Chapter 35: Black Tide
It's a time when people make mistakes, but some people make mistakes that won't cause much consequence. And some people make mistakes, but they will have a great impact and even change history.
If Yizhi Wende knew that he had made this mistake in a moment of anger, he would have made the Central Plains A cavalry, which had been silent for many years, reappear in the rivers and lakes and fight in Liaodong again, it is estimated that he would not have made such a mistake.
In the history of the Central Plains Dynasty, there are several dynasties that have armored cavalry, and in the recent period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the heavy cavalry has been shown many times in successive battles. In those famous battles, the hoplites were known for their terrible impact and destructive power, often smashing the enemy several times or even ten times their size. It's a term that makes opponents shudder at the mention of it, and countless famous generals have used heavy cavalry to establish their position as famous generals.
It's just that time flies, and the glorious years that belonged to the heavy cavalry in the past have slowly passed. A few years ago, the Goguryeo people occasionally found craftsmen in armor and riding equipment from the Han people who were exiled to Liaodong, and they spent a lot of money to build 3,000 sets of armor and riding equipment, but after making their own products, they were embarrassed to find that the heroes were useless. Goguryeo was a mountain tribe, and their trump card was the light cavalry unit, which could also fly back and forth between the mountains. And this hoplite cavalry in such a remote place is not big enough to use a battle of hoplites.
After putting it for decades, this batch of armor was found by the people guarding the warehouse and reported to the king, Gao Yuan waved his hand casually and transported it to Liaodong City, maybe it can still be used there. Even this king, who was once keen on and admired armor and cavalry, lost his enthusiasm, thinking that this was just something exaggerated by the people of the Central Plains.
Not only the Goguryeo people, but also many generals of the Great Sui also believed that the cost of heavy cavalry equipment was too high, and there were too many restrictions on its use, and there were many ways to deal with heavy cavalry. So the hoplites are obsolete and no longer a weapon of Megatron. It's just that they all ignore that the reason why the reloads are famous all over the world is because of the decisive importance of the one-hit kill they can play when they are critical.
It took less than half an hour for a thousand cavalry to arrive not far from Goguryeo, and they rode the unarmored war horse all the way, and let the war horse equipped with the vest go on the road empty, which was also to maximize the physical strength of the war horse to charge.
In the dark grove, all the horses' hooves were already wrapped in cloth, even the horses' mouths. Chen Kefu stared at the Goguryeo people in front of him from a distance for a while, the Goguryeo people may be because they have more than 70,000 troops, so at this time they are just scattered outside the valley, and the camp of more than 70,000 people is scattered for several miles. Some had dismounted and pitched their tents, while others were still sitting on their horses, and some had even started a fire to burn the wild things they had just hit.
Such a team made Chen Kefu think that he had met a certain nobleman who came out on a safari, where is this march, this is simply a group of rabble. In fact, Chen Kefu did not guess wrong, the command of this army is the strongest, but the soldiers are the weakest. More than half of all these soldiers are the private soldiers of the nobles, so there is no such thing as military discipline. And the commander Ezhi Wende had no way to deal with these people, and secondly, he also felt that it was indeed very hard to march day and night after several days in a row. These are all nobles' private soldiers, and there is no way to be too strict for a while, and he doesn't think that there will be Sui troops here tonight. He thought that the way to lead the army should be in a gallop, but he didn't take into account that he was only bringing a group of rabble, no matter how powerful the general was, with a group of rabble, to fight, he might not have beaten a second-rate army led by a second-rate general.
"Everyone change horses and prepare to charge, Rollin, you will personally break the banner of the barracks in a while, everyone will follow the banner all the way to break through the enemy formation and kill into the valley. Don't forget not to fight, even if you charge with me, once the hoplites stop, it will be difficult to start again. Without the impact force, the hoplites become a bulky tortoise shell. ”
The 1,000-strong hoplites were all dressed in black armor, black armor, black vests, black cloaks, and a lock of red helmets fluttering gently in the wind on their high helmets. Each of them held a black lance in their hands, and quickly gathered into a phalanx outside the grove. According to Chen Kefu's orders, fifty people were in a charging formation, which happened to be a team of people. The 1,000 people were divided into twenty charging formations, and the banner of the broken barracks in the pro-soldier team around Chen Kefu was the standard, and they quickly and completely prepared for the charge in the open space.
The summer night was long, but it was finally coming to an end, and there was already a glimmer of dawn on the eastern horizon, and the faint light reflected on the full armor of the hoplites in the broken barracks. An early morning breeze blew from the forest, gently blowing the helmets on the heads of all the warriors, and a black wave fluttered.
Chen Kefu lined up at the front of the queue, and he calmly looked at the Goguryeo cavalry that covered the mountains in front of him. Beside him were fifty of the most elite soldiers in the Quanpo barracks, these young and brave soldiers were the greatest honor for themselves to be selected as Chen Kefu's personal soldiers, at this time everyone held the horse lance tightly in their hands, and excitedly guarded around Chen Kefu. Before coming out, they had already assured several generals in the army that they would not let the marshal be injured even if they did not die the last personal soldier. All the soldiers admired this young man from an ordinary background, and Chen Kefu was their idol and the goal of their struggle.
Chen Kefu's hand held the horse lance and waved it high to the sky, and the 1,000 hoplites of the broken barracks behind him all received the final order to attack, and everyone shouted with all their might, "The glory belongs to us, and the broken barracks will win!" With a tsunami-like shout, the 1,000 heavily armored cavalry who broke the barracks charged. It was the most powerful charge of the era, and many of the Goguryeo cavalry had just heard a loud bang and had not yet understood how to get back. I could already feel a huge tremor like an earthquake under my feet.
The 1,000 heavily armed cavalry of the broken barracks were divided into twenty charging formations, arranged in a huge triangular arrow formation, and charged towards the Goguryeo people in the plain below. Like a black wave, with an indomitable momentum, with a thunderous roar of horses' hooves, rushing towards the Goguryeo people who were all over the mountains.
The first thing that Chen Kefu and others' heavy cavalry hit was precisely the retreat of the Goguryeo after the failure of the attack on the valley. Several soldiers of the thousand-strong squad were sitting and lying down at this time. Even if there are still some who are not injured, but they are marching and attacking, and after half a day, they are tired and don't want to move.
In the face of the heavy cavalry that rushed like a landslide and tsunami, these thousands of cavalry became the first Goguryeo people to experience the power of the heavy cavalry equipped with the armor of the Central Plains. The earth shook beneath his feet, and the horse's hooves thundered like thunder, facing the hoplites who were like demons from hell. These Goguryeo people in the Far East were dumbfounded, they had never seen such a cavalry, not only the cavalry was heavily armoured, but even the war horses were shrouded in war horses, except for the four hooves of the war horses, many people did not believe that these people were riding war horses. In particular, there are a large number of patterns depicted on the vests of the war horses, all of which are patterns such as some gods, which makes many soldiers stunned.
The Goguryeo people were stunned, Chen Kefu was not stunned, and the heavy cavalry of the broken barracks were not stunned, and the heavy cavalry like a moving hill with incomparable impact force rushed up the Goguryeo soldiers who were still stunned there one by one, and as soon as they fell, the heavy cavalry in the second row had already rushed through, and those Goguryeo people were like praying mantis blocking the car, and they were instantly trampled into pulp.
The hoplites were a roaring frenzy, and everything that tried to stop them was broken and overturned. The long lance invades the sky and a half, and the wheel knife shines in the sun. Under such a frenzy, one after another thousand troops of the Goguryeo people were broken by the heavy cavalry, just like a powerful crossbow arrow, which penetrated through a thousand strong.
The commander of Goguryeo, Eulji Moondeok, had already felt the tremendous impact of the heavy cavalry as soon as it appeared. As a military god who was praised by the Goguryeo people, he knew very well that if he did not organize warriors to restrain the charge of this army, he would let them rush and kill like this. Then under the onslaught of this cavalry like a messenger of hell, the entire army composed of those noble private soldiers will be routed, and once they are defeated, then they may even be pursued by tens of thousands of people by such a small force. This was something he could not allow, and Ulzhi Wende took advantage of his prestige to organize and gather more than 10,000 cavalry in a short time.
More than 10,000 Goguryeo cavalry, under the leadership of Eulji Wende, made a frontal counter-charge against the surging Sui heavy cavalry. It was a contest of knights, a clash of hoplites and light cavalry. It was like two black waves crashing together, with a momentary pause, and then an even more intense collision.
Chen Kefu waved the horse lance in his hand and smashed it against the oncoming cavalry, and the horse lance directly smashed the Goguryeo knight with a huge impact and flew out. The green horse also behaved extraordinarily, although it was the first time to put on a horse armor, but it shook the horse's head at a Goguryeo knight who rushed to the side, and the sharp iron horn instantly pierced the horseman's abdomen, where a huge hole was cut.
The cavalryman held a spear and looked at Qing Hu with an incredulous expression, he didn't believe it, why he, a brave warrior of Goguryeo, actually died under a war horse of the Sui army, this must be a dream, an illusion. With the last unwillingness, he fell headlong and was drowned by the black wave.
The 10,000 horses led by Eulji Wendek were the elite of Goguryeo, and they were different from those rabble-like aristocratic slaves and private soldiers, they were also elite soldiers in a hundred battles. In the face of the roaring heavy cavalry of the Sui army, they were not afraid and bravely rushed forward with spears. However, something happened to them that made them depressed and surprised, often they stabbed down with a spear, but they could only splash a burst of sparks, but there was nothing they could do about the armor of the Sui knight. Some cavalrymen drew their sharp sabers and cut them down on the horses, but they thought that the horses were just wearing leather armor, but when the swords were cut up, they made a golden sound, except for the sparks that rose and left a white mark, there was no personal harm to the horses.
The Goguryeo people could not cut down the Sui knights, but the horse lances equipped by the Sui cavalry could always easily pierce their bodies, and sometimes even smashed their heads directly with the wind with the lance. Some knights even directly used the huge impact of the war horse to knock them off their horses, and then let the iron hooves of the cavalry behind trample them to death. When the Goguryeo people, with the bravery of a warrior, launched a counter-charge against the enemy's powerful hoplites, their blood boiled. It's just that when they charge again and again, they are mercilessly devoured and trampled by the enemy's hoplite cavalry. Their blood also began to subside, and it would be not brave to rush again, but to be stupid.
The opposing hoplites were not afraid of swords at all, and they used light cavalry against the hoplites of the Sui army to send them to death. The countercharge lasted for a long time, and they couldn't even stop the rhythm of the opponent's attack except for sending a corpse. All the Goguryeo cavalry finally realized one thing, this cavalry unit shrouded in armor was simply a group of monsters. They rushed forward not bravely, but to die.
The Goguryeo soldiers collapsed, and humans had always had a terrible fear of the unknown. As a warrior, there is nothing more terrifying than an enemy who cannot be killed. First one or two cavalrymen retreated, turned around and dispersed, and then, like a contagion, more and more cavalry began to try to avoid the torrent. They kept driving their horses to the sides, never looking back.
Eulji Moondeok retreated to the bottom of a hill with the defeated Goguryeo cavalry, and he certainly did not think that these were ghosts like the ignorant slaves. He knew that this was the legendary heavy cavalry of the Central Plains. I haven't tried it, and I'll never know how terrible these hoplites are that those books in the history of war once said. It's terrible, he just led nearly 10,000 light cavalry to launch a counter-charge against the team of 1,000 people, hoping to crush the other party in one fell swoop, but he didn't expect that in the end, it was his own 10,000 people team who was defeated. Eulzhi Wende is known as the first general of Goguryeo, relying on his many strategies, after carefully watching the Sui army. Yiwenzhide decisively ordered, "All the cavalry gathered, half of them dismounted and lined up with spears, and the rest of the cavalry retreated to the flanks and the rear formation. At the critical moment, he remembered the book of war on breaking the hoplites with hoplites, but now that he has no infantry, it is better to replace the cavalry with infantry.
At this moment, what Ezhi Wende is thinking about is not how to kill this army, but how to gather the troops as soon as possible and stabilize the morale of the army. If they can't uncover this heavy cavalry again, then they will not be able to eat each other, and they may even be defeated by their opponents. He would never allow such a thing.
"Queue, queue!" With one shout after another, the Goguryeo people who had retreated to the bottom of the hill began to abandon their horses and hold their guns, forming a phalanx of spears.
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