Chapter 100: I Am a Snake
The Xia army was not a dispensable force for Zhao Ta, at least this period of time bought time for the rest and expansion of the Kryu army, and they showed the attitude of the party members, which could prevent the Western Xia from completely falling to the Jin State, which was one more ally and one less enemy for himself.
With what Zhao Tan thought, they couldn't let the party members occupy a dominant position in the Liao State, otherwise they would really support Yelu Yanxi and it would never be a good thing for them to be the king and hegemon in the Liao State. And the task of weakening the strength of the party members in the Liao State can only be handed over to the Jurchens, and they can't carry this black cauldron, but they can't let the party members suffer a catastrophe, otherwise if they really slap their butts and go home and never show their heads again, won't they calculate in vain!
So Zhao Ta knew that the reinforcements of the Jin Army had arrived, he just didn't tell Li Liangfu, but was ready to be a 'good man' who sent charcoal in the snow, if Yan Hanlu's cavalry must be a yellow finch after the praying mantis, he would be a poisonous snake lying in the branches and leaves...
"Texas Army!" The defeated Xia Jun saw that another cavalry army appeared in front of him to block the front, of course he didn't dare to collide with it, and quickly turned around and dodged, so that there was a vacuum in front of the two armies, and Li Liangfu could see each other clearly.
"General Li, our department has been ordered to send reinforcements, please retreat from the right flank of our army to complete the army!" Just as Li Liangfu guessed whether the comer was friend or foe, a group of rangers from the opposing army rushed to his horse and shouted.
"Thank you for your help!" Li Liangfu breathed a sigh of relief, it seems that the Texas army did not take the opportunity to annex itself, he felt a little at ease, and immediately led the army to the right flank of the Texas army.
Zhao Ta's oriental version of the 'Hussars' debut appeared at this moment. Their armor is the same as that of the hussars of the past, except for an extra carved feather at the top of the helmet. Iron upholstery was added. The officer had an extra back flag behind him, abandoning the flamboyant wings of the Polish hussars. And the spear flag on the tip of the riding spear is a must. One side is scarlet, one side is green, it is a long triangle, one foot wide, more than three feet long, each brigade on it draws different totems, fluttering with the wind, dazzling.
The trumpet of 'tick-tock...' sounded, and the front of the Texas Army moved. The rider urged the war horse to run forward, and several columns of knee-knee cavalry rushed to the face like a surging tide, and the hooves of a thousand war horses seemed to step on a point, stepping out of the same rhythm on the Yellow River beach, like rolling thunder overpowering the sound of surging water. The riding spear held high is like a forest, and the spear flag fluttering on the head of the spear covers the sun, which is really imposing and breathtaking!
The Texas army suddenly appeared on the battlefield, which surprised Yeluxian as well. He didn't expect to meet his rival at this critical moment, which couldn't help but make him wonder if the front was a trap, but the situation in front of him didn't allow him to think about it too much, and the Texas army used hussars as the vanguard. The dragoons opened their hearts for the wings to hold them in their arms.
The Jin army blew the horn, and the Jurchen knights who were chasing the Xia army reined in their horses one after another, and had to give up their prey to regroup. The besieged Xia Jun looked at the Jin Jun who was receding like a tide, and realized that he had picked up a small life.
The Jin army was a well-trained force, and they sent their rangers to attack the Texas army. Constantly risking death and impact, delaying the offensive of the Texas Army. The Texans won't watch them make a fuss. Immediately, two teams of men immediately stepped forward to meet them, intercept them, and encircle them. But these Golden Army Rangers bought time for the army to adjust their formation at their own expense. The Jin Army's brigade took the opportunity to quickly retreat five miles before regrouping into formation, avoiding the encirclement of the two wings of the Texas Army, and attempting to fight a decisive battle with it in the open field.
Zhao Yong watched the situation change on the battlefield, and after a few contacts, he already had a preliminary understanding of the combat effectiveness of the Jurchens, they used traditional bows and swords, which were good at cavalry and archery, which was conducive to surprise attacks and decisive victories, but was not conducive to slow entanglement and fighting, that is, it was good for close combat, not for long-distance attacks. Although the Kryu army has advanced weapons, its weapons are good for long-range attacks and not conducive to close combat.
It is said that in dealing with the Jurchens, it is necessary to make use of their strengths and avoid their weaknesses, give full play to the advantages of firearms, and try to engage the enemy in close combat during the attack. However, the prince had a different opinion, he believed that in the open terrain, if there is a combination of artillery and other heavy weapons, it can indeed inflict heavy damage on the enemy, but in the pursuit, the artillery is heavy and heavy, it is difficult to keep up with the cavalry's attack speed. At this time, if our army does not dare to step forward because it is not good at close combat, and the enemy army is mostly cavalry, and it will run away without a shadow in the blink of an eye, it will often become a rout, and it will be difficult to annihilate the vitality of the enemy army.
Even a series of victories in the Western Expedition of the Loyal Brave Army were used to lure the enemy to attack, using the situation that they did not know the power of firearms to inflict heavy losses, or taking advantage of the terrain to encircle and annihilate the enemy, and rarely used the tactic of cavalry hedging.
The prince firmly believed that there was no invincible army in the world, and as long as the tactics were used and trained properly, even the lightly armed cavalry could defeat the Jurchen Tiefutu. The composition of today's Kryu army is different from that of the loyal and brave army, and most of their veterans are the Western Xia army and the people of the border areas, and they are skilled in riding and proficient in the use of cold weapons. The Han recruits who were also recruited in Liaodi were influenced by the long-term mixing with the Khitan and other nomadic peoples, and they rode horses to practice martial arts since childhood, and their riding and archery skills were superior to most of the loyal and brave soldiers from the Central Plains.
The purpose of training is not only to reduce casualties and strengthen discipline, but also to serve combat and training. What kind of targeted training will be carried out against what kind of enemy; Training is only a means, and combat is the goal. Now in order to deal with the Jurchen heavy cavalry, they have improved their tactics, equipped with suitable weapons, and conducted special training, and now is the time to test, so the prince insists on a real sword and real gun attack with the Jurchen.
"Lord Wang, you have educated me again!" The prince laid out the facts and reasoned so that Zhao Yong had to obey, but when he really went to the battlefield, the prince of Texas let Zhao Yong ambush Zhao Yong on the way to the defeat of the Xia army, but he quietly took the dragoons under the command of the four brigades and Yelu Yu disappeared as soon as they left Texas.
"Du Shuai, Jin Jun Tiefutu has moved!" The scouts on the lookout car noticed the change in Jin Jun and immediately sent a signal.
"Hussar attack!" Zhao Yong looked at the battlefield, the opponent's Tiefu map had been assembled, and they took the lead in launching an attack, they still used the old tactics of breaking through in the middle of the heavy cavalry, outflanking the flanks and blocking the enemy's retreat at the same time, he chuckled and gave an order...
"How dare you?" Seeing that the cavalry of the Texas Army did not defend, but launched a counter-charge against the current, Yelu Xian exclaimed in disbelief.
For the defeat of the Texas army in Shijiaogou, Yelu Xian has always believed that he fell into the enemy's tricks, lost his geographical advantage, and failed to exert the power of Tiefutu, so this time when he saw the appearance of the Texas army, he immediately retreated, occupied Gaopo first, and ordered Tiefutu to sweep down the mountain.
In Wanyan Xianye's expectation, the Texas army, which suffered a big loss last time, would definitely form a defensive formation, and did not dare to fight with himself again, but he still launched a counter-charge this time, although he was puzzled, but at this moment he could not allow him to think too much, the Tiefutu that launched the attack was like an arrow leaving the bowstring, and there was no chance to turn back...
When he learned that it was the army in front of him that defeated the commander of the capital in Dongsheng, so that he could not quell the rebellion of Xijing and alarmed the emperor to conquer himself, he decided to go down in a battle and personally lead 3,000 Tiefutu to attack the enemy's large array, opening a gap for the follow-up army attack. As the distance between the two armies narrowed rapidly, Wanyan Hanlu saw the other party's formation clearly, and a sense of foreboding rose in his heart...
The formation of the eight hussar battalions of the four brigades of the Krup Army was exactly the 'hedgehog formation' that they had 'rehearsed' for more than two months, and each of them was lined up in a horizontal formation, with a distance of thirty paces between the horizontal formations, and all three formed a hollow phalanx. The advantage of this phalanx is that the soldiers are close together, they will not be scattered by the cavalry, and they can deploy more troops at the same wide lateral distance, and they can block the passing cavalry in multiple sections, and if multiple phalanxes are deployed in the depth of the cavalry, it will be a devastating blow to the attacking cavalry.
"Prepare to charge, shoot and march in small steps!" Li Gong, who was in the first echelon of the charge, heard the trumpet and shouted loudly, and at the same time put down the mounted gun in his hand and placed it on the horse's ear, and looked at the back flag behind the head of the capital on the other side of the queue, and adjusted the speed to keep the queue neat.
"Hurry forward!" The two armies were one hundred and fifty paces apart, and Li Gong listened to the sound of the trumpet and gave another order to his squad, and at the same time clamped the horse's belly with his legs to speed up the horse again, and his hand tightened the cavalry gun.
"Charge!" The two armies were fifty paces apart, and at this time, all the trumpeters sounded the trumpets of the charge, and Li Gong shouted with all his might, and the riders kicked their horses in the belly and drove their mounts to the highest speed, so that the cavalry kept the formation relatively intact before engaging the enemy, so as to inflict the maximum momentum of the enemy line in an instant.
"Revenge... Kill! "Fifty paces of distance is only a few breaths of time for a galloping war horse, all the knights of the Krupp army roared almost at the same time, their spears in their hands at the enemy in front of their horses fiercely, in the face of their own weapons more than twice as long as their own guns, but the Jurchens have no choice, the heavy armor, the mounted tied together, let them avoid but in vain to dance the 'toothpicks' in their hands, trying to inflict some damage on the opponent. (To be continued.) )