Chapter 150: Han Sui's Hind Hand
A troop appeared on the horizon, and it was not difficult to tell from the direction of the comer that it was Han Sui's troops.
Han Sui was about twenty minutes earlier than the agreed time, and he may have come earlier to arrange his troops. However, this was not a good thing for Zhao Li, after all, Zhou Cang's troops would not be able to arrive in about twenty minutes.
Obviously, if the other party launched a surprise attack at this time, then he would have to face the five thousand cavalry with five thousand foot soldiers.
Han Sui obviously had room this time, and he didn't bring out the foot soldiers. The knowledge of the scout cavalry cannot be mistaken, and there is definitely an infantry under Han Sui's command. However, they had deliberately concealed the news of the cavalry, so why did they bring the cavalry out now?
If Zhao Li is allowed to choose, then he will inevitably pull the infantry out to fight to the death, and then take the opportunity to directly enter the battlefield with the attitude of cavalry running, tearing open a hole in the opponent's formation. If he commands a unit like the Winged Battalion, he can even use mounted archery to shoot the opponent slowly.
However, when he saw the outfit of the other cavalry and the curved bow on his chest, he understood that this should be a cavalry archery unit. Coupled with the stirrups on the horse's back and the metallic feeling when the horse's hooves were raised, Zhao Li immediately understood that this should be a unit similar to the Flying Wing Battalion, and it should be a cavalry and archery unit formed by the Hu people.
Such a unit is not only excellent in mounted archery, but also not weak in close combat, and can indeed restrain infantry. Obviously, Han Sui saw that he only brought 5,000 infantry and felt that he was easy to bully, so he didn't mean to hide the cavalry.
After all, they can shoot themselves from a distance directly with the method of mounted archery, but they can't catch up with them. Such a combat method can minimize the loss of war, but is this too underestimating yourself?
He Zhao Li did carry 5,000 foot soldiers, but since the popularization of local steelmaking, a large number of iron-making and steelmaking plants began to be formed, and now, in terms of equipment. How could it be comparable to the existence of the other side that ignores technological innovation?
"Is it General Zhao Li Zhao ahead?" After the two armies were arranged, Han Sui stepped forward and shouted.
"It's Zhao!" Zhao Li was not cowardly, and immediately stepped forward to respond.
"Our White Polish army has never been an enemy of the general. Why are you persecuting us so much? If you want to talk about the current situation, Cao Cao or Liu Bei is only afraid that it is more dangerous for the general than my Bai Bo Army, right? Han Sui smiled and asked loudly.
"Shall others be allowed to snoer on the side of the couch? If there is really no hostility, why do you refuse to vote? If you don't want to be an enemy or a friend, how can there be such a good thing in the world? Zhao Li snorted coldly. Slowly replied.
Han Sui joined later, so naturally he didn't know that Fang Yun had recruited the Bai Bo Army. But what if you knew? In these years, even if you don't want to win the world, you want to hold more power, and even divide one side to become a local emperor. If you are a subordinate to someone else or something, Han Sui will not agree, and the princes of the world will not agree.
The battle between the princes, if there is no accident, there is only one end, and that is that you live for me!
"Since the general is intent on making it difficult for us, isn't he afraid that we will join the alliance?" Han Sui asked with a smile.
"The Allies will be shameless again. He also calls himself a Han general, but you, Bai Bojun, are anti-Han people. If they allow you to join them, doesn't that mean they are with you all the way? I'm afraid that if you're not stupid, I won't accept your joining! Zhao Li laughed, in his opinion, how ridiculous Han Sui's words were.
"Since General Zhao doesn't give face so much, it seems that he can only see the truth on the battlefield!" In Han Sui's opinion, Fang Yun was only from the Yellow Turban Army, and now he is only fifty steps and a hundred steps, what qualifications do you have to say this?
If they really want to join the allies, can't they still claim to be loyal to the Han Dynasty? Volunteering to join the Dahan sequence or something. Anyway, the excuse or something, it's just a fig leaf on morality.
There is still the agreed time, but the battlefield is inherently ever-changing, who will deliberately abide by the agreement of the war book? And even if the scouts didn't find any useful information. This battle is better than a quick one.
"Spread out! Charge! Han Sui returned to the formation and shouted.
It is true that he does not have the ability of Fang Yun to pull all the middle and low-level officers below for training. But the cavalry under his command was divided into large and small groups due to the relationship between relatives, tribes, and even nationalities. He makes effective use of these groups. The selection of the most capable leadership in the existence, and then the combat effectiveness of his cavalry can be sublimated.
Yes, when they were dispersed into small units, the autonomous combat capability of each unit was greatly improved. The only side effect is that there is a bit of a problem with team cooperation, but Han Sui is in the middle of the scheduling, which can be regarded as making up for this problem.
"As far as you know, spread out? Spread out! Zhao Li shouted disdainfully.
The soldiers below also dispersed in an instant, but it was a pure scattered star array, the array was like a starry array in the sky, with three people as a small array, including two sword and shield soldiers and a spearman. In the upper part, there is a sword and shield soldier, a crossbowman and a pikeman, and the overall number of crossbowmen is about 1,000.
But what these crossbowmen are holding in their hands is not a sniper crossbow, but a Zhuge crossbow, which is still an improved version. This kind of repeater can shoot more than 30 crossbow arrows in one go, and the effective range is only about 50 meters, and the highest range is about 70 meters.
In order to facilitate the shooting of crossbow arrows, the size of the crossbow arrows is not very large, about the same as chopsticks, but more than 30 of them are shot out in one go, and the scene is also very terrifying.
Generally speaking, scattering the soldiers was a complete death in ancient times. Originally, the middle and low-ranking officers had little command ability, and the training of the non-commissioned officers was not up to par, so when facing the enemy army, it was inevitable that they would panic because there were no more friendly troops around them. And the connection between each other is also easy to have problems, one is not careful, but it will not be in formation, but it will be chaotic.
Han Sui used his own means to complete the reorganization, and he didn't believe that Zhao Li would be able to control the scattered formation.
The cavalry troops quickly approached the opponent's position, and at the same time, they immediately dispersed, and under the command of Yang Qiu and Han Sui, they were encircled in two general directions.
"Shoot!" Seeing that they had entered a range of fifty meters, Han Sui and Yang Qiu gave the order to attack.
"Shoot!" Zhao Li also calculated the distance, and then gave the order to shoot.
Compared to bows and arrows that require a bent bow, crossbow arrows are obviously more versatile, and they can be shot with a slight press of the bracket. In terms of attack speed, it is naturally much faster than the bow and arrow, but the attack cooldown is relatively longer.
It's just that in ancient times, archers and crossbowmen were often used only as a secondary class. One is that the training time is too long, there is not so much time for large-scale training, and after the two sides start a war, they can only shoot about one or two arrows within the allowed shooting distance, and in this case, there is no way to effectively kill the opponent's soldiers.
In the end, it is up to pikemen or sword and shield soldiers to complete the subsequent battles.
The crossbowmen instantly tilted a large number of crossbow arrows towards the enemy, even if the crossbow arrows were not big, but under this kind of stormy shooting, Han Suijun, who could only be equipped with leather armor, suddenly more than 1,000 people fell off their horses, and more than 500 people were injured and could barely hang on horseback.
Receiving such a sudden attack, Han Suijun was also caught off guard. Because of this, the arrow in his hand actually forgot to shoot.
"Throw!" Seeing this, Zhao Li smiled faintly and gave the order again.
More than 2,000 sword and shield soldiers instantly took out a halberd from their waists and threw it directly at the enemy in front of them. Over the years, these soldiers have been supplied with big fish and meat, and after a lot of physical training, they have trained their strength.
Since the production capacity has increased, halberd throwing has become one of the subjects specialized in infantry, especially sword and shield soldiers, and each infantry has three halberds that can be thrown. Not to mention anything else, thirty meters must be thrown, and it must be able to hit and kill the enemy to be qualified. Now that the enemy was in this throwing range, the sword and shield soldiers immediately began to throw.
More than 700 people were shot directly off the horse, and even Yang Qiu's right chest was inserted with a short halberd, fortunately, it was protected by ribs, so it did not hurt the vital point. Rao was like this, and he was almost shot off the horse.
The belated arrows were finally fired, but most of them did not penetrate when they hit the shield or pikemen, and fell directly to the ground. At this time, Han Sui noticed that this army was wearing a layer of iron armor. With so many soldiers, the iron ingots consumed are definitely not a small amount.
Don't say it, when he saw these iron armors, he Han Sui was a little red-eyed, and he really wanted to take off these iron armors and then equip them to his army. At the same time, he also understood why this force of more than 5,000 people was able to be dispatched.
Crossbowmen who shoot like a rainstorm, infantry who can throw halberds to kill the enemy within thirty meters, and whether there are any special skills on the pikemen's side Let's not talk about it, just talk about their layer of iron armor, which directly increases the defense of the soldiers.
Half of the cavalry was lost before the battle began, and Yang Qiu was wounded, so this battle obviously couldn't go on.
"Retreat!" Han Sui finally had to announce his retreat, but he didn't mean to be too resentful.
Obviously, he also expected such a situation, and it is naturally a good thing to be able to fight, and he is not worried if he can't fight.
The soldiers had obviously been informed in advance, so they did not panic when they retreated, but evacuated in an orderly manner. This also made Zhao Li unable to pursue, worried that there would be fraud in it.
"Looks like I'm late?" Three minutes later, Zhou Cang arrived late, only to find that a battle had ended here.
"The main force of the enemy army has not been destroyed yet, it is not too late!" Zhao Li said with a smile.
But they didn't want to, suddenly a cavalry panicked to report, more than 100,000 troops killed the siege camp in their rear, and it was possible to fight in about ten minutes, hoping that Zhao Li would quickly return to help. It turned out that this was Han Sui's backhand...... (To be continued.) )
PS: What is really powerful is actually the ever-growing productivity and technology. Technology has changed the pattern of warfare since ancient times.
But Han Sui doesn't care, after all, if he can fight, he will fight, and if he can't beat him, he will use his life to pile it up!