Chapter 192 [Closing the Door and Fighting the Dog]
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It's a bloody night, and it's a burning night.
In the battle, the Liaodong and Karasuma coalition armies, riding nearly 4,000 main forces, surrounded and annihilated 2,000 Liaodong troops in the White Wolf Battalion, annihilating the enemy army and losing nearly 1,000 themselves. When victory was in sight, it was raided by Le Jin and Yang Ji's team, and with the strength of only seven people, the city was closed and burned, blocking the only way for the 3,000 invaders to escape.
The combined forces of Liaodong and Karasuma were caught in a sea of fire, with no way to the sky, no door to the ground, and the whole army collapsed. In the end, there were less than 500 survivors who jumped out of the city...... Liu Cheng Karasuma Metropolitan Lieutenant Wang Tong was also buried in the fire.
Gongsun Mo and Da Tou rode 3,000 steps outside Lixu, and they both felt the heat wave on their faces and their breathing was not smooth. Thousands of people and horses poked at the wood, looking at the furnace illuminating the sky and the fire shadow dancing wildly, all stunned and cold.
What can they do? Nothing can be done, well, maybe there is only one thing that can be done - hurry back to the white wolf water, blow the sheepskin raft again, run as fast as you can, run as far as you can, and run as far as you can, before dawn.
On March 30, the sky was slightly bright, and the horizon was glowing with fish white belly, with a faint red light, indicating that it was a sunny and good day.
On the white wolf water, the combined forces of Liaodong and Karasuma were gloomy and bleak, and they were competing to cross the water on a raft in a panic. As the chief general, Gongsun Mo and Atou's faces were so gloomy that they seemed to be able to wring out water. They traveled thousands of miles, worked on expeditions, and tried their best to see a super-large bonfire, and they paid a heavy "fuel fee" for nothing.
It's worse than that. They had already learned afterwards that the enemy who had fought with them for most of the night turned out to be the Youzhou army!
Although the Youzhou army is also a friend or foe, they have mobilized their troops and traveled thousands of miles to come here, not to fight with the Youzhou army, they want to fight the white wolf army. But for the whole night, they didn't see a single white wolf sergeant. The real enemy didn't see it at a glance, and he was discouraged, and the lost troops were about to be defeated and retreated. What a fucking heartbreak!
Such a fiasco, whether it is Gongsun Mo, who is favored by the Marquis of Liaodong, or the answer head who is the young master of the tribe, he can't make a difference. The matter is not over yet, and after they go back, what awaits them will be severe sanctions. It is not an exaggeration to say that this battle ruined the status and reputation of the two.
When the two were depressed, there was suddenly another worse news: the White Wolf Army appeared!
Appeared?! None of the ghosts had been seen before. And now it's just here! But now the army is crossing the river!
Gongsun Mo and Atou's eyes were about to bleed, and for a moment, both of them wanted to fight the enemy fiercely and happily, but the cruel reality forced them to endure it. They are good, and there are almost 3,000 people. Just among the 3,000 men and horses, the auxiliary soldiers accounted for nearly half, the cavalry was less than 1,000, and more than half of the men and horses had crossed the White Wolf Water. Relying on the remaining more than 1,000 troops who are demoralized, demoralized, and whose combat effectiveness has fallen to a low point. How do you fight someone? Do you have to fight to wipe out the whole army?
Ren is Gongsun Mo and Datou gritted their teeth with hatred, but in the end they had to swallow their teeth and blood in their stomachs, except for leaving 800 steps to ride off. The rest of the soldiers rushed to the crossing at full speed.
The White Wolf Army did kill, and it came out.
Le Jin led 1,000 cavalry, and Lu Dai led 800 infantry soldiers, from the east and west, squeezing the 800 enemy troops after the break.
After the broken coalition army, behind them is the white wolf water, and on the left and right are the white wolf army that is multiple to themselves and has a momentum like a rainbow. In a battle against the water, there are usually two situations: or the cauldron is broken, and the mourning soldiers are decisive; Or collapse without a fight, and perish along the river. The first factor in deciding which situation is morale! And the most lacking thing in the coalition forces at the moment is morale. On the battlefield in ancient times, an army without morale was to deliver food. These 800 coalition troops, to put it nicely, are broken off, but in fact they are cannon fodder, what determination and will can cannon fodder have?
The end was already doomed, the White Wolf Army pressed left and right, and in less than half an hour of fighting, the coalition army collapsed and all surrendered. The two main generals of the coalition army and hundreds of remnants took this opportunity to escape across the river.
It's just that if you escape the white wolf water, will everything really be fine?
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When Le Jin first fought a bloody battle with the Youzhou army, and then lured the enemy to kill each other, another heavyweight general of White Wolf City, Sima Zhaoyun of the cavalry, was leading 800 wolf horsemen to cross the river from the lower reaches of the White Wolf River, avoiding the main force of the coalition army, and killing towards the Mashou Mountain Road.
Earlier, Gongsun Mo, Datou, Wang and others also ridiculed that there was no one under Ma Han's command, that is, they did not set up ambushes on the Mashou Mountain Road to block them, and they did not dare to attack halfway, but now all the qiē have appeared. It's just that the order is reversed, first half-crossing and attacking, and then blocking at the Mashou Mountain Road.
The order is not the same, and the strategic significance is completely different. If it is the former, it is a continuous resistance, resisting strong enemies, and passively responding to the battle. The latter, on the other hand, beats the dog in the water, and when the dog climbs ashore, he closes the door and beats the dog -- this is a frame that tries to annihilate it all, and this spirit is completely different!
This plan was not thought up by Le Jin alone, he only put forward a preliminary idea of luring the enemy to fire, which broadened the thinking of Zhao Yun and Lu Dai, and as a result, the two of them added one word to me, coupled with the perfection of Le Jin, and finally formed this five-chain tactic of "blocking the south and releasing the north, fighting with the snipe and clam -- sealing the door and burning the city, attacking half-crossing, closing the door and beating the dog".
At present, Zhao Yun led 800 wolf rides, which is the last and most critical link to complete the serial tactics. The first battle of White Wolf City ended in regret with the defeat of the enemy army, or ended with the complete annihilation of the enemy army beautifully.
In order to block the Mashou Mountain Road and cut off the enemy's retreat, it is necessary to pull out a small nail -- the Liaodong Army left a Qu infantry army here, about 400 people, and temporarily built a camp, the purpose of which is also to ensure the safety of the retreat.
Gongsun Mo didn't expect that the White Wolf Army would cut off his own back road, he came in high spirits, and he wouldn't believe that it would end up in such a bleak ending in just one day and one night. He put a curved infantry here, which was just a regular military move, purely the instinctive move of a fairly experienced general. Unexpectedly, this unintentional move really played a role.
It's just that, in Zhao Yun's eyes, this role is really limited. Because the wolf cavalry he led was not an ordinary cavalry, but the strongest cavalry among the cavalry that had never been seen before-heavy cavalry!
Heavy cavalry, only after the appearance of stirrups and Takahashi saddles, can it be on the stage of history. In the Three Kingdoms era, even heavy armored infantry was scarce, and heavy cavalry was even more impossible. As for Cao Cao's tiger and leopard cavalry that has not yet appeared, Shi Zai is a cavalry that can quickly chase the enemy for hundreds of miles, with strong mobility and good combat effectiveness, but it seems to be completely different from the heavy cavalry in the West that is "enough to knock a big hole out of the city wall".
In the Three Kingdoms era, heavy armor was very scarce, and during the battle of Guandu, Yuan Shao was only a thousand heavy armors, and Cao Cao claimed to be "less than ten collars in fighting armor". The lack of heavy armor is not due to the lack of iron, but to the complexity of the process, the high cost of manufacturing, maintenance, and repair, and it is difficult for those warlords who only occupy one state or even one county to afford it. And the cost of one heavy armored soldier is enough to equip twenty or thirty ordinary soldiers, is it quality or quantity? There is no doubt that people tend to prefer the latter.
If Ma Han hadn't improved and simplified his armor, he wouldn't have been able to equip infantry, let alone cavalry.
Among the White Wolf Cavalry, there are only three hundred heavy armored cavalry - this is already the limit of the White Wolf City's financial resources and resources. A qualified heavy cavalry must have three major elements: good horses, warriors, and heavy armor. The first two are not lacking in White Wolf City, what is lacking is the resources to make heavy armor, to be precise, it is a shortage of refined iron.
There are no mines in western Liaoning, and part of the iron materials in White Wolf City come from Liaodong military supplies, and part of it is trade with the Central Plains, such as trade with Zhongshan Zhen and Beihai Kongrong. Recently, there is another Donghai Mi clan, but unfortunately the distance is too far, and it will take several months to go back and forth, and the effect is not visible for the time being.
Zhao Yun had seen the power of these 300 heavy cavalry equipped with horse harness, and at the training briefing, he had only one evaluation: This is the world's male horse, and the battlefield is the strongest hegemon.
However, Zhao Yun didn't plan to use this "battlefield heavy axe" on a small camp, and the target they wanted to hit should be the remnants of the enemy's main force.
Eight hundred wolves to ride, three hundred to heavy rides, three hundred to attendants, and two hundred wolf fangs to ride. Any cavalry can do without auxiliaries, but the real heavy cavalry must, among other things, at least wear heavy armor, and need someone to help them with their horses, deliver weapons, and so on. As for feeding the horses, washing, walking the horses, and maintaining weapons and armor on weekdays, special personnel need to be responsible. The heavy cavalry, on the other hand, focused on combat and was only responsible for combat. In this way, he is a real professional knight.
There were more than 400 horsemen on the Wolf Tooth Flying Horse, and the horse warrior took away a fraction, and the remaining 400 horsemen were divided into two: Wu Chai led 200 horsemen to help Le Jin break the enemy, and Tang Nu led another 200 horsemen to attack with Zhao Yun.
Zhao Yun broke the enemy village and landed on these two hundred wolf tooth flying horses.
When the white wolf camp was blazing into the sky, illuminating a radius of more than ten miles, a small camp next to the mouth of the South Valley of Mashou Mountain Road also burst into flames. One south and one north, reflecting each other.
In the darkness, two hundred wolf fangs flew one hundred and fifty steps away from the camp, beating horses like flying, galloping back and forth, constantly looking into the sky and throwing rockets. In just half a moment, each flying horse shot more than twenty arrows.
Above the camp, it seems that countless meteors have fallen, all of which are poured on the fences and tents around the camp. One or dozens of rockets may not be the weather, but thousands of rockets fall like rain, which is simply a realistic version of the magic "meteor fire shower", and the entire camp instantly becomes a sea of fire. Figures rushed, wailing and wailing, and the air was filled with a thick stench of flesh and skin.
One hundred and fifty steps is the maximum range of the three-stone pulley bow, this range can't break the armor and can't hurt people, but it is just right to set fire.
Zhao Yun led six hundred horsemen and attendants, leaning on Mali Xu, everyone's eyes reflected two fires, at this moment, they only had one common heart: "You guys, you shouldn't come here." (To be continued......)