Chapter 1217: Evenly matched
A battle involving four or five hundred thousand people has always been regarded as a major battle, and it is very difficult to solve such a large battle through one or two battles, and after the two sides of the battle fall into a tug-of-war, the war is stalemate, and it is not surprising that sometimes a battle lasts for half a year or even more. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
After Murong Shegui retreated the army to the Wuyi area, he built a deep trench and high fortress, and put on a posture of preparing to fight a protracted war, whether it was the Han army or the Xianbei people themselves, they were more surprised by Murong Shegui's strategy, you must know that the Xianbei people often have a characteristic of fighting, that is, a quick battle, the Xianbei cavalry roared and roared away, every time the battle came down, even the camp tent did not have to be erected, it was already the end of the battle.
Now Murong Shegui is doing the opposite, digging deep trenches, building high barriers, and determined to carry out the protracted war to the end.
Murong Shegui was an extremely smart person, and before he fought with the Han army, he didn't know the actual combat strength of the Han army, so he sent Murong Tan to attack tentatively. After Murong Tan's fiasco, Murong Shegui immediately paid attention to Liu Yin, it seems that it is no accident that Liu Yin defeated Liu Yuan, defeated Murong Nai, and defeated the bald tree function before, Liu Yin's real ability is far more powerful than they Xianbei people imagined.
The tentative battle was not successful, but it damaged one of his generals, which undoubtedly sounded the alarm for Murong Shegui, if you want to deal with Liu Yin, you must not use the previous straightforward and simple and rough fighting method, you must use a more stable tactics, first to be invincible, and then seek to attack.
Murong Shegui also knows the truth that knowing oneself and knowing the other can survive a hundred battles, so he collected as much information about Liu Yin as possible and was familiar with Liu Yin's fighting style, so as to prepare for war.
It's a pity that the Xianbei people didn't pay too much attention to the intelligence about the Han people before, and the information collected about Liu Yin is often relatively sparse, and they can only learn about one scale and half a claw, but this is enough to know that Liu Yin is very powerful. Liu Yin waved his army to the Northern Expedition, attacked Yongliang by surprise, pacified the bald tree function, swept away Qi Wannian, waved his army to the east, wiped out the Hun Liu Yuan, and subverted the powerful Sima Jin Dynasty, as for the destruction of Murong Nai's 70,000 cavalry, it was just a matter of Liu Yin's hand, it was a piece of cake at all, and it couldn't be put on the table.
These impressive achievements alone are already earth-shattering, and in the Three Kingdoms era, apart from Cao Cao, there is no second figure who can compare with it. Even Cao Cao, who defeated the Wuhuan clan back then, destroyed the Wuhuan leader Bundun. And what Liu Yin destroyed was the four of the five hus, such a brilliant record, how can Cao Cao compare?
As the only remaining Hu among the five Hus, Murong Shegui certainly didn't want to follow in the footsteps of Liu Yuan and others, maybe Murong Shegui regretted it a little at this time, and he shouldn't have set foot in Jizhou, and even attracted such a strong enemy. But there is no turning back from the bow, since he has reached this step, it is impossible for Murong Shegui to fight even if he doesn't want to, so he can only fight with Liu Yin to the end.
Digging deep trenches and building high fortifications and fortifying villages is something that the Xianbei people have never done, but in order to prepare for the decisive battle with Liu Yin, Murong Shegui specially ordered to build fortifications first and make himself invincible.
And the Han army does not seem to be in a hurry to attack, in addition to investing heavy troops to defend the capital of Yuxin, the Han army camp outside the city is also impregnable.
Both sides invested such heavy troops, but they were both very cautious, and neither of them easily launched the first attack, but built their own fortifications, each of them as a battalion, facing each other from afar, and prepared to fight a protracted war.
Since Murong is not in a hurry, Liu Yin is even more in a hurry, the composition of the Han army is different from that of the Xianbei people, the Xianbei people are almost all composed of cavalry, but a relatively large part of the Han army is infantry, and the proportion of cavalry accounts for about forty percent.
Although the cavalry only accounts for forty percent of the total strength, but this proportion is unprecedented in the entire Han army, Liu Yin's construction of cavalry is extraordinary, more than any generation of Han generals have worked hard, to build an invincible battle of a hundred heroic divisions, has always been Liu Yin's goal.
The appearance of the Takahashi saddle and bilateral stirrups first established the status of the Han cavalry, and at that time, no cavalry force in the world could compete with it, whether it was Cao Wei's cavalry or the Hu people's cavalry, all of them became defeated generals.
But after all, the Takahashi saddle and the bilateral stirrup were low-tech, and when Liu Yin's opponents understood the problem, they also began to build their own new cavalry equipment.
Although the imitation of the Takahashi saddle and bilateral stirrups cannot be compared with the equipment of the Han army in terms of quality, this kind of thing is actually a layer of window paper, and after it is pierced, it will give people a feeling of sudden enlightenment.
Cao Wei's cavalry began to be equipped with new horse harnesses, and Murong Xianbei, who was far away in the grassland, also began to build his own equipment horse harnesses.
In all fairness, if it weren't for Liu Yin's invention of the Gaoqiao saddle and bilateral stirrups more than 100 years in advance, then this invention would belong to the head of the Xianbei people, according to the cultural relics unearthed in later generations, the inventors of the bilateral stirrups are the Xianbei people, and the Xianbei people are also relying on these new harnesses to stand out in the competition of Wuhu and have the last laugh.
Now all aspects of the cavalry, generally use these new style of harness, the Han army in the early advantage is naturally gone, the current cavalry competition, more reflected in the combat experience, formation configuration and personnel quality.
The advantage of the cavalry of the Han army lies in the perfect formation, the organization is tight, and there are rules for both advance and retreat, while the advantage of the Xianbei people is that they have strong individual ability, brave and good at fighting, as for the combat experience, the two sides are also half a catty and eight taels, on par.
In such a large-scale corps battle, without overwhelming superiority, it is impossible for either side to speak of a quick victory, this battle is destined to be an evenly matched contest from the beginning, not to mention that both sides have already had the intention of being undefeated before the battle, and now it is not easy to break through the opponent's defenses.
The first to attack, or the Xianbei cavalry, after the two sides set up camp and set up camp to complete the formation, the Xianbei people finally couldn't hold back, and took the initiative to start the attack, provoking the prelude to the Xindu War.