Chapter 12: The Foot Soldiers Break the Camp
Horses, like people, are two concepts in the case of carrying weight and not carrying weight.
Specially trained marathon runners can easily run dozens of kilometers, but if they are allowed to carry a weight of 50 pounds and 100 pounds, it is very good that they can run half of it.
The cavalry of the Tang Dynasty wore chain mail, sabers and spears plus the weight of people, at least 200 catties, and even heavier.
The horse's body is far superior to that of humans, and although it does not exhaust them from exhaustion, it also consumes their great body, and they cannot fight in the best mental state.
It takes a short time to change horses, just like sharpening a knife and not cutting wood, maximizing combat effectiveness.
In the Tang Dynasty, at present, only the border army controlled by Luo Shixin has such a luxury of this capital!
The earth retreated swiftly under the horse's hooves.
Only the remaining mile is fleeting.
When the sticky tribe got the news, they also formed a cavalry team in a panic in a short time, and rushed to intercept it.
A dense rain of arrows hit silently from the front. The five or six soldiers next to him were hit by more than three arrows in an instant, rolled and fell off their horses.
It was not the first time that Su Dingfang and Xue Wanjun had fought against the Turks, they had long been accustomed to their bows and arrows, shouting loudly, and the weapons in their hands were impenetrable, and the sound of subtle collisions was endless, and the arrows fell one after another.
"Kill!"
Seeing that the enemy had already attacked, the 10,000 cavalry of the Tang Army shouted and accelerated their charge, and increased their speed again the moment they approached the Turkic soldiers.
Su Dingfang urged his horse to rush towards the enemy, wielding a spear in his right hand. Xue Wanjun danced the big sword, and the two rushed to the front, scrambling to advance forward.
Heroes emerge from troubled times!
In this troubled world. There is no one who can climb up with his military exploits.
Su Dingfang was fierce and brave, the gun was like a dragon, and the shadow of the gun was all over the sky, unmatched, breaking into the crowd, the blockers were invincible, and the left and right Turkic soldiers were turned forward and backward. Su Dingfang's martial arts are already good. With the guidance of Luo Shixin, the great master of marksmanship, his martial arts have advanced by leaps and bounds in recent years, and he also has a certain demeanor in his gestures.
Xue Wanjun's table xiàn is also exactly the same. The big sword in his hand was magnificent, only flashing and slashing, and the two enemy horsemen who rushed to the front fell in response, so they were not mighty.
Attacking Turkic soldiers. It is a soldier and horse that was organized on a temporary basis. did not make sufficient preparations, in front of Su Dingfang, Xue Wanjun and more than 10,000 Tang troops, fiercely rushed to kill, only a moment of effort, killed this group of Turkic soldiers, followed the road they rushed out, and broke into the Turkic camp.
When the Tang army broke into the Turkic camp here, the leader of the Sticky tribe suddenly asked his son to wake up.
"Father Khan. The Tang army has already entered the tribe. Suddenly, the youngest son cried.
Sticky and suddenly ate and drank with Luo Yi last night, he belongs to the group of people who have a slower alcohol attack. This time when he returned to the clan, he was so drunk that he couldn't wake up with a hangover.
Someone had already reported to him, and he was always kept awake.
The eldest son who was sticky and suddenly became an adult, and he made arrangements to meet the enemy without authorization.
Suddenly, the remaining sons began to organize the warriors of the tribe to fight, leaving only the ten-year-old son to continue to shout.
Hearing the cry of the young son, the sticky suddenly seemed like cold water poured on his head in the winter, and he suddenly came to his senses, and the shrill sound of weapons and the screams of soldiers were noisily intertwined.
"Why did you come so quickly?"
Sticky and silent, he didn't plan to listen to Luo Yi in this regard, Luo Yi told him not to be in a hurry and take his time, Tang Jun couldn't come for a while. He didn't think so, and when the Tang army came and was preparing for war, it would be too late. The situation has developed to this point, and the Turks, who have always underestimated the Central Plains, no longer dare to have any contempt, not to mention that they are facing Luo Shixin. The head of the evil spirit that can scare Turkic children into crying. But even so, he didn't expect Tang Jun to come so quickly, so fast that he didn't even have a moment to prepare.
"Quick, come on!"
Suddenly, where did he still care that he was only wearing an undergarment at the moment, and even the crying son couldn't care about comforting, so he rushed out of the tent directly, and shouted: "Quick, go to the Wu tribe and the Hammud tribe for help, and get my armor for ......" While making a decision, the other side shouted to boost morale, "We Turks are the descendants of the wolf god, and now our clan is attacked by evil spirits, all the warriors take out your weapons and fight back the attacking evil spirits." ”
With a roar, the sticky suddenly put on his armor with the help of the servants, and rushed to the fiercest part of the battle.
When the battle at the front was really fierce, the rear army led by Luo Shixin had already arrived at the periphery of the sticky tribe.
Luo Shixin patted Chibiu's neck, stood directly on the saddle on the horse's back, and stood on tiptoe to look at the battlefield: Chibiu was tall and burly, Luo Shixin was also tall, this station looked very far away, and the battle situation ahead was in his eyes: under the irradiation of the spring sun, the Tang army launched wave after wave of fierce impact: they held countless torches high, setting fire in all directions, and on the other hand, they were fighting white-knuckle battles with the Turkic soldiers coming from all sides.
Judging from the battle situation, they have the upper hand, after all, one side is prepared, the other side is in a hurry, one side is recuperating, and the other side is tired.
The gap between these is incomparable.
However, Luo Shixin also saw that both Su Dingfang and Xue Wanjun were a little weak in the follow-up.
It's not that they can't fight, it's that the cavalry is restrained.
The biggest advantage of cavalry is the mobility and the impact force that bursts out at an accelerated pace, losing mobility and impact power, and the effect of cavalry is weakened by at least half.
This attack is different from the attack on the Ashina tribe in the past, the Ashina tribe is a surprise attack, and the attack on the sticky tribe is a strong attack, and the two sides are still fundamentally different from each other.
The Sticky Tribe had time to prepare, while the Ashina Tribe did not have time to prepare at all. The latter was naturally able to maximize the advantages of the cavalry, while the former, because he was a little prepared, would not be a mess, and still organized a certain counterattack force, which limited the impact of the speed breakthrough of the cavalry of the Tang Army.
However, Su Dingfang and Xue Wanjun are not idle people, as the commanders of the three armies, they have realized this problem, and began to constantly divide troops to create chaos, and stabilize the advantage with chaos.
"Send a signal! Let General Xue and General Su be divided into left and right to kill. ”
"Xue Yong, you lead the Modao of the headquarters to kill from the south of the camp!"
"Mo Hu'er, you lead the battle front team as the right flank and rush into the camp from the southeast!"
"Kratos, you lead the Jumpers as the left flank and storm into the camp from the southwest!"
"You are the three of you, listen, the two generals Xue and Su have already helped you disrupt the enemy camp, in the face of this advantage, you still can't take this sticky tribe, don't come to see me!"
One by one, orders were issued from Luo Shixin's mouth, and the main force to break through the sticky tribe was not the cavalry led by Su Dingfang and Xue Wanjun, but the infantry led by Xue Yong, Mo Hu'er, and Kratos. In the era of cold weapons, the main force of this attack is always a pawn. The agility of the foot soldiers is unmatched by the cavalry.
As soon as Luo Shixin's military order was issued, the well-trained army was mobilized as soon as possible.
Under the leadership of Xue Yong, Mo Hu'er, and Kratos, they flocked to the Sticky Tribe.
And Su Dingfang and Xue Wanjun also issued the news of the left and right flanks breaking through at the first time.
The entry of the Mo Swordsmen, the Strikers, and the Jumpers is fatal to the Slimy Tribe.
Although the Turkic tribes were not as orderly as the Central Plains, suitable for foot soldiers to engage in street battles, the tents between each other and the stoves set up outside the tents and other necessary equipment became obstacles to the flexibility of the horses, so that the cavalry on both sides could not flexibly use their hands and feet.
The Turkic soldiers, who discovered this, abandoned their horses and fought on foot, which had an effect, limiting the cavalry of the Tang Dynasty.
However, with the entry of the three foot soldiers, the Mo Swordsman, the Warrior Team, and the Jumping Soldiers, the situation immediately changed substantially.
Infantry combat is different from cavalry warfare, cavalry does not pay attention to move skills, and it is difficult to perform clever skills because they are too fast to charge each other. Foot combat is different, because of the close-range fighting, the skills and equipment are more valued.
The Tang Army has undergone special training in sophisticated equipment and short-handed tactics. The moves are not clever, but they are all battlefield killing techniques accumulated over thousands of years, which are simple, effective and practical. On the contrary, the Turks were accustomed to horse warfare and did not have a deep dabble in foot warfare. Ordinary warriors of the clan have not received orthodox training, let alone equipment
The officers of the Tang Army and above were all dressed in iron armor, and although the ordinary foot soldiers were in leather armor, the heart and head were specially processed with iron sheets. Compared with the leather armor wrapped in animal skin on the Turks' body, the effect is thousands of better.
Compared with the Tang cavalry, the Turkic cavalry may be able to rely on the advantages of the steppe people to defeat the Tang Dynasty in all aspects. But in terms of foot soldiers, even if the Turks jump up, they can't reach the soles of Datang's feet, and this battle can only crush them.
Xue Yong has now become an experienced Mo Dao general, leading the Mo Dao Army to move forward with the method of pushing the wall, step by step The speed is not fast, but it is unstoppable, even people and horses can be crushed in front of Mo Dao, not to mention that just human beings, all the way to the rampage, everywhere they go, ghosts cry wolves, dead bodies are everywhere.
As the name suggests, the front team is the foot soldiers who are the assaulters, they are holding horizontal knives one by one, under the leadership of Mo Hu'er, they fully exert their mobility, rushing back and forth in the crowd to kill, the horizontal knife is a sharp weapon in foot combat, a rare famous knife in the world, the soldiers wielded it, flesh and blood flying, and stumps and broken arms can be seen everywhere.
As for the Turks on the left, it was even more miserable...... They were met with a demonic god...... Kratos!
This sunspot who came to the west has never had a place to express himself because he can't ride and fight......
Now this is his stage. (To be continued......)
PS: The first update, the second one!