Chapter 32: The Mystery of the Flanks
Zhao Ta took the lead in leading 2,000 guards to fight in a tight formation, but the formation was staggered, and there was no neat phalanx like in the past, he did this to facilitate the development of firepower to make up for his lack of heavy weapon support, and the guards brigade is all soldiers from a hundred, their skills and tactics are skillful, they can ensure that they are not injured by mistake, this tactic of charging and shooting at the same time is only they dare to use, can be used!
As soon as the Song army moved, Han Li immediately noticed that when he saw the commander of the army moving forward, he immediately realized that the opponent was going to launch a desperate blow or cover the retreat of the brigade with a feint. Han Li immediately sent 5,000 light cavalry into battle to meet the attack, and Tiefutu suffered equally heavy losses in many attacks, so he did not dare to send them into battle easily, lest he fall for the opponent's tricks.
"Bang bang..." The two armies approached quickly, and when they were two hundred paces apart, they suddenly remembered a series of explosions, and others were still ignorant, but Han Li was shocked, and a cold sweat fell, which reminded him of the layers of dead corpses under the city of Yuanzhou, the bloody human head of Wanyanchang, the crazy Pu Jianu and the water kou on the Jiehe River, and the silver that was lost for 10 million taels.
"He's really in the same league as Remnant Liao!" The crisp sound of gunfire made Han Li immediately understand that his and Zong Han's inferences were correct, and this kid was the main master, "Privy envoy, immediately send all your Han troops, and you must kill King Yan!" Han Li said a little angrily.
"Protect the prince!" The duty of the Guards Brigade is to protect the safety of the prince, the two armies are getting closer and closer, Lin Shuo roared, and the soldiers of the first guard team immediately accelerated in advance after receiving the signal to quickly overtake the prince and the special combat team, and lined up four columns of horizontal columns in a row to protect the prince in the back, and they quickly shot out all the bullets in the gun. Reload your back behind your back and draw your saber. Draw your pistol and meet the first wave of enemies.
Charge against the stone wall. Zong Han couldn't stop it, Han couldn't stop it, they rushed through the array of the Jin army in an instant, and defeated the Jin army. The Jurchens were stunned, what happened today, at first the infantry army lined up in a neat queue and attacked like a wall, killing them with a river of blood, and now it has been changed to cavalry!
Han Li didn't watch the Song army Shuai Qi continue to advance forward, and several thousand-man teams sent by him were defeated one after another. What they passed was like a huge stone stone crushed, and the people they met were crushed to pieces, and now they broke through several fronts of the front army in one go, and went straight to the Chinese army to kill!
"Let the left and right wings encircle, and you must trap King Yan to death!" Han Li was not in a hurry to order the rear army to step forward to resist, and ordered the two wings to encircle, trying to cut off Zhao Tan's retreat.
"Marshal, the 30,000-strong army of the Song army is attacking the right flank of our army, and the privy envoy is trying his best to block it. Seeing that it is not enough, please send reinforcements from the marshal! At this time, a small school came to say goodbye.
"What? The Song army only attacked one wing of our army! Han Li was not surprised, climbed high and looked at the right flank, only to see that there was already a scuffle over there. The soldiers on the right flank could no longer resist under the full attack of the superior forces of the Song army, and continued to retreat towards the Chinese army, and the cavalry that was directly attacking the Chinese army also turned to the right flank. Like a sharp knife, they constantly clash back and forth, dividing them into several sections. The beginning and the end are difficult to look at, causing even more confusion. It's about to collapse.
The sudden change made the confident Han Li fall from the air to the bottom, he did not expect that the Song army would concentrate its forces to break through one of his wing, and the left wing had no time to rescue, once the right wing collapsed, it would cause a chain reaction, leading to the collapse of the Chinese army, and the most important thing was the defeat of the whole army.
"Marshal, withdraw the troops, the right flank is not guaranteed!" Just when Han Li was in a dilemma and hesitated, Liu Yanzong hurriedly returned to the Chinese army and said.
"Withdraw!" Han Li didn't want to hold on, but at this moment, the defeated army on the right flank had already poured into the Chinese army, crushed the formation, the whole formation was shaken, and it would be too late if he didn't withdraw.
"Capture the second prince alive!"
"Don't go, Han can't leave!"
As soon as the commander of the Chinese army moved, the Jin army quickly retreated, but Zhao Ta led the Guards Brigade to entangle them to the death, chasing and fighting fiercely, so that the Jin army could not organize an effective counterattack, and the Eastern Route Army led by Han Li was not all elite Jurchen troops, most of which were coerced by the Xi people, Khitan people, Bohai tribe to surrender the army and the Han army forcibly recruited, it was okay to fight a good battle, once defeated and ran faster than anyone else, under the onslaught of the Song army, the orderly retreat of the Jin army finally evolved into a rout, and the tide retreated backwards...
Zhao Ta reined in his horse, and finally breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the Jurchens running away in the wilderness, he had made the right bet! After many encounters with the Jurchens, he found that although the Jin army was mostly cavalry, it was similar to the formation of the Song army, focusing on the equal distribution of troops on the front, and adopting the tactics of basically breaking through in the middle and outflanking the two wings, so as to give full play to the power of the cavalry. However, this method of warfare also leads to the fact that the battle has become a simple competition of forces, and whichever side has more people and a larger formation can achieve victory. Outnumbering the crowd is tantamount to defeat, and even a brave and famous general is unavoidable.
His own troops were small, and the Jin army was numerous, so Zhao Ta thought of Zheng Zhuanggong, the overlord of the Spring and Autumn Period, in the battle of the Northern System, in a roundabout attack on the flank of the Southern Yan Army, and won the battle in one fell swoop.
And this method of warfare is the 'oblique front' in the textbook of Zhao Ta's previous life, which is a kind of concentration of superior forces on one side of the line, so that there are more people on one side of the entire formation than there are fewer people on one side, forming a trapezoidal configuration, so it is also called a trapezoidal formation, forming an absolute superior force on one wing, and concentrating forces as much as possible to attack the enemy side, or outflanking the enemy flank. This is because when the 'oblique front' is maneuvering, the sight of the opposing commander-in-chief is often blocked, and it may even cause him to have the illusion that most of the enemy troops have withdrawn from the battlefield. As a result, the formation was unbalanced under the concentrated strike, and the whole line collapsed.
This tactic was brought into full play by Zhao Ta today, he used the attack of the Guards Brigade to attract all Han's attention to the front of the battlefield, and then gathered the strength of the whole army to storm the right flank of the Jin army, breaking one point, causing his whole army to waver, and finally defeated.
However, Zhao Ta knew that his flank attack was only a tactical victory, and if he wanted to force the Jin army to retreat on all fronts, it would depend on the effect of his attack on the flank of the Jin State, and the estimated time should be almost there. And now his flank is completely exposed to the eyes of the courtiers and the emperor, and now he has lost the protection of his father and the emperor, and he has lost his power, and his weak flank is simply not able to withstand the blow of those people, and how to deal with it is still a headache... (To be continued......)