However, in the history of ancient warfare, there are still many battles in which an army dominated by infantry defeated an army dominated by cavalry. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

At the end of the Warring States period, Li Muzeng, a famous general of Zhao State, led the Zhao army with infantry as the main body, killing and wounding more than 100,000 Hun cavalry.

From 215 BC to 214 BC, the Qin general Mengqu led a Qin army of 300,000 people, which was basically infantry, recovered the Hetao area and defeated more than 100,000 Xiongnu cavalry.

In 409 AD, Emperor Wu of the Song Dynasty Liu Yu made a northern expedition to the Murong clan of Southern Yan, and the Jin army barely had a single cavalry, but destroyed the Southern Yan regime with tens of thousands of cavalry.

After the Yuan Dynasty was destroyed by the Ming Dynasty, it fled to the desert and established the Northern Yuan regime. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty sent the Ming army, which was mainly infantry, to the north to invade Mongolia many times, and won repeatedly.

In 1387, 200,000 Ming troops annihilated more than 200,000 Mongol cavalry who attempted to invade the territory in one fell swoop in the Battle of Jinshan in the Liaohe River Valley, which was the largest military victory achieved by the infantry as the main body of the army against the cavalry in Chinese history.

After that, Zhu Di, the ancestor of the Ming Dynasty, attacked the Northern Yuan five times from 1408 to 1422 AD, and each time he won a complete victory.

Why were the Zhao, Qin, Jin, and Ming armies able to achieve such a huge victory over the nomadic cavalry?

It can be seen that although the cavalry is powerful, there are still effective weapons and tactics to restrain the cavalry in the era of cold weapons

In the case of cold weapons, excluding firearms, there are roughly the following weapons that can restrain cavalry: crossbows, crossbows, chariots, war elephants, military obstacles, spears, and large shields. There are two principles for these weapons to restrain cavalry. 1. Eliminate the cavalry before it gets close to the infantry, and 2. Stop the cavalry from charging at the infantry.

The chariot, no, and the obstacles did not have time to prepare, but the open-jawed halberd warrior not only held a halberd, but also wore heavy armor and a shield in his hand, which could not be said to restrain the cavalry of Dian Wei, at least to suppress the momentum of the cavalry.

As soon as he appeared, the three thousand halberders lined up the formation, from the overall point of view, put out a four-sided elephant array, in front of a company of three rows of soldiers, all the shields in their hands were fiercely erected on the ground, all of them showed halberds in their hands, even the gap between the shield and the shield was no exception, as far as the eye could see, the cold light was everywhere, and there were cold spear heads everywhere, like a deadly jungle of death, all the gun heads were straight forward to ensure that they played the most powerful lethality.

Dian Wei Yiran was not afraid, he didn't pay attention to these people at all, urged the horse to come closer, shouted violently, bent down, and smashed the double iron halberd in his hand, click... The iron halberd passed by, and the explosion was repeated.

It is worthy of evil, born with divine power, extraordinary bravery, the double halberd is swung, no less than a thousand powers, although the halberd soldiers in the front row are lined up, but they still can't resist Dian Wei's bravery, accompanied by a piercing scream, a series of two shields were smashed almost at the same time and split in half.

Dian Wei's moves didn't stop, and he continued to smash the halberd angrily, but more than a dozen halberds suddenly stabbed out in front of him, even if Dian Wei was brave, it was impossible to continue to let the war horse continue to rush forward and kill.

The halberd head is cold, menacing, these soldiers, after a long period of training, cooperate tightly, attack and defend in an orderly manner, although Dian Wei Wawa screamed, the double iron halberd dance of the howl wind, but indeed, the momentum of the war horse, weakened a lot.

As for the cavalry that followed Dian Wei and rushed up, although the momentum was fierce, like a torrent that opened the gate, but the speed slowed down when they broke through the two rows of strong shields one after another, and the two rows of halberd soldiers in front suffered heavy casualties, except for blocking the opponent's cavalry, they did not cause much casualties to the enemy.

However, the front formation was broken, and the soldiers behind him smashed the shield in their hands on the ground again, except for the dead soldiers, the soldiers in front of them consciously stood in the formation again, the formation was still tight, and it was still a three-layer shield to resist the enemy, and at the same time, the halberds in the hands of these halberders also stabbed at Cao Bing mercilessly.

Shields were lined up one after another, and from time to time halberders were knocked into the sky, but the entire phalanx, even if many people were killed and wounded, was still dead in front of the cavalry, no matter how fierce the cavalry charged, they couldn't help but block the shield repeatedly.

The open-jawed halberd soldiers almost suicidally blocked in front of the cavalry, and the casualties were very tragic, many people were either knocked away, or pierced through the chest by the cavalry's spears, and even many people were ruthlessly trampled by several or even a dozen war horses.

War is not child's play, either you die, or I live, while the halberd soldiers resist the enemy, the archers are lined up again in a row and continue to stretch their bows and arrows, this time, because Cao Bing has rushed to the front, the distance is too close, there is no need to aim, random arrows are fired, the cavalry gathers together, it has become a live target, from time to time someone is shot by an arrow and falls off the horse, and even more, is shot alive into a hedgehog.

"Hiss..."Three thousand heavy armored infantry, in the blink of an eye, nearly half of them were killed and wounded, Cheng Yu, who was standing on the dirt slope in the distance, couldn't help but gasp when he saw this scene.

"Zhongde, let me ask you, do you want them to break out of the encirclement, or will they all be stopped by us?"

Frustrated Zhu suddenly turned his head to look at Cheng Yu, Cheng Yu's heart suddenly chuckled, this question, at this moment, he really didn't know how to answer, but since he had already surrendered to Chen Qi, he simply gritted his teeth and said, "Needless to say, of course, I hope to block them all." ”

The horses in front of him shouted, the sword flashed, the screams were endless, under the light of the fire, blood splashed, and after a while, the ground was already dyed red with blood, and the open jaw still did not move, even if the halberd soldier suffered heavy casualties, he could not see any fluctuations on his face.

Standing with open jaws across the horse, motionless as a pine, the thousands of cavalry behind him were also quietly motionless.

Why did Dian Wei break through to the West Gate, but Kebineng, Yan Rou and others couldn't come to support?

The reason is very simple, if he led the troops to support Zhang Jaw at the beginning, what if Zhang Xiu broke through? What if Dian Wei turns around and flees in another direction?

Guo Jia has a thousand wisdom, but at this moment, he is also powerless, so he can only watch quietly from the sidelines, no matter how many strategies he has, once he faces a life-and-death confrontation, he can only 'resign himself to fate'.

Xu Shu's layout is interlocking and layer-by-layer layout, not to mention that Guo Jiajiaxu is not a god, and there will be a miscalculation after all.

Who would have thought that the key to the problem lies in Jia Xu's poisonous plan.

Jia Xu ordered people to poison the water, and it did have a miraculous effect, but Xu Shu did everything he could, and deliberately mixed the soldiers in the pile of dead people, who would doubt it? Jia Xu didn't, and Guo Jia didn't think much about it, which just made Xu Shu's strategy perfectly displayed.

"Zhao Yun..."Hu Che'er just woke up when he heard the noise, and just came to the courtyard from the house with three shakes, and met Zhao Yun who was riding a horse.

"Huh..." hiccuped, Hu Che'er broke out in a cold sweat, and the strength of the wine suddenly woke up halfway.

However, even if he came to his senses, it was already too late, Zhao Yun galloped, rushed over like a gust of wind, Hu Che'er's eyes flashed with cold light, poof, the bright silver spear dripping blood pierced his heart without any suspense, Hu Che'er opened his mouth hard, and tried to say something, but in the end, except for two screams, he didn't say anything, and his body fell weakly. (To be continued.) )