Chapter 268: The People's Heart
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Gao Kaidao's infantry army was originally following behind the people, but when they saw that the homeless people in front of them had actually captured, the front army camp of the Cangtou Army suddenly felt that it was a plan, and immediately led the army to rush forward.
Although the start was passive, Eto, Yinghefu, and Yan also gave full play to the advantages of the steppe cavalry, and the 9,000 cavalry, 5,000 foot soldiers who opened the road around the front, came to the front of the car camp where more than 10,000 auxiliary troops were erected.
The auxiliary army of Gao Kaidao set up a circular formation, surrounded by baggage vehicles, and the battalion vehicles were connected at the end of the end. The auxiliary army was hiding in it, and when Eto saw it, he did not attack but let the cavalry make a circle, like a windmill turning, and rode around the camp on horseback and shooting.
After several years of war, it is a succession of victories, the cavalry equipment of the Xi army has long been updated, a large number of iron weapons have been used, although it is impossible to have a whole body of iron armor, but many nomadic cavalry, all to Yuyi Town to change iron, the horse head wrapped in iron, as for the iron pocket is also to find a way to get one, as for other iron tools are also to find a way to get it. As for the farriers, many horses with iron stirrups have also been replaced.
The Xi people's fan cavalry is simply refreshing, almost the equipment of the Sui army's light cavalry.
Of course, the most important thing for the light cavalry is the bow, each ride is two bows, most of them are hard bows made of buffalo horns, and the arrow is no longer a bone tied to a branch or a stone in the past, it is a real iron arrowhead.
The combat strength of such light cavalry has increased much compared to the past, and the car battalion where the auxiliary army is located was suddenly attacked by arrows from all directions. Gao Kaidao's auxiliary troops, although they are all young and strong, are all holding bamboo spears and short bows.
But the archers of the auxiliary army, as soon as they tried to shoot arrows, were so shot by the rain of arrows from all directions that they could not lift their heads, and they were completely suppressed by the random arrows of the rangers. The arrows and feathers scurried, and many rice bags on the baggage carts shot out more than a dozen eyes, and yellow corn was scattered all over the ground. But the auxiliary army, which was suppressed by the bow and arrow, buried their heads in their wolf bèi, hid in the baggage carts, and did not dare to return fire at all.
The offensive of the rangers immediately drew Li Hu's attention, the Wansheng army was the proton army of various departments, and the assault cavalry regiment was the ironclad cavalry established by Li Chongjiu by Wang Mahan, all of which were elite and very powerful. But in any case, no cavalry general, whether riding or not, would not be a strong infantry phalanx equipped with strong bows and crossbows, iron spears and heavy armor as a last resort.
Li Hu would not do the same, he took advantage of the front of the army to shake, and then led the armored cavalry, went around the flank and attacked the auxiliary army behind Gao Kaidao.
In the military book Tang and Li's questioning, the cavalry is divided into war horses, cavalry horses, and rangers. The ranger is a light cavalry without a coat, and the war horse is a cavalry with armor, half-body armor, and some armor.
Li Hu ordered Etuo to lead the rangers to lag behind, and now broke through the formation with Wang Ma Han's war cavalry, and attacked the auxiliary army behind Gao Kaidao. Seeing that the rear was attacked, Gao Kaidao decisively ordered the infantry army to return to reinforce the auxiliary army, and the 2,000 cavalry on the side also joined the battle and rescued the auxiliary army together.
The auxiliary army in the chariot camp had already been hit by the rain of arrows, and lost the courage to shoot arrows against Wang Mahan's iron cavalry, so Wang Mahan's assault cavalry regiment simply dismounted and fought on foot, and after breaking through a hole outside the chariot camp, the infantry army entered. And Eto, the Inghefu and their rangers simply delayed the movement of the high open road, and the cavalry galloping to help.
Although the infantry army of Gao Kaidao marched slowly, this infantry army, which had only been in existence for two years, was also very brave and well-trained, although it was reinforcements, but the formation was not chaotic.
In the past, as seen on TV, on both sides of the army, the general raised his arms and shouted, and then countless men and horses behind him charged against the straggler line, in ancient wars, except for the villagers fighting, it would never appear.
The role of the formation is first of all to prevent one's own side from escaping, and it can also prevent people from pushing others, charging forward or trampling on each other when retreating. The Song Dynasty, which lost its horse grazing land in history, armed its infantry with strong crossbows and heavy armor, against the nomadic cavalry such as Shangxi Xia and Khitan, in fact, the battle victory rate generally reached 80% to 90%.
It's just that because of the lack of cavalry, there is no strategic mobility, the rangers are generally luring the enemy to go deeper, gather and annihilate the tactics, once surrounded, it is the end of the annihilation of the whole army, so once defeated is a fiasco, and the defeat of the Khitan and Western Xia is actually just repulsed, and the results are not obvious, so the superficial phenomenon of weak Song is given.
Therefore, seeing that Gao Kaidao's foot soldiers rushed to reinforce him, Eto and the others changed their tactics at the moment, constantly copying the flanks and rear of Gao Kaidao's foot soldiers, delaying the opponent's forward speed. At this time, Gao Kaidao's cavalry came again, and Yan Yelie personally stepped forward to intercept it.
The cavalry of Gao Kaidao was all trained by the Turks, and its general, Ashina Kush, personally led nearly 100 Turkic wolf cavalry to rush ahead. Ashina Kush is a Turkic agent, who has a three-stone strong bow, has been in the Han region for a long time, and is well familiar with the strength of his subordinate cavalry. The cavalry of the Murwei Department were all shocked when they saw it.
Among the four divisions of the grassland, Etuo and Yinghe Fu have been sinicized for the longest time, and they have the support of Li Chongjiu, so their combat power is the strongest, while Yan Yelie is in the north, and most of his subordinates are combined with cavalry of various departments, so their combat power is slightly weaker.
Ashina Kush led the cavalry to counterattack, and Yan Yelie's army was defeated, with more than 200 cavalry casualties. Seeing that the Gao Kaidao cavalry was so powerful, Li Hu immediately led the Wansheng army to meet the charge, which slightly restrained the charge of the Ashina Kush cavalry, and at the same time ordered Wang Mahan to withdraw his troops.
At this time, Wang Mahan had defeated more than 3,000 auxiliary army battalions and killed five or six hundred people. After Wang Ma Han heard the order, he still felt that it was not enjoyable, but he could only collect his troops, and the soldiers withdrew from the defeated chariot camp and remounted their horses.
As soon as the cavalry approached, they were shot off by the strong crossbows in the array, and as for the charging formation, in the face of the hoplites with swords, iron spears and iron shields, it was okay, so the battle line was pushed over in one breath.
At that moment, Li Hu ordered the troops to be collected and returned to the camp, and the Gao Kaidao army also disengaged from contact and returned to the original place, and the two sides stopped fighting, as for the nearly 10,000 people in the camp of the Chinese army in front, they had already surrendered to Sun Erniang.
The two sides fought for half a day, Ying Hefu, Eto, and Yan also lined up three divisions of more than 400 cavalry, while the Gao Kaidao auxiliary army was defeated, and the people were rescued by the Cangtou army, and the two armies seemed to be evenly divided.
But for Gao Kaidao, this deal is still cost-effective, the people's auxiliary army is an abandoned son he has set up a long time ago, even if it is all gone, it doesn't matter, but it saves food and grass, only 5,000 armored foot soldiers, and 2,000 cavalry, which is his descendant.
The two armies fought against each other, Li Hu was to contain Miyun, more than 20,000 people in Yanle and Yanle, the local people knew Li Hu, and their subordinates were merciful before the battle.
After Gao Kaidao and Li Hu confronted him for ten days, he was shocked to learn that the rear of Yuyang was attacked by Li Chongjiu, the general of Liaoxi County, and the general Zhang Jinshu was defeated and lost his troops.
Gao Kaidao was shocked, Yuyang County was the place to start, this time in order to meet Li Hu, he dispatched all the elites, so the rest of Yuyang were old and weak soldiers.
The back road was cut off, Gao Kaidao immediately decided to lead the army to retreat overnight, and Li Hu immediately led the cavalry to pursue it in separate directions. Gao Kaidao arranged for Xie Lingwei to be the army that dared to die after the palace, and led 1,000 regular troops and 2,000 auxiliary troops to choose a dangerous defense to block Li Hu's cavalry for a day and night.
But the army behind the Gao Kai Dao Palace could not escape the fate of being annihilated, Xie Lingwei knew that the defeat was hopeless, and led a hundred dead soldiers alone, and the conflict Li Hu's Chinese army was killed, and all 3,000 of his troops were annihilated, but after the Gao Kaidao gecko broke its tail, he successfully led the army back to Yuyang County day and night. The main force of Gao Kaidao returned to the top of the raid, and immediately led the army to retreat to Liaoxi County with twenty carts full of baggage from looting Gao Kaidao's hometown.
This Gao Kaidao is used to being the only one who robs others, this time he finally pecked the geese to the eye, met the Taoist experts and Xi people, and finally planted, not only that, but also lost Anle County, and now can only retreat to Yuyang County and Beiping County Luo Yi, echoing each other.
The Cangtou army defeated Gao Kaidao, and a day later, there were well-informed people who spread to Zhuo County, and the inns and restaurants full of inns were talking about this time.
Even if it is Mingyue Tower, of course, Chunxi Holly heard about it from the serving maids of other famous people, and as for the rest of the famous people, of course, there is no shortage of dignitaries and dignitaries, and they are told about their current affairs.
Even if Li Chongjiu didn't need Lin Dangfeng's advice, he was already listening to the two girls of Chunxi and Holly in the Mingyue Building, chatting left and right like cross talk.
"Holly, you said that Gao Kaidao captured Changping and killed so many county soldiers and township soldiers, is it true?"
"Yes, the thief killed this day has been ravaging Youzhou for several years, and a few girls in Qingdai Courtyard don't dare to cry when they hear the name of the thief at night."
"Then you said that Li Chongjiu of the Cangtou Army was defeated, and Gao Kaidao was considered to have done a good thing for the people of Youzhou, so is he more powerful than Gao Kaidao."
"Whether it's a good deed or not, it's hard to say, but it's definitely more powerful than Gao Kaidao."
"Why don't you say you don't necessarily do good deeds?"
"Because many people in the neighborhood say that this Li Chongjiu also has ambitions for Youzhou."
"In this way, but the people of the people all say good things about him, I heard that this time the Cangtou army attacked Anle County, and the thieves actually forced the innocent people to go into battle to attack the Cangtou army, and as a result, they fought for the loss of their men and horses, and also saved these people, and now the people of Anle County, who does not read his kindness, that is the real Buddha of ten thousand families."
Li Chongjiu listened to these two maids, you and I said word by word, and also figured out the ins and outs of the matter, Li Hu's decision, he didn't agree with it at the time, after all, as a warlord in troubled times, his own army is important.
But listening to the gratitude of the people and the evaluation of the maids, and taking all the credit to himself, Li Chongjiu couldn't help but feel ashamed.