Chapter Eighty-Six: After the War

The spear has the advantage of length, and can easily pierce and poke horses or horsemen on horseback to death. But in these years, the cavalry used as an armored vehicle is not so easy to kill. Ordinary thin spears and fragile human bodies could not stop the rushing horses from ramping and stomping.

While the pikemen stabbed and wounded the cavalry on horseback, most of them themselves were knocked down and trampled to death by the rushing horses. Horses neighed, blood splattered spears snapped, pikemen and cavalry fought each other, basically fighting for their lives.

The lives of the officers and men of the two armies are not as cheap as ants at this moment, and human life at this moment seems to be invincible to the weeds on the roadside, and every moment, every breath, there is a fresh life disappearing. In just a few moments, thousands of corpses of men and horses fell in front of the battle.

The snow bright broadsword slashed at the horse, the heavy halberd swept out in defiance of everything, and the spears and shields alone could not stop the cavalry's charge, their role was only to block the cavalry's charge.

For this kind of battle with a scale of more than 100,000 troops, ordinary soldiers and general-level masters have almost no ability to protect themselves, and only commander-level masters can barely protect themselves in the chaotic army. Infantry against cavalry, don't expect to be able to be mastered, take the head of the enemy. Heavy infantry in heavy armor and armed with broadswords are the pillars of strength.

When the speed of the cavalry is no longer some, when they face the heavy infantry wrapped in thick iron sheets, even if many Hu cavalry still have many advantages, but without the most basic speed advantage, it will be doomed to fall into the quagmire of strangulation.

At the beginning, the coalition cavalry was full of momentum, and the Ye infantry paid a lot of losses, but after the impact of the coalition cavalry was stopped, the Ye infantry reversed the disadvantage at once and began to massacre the coalition cavalry on a large scale with close coordination.

The corpses of the enemy and the enemy were indistinguishable, and the ratio of the battle losses of the coalition cavalry and the Ye infantry that had lost their impact was about two to one or even three to one. At this moment, Ye Qing really saw the magnificent scene when hundreds of thousands of troops were fighting, and he also saw the cruelty of the Cold Weapon Era, and the previous fighting methods that relied on sneak attacks and ambushes were not as shocking as they are now.

Time passed little by little, and the gore became more and more intense. Compared with the tragic scene in front of the formation, the Ye Army cavalry in the formation is completely two worlds. The battlefield was already dark, but they were still quietly waiting. Although they were always waiting for the order to attack, not a single person was killed or injured.

Although you fought to the death in front of you, the fight was extremely fierce. But the cavalry of the Ye army did not move, and the infantry of the coalition army rushed up, and they did not dare to attack with all their might. After all, the cavalry of the Ye army has not yet been dispatched, so it is really unwise to rashly press all the military strength. It can only be said that the war has been fought until now, and it has not yet entered **.

Ye Qing wanted to use the infantry to first defeat the sharpness of the opponent's cavalry, and then use the cavalry in the formation to fight back. He asked for a quick defeat of the exhausted army of the coalition with an easy army. Defeat the opponent's cavalry, and then charge the opponent's infantry.

The idea is very good, and the current war is also developing towards Liu Yu's thoughts. Under the best efforts of the Ye army, the cavalry of the Yan army became more and more exhausted, and the losses were getting bigger and bigger.

On the high ground, the battle had been going on for most of the morning. "The order went down, and the cavalry fed and hydrated, and after a quarter of an hour they were ordered to attack. Cheng Dan looked up at the sun, and the time was almost up.

This is already the last cavalry of the coalition army, the coalition army only had 50,000 cavalry in Aoba City, and 30,000 were sent out first, and these 20,000 were used as the final finale.

After all, more than half of the 30,000 cavalry surrounded by the Ye army's infantry have been lost, and now there are only more than 10,000 people who can continue to fight, and the infantry has no scruples about the existence of the Ye cavalry and dare not go all out to rescue, if the 20,000 cavalry in the finale do not attack, the remnants of the Ye army's array will not be able to hold out for too long.

The fierce battle was raging in front of the battle, and suddenly two coalition cavalry appeared, and they were 10,000 cavalry. Quickly slammed into the two ribs of Ye Jun's big array. This is not a guerrilla attack with a restrained surname, hit it, disturb it, and leave. It was a real impact, wanting to contain the Ming army on both flanks in order to relieve the pressure on the front army.

Seeing that the coalition Ye army was about to end this battle, Ye Qing did not hesitate, and immediately ordered the cavalry to attack, and at the same time contracted the formation, Ye Qing first solved the remnants of the coalition cavalry in the formation, and was dealing with the coalition army on the periphery.

"Kill......"

The horn of the attack sounded, and tens of thousands of cavalry, who had been waiting impatiently, urged them to sit down in unison. The mount slowly accelerated, the raging killing intent boiling in his heart.

The infantry, pikemen, sword and shield bearers, and heavy infantry who were still fighting just now quickly shrank into a group, and more than twenty wide gaps were cracked in the front of the wide battle array.

While the Ye infantry cracked a gap and let their own cavalry out, the coalition cavalry also took this opportunity to quickly break inside. The infantry of the coalition army was not idle, and when the Ye army changed formation, they quickly killed, wanting to kill the Ye army by surprise.

It's a pity that the Ye army is not one of those armies that has not experienced any war, and the training of the Ye army is extremely hard and strict, and this small formation change will naturally not be caught off guard.

After changing the formation, the outer infantry immediately organized an effective defense, successfully stabilized the formation, and blocked the opponent's desperate attack.

The sound of war drums in the sky, and the shouts of hundreds of thousands of troops, completely blended together. The Ye army's big array is pouring out. At the same time, the 10,000 personal guards guarding Ye Qing in front of the camp also roared towards the more than 20,000 allied cavalry in front of them

In the evening, blood stained the earth red and merged into a small stream. The sunset and blood are very dazzling. Screams, groans filled the land, and the battle had been going on for a whole day.

The soldiers on both sides were very tired, and the ordinary soldiers could not even swing their weapons, and even stood a little unsteadily. Both sides have reached the point of exhaustion, and it is a little unwise to continue fighting, and the two sides tacitly strike and return to camp.

Ye Qing withdrew to the camp, and private rooms were erected, circling around the Chinese army's tent. The two armies each pulled back their own bodies, and the fire at the baggage camp burned for a day and night, and a small forest not far from the camp was cut in half.

When a soldier becomes a soldier, he also pays attention to entering the soil for safety. But in another country, even if it is the elite who dies, who will have the energy to transport the war dead back to their hometown on the battlefield, and they will be safe in the ground. Even if Ye Qing had the heart, he was powerless on this extremely tense battlefield. can only return to his hometown from a handful of ashes, and it is better to be a ghost in a foreign land.

The ashes were all mixed together, pulled back and buried all at once. Don't say it's a small soldier, it's a petty officer such as a centurion, and it's all the same when it's hung. Only middle-level officers above the commander of a thousand commanders will be listed separately for burial.

No way, in a state of war, there are not so many rules, and there is not much time and energy wasted on this. As the commander of the first army, Ye Qing could not allow his soldiers not to return to their hometowns after death. Therefore, everyone was asked to search carefully and identify all the war dead separately.

But even so, many of the soldiers died, and they could not be identified at all, so they could only be hastily burned by the baggage battalion. Fortunately, those with military badges can recognize who is who, and the ashes may be sent back to their hometowns. Those who lost their military badges and couldn't make out their identification, so they could only mix up their ashes together, pull them back and bury them all at once.

For this, Ye Qing also had no good way. What he can do is to lead the generals and pay tribute to these military souls buried in foreign lands. Personally bury the souls of these dead in battle, and erect monuments.

This was the first large-scale battle of more than 100,000 people under Ye Qing's personal command, and it was a head-on battle, without any tricks.

Ye Qing understood that the war between races and the way of surprise attack was not a long-term way after all. It is based on the odd, the main one, and the odd is supplemented. A dignified and upright teacher, defeating the opponent is the king. Blindly relying on Qice will only harm yourself in the end.

But Ye Qing was still young after all, and he had no experience in commanding large-scale army operations, and the nervousness when he commanded and his composure when the battle situation was unfavorable almost drove him crazy. But fortunately, today, Ye Jun couldn't play as a whole, and basically reached the level of seventy percent of the usual training.

After today's experience, Ye Qing believes that in the future, when encountering such large-scale operations, he can also ensure that he can play normally and that there will be no abnormal command.

However, such a price is also very large, after the war, after the battle, a whole day of fighting, only the Ye soldiers who died directly in the battle reached 5,000, and more than 3,000 were injured and disabled. The rest suffered numerous minor wounds, among which the spearmen were the mainstay, and since the cavalry was only responsible for the final pursuit, the casualties were less than a thousand.

However, fortunately, Ye Qing had a medical spirit book in his hands, and all the wounded soldiers were treated as soon as possible after the war, which minimized the overall attrition of the Ye army.

The losses of the Ye army are like this, and the losses of the coalition forces are not small, and they can even be said to be heavy.

After the war, the corpses of the coalition troops collected by the Ye army alone from cleaning the war sites exceeded 50,000, and the captured and wounded soldiers were close to 10,000, and countless were captured

It can be said that after this battle, although the coalition forces reluctantly achieved the task of testing the strength of the Ye army, they also suffered considerable losses, and the only 50,000 cavalry troops were lost, and they also caught up with nearly Wanda infantry.

However, for the coalition army, which had an army of nearly 400,000 troops, such losses could not hurt the tibia, and even for the defending forces, the losses were almost negligible.

It's just that the loss of cavalry units has temporarily deprived the coalition side of its mobile forces, and in the future it will only be able to passively defend and lose the initiative to attack.