5. The decisive battle on the hill
"I'm going to pick a cleaner one to wear," Meng Lin rummaged through Lu Chengjun's coat, "Do you think this trick will succeed?"
"The soldiers are not tired of cheating, we boys walk in front of the team to confuse them, Pengcheng does not have binoculars, if no one informs them, no one must be able to see it. "Yu Feng is right this time, in the world of countries where reconnaissance technology and information are extremely underdeveloped, this kind of camouflage is almost impossible to detect.
From a distance, the soldiers in the team did not have the banner of Fu Yang's allied army, but instead had the banner clothing of Lu and Peng......
On the other side, the mound.
"It's not going to be good, Xiaoying. Kaori tightened the reins.
"It's said don't learn from Yumi to call me like that, this situation is not just bad to describe......" Duanmu felt that Xiaoying's title really didn't fit her style.
"Visually, the other side has more than 600 chariots, but we only have 300 chariots. Yumi looked at the other party's military appearance, "Yufeng is right, our side can only use roundabout tactics to delay time as much as possible." β
"It's a bad feeling to be a bait. β
"No matter how much chariots there are, they're just decorations," Ashina Yunxuan patted his horse forward, "General Gongxi has accepted our proposal to fight with cavalry." β
"Cavalry, but we don't have many horses. β
"Aren't there four horses on every chariot? That's a thousand two hundred horses, and together with the horses that carry the grain and the baggage, we get three thousand horses. Since ancient times, the steppe overlord has been able to sweep across the Eurasian continent by cavalry, and no matter how powerful the enemy is, he can only turn into cannon fodder. Ashina Yunxuan was excited, and began to speak incoherently again.
"The whole army obeys the order, abandon the chariot, and the good riders get on their horses and line up!" the herald gave the official order.
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"Be careful!" As soon as Yumi's words fell, Duanmu Ying fell off the horse again, but fortunately she was strong and not injured.
"There are no stirrups, no saddles, and no protective gear, how can you fight like this?" Duanmu Ying gave up trying again.
"This is the advantage of our steppe people, even if they don't have any equipment, they can still kill the enemy with horses. "Ashina Yunxuan took Yuwen Fangxuan and Poliu Han Yueqing to fly on the horse, and ran back and forth around the military formation for three times, during which they also performed a horse battle, so handsome!
Legend has it that the Hu people had cavalry as early as the Western Zhou Dynasty to the Spring and Autumn Period, and they were also the inventors of stirrups and saddles. Duanmu Ying had to take it.
In the Zhou Dynasty, the role of cavalry was to be used as scouts, that is, small units responsible for reconnaissance and transmission of news, and there were basically no large-scale cavalry units. The reason for this is that without stirrup and saddle technology, it is difficult for people to master the balance on a running horse, and their hands cannot be freed, let alone fight, so it was not until the middle and late Warring States period that cavalry gradually developed in Zhao and Qin.
Pengcheng and LΓΌ Cheng, as southern countries, naturally had no experience in fighting cavalry.
"The freshman is responsible for pinning down the enemy's left division. β
"Okay, watch my glaive dagger shine on this battlefield!"
The Pengcheng army began to beat the drums, and the chariots also moved with it, forming a conical charge.
"Beat the drums! Each department keeps in mind its mission!" Gongxi Zimin also oozed beads of sweat from his head.
Fu Yang's 3,000 cavalry was exhausted, and the soldiers were divided into three ways to smash the enemy's formation, and the remaining infantry tried to go up the hill as much as possible, and no matter how powerful the chariot was, it could not go up the mountain.
Peng Cheng didn't expect that Fu Yang would give up the chariot and switch to cavalry tactics, and in the blink of an eye, the cavalry had already stepped in front of him, and more than a dozen chariots could not be evaded and overturned.
The purpose of Fu Yang's cavalry team was not to break into the Pengcheng camp, and after a successful blow, they retreated in a roundabout way, without fighting.
Seeing this, General Peng Cheng ordered the left and right divisions to pursue, while the rest of the divisions continued to advance.
The three cavalry turned their horses around and dodged a head-to-head confrontation with their pursuers, and the cavalry was like three sharp swords inserted into the middle of the enemy's army, causing chaos.
The advantages and disadvantages of the chariot are very prominent, the frontal impact ability and breakthrough ability are extremely strong, and the corresponding steering is very difficult, and the slightest poor control of the master can lead to a rollover or crash. Fu Yang's cavalry broke into the enemy formation from the flanks and rear, causing serious infestation, and the chariots had to turn to charge, but before they could turn their horses, the cavalry team had already marched away.
Coincidentally, all the students in Class B in the school were assigned to the Back Route Army, and most of the students in Class B were descendants of grassland nomads like Ashina Yunxuan, and horseback riding was commonplace, perhaps this was providence.
General Peng Cheng is not a straw bag, he saw that Fu Yang's infantry army was hiding on the hillside, and only sent cavalry to charge, these cavalry also fought and left, and the losses caused were very limited, he began to order the whole army to turn to the defensive, and the troops who rushed up were retracted, and quickly stabilized their positions.
At this time, it is difficult for Fu Yang's cavalry to break through, three teams of men and horses are wandering outside the formation, it is best to use cavalry to attack at this time, but where can this temporarily formed cavalry team master such a high-level technology, in history, it took several years for King Zhao Wuling to create a cavalry and archery force with considerable combat effectiveness, and now Fu Yang's army may become the opponent's arrow target.
"It's not going to go on like this, I have to find a way to boost everyone's morale. Duanmu Ying's hands were itching, "Kaori, do you dare to pull me in?"
"Why don't you dare?" Kaori urged the war horse and rode the light car forward, and the two of them were going to stage a good show of double entering the Dragon Pool.
Kaori's driving skills are really not blown, the enemy's dense arrows failed to hurt the chariot and horses, the chariot went straight to the front of the Pengcheng army, the two of them jumped up by inertia, each jumped on the enemy's chariot, knocked the people in the car over, and jumped into the second car with the help of strength......
The people of Pengcheng couldn't help but be afraid when they saw such a brave and warlike woman for the first time, Duanmu Ying's big sword danced like flying, and in the blink of an eye, four or five chariots had been destroyed, and dozens of people couldn't stop her progress at all.
Many Peng and Lu soldiers have heard of the deeds of Lie Yufeng defeating the state of Qi with his own strength, but no one has ever seen Lie Yufeng, could it be that this female general in front of him is? The other army and soldiers couldn't help but feel a little more afraid in their hearts, seeing that Duanmu Ying was about to kill under the banner of the front, Peng Cheng's division commander raised his sword to fight, and the two of them raised their swords at the same time, each showing their abilities. Duanmu Ying knew that what she wanted to do was to cut down the banner, so she shook her knife and turned around to kill in the direction of the military flag. The two started a fight, Duanmu Ying used the flagpole as a cover, dodged left and right, so that the other party was not angry, and finally one was not careful, the big knife slashed his own flagpole, Duanmu Ying made up for it, and the banner of the front army fell in response.
The commander was annoyed and angry, and was about to step forward to fight with Duanmu Ying, but was knocked down by the horse behind him, and fainted after rolling a few laps, it turned out that Kaori grabbed a chariot to come to meet him.
"It's handsome enough, if you're a boy, the girls in Fuyang will be fascinated by you. β
"It's time to go back?"
"Yes, there is a limit to how handsome you can be. β
"Go back and tell Lie Yufeng about my performance, let's go!" Duanmu Ying jumped into the car, and the two rushed out of the enemy formation again, and the frightened Pengcheng people almost did not stop them, and "released" them out of the formation.
When the two of them bravely broke into the enemy formation, Fu Yang's cavalry team still could not find a good breakthrough, and only retreated after tentative contact. Seeing that the war was in a stalemate, it was difficult to win for a while, and finally chose Mingjin to withdraw his troops.
The first round ended with Fu Yang winning a small victory......