Chapter 198: Elite Cavalry
In the Wuping military formation, Chai Kewu stood on a tall white horse, and beside him were several battle-hardened Wuping generals. Although the order to withdraw the troops had been issued, the city seemed to be in chaos, but Chai Kewu was not as flustered as the other generals, and his expression was very calm.
Since today's battle, Chai Kewu's sharp eyes have always been firmly fixed on the battlefield, even if he saw the elephant cavalry starting to rage in the front of the Wuping army, he could only help but scold, and then his face sank like water, as if something was brewing.
"Envoy of the capital, the Han army has begun to leave the city!"
"Envoy Yudu, the Han army is less than two hundred steps away from our front army!"
"The number of Han troops attacking is too many, and our army may not be able to retreat!"
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Several light horsemen galloped from the front, quickly reporting the enemy's movements. When he heard that a large number of Han soldiers and horses had begun to pursue out of the city, intending to take advantage of the chaos to attack and kill the retreating Wuping army, Chai Kewu seemed to have picked up his mind, and immediately turned his head and said in a deep voice: "The Han army still can't hold its breath. Tell the old general Wang, it's their turn to do it!"
The scout held high the command flag and swayed rapidly in the air, and after a moment of Chai Kewu's military order, the 2,000 cavalry hidden on the flank of the Wuping army, which had been standing still, finally attacked quickly under the leadership of the commander Wang Changgeng. This veteran of Jianghuai, who was over 50 years old, rushed out from west to east with his elite cavalry, and after a hundred paces, the cavalry began to turn and rush to the battlefield.
No less than five or six thousand people of the Han army were frantically rushing to within a hundred steps in front of the Wuping array at this moment, looking at the soldiers of the Wuping army who were retreating in the elephant array not far away, and naturally thinking about how to chase and kill in their hearts, but in just a short tea time, the Han army heard the rumbling of iron hooves in horror.
Smoke and dust began to billowing from the ground in the distance, and a Wuping cavalry was like a column of sharp blades that struck at a rapid pace, quickly plunging from the land of Li Xu to the middle of the battlefield. The rushing cavalry of the Wuping army forced the Han army to stop in horror.
The veteran general Wang Changgeng rode his horse and shouted, and the two thousand cavalry raised their Zhangba spears in response, and when they approached dozens of steps in front of the Han army, Rulin's spears were flattened, and the body of the spear was tied with the reins, and the tail end was tightly pressed against the leather pocket on the saddle. Under the frightened eyes of the Han soldiers, this cavalry rushed into the formation mercilessly, and countless spears soon pierced through the bodies of one or even several Han soldiers like grasshoppers.
The Han army came from Lingnan, originally benefited from living near the sea, and there was no shortage of horses in the well-developed maritime trade, but after the Han had such a big killing weapon as a war elephant, the monarchs of the Han Dynasty did not seem to attach importance to the cavalry, resulting in the Han army from top to bottom, except for the generals, almost all of them were infantry, and the high-speed charge of the cavalry was extremely fatal to the infantry.
In addition, the armor rate of the Han army is far less than that of the Wuping army, even if there are people in armor, this body still follows the soft armor of the late Tang Dynasty military system, and the blades such as swords and spears may be able to carry a few knives, but how can they withstand the trampling of horses' hooves? The moment Wang Changgeng led the Wuping cavalry to break in, it caused terrifying casualties to the Han army.
The spears of the cavalry took the lives of hundreds of Han soldiers in an instant, and the spears were useless after the charge, according to the tactics of the previous marshal Li Yuan's training army, the cavalry abandoned the spears one after another, and then took off the swords from the saddle, and began to stab in the Han army's formation, galloping back and forth.
Wang Changgeng, as a native of Jiangnan, Xu is because of the long-term battle, but the battle is not gentle, Xu is this veteran is known for his courage and fierceness, even if he is older, since he followed Li Yuan in the Dianzhi Army, he has been repeatedly promoted, and now he has become the deputy commander of the Wuping Horse Army.
Today, Wang Changgeng still uses his old tactics, tightly surrounded by thirty tiger-backed guards, high-speed horses can not lose formation, hugging a ball like a sharp big iron cone and grinding into the Han army formation, and their hands are all dozens of pounds, long hammers or gourd hammers, these heavy weapons do not take advantage of the hand, but the heavy weapons are smashed down at high speed, the power is extremely terrifying.
Even if the soldiers of the Han army subconsciously parried with blades or shields, almost all of them were smashed to pieces with shields, and as long as they were greeted by heavy hammers, it was basically a dead end.
And Wang Changgeng and the thirty warriors beside him seemed to be handy, wielding a sledgehammer to smash the head of the Han army, the action was done in one go, without dragging the mud and water, and the head of the Han army that was smashed was as easy to collapse as a melon fruit, and the hammer in their hands was stained with blood, hair and speckled brains, such a bloody scene was really ferocious.
The soldiers of the Han army who were suddenly slaughtered, it was too late to regret at this time, even though the number was obviously far more than these cavalry, but it looked clumsy to run back and forth on their legs to dodge at this time, and the sword in their hands could occasionally pierce a high-speed galloping cavalryman, often aiming at the gap and wanting to step forward to slash, but he was always stopped by the big hammer that suddenly fell from the sky.
The Wuping cavalry has basically cut off the Han army's charging formation, and the two thousand cavalry have successfully cut the five or six thousand Han troops into two, and the front team has all fallen into a bitter battle, and the rear team at this time saw the fierce Wuping cavalry and dozens of crazy war elephants, most of them were discouraged.
Now this situation is really Chai Kewu's previous idea. This young general, who has always taken the marshal Li Yuan as an example, always kept in mind Li Dashuai's analysis of cavalry tactics in the Jiedu Embassy Office in Langzhou. Even if the enemy army is several times larger than itself on the battlefield, as long as the opponent mainly fights on foot, then only one elite cavalry is enough to turn the tide of the battle.
Today's sudden onslaught of elephant cavalry did catch Chai Kewu off guard for a while, but fortunately, the Wuping army has always had a tradition of preparing a mobile cavalry team, in order to prevent a sudden change in the battle situation, even if it cannot win, it can also use this sharp sword to cut off the enemy's offensive in time.
When witnessing Wang Changgeng's cavalry gradually split the opponent's formation, Chai Kewu's eyes lit up, and he did not hesitate to give the order to stop retreating, and the whole army turned around and attacked back as quickly as possible.
At this time, not only Chai Kewu personally went into battle, together with the miscellaneous soldiers and craftsmen who protected the grain and grass, thousands of soldiers and horses of the Chinese army all launched an attack after Chai Kewu gave the order to attack, and quickly threw themselves into the chaotic war group in front, plus the front army gathered a total of more than 10,000 soldiers and horses, forming an absolute superior force to wrap five or six thousand Han troops and dozens of war elephants that were still raging in the chaos.
Under the city of Chenzhou, there are battlefields within a radius of two or three miles, and there is no quiet place everywhere. Looking at the entire battlefield, nearly 20,000 people on both sides were like crazy beasts, all slashing and slaughtering each other with red eyes, and dozens of lives were left here forever with every breath, and finally turned from a fresh body into a stiff and cold corpse.
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