Chapter 220: Running Wolf Ride
After Tang Xiaohao said that he couldn't use force, he sat there all the time, staring at the head of the funeral building hanging from the wooden stick in a daze, thinking about what to do next.
In any case, as long as you reach the territory of Johara, you must avoid using force as much as possible.
At this time, the little bell, who had been silent, suddenly saw something, raised his hand and pointed to the grassland and said, "What are those? A piece of black pressing."
When everyone heard this, they looked in the direction pointed by the little bell, and saw that something was sweeping across the north of the grassland, as if a black wave had suddenly risen in the depths of the grassland.
The black wave was illuminated by the afterglow of the setting sun, paving the black surface with a layer of gold.
As the golden black wave got closer and closer, there was also the sound of iron hooves stomping on the ground, like a golden drum sounding in unison. At the same time, more than a dozen black flags with gold edges appeared at the forefront of the black wave, and at the same time, the horn of the charge began to sound.
After hearing the sound of the horn and seeing the wolf banner clearly, Childa excitedly said to Bao Meng, "Princess, it's the wolf rider, it's the wolf rider of our Tuo Si Division!"
Bao Meng also immediately became excited, and the little bell was still expressionless, but the faces of Tang Xiaohao, Ji Chengying, Su Mu and Gu Huaiyi became extremely ugly.
Why?
Because the Wolf Riding is the most powerful cavalry of the Rouyuan Torth Division, its predecessor is the wolf division under the command of the first female clan king Sarena who truly unified the Rouyuan.
In the war to unify the Johor Plains, Sarina once suffered a crushing defeat due to bad weather.
In order to preserve her strength, Sarena could only let her army break through and escape from the encirclement, and in order to reduce the target, Sarena only brought twenty Boda when she broke through the siege.
Boda refers to the king's warriors in the Joharan language.
After Sarena and the twenty bodas broke out of the siege, they suffered heavy casualties, and in the end only five bodas remained, and all of them were seriously wounded, but at this time, they were besieged by steppe wolves.
Wolves are originally social animals, unless it is a special case, there are few wolves that live alone, and the number of wolves is generally not more than fifty, except for the old, weak, sick and disabled, there are about twenty of them are full of combat effectiveness.
But don't underestimate these twenty steppe wolves, the steppe wolves are different from the mountain wolves, and the tactics used are so special that many of the tactics in the Tors army were learned from the steppe wolves.
Seriously wounded, Salena and the five Boda miraculously survived the siege of the wolves, and then Sarina set up the Wolf Division on the basis of the five people in order to commemorate this event, and all the generals and soldiers in the Wolf Division are the elite selected from the army, and they are all warriors who are one in a hundred, and everyone can be named Boda.
It can be said that it was precisely because of the formation of this cavalry called the Wolf Division that Sarena was able to truly unify the Rouyuan, and after gathering all the tribes, she established the Torth Division.
After the establishment of the Dachang Dynasty, the Tors Department had rebelled, and the first army sent to quell the rebellion was the elite under the command of Emperor Dingyuan at that time, known as the Huayuan Divine General.
Who knows, after the Huayuan Divine General entered the Rouyuan, he directly encountered the wolf division.
Although the Huayuan Divine General had long heard of the ferocity of the wolf division and did not dare to underestimate the enemy, he did not expect that the Tuo Si Department had no intention of negotiating at all, so he directly sent the wolf division to launch a frontal charge.
Although the army of the Dachang Dynasty was equipped with firearms at that time, it was basically artillery.
These artillery pieces must be put in formation, unified use in order to exert its power, the wolf division is also well aware of the horror of artillery, so it directly adopted the tactics of surprise attack, deliberately let the Huayuan God General Division enter the vast and vast grassland, because the terrain of the grassland has an absolute advantage over the wolf division's iron cavalry.
Therefore, before the Huayuan Divine General Division had time to put out the rejection horse and deploy the artillery, the Wolf Division directly killed it.
Although the front army of Huayuan Shen's division lined up the shield array, but in the final analysis, those shield formations were only to prevent arrows, and they couldn't prevent the sudden attack and charge of the wolf division.
When the commander of the divine general division came back to his senses, the light cavalry of the wolf division had already arrived in front of him, and the leader of the light cavalry directly cut off the head of the commander, took the commander's flag, and then inserted the commander's head on the banner.
Although the generals of the front, middle and rear armies were still trying to mobilize the army and boost morale, the strange thing is that the wolf division suddenly retreated.
At this time, the remaining generals of the Divine General Division understood that the target of the Wolf Division's surprise attack was their commander.
Although the wolf division also suffered heavy losses, it at least achieved the intended tactical purpose, and the strategic purpose of this surprise attack was to shock the Huayuan Divine General Division and fundamentally crush their morale.
After the wolf division retreated, Huayuan Shen's division was revitalized on the spot, because of the loss of the commander, I don't know what to do next, whether to continue to advance or withdraw.
Without a commander, the whole army could only fly pigeons and send a message back to the capital to report to the imperial court, and at the same time stationed in the camp on the spot and set up a good position.
But just when the Divine General Division was stationed in the camp, a detachment of the Wolf Division that had bypassed to their rear along the foot of Wulian Mountain suddenly came out again, and once again caught them off guard.
The most terrifying thing is that the wolf division detachment of this surprise attack is only about 500 people, and these 500 people are all lightly armed, and they know that they have no intention of going back alive when they look at the formation.
Although in the end, the five hundred cavalry of the wolf division were completely annihilated, but it completely crushed the morale of the Divine General's Division, and in the face of these extremely brave and fierce Tors soldiers who were not afraid of death at all, those soldiers of the Divine General's Division did not even dare to close their eyes when they slept, and pricked up their ears to listen to the surrounding movements at any time, not to mention the sound of horses' hooves, even a little wind and grass made them tremble.
The story of the first confrontation with the wolf master, except for the little bell, everyone present knew it, and the clearest one was Gelda.
Because Childa used to be a member of the wolf division, it was precisely because of his outstanding achievements in the wolf division that he climbed all the way and finally became Wanhu Bo Jin.
When Gerda excitedly told Bao Meng part of his experience at this time, he found that Tang Xiaohao and the others looked at him wrongly.
Bao Meng touched Childa with his hand and motioned for him to shut up.
Childa is certainly a brave warrior who is not afraid of death on the battlefield, and a general who will never back down, but on weekdays he does not know how to communicate in situations at all, and he does not know when to say anything.
Ji Chengying also heard stories about the wolf division when he was very young, and part of the reason why the Dachang Dynasty established the Iron Armor Guard was because of the wolf division, because Emperor Dingyuan believed that the Dachang Dynasty must also have an army stronger than the wolf division.
Therefore, Tang Xiaohao, who is the son of Tang Chen, the commander of the Iron Guard, naturally also knows the horror of the wolf division, because Tang Chen often recounts that battle to the generals and soldiers under his command, so that they always remember the shame of that time, and also tells them not to think that the Torsi Department is just a group of barbarians, and their fighting skills and tactical bravery on the grassland are no less than the army of the imperial court.
As for Gu Huaiyi, he knew that the wolf master was still a student, and before he became a strategist, he had analyzed this battle more than once with the former great strategist Hu Shen, because in this battle, the strategist who was originally with the army collapsed directly after seeing the commander being beheaded in front of his eyes, and then became a waste.
Gu Huaiyi clearly remembered what Hu Shen said during his analysis: "At the time of that battle, the Tors Division did not have a decent military advisor and strategist, but the Wolf Division relied on the experience of grassland operations to formulate that tactic of the main strange and hidden qi, which directly caused the divine general division who still retained its strength to stop."
In the art of war, the so-called main strange hidden qi is a combat method that uses surprise attacks as a tactic and crushes the opponent's morale as a strategy.
Strange battles, there are clouds in the war book: all battles, the so-called strange ones, attack them unprepared, and surprise them. When fighting, the front is frightened and the rear is covered, and the east and west are attacked, so that the enemy does not know what to prepare, so that the victory will be won. The law says, if the enemy is weak, I will be surprised.
The so-called strange is to make the enemy unprepared and unguardable. The two armies engaged each other, threatening the enemy in front and attacking the enemy from the rear. The purpose of the easterly assault is to attack the west, so that the enemy does not know where to fortify, so that the advance can be won. Therefore, to create a situation where the enemy cannot be defended, it is necessary to use surprise weapons.
The most unexpected tactic of the wolf division at that time was to rush into the Chinese army at any cost and take the head of the commander.
At that time, there were more than 50,000 people in Huayuan Shen's division and the baggage to transport materials in the rear, and the wolf division claimed to be 20,000, but it was found that there were less than 10,000, only more than 8,000 people.
Even if the Huayuan Divine General Division has at least 40,000 people with combat ability in addition to the baggage, 20,000 of them are veterans of a hundred battles, even if it is 20,000 against 8,000, plus they are also equipped with firearms, once the formation is opened, even if the 8,000 people of the wolf division are surrounded from all directions, it is still looking for death.
The cavalry is most afraid of long-distance arrows and artillery, and the cavalry must play its speed advantage, quickly rush into the enemy's formation, and form a deterrent to its infantry, not to mention the weapons in their hands, that is, the iron hooves of the war horse can cause serious psychological pressure on the enemy infantry.
And all this has a premise, and the premise is that at the beginning of the rebellion of the Tors Ministry, it only arrogantly informed the imperial court, but did not take the initiative to attack, creating a false impression for the imperial court, that is, the Tors Ministry wanted to stick to the Rouyuan City.
Therefore, at that time, the imperial court believed that as long as the army entered the territory of Rouyuan, even if it encountered the army of the Tors Department head-on, the Huayuan Divine General could defeat it, and then quickly attack the city and besiege the city to force it to surrender.
At that time, the Tors Department did not send troops directly, just to wait for the main force of the imperial army to enter the combat environment favorable to them, and it was a surprise attack launched at noon in broad daylight.
Noon was the time when people were sleepy and tired, and although the Divine General had expected the Torth Division to attack, he was wary of the evening or night, and he did not expect it to be noon.
Because the other party is also a human being, the Divine General will be sleepy and sleepy, and the Wolf Master will naturally be too.
However, the wolf master was full of wine and food before noon, and after a short rest, he was full of energy and suddenly attacked.
A useful art of war is always to judge the enemy's next move, or to make the enemy misjudge his next move, if you can use unconventional tactics at this time, you can achieve the effect of surprise.
This is the so-called skillful warfare in the art of war, and it is the so-called reversal of skill.