Chapter 15: Cavalry Warfare

The guards who stayed behind to cover Guan Shengyun all knew that today was their own death.

These personal guards are all Guan Shengyun's family members, and some of them are even righteous sons.

It is absolutely unthinkable for a traitor to survive!

Their lives have been firmly anchored in a chain of allegiance.

Loyalty is the most important standard of life in this era, and enemies will also respect it. If it really falls into the hands of the enemy, as long as you show enough loyalty and courage, most of them will have a happy death, and may even get a bowl of Zhuangxing wine; On the contrary, the defection of the enemy is despised by all. There are many precedents: the victor threatens, instigates, seduces, and even makes promises, and when he bends his knees, he is mocked and humiliated in every way, and dies more miserably and more slowly—in an age when humanity has not yet evolved empathy, and cruelty to one's own kind is one of the universal forms of entertainment in the world.

It goes without saying that in this way, any force wants to warn and maintain the loyalty of its subordinates.

Of course, all of the above is aimed at the bottom, but for those who are crucial, it is a different kind of drama: the threat is certainly necessary, and perhaps symbolically inflicts some suffering on the flesh - the point is stopped, and the one who does it usually does not take death seriously. This is standard procedure, and there is always a process to follow, but there will be a tacit understanding on both sides. Then the victorious side said: Mr. is so hard bones, admire it! Fold the knot and deign to give face, and even fight to get a few scolds...... The captured party put on enough shelves, fully performed enough of their own righteousness, and in the end, was "moved" by the other party...... A few scenes were done, and it was a win-win for everyone: the victor received vital information and help, and the captured were able to give an account to themselves and others: although I surrendered and personally led the enemy to trap my old club, I was moved......

The positive example is Wen Tianxiang in his previous life, who directly broke through this layer of window paper: Don't toss, I won't descend, everyone save something, be generous and righteous. The negative example is Hong Chengchou in later generations, first let his subordinates bluff a few words, and then Huang Taiji wrapped his mink coat around the old guy: Mr. Grievance is cold! The latter was "deeply moved" and bowed: "This is the true son of heaven!" Then he led the Qing army all the way to chase Nan Ming and cut ......

It's all drama.

——Pulling away from a sentence, the later Qianlong compiled "The Biography of Erchen"❷, Lao Hong was named and scolded to death, also to make a negative teaching material.

Guan Shengyun's guards all knew that they were martial artists and were not worthy of the other party's effort to perform such a play, so although their physical strength was completely overdrawn, no one hesitated - not to mention, the young family still counted on the handsome to take care of it......

Soon, more than ten horsemen in each row, separated by five or six feet from each other and ten feet deep, the three-layer defense line was sparsely opened.

In this era, the wall charge of the cavalry of later generations had not yet been invented. The Tiefutu abduction horse of the golden vulture is amazing, but unlike the tall Arabian horse and the Western Regions horse, the Hetao horse and Mongolian horse are generally short in stature, and there are few who have the physical strength to charge after putting on heavy horse armor, and occasionally one or two are kept by the generals for their own use, and it is difficult to form an army. And, thanks to the storyteller's work, the way to crack it is well known: concentrate on one or two of them with a strong bow and crossbow, and if you fall, the iron rope that maintains the line will overturn the rest, and the heavily armored knights will even have a hard time standing up, and the heavy hammer and axe infantry will begin to reap the life......

As mentioned earlier, at this time, the armor and cavalry hedges are separated from each other by a large distance. This kind of hedging needs to test bravery, physical strength, martial arts, horsemanship, luck, and most importantly...... Velocity!

Of course, if one of the sides has the advantage in forces, then it is a win: organize a multi-level charge. The opponent is a two-way column, and in the past, you can win by sending out a four-way column to meet you - no one can resist a coordinated attack from the left and right sides at the same time.

Today, however, the situation is very different.

Despite the superiority in numbers, everyone knows that today's hedge is a suicide with no chance of winning, and the price of life is to buy time for the head of the family: the opponent's target is the boss, and if you put on a small four-way column to meet the enemy head-on, with plenty of horsepower, the opponent may bypass and avoid it and pounce straight on the benefactor! Therefore, it is necessary to have a wide enough front to be effective in blocking - this means that most of the three layers of defense will run empty for nothing, and the enemy brother will be subjected to many successive attacks!

No one can survive such an attack.

But, they had no choice.

"They're all good guys!"

Seeing the line formation of the opponent to meet the enemy, Sun Jie immediately understood their intentions, and couldn't help but secretly praise himself. But then, the hatred immediately overwhelmed the feeling of sympathy between the soldiers, and a loud cry exploded between his lips again, and his legs clamped the horse's belly hard, and he met it first.

"Dashuai!"

The tiger guards who followed behind shouted loudly, wanting to rush to the front to cover, but Sun Jie turned a deaf ear.

The enemy is getting closer.

Sun Jie caught a glimpse of the enemy cavalry scattered on both flanks of the interception line desperately riding their horses towards the middle - it was definitely too late to stop him, at most he could only hit the tail of the column.

The enemy in front of him had a five-foot cavalry rifle under his rib - but there was no speed at all.

With a light swing of the saber, the back of the sword swung away from the tip of the spear, and the unconcerned horse galloped past the side of the enemy horseman—the guards behind him would naturally take care of him.

Sure enough, in a breath, the screams of the enemy were heard in my ears.

The guard, who followed Sun Jie with less than a horse body, swung his knife at will at the enemy horse whose weapon was swung open between the chest and abdomen, and the steel blade easily split the enemy's breastplate and the cotton lining inside with the help of the huge momentum of the galloping horse, and from the center of the body to the right rib, a knife edge of nearly 2 feet was cut, and Bai Sensen's rib stubble was immediately flooded with blood, and internal organs flowed out.

The rider looked down at his wound in horror and let out a terrible scream.

The third cavalry of the column did not continue to make a useless attack, but tapped the enemy's mount with the back of his sword, driving it away a little so as not to block the brother behind, and the frightened horse swooped outward, and the master fell to one side, his intestines dragged to the ground, and the screams came to an abrupt end.

The tiger guard at the back knocked lightly on the stirrup, stimulated by the spurs, and the war horse suddenly exerted its strength, sweeping through the gap between the enemy horses outflanked by the two wings.

The second opponent Sun Jie encountered had already set his horse and brandished a one-man tall sword to block the way.

The straddled horse was reluctant to crash into it, slowing down and trying to avoid it. Sun Jie swung his knife to block a powerful slash, feeling his arm numb. The other party did not attack again, but threw the horse sword splitter over! He then swooped up from his horse, and threw himself with his arms outstretched, as if he wanted to hold himself!

This completely fatal style of play greatly surprised Sun Jie: over the years, the enemy has thrown swords many times, but no one has ever thrown a horse battle in the first round of the battle! Hurriedly dodging, his shoulder was still brought by the long handle, and before he felt pain, the opponent had already pounced regardless of it, and firmly grasped his shoulder armor with both hands! The war horse was also startled, and with a long neigh, the man stood up, shook his head and stomped, and swayed his body sharply, trying to shake off this suddenly increased burden.

The horse's speed dropped to zero all at once!

The war knife was still held in the air, the shoulder was grabbed by the enemy, and the four eyes were facing each other, Guan Yehuo's appearance was engraved in Sun Jie's mind from then on, and it still lingered after many years - this is a later story.

The guards galloping behind him ignored Sun Jie, who was almost dragged off his horse, and Guan Yehuo, who was entangled with him, and rode his horse past the side, and with a loud roar, he could take the nail gun of the third enemy who stabbed Sun Jie's vest and entangled with the other party.

The third cavalry of the column swung his sword and slashed at the right arm of the enemy who grabbed the shoulders of the great handsome, and Sun Jie was immediately splashed all over his face by the blood spurting from the broken arm. In the scream, the enemy's left hand also let go, and just after falling off the horse, he stumbled two steps before being beheaded by Sun Jie, who turned the horse's head, and the iron helmet opened in response. The saber was blocked by the iron helmet, and only half of the skull was split before the skull was embedded, and he didn't pull it out, seeing that there were enemy horses rushing to the front, Sun Jie decisively let go, pulled out the spare saber from the saddle sheath, and knocked the stirrup to meet it...... Because cavalry warfare is easy to cause weapons to get off or damaged, and cavalry is the elite of a hundred battles without worrying about funds, the standard weapon configuration of cavalry at that time, in addition to the long soldiers who charge into battle, will generally carry more than two melee weapons, and some even more. The generals generally do not use the standard equipment issued by the Ministry of War, and they are all customized by themselves.

The enemies at both ends of the interception line gradually gathered over, and the tiger guards also gave up the pursuit because of Sun Jie, and guarded the marshal, the horses' hooves were staggered, and the two sides were entangled and scuffled together.

❶ Lao Hong slept with Xiaozhuang or something, he was a shameless person, don't bother with those stinky and shameless. Some people who are so despicable and dark that they find a balance in women by themselves: Xia Ji chased because of Yuxi (note, "Yu" is not "sister", the sound is "end". Of course, the ancients did not have the "Xinhua Dictionary" and Hanyu Pinyin, the Han Dynasty used to use a knife to carve bamboo pieces, and it was not possible to carve it too hard, so there were also written as "sister Xi", which cannot be miscalculated, but after all, it is better to say that Yu Xi big is better) love to tear silk and love to drink, Shang Xuan's death is because he is too ruthless, the Tang Dynasty is because Yang Guifei's skin is too white and she has to eat lychees, don't look at the Great Song Dynasty was beaten all over the ground looking for teeth, She Taijun, who was more than 100 years old, led a group of widows to beat the Liao people miserably (the subtext is that we beat our wives, My wife beat you, so don't look at us being beaten by you, in fact, we still win, and if you don't win once, you can win twice)......

❷ Appendix Qianlong Edict said:

At the beginning of the founding of our dynasty, the ministers of the late Ming Dynasty were attached to the wind. For example, Hong Chengchou used to be a master of the scriptures, and captured and surrendered; Zu Dashou was afraid of disaster and brought the city to vote. At the time of Dingding, if Feng Quan, Wang Duo, Song Quan, Jin Zhijun, Dang Chongya, etc., had been among the iron in the Ming Dynasty*, and they were still cabinet ministers in this dynasty. As for what Tiange pointed out, disarming and begging, such as Zuo Mengeng, Tian Xiong, etc., are innumerable. Gai created the scale of great unification, and had to be hired since he had to be added, so as to appease the people's hearts and be obedient to the light.

In the aftermath of the matter, if everyone is a victorious minister, it is a difficult time, and he cannot be ordered to be in danger for his master, and he is afraid of death and survives, and he is humiliated, how can he be called a perfect person! Even if there is a slight long record, its flaws cannot be hidden. If Li Jiantai and Jin Shenghuan, who surrendered and rebelled, and Qian Qianyi, who subjugated and slandered after surrendering, they would be especially evil, and they would not be as good as human beings.

Those who have lost in such great festivals cannot read their meritorious deeds and forgive them during their lifetime; Nor because he has descendants, he is dead. Now it is reasonable to take the case, since there should be a separate "Biography of the Second Minister" in the history of the country, and the famous deeds of the ministers and the Shiben Dynasty will be written directly according to the facts, so that they cannot be subtlely concealed, that is, the so-called filial sons and grandsons can not be changed...... This is really the most righteous heart of my great and middle, and it is always planted for the courtiers of all ages! ”

*It seems to be "rank" - the original Baidu copied, it should be Du Niang, you are wrong......

Translated into Modern Chinese Simplified Version:

1, the people who surrendered at the beginning were all bastards, and bastards don't have to be used in vain.

2. The one who surrendered once was a bastard, the one who surrendered several times was a super bastard, and the one who was obedient and resentful on the surface was still a bastard.

3, a bastard will always be a bastard, and your uncle will see who will dare to be a bastard in the future.

4, I am the most upright, come out if you are not convinced, look at the knife!

Chin this!