Chapter 0318 The soldiers are not too expensive
At the end of December, Shi only led more than 400,000 troops out of Handan, with Zhang Hedu as the vanguard general, leading 50,000 soldiers and horses into Changcheng and preparing to attack Yecheng.
In the first month of 345 AD, the allied forces of the princes gathered in Changcheng, and Zhang Hedu led the army to capture Yin'an and stationed in Chaoqiao. Shi Kun, the king of Ruyin, Zhang Ju and Wang Lang, led 70,000 soldiers to attack Yecheng.
At this critical juncture, Ran Min only brought more than a thousand cavalry to meet the battle in the north of Yecheng!
These more than 1,000 cavalry are not other strong troops, they are the most powerful elite under Ran Min - the broken barracks!
"Kill! Kill! Kill! β¦β¦β
"Knock knock! β¦β¦β
Seeing that Ran Min only brought more than a thousand iron cavalry to fight to meet him, Shi Kun was stunned for a moment, and then couldn't help laughing loudly: "Hahahaha!" Ran Min! Is that all you have under your command? In front of the 70,000 soldiers and horses under the command of the Lone King, these more than 1,000 people are just mantis arms as a car, just like a stream facing the ocean! β
Ran Min still shouted very calmly: "Shi Kun, believe it or not, today's widows can defeat your 70,000 army with more than 1,000 iron cavalry!" β
"Haha! Don't make people laugh out of their big teeth! The Lone King knows that this must be the strongest broken military camp under your command! According to each of them, they can defeat one hundred and be brave! But you only have a thousand! β
Shi Kun stretched out seven fingers and shouted uncontrollably: "But the strength of the Lonely King is seventy times that of yours!" Seventy times that! The lonely king really doesn't believe that the broken military camp can really defeat one by one! β
Ran Min smiled faintly, each of the sharp soldiers in the broken barracks can defeat a hundred, which is indeed a bit exaggerated, but it is enough to show how strong their combat effectiveness is!
You must know that among the 300,000 Wei troops, there are only 1,000 sharp soldiers who break the barracks!
One in 300 miles!
The 1,000 sharp soldiers in this broken barracks are all on horseback who can ride and fight, and dismount to fight on foot!
Looking at the more than 1,000 iron cavalry in front of him, and then looking at Ran Min's calm and calm expression, Shi Kun was a little suspicious.
These more than 1,000 cavalrymen were dressed in iron armor, bright armor, red clothes and black armor, bright red cloak on their backs, and they also wore pitch-black battle helmets and gloomy iron masks on their heads, only showing a mouth, and stepping on brute boots, which can be described as majestic and majestic, armed to the teeth!
No, this thousand iron horsemen, these thousand warriors who followed Ran Min's side in the broken military camp, and each Rao held a city-breaking halberd in his hand, with a quiver, an iron-tired hard bow, and a three-foot Qingfeng sword pinned to the saddle.
Even the horses they were riding were already covered with highly defensive armor, revealing only a pair of eyes and the horse's tail, and the rest of the body was covered by armor!
is like this, and now Shi Kun has no choice.
70,000 horses can't beat the 1,000 soldiers on the opposite side, so he should really find a piece of tofu and kill him!
Shi Kun believes that Ran Min is not an irrational person, and the latter has not yet reached the point of exhaustion, so Ran Min's behavior is tantamount to sending him to death, which is really incomprehensible.
But, that's all!
Shi Kun did not dare to order the whole army to attack, but he had already encouraged morale in front of the battle.
"Phewβ"
After patrolling in front of the formation for a while, Shi Kun pulled out the sword in his hand and said sharply: "Soldiers! In front of it is Yecheng, the capital of our Great Zhao Kingdom! The rebel Ran Min, the murder of the king and the usurpation, the killing of officials and the killing of my compatriots, full of evil! Now the new king raises volunteers to crusade against Ran Min! Although the soldiers killed Ran Min, they took Yecheng and made great contributions! Seal your wife and shadow child! β
"Kill! Kill! Kill! β¦β¦β
Regarding Shi Kun's speech, the tens of thousands of soldiers of the Zhao army suddenly boiled, shouted loudly to kill, and moved with guns and halberds, one by one, as if they had been beaten with chicken blood, they were extremely excited!
And Ran Min here is also mobilized before the battle.
Ran Min grabbed the reins of Chima Zhulong, stood at the front of the team, raised his weapon double-edged spear, and then turned his back, facing the soldiers of more than a thousand broken barracks, and said impassionedly: "Brothers! Raise soldiers for a thousand days, use them for a while! You are stubborn and persistent, defend your family and country, and the country you are defending is not Hu Rao's family and country, but my Han Rao family and country! β
"What you want to defend is not me, Ran Min, but the thousands of fathers and villagers standing behind you! The enemy is heading towards the Ghost Gate! Kill the enemy with me now! Protect your family! Wei! β
"Kill!"
"Kill!"
Under Ran Min's order, more than 1,000 soldiers who broke the barracks all took the lead and killed the phalanx of the Zhao army.
And although Shi Kun did the pre-war mobilization work, he still didn't dare to order the whole army to attack, this is not because Shi Kun is afraid, but because Ran Min is famous, before there is any sign, Shi Kun didn't dare to act rashly!
"A long snake formation!"
Ran Min commanded more than a thousand iron cavalry, like a torrent of red steel, and in an instant, a long snake formation was formed.
Shi Kun knew that the one-word long snake formation was a kind of array of soldiers. With these three changes, the long snake array operates, like a giant python attacking, attacking fiercely!
The mobility of the two-wing cavalry (the most mobile class in ancient times) is the most important, so the best way to break the long snake formation is to limit the mobility of the two wings so that they cannot look at each other. Therefore, the best way is: pull its head, clip its tail, and cut its waist!
The detailed method is to set a trap in your own infantry formation, use two infantry phalanxes to cooperate to prevent the movement of the opponent's cavalry on both wings, so that it cannot exert its ability to move and be flexible, and then use the strong heavy cavalry to launch a strong impact on its snake belly infantry, so that its formation is scattered and disorderly!
In one fell swoop, the infantry phalanx was defeated and the long snake formation was cut into three pieces, so that the long snake formation fought separately and could no longer fight with the cooperation of the three parties, and the formation was self-defeating.
Shi Kun understands this.
So Shi Kun immediately said: "Zhang Ju, Wang Lang listen to the order!" β
"The last general!"
"Each of you leads 5,000 elite infantry soldiers to block the enemy's left and right flanks, surround them layer by layer, and you must not let the enemy rush out!"
"Yes!"
"Hu Yansheng!"
"The last general!"
"You immediately lead 5,000 heavily armored cavalry to penetrate from the enemy's midst, and be sure to cut off their waists so that they can't take care of both the end and the end!"
"Yes!"
"The people will listen to the command! Follow me to meet the enemy! β
"Yes!" The crowd sang loudly.
Don't look at Shi Kun, it seems that he can't look down on Ran Min's thousand soldiers and horses in the broken military camp, but in fact, he is secretive.
Shi Kun once followed Ran Min to the west to conquer Zhang Jun and the south to conquer the Jin Kingdom, and he was quite familiar with Ran Min's method of using troops. Ran Min and his people use more dangerous soldiers, but they can often win more with less, and they will not be defeated in a hundred battles, so how can Shi Kun not be afraid?
This vast plain is extremely suitable for cavalry galloping!
Ran Minchang's sentence is that soldiers are not expensive!
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