Chapter 033: Cavalry Assault
"Sima Sun, how about you command this battle?" Remembering that he didn't know anything about cavalry combat, he asked Zhang Fei to ride his horse and lean over and say to Sima Sun Lulu of Xintun.
Sun Lulu, who was dedicated to riding a horse, looked dazed, and then turned into excitement: "Really? My lord. ”
"Of course. From now on, this battle will be under your command, and I will watch from your side. Do what you have to do, and give whatever you have to order. The Lieutenant will not interfere. ”
"Really?" Sun Lulu asked again.
"The Captain will never break his word. Yuan Kongwu testified. "I'm facing the North Tunbu Sima Yuan Kong Wudao.
"I testify." Yuan Kongwu leaned over and nodded and smiled at Sun Lulu.
"Is it really not interfering?" Sun Lulu asked eagerly.
"If the captain says he won't break his word, he won't break his word." As soon as I finished speaking, I heard Sun Lulu shouting: "The whole army is assembled and lined up one mile away." The two Qu Hou beside him turned their horses and went down to give orders. I was puzzled and asked, "Why-"
Before I finished speaking, Sun Lulu interjected urgently: "My lord, you said that you would not interfere." ”
"I'm not interfering, I'm just trying to ask why I don't gather where I am, instead of a mile away?"
Sun Lulu said embarrassedly: "When the cavalry is advancing at full speed, it is not possible to give orders such as lining up in place and resting in place, because the horse running at full speed cannot stop, and if the horse is forced to stop, not only will the knight himself fall off the horse and be injured, but also the cavalry behind him will fall together." If the cavalry in front of the unit suddenly stopped, the whole cavalry team could fall to the end. So all the orders to slow down the cavalry were passed from the back to the front. ”
"Great!" I gave a thumbs up. I didn't expect cavalry to have this characteristic. Completely different from the infantry.
A mile away, Sun Lulu held a military meeting with Yuan Kongwu and four military marquis, and Zhang Fei and I silently learned from the experience.
"Brother Yuan, six miles away is the West Gate, let's solve them first. If you are given half an hour, can you take down all the 1,000 rebels? Sun Lulu pointed ahead.
"Half an hour may have been a little tighter. But I'm trying to do it. After Yuan Kongwu finished speaking, he gave an order to a military marquis beside him: "In half an hour, you must completely annihilate the rebels of Ximen." ”
"Don't worry, the task will be completed." The marquis replied with a big grin. Under the sun, it is particularly heroic. He jumped on his horse and galloped away with two hundred cavalry.
"Two hundred cavalry will wipe out a thousand infantry? Wouldn't it be too risky. I interjected.
"If it weren't for the time limit of half an hour, that kid wouldn't have been able to take his turn. Just let the team go, the rebels are all infantry. Yuan Kongwu said, his tone full of contempt for the infantry.
I could tell that if I hadn't been his boss, he would have laughed at me for not knowing cavalry, but I had taken the position of captain of the cavalry.
Send a team to lead, that is, fifty cavalry, how to annihilate a thousand people? Even infantry isn't that easy, is it? I continued to listen in disbelief. I couldn't believe it, but I trusted my men.
"Once the siege and annihilation battle at the west gate begins, it will inevitably alarm the rebels at the east and south gates. When they see that we are cavalry, they must have fled. So, where will they flee? Yuan Kongwu said.
God, before the battle was fought, this guy was wondering how the rebels would escape. Isn't it a bit fantastical and arrogant to go too farnish!
"The rebels must have retreated south and hid in Xiaozhou Mountain, thirty miles away from the south gate. Then our cavalry will have nothing to do with them. Sun Lulu pointed to the southeast with her right arm.
"Brother Sun really knows this terrain well. I'll do the task of cutting off the way out. You can't let me wait here, can you? ”
"Good. Then it's hard for Brother Yuan to make a trip. Sun Lulu gently pounded Yuan Kongwu's chest. Yuan Kongwu turned around and led another Marquis of the headquarters to lead 200 cavalry to the south.
What are they doing? Is it still at war? How can words come out of their mouths so lightly? It's like playing.
"Sun Sima, this battle won't go so smoothly, right?"
"Your Excellency." Sun Lulu stopped the meeting and walked over and continued: "Does the captain know who is the number one soldier in the world?" ”
"Is it the cavalry of the Northern Army?"
"It's not."
"Xiliang cavalry?"
"It's not." Sun Lulu smiled and said, "It's Xianbei." ”
"Their leader's name is Tanshi Huai, and he is only forty years old this year, and he is in the prime of life, so he is very ambitious. He repeatedly harassed the nine counties on the edge of the Great Wall and the subject states of Liaodong. Last year, the Son of Heaven sent generals Xia Yu, Tian Yan, and Zang Wen to each lead 10,000 cavalry to attack Xianbei in three ways. Those cavalry were all elites selected from the Western Liang and Northern armies, as well as the left and right feather forests. But it was defeated by Tanshi Huai, and nearly ninety percent of the Han army was killed. Not long ago, Tian Yan and Zang Wen heard that the Yellow Turban rebels had swept the country, and they had died of illness in shock. As she spoke, Sun Lulu couldn't help but show a sad expression.
"You know them so well, you don't know them." I asked.
"There is no such blessing as a lowly position." Sun Lulu turned her head and didn't let me look him in the eye. This guy can't lie, he must know them.
"This doesn't mean that our cavalry is worse than the Xianbei foreigners. What do you want to say about the first cavalry in the world? ”
"Your Excellency's answer just now is cavalry." Sun Lulu paused: "Of course, the most powerful type of military in the world is cavalry, and the weakest is of course infantry. Especially in the field, the infantry could not even escape. ”
Of course, I know better than him how powerful the cavalry is. Genghis Khan's 100,000 cavalry built a great empire across Europe and Asia. It was the cavalry that relied on it. However, it cannot be simply said that cavalry is the first branch of the army in the world. War is mainly based on strategy. Bai Qi, Wang Jian, Han Xin, Xiang Yu, Wei Qing, Huo Quai, which famous general did not rely on strategy to create war myths.
"My lord, now let's go after the rebels fleeing south." Sun Lulu suddenly asked.
"Okay."
Sun Lulu sniffed and yelled at the two military marquis next to her: "The whole army will set off at a medium speed, in the southeast direction. ”
Now I don't command, so this time I'm riding alone. Moreover, the whole army is advancing at a medium speed, and can barely keep up. Zhang Fei was urging on the side, but I ignored it. Anyway, in this man's age, riding still has to be practiced.
After walking for about a quarter and a half, we found traces of the rebels ten miles south of Fangcheng. As Sun Lulu expected, the rebels really gathered and fled south.
"Cone Formation!" Sun Lulu ordered the formation to be reorganized.
The four hundred cavalry of the whole army quickly adjusted their formation and formed a huge cone-shaped formation. I stood in the distance and watched, and I heard the neighing of hundreds of horses and the sound of flags, which was thrilling. This distance allows me to better observe the characteristics of cavalry combat.
"Attack!"
Sun Lulu rushed ahead with a horse, directing the direction of attack of the entire cavalry cone formation.
With Sun Lulu's order, the entire cone array instantly became extremely bright, dazzling, and had the potential to compete with the sun. After careful discernment, it turned out that the ring hand knife was instantly pulled out by the knight, shining in the sun. As the formation moved forward, the whole cavalry went straight into the heart of the rebels, and suddenly this dazzling strong light disappeared without a trace, and just when it was reverie, the white light appeared again, but it was already glowing with a trace of red light.
It's bloodstains. The Ring-Hand Sword drank the blood of the rebels under the slash of the knights. In the face of such a fierce offensive, the terrifying fright, the shouts of escape, and the wails of the rebels before death have spread throughout the entire battlefield.
No! This is not a battlefield, it is a slaughterhouse. It was the endless slaughter of light infantry by light cavalry.
Wherever the cone goes, like a river of water that breaks through the barriers, pours out and rushes through the uneven hills, drowning everything, and exterminating the resistants, no one can resist it, and no one can only flee for their lives.
Due to the large number of rebels, it amounted to more than 2,000 people. It was indeed very difficult to get the four hundred cavalry to destroy them at once. Therefore, Sun Lulu ordered the formation to be dismantled, let the cavalry scatter in all directions, and began to pursue and annihilate the small group of fleeing rebels.
Looking at the absolute superiority of cavalry over infantry, I can't help but sigh that in this era of panic, whoever can organize the most powerful cavalry corps and use it correctly can dominate the fate of the entire troubled times.