Chapter 462: The Decisive Battle (2)
At this time, looking down from the sky, within a radius of dozens of miles, the army of the generation was faintly encircling the Tang army. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
It's just that the leading generals in the front did not focus on cutting off the back of the Tang army as Li Po said before......
After more than two days of testing, Wei Chigong, Bu Qun and others believed that harassing the Tang army's grain road would not cause much damage to Li Tang's army, and the distance from Pingyao to Jiexiu was too close, and the grain road in the usual sense was not suitable for the Tang army.
Then it is better to send Xue Wanche to unite with the other one and drag the Tang Army's front army first......
And in this way, the direction of the main attack of the army is also obvious, or the rear army of the Tang army, there is no doubt that this is the weak point of the Tang army, and the attack of tens of thousands of cavalry troops will never be a small fight.
In fact, in terms of scale and number of participants, it is no different from a decisive battle.
A large-scale battle is actually determined by such battles.
Just like this battle between the two armies, the starting point will definitely not be when the Tang army leaves Jiexiu and goes north, but from the battle for the Bird Mouse Valley to the present, in the past month, the two armies have fought more than ten battles, large and small, and the casualties have exceeded 10,000.
And now for the cavalry, it can be said that the time has come.
With everything in place and a few minor tweaks, the rest of the story is unlikely to change their resolve to attack.
The arrow is on the string and has to be sent.
Wei Chigong slowly raised his arms, and a low horn sounded in the army.
Li Nian led 3,000 heavy cavalry as the front of the army, this is the position he snatched from Luo Shixin by luck, under the banner, Li Nian took the lead in urging the war horse, slowly moving forward.
As the forward moved forward, the army began to move in rows, and the horses slowly pulled away a certain distance with broken steps.
Banners of various colors flew fiercely above the heads of the army, and the soldiers checked their swords, bows and armor for the last time on their horses, and their eyes slowly became bloodshot and dyed with murderous aura.
The army of a hundred battles was ready to attack, and the murderous aura filled the four fields, making the lingering summer rain seem to become cold.
The army of black pressure gradually swelled, like a rising tide, spread all over the ground that was about a mile long and more than ten miles long, truly revealing his huge and hideous body.
The sound of horses' hooves echoed through the wilderness like rolling thunder, rejecting all other sounds, and the ground began to tremble incessantly, like a small earthquake.
With such a great momentum, the Tang army soon discovered something unusual......
At such a critical moment, the misjudgment of the generals and generals of the Tang Army, as well as the shortcomings of not being able to discover the enemy's situation in time, all led to the result of the Tang Army's hasty battle.
Of course, this is also a very common situation in cavalry and infantry field battles.
It's just that the battle of cavalry attacking the infantry army formation of this scale has not been very common since ancient times, and a wise general will never let the infantry army be exposed in the field so nakedly, allowing the cavalry to attack.
In fact, the front army of the Tang Army was attacked, and the rear army was also waiting for battle, but I didn't expect to suffer such an attack.
When Li Xiaoji, the king of Yong'an, received the report, he had already ordered all his troops to hold the flank defense line, and ordered the army and the left wing to fortify it layer by layer.
More than 20,000 cavalry came from all over the field, and they were so close that there was no need to report it, and Li Xiaoji already knew that the army seemed to have come to a life-and-death moment.
At this time, Li Xiaoji could no longer think about why the enemy army had so many cavalry, and why he waited until this time to appear in front of the army, those are irrelevant, the important thing is that from the position of the enemy army and the direction of the advance, his rear army is bound to be the target of the enemy's attack.
Similar to the rest of the Li clan, Li Xiaoji's talent is decent, neither worse than Li Shentong, nor much higher.
In addition to arranging a large army for defense, he also immediately sent people to ask for help from the front army, and strictly ordered Pei Lian, who was huddled by the river, to lead his troops to move closer to the Chinese army.
At the critical moment, Lee Hyo-gi was not incompetent.
But it's too late, generally speaking, the battle of the army, all take the momentum first, and when the head-to-head battle of swords and guns comes, most of the winners and losers have actually been determined.
It is rare for the elite soldiers to win in the big war, and most of that situation appears in the war with Beihu.
The battle between the Tang Army and the Great Army of the Parallel Dynasty undoubtedly belonged to the former, and strategic decision-making was the key to the victory or defeat of this war.
At the time of the war, the army had already taken advantage of the time and place.
When Li Xiaoji's military order reached the front of the battle, the figure of the parallel cavalry in the northeast direction was already clearly visible.
More than 100,000 Tang troops were in an uproar, and the orders and requests for help from the generals of the right wing of the army went to Li Shentong and Li Xiaoji one after another.
Li Shentong was shocked, and his heart was cold.
The front army is being harassed by more than 10,000 cavalry, how can it still rescue the rear army? Even at this time, in Li Shentong's chaotic mind, the first thought that rose was to be glad that the main force of the enemy army would attack the front army led by him in the future.
As the commander of the army, the sad thing is that when there is nothing to do, he can only let the various departments do their best.
This is not only the sorrow of the commander of the first army, but also the most unsuccessful performance......
Judging from Tang Jun's series of performances, Li Po was indeed cautious, and he, like many people, was frightened by the number of more than 100,000 people.
only thought about choosing a decisive battle with the Tang Army, but intentionally or unintentionally ignored the fact that the Tang Army was only a temporary patchwork of troops, and it was not so elite.
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The long-planned attack, without any pause, only came to a suitable distance, Li Nian pulled out the steel knife with force, held it high above his head, and urged the war horse at the same time, in the earth-shaking sound of the horse's hooves, he roared loudly, "Kill, kill, kill." ”
Finally, he pulled out his steel knife, followed him closely, and shouted in unison, "Kill, kill......"
A murderous roar spread through the army, shaking the four wildernesses, soaring into the sky, and even overshadowing the sound of horses' hooves for a few moments.
The sound of steel knives unsheathed was connected, forming a forest of knives in the rain.
The fierce and wild side by side horsemen, men and horses, like fast-moving steel monsters, swarmed forward and rushed towards the Tang army's military formation.
A rain of arrows rose in the Tang army's formation, and the black pressure fell on the top of the cavalry, hitting the armor of the heavy cavalry, clanging.
Occasionally, a horse was planted without saying a word, and there was a heavy muffled sound, and it was the unlucky fellow who had been shot in the eye or in the crack in his armor.
Heavy cavalry assault was the most commonly used and best tactical mode of the Sui army in those years, and this was also a tactical style gradually formed in the Central Plains Unification War.
The cavalry burst into formation, the light cavalry followed, and the infantry followed.
And the Heng'an Town Army, which started in Daizhou, actually abandoned this extremely rigid tactic at the beginning for various reasons.
The first time Li Po used heavy cavalry to charge the formation was when he fought with the Tang army in Yanmen, and today's object is the Tang army, so it can be seen that the main battlefield of the heavy cavalry is actually breaking through the infantry army formation.
As long as the civil war in the Central Plains continues, the possibility of heavy cavalry withdrawing from the battlefield will not be too high.
Once the Heavy Cavalry charges, it delivers a fierce and terrifying impact, and is one of the nemesis of the Shield Lance.
Throwing axes and spears do not do much damage to the heavy cavalry.
There was a loud bang on the battlefield, and the sound came far away, and the heavy cavalry in the front row had already hit the shield wall like a hedgehog with men and horses, and suddenly, the shield broke and the gun broke.
Under the impact of these several tons of weight, countless Tang sergeants flew out like puppets with a series of broken bones, blood spurting wildly from their mouths.
It was like tearing open a piece of paper, and countless hideous monsters broke in.
Like an extremely heavy sharp knife, it was slashed into the tail of the front army of the Tang Army, and quickly advanced to the southwest.
The momentum was like a bamboo, and between the snow and mist, rows of Tang troops were trampled by the rampaging heavy cavalry like straws.
Everywhere the three thousand heavy horsemen passed, there was a bloody wind and rain, and the place was in shambles, and the terrifying scene was like the hell of Shura.
The heavy cavalry tore open a wide gap, and the survivors who narrowly escaped did not even have time to show their fear, and then they were confronted by a swarm of light cavalry in half-body armor, so there were no survivors here.
More than 25,000 parallel cavalry troops were like a long dragon, brutally cutting into the Tang army's formation, sweeping through the tail of the Tang army's front army, and then rushing into the Tang army's rear formation.
There are not many scenes of war on this scale.
Horses' hooves rumbled, arrows strewn through the air, blood filled the air, and corpses were strewn everywhere.
The sound of horses' hooves, shouts of killing, dying screams, the wailing of war horses, etc., etc., a radius of more than 20 miles, completely enveloped by the sonata of war.
The cavalry overflowed like a flood that burst the embankment, and the corpses of the Tang soldiers killed were all over the field, and the blood flowed like a river.
At this time, there was almost no distinction between generals or soldiers, or even people, and anyone who stood in front of the cavalry would be overwhelmed by the torrent.
The rear army of the Don Army collapsed...... For the officers and men of the Tang Army, this was a nightmare, and it was also a fiasco.
It is worth mentioning that the first to flee was not the most vulnerable Minfu, but Pei Lian, the deputy head of the Jinju Provincial March, who did not follow Lee Hyo-gi's orders to move closer to the Chinese army.
When the rumbling sound of horses' hooves echoed in Pei Lian's ears, Li Yuan's favorite minister immediately led his troops along the river and became the first person in the Tang army to escape.
At this time, no military merits, any glory and wealth, or loyalty are less important than his own life.
(Monthly pass, monthly pass, a little late, this chapter is not very easy to write, paving the way to the present, it should be a battle to win, but it needs to be rendered, otherwise, everyone should say that it is anticlimactic, forgive me.) (To be continued.) )