Chapter 1150: Tactics and Calculations
Those Goguryeo cavalry were unwilling to shoot a few rounds of arrows, and when they saw that Wei Chi Jingde was about to rush in front of them with the cavalry, they knew that they could not resist, so they fled to both sides.
Behind them, another team wielded their horses. The Goguryeo cavalry of the sword rushed up, apparently this was a means of preparing them to deal with the well-armored defense of Yu Chi Jingde.
However, they apparently underestimated the sturdiness of the armor and the sharpness of the steel spears produced on Snake Island, as well as the speed at which they could be stabbed.
Although these Goguryeo cavalry were very brave, before their weapons met the cavalry of Yu Chi Jingde, Wei Chi Jingde had already led the cavalry under his command to pierce their chests with the long steel spears in their hands, or take them off their horses and knock them to the ground, and then the cavalry following them easily pierced their bodies with spears, or were simply trampled into pulp by the galloping horses.
Wang Junlin's tactics seem to have achieved good results so far.
The Goguryeo cavalry in front of the Goguryeo army began to shake under this fierce attack, although it cannot be said that it was like a frightened herd of beasts, chaotically fleeing to the back and both sides, but they were indeed constantly retreating, more like the sea water at the ebb tide, retreating towards the rear and the wings.
Shen Guo'er couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, once the formation of the Goguryeo army was torn apart, and chaos occurred within the Goguryeo army, the outcome of this battle was basically decided.
Shen Guo'er only then made time to turn her head to look at Wang Junlin, but Wang Junlin's expression made her stunned. She saw Wang Junlin's brows furrowed, and his expression was much more serious than just now.
At this time, about 500 paces behind the Goguryeo cavalry array, about 2,000 Goguryeo cavalry lined up in a phalanx, standing quietly. Behind the two thousand Goguryeo cavalry, under the protection of hundreds of elite cavalry, Yuan Taizuo stood on a four-horse chariot and watched the battle situation outside Lixu without blinking his eyes.
"The old man has already sent someone to find out, and the 3,000 cavalry of Chi Jingde, the captain under Wang Junlin, are very profitable." Yuan Taizuo smiled and shook his head, "It's just that Wang Junlin actually used this strong army to disrupt our formation is too decent, if I am Wang Junlin, I will use this strong army to attack from both wings, as long as we break our two wings, we can form an oppressive and besieged situation against the Chinese army." ”
"Brilliant Strategy!" An adjutant general glanced at Yuan Taizuo and couldn't help but praise from the bottom of his heart: "What the Prime Minister said, I'm afraid it's something that no one has thought of before." It's no wonder that the king is coming. ”
"However, this head-on charge strategy, whether it is our Goguryeo or the Central Plains people of China hundreds of years ago, there is a way to break it." Yuan Taizuo said with a smile: "No matter how Wang Junlin charges, as long as we avoid its edge, no matter how well-trained his strong army is, as long as it is cavalry, the war horse will be fast and slow, after the charge, the formation will inevitably be scattered, the farther you run, the more chaotic the formation, the fast horse will rush to the front, the slow horse will fall behind, we just need to lure the enemy deep, wait for it to be disjointed before and after, counterattack a blow, surround and annihilate the front with superior forces, and then break the rear troops, the other side will soon collapse." ”
The deputy general looked happy and said: "The Prime Minister is worthy of defeating the million-strong army led by the Emperor of the Sui Dynasty, and with this tactic of the Prime Minister, Wang Junlin will definitely be defeated." ”
"But it's not too early." Yuan Taizuo shook his head, looked at the terrain on both sides, and said with a solemn expression: "This battlefield is still too narrow, and if you use it, there may be some accidents, and the result will not be completely satisfactory." ”
At this time, the adjutant general had already beckoned a few heralds and assigned Yuan Taizuo's tactics one by one.
At this time, under the charge of 3,000 strong troops led by Wei Chi Jingde on Wang Junlin's side, the military formation in front of the Goguryeo cavalry was defeated and retreated, and the entire formation was rushed to sparsely, and as Wang Junlin wanted to see, the whole was cut into two sections.
Of course, this is also the situation that Yuan Taizuo had long expected and that he wanted to see now.
Yuan Taizuo also attaches great importance to the investigation of intelligence, maybe his spies cannot be compared with the intelligence organization led by Shen Guo'er, but some ordinary secrets can still be detected.
When chasing all the way, Yuan Taizuo already knew from the spies that there was a very strong cavalry under Wang Junlin's command. Therefore, Yuan Taizuo had a strategy to deal with this powerful cavalry.
Yuan Taizuo had to admit that if such a cavalry with super defensive capabilities and strong combat power was used properly, it might reap miraculous results. For example, on a battlefield of spatial oppression, the power of these 3,000 cavalry charging into battle is enough to change the entire battle situation in some cases.
So he carefully planned and laid a trap and waited for the arrival of this cavalry.
Everything turned out to be as he had expected, and when the cavalry began to charge, it was difficult to maintain a very tight formation.
After Yu Chi Jingde led the cavalry to cut deep into the front formation of the Goguryeo cavalry and disrupted the formation of the Goguryeo cavalry, under the urging of the rhythmic war drums behind them, they pursued the Goguryeo cavalry who were about to fall into a panic in a loose formation.
However, after easily "defeating" the military formation in front of the Goguryeo cavalry, Wei Chi Jingde discovered that about two miles behind the front military formation of the Goguryeo cavalry, there was actually a military formation that was waiting for a strong formation, and many Goguryeo cavalry fled to the rear of this military formation.
The cavalry under his command, whose formation had become chaotic, could no longer reorganize their formation, and the capable lieutenant Chi Jingde did not have time to wait for the friendly troops left behind by them, so he simply led people to pick up their spears and kill the Goguryeo cavalry, which numbered about 2,000 horsemen, again.
But this time, these charges of theirs seemed to hit a soft wall.
This Goguryeo cavalry, all riding fast horses and carrying strong bows and arrows, they fought and retreated, and divided the cavalry belonging to Yu Chi Jingde, who rushed to the front, again, surrounded them, and shot them with bows and arrows.
Although the cavalry under the command of Yu Chi Jingde were all well-trained horse elites, most of the time, they could not reach these Goguryeo cavalry attacking them, if it were not for the excellent plate armor defense on their bodies and the low-eyed protective helmets, they would have suffered heavy losses in the face of the Goguryeo cavalry in the face of a few rounds of arrow rain at close range.