Chapter 692: Aftermath (13)
The heavy infantry of the Han army had already existed when LΓΌ Zhe occupied Nanjun, and LΓΌ Zhe was very ambitious at first...... In fact, I just didn't know what kind of Modao team to set up if I didn't know the situation, and later found out that not all heavy infantry could become the kind of perverted troops of the Modao team, but they never gave up.
It has been nearly six years since the heavy infantry appeared on Lu Zhe's side, and the initial number was only five hundred, and the number remained unchanged for two years after it was increased to three thousand.
After the increase in productivity, at that time, Lu Zhe considered that the number of war horses was insufficient, and even if he could destroy the countries in the north, he would definitely be against the grassland Hu people, and in this consideration he could only strengthen the number of heavy infantry, and selected strong men with a height of at least two meters in the army, and increased the number of heavy infantry to 30,000.
No matter how good the defense of the infantry is, when it encounters cavalry, even if it can compete with cavalry, it is a helpless choice, simply because Qin needs grain and other materials from Lu Zhe's side, and Lu Zhe can buy a large number of horses from Qin's side.
The number of horses continued to increase, and Zhao Gao supported a group of excellent shepherds who knew how to train horses into war horses, so that Lu Zhe's side could continue to form cavalry troops, and also made Lu Zhe's idea of forming a "large heavy infantry" fade, and the number of heavy infantry in the army was maintained at 30,000 without further increase.
Lu Zhe, who had not "held" the stirrups, horseshoes, and improved saddles for a long time, finally opened the "taboo" shackles and opened the "technology tree" of the cavalry when the cavalry under the establishment exceeded 100,000, which was still based on the premise that the number of cavalry could break through to more than 200,000 in the next two years.
Lu Zhe, who paid attention to the construction of cavalry, did not forget the heavy infantry that he had once "given heavy hope", and he had always been obsessed with the legendary "overlord class" Modao team in the Sui and Tang dynasties, and he simply arranged cavalry and heavy infantry to conduct drills later, and looked forward to the appearance of the Modao army that fought "like a wall" under his command.
"I really don't understand what the king is thinking. Obviously, we can rely on the cavalry to solve the Donghu cavalry, why should we specially arrange a battle between the heavy infantry and the Donghu cavalry? A cavalry marquis who was in charge of covering the heavy infantry on the flanks whispered to his other Sima.
There are not a few Han army officers who have similar thoughts, but it is very rare to think that the military marquis will say it in a daze, and the result is that as soon as the military marquis finished speaking, he was frightened by the heavy coughing sound of the military academy not far away, and the other Sima next to him quietly rode his horse away from his military marquis.
The school in the Han army is similar to the general storage of the Soviet political commissar, but the difference with the Soviet political commissar is that the school of the Han army does not have the power to kill anyone who is arrested. Their role tends to be in the middle of the surveillance army, and they also play the role of talking with the officers and soldiers, and the military judge system in the army is privately called "black and white" by ordinary soldiers and soldiers.
Same as the Han army, the coalition army actually didn't understand what the situation was like for the Han army.
Originally, no matter how you look at the local battlefields, the Han army has an overall advantage. At this time, the commander of the Han army suddenly sent an infantry army as a protrusion, and then very deliberately transferred the surrounding Han army, which was very obviously "invited" to the coalition army to launch an attack on the Han infantry that seemed to be "lonely".
"Undisguised contempt!" Han Guang hatefully smashed his hand on the guard post of the arrow tower, turned his head to stare at several Donghu leaders: "The Yan army dispatched five thousand, and the noble army dispatched five thousand," said and looked at Chen Sheng, who was a little distracted: "Your army also dispatched five thousand," stretched out his hand and clenched his fist: "Since the Han army is so arrogant, let's teach them a lesson!" β
"No!" Xu Guang's forced response made Han Guang's face extremely ugly. But he went down to himself, "We are sending eight thousand!" β
It's really so angry that I can't do it, there is always one side that can't avoid losing a war in a war, and that's a normal thing. However, the side that has the advantage on the battlefield is almost undisguised against the losing side. Coupled with blatant contempt, this is a rarity.
The coalition forces tried to do so, and several cavalry units of Donghu approached the Han army's heavy infantry troops, and the rest of the Han army really did not do anything to stop them.
"Really...... Utter contempt for us! Xu was almost confused. Keep urging: "Blow the horns, kill the past, kill the past!" β
Han Guang also kept urging the troops to move over. He was able to accept defeat in the war, but he could not bear the naked contempt of the Han army.
Chen Sheng, who had not spoken for a long time, was not so excited, not that he was rational, to put it bluntly, it was not long since he rose from the bottom, and his self-esteem was not as strong as that of Han Guang and other people who were originally nobles. In addition, he saw that the situation on each battlefield was unfavorable to the coalition forces, and his mind was full of thinking about how to get out, and his mind was no longer about how to turn the tide of the battle, so it would be a secondary matter for Han Guang and those Donghu barbarians to win a battle to improve their morale.
Su Lie secretly pinched his fingers as he walked, how many days had passed since the "Snow Hide", and he had once again stepped on the blood-boiling battlefield, and naturally he looked extremely excited.
The heavy infantry is full of armor and weapons, and there are 60 pounds of up and down, because of the neat footsteps when the column is stepping, the movement of the march is honestly much louder than when the horse's hooves are trampled indiscriminately, especially in addition to the 5,000 heavy infantry, there are 3,000 crossbowmen, 2,000 spearmen, and 10,000 Pu knife hands are also part of the whole formation, and they use the same frequency to raise their feet, step down, lift their feet, and step down, which makes people see at a glance that it is definitely an elite army.
Probably because he was too angry, Qi Lianfu hid out of the camp and volunteered to be the commander of the Donghu cavalry, when he was close enough to be able to clearly observe the Han army with the naked eye, at a glance, he saw that the spearmen who were in the forefront of the Han army in the protruding department were a very common spearmen among the Chinese ethnic groups, and through the gap in the figure of the Han spearmen, he could also see the Han army crossbowmen behind.
In fact, when the Hu people fought with the Chinese ethnic group, the most headache was to encounter a strict infantry army, which was the case when the stirrup was not used, even in the era when the stirrup had been popularized, after all, the strict formation of the infantry army was difficult to break through, and then there was a formation, there were definitely crossbowmen, and it was not good to break through the rigorous military formation, and then there were many crossbowmen, and there were non-equipped heavy cavalry to attack such an army...... The losses will definitely not be light.
Qi Lianfu, who didn't immediately lead people to collide, was hiding from observing the Han army that could form a protrusion, and he was also observing the Han army in several other directions.
The whole battlefield situation has become somewhat mixed from the beginning of the battle, the main battlefield is directly south of the coalition camp, but the northwest and north are also in a state of local engagement. The war has developed to the present, because the Donghu cavalry and the Han cavalry both have high-speed and mobile speeds, and there is no so-called "non-combat" in the entire battlefield.
Before the official start of the battle, the coalition forces could judge the number of the Han army from the formation and banner, but after the start of the battle, it was difficult to make a correct judgment on the number of the Han army. And it seems that the first army of the Han army is not all, and the battle in the early morning has not stopped until now, and the follow-up troops of the Han army have not stopped, and have been appearing one after another.
Qi Lianfu hid his gaze back after seeing the Yan army and Chen Shengjun enter the battle area, and looked at the Han army again, and the Han army of about 20,000 people had already stopped in place.
To put it very realistically, the situation was extremely unfavorable to the coalition forces on the first day, not only Chen Sheng's side was looking for a possible opportunity to escape, but why did Donghu's gang stay where they were? Qi Lianfu hid out to observe the movements of several Han armies with a more advantageous field of view and look for "openings" that could break through, but he turned around and came to a very bad judgment, and the banners of the Han army were more or less found in all directions.
Let's not talk about the figure of the Han army in all directions, I had never seen the combat effectiveness of the Han cavalry before, and thought that the war was unfavorable how to break through the encirclement, and the situation shown by the Han cavalry in a morning of fighting, Donghu and the gang no longer thought that they could break through lightly under the pursuit of at least 60,000 Han cavalry.
"Hu ......" exhaled a heavy breath, Qi Lianfu signaled to the henchmen next to him to blow the horn, according to the agreement, the Yan army and Chen Shengjun attacked the front of the target Han army from the front, and their eight thousand cavalry were still looking for fighters to attack from the flank.
Yan Jun and Chen Shengjun shouted to the sound of war drums and charged up, and when they entered the distance of two hundred and fifty paces, the Han army unexpectedly shot a dense array of arrows.
The arrow array organized by three thousand crossbowmen, several wave archery directly made at least five thousand Yan Jun and Chen Shengjun reimburse on the way to charge, and the result was that half of the coalition troops who rushed to the middle turned around and fled with strange screams.
All that was left in the minds of the generals watching the battle over there was: "......"
Under the unfavorable local battlefield, the unfavorable frontal battlefield, and the continuous low morale of the army, it is actually good for the coalition forces to dare to go out of the camp to fight, but the courage to dare to face the arrow array covering the charge in hand-to-hand combat will not be there at a moment.
"Just by covering it with an arrow array, you can destroy the enemy's combat consciousness, how can you check the combat effectiveness of the heavy armor soldiers?" Su Lie was a little dumbfounded, and complained to his colleagues commanding the crossbowmen in a sullen tone.
"This ......" The lowly general commanding the crossbowmen was also puzzled: "I just ordered the arrow array to cover it according to the usual training, how did I know that the enemy army was so vulnerable." β
"......" Su Lie directly didn't know what to say. (To be continued......)