Tian Guang's corps was going south to support the operation of Surabaya County, but before it left Donghai County, it lost 70,000 troops, which can be said to be extremely disadvantageous.

The Han cavalry that attacked them moved in the southeast direction, but Tian Guang and the others couldn't judge whether they had gone far or not, and the scout horses they sent were all gone, which really made people not know what to do.

Later, Tian Guang was determined to send a force of 5,000 men to tentatively move in the southwest direction, and even sent his own deputy general Yu Fanjun for the sake of propriety, but the 5,000 people went out, and in the end, Yu Fanjun and Yu Fanjun escaped back with only nearly 300 people.

Yu Fanjun's 5,000 people left Xiapi City at the beginning of the Han army rangers have been harassed, the speed of walking is not fast, they have been close to Surabaya before suddenly encountered about 2,000 Han cavalry attack, the facts once again proved that the wilderness area infantry encountered the cavalry is really passive to the extreme, less than half a day was found by the Han cavalry to find a flaw to kill the army formation, the result is naturally another collapse.

"Defending cavalry requires a lot of bows and crossbows, and only cavalry can be used to deal with cavalry." Yu Fanjun was not completely ungained, he added his opinion: "The last general also found that a large number of spearmen placed in front of the formation can make the cavalry feel jealous and dare not charge the battle recklessly. ”

Tian Guang originally wanted to lose his temper, after all, it was only five or six hours for the 5,000 troops to go out, but the result was that Yu Fanjun fled back in the morning and evening in the evening, which was really frustrating.

The methods that Yu Fanjun said to deal with the cavalry made Tian Guang lose his temper, and the biggest headache for Qi now is how to deal with the cavalry, although I don't know if what Yu Fanjun said is reliable, but it's finally a coping plan, isn't it?

It is indeed a disaster for the moving infantry to meet the cavalry, which Yu Fanjun said very clearly, when they encountered the Han cavalry, they immediately carried out a turtle formation, and the dense formation made the Han cavalry not immediately rush to fight. It's a kind of constant diffusion of the periphery, intending to make them mess with themselves.

Every army will have archers to a greater or lesser extent, and the five thousand people led by Yu Fanjun naturally have them. The range of the infantry archers is much farther than that of the archers, and it was in the confrontation that Yu Fanjun discovered the threat of the archers to the cavalry, and once used a dense rain of arrows to force the Han cavalry not to approach.

The cavalry that was left by Xu Zhi to blockade Xiapi was also a school of men, and what intercepted Yu Fanjun's department was only the number of cavalry in the range, and the cavalry of this school were all rangers, and the rangers were just leather armor configurations, and the mounts did not have any protection, so they were naturally afraid of the attack of arrows. To be honest, it's not the type of cavalry that fights in formations.

In the face of the Qi army's retracting defense strategy, the cavalry of the school chose to strip away the cocoon, that is, to sweep away the periphery of the Qi army first, so that the Qi army had peripheral forces in addition to the main formation, and then repeatedly approached and deterred, causing the Qi army to disarray itself.

The general tactic of surgery is naturally to use mobility to quickly eliminate the forces outside the Qi army's own formation, and once any army has only the strength of its own formation, it will fall into absolute passivity, and there will be no exceptions.

A large number of cavalry continued to force the formation, which was a very big test for the army that formed a formation to protect itself. The Qi army found that the rain of arrows could prevent the cavalry from charging towards their own formation, of course, as soon as the cavalry got a little closer, it would be splashed like a rain of arrows in the sky, so the consumption of arrows must be very large.

In fact, the infantry army against the cavalry and the arrow array for defense is really a relatively stable method, in history Li Ling led 5,000 Han troops to fight deep into the grassland and was surrounded by the Xiongnu army. The Han army organized an arrow array to defend without cavalry, and the 5,000 Han army chose the valley position for defense, and the defense remained impregnable until the arrows were exhausted, and they did not disperse until the arrows ran out.

That war. Li Ling's 5,000 Han army consumed 500,000 arrows in one day, and not to investigate how 5,000 people shot 500,000 arrows a day, but they were able to resist the attack of the Xiongnu army with 5,000 people. Suffice it to say that in the case of organizing an arrow formation, the cavalry could not approach at all.

Although the Qi army has been prepared in their hearts, it does not mean that they can calmly accept the reality, they have the impression that the Han cavalry has always been fierce and peerless, and they will hunt and annihilate the 30,000 elites of Qi Yan cleanly and neatly, and not long ago, 70,000 of their own army were wiped out or defeated, and now they are facing the famous Han cavalry, how can they not make a mistake in their hearts?

As soon as a person makes a mistake in his heart, he is easy to fall into a state of hysteria, and many times the Han cavalry does not care about shooting indiscriminately before he enters the firing range.

The cavalry commander of the Han army also found out about the situation of the Qi army, and repeatedly sent cavalry in batches to induce the Qi army to release arrows.

In the end, Yu Fanjun had no choice but to restrain himself, and the result was that the Qi army consumed uncontrollably, and the arrows were quickly exhausted, and he suffered from the shortage of arrows.

As soon as the most effective means were lost, the confidence of the Qi army was soon hit hard, and the direct effect of lack of confidence was that the formation was chaotic, once or twice it may not be discovered by the Han cavalry, and the luck was not so good if it was too many times, and the Han cavalry seized a gap to charge the formation, and the Qi army's lack of resistance immediately collapsed.

Yu Fanjun will know that the dense spearmen also have a strong lethality against the cavalry is out of chance, when most of the Qi soldiers collapsed, his 500 troops in order to break through the siege huddled together, seeing that the Han cavalry killed and could not escape, they could only face the weapons in the past.

Maybe it's a coincidence, or maybe it's because of Yu Fanjun's background, he used to be a spearman-born warrior, and his own troops are naturally trained according to the types of troops he knows best, and there are 300 spearmen alone in the 500 parts.

The three hundred spearmen huddled together aimed their hands at the Han cavalry, which was not out of prior arrangement, but the subconscious actions of the carefully trained soldiers when they were in battle.

The cavalry of the Han army who rushed into battle rose in the face of the Qi army that had already broken down on its own, and when they saw that there were a bunch of enemy troops who still had a sense of resistance, they naturally wanted to go over and crush the will to resist, because it was the combat experience of the cavalry on the spot, so it was natural that it would not form an effective attack posture interspersed with the left and right flanks, and the number of cavalry surrounding it would not be too much.

In the face of Yu Fanjun's gunfire, the Han cavalry that launched their own attack naturally had no good end, and the frontal cavalry was stabbed into corpses one by one, and the cavalry with some good luck was smashed into a daze, and finally the surrounding rangers found that it was solved by attacking from the rear wing and the left and right wings at the same time, but this Qi army also Yu Fanjun fought for enough opportunities to break through.

"A field of spears of arrows and spearmen?" Tian Guang didn't care about the loss of the 5,000 troops in one day, and his expression was a little excited: "It is difficult for us to raise for a cavalry battle with the Han army, but it is no problem to prepare enough crossbowmen and spearmen. ”

Yu Fanjun reminded: "The arrows are consumed very quickly, and the last general carried 200,000 arrows, which were consumed in less than an hour. He thought for a moment and added: "The formation of spearmen is also a problem, and it needs enough elite soldiers to form a formation, if the will is not strong enough, I am afraid that it will ......."

What Tian Guang cares about is that he finally has a way to deal with the cavalry of the Han army again, although he still won't change the passive situation, but he finally has the ability to resist!

On the one hand, they are discussing ways to deal with cavalry, trying to find tactics against cavalry, and on the other hand, they are also summarizing their post-war experience.

To put it bluntly, the Han Kingdom, which used cavalry on a large scale for the first time, also needs to constantly improve the tactics of cavalry from actual combat, and it is not that cavalry has mature tactics as soon as it is used.

Unarmed heavy cavalry is a difficult problem to defend itself in the face of infantry formations, and there is really no good way to do it except to constantly deter the enemy and cause the enemy to disarray themselves, and then find a gap to attack. And this involves a kind of psychological warfare, the military academy in Nanling of the Han Kingdom has a special teaching on psychological warfare, and the military marquis may have only heard it, but the officers at the rank of captain have basically learned it.

In an engagement, the rangers who were not very well defended were difficult to approach in the face of arrow defense, and they did not try to shoot at each other, but the range of cavalry shooting arrows on horses was obviously worse than that of infantry shooting on the ground, not to mention riding crossbows, and the range of small riding crossbows has always been a hard wound.

The large-scale concentration of spearmen in the Qi army to defend also made a deep impression on the rangers of the Han army, but it was just about 300 spearmen forming a formation and slanting out their spears.

The rangers with insufficient protection did not have much way to deal with the enemy army with arrow formations and spear formations, and this consideration was constantly verified later, because Tian Guang concentrated a large number of crossbowmen and spearmen out of the city to make a maneuver towards Surabaya, and the Han army rangers in charge of the blockade task naturally wanted to step forward to cut off.

The first school of rangers who were left by Xu Zhi to carry out the blockade mission would continue to test at the beginning, but after trying again and again, under the premise that the Qi army had enough arrows, the result of their test was that the attacking cavalry had to at least shoot at least four arrows before they could fight hand-to-hand, and there was no threat of arrows in the face of dense spearmen.

The infantry formed a formation after encountering cavalry, and then used a large number of crossbowmen to defend at long range, and the front of the army formation was also densely packed with spears, which appeared in the land of China at least three hundred years in advance.

After repeated verification, Tian Guang, who found that there was indeed a way to fight against the cavalry of the Han army, was very excited, and in his excitement, he actually said that the cavalry was not to worry about, so that Yu Fanjun didn't know whether to say what he thought in his heart or not. (To be continued......)