Chapter 645: Welcome to the New Era (1)
It is a "master" not a "master", an "apprentice" rather than an "apprentice", from which we can see Lu Zhe's attitude towards Han Xin.
I don't know exactly when the change of master to master began, but it is certain that the change of name began when the Hu people ruled China. One means the "brother" level and the other is the "father and son" level, and the difference in civilization can be seen here.
Because the age difference is six or seven years old, Lu Zhe and Han Xin are also teachers and friends in many cases, and now Han Xin, who is only seventeen years old, is officially the most suitable age for training, where is Lu Zhe, who is engaged in the "cultivation of famous generals", really willing to arrange Han Xin to a dangerous place at the beginning, and what he wants is a gradual mode of following the rules.
In fact, this is also directly related to the arrangement of the Han army going north, the first cavalry corps of the Han army, the second mixed corps, and the fifth cavalry corps as the sequence of going north first, naturally to find a breakthrough first, then the local Surabaya County of non-Qi country as a prominent point is naturally the most suitable place to use troops.
Large-scale cavalry conquest is rare in China, and it may be said that except for the large-scale use of single horses to cut off the supply line of the Zhao army in the "Battle of Changping" by Hou Baiqi of Wu'an, there has been no record of large-scale cavalry participation in the war in China's military history.
The Han army, which used this method of warfare for the first time, lacked actual combat experience, and needed to use a lot of actual engagements to verify many conjectures, and it was certainly not immediately engaged in a large-scale attack at the beginning.
In such a first battle, not only did Han Xin carry out a lot of trivial tasks, but also the First Cavalry Corps that went north first.
In the early days, the First Cavalry Corps went north, and they carried out a lot of low-difficulty raids in Surabaya County, which belonged to the Qi State, and the target was basically set in the countryside, and then the target of the attack was the Qi army stationed in the field. The 1st Cavalry Corps, which had accumulated almost a month's experience, waited for the first three days of the arrival of the 5th Cavalry Corps before they marched in a northeast direction by the Suishui line under the orders of Ji Bu.
The 1st Cavalry Regiment is accumulating enough experience to start the rush phase. The goal was set on the Tian Guang Corps, which led the army south to support Surabaya Peiguo.
The armies of the Han and Qi sides had already fought several major battles in the Xiapi area, and 50,000 cavalry without auxiliaries faced 150,000 Qi troops. The beginning of the battle was that the cavalry of the Han army continued to use the speed to carry out cross-attack attacks, and then used the high-speed marching speed to cut and encircle, the result was naturally that when Tian Guang had not come to his senses, the 20,000 front army of the Qi State collapsed, and the rear army of the Qi State was also scattered in a very short time, leaving the 80,000 Chinese troops led by Tian Guang to dodge into Xiapi nearby.
To be honest, if the terrain is not mountainous, any infantry army will suffer when it encounters cavalry, and there are not many options that can be given to the infantry army, the only thing that is the same is that the mobility is not as good as that of people and falls into a comprehensive passivity.
The advantage of cavalry is speed. With absolute superiority in mobility, it is the traditional tactic of cavalry to divide and encircle each attack. After the appearance of self-equipped heavy cavalry, the positioning of cavalry in each war was expanded, and with the maturity of cavalry tactics, it firmly established the position of the dominant branch of the army on land.
When the cavalry of the Han army faced the Ueda Guangsuo Division, Xu Zhi, the lieutenant general of the First Cavalry Corps, fought according to the battle plan deployed by Lu Zhe, and used light cavalry to quickly divide and move the two wings to cut off the communication of the Qi army, and then used the equipped heavy cavalry to carry out a frontal charge.
Heavy cavalry, the nemesis of the infantry. When more than a thousand heavy horsemen stepped on the hooves of heavy horses like raging waves, what soldier who encountered such an attack could still calm down? The Qi army's soldier Yuan Su zhì was really not very good, first the formation was disrupted by the diffuse and division of the Han army's light cavalry, and then the heavy cavalry rushed into battle with terrifying might. The result was unsurprisingly a one-touch collapse.
The infantry may be able to resist the cavalry in formation to protect themselves, and the end of scattering and fleeing is that two legs can't run on four legs, and the 20,000 former troops under Tian Guang's department are chasing behind the ass of the Han Army's First Cavalry Regiment to cover up for ten miles, which is really a scene full of corpses. There were no more than 500 Qi soldiers who could escape to Tian Guangzhong's army, and the rest were either killed or fled into the forest to escape.
When part of the 1st Cavalry Corps attacked the front army of Tian Guangsuo's army, some other cavalry under the 1st Cavalry Corps also went around to the rear. The cavalry of 5,000 was light cavalry. These 5,000 light cavalry faced the more unbearable Tian Guanghou army, the 5,000 light cavalry had not approached much, and the 50,000 Qi rear army had already been chaotic, and there was no need for the Han army's light cavalry to threaten too many soldiers, and those Qi soldiers scattered and fled by themselves.
In fact, under normal circumstances, the rear army of every army is the weakest, while the front army will be the front, that is, the bravest soldiers, and the middle army will be relatively elite.
The troops of the Qi State with combat experience are all in the Tian Rong Corps, and now they are confronting Xu Yan's Qin Central Plains Corps in Dangjun near the Sanchuan front, and Tian Guang's troops have been organized to support in a hurry, although the number is 150,000, but most of them belong to the temporary Latin state, and basically have no experience in battle formations.
Tian Guang was ordered to go south to support Peiguo, and it was also unlucky to encounter the First Cavalry Corps of the Han State, otherwise he would not have received reconnaissance information from the scouts, but now no one understands what the fighting posture of the cavalry looks like, and it is still the same old set of countermeasures. How could it not be a complete defeat to engage a highly mobile cavalry with tactics against infantry troops?
Tian Guang was a little lucky in his bad luck, and when he knew that in less than three days, the front army was almost completely wiped out and the rear army was also defeated, and the Chinese army happened to be very close to Xiapi. Shocked and puzzled at the same time, he led the Chinese army to run down without saying a word, and it can be that the moment Xu Zhi led the cavalry to arrive, the 80,000 soldiers of the Chinese army hid in.
In the final analysis, the cavalry of the Han army was immature, and under the cautious use, Xu Zhi slowed down the time to attack Tian Guang's army, if he attacked the front and rear troops of Tian Guang's department and also sent cavalry to harass and drag the Chinese army, the process and result of this battle would definitely be rewritten.
Xiapi is a county seat of Donghai County of Qi State, and the Han State forced Donghai County as soon as the war against Qi Guopu began, which caused extremely severe turmoil for Qi State.
Qi didn't believe it when he learned that the Han State might go to war, and he had been in a state where he had not reacted to the declaration of war from the Han envoy or the king to the courtiers.
What kind of joke, the King of Han really started a war against Qi on the grounds that the Qi army attacked the Han merchants, which is simply the most surprising excuse since the beginning of the world. But it really happened, and the king of Han actually shouted the slogan of avenging the people of Han to declare war on Qi.
In the face of such a war that is the most unlikely to happen but has become the fuse of the war, even if the Qi State feels extremely ridiculous, it should go all out to deal with it.
Qi's response was to break through Qin's Sanchuan defense line and force Hangu Pass with all his might, and then urgently set up a huge army in the country to prepare for the defense of Han.
Surabaya Peiguo was taken as the first target of attack by the Han State, which was something that the monarchs and ministers of the Qi State had long been psychologically prepared for, so before the Han State launched an attack, the Qi State gave up many cities that were destined to be undefendable, and concentrated its troops and materials into a few fortified cities.
There are not many places in Surabaya County that can be called Jiancheng, it is nothing more than Pengcheng, Boyang and Qi County, the former capital of Surabaya County, and the rest of the places such as Xiao County, Liuxian, Pei County, Sisang, and Fengyi are either not terrainous, or the city is too dilapidated, and there is no value or room for holding on at all.
In addition, it has to be mentioned that after the establishment of Peiguo by the State of Qi, the original Pei County was renamed Ting County, and Qi County became Pei County after becoming the capital of Pei County.
During the honeymoon period of trade between Han and Qi, Pengcheng was originally the concentration of Qi's reserve materials, whether it was the materials transported from Qi or the resources purchased from Han, Qi was once stored in Pengcheng, because it was needed by the warring areas of Qi, Yan, Zhao and Qin at that time, and Pengcheng was inevitably valued and repeatedly strengthened because it was a concentration of materials.
It is precisely because of Pengcheng's existence that Qi Peiguo can hold on to the front line of Pengcheng, even if there is a Han army to raid the rear of Pengcheng, it is just a destructive attack.
Now, the Han army actually has a large-scale Qi army into Donghai County, and has eliminated and defeated at least 70,000 Qi troops on the Xiapi line, which makes the Qi people shocked and more confused.
In the past wars, the war between the two countries has always been a county town and a key point of advancement, even if it is not a plane of advancement mode, there is no reason to venture forward when the frontier fortified city has not been uprooted, after all, the obstacles have not been cleared, then the war situation represents instability, bypassing the battle line to raid a certain area is a dangerous move, not a conventional way of engagement, the advance of the troops' logistics line can not be guaranteed, not to mention, there is also the danger of being surrounded and annihilated at any time.
Of course, the infantry-based mode of warfare is the one mentioned above, and the history of warfare in China is basically based on steady advance. Occasionally, even if an army will rush into an attack, it is also a risk that will only be done if it is forced to do it, and there are very few successful cases of the army doing this, and sometimes even the advancing troops succeed, but the rear has not succeeded in removing the obstacles on the way forward, and the result is that not only the assault troops will not have a good end, but the entire war situation has also become primary and secondary because of the act of dividing troops.
The use of large-scale cavalry has actually changed the pattern of warfare, but with the exception of Lu Zhe, even the cavalry generals in the Han army have basically not grasped the pulse of the new mainstream.
Even the generals of the Han army, who were part of it, had not yet figured out the tactical use of the cavalry, so how could they understand the Qi State, which had a completely blank combat mode for the cavalry?
In fact, from the beginning of Lu Zhe's arrangement of cavalry tactics, the mode of war has fundamentally changed from that moment. (To be continued......)