"With enough arrows and strong-willed spearmen, they only have the means to defend, and they will no longer have a way to resist when they encountered the Han cavalry before," Yu Fanjun really didn't want to pour cold water, but he was afraid that Tian Guang would cause a big disaster if he didn't know the severity: "With the means of defense, when the infantry encounters the cavalry, the high-speed mobility of the cavalry is still incomprehensible." ”

Whether it is in the era of the emerging rise of cavalry, or in the era of cavalry sitting firmly on the road to the hegemony of the army, it has always been an unsolvable problem for infantry to win against cavalry but unable to expand the results.

The most representative is the battle between the Song army and the Khitan people during the two Song Dynasty periods, each time the Song army defeated these two groups, but as the losing side of the Xiang Party and the Khitan retreated after defeat, the Song army could not catch up with the four legs on two legs, so that although the battle was won, the results would always be not good.

It is never surprising that infantry troops suffered heavy losses against cavalry, especially in battles during movement.

Tian Guang's repeated temptations can be said to be regardless of the cost and price, the Qi army encountered a sudden attack by the Han cavalry during the movement, and many times it was killed before it had time to form a formation, and after being formed to cover up and kill, it was often all the way to the corpses.

The Qi army, which lost nearly 10,000 troops, formed a two-faced extreme in the process of probing, either they threw out a sufficient number of scouts to be cleaned up, and were suddenly attacked without effective information from the scouts; Either it is a turtle that forms a self-preservation formation and moves, and it is considered a good speed if it can walk fifteen miles a day.

Scouts in the army are not elites, and often not all elites can be qualified for the role of scouts, and the scouts of the infantry army to the infantry army are generally about fifteen miles, and the infantry army is not a good warning range when facing the cavalry. The Qi army suffered losses one after another before they realized that for the cavalry, fifteen miles is more than an hour to arrive, and often the enemy cavalry followed when their own scouts came back to give a report, and there was not much time for the infantry to form a formation at all.

Scout sprinklers are farther away? Of course, the Qi army did this, but the situation was even more tragic. The scouts that spilled out were basically a disappearance, and after completely losing their eyes, there was no one to raise the alarm.

Tian Guang said that the cavalry should not be worried, and that was based on the situation that the infantry army moved at the speed of a turtle.

For example, it is normal for the elite army in the Qin army and the Han army who are accustomed to marching in formation to walk more than 25 miles a day, but for the Tian Guang Corps, which is mostly recruits, it can be regarded as an extraordinary performance to walk 15 miles a day.

In the Spring and Autumn Period, the infantry army in the ordinary state walked one room (thirty miles), and in the Warring States Period, the infantry army walked forty to fifty miles a day and became the basic posture, fifteen miles...... Truth be told, isn't it turtle speed? Moreover, not every temptation army of Qi can reach such speed, and more of them are broken up and destroyed. Yu Fanjun really doesn't know what to be happy about.

"It's far better to have a solution than to be at a loss." Tian Guang said.

As the core of the Qi State, Tian Guang didn't know that because of the different modes of war of the Han State, the Qi State was completely passive? But you can't just sit back and wait for death because you're passive, right? As the commander of an army, even if the way he copes with it is not good, he always has to show a good side, otherwise even the commander has been putting on a sad face, wouldn't it be a heavier blow to morale?

Tian Guang could still have a city to rely on to find a way for the infantry army to deal with the cavalry, but the southern area of Donghai County of Qi was full of wailing.

Before Xu Zhi marched from northern Surabaya, the 3rd Mixed Army of the Han State launched an offensive from Dongcheng in Jiujiang County to Dantu in Huiji County to Donghai County.

The total strength of the Third Mixed Regiment was 50,000 soldiers, but the accompanying auxiliaries reached 100,000. They attack on both sides. The goal of one road is Xutai, and the other is Guangling.

Of course, the so-called mixed corps is all kinds of troops, but the cavalry is at most two as rangers and scouts, and the rest are infantry and equipment troops.

Xutai and Guangling are not fortified cities. The Han army first concentrated on a large scale in Xiangxian County, Surabaya County, and most of the attention of the Qi State was concentrated in that direction, and the Third Mixed Army Corps moved from mobilization to assembly, and from assembly to sudden attack. The whole process is about ten days.

Ten days or so may be able to quickly transmit news in the era when there is a radio station, but in the era of relying on legs to walk and transmit, ten or so days is a certain person who gets the news and runs to report it, and as a result, this person has just arrived at a certain position, and the enemy army is also following behind.

It is unclear whether the defenders of Donghai County had received information about the Han army's attack in advance. However, when the third mixed corps of the Han army forced the city, Xutai was not even able to close the city gate and was killed by the pioneer cavalry of the Han army, and the follow-up Han army had not yet arrived, and the two thousand Qi troops who defended the city simply abandoned the city and fled.

Guangling was originally the front line of the Qi army to force the Chu State, and after many repairs, the number of Qi troops stationed in it was relatively large and more elite. When the Han army used the pioneer cavalry to rush the gate, the Guangling defenders did not have time to close one of the gates and were killed, but before the follow-up troops of the Han army arrived, the Qi army defending the city successfully eliminated more than 100 Han cavalry that broke into the city, and finally avoided the danger of the city gate being captured.

The 3rd Mixed Regiment Corps attacked Xutai with no more than 10,000 soldiers and 30,000 auxiliaries, 10,000 soldiers against 2,000 defenders arranged according to the concept of "attacking five times the city" in the art of war. The garrison of Guangling is divided into three parts, 10,000 is stationed in the main city, that is, Guangling itself, 1,000 are stationed in the camp of the Hangou River Beach, 3,000 are stationed in a small urn city in the west of Guangling, and the Han army attacking Guangling is 40,000 soldiers and 80,000 auxiliaries.

Before the Han army attacked, the intelligence had been done to the best, and the cavalry was not successfully used to capture the city gate, and the Han army that arrived close to the city in batches was not so easy to deploy, when the first Han army infantry arrived at the city of Guangling, the garrison of the three defenders of Guangling took the lead, and the first battle between the two sides under the city of Guangling began.

The first Han infantry to arrive at the city of Guangling was a thousand predetermined pioneers of the capture of the city, and the second part of this army was able to continue the cavalry, and it was not destined to be a slow-moving army, but some light infantry equipped with leather armor. When they were about three miles away from Guangling City, the defenders of Wengcheng to the west of Guangling's corner were the first to fight, and more than 2,000 Qi troops could be regarded as seizing the fatigue period of the Han army's fatigue on the road.

It is not uncommon for the Qi army to take the initiative to capture the fighters, and it is enough to prove that the guards here are not stupid people, if it is really a stupid guy, they will sit back and watch the Han army stand firm.

When the commander of the Guangling garrison fought with the Han army in the first part of the urn city, he transferred 3,000 men from the city, of which 2,500 Qi soldiers went straight to the urn city, and the other 500 Qi soldiers went to the direction of Hangou.

When the follow-up troops of the Han army appeared in the field of vision of Guangling, the Qi army, which had fought with the advance of the Han army, broke away from the battlefield, but the direction of retreat was not the urn city when it came, but the main city of Guangling.

The raid plan failed, of course Zhou Wen felt a pity, but he didn't dwell too much, the surprise attack was nothing more than breaking the city with strength, for the third mixed corps that had been fully prepared in advance, a hard-power siege battle was also an opportunity to test the troops.

As the commander of the Third Mixed Legion, that is, Zhou Wen, the general of Zhonglang, his relaxed heart is confident. He knew very well that this time the Han army went north to make a lot of operational deployment plans, and it was not the Third Mixed Army that was singing a one-man show.

The First Cavalry Corps under the leadership of Xu Zhi successfully blocked Tian Guang's southward corps, and then moved to the southeast of Donghai County, at this moment tens of thousands of cavalry are galloping on the north bank of Huaishui, large-scale cavalry interspersed operations are not to capture a certain city, the main goal is to cut the south and north of Donghai County.

According to the news confirmed from some sources, what the Qi Dynasty understood was that the entire Donghai County had become a large battlefield, and the Han army seemed to be omnipresent, and almost every place that could transmit military information was reporting the discovery of large-scale troops of the Han army.

It's not that the Qi State didn't make efforts to resist, but just like Tian Guang was blinded when he encountered the cavalry and didn't know how to deal with it, he often gave orders to the Qi army stationed in a certain place where to go to support, and as a result, this Qi army was attacked by the Han cavalry on the way, and it either collapsed or was annihilated, making the Qi court seem at a loss.

Until the period when the Third Mixed Regiment of the Han Army took Xutai and besieged Guangling, the 100,000 or so garrisons of Qi in Donghai County, as long as they moved out of the city in a certain direction, then the army either disappeared in the establishment or was disabled, so frightened that the Qi army that received the order later did not dare to venture out of the city at all, and it was not for nothing that they were forced to be in a hurry and simply sent a small number of troops to deliver food.

When the Fifth Cavalry Regiment of the Han Army joined the battle sequence, the Qi army in the north of Surabaya County encountered the same as the troops of Donghai County.

The army out of the city will attract the Han cavalry raid, so that the troops that do not form the size of the corps can not stay in the wilderness at all, and the Qi State temporarily wants to assemble a large corps on the battlefield and needs to draw troops from various cities, which forms a dead circle, which can only draw troops from outside the war zone, and cannot make the Qi army in the war zone move.

Obviously, Lu Zhe has nothing complicated about the first stage of cavalry use, but he uses the high-speed mobility of the cavalry to disrupt the war situation, and the targeted arrangement is to use the strategy of eating any Qi army that dares to go out of the city, dividing and blockading the entire battlefield, and then using non-cavalry regiments to break through one by one. (To be continued......)