Chapter 691: Aftermath (12)
Wasn't Zang Di a figure in the south who existed as the deputy general of the allied forces of Qi, Yan, and Zhao? Although Chen Sheng didn't know that the Tian Rong Corps in the south had been wiped out, and Zang Di had been let go when he was captured by the Han army, he was not stupid enough to be indifferent to Zang Di's appearance here.
"General Han," Chen Sheng asked, half confused and half with a bad feeling, "Is it true that General Zang Tuzang of your country is fighting on the front line of Dangjun with General Tian Rongtian?" ”
Han Guang's heart got up, and he quickly controlled the expression on his face that was about to freeze, changed his face to a smile, and then said, "Yes." ”
"That'...... Is General Zang still in the south now? Chen Sheng asked with a smile.
Han Guang's heartbeat involuntarily accelerated, and he pretended to be calm and said: "This is not true, Zang Di has already come to the barracks in the early hours of last night, but he has been running all the way, and he is too tired to fall into a coma, and he should still be resting now." ”
"Oh?" Although Chen Sheng was still confused, Han Guang said that Zang Di was alleviating many of his doubts: "No wonder ......", paused, and continued: "I saw General Zang just now. ”
Han Guang also let out an "oh", obviously not wanting to talk about Zang Di anymore, but asked Chen Sheng to order his subordinates to fight again.
Chen Sheng originally wanted to ask why Zang Di appeared here and how he came here, but after thinking about it, the Yan army was fighting with the Han army with real swords and guns, and the soldiers on both sides who kept falling couldn't do it, so he temporarily suppressed this idea and shouted a few words below.
The situation on the battlefield really can't tolerate Chen Sheng's hesitation too much, the Yan army Ge spearmen who rushed up across the shield array have collapsed in the fight of the Han army's Pu Dao hand, and turned around and are on the run.
During the battle between the Han army's Pu Daoshou and the Yan army's Ge spearmen, the Han army's shield array did not stop approaching, and as the battle in the middle of the front came to an end, the sound of bangzi resounded on the battlefield again. Then there were the crossbowmen on the Han side, and the endless coverage on the coalition side.
On the battle line outside the infantry army, the Donghu cavalry and the Han cavalry also collided.
If the 2,000 cavalry at the beginning were engaged in some kind of temptation, waiting for the Han army's main formation to press the coalition camp, then any temptation was meaningless, and from that moment on, the main purpose of the cavalry movement was to find a gap, as a "life-saving straw" to reverse the unfavorable situation of the own side.
The infantry of the coalition army is not the opponent of the Han army's infantry army, and the Han army's equipment unit seems to be about to be ready, and the Donghu cavalry has been looking for an opportunity to raid the Han army's equipment unit, because they are very impressed by the Han army's equipment unit, and they know that once the Han army's equipment unit joins the battlefield. Then it will be really very difficult for their side to maintain the front of the infantry army.
Of course, the Han army knew what the Donghu cavalry had been swimming for, and Wei Han and He Yi decided to deliberately open a gap after discussing with He Yi to attract the Donghu cavalry to move towards their own equipment troops.
Did the Donghu cavalry know that the gap in the Han army's front was deliberately vacant? After the Donghu cavalry really changed direction and galloped past, there was no point in delving into it. In response to this, the Han cavalry, which had been prompted earlier, pounced head-on.
A strange thing happened, the Donghu cavalry that was originally charging became three arrows, the Donghu cavalry on the left and right sides maintained the speed of galloping around, and the Donghu cavalry in the middle stopped, and the Donghu people on horseback jumped off their horses and adjusted their formation slightly in the shouts of "chirping and wah". Then it was time to erect the spear, and it was time to make a gesture of opening the bow and arrows, aiming at the Han cavalry that was rushing in, and all the postures were made.
In fact, it is not strange that until the era when the stirrup was fully used, the cavalry was still used when it stopped halfway through the battlefield and fought on foot. That's not to mention the era when stirrups were not yet popular. In the past, each 2,000 cavalry fought across horses, which was "abnormal" in a sense.
The Han cavalry that rushed over, in response, also split into three groups, two of which went sideways to pursue the Donghu cavalry that bypassed left and right. The Han cavalry in the middle accelerated the speed of the horse's hooves at that moment, and in the puzzled eyes of many people, they did not have any intention of slowing down and dismounting. Directly collided with the arrows shot by the Donghu people.
Dismount to fight, the archer's range is indeed farther than riding on horseback, which is related to the principle of archery posture, but Rao is standing posture can increase the range, the longest range of the horn bow equipped by the Donghu people is within 100 steps, the strongest killing range is within 30 steps, and the arrows shot out of more than 70 steps should be soft and fluttering.
When the Han cavalry, galloping at high speed, saw the enemy shooting arrows, they immediately pressed their bodies that were originally leaning forward to lower them, so as to reduce the impact of the falling arrows.
When the Donghu people shoot arrows, they don't pay attention to the arrangement of arrow arrays, and there is no so-called band coverage, which is how quickly each person can shoot as many arrows as the Han cavalry arrives. When the Han army approached about fifty paces, the Donghu people were shouting again, and each Donghu person immediately made a gesture of turning over and getting on a horse, obviously wanting to ride away from the battlefield.
I have to admit that the tactics of the Donghu people are the most in line with the times, dismount and shoot arrows, and run away after shooting, this tactic is not to drive the horses away, and another tactic of dismounting and nailing them in place is to drive away the horses. In the era when the Chinese ethnic group lacked war horses, the Hu people used such a tactic to bully the Chinese army that relied on two legs to run. What is the result? It is difficult to achieve much success even if the Chinese army wins in many wars, after all, it is really disgusting to encounter this kind of enemy army that can fight if it wants to fight and rely on war horses to run on four legs if it doesn't want to fight.
It is said that the cavalry tactics of the Han army are more advanced than any army in the current era, not only in terms of equipment, but also because of Lu Zhe's survival, how the tactics he taught the cavalry army are also summed up in the "precipitation" of one or two thousand years, if the tactics and tactics are not superior, then it is in vain.
The cavalry of the Han army that charged and fought was not zero casualties, and the arrows did not penetrate the flesh at a distance of about 100 paces, and it was impossible for the war horses under the seat to be uninjured like in many film and television works. Many of the knights who fell off their horses were not injured themselves, but because the pain of the arrows on the horses would send out the animal's instinct to "brake sharply", and the result was that the knights on horseback were thrown down.
Lost about 100 horses, the Han cavalry that had completed the acceleration also fired crossbow arrows when they approached the enemy 30 paces, and the Donghu people who were turning over their horses immediately fell in pieces, and some of the horses that were hit by the arrows also went crazy and kicked and trampled, so that the plan of the Donghu people to get back on their horses and evacuate was also disrupted.
Until the Han cavalry put aside the crossbow and pulled out the long-handled sabre to pounce, less than 1,000 of the more than 5,000 Donghu people who dismounted and fought were because they were relatively backward and turned on the back of the horse to drive the horse to move, and the remaining 4,000 or so Donghu people were hit by the galloping Han cavalry.
The rhythm of cavalry combat was very fast, and the Han cavalry running through the enemy camp was inevitably surrounded by pieces of corpses, and it was not that there were no living people on the battlefield, but that there were sparse and undead people who stayed in place as if they were stupid.
"This ......" After watching the cavalry fight again, Han Guang looked at Xu Xuan, one of the leaders of Donghu with a blue face, and forced him to fall: "The war horses of the Han army are different from those of other countries......
That's not nonsense! Xu Xuan is an idiot and can see that the cavalry of the Han army did not dismount and fight on the battlefield at all, except for the necessary replacement of tired war horses, they stayed on horseback, and seemed to ......
"This is the tactics that cavalry should have!" Qi Lianfu hid for Xu and forced him to say what was in his heart.
The cavalry of several battlefields also began to collide, and the battlefield in the northwest was very different from the cavalry in the south, and the difference did not mean that the Donghu cavalry there did not dismount and shoot arrows, but that there were 1,000 mounted heavy cavalry in the Han cavalry in the northwest.
In the northwest are also the Donghu people who dismounted and shot arrows, and when they dismounted to reorganize some formations, they strangely saw that the Han cavalry galloping in the front were moving to the left and right wings, and the exposed Han cavalry was a kind of army with men and horses wrapped in armor.
Of course, the Donghu people didn't know that the kind of Han cavalry they saw was officially called "equipped heavy cavalry", but as long as they had brains and basic judgment, they should know that the Han cavalry that even had men and horses and armor was not easy to mess with.
With a bad premonition, the Donghu people shot arrows, and then saw the arrows whistling away, and even a single Han cavalry was not successfully killed, even if the arrow hit the Han cavalry, it was bounced away, and then the monsters trampled on the dull sound of horses' hooves, which was heavier than ordinary cavalry, and continued to move forward.
The light cavalry will be more or less killed and injured when it is blocked by arrows, and the heavy cavalry is really like a monster, even if there are arrows stuck in a person or horse, no one has any feeling, and then it crashes straight into the crowd of Donghu.
"What's that!?" This cry of horror was uttered by Chen Sheng, who saw with his own eyes the Han army's heavily mounted cavalry crashing into the crowd of Donghu with the sound of a modern bulldozer, plowing as if they were ploughing, leaving no one or anything in the way to hinder them.
Xu Xuan's face turned pale, they did not have any advantage in the face of the Han army when they were proud of their horse fighting, and now they saw that the new arms of the Han army were slaughtering the soldiers of their own race in an absolutely superior way with a tendency of almost zero losses, and it was strange if their brains were not confused.
"Look!" Qi Lianfu shouted, pointing to another part of the battlefield.
The picture there is a Han army foot soldier meeting the Donghu cavalry without the Han cavalry, and the five thousand heavy armor soldiers of Su Lie who came from behind appeared on the battlefield...... (To be continued......)