Chapter 45: Stacked Waves (2)
"Generals. Since Wei came to the army, what I have seen every day is that all of them are elite generals, all of them are heroic and heroic men, and I am well aware of the strength of the Daijun army. However, this time, the soldiers marched for a long time, and they had no sleep all night, and both the soldiers and horses were exhausted, and now they suddenly encountered the enemy, and there was no chance to rest for a moment. And the enemy army waited for me with a net, waiting for work...... The pros and cons of friend and foe are really clear. ”
Wei Cao looked at the soldiers around him, and saw that they all showed a look of approval, so he continued: "The tactics of the Xianbei people are taken from the strategy of wolves hunting on the grassland, that is, ......" He raised his hand and gestured: "The light cavalry that came and went like the wind repeatedly plundered and harassed in all directions, and when the enemy army was tired, they dispatched elite heavy cavalry to attack and attack fiercely, and annihilate the enemy in one fell swoop. Such tactics are aimed at the biggest weakness of our army. At this moment, the soldiers can still rely on the courage of flesh and blood to support themselves, what if the war continues for an hour, two hours, or three hours...... After more than a dozen or even dozens of plundering and harassment by the enemy's light cavalry, I am afraid that our army will fall to the ground from exhaustion, just wait for the Xianbei people to bring knives to kill. Therefore, our army can only fight a quick battle. ”
"However, how can our army achieve the goal of a quick victory? In the current situation, the number of enemy troops is twice that of ours, the art of war is cloudy, the rules are insufficient, and the attack is more than enough, and rashly attacking a strong enemy with a weak army is the way to bring about defeat. Therefore, General Lu rode out alone to scold Wang Jun, intending to provoke him to attack in anger. Once the enemy army is attacking with all its might, it will be as the art of war says, the invincible, defend also; The victor is also attacked. We might as well sit back and watch the enemy attack in a defensive manner, and wait until the enemy army shows an opportunity to take advantage of it, and then plan a way to win. ”
What Wei Cao quoted is the article "Military Form" in Sun Tzu's Art of War. He also misinterpreted the words of the soldier saint a little. "The invincible, keep it; The two sentences "can win, attack" actually means that the enemy has no opportunity to take advantage of the opportunity to temporarily defend, and the enemy has the opportunity to launch an attack. However, the use of Wei Cao here means that a solid defense is enough to make the enemy have no opportunity to take advantage of, and a fierce attack is easy to reveal flaws.
These words were a little obscure for the warriors who generally lacked literary quality, and the generals looked at each other for a while. Xue Tong frowned, turned to Lu Yao and said, "That Wang Jun, as the chief of the towns in Zhufang, Hebei, is very strategic and resourceful. How could TD be sure that he would fall for it? And if the enemy is desperate to attack, where are our chances of victory? ”
The generals and colonels of the Chinese army watched the battle situation and discussed it. And outside the front line of the whole army, the battle flag hunts, and the war drums are like thunder.
Hundreds of elite horsemen let out an earth-shattering roar in unison and rode forward. Rushed out of the passage left in the car formation. For a moment, the horse's hooves kicked up the flying clods of earth and grass roots, and lifted the drier parts high, so that the whole array of cars was covered by dark brown dust.
This cavalry can be called the essence of the Daijun Army, which is a mixture of Liu Yao's old Jizhou cavalry and the particularly brave and good fighters among the Daijun Zahu people, all of whom are strong soldiers who have experienced a hundred battles and put life and death out of the way. With their superb riding skills, they raised the speed of their horses to the limit in a very short time, like a giant beast that lurked in its minions. As the furious horse galloped forward, a long lance stretched out like the fangs of a giant beast.
And in the direction of their running, the Xianbei light rider exclaimed, and tried his best to rein in his horse and turn to the left and right flanks. The bravery of the Xianbei people was not inferior to that of the Daijun cavalry. But head-to-head duels have never been the strong point of the light cavalry. Due to the hindrance of the horse's head, the knight could not shoot his bow and arrow directly in front of him when he was on his horse, so the light cavalry with the bow as the main weapon always faced the enemy from the side, and even galloped with his back to the enemy. Each excellent Xianbei light rider has extraordinary patience and judgment, relying on repeated harassment, baiting, and shooting, killing and injuring the enemy with difficult movements such as galloping left and right, returning to gallop, and slowly tightening the noose around the enemy's neck.
The Xianbei people grew up on horseback since childhood, and it has become their instinct to avoid real attacks and disturb the enemy's flanks, but they are too close to the Daijun cavalry. Before the whole set of actions of reining in, slowing down, and turning was completed, it was already caught in a terrible impact.
In just three or five breaths, the Daijun cavalry entered the ranks of the Xianbei people. The low roar of the warriors from between their teeth, the sound of the horses panting and clashing with each other, the tearing sound of the blades piercing through their bodies, and the crunch of the lance cracking after being violently exerted upon it, all resounded at the same time. Several particularly unlucky knights were pierced through by the lance that stabbed straight through, and with the tremendous momentum, they flew backwards with the lance, sprinkling a rainbow of blood in the air.
Liu Yao always leads by example. He leaned over and leaned tightly on the saddle, wielding his lance and slapping it from side to side. In the midst of lightning and fire, the large, two-sided spear tip sliced the bodies of several enemies in half, and also raised a huge horse's head. The impact slowed him down slightly, and an enemy rider saw the opportunity and charged from the left flank.
Liu Yao did not hesitate to stab the tail of the lance with his backhand. The tail end of the lance is usually fitted with a conical iron hammer to balance the weight. When the Xianbei man's long knife was still about half a foot away from Liu Yao's front door, the huge iron hammer had already hit his face door squarely, and the wide iron body was wrapped in skin, muscles, bones, and even cracked eyes, and smashed straight into the skull.
The enemy in front of him was finally empty, and Liu Yao rushed out of the ranks of the Xianbei people unscathed; Looking left and right, I saw that there were only three or four people left in the knights who were originally following him. He spat and was about to call out to his soldiers, only to find that his horses were slowing down.
He stooped down to take a look, and immediately cursed through gritted teeth. A terrible bloody gout stretched from the horse's chest backwards, almost more than two feet long. The horse's internal organs could almost be seen under the wound, and the gray-white muscles and blood vessels were tangled and jumping, squeezing out a large amount of blood continuously, and completely staining the lower half of the horse's torso red. Liu Yao couldn't even remember when his beloved horse received this kind of fatal blow, if this war horse slowed down when the enemy and me were densely staggered, Liu Yao would not escape death even if he had three heads and six arms, it was completely with unimaginable loyalty, and persevered until the moment when the master killed the enemy.
Liu Yao jumped off his horse violently. At the same time, his warhorse fell to his knees sideways. It looked at Liu Yao with jewel-like eyes, and gasped for breath a few times, and then stopped moving. Liu Yao couldn't say goodbye to his old partner. He casually led an ownerless war horse running around the battlefield, jumped on it, and watched the battle from all sides.
As a result of the fierce attack of the Daijun cavalry, the Xianbei people suffered considerable losses. But most of the Xianbei light cavalry was unhindered, and they quickly avoided to the left and right, making a huge whirling arc before turning around, like two lizards with broken tails to survive, meandering and swiftly passing over the sides of the Daijun cavalry.
There is no doubt that once they get close to the appropriate distance, the Xianbei people's cavalry will be powerful again, and they will never give the Daijun cavalry a chance to fight again, but will slowly exhaust the blood of the Daijun army with arrows.
Unfortunately, not every fighter can always stay calm and make the right choices in the heat of battle. This tried and tested tactic was used at this moment, but it brought another heavy blow to the Xianbei people...... As they roared and drew their bows and arrows, what they didn't notice was that the team on the right flank was almost within easy reach of the Daijun chariot formation.
When the arrows that covered the sky and the sun flew out of the Daijun military vehicle array again, most of the Xianbei people were straightening up and preparing to shoot, and they didn't make any dodging moves at all!