Chapter 587: Attack and Defense (6)
After more than ten rounds of continuous offensive shooting, hundreds of soldiers were killed and wounded by arrows on both flanks of the Qin army, and the casualties of the Dai army were also more than 100.
In fact, for both sides, such casualties are minimal, although the Qin army's casualties are more, but it is far from the point of breaking the muscles and bones, but from the scene, the Dai army is running after the fight, attacking in turns, and the Qin army can only be beaten passively, obviously if it is at a disadvantage, and the number of casualties of the Qin army is already more, and they are all concentrated in their own array, corpses are everywhere, countless wounded, and other soldiers naturally also look at it, so it is also a big blow to the morale of the Qin army.
Of course, if it is only a cavalry assault of the Dai army, it will not be difficult for the Qin army to deal with it, after all, the loss is not large, and the Qin army has ordered people to go back to the camp to mobilize reinforcements, at most in an hour or two, the reinforcements of the Qin army can rush to the battlefield, and then the situation can be changed. But the difficulty of the Qin army is not only this, in front of the Qin army, the army camp is also constantly increasing the number of troops, although the Qin army also sent a reinforcement of troops, but still can not change the situation on the battlefield, the Qin army is still at a disadvantage, if the Qin army is defeated by the army, then it will really fall into the middle of the army, and now the Qin army is difficult to continue to invest troops in the front battlefield. Therefore, now that the Qin army is blindly defending, it is difficult to say whether it can hold on to the arrival of reinforcements.
Although Meng Tian is young, he is proficient in the art of war, and of course he also knows that attack is the best defense, at this time, the Qin army must not be passive defense, and must take the initiative to attack, so that it is possible to change the current passive situation. It's just the direction of the attack, and it is still necessary for Meng Tian to seriously consider whether to target the large battalion of the representative army in the front, or to put the direction of the attack on the rear of the representative army cavalry.
Although time was short, Meng Tian still made a decision in a short period of time, mobilized 5,000 cavalry, and divided into two routes, and launched an attack on the cavalry of the Dai army.
Because Meng Tian considered that on the battlefield ahead now, the Qin army can still resist for a while, and it can be let go for the time being, and even if the Dai army is defeated, the big deal is that the Dai army can still retreat to the camp to garrison, and the threat to the Qin army still cannot be lifted; Moreover, Meng Tian still has a lot of jealousy about the combat effectiveness of the Dai Army's cavalry, and he does not dare to easily give up his back to the Dai Army. In addition, the Dai army that attacked from the rear was likely to be led by Gao Yuan himself, and Meng Tian was even more careless. Therefore, after weighing the pros and cons, Meng Tian made up his mind to put the direction of the initiative in the rear.
After the cavalry of the 5,000 Qin army divided into two ways and fought out, the cavalry of the Dai army turned their horses' heads one after another and fled to the side and rear. Meng Tian saw very clearly on the Linchong Lu bus, to be honest, the performance of the Dai Jun was completely unexpected by Meng Tian, he didn't fight, why did he run away, there must be a reason.
But Meng Tian hesitated, considering that if the Qin army was allowed to withdraw, the Dai army would definitely come back to attack again, so he finally gave the order to let the cavalry pursue him. Of course, Meng Tian did not think about whether the Dai army planned to lead the Qin army away, and then concentrate his forces to defeat the Qin army, or if there was any ambush, so he ordered the other cavalry troops, as well as the Kuafu warriors, to be ready to attack at any time and reinforce the cavalry.
So the four teams of cavalry were divided into two groups, one in front of the other, one after the other, and the chase began. It's like two bifurcations and one line, the higher the division, the higher the score.
However, the Qin army on one of the roads did not chase far, only two or three miles away, there was a cavalry army of the Dai Army, which killed from the oblique stab and launched an attack on the Qin army.
The purpose of the plateau is also as Meng Tian expected, that is, to divert the cavalry of the Qin army away from the main formation of the Qin army, and then concentrate the army to encircle and annihilate, if the Qin army sends troops to reinforce, you can wait for the opportunity to move, the Qin army sends fewer reinforcements, you can concentrate all your forces, and fight together with the reinforcements; And the Qin army sent more reinforcements, then the defense of the main formation will inevitably be weakened, and the Dai army can use a small number of cavalry to contain the Qin army's brigade, and instead use the main army to attack the main formation of the Qin army, because Gao Yuan still has a trump card in his hand, that is, the newly formed heavy cavalry army. The array used to charge the enemy head-on is far more powerful than the light cavalry.
And the Qin army really chased it out, and Gao Yuan immediately ordered the Fan Yong army to attack, and launched an attack on one of the Qin troops, while the Dai army on the other road led the Qin army away for a distance, and also turned back and fought fiercely with the Qin army.
At this time, the battlefield was only two or three miles away from the array of the Qin army, so Meng Tian could also see the army attacking on the chariot, although Meng Tian also immediately sent an order to send 5,000 cavalry to attack and reinforce, but there was one thing that Meng Tian did not expect, that is, the speed of the cavalry was too fast, and when the cavalry of the Qin army just left the array of the Qin army, the Fan Yong army caught up with the Qin army that fought first.
Although the combat effectiveness of the Qin cavalry has been greatly improved at this time, there is still a considerable gap compared with the Fan Yongjun, and the number of the Fan Yong Army is twice that of the Qin army, and it is from the oblique stab, so it only took one sprint to disrupt the queue of the Qin army.
And the fleeing Dai army also immediately pulled out their horses and killed back, as a result, under the two ways of the Dai army, the Qin army's two thousand five hundred cavalry had no power to parry at all, not to mention that sometimes a Qin soldier had to face the attack of two or three Dai soldiers at the same time, that is, one-on-one hand, was shot down and dismounted, nine times out of ten were Qin soldiers, and it only took a few minutes for the Qin army to be killed by the Dai army, and a complete defeat, and at this time the Qin army's reinforced cavalry was still more than 100 steps away from the battlefield.
This is not because there is anything wrong with Meng Tian's command, but because the Qin army has been using the cavalry for too short a time, is not familiar with the speed of the cavalry, and lacks enough experience, which led to Meng Tian's misjudgment and gave the Dai army enough time to break the Qin army one by one.
After defeating the Qin army, the two cavalry armies of the Dai army combined, totaling more than 7,500 cavalry, and killed the cavalry of the 5,000 Qin army that came up with reinforcements.
Originally, when the Qin army attacked, it received an order to reinforce the cavalry that went out first, but now that the cavalry that fought in advance has been defeated, then the reinforced cavalry is faced with two choices, either to retreat back to the main formation, or to engage the Dai army.
At this time, the distance between the two sides is still more than 100 steps, if the cavalry of the Qin army retreats immediately, of course, there is still time to flee back to the main formation of the Qin army, but the current battlefield is about three miles away from the position of the Qin army, almost more than 1,200 steps, so the order of the main formation of the Qin army can no longer be transmitted in time, and there are unexpected changes on the battlefield, and the master of the Qin army can only rely on himself to adapt at any time. And the commander of the Qin army chose to fight with the Dai army.
In fact, it is not surprising that the Qin army made such a choice, because the Qin army's military law is extremely strict, and it is also the practice of joint sitting, fearing the enemy in battle, retreating without fighting, not only is it a capital crime, but also affects the family, so the Qin soldiers have to fight to the death on the battlefield, otherwise they will not only be dealt with by military law, but also punished together with their families, and if they don't do well, the whole family will be reduced to slaves.
Before receiving a new order from the main formation, the leading generals of the Qin army did not dare to lead the army to retreat easily, even if they knew that they were invincible, they could only lead the army and fight a decisive battle with the Dai army.
However, in terms of strength, the Qin army is not much worse than the Dai army, because not only the five thousand cavalry troops that have been reinforced have come, but the cavalry army that was previously defeated by the Dai army was only scattered, but not the whole army was wiped out, and the total number of dead and wounded soldiers was less than a thousand, and now there are still 16,700 people left, so the Qin army also has nearly 7,000 people after the combined army, which is roughly the same as the Dai army, and it is not completely vulnerable.
The distance of more than 100 paces, for the cavalry, is only a matter of a few moments, the two cavalry have already met together, the knights in the front row clenched the spears in their hands, and at the same time kicked the horse's belly with their combat boots, and the war horse has also increased its speed to the highest point, and the knight on horseback can even hear the whining of the wind in his ears.
The two cavalry armies were like two huge sea langs, slamming together, and the huge force splashed Lang's head in all directions, falling from the air, and then disappeared, while the Lang head behind was one after another, rushing towards each other one after another, launching a continuous attack.
At this time, tactics have been relegated to a secondary position, and the main competition is the personal quality of the soldiers, the soldiers' courage, strength, experience, horsemanship, martial arts, and so on. However, in these aspects, the courage of the two sides is roughly equal, but in terms of experience, horsemanship, and martial arts, the Qin army is obviously inferior, not to mention that a nation like Fan Yongjun, who has lived on horseback since childhood, is the cavalry of other generations, at least after more than two years of hard training, and the Qin army's large-scale redress has only been more than half a year, so it is difficult to compare with the generation army.
Therefore, at the moment when the two horses hedge and intersect, the cavalry of the Dai army often only twists their waists slightly on the horseback, or they can easily dodge the spears stabbed by the cavalry of the Qin army, and the action is very relaxed, while the cavalry of the Qin army is obviously much delayed, although they have been replaced with new horse furniture, but after all, they are not skilled, not because they are a step slower, they are hit by the spear of the soldiers, and they are knocked off the horse; Or because the dodge movement was too large, and as a result, he couldn't sit in the saddle steadily, and he fell off the horse.
There are also two war horses hedging against each other, the knights of the Dai army only used to pull the reins slightly, and the war horses changed direction slightly, dodging the war horses of the Qin army, and then at the moment when the two war horses staggered, the cavalry of the Dai army could also wave their spears with their backhands and stab backwards, and also hit many Qin soldiers.
However, the two teams of cavalry rushed to kill each other, but because the formation of the two sides was not fully expanded, they basically charged and fought in a column, so although the fronts of the two sides were quickly staggered together, no one could penetrate the opponent's formation, and finally formed a melee situation, and many knights threw away their spears and switched to sabers that were more conducive to melee combat, slashing and slashing. War horses gallop across the country, spears stab, sabers slash, warriors roar, war horses neigh, all intertwined.