Chapter 562: The Battle (4)
However, although the combat effectiveness of the Qin cavalry is not as good as that of the Dai Army, after all, it still has a certain advantage in numbers, and the fighting spirit and morale of the Qin Army are not lost to the Dai Army.
At this time, the number of cavalry troops on both sides had exceeded 20,000, and the scale of the cavalry battle far exceeded that of the infantry army, so the battlefield was very wide, and the infantry on both sides had rushed to the edge of the battlefield, but because it was difficult to insert into the battlefield, they could only temporarily stop at the edge of the battlefield.
After all, the plateau also knows the way of the road, the impermanence of the troops, the impermanence of the water, and no one branch of the army can cover the world, and it is impossible for any branch of the army to complete the operation alone on the battlefield, and only the joint operation of multiple arms can give full play to the advantages of each branch of the armed forces, and achieve the effect that one plus one is greater than two, which is the correct direction. Therefore, after the formation of a mixed infantry and cavalry army, the representative army also strengthened the tactical training of the army's mixed infantry and cavalry operations.
However, due to the inherent disadvantage of infantry against cavalry, only under special geographical conditions, or in advance to arrange a tight formation, and have enough long-range weapons to be able to fight against the cavalry, so in the mixed combat of infantry and cavalry, the cavalry is still the main force, and the infantry is only used as an auxiliary force of the cavalry. But because of the needs of the situation on the battlefield just now, Jiang Huan Wu separated the infantry cavalry to use the battle, and now the cavalry of the two sides is crisscrossed, and they have been mixed into a mess, showing a dog's tooth staggered, and the infantry army will not find the opportunity to insert into the battlefield for a while and a half, so naturally it will not be able to cooperate with the cavalry to fight.
Jiang Huanwu, the chief general of the Left Route Army of the Dai Army, also came to the edge of the battlefield with the army at this time, and seeing this scene, he did not rush to put the infantry into the battlefield, but first sorted out the array of the infantry army, waiting for the opportunity to join the battlefield. and launched an attack on some of the Qin cavalry who were left alone in the fierce battle, and as a result, many cavalry were killed.
At this time, some cavalry troops of the Dai Army also found that their infantry had rushed to the edge of the battlefield, so several hundred cavalry teams took the initiative to leave the battlefield and killed the array of the Dai Army.
Mixed infantry and cavalry operations, mainly based on the formation of 100 cavalry, generally a 100 cavalry can bring 100 to 300 infantry, there are generally three tactics, one is the cavalry and the infantry to open a certain distance, by the cavalry first to charge the enemy, and then by the infantry to catch up, if the cavalry disperses the enemy, the infantry will catch up to expand the results of the battle, clean up the battlefield; And if the cavalry does not disperse the enemy and is even hindered, the infantry can immediately launch a second wave of attacks and inflict continuous blows on the enemy. This tactic is generally used in skirmishes or assault battles.
The second is a mixed attack of infantry and cavalry, the infantry is divided on both sides of the cavalry to protect the flanks of the cavalry, if it is against the enemy cavalry, the infantry will attack the war horse of the enemy cavalry, and if it is against the infantry, the infantry will be responsible for protecting the horse of their own cavalry from being attacked by the enemy, this tactic is generally used in the battlefield situation where the two sides are caught in a melee and the cavalry cannot sprint to attack.
The third tactic is to defend in line with the infantry, and the cavalry to pin down the enemy by surprise on the perimeter. Of course, this tactic is mainly used when facing more and more powerful enemy forces than yourself.
In this battle, the third tactic is obviously not used, mainly the first and second tactics, and which tactic to choose depends on the actual situation on the battlefield.
After several hundred cavalry teams joined the battlefield with the infantry army, it quickly had an effect, the training, tactics, and experience of the Qin cavalry were insufficient, but only with a courage, and the advantage in numbers could avoid being able to deal with the representative army, and now a certain number of infantry has been added to the cavalry of the representative army, not to mention the power of the infantry and cavalry melee? However, the Qin army's numerical advantage was gradually weakened by the Dai army, and now the Qin army has not even mastered the tactics of cavalry, let alone the tactics of dealing with mixed infantry and cavalry, and it suddenly seems extremely uncomfortable.
Seeing this, the other cavalry of the Dai Army also left the battlefield one after another, and then entered the battlefield after taking the infantry army, and in a short time, more than 3,000 infantry troops joined the battlefield with the cavalry.
And at this moment, two new armies rushed over from the middle of the Dai army to reinforce, including 2,000 cavalry troops, Jiang Huanwu couldn't help but be overjoyed when he saw this, and immediately ordered this new army of infantry and cavalry to attack immediately and reinforce the battlefield.
ββββββββ the dividing line βββββββββ dividing lineββββββββ when the left army of the Dai army attacked on all fronts and started a fierce battle with the Qin army, the right army of the Dai army also launched a counterattack against the Qin army.
The strength of the right army of the Dai army was relatively thin, since there was a new army, there were only three corps, a total of 15,000 men and horses, including 4,000 cavalry, so it was impossible to use the same tactics as the left army, Yuan Xuan first ordered the remaining 3,000 infantry to attack and join the battle group.
In fact, the Dai army fighting on the right was not defeated by the Qin army, but it was just to lead the Qin army to the front of the array of the Dai army, so they fought and retreated, and now Yuan Xuan ordered to send reinforcements to counterattack the Qin army, and the Dai army who was fighting with the Qin army suddenly stabilized its position and did not retreat. And with the reinforcements joining the battle, although there were not many troops joined, the morale of the Dai army was greatly boosted, everyone fought bravely, and immediately gained the upper hand, while the Qin army was forced to turn to the defensive, and was even forced to retreat a little by the Dai army.
However, the retreat of the Qin army did not last long, because the reinforcements from the rear soon arrived at the battlefield, and the first to rush to the battlefield to join the battle group was the 6,000 cavalry of the Qin army's left route army, and Yuan Xuan was also prepared.
Although the combat effectiveness of the Qin cavalry is not as good as that of the Dai army, the number of people is more than that of the Dai army, and the fighting spirit of the soldiers is also quite high, and the Dai Jun is not a full cavalry army after all, but a cavalry army belonging to the infantry and cavalry mixed army, which belongs to the second-line cavalry army in the Dai army, compared with the real full cavalry army, there is still a certain gap in strength, so for a while, people shouted horses, swords and swords, and the two sides fought an inseparable.
In this way, the two sides were cavalry against cavalry, infantry against infantry, and there was a clear distinction on the battlefield, but the battle was not long, and the remaining 15,000 reinforcements of the Qin army rushed to the battlefield, and all joined the infantry battlefields of both sides.
This Qin army arrived at the right time, because although the cavalry of the Qin army can still withstand it for a while, but the infantry army is really a little unable to support it, although the total number of troops in this era does not have an absolute advantage over the Qin army, but after all, it is a new force that joins the battlefield, and a burst of fierce attacks does disrupt the Qin army's position. But with the addition of this 15,000 additional troops to the battlefield, the situation on the battlefield was immediately changed, the total number of troops invested by the Qin army had reached 25,000, while the Dai army was only 11,000 people, and the number of the Qin army was more than twice that of the Dai army, so the Dai army had just gained the upper hand, and it was immediately reversed by the Qin army.
Although the soldiers of the Dai Army are very brave, everyone is struggling to fight with the Qin Army, but the fighting spirit, quality, experience, quality of military weapons and peacetime training of the soldiers of the Qin Army are not under the Dai Army, and occupy an absolute advantage in numbers, so they quickly seized the upper hand, although the Dai Army tried its best to resist, but was still forced to retreat again and again by the Qin Army, although it was still free to maintain the array is not chaotic, and the retreat is well-founded, but it is difficult to say how long the Dai Army can hold out, after all, the gap in absolute strength, It is not just the courage of the soldiers that can change it.
Among the three main generals of the Qin army's left route army, Shi Wuwei led the cavalry to fight, while Yang Wunu and Mo Wuwu were the commanders of the infantry army, seeing that the Qin army was now about to lock in the victory, both of them were also very excited, if they could defeat the Dai army on the left side, although it could not be said that the Qin army had achieved an overall victory, but at least it was invincible.
Although the martial arts of the two of them cannot be compared with Xiong Weak, they are far superior to ordinary generals, and they naturally take the lead in the battle, at this time, the two of them each held a halberd, and each of them killed more than ten soldiers in a row, which of course also boosted the morale of the Qin army.
With a wave of the halberd in Yang Wunu's hand, he stabbed down a substitute soldier, and was about to shout to the Qin army to fight bravely and strive to defeat the proxy army in one fell swoop, but at this moment, he only heard a dense and dull sound of horses' hooves behind him, and when Yang Wunu looked back, he saw that the rear of the Qin army was full of smoke and dust, almost covering half of the sky, and anyone knew that an army had killed from behind the Qin army.
If it was on the battlefield in the plains and wilderness, even at the speed of the cavalry, it would not be so easy to think of returning to the back of the Qin army, I am afraid that it would have been discovered by the spies of the Qin army a long time ago, but under the cover of the woods and hills, the left army of Fan Yong had quietly circled, detoured back to the back of the Qin army, and launched a surprise attack on the Qin army.
The first to hit the Qin army, naturally it was the bow and arrow that the soldiers of the Fan Yong Army were accustomed to, because at this time the Qin army was facing the direction of the Dai army, even if it was the Qin soldiers who did not join the battle in the back row, they were all struggling forward, and no one would notice behind them, so behind the Qin army, there was no cover, and as a result, a rain of arrows fell, and many Qin soldiers were hit by arrows in their backs and fell to the ground.
The Qin soldiers behind were hit, some turned around to face the battle, and some ran forward to dodge, and there was a big chaos.