Chapter 586: Attack and Defense (5)
So Jiang Huanwu immediately ordered the Jinyong army of the Wu'an Legion to attack and join the battlefield.
The Jinyong Army is a mixed infantry and cavalry army, although the cavalry army is a light cavalry army, but because the two sides have been in a full-scale battle at this time, the Qin army did not form a strict defensive formation, so in such a battlefield environment, the impact of the light cavalry can still play a considerable role. Moreover, the cavalry is not fighting alone, but fighting with infantry and cavalry, so there is no need to worry about what happened last time.
Sure enough, after this army was put into the battlefield, it immediately played a big role, the war horses galloped across the battlefield, and the soldiers on horseback either stabbed quickly with their spears, or raised their knives to slash, which was very fierce, and because the Qin army was not prepared to deal with the cavalry at all, and the cavalry of the Dai army was somewhat stunned, so they were immediately killed by the Dai Jun cavalry and fell to the ground and died, and the infantry of the Dai Army also entered with the back of the cavalry to expand the results. And the situation on the battlefield immediately turned to the side of the substitute army.
At this time, the Qin army was adjusting the lineup, Huai Bei shifted his focus to the rear team, and the army stationed in the big battalion took the initiative to increase the troops, which really caught Meng Tian off guard, and now Meng Tian could not hesitate, so he hurriedly had a simple consultation with Han Teng, and decided that Han Teng would take charge of the battle ahead, and ordered to send 3,000 cavalry troops to reinforce the battlefield, and at the same time did not dare to transfer all the chariots to the rear, and still left a part of the chariots in the front in case of accidents. Meng Tian was responsible for commanding the rear to meet the reinforcements of the substitute army. At the same time, he ordered people to hurry back to the camp to send reinforcements, if only relying on the current battlefield troops, the Qin army is obviously not enough.
Now the main force of the Qin army has a total of about 60,000 horses, including about 20,000 cavalry, and at this time more than 30,000 troops have been sent out, including 7,000 cavalry, and there are only more than 30,000 troops left in the main formation, including about 13,000 cavalry, which is also the most powerful force of the Qin army to resist the attack of the reinforcements of the army.
Just after the Qin army had just been dispatched and the cavalry reinforcements had arrived at the front battlefield, I saw that in the rear of the main formation of the Qin army, the dust and smoke were really rising, the horses' hooves were like thunder, and the reinforcements of the Dai army finally appeared.
Meng Tian was not wrong as expected, just when the Qin army launched an attack on Jiang Huanwu's camp, Gao Yuan personally led more than 16,000 cavalry troops, bypassing the men and horses on the left and right flanks of the Qin army, and came to hide about ten miles behind the Qin army, waiting for the opportunity to attack. In addition, they also ambushed a group of men and horses on the left and right of the Qin army, preparing to contain the Qin army.
In order to observe the movements of the Qin army, Gao Yuan, Li Yinghong, Ling Feng, Chun Yubo, father and daughter, and several others secretly sneaked into the vicinity of the battlefield with thirty-six horsemen with a strong wind, and also found a small hill to watch the progress of the battle.
Although there are six or seven hundred steps away from the battlefield, Gao Yuan and the others are all sharp-eyed, so the whole battle is also very clear.
Although in this battle, the Qin army's chariots were unfavorable and did not play much role, on the contrary, they were damaged and damaged a lot, but Gao Yuan knew very well that this was not a problem with the chariot itself, but because the Qin army's tactics and use of the chariot were wrong, and he had also made a lot of targeted arrangements on the battlefield in advance, otherwise, this battle was indeed very dangerous.
However, the current battle situation is naturally favorable to the Dai army, so Gao Yuan also immediately ordered the army that had already been ambushed on the left and right flanks of the Qin army to attack and contain the Qin army. Moreover, according to the plateau's expectations, if the Qin army sent troops to reinforce the Qin army on both sides, then the strength of the main force of the Qin army would be weakened, so that Zisi could lead the army to attack, and the representative army of the large battalion could attack back and forth and defeat the Qin army.
But although the Qin army sent troops to reinforce the Qin army on the left and right, the Qin army also seemed to be aware of the actions of the army, and began to change the formation, shifting the focus of defense from the front of the formation to the back of the formation, which was indeed a bit unexpected on the plateau, although he had 16,000 cavalry under his command, including 3,000 newly formed heavy armored cavalry, but it was not easy to attack the Qin army that had lined up the defensive formation, not to mention that there were still a large number of chariots in the Qin army that could be used as cover and long-range strike weapons, and fifteen hundred warriors of the Kuafu clan, if they attack by force, I am afraid that they will suffer serious losses. Therefore, Gao Yuan also considered whether to outflank and attack the Qin army from both sides.
At this time, the Dai army camp took the initiative to increase the number of troops on the battlefield, which not only forced the Qin army to increase the investment of troops, but also left a part of the chariots and troops in the front, which greatly restrained the Qin army's strength.
Gao Yuan couldn't help but be very happy, it seems that Jiang Huan does have the material of a general, able to adapt to changes in the battlefield, and not rigidly implement tactical plans, this change is indeed very important, and like Jiang Huan Wu has made changes and adjustments, Gao Yuan naturally can no longer take action, so Gao Yuan immediately led everyone, left the hill to watch the battle, and returned to the lurking place of the large group of people, and with an order, the team immediately killed and rushed towards the Qin army.
However, by the time the army was killed, the Qin army had already completed the adjustment of the lineup, with two Linchong Lu buses as the core, with a total of more than 200 chariots as the main line, forming a defensive line, of which the number of thunderbolt cars and arrow slaughtering vehicles was about 100.
The Dai army stopped at a distance of about five or six hundred paces from the rear of the Qin army, because it was not only far away from the range of the long-range weapons on the two Linchong Lu buses, but also a large area of woods, which could hide the strength of the troops, so that the Qin army could not see the reality of the Dai army.
Gao Yuan looked at the formation arranged by the Qin army, and immediately gave an order, ordering the Xiao cavalry to attack first and attack the Qin army.
At this time, Meng Wu and Meng Tian had already boarded a Linchong Lu bus and commanded on the roof of the car, of course, the main commander was still Meng Tian, and Meng Wu was only assisting on the side. Although Meng Tian has experienced a lot of big battles, and has also fought in an independent army, he does not have many men and horses, but it is thousands of people and tens of thousands, and it is indeed the first time to command an army of more than 50,000 to fight, and Meng Tian also knows that he is likely to fight against the plateau, so Meng Tian's heart is quite nervous, but more excited.
Seeing that the cavalry of the Dai army attacked and attacked the Qin army, Meng Tian immediately ordered all the Qin troops to obey his orders and not easily attack the cavalry of the Dai army. Although the range of long-range weapons on the Linchong Lu bus could reach more than 200 paces, Meng Tian still planned to wait for the cavalry of the Dai army to enter within 100 paces, or even within 70 or 80 steps, and then launch a strike, because at this time, the Qin army had lined up the defense line, not only more than 200 chariots, but also thousands of crossbowmen, all of whom bent their bows and arrows, and were ready for battle, so they only waited for the cavalry of the Dai army to enter the firing range, and all the chariots and crossbowmen launched a long-range attack on the Dai army at the same time. In this way, at the beginning, you can inflict heavy casualties on the Dai army, and then the cavalry of the Qin army or the warriors of the Kuabu clan can attack and completely defeat the cavalry of the Dai army in one blow.
It can be said that Meng Tian's idea is indeed very good, if this battle is carried out according to his idea, the Qin army can basically be invincible. But the war would not go according to a one-sided idea, just when the cavalry of the Dai army broke through to more than 200 steps away from the Qin army's array, it suddenly split into two, opened to both sides, and quickly circled to both sides of the Qin army.
Although the Qin army is also divided into three armies, the left, the center and the right, this is only a division according to the position, the actual Qin army's defense line is on the front of the front and rear lines, which are the Qin army's chariots, cavalry, and Kuabu warriors, which are basically arranged on the front front. And on the real left and right flanks, although there is also a certain amount of defense, it is far less than the front.
In fact, this is not Meng Tian's mistake, because in this era, the battle is basically based on frontal combat, and the general array is divided into three routes: left, center, and right. Although driven by the plateau, the development of the cavalry army was greatly advanced, and the Qin army of the Dai army was equipped with new horse furniture on a large scale, but the cavalry tactics were still in the most primitive stage. In the past, the plateau used cavalry to fight, and it was mainly based on assault and attack tactics, and rarely used cavalry in the formal battlefield, so the Qin army still did not change much in the way of arranging the formation.
When Meng Tian saw that the cavalry of the Dai army was separated and overtook both sides of the Qin army, he was also a little at a loss for a while, and he didn't know how to deal with it, so he could only decide to wait and see what happened first, but for the sake of safety, he still assigned 2,000 cavalry and archers to reinforce the flanks respectively in case of accidents.
After the cavalry of the Dai army was divided into two, they immediately dispersed, forming a small group of 100 cavalry, and began to attack the Qin army's array from different directions, either straight or diagonally.
As the distance between the two sides narrowed, the cavalry of the Dai army had already set up arrows on horseback, pulled the bowstring, and shot at the Qin army's formation by throwing them, and at this time, the reinforcements of the Qin army also arrived in a hurry, and before they could arrange the formation, they all hurriedly picked up their bows and arrows and reacted to the Dai army.
The sound of breaking the air for a while is endless, and the arrows are like locusts, flying back and forth in the air and falling, although the range of the horse bow is closer than that of the foot bow, but the Dai army is using projectile shooting, and the Qin army is using direct shooting, so the range of both sides is roughly the same, and naturally there are many soldiers in each other's arrows.
And the cavalry of the Dai army did not rush to the array of the Qin army, but moved in an arc, and the top of the arc was about forty steps away from the array of the Qin army, and then left, so they charged, shot arrows, and left, and the arrows also fell into the array of the Qin army one by one.
However, the array of the Qin army is relatively dense, and it is basically standing still, like a live target, and the Dai army is not only scattered, but also in rapid movement, and the result is that the soldiers in the Qin army are of course significantly more than the Dai army.