Han Hai Tang Ergui

Chapter 453 Khan, do you want to drill the marmot hole too?
Jieli Pijia managed to gather four or five thousand cavalry, but he didn't know which direction to attack from?

Because the 'Ge Luolu people' on the opposite side obviously wanted to encircle him.

All the camps around Zetian Temple were set on fire, and there were scenes of Gaochang cavalry being chased and killed everywhere, leaving only a retreat route in the southwest for Jieli Pijia.

These are not the most frightening, the most frightening, except for the more than ten thousand Qingqi who surrounded Zetian Temple on three sides.

Thousands of knights in black robes on the opposite side did not speed up, but slowly pressed over. They were obviously saving horsepower.

"This is not Ge Luolu from Saktu, this is Zhang Thief's cavalry! It is Zhang Thief's cavalry!"

Zuoxiang Jiejiamisi suddenly roared in horror, and all the high-ranking Uighur officials and nobles in Gaochang outside Zetian Temple also found something wrong in their fear.

Because the cavalry who came did not carry the black flag of the Geluolu people and the wolf-headed banner, but the Dachao Sanchen flag that they were familiar with but unfamiliar to them.

Together with the Sanchen Banner, there are red, white and black banners with Zhang characters in various colors, which clearly shows that these people are not Geluolu people, but Liangjun from Hexi.

Lu Sanlang galloped over from a distance, rode his horse and ran up to Zhang Zhao and clasped his hands together.

"Heavenly King, please let a certain Lu Sanlang be the vanguard! If it weren't for the bastard Pu Gujun, this certain family would not have been ruined!"

"Heavenly King, a certain Guo Tiance, Guo Guangsheng, please fight!"

Guo Guangsheng and Guo Tiance's nephew and uncle also rode over. In fact, these two have always been engaged in civilian jobs, and have not had much experience in leading troops to fight.

But what they are facing now is the life-and-death enemies of their Guo family and Anxi's family of five surnames and three kings!

Back then, if Pugu Jun hadn't been afraid of being attacked by the descendants of the Anxi Army in Kucha and Zhang Huaishen, he pretended to be the governor of the Yixi Prefecture of the Tang Dynasty and trapped and killed Guo Guangsheng and Guo Tiance's ancestor Guo Dalang, the Anxi Army would not have had such a miserable life.

After Guo Guangsheng and Guo Tiance came out, Li Qilang, Li Wang, who had been helping Zhang Zhao with religious affairs, and Huixing monk Zheng Tong also came out on horseback, and both of them appealed to Zhang Zhao on horseback.

"My lord! Please allow me to wait for the descendants of Anxi's army to fight!"

"Okay! Then let's tell Pugu Cunde openly and let him open his eyes to see who is going to kill him!"

Following Zhang Zhao's order, thousands of light and heavy cavalry collectively took off their black robes pretending to be Ge Luolu people, and erected a big banner of the Jiedu Envoy of the Four Towns of Anxi in the Tang Dynasty.

"Revenge! Just today, none of the descendants of Pugu Jun in Gaochang will be left behind!"

. . . .

And at the Zetian Temple, when Jieli Pijia saw the big banner of the Jiedu Envoy of the Four Towns of Anxi in the Tang Dynasty, he understood everything.

For so many years, the Gaochang Uighurs have been quite wary of the Guiyi Army, and the root cause is here.

Although neither the Gaochang Uighurs nor the ordinary people of the Guiyi Army, nor even the ordinary dignitaries knew or forgot about this matter.

But as the khan of the Gaochang Uighur Khanate, Jieli Piga knew better than anyone how the Gaochang Uighur Khanate was established.

"It's time for revenge! It's time for revenge! They finally haven't forgotten about it."

The cold sweat dripped down his forehead, and Jieli Pijia was still muttering, as if he had forgotten to command the army.

And Zhang Zhao in the distance asked Li Xiaojie to follow behind him with a big banner of returning to the rebel army Jiedushi.

After six thousand light and heavy cavalrymen took off their black robes at the same time, revealing cotton armor and chain mail of various colors, they began to accelerate slowly at a distance of four to five hundred steps.

The sound of hooves was like thunder, and the ground was trembling. When heavy cavalry entered the battlefield, they usually walked first, then trotted, and then charged at gallop.

Moreover, the distance of the galloping charge is generally not long, and in many cases, the galloping charge is only chosen when a quarter of the distance is left.

For the charging heavy cavalry, maintaining a complete formation is more important than speed.

Of course, armored cavalry in this era have less strict requirements for formation than modern cuirassiers.

Because the armored cavalry of this era mainly relies not on impact, but on the thickness of the armor and the power of the horse.

They are more like squeezing up, relying on sophisticated equipment and horses to peel off the enemy's "shell" first, and then rush forward when the enemy is about to collapse, and take them away in one wave.

From the Southern and Northern Dynasties to the Sui and Tang Dynasties, they charged in this way, and the effect of this method of warfare was very good. Often hundreds of armored cavalry could defeat thousands of infantry.

But this method of warfare has a huge limitation, that is, they must demand the best in armor and war horses.

At the same time, the requirements for knights are higher. Only the noble family of Guanlong, who started from Li Tang, can cultivate such cavalry.

But there is no such inheritance in Hexi now, Murong Nobunaga and Li Cunhui are not a common situation, but a special case.

So Zhang Zhao is thinking about whether to replace it with a cheaper heavy cavalry that does not require eight or ten years of hard training.

The three hundred cavalry led by him are Zhang Zhao's experimental products.

They are not equipped with horse spears, but are equipped with super-long spears that are easy to break, generally nearly two feet long.

The way of fighting is to use small horn bows to shoot at a certain point of the infantry's dense phalanx when approaching.

Then attack this gap by charging with a gun. After the spear in your hand is broken, you can turn around and use the remaining gun.

Because there is still a sharp edge at the tail, which can be thrown or stabbed, and then fight with a saber.

At the same time, these cavalry will also be equipped with hard bows. When they cannot rush through the infantry phalanx, they can dismount and use them as heavy armored archers.

Although the combat method is still complicated, one advantage is that it does not need to be cultivated from childhood.

Because this style of play relies more on overall coordination and proficiency than individual martial arts.

The [-] light and heavy cavalry first began to trot, then slowly accelerated within [-] paces, and then suddenly accelerated within [-] paces.

Zhang Zhao's fold-eared horse, which had been carefully cultivated for several years, showed excellent combat power at this moment.

They carry more than one hundred and two hundred catties, and they can shoot like an arrow from the string.

Sixty steps!

As Zhang Zhao raised the carbine in his hand, the two elite cavalrymen beside him also raised the red triangular flag in their hands.

This is a marked line for all cavalry, let them approach this as the center.

The new type of cavalry that Zhang Zhao experimented with used a horizontal line charge pattern, with 600 people lined up in ten rows and three charge patterns.

One attack is 30 people, divided into ten large impact horizontal formations and twenty small horizontal formations.

Before the rapid impact, they came separately, but within twenty steps, under the command of the two small red pennants, they would gather together in an extremely fast time.

Then squeeze tightly together, exactly as required in training, stirrup by stirrup, cavalry leg by cavalry leg pattern.

The officers on the outside of the two sides are also the officers with the least rank of Chengxin Lang. They are used to control the formation and squeeze the soldiers with weaker combat effectiveness in the middle.

The 600 people squeezed together as if they were a whole, and even some of the cavalrymen in the middle of the team were already pale and distorted from the pain.

This is purely being squeezed. It even happened in the past that the rider in the middle was directly squeezed and passed out during training.
On the opposite side, the Gaochang Uighur cavalry finally dispatched, but it was much more chaotic.

Their training intensity was not enough to allow the riders and horses to form a tighter formation. Compared with the Liang country cavalry, they were completely scattered.

Cold sweat and fear surfaced on Jieli Pijia's face. Everything today was completely beyond his imagination.

Don't think that the horses of the heavy cavalry can't run fast. On the contrary, the horses of the heavy cavalry can accelerate very fast in an instant.

These horses are almost all Bolt among the horses. They are not good at endurance, but they are definitely the fastest among all cavalry mounts in terms of explosive power!
Twenty steps, almost in an instant!
Zhang Zhao could already see the panicked eyes of the cavalry on the opposite side.

The moment the other party leveled their spears, the Gaochang Uighur cavalry who had maintained a certain formation and kept moving forward even in a swarm suddenly collapsed with a bang.

Countless horses squawked and avoided in all directions. No matter how the riders controlled them, this kind of creature whose IQ was not bad but not high enough just wouldn't obey what they saw as a death-seeking order.

After all, war horses are not human, and they don't have to kill the opposing war horses.

"It's tricky!" Zhang Zhao yelled wildly in his heart, this charging over the wall was really tricky, and it was able to frighten the cavalry on the opposite side to collapse.

In fact, cavalry hedging is like this. Because of the relationship between horses and training, there will always be one side that retreats when a collision is about to occur.

Or if you train better, you will shrink back after the first twenty or thirty riders come into contact.

Even if it is the elite French cuirassiers and bear guard cuirassiers in the war period in history.

When they hedged, one of the riders or horses would choose to avoid or collapse because they couldn't bear the huge fear.

Of course, there are exceptions. For example, as mentioned in "The Science of Winning", the French cuirassiers and the bear's elite cuirassiers have confronted on the battlefield many times.

As a result, when the distance between the two sides was only 30 meters, the horses of both sides chose to stop collectively, and the cavalry of both sides stared at each other in embarrassment.

As a result, the cuirassier was also equipped with a carbine tactic later on. First, they shot each other in line to shoot each other, and then beat one of the cavalry with muskets to frighten them before fighting.

But these all happened among the most elite cuirassiers in modern times. Zhang Zhao's cavalry, which was still in the tenth century, would definitely not fight like this against the Gaochang Uighur cavalry with uneven armor.

In the dusty sky, an officer from Hanhai Town who had just burned down the Uyghur camp in Gaochang reined in his horse and looked into the distance in surprise.

In his sight, the five or six thousand cavalry of Gaochang Uyghurs collapsed like an avalanche under the impact of hundreds of cavalry guards of the king of heaven, running all over the ground like frightened wild boars.

The battle is over!
At the moment when the Gaochang Uighur cavalry collapsed, everything was over.

The combat power of the two sides is not at the same level at all, and one side is still attacked by surprise.

Jieli Pijia took off the armor he had just put on, and under the protection of dozens of cavalry, he ran from the southwest to Gaochang City.

But he forgot one thing, that is Chiting Shouzhuo City, just in the direction of his advance.

Jieli Pijia led dozens of cavalry, followed by thousands of rout soldiers scrambling to be the first. After walking less than a mile, they bumped into Feng Hui's troops who had come out of camp.

The rumble of war drums sounded, and Feng Hui let the infantry line up, blocking the path leading to Gaochang City, while the cavalry came obliquely from both wings.

Jieli Pijia, who was scurrying around with his head in his arms, was knocked off his horse by someone. He hurriedly rolled into a ditch, trying to use this ditch and the corpses in the ditch with the yellow mud mixed with blood. Evade searches.

But unexpectedly a sneer came, "Pu Gu Cunde, His Royal Highness, where do you want to run?"

Jieli Pijia trembled all over, raised his head to look, and met a pair of sparkling eyes excitedly, it was not his distant relative, the envoy sent by Pugucheng.

It turned out that he was the one who went to notify Chiting to arrest Feng Hui.

(End of this chapter)