Han Zuo Gaomen

Chapter 923 Huainan Lianqi

Chapter 923 Huainan Lianqi
Seeing the scene of smoke and dust billowing in front of them and rising into the sky, Ye's troops from Han Yong onwards were all breathless.

Only the cavalry can create such a grand momentum, and it is a rather large cavalry team.

But cavalry?
Han Yong's mood suddenly sank to the bottom. This time he led five thousand cavalry to the south and west, which can be said to be a counterattack by the Jedi, and the preparations are extremely sufficient, especially he has collected a lot of military information on the enemy's various aspects. It is absolutely certain that there is no large-scale cavalry team in the Huainan Army.

He had a long discussion with the king of Wei about the various difficulties he would face in this battle. Without enough cavalry to check and balance, the enemy's support was nothing more than a strong fortress and abundant ordnance.However, under the impact of the highly mobile cavalry, the Huainan Army could only become completely passive and could not make an effective counterattack.

But now, just looking at the scale of the smoke and dust, it shows that the Huainan Army not only has a large number of cavalry to meet the enemy, but the scale of the cavalry is not inferior to the Yedi cavalry who crossed south!
"It seems that Chen Guang has lost..."

Han Yong murmured, and then there was a gloomy look in his eyes, and he even had the urge to yell. In such an important battle of life and death, Yedi was lagging behind due to constraints from all sides and slow response. Still one step too late.

However, after the anger surging in his chest poured into his throat, it only turned into a series of low laughs with a trembling tone. He suppressed his excitement, raised his right hand and said with a smile: "Southern thieves can also fuck horses." What a joke! Our army hastily came from the south, and we are short of horsepower. How can we refuse to accept the southerners who come to send horses in front of us! Put on your armor and prepare for battle!"

This word spread in the cavalry formation, and the astonishment in the hearts of ordinary soldiers was dispelled a lot, but some commanders of Qianqi and Baiqi knew that the large-scale cavalry team of the Huainan Army was found here. A totally unexpected variable.

But the matter has come to this point, and there is no room for further retreat. Even if they withdraw now, after three days and two nights of long-distance raids, their manpower and horsepower have been driven to a limit, and they will not be able to escape far at all.

So at this moment, they can only comfort themselves by saying that the southerners are not good at horse fighting, and at the same time boost their morale, and order the soldiers to prepare for battle quickly.

Shi Kanwei was indeed well-prepared for this counterattack, he chose the best of both men and horses, and even though he had traveled hundreds of miles, the soldiers did not appear overly flustered at the moment of the crisis.

The team quickly moved to a gentle high slope near the left, and then the soldiers were armored one after another. Naturally, these so-called armors could not be as sophisticated as the Huainan Army, unless Shi Kan completely ignored Li Yang's defensive strength to get them together, so most of them were just the key Some key protection parts.

Among them, only the thousands of the most elite cavalry led by Han Yong can be equipped with neat armor, and even the horses are covered with a layer of thick leather armor.

These knights, including Xianbei, Karasuma and other Hubuyicong, are all strong and strong, and their riding skills are even more excellent.They are also the trump card of this attack. They were originally used to attack the Huainan Army's dense infantry formation and strong camp that they might encounter, but now they have to use it in advance.

Han Yong is also full of confidence in the combat effectiveness of this team. Even if the Huainan Army took the initiative, but in the real cavalry battle, Han Yong also believed that those Huainan knights would never be able to withstand this team. cavalry shock.

The Yedi cavalry is still preparing for the battle in an orderly manner. The whole team is centered on the thousand elite led by Han Yong himself, with thousands of people on the left and right as the flanks, and 2000 people left on the rear flank to wait for the move.

From the arrangement of the army formation alone, we can see the elite of this cavalry team. Under the team of one thousand, there are also small teams of hundreds, fifty, and ten.

There is nearly ten feet of space between the left and right riders alone, which can greatly avoid the intensive shooting casualties of long-range bows and arrows.The front and rear ranks leave a distance of seven or eight feet, which can not only ensure the continuity of the impact, but also reserve enough space for emergency adjustment of the battle formation.

Such a precise assault battle formation was not set up under the frequent command of the generals, but a spontaneous adjustment made by the comparison between the soldiers.As the real elite cavalry in Hebei, this kind of war literacy has penetrated into their bones, and there is no longer a need for deliberate requirements.

After a quarter of an hour or so, the cavalry of the Huainan Army on the opposite side finally rushed out from behind a dense grass.

And after seeing the cavalry formation of the Huainan Army appearing in the field of vision, the corners of the eyes of all the troops from Yedi descending from Han Yong were slightly trembling, whether it was because of sweat seeping into the eye sockets or something else.

"Is that really the cavalry of the Southern Bandit?"

One of the generals murmured, and subconsciously squeezed the horse lance in his hand. If it weren't for the lance's body, the sweat gushing out of his palm was almost so slippery that he couldn't hold it.

So neat, so neat!The cavalry brigade on the opposite side has smooth and neat formation edges, as if cut out by a knife, like a moving solid wall, rushing here quickly!

Although the distance between the two sides is still extremely far away, many knights in Yedi seemed to be clenched tightly when they saw the Huainan cavalry in such an orderly formation, and then doubted whether the previous cognition that the southerners were not good at riding and fighting was correct or not ?
The huge and orderly army formation rapidly expanded in the field of vision, and a strong deterrent force spread across the world, even oppressing Ye's cavalry formation slightly retracted.

"Shock, kill!"

At this moment, Han Yong didn't dare to be negligent at all. He raised his arm guard and touched the face armor lightly, and then let out a roar.

Yedi cavalry is indeed the elite of the Northland. Although they saw that the enemy army was much stronger than they expected, when the sound of the drum order sounded, they all tightened their horses and rushed straight to the confrontation.

Following the charge, Yedi's army also had a fierce momentum pervading, and two torrents flew down from the slope. Although it seemed that the Huainan army was not as uniform and majestic as the Huainan army, it also had its own momentum. A sharp and violent breath permeated the army formation.

At this time, the Huainan Army's cavalry battle formation also changed at this moment. The originally neat battle formation followed the movement, and the two wings separated from the central army and began to accelerate again.

With the increasing speed of the two-wing armies, the Huainan army's battle formation changed from the original square to a large concave pocket.Especially when the two wings of the army were charging, Winged Foot pushed outwards layer by layer, making the pocket even bigger, and then turned into a ferocious beast's huge mouth!

This change is gradual and obvious, revealing a mechanical beauty.Although the Yedi cavalry rushed to fight in the field, such a change in formation was simply unheard of and unseen.

It wasn't until the distance between the two armies was extremely close that the Yedi cavalry who rushed to the front discovered why the Huainan army's battle formation was so orderly and strict.

It turned out that the galloping cavalry were not independent individuals, but the horses were connected by leather ropes, five cavalry in a row, the five cavalry advanced and retreated in unison, and even the horses' running speed was extremely neat!Spreading to the entire army formation in this way, such a huge and shocking army formation was created!
It is so!
Although the Yedi army was amazed by the ingenuity of the Huainan army, they actually used this method to make up for the lack of individual soldiers' riding skills.In this way, although the mobility of the military formation is slightly reduced, its firmness is greatly increased.

You must know that the clutch changes of the Yedi cavalry in the charge are based on the tacit understanding honed over the years on the basis of the soldiers' superb riding skills. Guarantee the subtle connection between the front, back, left, and right, so as not to become disorganized.

However, it has only been more than three years since Huainan established the town to be full of battles. Even if such a large-scale cavalry team was established at the beginning of the establishment of the town, and sufficient training can be guaranteed, it really lacks the tempering of real combat.Wanting to reach the level of Yedi's elite in terms of military formation changes is simply a dream!
"Chaining war horses, it's just a trail! What kind of cavalry is it when the clutch ability is exhausted?"

After realizing the mystery hidden in the Huainan army formation, Han Yong sneered. The greatest advantage of the cavalry lies in their flexibility. One of the biggest features.In a cavalry battle, it is simply stupid to insist on the integrity of the battle formation!
However, although contemptuous thoughts appeared in his heart, Han Yong still ordered the thousands of elites he led directly to slow down their charge, because if it was a frontal confrontation, such a dense formation of the Huainan Army would be precisely his branch. Team nemesis.

Even if he can break through the battle formation, the casualties will inevitably be heavy. He can't afford to lose at the moment, so he can only hope to break through on the two wings, break through the enemy's formation and then rush forward to get the greatest result at the least cost!
The generals who led the two-wing charge were also veteran generals who had fought in Hebei for a long time. As the Huainan Army's flanks were pushed away one by one, the previous tactics of rushing to the flanks had become difficult to use.But after the Huainan Army's flanks were deployed, the army formation inevitably became weaker, and they simply rushed directly to the center.

The cavalry in the front row drew their bows and shot, and shot two arrows in the fastest time, and then they needed to walk quickly to the side to make room for the spear cavalry in the rear to dig through the enemy's formation. It will gather in the rear again, and then rush back to continue tearing apart the enemy's battle formation with bows and arrows.

For the elite cavalry in Yedi, this basic method of warfare is as common as eating and drinking, and they don't even need special instructions from the commanders.

But when they were about to approach the shooting range, the first round of arrows rained down from the Huainan army formation. Although the arrow rain was not dense and did not cause many casualties, it stunned the Ye cavalry, and the rhythm became a little disordered , the distance between two arrows was enough, but in the end, only one arrow was sent out hastily.

After this arrow was launched, the effect was minimal, and it hardly caused any trouble to the Huainan Army.This is naturally because the Huainan Army's defense is much stronger than that of the enemy army, and even if a soldier is injured, it hardly affects the action, and is still dragged forward by his colleagues.

The Huainan army formation seems weak, but at least it still guarantees three rows in front and back.Since the speed is not mentioned as the fastest, the recoil is stable, which is more conducive to riding and shooting. Even if the average is only one more arrow, it is already an extremely obvious advantage when extended to the entire front!

Relatively speaking, the battle in Yedi was more careless, and this phenomenon was more obvious under the two rounds of arrow rain. Although the spear cavalrymen who rushed into the battle were still brave, what they faced was the Huainan soldiers lined up. The horse is in a row.Under the two-way collision, the rough rushing formation was directly flattened!
Although the Huainan Army's spear formation has only one row, it is a whole of five people. Although the charge is not fast, it is superior in stability. The horse spears handed over from both sides pierced through directly!The war horse fell to the ground instead, and before it even had time to roll over, it was trampled by!

Occasionally, a horse in the row was injured and unable to walk, and the leather ropes were cut directly on both sides, and the horse was removed from the battle row.With a backhand slash on the horse's buttocks, the horse will rush straight to the opponent's army in pain, without hindering the line of action.

Although a certain degree of mobility was lost, the army formation became denser in exchange. Before the next wave of enemy troops rushed to the front of the formation, the knights in the rear row of the Huainan Army had already drawn their bows and shot again. After they collided with each other, the enemy The army has once again turned into a broken formation, and it will collapse as soon as it rushes!
In the third case, the generals of Yedi finally discovered this reality. The Huainan army formation seemed weak and seemed to collapse as soon as it charged, but the problem was that when they rushed to this position, they were already at the end of their strength.It was like an extremely fragile dry pole, blocked by this thin wall, and broke under the wall one by one!

"Back up and retreat, the whole team will fight again!"

After the generals discovered this scene, they hurriedly yelled to adjust their tactics, and roared to gather battle formations to prepare to retreat.However, at this time they realized that the Huainan army's originally opened flanks were now embracing their arms, swinging from the outside to the inside. If they wanted to withdraw from the outer wings, they would definitely hit them head-on!

"Inner knot, inner knot!"

The general adjusted the military order in time, because the Huainan army's wings are too wide and the Chinese army is behind, there is still a safe space in the battle.So the soldiers turned their horses' heads inward, preparing to make an inner circle and then retreat.

But at this time, the soldiers of the Huainan Army on the flanks were no longer running in an arc, but running in a diagonal line. The two wings that were originally expanded were layered up, directly shortening the closing distance.

Originally, due to the advantage of the enemy's mobility, it was possible for all of them to leave the battle, but with the change of the Huainan Army's battle formation this time, it seemed that the gaping mouth suddenly closed, reducing the total number of soldiers of the enemy's charge by one-third. The number of soldiers was bitten and intercepted!

Although the enemy army has extremely high mobility, when the Huainan Army's pocket battle formation is closed, no matter what you see when you rush left and right, you will see the slightly dull formation of the Huainan Army. The army also took pictures head-on, and directly shot these hundreds of enemy soldiers to death in the battle formation!

At this moment, Han Yong has led thousands of elite cavalry to approach the battle formation, waiting for an opportunity to launch an attack while responding to the defeated.However, even though the formation of the Huainan Army is changing, it still maintains a high degree of order.Even if his troops are more elite, it will be difficult to produce any miraculous effects in the face of such a tight military formation.

At this time, he still couldn't see the mystery of the Huainan Army's formation: to actively reduce the mobility of some cavalry through company cavalry, to ensure a certain mobility while maintaining a complete formation, and to use a method similar to infantry combat. Thinking to conduct cavalry field battles.

This is simply a rogue style of play, neither walking nor riding, and the requirements for equipment are extremely high, otherwise the thin battle formation will not be able to withstand the gouging of Qingqi.

But I have to say that this arrangement is perfect for novices in large-scale cavalry battles like the Huainan Army. It can not only guarantee a certain degree of mobility, but also ensure the integrity of the army formation during movement.

Although the changes in the current battle formation are still a bit dull, with the improvement of the quality and tacit understanding of the soldiers, it is conceivable that the lethality will be further improved.

At least among the many tactical experiences in Hebei right now, Han Yong can't think of how to effectively defeat this kind of tactics, unless he can directly attack one place regardless of the cost to break the surface.

But in normal thinking, cavalry is definitely not used in this way. This is tantamount to giving up its own mobility advantage, putting it on the same level as the enemy's tactical thinking to go head-to-head, using one's own experienced and absolutely elite cavalry to fight against the enemy. A group of recruits in the army traded their lives for their lives.

If Han Yong still had a large number of infantry in this battle, he would not be afraid to use such a tragic fighting method to force the enemy, but now he could not afford to dismount and fight on foot.

From the looks of it right now, the only thing that can be relied on is to use our superior mobility to avoid it far away before the battle begins. If he fights recklessly, his five thousand riders might be grinded to death here!
And this is when the enemy's coordination is unfamiliar and the connection of many changes is a bit blunt.But even so, in this round of charge, nearly 700 Yedi cavalry were killed in the Huainan army formation!

In a highly mobile battlefield environment like a cavalry field battle, nearly 700 people died in one impact, which is absolutely tragic!Moreover, these 700 people were completely surrounded and beaten to death with more beatings and less beatings, causing minimal damage to the enemy!
Such an astonishing battle loss is enough to make people heartbroken under any circumstances, not to mention that Han Yong only has more than [-] riders, which is already the only trump card for them to come back in this battle!
Right now, the distance between the two armies is extremely close, and the cavalry of the Huainan Army are still moving here.The so-called lack of mobility is compared to cavalry, but compared with infantry, it still maintains efficient mobility. This is completely a solid mobile fortress.

Han Yong looked back and saw that all the officers and soldiers in the army were frightened at the moment, obviously they did not dare to face such a weird army head on.

The more deadlocked it is now, the more unfavorable it is for oneself.After the long-distance raid, the soldiers are now completely relying on a morale to maintain.If the stalemate with the Huainan cavalry continues here, morale will be even lower, and the army will collapse without fighting!

"The southern thief is really not good at riding and fighting. It takes this inferior method to stop our Hebei warriors a little bit! Trapping a horse with a rope looks fierce, but it is just binding your own feet, so there is nothing to fear!"

Han Yongqiang got up his spirits, ran and roared in the army formation: "Our army came south this time, not to win or lose with the southern thieves, but to block the grain road, plunder resources, and cut off their retreat! As for The two armies are facing each other, and the king's tens of thousands of troops will win the decisive battle! The whole army is on horseback, we will bypass this place and go straight to the southern bandits' camp!"

Although Han Yong's yelling tone was still somewhat excited, there were very few people in the army responding at the moment. It was the long-distance travel and the disastrous defeat in the first battle that wiped out what little momentum they had left.

However, when Han Yong called for the whole army to mount their horses, the soldiers mounted their horses one after another, because staying here would only kill them faster.And when Han Yong led the team to start running, the whole team had completely lost the rhythm before, and some teams even left the main team to run in the countryside.

The team avoided the Huainan Army's attacking front, but turned to the south and ran. Han Yong still did not give up, and wanted to bypass the Huainan Army's cavalry to attack the hinterland behind.

However, at this time, a burst of warm cheers erupted from the Huainan army formation: "The slaves are defeated, attack with a decisive attack!"

Accompanied by this roar, the atmosphere on the entire battlefield was detonated again. The soldiers of the Huainan Army cut off the leather ropes connecting the horses one after another, and then gained a more flexible speed, rushing straight to the enemy's rear.

But at this time, the morale of the troops in Yedi had long been exhausted. After hearing the cheers of the Huainan army and the magnificent scene of thousands of horses galloping, they became even more frightened, and they all rode their horses to flee for their lives.

"It's an opportunity!"

The commotion on the battlefield was quickly caught by Han Yong.He is also a warrior with rich combat experience, so how could he not be prepared for the variables of the Huainan Army's tail-to-tail pursuit? , strike back and kill the enemy!"

However, at this time, as the Huainan army rushed forward, the army formation was already in chaos, and the shock waves from the rear seemed to come in waves one after another, and who would pay attention to Han Yong's roars!Soon, even he himself was exempted, and the fleeing soldiers swept away to the countryside. If there were not dozens of soldiers following him nearby, he might have fallen into chaos!
"Hurry up and kill all the thieves!"

Han Huang, who had been in the Chinese army for a long time, was also full of splendor at the moment. He led the soldiers in charge of the formation to change to new horses, and then rushed straight to the fleeing enemy army.

He himself is superb in riding skills, and also has unparalleled shooting skills. He sits steadily on the horse and opens his arms left and right.After chasing for several miles, he shot and killed dozens of enemies, including slave generals with extraordinary armor!
The soldiers of the Huainan Army didn't dare to relax at this moment. They knew that they were fully prepared for this victory. In a one-wheeled battle, the enemy's army is indeed extraordinary. It can be seen that the odds of winning are still uncertain.

Therefore, all the soldiers did not spare any horsepower, galloped wildly, and first used their momentum to overwhelm the enemy.During this pursuit, the shortcomings of the enemy's lack of horsepower were gradually exposed, and many people fell behind one after another. Even the horses were exhausted and died on the way!

For these outdated enemy troops, the Huainan Army will naturally not be soft-hearted, flip the guns in their hands, and crucify them to death!This pursuit was just a mess at the beginning, but it gradually became bloody.The blood became thicker and thicker, and in the end, it even directly accumulated on the road into pools of blood of different sizes, with corpses strewn all over the field!

A chase lasted for twenty or thirty miles, and even the soldiers of the Huainan Army gradually fell behind.After all, they also came from a long distance, and they arrived a few hours earlier than the enemy army. Although they got sufficient supplements on the sliding platform, it was not enough to fully replenish the exhausted physical strength.

In the end, including Han Huang and his superintendents, only a thousand or so Huainan army pursuers were still chasing.The enemy army was even more miserable, most of them were lying on the road, a small part fled to the countryside, and only a few hundred people were still fleeing ahead.

"Keep chasing, you must get all the power!"

Han Huang's limbs are also weak at the moment, and he even took off his armor and threw it on the way just to lose weight.He also had a lot of vigor in his heart, because he wanted to besiege the thief general Chen Guang, but he failed to arrive in Henan in the first time, and as a result, many underachievers in the army showed their great achievements.

Although Han Huang also had the merit of trapping Chen Guang to death, he didn't think it belonged to him, and he was extremely eager for great merit at the moment, so don't make fun of it.

Finally, several horses in front fell to death one after another, and then the speed dropped suddenly. It seemed that an important general had fallen behind, and the other deserters reined in their horses and returned.

At this time, Han Huang and the others finally caught up, and the deserters surrounded one person nervously, and that person was also unkempt at the moment. Seeing that the Huainan army had surrounded the place, he staggered and pushed away. All the soldiers knelt on the ground and walked forward on their hard knees, their voices were dry and hoarse: "He, Hebei sin, sin general Han Yong, kowtow to the king, beg, beg for life..."

When Han Huang heard this, his thick eyebrows raised immediately, he grabbed the bow on the saddle, and with the little strength left, he shot an arrow into the ground where the man's forehead was touching, not a hair away from his scalp.

"The thief who cast slaves also deserves the surname Han! Bind them up!"

 The two chapters were published together, and this battle was finished. . .A little late, sorry sorry. . .

  
 
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