The third emperor of the Sui Dynasty

Chapter 396 Summary of Riding Battles
"Kill!" Amidst the roar that shook the mountains, hundreds of cavalry from the Sui Army rushed into Liu Heitai's army who had been stunned.The army was like a tide, wedged layer by layer into the unorganized enemy army, brandishing long knives and horse spears, galloping wildly.

There is no suspense about the victory or defeat. Although Liu Heita's guards are brave and fearless, and their number is twice that of the Sui army, none of them has a good understanding of cavalry tactics from top to bottom, and they can't play [-]-[-]% of the cavalry at all. Powerful, there is a feeling that painting a tiger is not an anti-dog.

On the other hand, almost all the iron cavalry of the Sui army participated in battles with foreign nations. They had powerful foreign cavalry as sharpening stones.

The same is the cavalry, the Sui army is strong when the enemy is strong, and the Liu army is weak when the enemy is weak.

The formation Liu Jun formed in a hurry was useless and full of flaws. The Sui army cut through the weak points like steel knives and dismembered Liu Jun. The rest of the soldiers rushed up and swallowed the fat. into the stomach.

Liu Jun had no choice. Even if he had enough troops, he lost sight of the other because of improper tactics and missed the first move. He had to deal with various attacks clumsily and was beaten by the nose by the Sui army.No matter what method can not save the defeat.Facing the densely packed formation of Lancers, the Sui army immediately raised the reins and swept over, drawing an arc and rushing into the weak point on the other side...

The Sui army fought more and more bravely, screaming to kill and shaking the sky, like a pair of extremely sharp horizontal knives, unscrupulously killing and galloping among the enemy troops, Liu Heita's soldiers either fought on their own or fled in all directions. flee.

The Sui army was invincible,
Liu Heitai was declaring his defeat everywhere, and was repeatedly divided, compressed, and charged... corpses were strewn all over the field.Under the destructive offensive of the Sui army, the space was continuously compressed, the number of people was continuously reduced, and all kinds of defensive formations were useless.

Liu Heikai knew that defeat was only a matter of time, so he had to break out from the flank with three or four hundred people, and fled eastward for dozens of miles in one breath before slowly stopping.There were three thousand cavalry when they came, but now there are less than five hundred.Feeling very sad, he looked back at the sparse and bloody soldiers, and thought that he would not be able to steal the chicken, but instead wiped out the three thousand fine horses he had built with all his efforts. From this, he squatted in the field and cried loudly.

Everyone looked at each other, shook their heads and sighed, Liu Shishan got off his horse, came to Liu Heitai and comforted him in a low voice: "Victory or defeat is a common thing in military strategists, brother, don't be too sad, although our army is gone, we still need to worry about it." The main generals and schools are all here, and we still have war horses, so we may be able to revive our strength and rebuild the fine cavalry, but now we still need big brother to cheer up and lead everyone back to Qi County victoriously!"

Everyone persuaded, Liu Heikai wiped away tears, stood up and said to everyone: "The responsibility for this failure lies in my greed. I regret that I did not listen to Wang Xiaohu's advice, and my greed collided with the Sui Dynasty. I, Liu Heitai, I will remember today's shame and break my will!"

Liu Heikai pulled out the dagger from his boot, and cut off the little finger of his left hand amidst the exclamation of the crowd, blood gushed out like a fountain, two soldiers rushed to bandage him, and everyone persuaded: "Please take care, Your Majesty!"

"It's the same cavalry! Our soldiers are also brave and fearless, but why is there such a disastrous defeat?" Liu Heita sighed, and said: "It's because our tactics are not good, and because we don't understand cavalry well, we were suppressed." fight."

"Their fighting style is actually quite simple, but it's deadly!" Liu Shishan sighed, and smiled wryly: "Compared with the Sui army, we are completely infantry on horseback. If you don’t move, you will be shot and killed. If you don’t stop, you can only be passively beaten. However, the Sui army not only has amazing riding skills, but also comes and goes like the wind. If you are mature, you will quickly gather a large number of troops. After testing out the reality of our army, you will make a fatal blow. If you hardly fight, you will be killed in one blow. We have no way to deal with their tactics..."

Liu Heikai said awkwardly: "We have never had any experience in using cavalry to fight. We don't know many difficulties and problems of cavalry, and we don't even know how to use cavalry. We must learn from this lesson and strengthen our training."

"Here!"

Liu Jun suffered a disastrous defeat in this battle, but he also vaguely touched the way of the cavalry army.

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On the battlefield east of Juancheng in Dongping County, the war was completely over, the wind was blowing in the face, and as far as the eye could see, there were corpses everywhere, which were extremely eye-catching under the last fiery red light, and the ground seemed to have been washed with blood.

"Quickly clear the battlefield, collect the remains of comrades in arms, and recover the crossbow arrows!"

This battle is considered to be over, but Yin Mingyue doesn't know if there will be another battle tonight or tomorrow, so she must take back enough crossbow arrows, "The time is half an hour!"

"Here!"

Yin Mingyue didn't have time to pay attention to this matter, and handed over the task of cleaning up to the lieutenant general, and quickly returned to the camp with two hundred soldiers.

"General!" Several female soldiers stationed there stepped forward and saluted Yin Mingyue with fists.

Yin Mingyue nodded: "Quickly invite Wangfei to come down the mountain."

"I'm already here." Pei Qinghua came out surrounded by a group of female soldiers.

Yin Mingyue gave the female school captain a hard look, and saluted, "The general will see the princess."

"General Yin, you don't need to be polite!" Pei Qinghua glanced at the returning soldiers, all of whom were covered in blood that hadn't dried up. The image was quite tragic. She endured the discomfort and took a deep breath: "More than 1000 soldiers, Is that all that's left?..."

Yin Mingyue shook her head slowly, and said: "There are still hundreds of people cleaning the battlefield! Our Sui soldiers are all one-to-one fighters, so don't worry, Wangfei."

"I'm relieved to hear what the general said." Seeing that Yin Mingyue hesitated to speak, Pei Qinghua smiled and said, "What's the general's business, let's talk about it together. I'll listen to the general."

"Although our army is not afraid of any enemy, but the princess is here, the general dare not let go to fight, and the enemy is Dou Jiande's Xia army, the general thinks that this place is not safe, and should go north overnight."

Pei Qinghua was surprised: "Isn't this a place controlled by Li Mi?"

Yin Mingyue nodded and said: "Dongping and Jibei are under the control of Li Mi, but Dou Jiande's army passed through Jibei and arrived in Juancheng. Looking at the appearance of Xia's army, they did not fight on the way, and Li Mi's three Qian Huwei suddenly withdrew, the two obviously colluded together."

"I don't know anything about military affairs, so General Yin will decide everything." Even if Yin Mingyue didn't ask for instructions, Pei Qinghua could only follow along. The other party's asking this way was also giving her due respect as a princess.After being silent for a while, he asked curiously: "It's just that it's getting dark now, so I don't know how the general plans to leave?"

"The most dangerous place is often the safest place. The general plans to stay in Juancheng tonight!" Yin Mingyue expressed her decision.

Pei Qinghua was taken aback for a moment, and then applauded Yin Mingyue's approach.

Li Mi did not dare to offend Da Sui, and so did the Juancheng defenders. They lived in Juancheng with great fanfare and clarity. The first object is Li Mi.

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In the mountains and forests, a large camp of [-] soldiers stood up. The clothes and banners were all Xia Jun of Dou Jiande, but when they arrived in the tent of the Chinese Army, it was Xu Shiji of the Wei Army sitting there. A map - the situation map of Jingzhou.

Xu Shiji was ordered by Li Mi to lead [-] soldiers to escort Princess Yan and her party to Dongping County, and then evacuated early on the grounds that the war was tight, in order to give Liu Heitai a chance to attack, thus serving the purpose of diverting disaster. If Liu Heita wins, then Xu Shiji will chase him for a symbolic distance. If the Sui army wins, he will pretend to be the Xia army and launch a second wave of attack. In short, it is to provoke the battle between the Sui Dynasty and Dou Jiande.

In fact, Xu Shiji was opposed to Li Mi's decision. The strategy of the Sui Dynasty was quite clear by now, and they were very likely to digest the gains from this year's war and not want to fall into the melee of the southern princes.Yang Tong wanted to sit back and watch the battle in the south, and wait until both sides were injured in the south, and then move south.As long as there is no winner in the south, or there are many princes, Yang Tong will not interfere in the affairs of the south. At this time, it is really unnecessary to provoke the Sui Dynasty.

And Yang Tong is not a fool, how could he fail to see this strategy to bring disaster to the east?If framing Dou Jiande fails, but instead provokes the Sui Dynasty, the impact on Wei is definitely no less than that of Dilong, but as a general, he can only try his best to do this thing well.

"General!" A school lieutenant hurried forward to Xu Shiji with a serious expression on his face.

"Bad news?" The general nodded silently, suddenly he didn't know how to tell Xu Shiji.

"Let's talk!" Xu Shiji smiled wryly. He probably thought about the current situation. The one thousand Sui army was good, but their number was smaller than that of Liu Heita, and they were calculated mentally or unintentionally. The probability of successfully defeating Liu Heita was quite low. .

"Liu Heikai returned in a disastrous defeat. The three thousand guards he regarded as a sharp blade were stripped layer by layer by a thousand Sui troops. Whenever Hei Kai organized resistance, they were instantly wiped out with the momentum of thunder, and the momentum was like a broken bamboo... Liu Hei Kai's three thousand spirits were like children in front of the Sui army. Loss..." The general looked at Xu Shiji and exclaimed: "The last general never knew that cavalry could fight like this. When it comes to using cavalry, the Sui army is probably unparalleled in the world."

"Liu Heita suffered a disastrous defeat?" Xu Shiji couldn't believe it.

"That's right!" The general nodded and said, "Except for the fact that the Sui army suffered some injuries when they were head-on, they were almost playing for fun when they were fighting at gallops."

Xu Shiji nodded silently, and asked, "Where's the Sui army, are they still in the garrison?"

Although he didn't want to provoke the Sui army for Wei, but he was a warrior and had no choice but to obey orders.

"Let's go!" The general said with a strange expression: "It seems that he is planning to enter Juancheng."

Xu Shiji was stunned for a moment, his heart was relieved, and he said, "It's a smart way."

"General, what should we do?"

"If the Sui army has an accident in Juancheng, the responsibility lies with Wei Guo. Give up the attack and keep an eye on Juancheng tonight. Don't let a third party attack the city."

(End of this chapter)