Recreating the prosperous Tang begins with summoning players

Chapter 652 Grenadier Cavalry
Shang Jiezan's army walked for a day, and the infantry and cavalry of the former army finally saw Jincheng.

Looking at the stretch of farmland near Jincheng, Mangcha Jilang, the commander of the cavalry, showed greedy eyes.

What a fine field!Compared with the barren plateau, the land of Datang is like a Buddhist land flowing with milk and honey.

Mangcha Jilang had just converted to Buddhism, and the monks accompanying the army saw that these warriors did not like those Buddhist stories that exhort people to be good, so they told the story of the Dharma protectors in Buddhism who defended the Buddhist kingdom.

Tibetan Buddhism itself is influenced by Indian and Nepalese religions, and it is more radical than Buddhism transformed by Confucianism.

Padmasambhava's religious reforms integrated the barbaric and backward Bon religion into Tibetan Buddhism.

The battle part is especially vividly described, which is very popular with these Guis.

Gui is the warrior class in Tubo. They are the lowest nobles and the people who yearn for war the most.

Mangcha Jilang salivated as he looked at the farmland with young crops sprouting out, it was too wasteful for the Tang people to cultivate such land!
However, the sun is about to set today, and Mangcha Jilang can only accept the order to set up camp and wait for tomorrow's dawn before launching an attack.

On the second day, Mangcha Jilang blew the trumpet for assembly early, and his infantry and cavalry quickly assembled.

Tubo is considered a semi-agricultural and semi-nomadic people. Because of the plateau problem, Tubo does not produce tall horses, but more short but more durable Dian horses.

After coming down from the plateau, many soldiers and war horses showed symptoms of oxygen intoxication, so Mancha Jilang's men also lost some of their staff.

But compared with the Han people who went to fight on the plateau, the Tubo soldiers obviously adapted a lot.

Tubo has always been a serious problem for the Tang Dynasty, but the Tang Dynasty was unable to pacify Tubo like Goguryeo, and the plateau was the main reason.

The special geographical isolation of the plateau made the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty face severe altitude sickness after they boarded the plateau.

There is no such thing as a hyperbaric oxygen chamber in this era, and the losses in plateau operations are not small, and Tubo has a vast territory. Even if it cannot defeat the Tang army head-on, it can still pull the Tang army to fight on the plateau.

This geographical isolation allowed Tubo to continuously harass Datang's territory, but Datang was unable to attack Tubo's core territory.

Originally, this geographical advantage was almost unsolvable in this era. In the end, Datang and Tubo, the enmity and hatred, both died together because of the global cooling and the passing of the warm period of the earth. This result also made scholars of later generations So sad.

Mangchajilang's drunken oxygen is not serious, he looks at Jincheng not far away, his heart is full of boiling fighting spirit.

Riding on their horses, Mangcha Jilang and his cavalry Wanqi first attacked Jincheng.

The Tibetan horses are short in stature, and their explosive power is not as good as that of the better Uighur horses.

After losing the Tuyuhun area, Tubo also cut off the trade route for importing horses from the Western Regions.

Although the infantry and cavalry in Tubo have the word cavalry, the method of combat is mainly infantry.

To put it bluntly, this is a kind of elite infantry on horseback, and the war horse is just a mount for them to carry weapons and travel.

Timur, who was not far away, had already seen Mangchajilang's charge in his eyes.

The thousand cavalry he led were all elite cavalry composed of players.

However, Timur was not an ordinary cavalry soldier. None of his generals carried long weapons such as spears and spears, but only wore sabers for self-defense.

At this time, on the city wall of Jincheng, there was a rapid drumbeat. Su Tong stood on the city wall and saw Tubo Wanqi who was attacking against the rising sun.

Su Wuwei behind Su Tong was already trembling, this is a Tubo Wanqi!

These years, since Shang Qixin'er presided over the Tubo East Road, the focus of the attack was on Hexi and Longyou. There were very few Tubo troops from Lanzhou, but there were still some rangers who harassed Tang from Jincheng.

This is also the reason why the imperial court still left the Five Thousand Golden City Army.

Although the Jincheng Army has successfully expelled the Tubo rangers over the years, they have lost a lot every time. The ambition and brutality of the Tubo people have left a deep impression on the soldiers and civilians of Lanzhou.

Now [-] Tubo horses are rushing towards Jincheng, which is quite visually shocking. The overwhelming cavalry charge together, making the defenders on the city wall fearful, and almost unable to grasp the weapons in their hands.

Su Tong looked at the useless son behind him, sighed silently, then drew out his own sword and said:
"Get ready to fight!"

It was only now that the soldiers on the city wall realized that the city wall gave them a sense of security. Su Tong had already arranged the way to defend the city yesterday, and everyone just had to follow their responsibilities.

The sense of security brought by the city wall finally stabilized the morale of the army, while Su Tong looked at Timur's camp beside the city wall.

This group of cavalry from Hexi is gathering?
Su Tong was afraid that his eyesight would be dim, so he hurriedly asked his son to take a look.

Su Wuwei finished watching and said: "Father, these Hexi cavalry are forming formation, it seems that they are going to charge?"

Before Su Wuwei finished speaking, he only heard the sound of the horsewhip like thunder. The player cavalry waved the horsewhip together, and more than 1000 tall horses rushed out in unison.

Su Wuwei asked his father suspiciously: "Are they sending them to their deaths?"

Su Tong also couldn't figure it out, there were only [-] cavalry in Hexi, and [-] cavalry on the opposite side, wouldn't such a huge disparity be fatal?

Moreover, Su Tong couldn't figure out what kind of troops these strange cavalry brought by Timur were.

If it is a heavy cavalry that mainly charges and melee, it will wear armor and use long weapons.

Spears and other weapons combined with sprinting can exert great lethality, and long weapons are also conducive to fighting immediately.

If it is a cavalry archer who uses bows and arrows and long crossbows, they usually wear light armor and ride Uighur horses with better endurance.

Cavalry archers are cavalry tactics developed in the Central Plains by learning from the grasslands. Using the long-range weapon advantages of bows and arrows, combined with the mobility advantages of cavalry, they use weapons to harass the flanks or rear of the battle formation. Once the opponent pursues, they immediately use horses to distance themselves.

But the cavalry in front of him seems to be neither?

Timur's cavalry did not carry long weapons such as spears, nor did they carry long-range weapons such as longbows.

Is it possible to rush up and chop with a knife?
This is too wasteful, right?
Timur and these cavalry are all riding fine horses, and if they are infantry, why do they wear light armor?

Su Tong didn't understand what kind of cavalry Timur was, but these 1000 men rushed to 1, and it looked like they were rushing to die.

But in the eyes of the soldiers defending the city, the more than 1000 reinforcements from Hexi rushed straight up, which was quite a tragic feeling.

The soldiers on the city wall grasped the weapons in their hands, and they were full of gratitude and respect for these Hexi cavalrymen.

They are the friendly troops who came to support from Hexi to defend Jincheng. The friendly troops are all so desperate, and they are even more desperate.

In the view of Mangcha Jilang, the chief of the Wanfu, this group of cavalrymen from the Tang Dynasty came to die.

I am a complete infantry and cavalry Wanqi!
Even if the cavalry were mounted infantry, Manchajilang was commanding the most elite infantry!
These Great Tang cavalry rushed over straight, just waiting to be surrounded and killed by themselves!
Mangcha Jilang immediately ordered his troops to stop advancing, and dismounted to form an infantry formation to fight.

When Timur saw the other party get off his horse and line up immediately, he couldn't help saying hello in his heart!

This horse formation is easy to say, but very difficult to implement.

The cavalry is on the move, and all the cavalry must slow down and dismount to form a formation. This side has undergone long-term training and cooperation, and it is definitely not an ordinary army.

But it's normal to think about it, Shang Jiezan was able to make this Wanqi charge, it must be because they are the elite of the elite.

Tubo's "Gui" drew out his weapon and quickly found his position. A tight battle formation against the cavalry charge appeared on the field in front of Jincheng.

Su Tong on the city wall gasped. Although the cavalry was strong, the infantry in formation was the most feared.

Highly trained infantry is the best way to restrain the cavalry charge. The Tang Dynasty resisted the grassland national cavalry on the border, and it was the Mo Dao soldiers, and the Mo Dao soldiers were infantry.

Now that the Tubo people have quickly set up a battle formation, the elite of this Tubo army can be imagined, at least it is the core group of Tubo Dalun.

Su Tong's heart brightened, it really was Tubo Dalun who came in person, and he lost confidence in how long Jincheng would be able to hold on.

"Father, they're slowing down!"

Looking from a distance, Su Tong only saw that Timur's cavalry slowed down in the face of the Tubo battle formation!It seems to turn the horse's head and turn back?

"Confused! Slow down at this time, I'm afraid the whole army will be wiped out!" Su Tong yelled, these are more than 1000 good Tang men, it would be a pity if they were buried on the battlefield like this!
Seeing the Tang cavalry slowing down, Mangcha Jilang laughed loudly and said, "Blow the horn! March!"

The tidy Tubo phalanx moved forward. Once such a steel chariot came into contact with the cavalry, it would be able to swallow these hesitant cavalry in one gulp, leaving no scum left.

If the opponent speeds up and charges, it may cause casualties. If you slow down at this distance, you will lose the potential impact of the cavalry charge. The lethality of these cavalry is not as good as that of the infantry in a neat formation.

Seeing the opponent betting up, Timur laughed and said: "Brothers, prepare to drop bombs!"

(End of this chapter)