Xiang Yu fights the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 128 Reversing the Situation

Dong Zhuo's catapults suffered heavy losses, but fortunately his catapults were deployed in a scattered manner, so even though the Xiliang cavalry destroyed some of his catapults, it would not cause him to completely lose all his catapults. Quickly dispatch troops and generals, and personally lead some elite cavalry troops to counterattack Xiliang cavalry.

After Han Sui's Xiliang cavalry won this wave of victories, they were obviously a little bit arrogant. They did not choose to accept it as soon as it was good, but were ready to take advantage of the victory and pursue it. Of course, it cannot be said that their thoughts and decisions are wrong. After all, the situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly, and no one can say whether a decision is right or wrong before the results come out.

Sometimes if the time and place are right, even a seemingly correct decision may lead to bad consequences, and sometimes the time and place are better, so even if the decision is obviously wrong, the final result may not be the same. It is bad, so it is definitely wrong to simply attribute the victory or defeat of a war to a single factor that occupies an absolute role.

The victory or defeat of a battle will definitely not be completely determined by a certain person's factors. Even for a person as powerful as Xiang Yu, his victory must be based on following the trend. Just like him in his previous life, his personal strength cannot play a decisive factor in the face of the general trend of the world.

If the Xiliang cavalry did not choose to pursue the victory at this time, their battle plan would not be fully realized. Dong Zhuo still had a considerable number of catapults, and he could still throw a large number of corpses into Yunwu City, thereby bringing plague to the city. and other diseases, and even if Han Sui had to find a way to dispose of these corpses, it would require a lot of extra manpower and material resources, and at the same time, the soldiers would have a high risk of contracting diseases during the process of disposing of the corpses.

In contrast, the cost Dong Zhuo needs to pay is very low. He only needs to let the catapult throw corpses continuously day and night. Everything is lacking on the battlefield except corpses. The ones who cleaned the battlefield, now they can throw the terrible corpses to the enemy while cleaning the battlefield. There is really nowhere to find such a good thing with a lantern.

Therefore, the Xiliang cavalry must destroy as many of Dong Zhuo's catapults as possible, even at a certain price, which is acceptable. In the previous battle, they only paid a very small price to destroy many of Dong Zhuo's catapults. Under such circumstances, is there any reason not to continue to attack in order to consolidate and expand the victory?

So the Xiliang cavalry began to launch a large-scale attack. They no longer divided the cavalry into several groups and then pulled them left and right to win better opportunities for themselves. They seemed to feel that Dong Zhuo's troops passed by just now There is no way to regain their strength in such a short period of time after their defeat, so the only thing they need to do is to decisively launch an onslaught and chase.

At the beginning, the logic of the Xiliang cavalry was valid. The defeated soldiers of Dong Zhuo could not completely regroup in a short period of time. At the same time, they continued to have a great negative impact on Dong Zhuo’s other troops. In fact, he has always been reserved during the battle. After all, he was also born in the Xiliang area, and his understanding and control of the elite cavalry is not inferior to these Xiliang cavalry. It can even be said that Dong Zhuo was very good at leading the cavalry when he was young. of.

As for being older now, maybe some aspects have regressed, mainly because I have lost the fearless vigor of my youth. After gaining some official positions, it is inevitable that my life style will be corrupted and weakened. His personal will and fighting ability, but when he fell into a situation that was extremely unfavorable to Dong Zhuo, the hot heart that had been buried in his heart for many years was stimulated again, so he saw Dong Zhuo personally leading his subordinates. The elite cavalry detoured to the side to directly cut off the Xiliang cavalry's attack route.

This is actually a very bold decision. If Dong Zhuo did this in the past, the possibility of success in the end is not very high. Instead, Dong Zhuo had an opportunity to take advantage of it.

When you think someone else is the prey, he may at some point become the hunter, and you yourself become the prey.

The number of elite cavalry led by Dong Zhuo is not large, but they are elite enough. Some of them are heavily armed cavalry, and the other part are relatively sensitive light cavalry. They each have their own functions.

Although the light cavalry is often the main combat force by virtue of their mobility when fighting other cavalry, but when they really want to cut off the Xiliang cavalry from the side, they still need a certain number of heavy cavalry. When rushing too fast and too hard, they will unknowingly put themselves into a very dangerous situation.

Dong Zhuo will send out light cavalry and heavy cavalry respectively. The role of the light cavalry is to divert and attract the attention of some Xiliang cavalry, while the role of the heavy cavalry is to attack the Xiliang cavalry's attack line from the flanks, and then confront Dong Zhuo head-on. The pikemen surrounded the Xiliang cavalry who rushed too fast, and then completely devoured this part of the Xiliang cavalry.

Originally, the mobility of Xiliang cavalry is much better than that of all Dong Zhuo's cavalry, but if it is really a fierce battle on the frontal battlefield, the combat effectiveness of these Xiliang cavalry with limited armor rate is very limited. This is the reason why Xiang Yu led the elite cavalry to defeat the Xiliang cavalry with fewer victories and more victories.

Dong Zhuo's tactics were even more successful than expected. As Dong Zhuo led the elite heavy cavalry to cut off the front and rear armies of the Xiliang cavalry from the flanks, the part of the Xiliang cavalry that penetrated into Dong Zhuo's formation suddenly became entrapped. Dong Zhuo You only need to order these heavy cavalry to launch a fierce attack on them, and the Xiliang cavalry in the rear will be restrained by another part of Dong Zhuo's light cavalry. If they choose to give up the attack in time and retreat directly, they may still have a chance Escape from birth.

After all, the speed of Dong Zhuo's heavy cavalry can't keep up with them, and Dong Zhuo's light cavalry is actually not as good as theirs, but if they want to rescue those Xiliang cavalry who have been surrounded by Dong Zhuo's regiment, then they will be like gourd babies Just like saving grandpa, the result is to give as much as you want.

After several failed support attempts, the Xiliang cavalry behind finally gave up helplessly, and the whole army retreated. It didn't take long for the battlefield to be trampled by countless horses when they left. yellow sand.

Surrounded by Dong Zhuo's Xiliang cavalry, surrounded by a dense formation of long spears in front and heavily armored cavalry in the rear, the entire army was eventually annihilated, with more than half dead or wounded, and the rest became Dong Zhuo's captives.

After this battle, Dong Zhuo can be said to have completely reversed the situation on the battlefield. The Xiliang cavalry suffered a huge loss, and the threat he could pose to Dong Zhuo has also been greatly reduced. You can focus all your energy on the frontal siege.

(End of this chapter)