Xiang Yu fights the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 131 Iron Cavalry Charge
Han Sui wanted to make himself the leading party in this war, but this was not the case. Dong Zhuo was also fully prepared for the coming of this battle, so the two sides started this battle between accident and necessity. The fierce battle began.

Han Sui could decide when to open the city gates, and then lead his army to launch a counterattack against Dong Zhuo's troops, but Dong Zhuo's troops were always in a high-intensity siege operation, even after the sun went down, the attack still did not end, so It seemed that Han Sui couldn't find a chance to catch Dong Zhuojun by surprise as soon as he opened the city gate.

As soon as Han Sui opened the gate, an elite cavalry rushed out of the city gate as a vanguard. The number of this elite cavalry was not many, only two or three hundred, but Han Sui was the most elite cavalry in the city now. A cavalry unit, their armor rate is very high, can be regarded as the real Xiliang iron cavalry, every soldier is a veteran with rich battlefield experience, after experiencing various life and death situations in many battles A strong man who can still survive.

In fact, Han Sui's purpose in dispatching such a bottom-of-the-box troop from the very beginning was obvious, that is, to get off to a good start, to directly establish the trend of the night battle, and to give his troop a head start. Under the siege of Dong Zhuo's siege troops, he took the lead in rushing out a bloody road, which made it easier for a large number of subsequent troops to break out of the city.

This is actually very similar to Xiang Yu's leading charge, except that the overall combat effectiveness of this Xiliang iron cavalry is relatively average. There is no top-level combat capability that surpasses everyone else like Xiang Yu, but the combat capability of the entire army is very balanced. There is neither a particularly strong point nor a particularly weak point. Both structures have their own advantages and disadvantages.

Xiang Yu can act as a small sun on the battlefield by relying on his own super combat power, shining and leading the follow-up troops, so that their morale and fighting will are strengthened. Xiang Yu's bravery and coercion can deter the enemy and encourage friendly troops at the same time Han Sui's Xiliang iron cavalry was powerful enough in its own right. Although it lacked an absolute strength, as a whole, it was enough to make anyone who stood in their way fearful immediately.

Judging from the situation at the beginning of the battle, Han Sui's battle plan was actually successful. After this Xiliang iron cavalry rushed out from the east gate of Yunwu City, it relatively easily tore open a hole in Dong Zhuo's siege troops. The spear phalanx at the rear had no time to prepare, and found that the enemy had already rushed in front of them. A large number of Xiliang cavalry were like a moving wall, rushing at an extremely fast speed, sweeping away everything that dared to stand the enemy before them.

However, the shortcomings of Han Sui's Xiliang iron cavalry were quickly revealed. Because they lacked an absolute strength like Xiang Yu, their charge effect on the battlefield was relatively average. A large area of ​​the battlefield is full of powerful and shocking effects of one's own iron cavalry, but when Dong Zhuo's troops are relieved, the defensive formation of long spears in the rear gradually takes shape, and the breakthrough speed and efficiency of Xiliang iron cavalry begin to increase. Rapid descent.

It quickly gave people a feeling of exhaustion. Although the cavalry charge would have this state sooner or later, after all, people and horses are living animals, not machines that don't know how to be tired. Even machines will wear out, but this decline It came much sooner than Han Sui expected.

Obviously, at the beginning, these Xiliang iron cavalry charged with ease, but now it becomes more and more weak to follow up. At this time, although Han Sui's troops following these Xiliang iron cavalry have also followed, but because of these In the end, the Xiliang iron cavalry failed to rush out of the position that exceeded Han Sui's expectations, so Han Sui still had many troops behind the city gate, and he was unable to enter the battlefield outside the city for a long time.

Soon after the first round of battle between the two armies, the follow-up troops of both sides began to exchange fire. Many of Han Sui's Xiliang cavalry began to retreat. This was actually Han Sui's order, and he would not be willing. Let these extremely valuable and elite cavalry be used as cannon fodder in the first wave of battles. Their role has already been initially achieved. Let them come back and have a good rest, and then find opportunities to carry out wave after wave charge.

Of course, these Xiliang iron cavalry still suffered some losses in the first wave of charge. The cavalry unit with less than 300 people lost more than 30 people, more than [-]%, and dozens of cavalry were also affected to varying degrees. hurt.

Both Han Sui and Dong Zhuo were standing not very far from the battlefield at this time, and they could only have a rough look at the battle situation ahead, and needed to analyze the situation based on the continuous battle reports from the front, and then Make battlefield dispatches in a timely manner. Of course, most of the time the various layouts and dispatches on the battlefield have great limitations and lags.

It's not playing games, whether it's the commander or the general, it's impossible to control every soldier and every small army component anytime, anywhere, so in many cases, the command made by the commander and general on the battlefield often has a big difference. The problem is that the orders that are applicable in the first few minutes, such as attacking, will not be applicable in the next few minutes, because the entire army may be wiped out if it does not retreat at this time.

There is a great delay in the transmission of orders and the feedback of front-line information, which leads to the commanders and generals who often like to give orders constantly, but are more pitiful than those who don’t give orders very much. If the orders are not forward-looking to a certain extent, then the possibility of failure for front-line soldiers to fight according to their orders is very high.

One of the reasons why Xiang Yu is so powerful is that he often rushes to the front line with the soldiers, so he has first-hand information on the front line, so he can make decisions based on his own experience and understanding of the battlefield. Timely orders can also quickly obtain feedback after these orders are issued. Xiang Yu can judge whether the order is correct or wrong in the first place.

In this way, even if it is a wrong order, he will still have the opportunity to correct the mistake immediately. Of course, it is actually difficult for someone like Xiang Yu to command a particularly large-scale battle, because the scope of his information acquisition is relatively too narrow. If it is a battlefield with a particularly large number of tens of thousands of people, it will be difficult for Xiang Yu to control the fighting state of hundreds of thousands of soldiers.

Therefore, Xiang Yu in his previous life would often win more with less, and he would be invincible with a small number of soldiers. However, in terms of deployment and control of some large battlefield situations, Xiang Yu still has obvious deficiencies or immaturity in many places. of.

(End of this chapter)