Liu Qi, the eldest son of the Three Kingdoms

() Chapter 110 The Seventh Battle Begins

Zhang Xiu's Fenglei Cavalry, which was brilliant last time, did not serve as the backbone of Liu Qi's army, but was mobilized.It's not that Liu Qi didn't reuse it, on the contrary, it was used as a deterrent force, standing beside the entire army ten miles away.If Liu Qi didn't use this army first, he gave Cao Cao a lot of worries, making him difficult in tactical command and unable to attack with all his strength.

After reaching a stalemate, Zhang Xiu's Fenglei Cavalry began to play its role.In a fierce battle, the weaknesses of both sides will be infinitely magnified, and then they will be attacked by the opponent. It depends on whoever breaks through the opponent's weakness first, and whoever gains the advantage in battle.

To put it bluntly, it is to see if Liu Qi's Xuanxiang Formation can withstand the impact of Cao Cao's [-] troops, if it can withstand and consume part of Cao Cao's strength, this battle can be said to have won; if not, Liu Qi's army will be defeated by Cao Cao's army. After breaking through several battles in a row, Liu Qi's army was defeated, and there was no suspense in this battle.Zhang Xiu's wind and thunder cavalry can only be used as a broken queen.

The armies of both sides slowly approached, only a few miles away from the enemy, stopped and began to form formations, and archers were arranged around to prevent the enemy from rushing into the formation suddenly at this time.At this time, the army is the most vulnerable. Otherwise, the ancients said that they would attack halfway, which means that before the enemy army has formed a formation and can effectively defend and attack, the attack will often have unexpected results.However, Cao Cao's sophistication would not give Liu Qi or Pang Tong such a chance; of course, Liu Qi would not give Cao Cao such a chance either.

When the formation is set up, the attack or defense begins.Cao Cao's army arranged a conical formation for the main attack, and the elite troops were all in the forward position, so that the front army could defeat the enemy in one fell swoop.

Cao Chun's tiger and leopard cavalry, as the most elite troops of the Cao army, are also where the "arrow tips" of the "arrows" of Cao Cao's army are located.Behind them were six thousand Xiliang iron cavalry led by Pang De and Liang Xing.Nine thousand cavalry were in the shape of "Pin", rushing towards Liu Qi's army like an arrow.

The charge speed of the cavalry is basically increased, and then it depends on the strong physique of the horse, the coordination of the cavalry, the weapon horse of the cavalry, the thickness of the armor of the horse, the strength of the cavalry, and so on.The charge of the cavalry is not very dense, and each cavalry is often separated by three to five meters, so that after someone falls, it will not affect the charge of the people behind.

As the vanguard of this battle, Cao Chun was very excited, not for the meritorious service after winning.It was for revenge, for the [-] tiger and leopard soldiers who were damaged, for the dignity of the general he lost, and even more for the tiger and leopard cavalry to fight for the name.

The distance of several miles happened to be when the cavalry charged at the fastest speed, and rushed towards Liu Qi's front army like lightning.The cavalry tactics in the late Han Dynasty were mainly those invented by Huo Qubing.Huo Qubing, the great hussar general of the Han Dynasty, figured out a new tactic, the car suspension.Car suspension is actually an enhanced version of assault tactics, but it is much more domineering than assault, and it doesn't swarm like assault. It pays more attention to the distance between cavalry and coordination, which is equivalent to a cavalry version of a cone formation.Cao Chun learned the basics of General Huo Qubing's cavalry tactics, but it was also amazing. Cao Chun's cavalry tactics were among the top few in the Three Kingdoms period.

In fact, Huo Qubing's cavalry tactics were summed up on the basis of Xiang Yu, the overlord of Western Chu.Xiang Yu, the leader of the rebel army in the late Qin, Chu and Han dynasties, was the first person in history to propose using the high-speed impact of cavalry to fight blitzkrieg. In the era without stirrups, Xiang Yu thought of the mainstream cavalry tactics of later generations. It was quite advanced in history. The cavalry assault was used to disrupt the enemy's position, and the infantry closely followed the cavalry to annihilate the scattered and singled out enemy troops. This kind of infantry and cavalry coordinated combat was unprecedented at the time.

It was precisely because Xiang Yu's large-scale use of cavalry in the war with Liu Bang caused many tragic blows to Liu Bang that Liu Bang realized the power of cavalry and made up his mind to form a cavalry unit. Li Bi and Luo Jia, who were surrendered by the Qin State, were used as school lieutenants to train the cavalry, but the tactics were still imitating Xiang Yu's cavalry tactics.This also indirectly laid the foundation for the later Han Empire to have a powerful cavalry force.

Immediately behind them were six thousand Xiliang cavalry led by Pang De and Liang Xing.The longest width of the entire forward is one mile, and the vertical is half a mile.The first one is only a few dozen steps across.In order to ensure the impact of the cavalry, they "wedge" in like nails and destroy the enemy's formation.The cavalry behind took the opportunity to rush in, open the gap, and break through the enemy's formation in an instant.

Cao Chun's cold eyes were fixed on the front, and there was no trace of fear on his stern face.Three thousand cavalry, a few miles away, arrived in an instant. Cao Chun shouted: "Cover the horse's eyes!"

Three thousand Cao Jun soldiers in green clothes and blue armor uniformly took out cloth strips to cover the eyes of the horses.The horse is naturally afraid of sharp weapons, and the horse is not stupid, so he rushed straight to the sharp spear, which required the horse's eyes to be covered.Due to inertia, the horse will not stop and continue to attack the enemy's formation at its original speed.

The formation of Liu Qi's army was heading towards Cao Cao's army, and Cao Chun was about to attack Liu Qi's most defensive front formation.I don't know if he is confident in the strength of his tiger and leopard cavalry, or he looks down on Liu Qi's infantry strength.No wonder, Cao Chun followed Cao Cao to fight north and south, and he had never seen such a powerful soldier.

Known as "the ambition to fall into the battle, there is death but no life", the world's elite [-] trap camps; Lu Bu's "Bingzhou Wolf Rider";As the elite of all battles selected from the "Qingzhou Soldiers", no one can be the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry.Well, except Zhang Xiu's former Xiliang Army.

Liu Qi's Jingzhou infantry, Cao Chun didn't pay attention to it, Jingzhou Jiangdong was stronger than the navy, and the others were not worth mentioning.With contempt for Liu Qi's Jingzhou infantry, Cao Chun led three thousand tiger and leopard riders to the enemy's formation.

<Sharp.In particular, Jingzhou's crossbowmen are the best in the world, but Cao Cao has not fully appreciated its power.Although Xu Chu's vanguard was destroyed because of this, but after all, it was a city defense battle, and it might not be useful on flat ground, so Cao Cao didn't care at all what role the Zhuge Liannu, which weighed tens of kilograms, could play in the battle formation.The battle still depends on the impact of cavalry and infantry.

Cao cao's generation of military advisers had an unparalleled vision in the late Han Dynasty. Whether it was the use of infantry battle formations or the combination of infantry and cavalry, they were ahead of other good commanders.But Liu Qi is a special case.Numerous good crossbows, weapons that only appeared in the Song Dynasty, were produced by Liu Qi here, and it will be a fatal blow to Cao Cao.