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Chapter 267
Gao Kaidao's infantry phalanx was originally following the common people, but when they saw that the vagrants in front of them actually fell, and the former camp of the Cangtou Army, they immediately felt that they had a plan, and immediately led their troops to rush forward.

Although the start was passive, Etuo, Yinghefu, and Yan Yelie gave full play to the advantages of the grassland cavalry. The [-] cavalry, [-] infantry around the front and cleared the way, came to the front of the chariot camp set up by the more than [-] auxiliary troops behind.

Gao Kaidao's auxiliary army set up a circular formation surrounded by baggage carts and camp carts connected head to tail.The auxiliary army was hiding in it. When the forehead saw it, instead of attacking by force, it let the cavalry circle around, like a windmill turning, and gallop around the chariot camp on horseback.

The cavalry of the Xi tribe is already different from the past. After several years of wars and victories one after another, the cavalry equipment of the Xi army has long been updated, and a large number of iron weapons have been used. Although it is impossible to be full of iron armor, many nomadic cavalry, They all went to Yuyi Town to change the iron, and wrapped the horse's head with iron. As for the iron pocket, they also tried their best to get one, and as for other iron utensils, they also tried their best to get one.As for the horseshoes, iron stirrups were also put on many war horses.

The fan cavalry of the Xi family is simply refreshing, almost the equipment of the Qing cavalry of the Sui army.

Of course, the most important thing for light cavalry is the bow. Each cavalry has two bows, most of which are hard bows made of buffalo horns. The arrowheads are no longer tied with a bone or stone, but real iron arrowheads. .

The combat power of such light cavalry was much higher than before. The chariot battalion where the auxiliary army was located was suddenly attacked by arrows from all directions.Although Gao Kaidao's auxiliary troops were all young and strong, they all held bamboo spears and short bows.

But the archers of the auxiliary army, who just wanted to shoot arrows, were unable to lift their heads due to the rain of arrows coming from all directions, and they were completely suppressed by the chaotic arrows of the Rangers.The arrow feathers flew wildly, and a dozen or so eyes were shot out from the rice bags on many of the trucks, and the yellow corn was scattered all over the ground.But the auxiliary army suppressed by bows and arrows buried their heads in embarrassment and hid in the baggage cart. Behind the camp cart, they did not dare to fight back at all.

The Ranger's offensive immediately attracted Li Hu's attention. The Wansheng Army was the proton army of various ministries, and the Surging Cavalry Regiment was the armored cavalry formed by Li Chongjiu by Wang Mahan. They were all elite and very powerful.But in any case, any cavalry general, no matter whether he rides or not, will not fight the infantry phalanx equipped with strong bows, hard crossbows, iron spears and heavy armor as a last resort.

Li Hu wouldn't do the same. He used the army to flash forward, then led the armored cavalry, went around and attacked the auxiliary army behind Gao Kaidao.

In the book of war, Tang and Li, the cavalry is divided into war cavalry, dance cavalry, and ranger cavalry.Rangers are light cavalry with no armor at all, and war cavalry are cavalry with armor, half armor, and part of armor.

Li Hu immediately ordered the Eto rate ranger to lag behind, and immediately used Wang Mahan's cavalry to break out and attack Gao Kaidao's rear auxiliary army.Seeing the attack in the rear, Gao Kaidao decisively ordered the infantry phalanx to return to the auxiliary army, and the two thousand cavalry on the side also joined the battle to rescue the auxiliary army.

The auxiliary army in the chariot camp had been hit by the rain of arrows long ago, and lost the courage to shoot arrows against Wang Mahan's iron cavalry, so Wang Mahan's cavalry regiment simply dismounted and fought on foot, after opening a hole outside the chariot camp , the moment the infantry entered.As for Erto, Yinghefu and their cavalry, they simply delayed and blocked the moving infantry and cavalry rushing to help.

Although Gao Kaidao's infantry marched slowly, this infantry, which had been in the army for only two years, was also very brave and well-trained. Although it was reinforcements, the formation was not chaotic.

In the past, on TV, the scene where the generals raised their arms on both sides of the two armies, and then the countless soldiers behind them charged the skirmish line against the skirmish line. In ancient wars, except for villagers fighting, it would never appear.

Infantry combat must be arranged in formation. The function of the formation is first to prevent one's own side from fleeing, and it can also prevent people from pushing each other, and trampling each other when they charge forward or retreat.The formation of infantry against cavalry is particularly important. Historically, the Song Dynasty, which lost its grazing land, armed its infantry with strong crossbows and heavy armor. Against nomadic cavalry such as Shangxixia and Khitan, the actual combat ratio generally reached [-] to [-]%. .

It's just because of the lack of cavalry and lack of strategic mobility, rangers generally use tactics to lure the enemy deep, gather and annihilate them. Once surrounded, the whole army will be wiped out. The failure was actually just being repelled, and the result of the battle was not obvious, so it gave people the appearance of being weak.

So seeing Gao Kaidao's infantry rushing for reinforcements, Er Tuo and others changed their tactics immediately, constantly copying the flanks and rear of Gao Kaidao's infantry, delaying the opponent's advance speed.At this time, Gao Kaidao's cavalry came again, and Yan Yelie stepped forward to intercept him.

The Gaokaidao cavalry were all trained by the Turkic people. His general Ashina Kush personally led nearly a hundred Turkic wolf cavalry to the front.Ashina Kush is a Turkic special service. He has a three-stone strong bow. He has been in Han for a long time. Kill the horse.The cavalry of the Shiwei Department were all shocked when they saw it.

Among the four tribes in the grassland, Ertuo and Yinghefu have the longest Sinicization and are supported by Li Chongjiu, so their combat power is the strongest, while Yan Yelie lives in the north, and most of his troops are cavalry united, so his combat power is slightly weaker.

Ashina Kush led the cavalry to counterattack, and Yan Yelie's army was defeated, with more than 200 cavalry casualties.Seeing how powerful Gao Kaidao's cavalry was, Li Hu immediately led the Wansheng Army up to face the attack, slightly curbing the charge of Ashina Kush's cavalry, and at the same time ordered Wang Mahan to withdraw his troops.

At this time, Wang Mahan had defeated more than 3000 battalions of the auxiliary army and killed 600 people. Gao Kaidao's auxiliary army had no fighting spirit at all. When the main army arrived, they all raised their hands and surrendered.After Wang Mahan heard the order, he still felt that it was not enough, but he could only withdraw his troops. The soldiers withdrew from the defeated chariot camp and mounted their horses again.

At this time, Eto and Yinghefu joined hands to attack the infantry of the Gaokaidao Department. As soon as the cavalry approached, they were shot off by the strong crossbows in the formation. The heavy infantry was fine, so the battle line was pushed over in one breath.

At that moment, Li Hu ordered to withdraw his troops and return to the camp. Gao Kaidao's army also broke away from contact and returned to the original place. The two sides stopped fighting.

The two sides fought for half a day, Yinghefu, Ertuo, and Yan Yelie had more than 400 riders, while Gao Kaidao's auxiliary army was defeated, and the people were rescued by the Cangtou army, and the two armies seemed to be evenly divided.

But for Gao Kaidao, this deal is still a good deal. The people's auxiliary army is the abandoned son he set up a long time ago. It doesn't matter if they are all gone. Instead, he saves food and grass. The two thousand cavalry are his direct descendants.

After the battle, the two armies confronted each other, and Li Hu took in Miyun. There were more than 2 people in Yanle and Yanle. The local people knew Li Hu, and they were merciful before the battle. However, Li Hu distributed all the general food to the common people for food.

After ten days of confrontation between Gao Kaidao and Li Hu, he was shocked to hear that Li Chongjiu's Liaoxi County general Tudiji had attacked the rear of Yuyang.

Gao Kaidao was horrified that Yuyang County was the place where he started. This time, in order to face Li Hu, he dispatched all the elites, so the remaining soldiers in Yuyang were old, weak and remnants.

The back road was cut off, Gao Kaidao immediately decided to lead the army to retreat overnight, Li Hu immediately led the cavalry to chase after him.Gao Kaidao arranged for Xie Lenggui to be the death-defying army at the back of the palace, and led a thousand main troops and two thousand auxiliary troops to choose a dangerous place to defend, blocking Li Hu's cavalry for a whole day and night.

But Gao Kaidao's rear army could not escape the fate of being wiped out. Xie Lenggui knew that there was no hope of defeat, so he led a hundred dead soldiers alone in the conflict. The success rate of the concurrent journey led the army back to Yuyang County.Suddenly the main force of Gao Kaidao returned, and immediately led the army back to Liaoxi County with 3000 carts full of luggage from the looting of Gao Kaidao's hometown.

Gao Kaidao, as a grassroots bandit, is usually the only one who robs others. This time he finally hit the wild goose and met Moheren and Xiren, the experts on the road. Luo Yi retreated to Yuyang County and Beiping County, echoing each other.

One day after the Cangtou army defeated Gao Kaidao, well-informed people spread to Zhuo County, and all the inns and restaurants were full of talking about this time.

Even in Mingyue Tower, Chunxi Dongqing of course heard about it from the maidservants of other famous prostitutes. As for the other famous prostitutes, of course there is no shortage of dignitaries and dignitaries to tell them about the current situation.

Even if Li Chongjiu didn't need Lin Dangfeng's report, he was already listening to the two girls Chunxi Dongqing in Mingyue Tower, chatting with each other like a cross talk.

"Holly, you said that Gao Kaidao captured Changping and killed so many county soldiers and town soldiers. Is it true?"

"That's right, the murderous thief has been plundering Youzhou for several years. The girls in Qingdai Courtyard didn't dare to cry after hearing the name of the high thief at night."

"Then you said that Li Chongjiu of the Cangtou Army was defeated, and whether Gao Kaidao has done a good thing for us Youzhou people, then is he stronger than Gao Kaidao?"

"It's hard to say whether it's a good deed, but it's definitely better than Gao Kaidao."

"Why do you say it's not necessarily a good thing?"

"Because many people in the neighborhood said that Li Chongjiu also has ambitions for Youzhou."

"It's like this, but the common people all speak well of him. I heard that this time the Cangtou army attacked Anle County, the high-ranking bandits actually forced innocent people to fight against the Cangtou army. In the end, they risked the loss of their own troops and rescued them." After losing these common people, the common people in Anle County, whoever does not remember his kindness, is the real Buddha of ten thousand families."

Listening to these two maids, Li Chongjiu also explained the ins and outs of the matter, and he did not agree with Li Hu's decision at the time. After all, as a warlord in troubled times, his own army is the most important.

But listening to the thanks of the common people and the comments of the maids, Li Chongjiu couldn't help but feel that he deserved all the credit.

(End of this chapter)