No Regrets In Flourishing Tang

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Artic knew very well how many catties and how many taels his soldiers and horses face. These soldiers and horses can still win battles when facing weak enemies, but if they meet the elite Huroshan cavalry Legion , Then he has to lose the battle, so he has to expand his strength as soon as possible and occupy more cities as soon as possible, so that before Abu *** ’s soldiers and horses arrive, he has a huge force and occupies multiple cities. The city wall offsets the advantage of the Khorasan cavalry.

Of course, Abu *** himself has to form a cavalry unit. After all, the mobility of the cavalry is unmatched by the infantry. On the way north, he forcibly collected a large number of horses and formed a cavalry unit, just training The time is too short, resulting in the battle strength of these cavalry units is not very satisfactory.

The saddles and stirrups required for horses are not difficult. Artik can solve it by himself, and the cavalry’s weapons are mainly long spear, swords and crossbows.

When the enemy is far away, use a crossbow to face the enemy. When the 2 armies are fighting together, the long spear has room to play. If the long spear breaks, or the long spear is thrown out to kill the enemy, then, The sword must be used to attack the enemy.

The manufacture of lance weapons is not difficult. As long as there are no excessive requirements, it can be easily manufactured. The sword consumes a large amount of iron. In the era of limited steel production, it is indeed expensive to manufacture swords.

The cost of bows and crossbows is not small, although most of the bows and crossbows are made of bamboo and wood, but the arrows are metal, and a large battle requires a lot of arrows. Adding all the arrows on the arrow, it is not Less ferrous metal.

However, Altik does not have to worry about this, because most of the arrows used by his troops are provided by Li An, and the number is extremely large.

In addition, the Fuyuan crossbow and the crossbow provided by Great Tang are indeed huge weapons with formidable power. Therefore, the cavalry formed by Artik uses bow and crossbow as the main weapon, and even chose to give up lance in order to carry more arrows. This weapon.

Without armor, the cavalry of Artik will travel much faster than the average cavalry. In this way, you can use the crossbow to attack the enemy cavalry while retreating quickly, so that the enemy cannot chase This is the riding and shooting tactics, which was also the main tactic of the Mongolian cavalry westward expedition.

At the time of sending troops, the cavalry under Artic had only 2000 horses. Today, after many days of development, the cavalry under Artic has reached 10000 horses. The number of horses is actually more, but some horses are real. It is too stupid to be used to pull carts, and cannot be transformed into a warhorse in a short time.

The biggest battle horse harvest was when the Khorasan cavalry camp was captured. At that time, there were nearly 10000 war horses in the camp. Although Ottoman snatched 6 7000 horses, Artike also got 3000 horses. These All are very good horses, and the matching horse equipment is also very complete. As long as there are people who can ride horses, a powerful cavalry can be quickly formed.

Ottoman ’s military expansion rate is not as good as that of Artic, but the quality of the soldiers is better, and he pays more attention to cavalry. Of his 30000 soldiers and horses, 20000 are cavalry. The troops and the weight are only 10000. There are also many horses.

Artik now considers more questions about how to fight the main force of Armed Forces, who is about to go south. He knows very well that Mansour will not sit back and watch his southwestern mountains occupied by others, and will definitely send troops to seize it. , And he must be prepared to respond, always ready to face the Huroshan cavalry.

In the current situation, Artik is not as good as the battle strength of the soldiers in Khorasan, but Artick is not worried because he has the support of the Great Tang behind him, and he can get the advanced of the Great Tang. Weapon support, such as the Fuyuan crossbow with a very long range, the firing crossbow with amazing frequency, these all are not available in the Khorasan cavalry.

He is sometimes thinking, how can he restrain the powerful Khorasan cavalry? The advantages of cavalry are maneuverability and powerful impact, and cavalry also has disadvantages, that is, the target is relatively large, and defensive power is relatively inferior to infantry.

In this way, it seems that using the crossbow weapons provided by Great Tang can be used to fight against the Khorasan cavalry, especially the light cavalry with the crossbow, which seems to be able to contain and harass the Khorasan cavalry.

Of course, Artik has n’t used this kind of tactics yet, and I do n’t know what will happen to such tactics. How much light cavalry equipped with strong crossbows and crossbows can cause damage to the enemy, can it control the battle situation, None of this is known, but his cavalry battle strength is weak. With this method, even if it is not possible to annihilate many Khorasan cavalry, but the light cavalry is faster and it should still be capable of self-preservation. The bold decision was made to form a cavalry unit.

Because the cavalry training is very inadequate, the deployment and combat of large-scale cavalry units are likely to have problems. In order to avoid this problem, Artic used 500 people as a unit to disperse the cavalry units and let them Maneuverable and flexible against the Khorasan cavalry, if you can beat it, then if you can’t fight it, then retreat in time, and keeping your life is more important than anything.

And Altik ’s overall strategy is to use the main soldiers and horses to defend the strong city in the north, offset the advantages of the Khorasan cavalry, and use these flexible cavalry as harassment soldiers and horses, let them harass the Khorasan cavalry everywhere, and wipe out The living strength of the Khorasan cavalry can even assault the enemy’s logistics supply line, which makes the Khorasan cavalry with many troops lose their supplies. In this way, even if the battle strength is strong, the Khorasan cavalry can only retreat.

Altik quickly recruited several men and asked them to carefully study with them how to divide troops into the northern city and how to use small-strike cavalry to harass and consume upcoming enemies.

“City Lord, in order to avoid being completely surrounded, our 40000 infantry must be stationed in at least 3 cities. The three cities here in the north meet less than 3 li. It is a character shape. As long as we defend these 100 cities, the enemy will be Do n’t dare to go south, otherwise, their logistics supplies will be cut off by our army, and regardless of whether they surround any city, the rest of the city can send troops and harassment from the back, so that the enemy forces will lose each other. “

“That ’s right, our cavalry should also be deployed in a distributed manner, so that they can go out and harass the enemy more flexibly, and they can get supplies at other cities at any time. If a city is suddenly surrounded, the cavalry can also go down. A city is not too passive. “

“There are too few three cities. The two cities in the south are also very important. Defending a few cities is more conducive to the flexibility of the cavalry.”

“The three cities in the north deploy 3 soldiers each, and the two cities in the south deploy 10000 soldiers each. The cavalry is deployed in turn to go out and harass the enemy at any time. Such defenses are bound to make the enemy unable to start because of the general iron barrel.”

“City Lord, how can we forget Osman? I heard that his soldiers and horses have grown to 30000 Armed Forces. If his soldiers and horses are in the west, our defense will be more perfect.”

Several men said.

Altick listened to the opinions of his subordinates, and found it reasonable. However, he did not like Ottoman, opened the mouth and said: “We are not the same as Ottoman, the entire peninsula is our land, this is what Great Tang promised us Yes, Ottoman is going to Egypt. We cannot put our hope of confronting Mansour on Ottoman. We must rely on our own strength to fight Mansour. You must understand this. “

“The city owner said that, however, our strength is too weak at the moment, or United Ottoman has a better chance of winning. When our strength is greater, we are closer to our own strength and more reliable.”

“Yes! City master, our plan is relatively strict, but the strength gap is still a bit big. 10000 one and five cities are broken by one after another, then everything is too late.”

“We still don’t know how many soldiers and horses Mansour will send against us, but at least not less than 50000, maybe 100000 Armed Forces, or even more soldiers and horses.”

“If Mansour sent 100000 Armed Forces to attack with 100000 Armed Forces, would our city guards with only 10000 soldiers per city really be able to hold the city?”

“10000 Armed Forces defending a city, facing ten times the strong enemy, the pressure is great.”

“I’m afraid of anything. We have a crossbow weapon supported by Great Tang. Recently, Great Tang supported a batch of fortified heavy crossbows in our army. It takes 4 5 people to control. This guy is much more powerful than Fuyuan Crossbow. The shooting distance is very far, killing The force is great enough to deal with the enemy siege. The deployment of 20 units in each city is enough to deter the enemy forces. Moreover, we still have so many crossbows and arrows, as long as the city is strengthened and a moat is dug, it is enough. Against more than ten times the strength of the siege. “

Several subordinates talked.

Artic opened the mouth and said: “Well said, we have the heavy crossbow supported by Great Tang, which will definitely defeat Mansur ’s Armed Forces. As long as we are united and training well, there will be no undefeated enemy, Osman It is of course the best to be willing to assist us in combat. If he is not willing to help us, then we will not force it. We cannot count on our former enemies to provide help. We must rely on our own strength. “

All the subordinates nodded to express their support, and felt that Altick made a very reasonable point. They really could not put their hopes on Ottoman. Otherwise, if Ottoman did not come to assist, would n’t it be over.

“City Lord, good news! Ibrahim fled Khorasan and entered the city.”

A confidant hurried over.

The so-called Ibrahim was Ali ’s great-grandson, the legal leader of the Arab World recognized by Shia Sect. They had been fighting the Umayyad dynasty for hundreds of years, just to put Ali ’s descendants on the caliphate. For many years, this wish hasn’t been realized.

“Ibrahim? This is really great news. Let’s meet together!”

Artik said very excitedly, and led his men to meet Ibrahim.

There are many descendants of Ali, not only Ibrahim, nor Ibrahim is the most qualified to inherit the position of the caliphate, but Ibrahim ’s legitimacy is at least stronger than that of Mansur and Abdullah Many, at least, people are the descendants of Ali, while Mansur and the others are full usurpers.

In short, in the mind of Shia Sect, Ibrahim has a higher status than Mansour and is more qualified to become a caliphate.

Artic is now the actual leader of 50000 Armed Forces. According to Li An’s assumption, as long as he controls the peninsula, Artic can completely proclaim himself Sudan and become the founding monarch of the peninsula.

But Artik is Shia Sect. He must support Ali ’s descendants. He cannot be a usurper like Mansur, so he does n’t mind turning over power, or he can control military power, but power supports Ibrahim. Xin boarded the caliphate.

“Ibrahim, long time no see, you left the rebellion in Mansour, which is really great.”

Artik saw Ibrahim and shook hands very enthusiastically.

“Altic, I heard in Khorasan that you defeated the elite cavalry of Mansour, like a hot knife through butter, and occupied a lot of cities, but Mansour has been transferred back to the main force in the north, Armed Forces, It is estimated that soldiers will be sent south to deal with you soon. I came here to inform you by riding a fast horse. Must be ready. At most one month, the elite Armed Forces of Mansur will come to the city. “

Ibrahim spoke.

Artick nodded and said: “Relax! This situation is similar to what I guessed. We have made all preparations and will be able to withstand Mansour’s elite Armed Forces. By the way, our soldiers The horse has grown to 50000 Armed Forces, of course, you can continue to recruit troops and expand Armed Forces to 80000. “

“Oh, is it? That’s really good, then expand the army quickly! Don’t wait for Mansur’s main Armed Forces to come and get in a hurry.”

Ibrahim spoke directly and was scared casually.

“If you can come to me, we have won most of the victory. If the soldiers heard that Ibrahim, the descendant of Ali, was coming, the morale would be high, haha!”

Altick said half-jokingly.

Ibrahim said with a smile: “Oh, that’s really great, I didn’t think I had such a big effect, then I won’t go.”

“Great, we welcome you to stay. Have endured the hardships of a long journey. Ibrahim will rest for a while and we will drink together at night.”

Altick said politely.

Ibrahim worried about chasing soldiers along the way and ran away quickly. At this time, he was really very tired. After hearing Altik’s words, he took his followers to rest. He had a good night’s sleep and added spirit.

Artic discussed the question of how to arrange Ibrahim from his confidant’s heart. After all, Ibrahim’s identity is special and he can’t just be a guest!