This place is called Horse Face Valley, which is slender and long like a horse's face, hence the name.
Zhang Xiu took Li Er and two thousand cavalrymen, quietly hiding in the valley.
Li Er has been a little dissatisfied these two days.
Because he thought that when he came to the Eastern Front, he could kill the enemy and make contributions, rather than hiding in this rarely visited valley, eroded by wind and sand and barbecue in the scorching sun. Although he didn't say anything, he had already scolded Zhang Xiu in his heart.
Now he heard that the battle under Wenxi City was very fierce. More than two thousand iron cavalrymen did not go to Wenxi to kill Cao's thieves, but he was raising his energy in this valley. He thought it was too ridiculous.
Zhang Xiu said he wanted to ambush Cao's army, was he just ambushed in this Horse-Faced Valley? No matter how Li Er looked at this Horse-Faced Valley, he didn't seem to be a place where Cao's army could be ambushed. If he really wanted to ambush, he should have gone down to Emei Ridge and went to Gufeng Mountain. Gufeng Mountain is the place where Cao's army would definitely pass.
Li Er did not continue to stay under Feiqian Middle Road, but took the initiative to apply to join Zhang Xiu on the Eastern Front, which was his own consideration. Although he was not like a child of a Shandong Confucianism Family, he would always say that he had read many military books and knew a lot of military tactics, he had the experience of fighting in Longxi, Mobei.
Li Er discovered that since Fei Qian brought those artillery from Linfen, the combat mode has undergone some changes.
The cavalry is no longer the protagonist in the battlefield...
This made Li Er feel a little unhappy and a little uneasy.
During the battle between Li Ermobei and Longxi, what he felt most deeply was the importance of cavalry. Without cavalry, in a territory like Mobei and Longxi, it was like losing legs, and he would be played with it at any time. So Li Er thought that cavalry was the king and the most important group of troops in the army. Under Feiqian, the cavalry became auxiliary artillery forces.
When attacking the camp at the slope, artillery became a hero, and cavalry became a foil.
This is not Li Er's opinion on Fei Qian. After all, Fei Qian promoted him, and Fei Qian also granted him his current status and wealth. However, he couldn't understand personally and was unwilling to accept this state, so he would rather come to the Eastern Front and come to Zhang Xiu's subordinates. Unexpectedly, when Zhang Xiu came to Zhang Xiu, Zhang Xiu didn't move...
Like most of the frontier men in the Han Dynasty, Li Er couldn't stand the children of the gentry in Shandong. Back then, in Luoyang City, there were princes, nobles, aristocrats, yamen, and any tiles of any family could fall to three or four officials in power, or some relatives and so-called children. But in the eyes of these people, Li Er and other frontier men were not "humans", but just a dog, a dog who was guarding the frontier.
At the beginning, Li Er didn't know what scriptures the children of high-ranking officials said, and what prophecies and divination were, so he thought they were very mysterious and powerful. Looking up at them, he pushed himself to a small end, just like the perspective of a dog crawling on the ground.
But as he studied and grew up in the army, he saw the guys he had to look up to back then, but after taking off a layer of mysterious skin, he became ugly, deformed, and even weak. What surged in his heart was not only the contempt for the children of the Han bureaucrats and gentry, but also the resentment and anger accumulated by being deceived, insulted, and bullied back then.
I blindly let the people suffer and endure, but I don’t know that the word “suffering” is a huge spring, which will either be broken or rebound in the end.
So why did Li Er come to Zhang Xiu? To put it bluntly, he still feels unfair. He wants to cut off the heads of the children of Shandong gentry with his own hands to comfort the scars left in his heart.
The longer Li Er stayed under the command of the cavalry, the more he disliked the children of Shandong gentry, and the more he hated why he could not hold his head up and roar at the children of the gentry who insulted and bullied him? Why did he repeatedly obey the children of the gentry becoming more and more bizarre and overexerted, and could not be a person with dignity?
Li Er's biggest struggle back then was to escape from Luoyang, because he felt that if he stayed in Luoyang for a long time, he would either be beaten to death as a dog or become a dog eating shit in the gutter.
Later, Li Er felt that it was fortunate that he had joined Fei Qian's command.
Feiqian should stabilize Longyou and Longxi, Jingping and stabilize the border, and resist the Western Qiang riots.
Li Er seized this opportunity to change his destiny, so he now not only has a foundation in Longxi, but also has a small industry in Chang'an, a real estate and a small piece of land.
If you can continue to achieve military achievements, then under the command of the General of the Cavalry, you will not have the opportunity to become the chief officer of a place, and become the county magistrate of 800 or 1,000 s...
Li Er was full of confidence, but ended up eating wind and sand at Mamian Valley.
Seeing Li Er restless and looking like a hero is useless, Zhang Xiu didn't have the patience to communicate well with Li Er, because Zhang Xiu himself had problems, and he was thinking about Fei Qian's reply to him...
The war is about to begin, but Zhang Xiu's own "positioning" has not been found yet.
Zhang Xiu knew that Fei Qian had the idea of asking him to go to the Northern Region Protectorate, but from the idea that Fei Qian wanted to find out about Zhang Xiu's performance.
That is, the word "positioning" mentioned in the letter.
At a rough idea, Zhang Xiu would pat his chest like Li Er, expressing his loyalty to the cavalry, and swearing under the three-colored flag, for the glorious career of the Han Dynasty, but after careful consideration, Zhang Xiu felt that it was not that simple.
Because Zhang Xiu is not the only one who can succeed the Northern Region Protector.
With Fei Qian's reply, there was also the war report sent back by the Northern Region Protectorate.
Zhang Xiu not only saw Zhao Yun's record, but also noticed the performance of many people under Zhao Yun, such as Zhang He...
Zhang Xiu knew in his heart that Fei Qian's attitude towards surrendered generals was different from that in Shandong. Therefore, according to Zhang He's ability, it would be a matter of time before he could be reused.
Just like Li Dian, who is now in Hanzhong.
Of course, old qualifications have some advantages, but not absolute advantages.
Zhang Xiu was excited to see the battle briefing in the Northern Region, but while being excited and excited, he also felt the gap between himself and Zhao Yun. At least Zhao Yun chose to fight or not, attack targets and tactical choices, which made Zhang Xiu feel his shortcomings.
Wenxi is not the focus. Although the gains and losses of a city and a place are important, they are not the most important issue.
Winning is not a problem, but it is indeed a problem to play well.
"Report!" A soldier came and fell to the ground. "Cao army organized people to attack the city again, and Wen Xi seemed to be unable to hold on!"
"Can't hold on?" Zhang Xiu frowned, "Where did Cao's army come from... Oh, I understand!"
Zhang Xiu slapped his face suddenly, "So that's it, so that's it!"
He figured it out and laughed.
"Come! The whole army has a command, pack up their clothes and prepare for battle!"
After the order was issued, the soldiers quickly took action, and the entire Horse-Matching Valley suddenly became extremely noisy.
In less than half an hour, the queue was ready, and Zhang Xiu led more than 2,000 cavalry out of the Horse-Ming Valley and headed south along the Kushui River.
More than two thousand cavalry formed a relatively loose marching formation, whistling down the gullies of Emei Ridge, roaring and surging with a powerful momentum.
『General!』 Li Er caught up with Zhang Xiu, grunted for a moment, and asked, 『Where are we going?』
Zhang Xiu glanced at Li Er, and after he figured out the matter, he was in a good mood. He smiled and said, "Why, are you in a hurry to go into battle to kill the enemy?"
Li Er also responded with a smile, "Not only me, everyone wants to kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions!"
The soldiers around also responded.
Zhang Xiu laughed and nodded, "Then... if you were the only one... how many enemies could you kill?"
"I'm the only one?" Li Er was stunned for a moment, "This... I'll kill you five, six, seven, eight, and there's always something."
The power of an individual is always limited and very uncertain.
Any general can kill people like mowing grass, and it will explode unparalleled, and it is most likely that it only exists in the game.
So Li Er was not sure whether he could drag a few enemies to take the lead when facing a large number of enemy troops alone.
Zhang Xiu shook the horse whip and circled the soldiers around him, "What if we were two thousand of us? How many enemies can we kill?"
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"This..." Li Er seemed to understand something.
『Do you understand? What are we? What are we going to do?』 Zhang Xiu laughed and gently swept Li Er's arm with the tail of the horse whip, 『Can you go further after the war? From the Marquis of the Army to the Chief Commander...but you have to think about this issue carefully...』
Li Er hurriedly said, "Thank you for your teachings by the general."
Zhang Xiu waved his hand and did not continue to talk about this topic with Li Er, but raised his head slightly, looked at the mountains and rivers in the distance, and watched the earth quickly go back under his feet.
This is also a question he suddenly figured out...
In front of heaven and earth, no matter from which perspective, people are so small.
Mountains, rivers and rivers have always existed, but people are just lost in a flash.
Only by leaving yourself small can you see other greatness.
It's like an individual and an army.
In front of a huge army, a single individual is like a stone on the earth. Whether it is hard rock or soft sand, it is insignificant and insignificant.
If you feel that you can stand alone by yourself, you will most likely follow Lu Bu's footsteps, indulge yourself in the illusion, and eventually all your efforts will be wasted...
Zhang Xiu finally understood the issue of "positioning" emphasized by Fei Qian, not only his own personal "positioning", but also his "positioning" of his soldiers. If you want to become a general, you cannot simply go to battle and kill the enemy and charge.
This is also the reason why Fei Qian deliberately did not explain the details of the order.
If Zhang Xiu could only become a general who could not think independently and knew to act according to orders, then he might become an excellent soldier who rushed forward, but he would always stop here and be unable to continue to move forward, so there is no need to say that the Northern Region Protector...
Those who have no thoughts, do not know how to summarize, and only follow orders will eventually lose themselves, and can only be driven down by the torrent of history...
Li Er looked around him. He was surrounded by cavalry and horses. Everyone looked excited, leisurely, full of fighting spirit, calm, without fear, no panic about possible death, only strong desire to fight, galloped, gathered into a magnificent torrent, moving forward.
The anxiety and irritability in Li Er's heart also calmed down at this moment. He suddenly felt that he had become a fish in the torrent, swimming happily in it. The war horse seemed to feel Li Er's mood change, and neighed with his neck.
Li Er bent down, patted the horse's neck, then looked at his comrades around him, suddenly raised his arms and shouted, "The cavalry will win! The cavalry will win!"
"Hurry! Will win!"
The smoke and dust rolled, like a yellow dragon galloping.
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On the other hand, Cao Xiu, who was also on the road, was quite heavy in his mind.
Moving forward from Gufeng Mountain, Cao Xiu's worries not only did not ease, but became heavier.
Because Cao's army does not have many war horses, the movement speed of Cao's army often depends on the slowest part.
Cao Xiu brought the baggage truck, so the speed of the entire army was determined by the butts of those slow horses.
Thinking about this question closely can make people feel a little frustrated.
A huge empire and a prosperous dynasty, whose expanded territory was not determined by the brave soldiers and intelligent counselors, but by the butts of these slow horses...
The shortcomings in the bucket may be considered a cliché in later generations, but not many people can really solve the shortcomings in a targeted manner.
Even Cao Xiu knew where his shortcomings were, but he was still helpless and unable to change.
Among his troops, many were ordinary Cao's soldiers.
Of course, Cao Xiu could also use his own troops as the pioneer in Zhuguanxing, and rushed to Wenxi first, allowing these subsequent troops to leave slowly, but Cao Xiu's troops were not infinite, nor would they be injured if steel bars and iron bones were not injured...
After the last battle at Zhuguanxing, although Cao Xiu's troops were supplemented to a certain extent, the newly added soldiers and the original veterans were much worse, both in terms of combat skills and mutual cooperation.
Under such circumstances, if Cao Xiu rushed to Wenxi, he might be on the way and his troops would be dismembered automatically...
"General, if we encounter cavalrymen in the wild," Cao Xiu's guard looked around with some anxiety, especially the Emei Ridge earth plateau in the distance, as if a team of cavalry would fly down from the earth plateau at any time, 'Our formation is probably...what should we do?"
After leaving the ambush, the soldiers of the Cao army seemed to feel naked. At any time, they would fall into the bushes by the Cavalry that rushed out of nowhere. They were filled with fear and nervousness. If there was a slight movement, they would scream a lot, and then they would often confirm that they were false alarms.
This state made Cao Xiu and Cao Xiu's elite guards directly under him very worried.
Because these veterans who have been on the battlefield many times know in their hearts that if the psychological problems of the soldiers are not solved, if these ordinary Cao army soldiers really fight with the cavalry, they will probably be a fate of collapse on the spot and scattered fleeing.
In fact, this situation is not only in Cao Xiu, but also in the feudal dynasty of China. It is a common problem faced by all troops with primary peasant soldiers as their combat effectiveness. On the surface, it seems that there are many people and can fight with the wind, but once it is in a state of headwind, it is like ice and snow encountering the scorching sun.
In Shandong, everyone is competing with bad things together. So the Cao army, which is not bad, stands out, but now that it is discovered that it cannot drag the Cavalry Army into the quagmire of consumption, the Cao army, with many soldiers and widespread generals, has to face a very difficult problem.
Taking these ordinary Cao army soldiers may not be able to gain much advantage in combat in the field, but if you don’t bring these soldiers, you will never even have the chance to fight.
According to Cao Xiu's experience, if a dense infantry formation is used, plus a giant shield and a long spear, it can indeed temporarily block the Hussar cavalry, but it can only last for a while. The reason is very simple. The Cao army soldiers cannot move in an array like elite heavy infantry, and can only defend themselves on the spot. Because the Hussar cavalry moves fast and has strong impact, the cavalry can be divided into small teams around the outer circle of the infantry array, and it is difficult for infantry to move after defending, and they are naturally in a more passive situation.
Of course, if the infantry array is coupled with the baggage cart, a relatively stable defense line can be formed, which will also allow ordinary soldiers of the Cao army to comfort themselves psychologically. If the chariot array does not collapse, it can maintain a certain morale.
But the problem is that the Hussar Cavalry is now equipped with the Five Elements Thunder...
That thing is too destructive to dense arrays.
If only I had all the elite boys with me...
Cao Xiu glanced at the ordinary Cao army soldiers who could even act in seventeen or eighteen postures with long spears, and they were really speechless.
To keep these ordinary Cao army soldiers still in a dense array after being hit by the Five Elements Thunder, it would be better to think more about other ways to resist the cavalry and horses.
For example, traps and horse rejection.
Resisting horses is definitely very familiar to ordinary soldiers of the Cao army.
It can be said that as long as there is a military camp, there is a horse-rejecting enemy. Generally, when a large army sets up camp, in order to prevent the enemy from attacking the enemy, a horse-rejecting enemy formation with a distance of dozens of steps must be set up around the camp.
But the problem is that the horse can't be moved.
"Is there any moveable horse?" Cao Xiu asked the guard beside him.
"Can you move the horse?" The guard was a little dull, and he couldn't imagine what the horse that moved the horse should look like.
"Yes! That's it!" Cao Xiu turned his head and looked at the baggage trucks behind him, and suddenly thought of something, if he put the horse on the baggage truck, or if he used the baggage truck to build the horse...