After all, war is not a child's play, nor can it be won by just talking on paper. Without suitable generals to lead, even the best plans are useless.
Ma Yan was born in the cavalry and basically spent most of his life with horses. Therefore, when commanding the cavalry, he not only knew how to deploy soldiers, but was even more aware of the physical condition of the horses under his hips. He could adjust the situation at any time according to the changes on the battlefield.
Adjust the strategy to allocate the horse's physical strength.
Many of these things are based on experience. Maybe one day, when Ma Yan is old and can no longer lead the army, he can sit down and slowly reflect and summarize, and then he will be able to reproduce them in the book. But now, most of them are still there.
It was Ma Yan's instinctive reaction.
Having said that, why did Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty seem to have won a series of victories after he promoted Wei Qing? But has anyone ever thought that the reason why Wei Qing was able to achieve some achievements that the Han people did not have before was related to his previous career?
Horses are strange and loyal animals. They are different from pets like cats that can get angry anytime and anywhere. Horses are timid, shy, and not expressive. They are good at running, but they are not good at long-term high-intensity running. However, horses are
Personality: Even if it is extremely tired, it rarely calls out. Once it recognizes its master, it is extremely loyal and does not know how to refuse. Therefore, under the driving of the master, it will even run until the blood boils in the whole body, and it will run to death from exhaustion.
On the way...
Anyway, from ancient times to the present, horses often run to death on the road, but I have never seen a cat run to death from exhaustion on the road.
As a general, if you only know soldiers, then there is no problem in being an infantry general. But to become a cavalry general, you must also know horses, know when to use horsepower, know what terrain is suitable for horses to gallop, and know how to let horses rest.
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Therefore, only Ma Yan was suitable for mobilizing the Xianbei cavalry to carry out teasing in a small area of 40 to 50 miles south of Pingding City, and the others were really unable to do it.
At least Xu Huang and Huang Cheng haven't reached that level yet. It's certainly no problem for these two leaders to attack and kill, but if they want to direct the horse's haste like Ma Yan did, it's still a problem.
There is a certain gap.
Therefore, the cavalry on the east route led by Xu Huang naturally used completely different methods from Ma Yan. Xu Huang deliberately chose a stronger horse to ride on, otherwise the weight of his big ax would basically be increased out of thin air.
More than half of the people...
However, the first step was the same for both Xu Huang and Ma Yan. When they saw the three thousand cavalrymen killed by Xianbei, they turned around and ran away.
As long as you are not stupid or have any special requirements, otherwise one thousand cavalry versus three thousand cavalry, even if the equipment of the Han cavalry is better, it will be worse in terms of consumption and impact.
Those who are at a disadvantage, therefore, it is also a natural reaction to retreat immediately when the situation is not good.
Just like the policemen running away when they see someone on the street, they will subconsciously chase after them. The Xianbei people's bodies have already followed before their brains have even thought about it. They whip up their horses and bite Xu Huang's cavalry troops and chase them.
People's thinking is always fixed, and the Xianbei people are no exception. When the scouts were conducting investigations, it was said that there were more than a thousand cavalry, so the cavalry in front of them was also about a thousand, so the Xianbei people did not consider anything else, but they did not
Thinking of it, Huang Cheng led a group of soldiers and horses, slowly following Xu Huang's formation, taking advantage of the lack of eyesight of the Xianbei scouts swept out by Xu Huang's troops, and ambush them.
Therefore, the Xianbei troops who were chasing happily suffered a fierce attack that Huang Cheng had planned for a long time.
There was a loud banging of clappers, and many Han men with bows and crossbows stood up behind the hill, and they launched a head-on attack on the chasing Xianbei cavalry.
The Xianbei people who are chasing are simply unable to dodge. Ordinary bows and arrows can cause huge damage to the Xianbei people who are lightly armored or even unarmored. What's more, there are hundreds of powerful crossbows. Although the shooting speed is not as fast as the bows and arrows, no matter what
Whether it's a person or a horse, almost always if it's hit, it's a one-hit kill, and its lethality is obviously much stronger than that of a bow and arrow.
The troops at the front were shot to death, those who stumbled and fell over the corpses of men and horses on the ground, those who trampled and squeezed each other, those who reined in their horses and ran around in panic, and for a moment, the leading troops of the Xianbei people
The momentum of the charge and chase was completely interrupted in an instant.
At this time, Xu Huang turned around and rushed back with his men. The huge long-handled battle ax was extremely heavy and was swung in circles. Even if the Xianbei cavalry tried to separate the weapons, it was completely ineffective. The rotation speed of the battle ax plus its own
Due to the weight, no matter whether it is a gun barrel, a sword, or a human body, it will basically be thrown away or directly cut into two pieces.
The guy with the big ax in the front was difficult to deal with, and Huang Cheng's archers and crossbowmen shot from the side. The Xianbei people suddenly couldn't hold on, and retreated with three to four hundred casualties.
Xu Huang did not pursue him. Yu Huangcheng's troops gathered together and retreated slowly. At the same time, they took away the less than a hundred Hu horses that were lucky enough to be uninjured on the battlefield, leaving only corpses and horses all over the ground.
Some Xianbei troops were injured and wailing on the ground.
When Dadanghu came east with his troops, he ran into the returning troops. He was shocked and angry when he heard that they were ambushed. When he led his troops to the ambush point, he found that the Han troops had already
Have already evacuated.
Dadaanghu's face was as dark as water. While he sent out scouts to investigate, he also had people clean up the scene.
Nearly 300 people died, and more than 30 people were seriously injured. Basically, there was no way to treat them. More than 20 people had broken hands or legs. Whether they can survive in the future can only depend on God's will.
The other sixty or seventy people suffered various injuries, which were relatively minor...
Most of the horses with minor injuries were recovered, but more than 200 horses were seriously injured or died on the spot, and about 70 or 80 horses were taken away by the Han people...
The scout came back and said that the Han people were all on horseback and could move very fast. They had already evacuated thirty miles away.
Da Danghu cursed bitterly and ordered to turn around and go back.
It is now approaching dusk, let alone the night if we continue to pursue. The horses' eyesight has deteriorated so much that it is inconvenient to march. What worries Dadang households even more is that the Hans don't know if there are other ambushes hidden somewhere, so although
I am very unwilling to do so, so I can only call it a day and wait until dawn tomorrow before looking for opportunities to fight again.
The damage of four to five hundred men and horses, although not very large for the weight of more than 10,000 troops, is also a big blow to the morale of Xianbei. In addition, the vast majority of Xianbei soldiers have been fighting non-stop throughout the day.
So at night, except for the soldiers on duty, most of the Xianbei people lost their usual noisy energy and found a place to sleep...
Late last night, a bug actually flew onto the bed where the author was sleeping...
There are mosquito nets and you can still crawl in...
I'm just speechless...
However, the water and soil in Guangxi seems to be a good place to raise insects...
The author has all seen flying 5cm long beetles, black beetles about the size of a small fingernail, green turtle beetles that scurry around stupidly, barefoot centipedes over 20cm...
But there are also butterflies with two long tails...
