The first thousand two hundred and seventy-four chapters killed
Chapter 1,274 Arrival
After Gao Shun received the information from the scout, he stood up immediately, his brows knitting together involuntarily.
"It's absolutely true. Among the 20,000 cavalry, there are nearly 10,000 armored cavalry. Lord Jia Xu means that the general should focus on stability and give priority to defense.
If you can't resist, you can retreat as appropriate, and it's up to the general to decide how to do it."
The scout nodded to Gao Shun and said all Jia Xu's words.
"With ten thousand armored cavalry, the Kushan Empire is so wealthy."
Hearing that there were 10,000 armored cavalry among the 20,000 cavalry, even Gao Shun felt depressed. You must know that the entire Han Dynasty only has one armored cavalry unit like the Xuanwei Army, but now he has to face such a
It is not easy for the armored cavalry to block the opponent with the quality of the soldiers under their command.
"General, what should we do?
It’s still too late to retreat now.”
Song Cheng, the captain of the trapped camp, glanced at Gao Shun and couldn't help but frown.
"Retreat?
It’s not necessary.”
Gao Shun shook his head slightly. Although it was not easy to resist the opponent, it was not completely impossible. If it was an encounter, he could only retreat, but if he knew it in advance, even half a day would be enough for him to make a decision.
Some arrangements are made.
"What does the general plan to do?"
Song Cheng glanced at Gao Shun, wondering what he wanted to do.
"First, arrange trebuchets to ambush on both sides and set bomb points. Second, all soldiers will be dispatched to dig a horse pit for me within one mile of the camp."
Song Cheng was a little confused when he heard Gao Shun's arrangement. He could understand the trebuchets lying in wait on both sides, but what the hell was digging a horse pit?
"General, this."
"You want to say that the trap is huge. It's too obvious. The other party will definitely not be stupid enough to fall into the trap. Moreover, the time is too short to dig it deep, right?"
Gao Shun glanced at the confused Song Cheng and smiled directly at him.
"Since the general knows why he still arranges soldiers to do that useless work, besides, it can't stop the opponent's armored cavalry."
Song Cheng nodded to Gao Shun. He really couldn't understand him and couldn't guess what medicine he was selling in his gourd.
"The horse pits I'm talking about should actually be called horseshoe pits. Each pit is like the mouth of a bowl, big on the outside and small on the inside. Regardless of whether the opponent is a light cavalry or an armored cavalry, the horseshoe is the most vulnerable position of the war horse. As long as they dare to charge, I will
Let them understand the horror of a horse that stumbles."
To put it bluntly, Gao Shun's tactics were aimed at horses rather than people. With his own strength, it would be difficult to deal with even 20,000 light cavalry, let alone 10,000 armored cavalry.
Even though armored cavalry is powerful, it is also a cavalry. It is a cavalry that has its own weaknesses, and the horseshoe is just a very subtle point, but as long as you can seize this flaw, it is not impossible to defeat the opponent.
"General, you're great, but why don't you expand the area of the Horse Shoe Pit?
Wouldn’t this allow us to deal with the enemy’s cavalry more calmly?”
Song Cheng's eyes lit up when he heard Gao Shun's explanation, but a new question came up. Why were the horseshoe pits only arranged within one mile of the camp instead of expanding the area?
"Our trebuchets can only hit five or six hundred paces. If you set up a horseshoe pit in a larger area, once the enemy notices it, there will definitely be a way to deal with it. The enemy will have already started the final charge at a distance of one mile.
, even if they discovered the existence of the horseshoe pit, it was already too late."
Gao Shun shook his head slightly. To put it bluntly, this horseshoe pit is just a little trick. If the enemy finds out in advance, they will either retreat or find a way to deal with it. However, the range of one mile is a bit embarrassing. As long as the opponent is slightly
If you don't pay attention, you will definitely be fooled.
"I will send someone to make arrangements right away. Within a mile, I will make him an eternal nightmare for the Kushan cavalry."
Song Cheng clasped his fists to Gao Shun, and then all the soldiers came out of the camp and began excavation work within a mile around the camp. It didn't take long for the layout to be completed.
At the same time, trebuchets were set up on both sides and inside the camp, and crossbows were mounted on the wall, turning the small military camp into a hedgehog-like fortress, waiting for the arrival of the Kushan Empire cavalry.
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Hariwan ran wildly with nearly 20,000 cavalry, and finally arrived twenty miles away from the Gaoshun camp in the evening. After sending scouts to determine the location of the camp, Hariwan also gathered the cavalry generals together.
"Now that the location of the enemy's camp has been discovered, do you think we should attack at night or hide temporarily and wait for the opponent to attack the city during the day and sneak attack their rear team?"
Harivan looked at everyone and asked them directly what they thought.
"General, now that the enemy is clear and we are hidden, I think we should wait until they attack Star City before making a sudden attack. If we catch the opponent by surprise, we will definitely be able to completely annihilate them."
After several defeats, Enter no longer had the courage to sacrifice others. If it had been in the past, he would have suggested attacking the camp at night as soon as possible, but now it has become a plan to hide temporarily and take advantage of the situation to attack again.
"oh?"
Hearing Ent'er's words, Harrivan was also stunned. He didn't expect that Ent'er, who used to put offense first, would become like this. It seemed that these few defeats had indeed changed him.
"Maurar, what do you think?"
Now that Enter was like this, Harrivan set his sights on Maural.
"I think we should launch an attack immediately, because we don't know if the other party has received the news about our journey north. If the other party has not received the news, or the messenger is on the way, this night attack will definitely catch the other party off guard.
On the contrary, even if they knew it, they might not be able to react now, because the distance from Middle Star City to Upper Star City is only so far, and even if the scouts can fly at most half a day faster than us,
What can you do in half a day?
On the contrary, the longer the time, the more prepared the other party will be.
And what General Enter said is to wait until the opponent attacks Star City before attacking. If they just surround but don't attack, what should we do?
So go ahead."
Maural looked at Enter, then looked at Harrivan, and expressed all his thoughts.
"Well, Enter, sometimes being calm is not necessarily good. Seizing the opportunity is the most important thing. If you lose the opportunity because of seeking stability, that would be the biggest sin.
Send my military order to the entire army to take a temporary rest, slow down at the second watch, and launch an attack at the third watch. I will directly defeat the opponent."
Harriwan also glanced at Enter. Although the opponent had become much more stable, he did not want him to lose his enterprising spirit because of these setbacks.
Don't just be a little heavier, or he will end up disappearing from the crowd.
"Enter understands, but I still feel that the night attack is a bit risky now. The 20,000 cavalry are our hope. If we are really in danger, even if we annihilate the opponent, it will be devastating to this battle.
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On the contrary, as long as we are still wandering outside and the opponent cannot figure out our reality, he will not dare to attack the city easily, and I hope the general will think twice."
Enter also knew that Hariwan had good intentions, but the reason why he did not suggest an attack was fear. This cavalry was the last force that the Kushan Empire could make a comeback on the Eastern Front.
If we get into a dangerous situation due to a rash attack, then no one among the hundreds of thousands of imperial soldiers from Sanxingcheng will be able to escape.
"Enter, do you dare to question the general?"
Hearing Enter's rebuttal, Akar directly pulled out the steel knife from his waist and looked at him with an unkind expression.
"Akar, put the knife away."
Seeing Akar's behavior, Hariwan couldn't help but frown. This idiot really didn't know what to say.
"General, I really think that we should hide like poisonous snakes now. Only in this way will the enemy not dare to attack Samsung City, and can we buy time for the empire's reinforcements to arrive, instead of really gritting our teeth and fighting the opponent desperately.
The Chinese can make a mistake once, twice, or countless times. If we make a mistake once, the entire eastern part of the empire will be involved in the war."
Enter saluted Harrivan again. If their 50,000 cavalry had not attacked the enemy's center, but attacked up and down, he would definitely suggest killing them directly, but now they could not afford to lose.
"General, Enter is clearly scared. Maural is willing to be the vanguard and lead an army to raid the opponent's camp."
Although Maural didn't know what kind of mental journey Enter had gone through, he believed that attacking now was much better than waiting for time. As the saying goes, opportunities will never be lost and lost will never come back.
If Zhongxing City does not buy enough time for itself, once they fall and the enemy army sweeps in, then I will have no choice but to retreat.
"Well, the original plan remains unchanged. Maurer will command the light-armored cavalry as the vanguard and set fire to the enemy camp first. I will lead the armored cavalry as the rear team and trample the enemy camp."
Harriwan nodded. He also believed that it was not appropriate to delay the situation now. He came here in order to have a quick victory. If the fight really lasted for several days, then there was no need for him to come out.
"Why."
Seeing that Harriwan was determined to attack at night, Enter had nothing to say. The only thing he could do now was to pray to God, wishing that he could win the battle and not cause any more troubles.
"General, why don't you rest?"
Song Cheng came outside Gao Shun's tent and saw that the lights were still on inside, so he immediately greeted him.
"Song Cheng, if you were the opponent and had arrived outside the camp, would you choose to continue the ambush or would you choose to attack directly at night?"
Gao Shun glanced at Song Cheng, a look of thought flashed in his eyes.
"General, according to common sense, it is natural to ambush first. It is best to wait for us to attack the city before attacking our rear team. However, no one knows what the enemy's situation is now. I think we must do a good job regardless of whether they will attack or not.
The other side will attack to prepare."
Song Cheng looked at Gao Shun. As a captain trapped in the camp, he not only had to be brave but also had strategy.
"Haha, I didn't expect you to say such insightful words. Yes, you have grown up."
Hearing Song Cheng's words, Gao Shun was also very pleased. This person can be regarded as his old subordinate. He has experienced more than a hundred battles with him, which is not bad.
"Then I will arrange for the soldiers to get up at night to prevent the enemy from attacking the camp at night."
"Go ahead."
Song Cheng saluted Gao Shun and went directly to prepare the soldiers to cheer up and prevent the enemy from attacking the camp at night.
When the second watch came, Hariwan's cavalry began to move slowly, with their horses in their hooves, towards Gao Shun's camp.
Before midnight, they arrived five miles away from the Gaoshun camp. Hariwan ordered the army to rest temporarily. It was not that he didn't want to get closer. The 20,000 cavalrymen couldn't hide at all.
"General, it's midnight."
Akar came to Harivan and handed him a bag of water.
"kill."
When he heard that the third watch had arrived, Hariwan's eyes were full of evil spirits and he directly ordered the whole army to rush to kill him.
"Kill, for the empire."
Maurer directly mounted his horse, shouted loudly, and with more than 10,000 light cavalry threw off their horses' hooves and ran towards the Gaoshun camp.
The light cavalry was in front, and Harivan's armored cavalry was behind. Tens of thousands of horses galloped towards the opposite side like roaring waves.
