This light cavalry was originally intended to stand out from the enemy's formation, like a sharp knife passing through the formation, disrupting the defensive formation and cutting apart the Luzhou soldiers and horses. However, the light cavalry, which had lost its impact advantage, was unable to withstand this unstoppable sword.
The front of the formation had completely lost its spirit. The swordsmen were charging forward like a wall, invincible. Anyone who encountered the enemy's cavalry would be killed. At the same time, the soldiers on both sides picked up their spears and axes, stabbing the enemy soldiers with their upper heads, and slashing the horse's legs with their lower ones.
, start to compress toward the middle...
Zhewei's blood was racing as he watched. He clenched his fists and stared at the one-sided *** scene. He said fervently: "It's so sharp. It's really invincible. If there is such a team in my prefecture,
How great would the Mo Dao team be!"
“Flashy!”
Zhe Ziyu has become a professional at finding faults. Along the way, she seems to feel uncomfortable if she doesn't find any fault with Yang Hao. She said coldly: "Heavy-armed Mo Dao soldiers have extremely high defense and attack power, but they lack the ability to continue fighting."
If you are fighting the Rangers in an open position, they will just follow them and eat dust. The Rangers can drag you to death.
The Mo Dao Formation is suitable for positional warfare. It requires the cooperation of archers, infantry, and light cavalry. A powerful strike at the critical moment can disrupt the enemy's impact formation and morale, and create a better opportunity for other troops to charge into the formation. But raising a thousand
The money and time spent by the Mo Dao Formation is enough to recruit and train an army of tens of thousands of people. Isn't an army of tens of thousands of people enough to offset the power of a thousand-man Mo Dao Formation?
Yang Hao had no choice but to spend huge sums of money to practice the Mo Dao Formation because of the limited territory and military strength of Luzhou. If his territory were larger and there were more soldiers and civilians under his command, from the most practical point of view, I believe he would not be able to do it.
What kind of Mo Dao team has been formed? The Mo Dao formation can only win a momentary victory. On the battlefield, whoever has the fastest reaction will be able to use it.
Make up for your own loopholes as quickly as possible, discover and attack the enemy's loopholes, and lead the enemy's nose. Who can take the initiative on the battlefield? Whoever takes the initiative on the battlefield can win the final victory even if they suffer some losses for a while. I think
When we are against the nomadic tribes beyond the Great Wall, there is only one magic weapon to win in the end, which is to use cavalry to control cavalry, not the Mo Dao Formation."
Zhe Weizheng sighed softly and murmured to himself: "To raise Mo Dao Zhen, all you need is money. To raise cavalry, where do the horses come from? The places where horses are good in Xitao are all in the hands of Dangxiang and Tubo. How about that?"
Riding to control riding?"
The blood flowed freely, and the broken limbs were scattered all over the ground. The Mo swordsmen lost about a hundred people, but at least a thousand riders died under their swords. But when Yang Hao saw it, he still felt heartbroken.
With a loss rate of 10%, this achievement is brilliant enough, especially since this is the first time his Mo Dao Shou has gone into battle to face the enemy. However, his capital is limited, especially since it is not easy to train Mo Dao Shou, and he cannot afford such a squandering.
Originally, the function of Mo Daoshou's attack was to quickly break up the enemy's momentum. If it could be supplemented by light cavalry, it would be possible to pursue the opponent when they retreated like a tide and the formation was in chaos, which would maximize the results. Unfortunately, Yang
Hao's current military strength is stretched thin, and all the only 10,000 soldiers and horses are mobilized to participate.
The siege of Yinzhou did not bring about huge expenditures, and required a lot of manpower to take care of it. The horses could not play any role in the siege. So when the Yinzhou cavalry turned around and broke out, Mo Dao soldiers stopped their pursuit.
Only the crossbowmen chased and fired for a while, causing the enemy cavalry to pile up hundreds more dead bodies.
The enemy cavalry did not flee just yet. Carrying a large amount of baggage was the biggest weakness of Yang Hao's troops. It is said that he did not have a large number of light cavalry in hand. Even if he did, he could not abandon the baggage and chase wildly. Therefore, although he was in Luzhou Modao Formation
They suffered a big loss in front of them, but the Yinzhou cavalry could still retreat calmly. They retreated to the outside of Sanjian and began to clean up the wounded and organize their formation.
The great victory in the first battle, and the victory by foot, suddenly raised the morale of the Luzhou army to its peak. Although there were also casualties on our own side, every soldier was inexplicably excited when looking at the more than 2,000 corpses left by the Yinzhou cavalry.
, they began to clean up the battlefield in an orderly manner, eagerly waiting for the next wave of enemy cavalry charges.
About half an hour later, the enemy cavalry suddenly launched a charge to the left wing. After the melee just now, they also discovered that Yang Hao's Chinese army was the hardest bone to crack, and the soldiers on the left and right wings captured the fighter planes before the battle.
obviously lacked some experience. This time, they took out
The small round shield hanging from the horse's body struck in an arc towards the left wing. If there was an opportunity, the small group of cavalry would get into close combat. If there was no opportunity, the horse would gallop past and the flying cavalry would shoot rapidly. In this exchange of fire, the Rangers
The situation was clearly spread out again, and even though Yang Hao was using his crossbows to reach far away, he didn't take any advantage.
"They are harassing us like this to disrupt our position and to prevent the right wing from attacking."
Zhe Ziyu watched the battle for a moment, and suddenly realized that Mu En, who was familiar with the tactics of cavalry outside the Great Wall, had also noticed the trick and waved his flag to warn the right wing. Sure enough, the enemy troops in Luzhou who were still resting in front were completely distracted.
When it was attracted to the left wing, it suddenly launched an attack on the right wing.
This attack has the meaning of being real but imaginary, and imaginary being real. Both the left and right wings are launching attacks. Whichever side is in chaos first, the originally harassing attack will turn into a real attack, with cumbersome crossbows and mobile vehicles.
The slow Mo Dao formation was in this kind of moment.
It is impossible to mobilize in time to respond to the enemy in an extremely fast-moving confrontation. The Yinzhou Cavalry, which has suffered a lot, has found a way to adapt. As long as they cannot be forced into the decisive battle circle, they can use the advantage of the rangers to avoid that
A terrifying killing machine.
"Shrink your troops and form a defensive formation."
Yang Hao soon discovered the intention of the Yinzhou Cavalry and immediately issued an order. The troops on both wings, whose positions had become somewhat loose under the attack of the Yinzhou Cavalry, began to gradually shrink. The rear formation fired arrows, and the front formation used swords and axes to defend against the enemy.
In response to the formation, the Crane Wing Formation gradually shrank, and when combined with the semicircle formed by vehicles and equipment at the rear, it gradually formed the prototype of a square and circular formation.
Winning the first battle not only boosted our own morale, but also delayed time. The sun had already set. As long as the enemy's conspiracy was thwarted, his strategic purpose had been achieved. Yang Hao had not yet become so complacent that he had delusional ideas after even a small victory.
Eliminating a numerically superior cavalry team that can advance or retreat, and now shrink the team and strengthen defense, is to retain the fruits of victory.
The Yinzhou cavalry discovered Yang Hao's intention and began to become anxious. The feint attack began to turn into a desperate and fierce attack, trying to cancel the formation of the defensive circle. The enemy and we were fighting hard in a stalemate. Suddenly, a force of 5,000 men formed in the enemy's rear formation.
The troops rushed towards Yang Hao's rear formation like a strong wind, and quickly rushed toward the rear formation composed of chariots and equipment with the weakest defense.
This is the most vulnerable point of Yang Hao's unit. If they are allowed to tear open a hole and dig in like a sharp knife, the defensive formation will immediately collapse. The main force of Yang Hao's unit is fighting hard in the front. In the dense defensive formation
In the shape, even if the frontal enemy immediately retreats, they
It was too late to rush to the rear for reinforcements, but... this cavalry, which was supposed to have made a great contribution, annihilated Yang Hao's troops in one fell swoop, and wiped Luzhou off the historical map again, met Bina's cavalry and encountered Mo Dao.
When the comrades in the formation were even more unlucky, the old soldiers from Luzhou took action.
Laoyebing is the name given to the heavy armored cavalry in the Luzhou army that once made Zhe Yuxun and Yang Chongxun jealous.
They are delicate people, and their horses are also delicate. It is very difficult for them to wear the clothes themselves. After wearing the clothes, they can't get on the horse, and they can't get off the horse. When they march, they have to use the cart to carry the clothes of themselves and the horses. Once the battle starts,
They had to slowly put on their armor and mount their horses while other warriors were fighting bravely. Because the impact was too great, they would trample each other if they couldn't stop the charge, so they still had to slowly
Get into formation...
Without the protection of infantry or light cavalry, they can't do anything. And although they are cavalry, they can't run as far as the infantry. They can't run too far, otherwise the horses will be exhausted and they won't be able to fight for too long, otherwise the people will also die.
I will be exhausted. I can't go up the mountain road, go down to the wetland, enter the desert, enter the forest..., I can't encounter the stumbling rope, the antler thorn and the horse trap...
In the Luzhou army, there has always been some criticism of such a heavy armored cavalry that is both expensive and impractical and seems to only serve as a window dressing when arranging ceremonial guards. When Zhe Yuxun and Yang Chongxun looked at this armored monster with envy, they themselves
The Luzhou soldiers and horses who thought they knew this team very well thought that this heavy armored cavalry was just a group of useless soldiers and old soldiers. However, after today's battle, everyone shut their mouths.
Wearing armor, even the tall Arabian horses were covered with steel monsters. They rushed towards the oncoming five thousand cavalry with a rumble. They held spears in their hands, and sharp arrows flew towards them, clanging and shooting at them.
on them, and then fell off again
On the ground, the knights on horseback stood still like the God of War made of steel sculptures. The whole row of knights was like a city wall made of steel. They rushed forward defiantly and easily tore apart the Yinzhou Cavalry's charge formation, roaring.
Crushing past, everything in its path was withered...
The terrifying spear directly penetrated the enemy's body. The enemy didn't even have a chance to resist. The torrent of steel roared past. The survivors just raised their heads with fear. The second wave of heavy armored cavalry arrived again, killing those who survived.
They had to face the new god of death in horror, and continued to wield weapons in vain that they could not touch the opponent's body, and were completely unable to collide with that huge power...
The heavy armored cavalry rumbled past. They would never stop for hand-to-hand combat. If they stopped, they would be courting death. Once they stopped, they would change from the God of Death who could take life and death into a trash that everyone could kill. But when
When he was still galloping, they were just human tanks, and they were the kings of land warfare. In addition to the infantry and gun formations forming a dense formation, they could not survive in severe situations.
Under all circumstances, except for a head-on confrontation with this terrifying armored cavalry, no one could match it. The Yinzhou cavalry in front of them had never seen such a terrifying heavy armored cavalry before. They rushed up as fast as they could. Originally,
He wanted to tear a hole in the defensive position of Luzhou soldiers and horses, but in the end, he couldn't wait to rush forward and became the harvest of this team of steel gods.
After some hedging, the powerful lethality of this heavy armored cavalry caused more kills than the total number of enemies annihilated in the front line in the first battle. The surviving Yinzhou cavalry were frightened and fled in panic.
Many ownerless horses were left on the spot, neighing and screaming.
Yang Hao secretly thought that it was a pity. If he had a reserve of infantry or light cavalry at this time to cooperate with the heavy armored cavalry in time to fight, this panicked enemy force that encountered heavy armored cavalry tactics for the first time would probably not be able to escape.
In this battle, although the powerful power of the heavy cavalry was still beyond their ability to defeat, without the unexpected effect, it would be difficult to achieve such a complete victory again.
However, despite some regrets, Yang Hao was still very satisfied after seeing its powerful power. Of course he knew that heavy cavalry had too many weapons on the battlefield, but when he had unique conditions, he could build such a
Even though there was only one branch of the army, he still spent huge sums of money to build such an army without hesitation.
Their ability to charge and break formations is so powerful. Yang Hao once witnessed with his own eyes the fierce battle between the Song Dynasty and the Khitan at Ziwu Valley Pass with an army of 100,000 each. The Song army under the command of Zhao Kuangyin was arranged into large and small formations.
Battle formations: vanguard formation, spearhead formation, large formation, front formation, east-west cavalry formation, groundless division of horses, rejection of rear formation, formation of rear rear...
The small military formations with their own functions are like countless chisels, axes, saws, files, awls, and pliers, forming a sophisticated killing machine. The fit is so exquisite that even if a team of thousands of people falls into it, they will be killed.
They would be strangled and crushed by them in an instant. With such precise cooperation, the Song army's 100,000 infantry actually made the 100,000 Khitan cavalry on the opposite side helpless. If they could not disrupt the Song army's formation, they would not dare to attack with all their strength.
However, heavy armored cavalry is the best weapon to break the formation. If cavalry is equivalent to tanks in the army compared to infantry, then heavy armored cavalry is the tank among tanks. If the Khitan side had such a heavy armored cavalry at that time, they would use
Their powerful kinetic energy will definitely break through the opponent's battle formation. In the era of cold weapons, the reason why the army is different from the mob lies in their strict
Discipline and tacit understanding of cooperation, and all of this relies on a stable formation. Once the opponent's formation is broken, their cooperation will be disrupted and their morale will be damaged. Therefore, this money-burning heavy cavalry has the only chance to perform.
It's just a charge, but it's definitely worth raising such an army that is usually useless. Raising troops for a thousand days can be used for a while, and raising heavy armored cavalry can only be used for a moment.
The two armies entered into a stalemate again. The sun set in the west and turned red like blood. The battlefield was broken and fell into the sand. Blood was everywhere. Dusk gradually fell, and the sad long neigh of the horses was heard in the distance. The Yinzhou soldiers and horses did not know that the stable building on the opposite side was
Some strange things will appear in the square formation, and the battle begins to reach a stalemate.
It was late at night, and a faint bright moon quietly climbed up into the sky. Zhe Ziyu held a piece of grass stem in his mouth, lying on his back on the grain cart, resting his arms on his arms and looking at the bright moon in the sky thoughtfully.
Zhewei was lying on the ground, listening for a long time using the method of listening from the ground, and climbed onto the car excitedly: "Little aunt, the Yinzhou soldiers and horses have retreated."
Zhe Ziyu said "Huh" and was silent for a long time. He took off the straw and asked: "You also saw the heavy armored cavalry just now. If you come to lead the troops, how to deal with it?"
"Huh?" Zheweizheng thought about it carefully and replied: "Avoid its sharp edge, attack in roundabout ways, and use bows and arrows and riding speed to wear it down."
"If the opponent's light cavalry cooperates and the infantry supports it, causing it to strike a thunderous blow, why should you be responsible for it?"
Zhewei was deep in thought for a while, then said with a smile: "Then we have to find a place that is not suitable for heavy cavalry to fight, otherwise... we will defend the city, or else... we will have to risk our lives..."
Zhe Ziyu snorted coldly, frowned again and began to think deeply, but Zhe Weizheng rolled his eyes disapprovingly and secretly cursed: "Oh! Women, you can't offend me, why do you have to think of a way to solve it? Just to show off.
Are you a head above him? My family doesn't want to fight for the world to be the emperor. If we can become a family, then don't we submit to others without fighting? Subjugating others without fighting is the kingly way..."
Zhe Wei was quietly looking at Zhe Ziyu who was looking up at the starry sky. Looking at that beautiful and charming face, he seemed to see a magic weapon that could defeat the enemy without fighting...