This was not Hanasaburo's first time participating in a war, but this time it was definitely extraordinary! Because he did not carry out Liu Ling's previous arrangement, not to ambush at Tianwangling, but to actively attack the Zhou army behind him! He knew that such disobedience on the battlefield
What are the consequences of the military order's behavior, but he also knows that if his guess is not wrong, although the three thousand cavalry are not many, it will definitely be a nightmare for the Zhou army who are all infantry!
And he couldn't attack the Zhou army head-on. With tens of thousands of Zhou troops, the leading team must be the most elite in the army. Although in such a pursuit battle, the probability of the Zhou army bringing heavy armored infantry is not high.
But if the Zhou army is attacked from the flank, it will obviously cause greater damage to the Zhou army.
Using three thousand cavalry to attack tens of thousands of infantry may initially cause a heavy blow to the Zhou army, but once the Zhou army's panic is calmed down and a formation is formed to fight against the cavalry, the thickness of the Zhou army's defense can be completely offset.
The impact of cavalry.
Once the cavalry fell into the enemy formation and could not use the speed of the cavalry, the cavalry sitting on horseback after being divided and surrounded became the target of the siege by the Zhou army's infantry.
As for attacking the enemy from the flank, the depth is not very large, and it is not impossible to cut off the Zhou army's troops. As long as you have a clear eye on the enemy's commander's position, rush over and disrupt the Zhou army's ranks, as long as you can take advantage of the opportunity.
If the leading general of the Zhou army is killed indiscriminately, the Zhou army will be in chaos. The general is the soul of the army. If the general dies, the army will be in chaos.
Hanasaburo's idea can not but be said to be very bold, and even a little reckless. Liu Ling arranged for him to meet Chen Yuanshan's troops at Tianwang Ridge. As long as the pursuit of the Zhou army's cavalry was blocked, Chen Yuanshan's more than 10,000 infantrymen could safely withdraw.
This is victory.
However, the greedy Hanasaburo didn't want to just give up a rare opportunity!
Now the Zhou army's cavalry has chased them, and the teams behind are all infantry! How did the Zhou army's cavalry bully the Han army's infantry at Tianwang Ridge? Now he, Hanasaburo, wants to return it intact! Moreover, Zhou Jun
The army has mobilized so many troops, which has exceeded the prince's previous judgment. It is necessary to bring so many soldiers out of the camp. Either Emperor Chai Rong of the Later Zhou Dynasty came in person, or the Marshal Sun Xuandao of the Zhou army came!
No matter who these two people are, as long as they can kill, even if they are injured, it will be a magnificent victory! Hanasaburo does not expect to be lucky enough to overthrow Zhou Shizong Chai Rong, as long as he can defeat Zhou Shizong with the three thousand cavalry in his hand
The army caused greater losses. This is an explanation for the dead brothers!
It can be said that Hanasaburo was already a little impulsive at this time. Fortunately, there were three thousand cavalry brothers behind him who were of the same mind as him and had no regard for life or death!
Sun Xuandao kept urging the troops to speed up the march. The cavalry led by Gao Jin and the nearly 20,000 infantry led by him were out of touch. There was at least a ten-mile gap in between. This distance would mean that the cavalry in front would stop.
If you don't move, you won't be able to catch up in an instant.
The ten-mile journey is neither long nor short. If the infantry runs like crazy, they can theoretically reach it in half an hour. But the prerequisite is that they have the strength to run. The current Zhou army has already exceeded 10 miles running all the way from the camp.
After more than twenty miles, the physical fitness of the soldiers has gradually declined.
The shouts of killing could be heard from Tianwang Ridge, and Sun Xuandao's heart could not help but rise. Sure enough, the Han army still had an ambush in Tianwang Ridge. Once the cavalry who were chasing crazy fell into the encirclement of the Han army,
The cavalry in that narrow area could not charge forward at all, and could only be used as a target for bows and arrows by the Han army from a high position.
Sun Xuandao had no choice but to be impatient. He had already lost more than 6,000 soldiers. Although the losses of the Han army were not small, if another 4,000 to 5,000 elite cavalry and a general were lost in the battle of Tianwangling, then it would not be a loss of face for His Majesty.
problem. Not to mention that his own future was not guaranteed, it was also a huge blow to the morale of the Zhou army in the Northern Expedition.
The war is not going well, and some of the soldiers have begun to feel homesick. The morale of the soldiers is fluctuating. Although the generals have repeatedly told everyone that victory is just around the corner, who among those soldiers will believe the promises? There are too many promises made above, really
How many can be realized?
The Northern Expedition, with more than 200,000 troops mobilized, not only was not as overwhelming as imagined, but also continued to lose troops and generals. It was a big blow to the Zhou army, which had not lost a battle for many years. Whether it was the Southern Tang Dynasty, Hou Shu, or the previous attacks against
In the wars of the Northern Han Dynasty, the Zhou army maintained an impressive record of victory. Although these victories improved the morale of the soldiers, they also made them vulnerable.
Soldiers who are accustomed to victory will find it difficult to withstand successive defeats. Once the pursuit of the camp fails again, the balance of victory in the entire war will inevitably tilt from the side of the Later Zhou Dynasty to the direction of the Northern Han Dynasty. There are
What matters on the battlefield is not numbers, but a morale that never flinches.
If victory could be easily achieved by relying on large numbers of people, then during the Sui Dynasty, Yang Guang repeatedly raised troops to conquer Goryeo, and he would not have left hundreds of thousands of corpses in a foreign country. Goryeo, which was in a small country, could resist with force.
He defeated the Sui Dynasty's offensive of more than one million troops, and also wiped out the most elite 300,000 government troops of the Sui Dynasty. No matter what tactics the other side used that were not on the table, this example is enough to show that the number of troops is not enough.
The war will definitely be won.
If the 300,000 most elite soldiers had not been buried in a foreign land and became bones under the fertile land of other countries, the world of the Sui Dynasty would not have fallen apart so quickly. Emperor Sui Yang, who conquered Goryeo for the second time,
Despite the change of strategy, the million-strong army still failed to destroy Goryeo, but instead promoted domestic rebellion.
Although the current situation of the Zhou Dynasty is different from that of the Sui Dynasty, the prospects are not as good as everyone expected. Not to mention the Xixia people who are eyeing them, the Tibetans in the southwest have also been coveting the colorful world of the Central Plains for a long time, and it is difficult to protect even the country.
No one will make a fuss about how your majesty obtained the throne. Once someone stirs up trouble in the rear, and Xixia and Tubo take advantage of the situation, the situation of the Zhou Dynasty may not be any better than that of the Sui Dynasty.
Looking at the soldiers who were showing signs of fatigue, Sun Xuandao was also helpless. After marching for nearly thirty miles, even a hardened man would be tired. Now it is impossible to be as fast as at the beginning. The slowdown in speed is not
It can be lifted with a whip.
The shouting of killing from the direction of Tianwang Ridge was so strong that it could be clearly heard ten miles away. It can be seen that it was also a tragic battle. If reinforcements could not be sent quickly, who would know that the more than 4,000 elite cavalrymen would still be able to fight.
How many can come back alive?
In fact, just as Sun Xuandao feared, Chen Yuanshan, who was notified by Hanasaburo's personal soldiers, was not angry with Hanasaburo. Hanasaburo disrupted the prince's established tactics. Chen Yuanshan's understanding of Hanasaburo knew that he would not be so hasty. Moreover, his own
The troops were chased by the Zhou army's cavalry, not because they were really afraid of the more than 4,000 cavalry, but because they wanted to lure them to the Tianwang Ridge to gather and annihilate them.
If they really fight desperately, set up a defense line based on the narrow terrain of Tianwang Ridge, and organize limited heavy armored infantry defense, the Zhou army's cavalry will attack at most one or two hundred people at a time. In the end, it will be the cavalry that kills all the infantry, or the infantry.
There is really no certainty that all the cavalry will be consumed.
After hearing the news from Hanasaburo's soldiers, Chen Yuanshan had no time to complain and grudge Hanasaburo. He immediately adjusted the tactics of the troops. He ordered the front troops to stop retreating, sent 3,000 troops to look for war horses at the foot of Tianwang Ridge, and then circled around.
They crossed the unconquered mountains and detoured behind the Zhou cavalry, and then organized the soldiers to form formations on the spot to withstand the impact of the Zhou cavalry.
In any case, if the infantry competes with the cavalry by running, they are simply looking for death. The cavalry catches up from behind, and killing people while running is as simple as laying down a piece of reed. Without the strong support of Hanasaburo, his men
If these infantrymen continue to run, they will die.
Because it was an ambush battle, Chen Yuanshan did not bring many heavy armored infantry. If he had not brought all the soldiers and horses of the entire battalion, the thousand heavy armored infantry deployed in each battalion would not be wearing heavy armor.
Follow up and run. In the eyes of the cavalry, the heavy armored infantry is no different from crawling at a snail's pace.
These thousand heavy armored infantry did not participate in the battle at Yulongpo. In order to deal with the unexpected situation, Chen Yuanshan had to take defensive measures and deliberately left these thousand heavy armored infantry in the rear and did not rush down from Yulongpo to participate in killing the enemy.
It is precisely because of this that the rear group of the thousand heavy armored infantry became the front group, and when they withdrew, they were not left as targets for the Zhou army's cavalry to practice their swordsmanship.
Ordering the troops to stop retreating, Chen Yuanshan ordered the heavy armored infantry at the front to immediately withdraw to organize defense. At the same time, he sent people to cut down trees and pile them up. Such a narrow area limited the number of cavalry assaults. As long as the road was blocked, defense would not be possible.
Too difficult.
The soldiers he brought were all veterans of the Fuyuan Army, and the military orders were quickly implemented. If the Forbidden Army or the city defense troops were marching south from Taiyuan City, they would have lost their fighting spirit in the rush.
They were afraid that they would not be able to get together. The infantry at the rear spontaneously stopped running and began to use the terrain to deal with the Zhou army's cavalry.
These veterans all understood that if they left their backs to the Zhou army's cavalry, they would be hacked to death sooner or later. With the help of trees and rocks, the infantry defended on the spot. And the thousand heavy armored infantry quickly came from
The front of the team retreated and formed a defensive formation.
At this time, the Zhou army cavalry, who were already red-eyed, suddenly heard a shout from the high slope, and then countless Han army flags were set up on the high slope. It was also unclear how many Han troops appeared on the high slope.
.The sound of war drums and shouts became one!
Gao Jin's expression changed. He had originally arranged for a cavalry team to be responsible for guarding and breaking up the rear. However, because the pursuit of the Han army was so fierce at the beginning, the Han army ambushing on the high slope was indifferent, so the Zhou army had basically eliminated it.
There was a possibility of an ambush in Tianwang Ridge. More than a thousand cavalrymen from the rear chased after them, shouting slogans of revenge and even surpassed the team brought by Gao Jin. Even if Gao Jin wanted to stop it, it was too late.
Zhao Er left only 200 men standing on the hillside, waving flags and beating war drums. He ran down the hillside with 800 soldiers and began to cut down trees at the entrance of the valley and push them to the road to prevent the Zhou army's cavalry from retreating.
!Four to five thousand cavalry are nestled under Tianwang Ridge. Although the pressure on the Han army will be great, it is indeed the greatest support for Hanasaburo who leads the three thousand cavalry to attack the rear of the Zhou army!
Hanasaburo and Zhao Er had a tacit understanding over the years. After receiving the news from Hanasaburo's personal soldiers, Zhao Er immediately made a decision to block the mouth of the valley and absolutely not let the Zhou army's cavalry
Kill back the troops who attacked Hanasaburo from the front and back! (To be continued)