On October 25, Zhao Hongrun called several generals of the Yanling Army to the city guard in Xuansheng City and gave them the task of attacking Feng Ting's army camp.
After capturing the city of Xuansi, the 100,000 King Su troops were distributed as follows:
In Xuushi City, there are 30,000 Yanling troops, 10,000 Shang Shui troops, and 5,000 wandering horse heavy cavalry; there are 20,000 Yanling troops deployed in the Yanling military camp on Yangtou Mountain;
The Shang Shui Army; the last one was the Wei camp built southwest of Xuushi City, which also deployed 20,000 Shang Shui troops.
The Wei army deployed in these four strongholds and cities totaled 100,000 people.
This kind of deployment of troops gave Su Wang's army a strip of defense zone, and also made them not afraid of the siege of the three armies of Han generals Feng Ting, Bao Yuan, and Jin Bo. No matter which side was attacked, they could get the rest.
Rapid support from the base.
It is no exaggeration to say that King Su's army occupies a dominant position in this area. If there is sufficient food and grass, King Su's army can take root here like nails, cut off the food roads of Tianmen Pass and Mengmen Pass, and allow Tianmen to
Pass, Mengmen Pass can't get a grain of rice.
But now King Su's army is running out of rations, which is very embarrassing. The scattered forces mean that even if Zhao Hongrun wants to evacuate, he has to spend more time preparing.
At three o'clock on the same day, Zhao Hongrun left 10,000 Shang navy troops to garrison Xuansi City, and ordered Qu Cheng, Yan Mo and other generals to lead 30,000 Yanling troops to the camp of Feng Ting's army in the northwest.
This time, the Youma cavalry did not dispatch the entire army. Zhao Hongrun only led 2,000 people and divided them into four teams. Each team had 500 knights and followed 30,000 Yanling soldiers.
After all, the army under Han General Feng Ting was a mixture of infantry and cavalry. Even the heavy infantry of King Su's army was still quite passive in front of the cavalry. What's more, Zhao Hongrun guessed that when he attacked Feng Ting's army camp,
Maybe Bao Yuan would lead the remaining 15,000 cavalry to harass them, waiting for an opportunity to attack.
"Is two thousand heavy cavalry enough to deal with the cavalry of the Storm Kite Army?"
While on the way, Ma You, the general of Youma Army, asked Zhao Hongrun.
You must know that in Ma You's heart, even though the status of heavy cavalry has been raised to an incredible level, he is still a little frightened when a mere two thousand heavy cavalry are used to deal with the 20,000 or 30,000 cavalry of Bao Yuan's army and Feng Ting's army. After all,
The difference in military strength is really huge.
However, Zhao Hongrun is not worried about this.
In his opinion, in the "Battle of Hyun City", Baoyuan had suffered enough from Yuma's heavy cavalry. Fifteen thousand cavalry were lost in one battle. Not surprisingly, from then on, these Korean cavalry saw
If you ride a horse again, you will most likely have to go around.
In this case, it is enough to bring two thousand Yuma Heavy Cavalry - because the cavalry under Han General Baoyuan will no longer foolishly confront Yuma Heavy Cavalry, and if these people use their mobility to harass,
Whether it is a heavy cavalry of 2,000 Yuma or a heavy cavalry of 5,000 Yuma, there is actually not much difference, because unless the two armies are in opposition, the speed of the heavy cavalry cannot catch up with the light cavalry at all.
In fact, these two thousand wandering horse heavy cavalry were used by Zhao Hongrun to deal with Feng Ting's army's Korean infantry.
Regardless of the fact that in the "Battle of Hyunshi Castle" a few days ago, Yuma's heavy cavalry achieved an incredible victory against the Korean light cavalry, in fact, the reason why Yuma's heavy cavalry was able to achieve such results that day was because those Korean light cavalry were stupid.
The ground chose to hedge against the heavy cavalry, which was simply asking for death.
So in other words, that victory was equivalent to giving the Korean cavalry to Yuma's heavy cavalry, and it did not count as the stable performance of the heavy cavalry.
So, when will the stable performance of heavy cavalry be reflected?
In fact, it is when the heavy cavalry attacks the infantry square that it is truly invincible and sweeps across the battlefield.
Not to mention light infantry like the Korean swordsmen, even heavy infantry like the Wei infantry cannot stop the charge of heavy cavalry, especially when the heavy cavalry cooperates with the infantry to attack the enemy's infantry square, the heavy cavalry will tear them apart first.
Breaking the enemy's defense line, disrupting the enemy's formation, and then inserting infantry to divide and surround the enemy, it may only take a cup of tea for the Wei army to win a battle.
Around the time of Si Shi, Zhao Hongrun led 30,000 Yanling troops and 2,000 wandering horses to the camp of Feng Tingjun, an unfinished military camp located on the banks of the Danshui River.
Along the way, the Wei army discovered many small groups of Korean cavalry one after another. The number of these small groups of Korean cavalry was about one hundred to two hundred cavalry, and they "watched" the Wei army all the way to Feng Ting's camp.
Zhao Hongrun didn't know whether it was the banner of the "Shangshui Youma" of the two thousand Youma heavy cavalry that scared the opponent, or whether it was the newly formed cavalry of about two thousand people from the Yanling Army that made these small groups of Han cavalry dare not approach.
Yes, the Yanling Army has already formed a cavalry force, numbering about 2,000 people. The source of the war horses is nothing more than the 30,000 Qingqi war horses of the Baoyuan Army in the "Battle of Xuushi City" - in that battle, Baoyuan Army
The Yuan Army lost nearly 10,000 people
Five thousand war horses, of which about 12,000 were killed or wounded in battle, had become food for King Su’s army as the winner of that war. Just like the bowl of horse that Zhao Hongrun drank during the expedition today.
Meat soup.
The remaining approximately 2,000 horses that were lucky enough to survive on the battlefield became the trophies of the Yanling Army, which made the generals of the Yanling Army ecstatically form a cavalry force.
After all, in this era, cavalry is a high-end branch of arms that cannot be equipped by any army.
But having said that, although the Yanling Army has formed a cavalry of more than two thousand people, it does not mean that these two thousand Wei cavalry can be put into use. At least in the words of General Ma You of the Youma Army, the two thousand Yanling cavalry
Military cavalry are still just infantry on horseback and need to learn many, many things.
"These Korean cavalry were frightened."
Since there was no dispatch order for the time being, Ma You stayed beside Zhao Hongrun. When he saw the small group of Han cavalry who only dared to watch their army from a distance, Ma You couldn't help but smile.
After hearing this, General Sun Shuke of the third battalion of the Yanling Army smiled and joked: "General Ma You wants to say, are those small groups of Han cavalry scared by your You Ma Army?"
Hearing this, the generals near Zhao Hongrun, such as Qu Cheng, Yan Mo and others, laughed in a friendly manner.
You must know that Shangshui Youma is different from Shangshui Army. They have no competition with Yanling Army. Therefore, the relationship between the two armies seems to be harmonious, even Shangshui Youma also bears the name of "Shangshui".
"You guy." After listening to Sun Shuke's teasing, Ma You said angrily: "Why don't you talk about yourself?...Using infantry to block Han Qi's charge so that Han Qi can't even break through a line of defense is extremely extreme.
It's a rare thing... I think those Korean cavalry generals hated you with all their heart! Next time if you meet on the battlefield, those cavalry generals will definitely bite you."
"That's not as good as the scenery of the Youma Army back then." Sun Shuke replied with a smile: "I believe that the first thing those cavalry generals will look for when they meet in the future is you, the Yuma Cavalry... Oh, no, those people have been captured by you
Yuma Qi is scared to death, but he doesn't dare to come to trouble you."
Amidst the good-natured teasing of the generals, Ma You shook his head helplessly. After a while, he stopped smiling and said seriously: "In your eyes, the army has two thousand new cavalry."
After hearing this, the generals turned their heads and looked at the two thousand Yanling Army light cavalry who were flanking the infantry.
In fact, they were just cooperating with Sun Shuke to make fun of the horse riding. How could they not know the reason why the small group of cavalry only dared to follow them from a distance?
The reason is simple, because during the march, the newly formed light cavalry of the Yanling Army defeated a Korean cavalry of about 200 cavalry with only 300 cavalry, which shocked the Korean cavalry - obviously
Why do the newly formed cavalry have such superb riding skills?
This involves a little secret about Yuma's heavy riding: the saddle they use is a double stirrup saddle.
In the general understanding of Korean cavalry, stirrups are just an auxiliary item for cavalry when they get on their horses. Therefore, no one takes stirrups too seriously.
But Zhao Hongrun was different. He knew very well the role of stirrups in cavalry charges. Therefore, when Yuma was first formed, the cavalry used saddles with double stirrups.
I remember that when the Korean cavalry charged, they would make a "legs clamp the horse's belly" movement. Why?
The reason is that they do not have stirrups to rely on. In order to prevent themselves from being thrown off by their horses when charging, the legs of the Korean cavalry must be firmly clamped on the horse's belly. Even if they are cavalry who are not skilled in riding, they still have to
You have to lean forward when charging, or simply lie on the horse's back.
Although such a posture can indeed increase the speed of the charge of the war horse, in the final analysis, the knight's body leaning forward and lowering is only to move the body's center of gravity forward and downward to prevent falling when charging.
But Yuma Juqi is different. When they charge, they sit upright on the horse. Aren't they worried about falling?
Yes, they were not worried at all, because when charging, their feet were firmly planted on the stirrups. The double trainers and buttocks were fixed at three points, which allowed Yuma to easily stabilize his body while riding again.
I remember in the "Battle of Hyunshi Castle", Yuma's heavy cavalry destroyed Korean cavalry one after another. Many people may have mistakenly thought that this was the strength of the heavy cavalry itself, but in fact, the small stirrups
, played a vital role in that war.
Without such a small item as double-sided stirrups, the number of heavy cavalrymen who were traveling on that day would have been damaged in more than a hundred cavalry.
The same is true today. The Yanling Army used captured war horses to form new cavalry. Although Zhao Hongrun was unable to obtain saddles with double stirrups for the time being, he could use other methods to replace them. For example, tie a rope to the saddle and tie another section to the saddle.
A loop, hung on the side without stirrups, serves as a stirrup.
It is precisely because of this little secret that the new cavalry built by the Yanling Army, those soldiers who were promoted from infantry to cavalry, even though they do not have superb riding skills, can still sit firmly on the horse, making those small soldiers
The Korean cavalry were shocked and mistakenly thought that Wei soldiers were born to know how to ride horses.
At the same time, in the camp of Feng Ting's army on the banks of the Danshui River, Han general Feng Ting, who had already received the news that the Wei army was coming to attack, was standing on the top of the watchtower in the camp, looking at the mighty King Su's army.
, with a hint of surprise in his eyes.
Feng Ting felt that he could not figure out the thoughts of Wei Gongzi Ji Run.
He knew very well that King Su's army, the Wei army, had run out of food and grass. Logically speaking, this army should consider how to retreat safely, but this Wei army was doing well. The more urgent the situation, the stronger the desire to attack seemed to be, and he could not wait to retreat.