On the slope where Zhao Hongrun was watching the battle, General Zou Xin of the second battalion of the Yanling Army and General Sun Shuke of the third battalion rode their horses to Zhao Hongrun and congratulated him with a smile.
"Why are you here?" Perhaps because he was in a good mood, Zhao Hongrun joked with the second general with a smile: "You leave your post without permission and dare to wander around in front of me. This is unjustifiable."
After hearing this, Generals Zou Xin and Sun Shuke knew it was a joke, so they smiled and asked a certain King Su for forgiveness.
Today's battle is under the command of the Yanling Army's general Qu Cheng and his deputy Yan Mo - Qu Cheng is responsible for commanding the main battlefield, while Yan Mo is responsible for guarding the flanks, that is, guarding against the seven thousand cavalry of Feng Ting's army who are watching eagerly.
As for the two generals Zou Xin and Sun Shuke, they were responsible for guarding the Korean generals Bao Yuan and Jin Miao respectively. According to Zhao Hongrun's estimation, during the Wei army's attack on Feng Ting's army, Bao Yuan and Jin Miao would most likely come out to join in the fun. In order to avoid
When he was attacked from three sides, Zhao Hongrun asked Zou Xin and Sun Shuke to guard against the two Korean generals.
However, so far, neither Bao Yuan nor Jin Mao seems to have any intention of coming to support. Therefore, it is no wonder that the two generals Zou Xin and Sun Shuke came to Zhao Hongrun. After all, these two generals are really a little idle.
"Your Highness doesn't seem surprised by the outstanding performance of the Youma Army?" General Zou Xin asked with some confusion when he saw Zhao Hongrun's expression as normal.
In his opinion, the performance of the Youma Army today was not inferior to the performance in the "Battle of Xuushi City" a few days ago. In fact, its dominance over the entire battlefield was even better than that of that time, as if a tiger had entered the sheep.
The group killed those Korean infantrymen with corpses everywhere, which greatly boosted the morale of Yanling's soldiers and at the same time frightened the Korean army.
"Excellent performance?"
Zhao Hongrun shook his head slightly. In fact, in his opinion, the performance of Yuma's heavy cavalry could not be said to be outstanding, because the power of heavy cavalry was so terrifying. How could light infantry like Korean swordsmen be able to withstand it?
It is undeniable that the combat effectiveness of Korean swordsmen in complex areas such as mountains and forests is indeed very good. Even the heavy infantry of their King Su Army cannot win steadily, but that is only on local battlefields. In such a large-scale legionary war like this, South Korea's light
The effect that infantry can achieve is actually far inferior to that of Wei's heavy infantry.
Take the Youma heavy cavalry as an example. The Wei heavy infantry can block this heavy cavalry without sacrificing casualties. Using the human sea tactic, because the Wei heavy infantry carries a heavy load, the Youma heavy cavalry has to knock away a Wei heavy cavalry.
The speed of infantry is bound to slow down. Therefore, as long as a steady stream of Wei heavy infantry forms a dense defense line, it can stop the heavy cavalry of Youma.
Once the speed of the heavy cavalry is slowed down, the fate of this cavalry is to be annihilated, because without the assistance of friendly infantry, the heavy cavalry has almost no counterattack ability when it loses the charge speed of the war horse.
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Of course, if they want to stop Yuma's heavy cavalry, it is not surprising that Wei's heavy infantry will have to pay several times the casualties as a price.
But having said that, even though they had to pay several times the casualties, the Wei heavy infantry still had a chance to block Yuma's heavy cavalry, but the light infantry of the Korean swordsmen could not do this - because they were too light.
To target heavy cavalry, apart from traps, there are only two conventional tactics.
One is to exhaust the physical strength of heavy cavalry, such as light cavalry. Without the assistance of friendly infantry, heavy cavalry encounters light cavalry in the wild. As long as the general of this light cavalry knows how to deal with heavy cavalry, then heavy cavalry will definitely be defeated.
A dead end.
The second is to limit the charging speed of heavy cavalry.
Heavy cavalry is different from light cavalry. It is a tactical unit that relies heavily on friendly support. On a stalemate battlefield, there is no way to "break out of the battle and charge back" in the middle of the fight like light cavalry. Once heavy cavalry loses speed,
, will be thrown to the ground by the enemy's infantry.
Once knocked down, the heavily armored heavy cavalry had almost no ability to fight back. They could only watch helplessly as the enemy soldiers peeled off their thick armor and were killed by the opponent.
So how to limit the charging speed of heavy cavalry?
Regarding this point, Zhao Hongrun has seen many ways to limit the speed of heavy cavalry in his memory, and the most direct one is to rely on infantry with heavier weight, that is, heavy infantry.
The heavy armor of heavy infantry can prevent them from being directly knocked away by heavy cavalry like light infantry, and it cannot even slow down the speed of heavy cavalry.
Just like the defense line of Feng Ting's army on the battlefield at this moment, it is a defense line with the thickness of two thousand infantry squares, representing the depth of the defense line of two hundred infantry - to put it bluntly, the Ranger cavalry attacking the defense line needs to pass straight through the two hundred infantrymen.
Only the soldiers of the Korean Army can reach the hinterland of the Korean Army, where the Korean Army's crossbowmen are located.
If it were heavy infantry, a defense line of two hundred soldiers could block the heavy cavalry. But unfortunately, the Korean army's infantry were almost all light infantry, so that they were completely unable to stop Yuma's heavy cavalry, and were defeated by the latter in one fell swoop.
They penetrated the defense line of two hundred soldiers, reached the place where the Korean crossbowmen were, and began a rampage, killing them.
In this case, Feng Ting's army could actually be declared defeated.
If Feng Ting was smart, he should withdraw his troops at this time, abandon the Danshui military camp, leave an army behind, or simply die, and the rest of the army should retreat quickly.
Because Feng Ting's army still had a chance to retreat at this time, and once the infantry of Yan Ling's army intervened, Feng Ting's army would suffer more than this.
While Zhao Hongrun was observing the situation on the battlefield, in the Korean camp in Danshui, Han General Shangdang Guard Feng Ting was also watching the situation on the battlefield.
When he saw more than two thousand traveling horses and Wei cavalry charging into the belly of his army as if they were in no man's territory, he finally realized that Baoyuan was afraid of the "Shangshui traveling horses" Wei cavalry.
, it is not unreasonable.
This Wei cavalry is really too domineering and scary.
"It's time to withdraw..."
Feng Ting told himself secretly.
Although he is unwilling to give up the Danshui camp he built in the past few days, Feng Ting also understands that if he does not order the entire army to retreat, it is very likely that most of his army will be lost in the Danshui area - perhaps 7,000 cavalry.
They could escape, but the remaining 20,000 infantrymen would surely suffer heavy losses.
"But before retreating..."
Feng Ting carefully scanned the battlefield, suddenly pointed to a slope in the distance, and said in a deep voice: "Send an order to Fei Yang to lead the cavalry to launch a feint attack on the Wei army's flanks and rear flank, and to support the evacuation of the army..."
In addition, send a team of cavalry to go around that slope!"
Beside him, a guard took a closer look at the slope Feng Ting raised his hand to point to. He vaguely saw dozens of riders standing there, and he had already guessed: On that slope
, there must be a commander of the Wei army.
After about half a stick of incense had been burned, Feng Ting's general order reached the ears of his cavalry commander Fei Yang. Without saying a word, Fei Yang led seven thousand cavalry to attack.
Seeing this, Yanling Lieutenant General Yan Mo, who had been on guard for this cavalry movement, immediately ordered his men to line up for battle and pushed the war weapon of the company's ballista to the front of the formation.
There was no way, for the highly mobile and flexible Korean cavalry, the Wei army could only rely on war weapons such as repeating crossbows. The powerful crossbows of Wei soldiers alone still could not completely restrain these cavalry.
But what surprised Yan Mo was that the seven thousand cavalry of Feng Ting's army did not seem to have any intention of attacking Yan Mo's army. They made a large circle and attacked the rear of the Wei army.
Seeing this, Yan Mo frowned and turned his head. When he noticed the dirt slope behind him, his expression suddenly changed: No! The target of the enemy cavalry is His Royal Highness Prince Su!
At the same time, on that slope, Zhao Hongrun, Zou Xin, Sun Shuke and others also discovered the roundabout attack by Feng Ting's cavalry.
As soon as he calculated the opponent's movement route, Zhao Hongrun shook his head and said helplessly: "This Feng Ting, if you want to retreat, just retreat. You must come to scare me..."
After hearing this, General Zou Xin said with a smile: "The Danshui Military Camp, where he invested a lot of manpower, was destroyed by your Highness in one fell swoop. Of course, he couldn't swallow this sigh of relief... In short, Your Highness, we have to move."
"Hmm." Zhao Hongrun nodded, drove his war horse, and, accompanied by Zou Xin, Second General Sun Shuke, and the Zongwei, returned to the central formation of the Yanling Army.
On the way, they were protected by troops sent by Yan Mo, the deputy general of the Yanling Army.
In fact, just as Zhao Hongrun expected, the seven thousand Feng Ting Army cavalry just turned around on that slope, and then ran back and forth around the rear of the Yanling Army, organized a charge against the Wei Army, and bluffed Zou Xin and Sun Shuke.
The two generals quickly returned to the army and ordered their soldiers to fight.
Although they did not think that this Korean cavalry would really choose to attack, after all, it was just in case, and they did not dare to take it lightly.
At the same time, on the main battlefield, Yuma Juqi gradually showed fatigue due to his physical strength. Although he was not surrounded by the Korean infantry, his running and collision speed had obviously slowed down.
However, at this time, the vanguard of the Yanling Army to assist the heavy cavalry had already arrived. The infantry of the Yanling Army, led by generals Zuo Xunxi and Huayu, inserted themselves in time along the passage that was struck by the heavy cavalry.
During the battle, cooperate with Yuma's heavy cavalry to divide and surround the Korean soldiers on the battlefield.
In this case, Feng Ting could only choose to abandon his soldiers who had been surrounded by the Wei army, and let the central army and the rear army evacuate north at full speed.
Qu Cheng, the general of the Yanling Army who was in charge of commanding the war, originally wanted to pursue him, but when he learned that Feng Ting's army's 7,000 cavalry were threatening the flanks and rear, he had no choice but to give up the pursuit while taking advantage of the victory.
No wonder, after all, although the infantry of the Yanling Army could block the charge of the Korean cavalry, that was when the infantry formed a formation. If the soldiers were allowed to pursue Feng Ting's army, the Wei soldiers who were chasing the latter would not be able to stop the Koreans.
Cavalry attack.
"Just accept it when you're ready."
Qu Cheng said secretly.
Although it feels a bit pity, it is not worth it if Feng Ting's cavalry takes advantage of him because of chasing the defeated Korean army.
Thinking of this, he stopped paying attention to the fleeing Korean soldiers and turned his attention to the Korean soldiers on the battlefield who had been surrounded by the Yanling Army.
On October 25, Wei general Qu Cheng attacked Danshui, defeated Han general Shangdang guard Feng Ting, killed nearly 10,000 enemy soldiers, and captured Feng Ting's army's Danshui camp.
Unfortunately, Feng Ting's army set fire to the grain storage area in the camp before withdrawing, so the Wei army did not grab much food from Feng Ting's army.
But no matter what, so far, Bao Yuan, Jin Miao, and Feng Ting, the three "Top Ten Heroes of Beiyuan", have all suffered defeats at the hands of King Su's army, which makes the reputation of "Wei Gongzi Run" become even louder.
However, even though Feng Ting's army was defeated, the food problem of King Su's army still could not be solved.