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The cavalry is undeniably the king of arms on the cold weapon battlefield, but at the same time, it is also an extremely delicate arm.
It will be affected by ice and snow, rainy and windy days. Even in sunny weather, if the ground is too muddy and slippery, it will be a disadvantage for the cavalry.
In addition to weather, complex terrain is also a major factor restricting cavalry.
But even so, cavalry is still a powerful unit that can determine victory or defeat on the battlefield.
Some people may think that the speed of charging affects the lethality of cavalry on the battlefield. In fact, this view is not accurate. What is truly linked to the lethality of cavalry is not speed, but distance.
The cavalry is the one that requires the most distance among all arms. Only with sufficient distance can the cavalry have mobility.
Why didn't Zhao Hongrun transfer tens of thousands of Bosile's northern Sichuan cavalry to attack the Chu army on the western outskirts of Shouying, the capital of the Chu king?
The reason is very simple. The battlefield is not far enough. Behind the Chu army is Shouxing, the king of Chu. In this case, even if the northern Sichuan cavalry penetrates the Chu army, it will be restricted by the city and can only choose to attack both sides.
By turning sideways, it is difficult to organize a second sprint to penetrate the enemy in a short period of time.
But if it is in a wide-distance plain area, the cavalry can repeatedly penetrate the enemy's army and smash the enemy's troops to the ground. This is the most terrifying thing about the cavalry.
If there was the assistance of infantry at that time, then the cavalry would have been even more of a threat. The cavalry was responsible for scattering the enemy troops, and the infantry was responsible for covering up the enemy troops that were divided and surrounded. Even if the enemy troops outnumbered our own, it would be difficult to escape defeat.
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Therefore, Zhao Hongrun chose Jiao Gang as the terrain to defeat the enemy.
Because from Jiaogang to Beishan where the Wei army camp is located, and then to the western suburbs of the royal capital Shouying, this is a flat terrain that is more than thirty miles long.
This total of thirty more forces was enough for Bosile's cavalry to cooperate with Wu Ji's infantry to defeat the infantry led by Gongsun Po, making it difficult for the latter to escape back to the western suburbs of Shoying.
This strategy and foresight shocked Wu Ji, the commander-in-chief of the Shangshui Army.
"kill!"
"These sons of bitches..."
"Telling you to be so fucking arrogant outside our military camp..."
Outside the Shangshui military camp, the Chu and Wei armies had just fought, and there was a one-sided defeat of the Chu army. Tens of thousands of Chu troops were killed by the Wei soldiers who suddenly rushed out of the camp, crying for their fathers and mothers, and fled in a hurry.
But there was no joy at all on Wu Ji's face.
Because Zhao Hongrun had told him that the Chu army's defeat in front of him was just an illusion deliberately created by the Chu army's general Gongsun Po. If he continued to order the pursuit, he would be ambushed by the Chu army.
Is that really the case?
Wu Ji had some doubts in his heart.
It's not that he doubted His Highness King Su, but this incident shocked him so much: His Highness actually predicted the enemy's actions today? This... is simply unbelievable!
But the facts proved that Zhao Hongrun's prediction about the Chu army was indeed accurate.
When Wu Ji led his army to pursue the Chu army all the way to a lake more than ten miles northwest of Shouxian County, a Chu army that had already been ambushing here emerged from behind the woods next to the lake.
"Report! The left front was ambushed by the Chu army!"
"Report! The right side was ambushed by the Chu army!"
It turns out... it really is so!
Wu Ji was shocked when he received reports of attacks on the army one after another, and he became more and more admirable for the foresight of His Highness King Su.
Taking a deep breath, he pretended to be panicked and shouted: "The enemy is trying to trick us, so evacuate quickly!"
Immediately, he ordered the front army to become the rear army, the rear army to become the front army, and to evacuate immediately.
In fact, before going to the battle, Wu Ji had a good relationship with his generals and told them Zhao Hongrun's strategy. Therefore, after being ambushed by the Chu army, the Shangshui Army changed its formation very quickly.
This aroused the suspicion of Chu general Sun Shuao.
This Wei Jun's reaction...
Sun Shuao was a little surprised by the quick response of the Shang Shui Army. After all, it stands to reason that when an army is ambushed, even if the ambushed front army wants to retreat, the soldiers in the rear are likely to be unaware of the situation ahead.
, and continued to charge forward, causing the entire army's formation to become chaotic.
But although there was some chaos in the Wei army in front of them, the speed of quelling the chaos was too fast.
Could it be that... that Wei Gongzi Ji Run saw through my plan to lure the enemy?
Sun Shuao's heart beat violently for no reason.
But then, he secretly shook his head and rejected this possibility.
Because in his opinion, if that Wei Gongzi Ji Run really saw through his plan, why did he let the Wei army pursue him so deeply? Couldn't he just stop it when he saw it coming?
It has to be said that Sun Shuaoshu underestimated the appetite of the Wei Gongzi and tried to use this battle to devour the Chu army in the western suburbs of Shoying.
"Report!"
Several scouts quickly came to Sun Shuao, clasped their fists and reported: "General Qi, the Wei army is evacuating along the same route. It seems that they want to escape back to their barracks."
"Hmm!" Sun Shuao smiled slightly as he threw away some of the random thoughts in his mind.
Because he had long expected that the Wei army would choose to retreat along the same route.
"It doesn't matter, they can't escape!" Sun Shuao said firmly.
At the same time, Wu Ji, who was leading his army to flee towards the Wei camp, also noticed that an army under the banner of the Chu army suddenly sprang out from the mountains ahead.
That Gongsun Po was also a strategic general, but it was a pity that he met His Highness...
Wu Ji secretly felt sorry for Gongsun Po, because in his opinion, without Zhao Hongrun's advice this time, Wu Ji thought that it would be difficult for him to withstand the Chu army's provocation and temptation of the enemy.
"Xiangnan! Xiangnan! Go around! Go around!" Wu Ji yelled in a pretense of panic.
The Chu general who led his troops to attack from the front heard clearly and secretly sneered in his heart: Want to go around? Dreaming!
Thinking of this, the Chu general shouted sharply: "Intercept! Intercept them!"
However, despite the ambushes in front and the pursuers behind, the Wei soldiers of the Shang Shui Army were undeniably the most powerful infantry among all the countries in the Central Plains. Under the command of Wu Ji and other generals, several groups of sword and shield soldiers rushed forward to stop them.
He stopped the Chu army in front and asked Tongze behind him to quickly circle south.
This scene fell in the eyes of Sun Shu'ao who was at the rear, and he couldn't help but admire the strength of the Wei infantry: Even though they were attacked from both sides, they were still able to defeat the Chu army several times their size with a small force, and they were able to fight to the death with a small force.
The remaining Wei soldiers created opportunities to escape.
However, despite admiration, Sun Shuao still issued the order to kill them all.
Unfortunately, despite his clever design, the strength of the Wei soldiers was far beyond his imagination. Especially the generals of the Wei army who personally charged at the front of the team were extremely brave.
It's no wonder, after all, the generals in the Shang Shui Army, because they lacked the relationship of generals at the beginning, were all strong soldiers promoted from the lower ranks. Although they could not strategize and act alone, they were good at charging into battle.
Especially the thousands of generals in the army, all of them are so strong and brave that even Sun Shuao was frightened when he saw them. He knew very well that the soldiers and generals in the Shangshui Army were all composed of Chu people. However, there were also such tough people among the Chu people.
Warrior?
"kill!"
"Rush over!"
Led by thousands of generals including Ran Teng, Zhang Ming, and Xiang Li, the Wei army finally broke through the encirclement.
Simply... brave!
Sun Shuao's eyelids jumped as he watched from behind.
"General, the Wei army... rushed out..." Several soldiers saw that Sun Shuao had no reaction and quickly reminded them.
Sun Shuao was also helpless about this.
His original plan was to annihilate all the Wei soldiers who had been lured out. In this way, it would undoubtedly be much easier to attack the Wei army's camp tomorrow.
However, the strength of this Wei army far exceeded his imagination.
However, this also strengthened Sun Shuao's determination to annihilate this Wei army.
Because in his opinion, such tough Wei soldiers must be the elite of the Shang Shui army. If they let the tiger return to the mountain, there will be too much trouble in the future!
He looked up at the direction in front of him where the Wei army was escaping. When he discovered that the direction of the Wei army's escape had deviated from the location of the Wei army's camp, he felt overjoyed.
"Come here, order General Zhong Kui to lead his army to resist the Wei camp's reinforcements! The remaining armies continue to pursue the Wei army!"
Sun Shuao guessed that the Wei camp would definitely send troops to support the Wei army, so he made preparations in advance.
Sure enough, the Wei camp, which stood near the mountain, soon learned of the defeat of the troops leaving the camp, and immediately sent troops to support, but they were resisted by Chu general Zhong Kui with his troops.
As a result, Wu Ji could only "reluctantly" escape to the west, running for more than ten miles, and fled to Jiao Gang.
Behind him, Sun Shuao led tens of thousands of troops in hot pursuit.
It is worth mentioning that during the pursuit of Wu Ji, Sun Shuao cursed in his heart, because the physical strength of the Wei army was generally much better than that of the Chu army, so that after chasing, several armies under Sun Shuao fell behind due to physical problems.
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On the other hand, among the Wei soldiers in front, almost no one fell behind.
Damn it! Are these guys really from Chu? Wearing dozens of kilograms of armor, they can actually run so fast? Run so far?
Sun Shuao became more and more anxious as he chased after him.
He didn't know that running with a heavy load was the most basic training for Wei's infantry.
But now, Sun Shuao can only bite the bullet and continue to catch up.
However, he did not know that at this moment, on the top of a hill called Jiao Gang, there was a group of people standing on horseback, looking at the Chu troops chasing the Wei army below the hill.
Among them, a young man wearing a sheepskin coat and with a whip mark on his face attracted the most attention. This man was the adopted son of Bitatu, the former leader of the Jijiao tribe, and the current commander of the Northern Sichuan Cavalry, Bosile.
He watched silently as the Chu troops entered the planned ambush point, then raised his right hand and waved: "Up!"
"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"
Three horn flutes sounded, and then the rumble of horse hooves, like rolling thunder, came from behind the hills of Jiao Gang.
how……
Hearing this news, Sun Shuao's expression changed drastically.
At this moment, tens of thousands of cavalry rushed out from behind the hills of Jiao Gang, and even swooped down directly on the hills. The cavalry all over the mountains and plains, like a torrent, passed over the Wei soldiers, passed through them, and rushed forward.
He joined the Chu army.
In just the blink of an eye, tens of thousands of troops under Sun Shuao's command had been scattered by these cavalry.
"Vulnerable!"
Riding his horse up a high slope, Bosile looked at the scattered Chu army in the distance that was scattered by his northern Sichuan cavalry, and snorted disdainfully. (To be continued.)