Although more than 500 people were lost at the beginning of the war, every soldier on the Goguryeo side from Li Guangsheng to the following believed that with their large numbers and three or four times the cavalry of the opponent, they could charge in front of the enemy and engage in close combat.
After that, the Sui army was defeated.
Therefore, although the Goguryeo reinforcements suffered heavy casualties in a short period of time, the drums at the back continued to beat, and the soldiers in the back row seemed to turn a blind eye to the instant casualties of the soldiers in front. They ran two steps quickly to supplement their positions. Then they fell to the Sui army one after another.
They were hit by a round of crossbow arrows, crossbows, guns, stubborn rocks and gunpowder packets, but the soldiers in the back row quickly ran up to take up their positions under the urging of officers and orders... It must be said that the Goguryeo army has been fighting non-stop in recent years.
, as long as it is a regular army, its combat power is quite impressive.
However, Li Guangsheng and other Goguryeo people had no idea that the battle formation training, command mode, weapons and equipment, and combat concepts of the armies they encountered today were far ahead of this era. This was Wang Junlin and Nie Xiaoyu's combination of Eastern and Western traditions.
The army is specially trained based on thousands of years of military training and combat patterns, and captures the characteristics of the military of this era.
All the Goguryeo soldiers in the first row were dead in the blink of an eye, and nearly half of the Goguryeo cavalry in the second row were also dead, but they were also forced to the front of the horse, creating an opportunity for the soldiers in the second and third rows to finally rush forward.
However, three hundred Juma muskets mounted on the 300-step-long Juma frame were stabbed at the same time. Although the thrusts were not very fast due to friction, more than 300 Goguryeo soldiers in the first row were stabbed at once. Juma
The spear easily tore through all the defenses on their bodies and twisted into their torso and internal organs along with their clothes.
These seriously injured and dying Goguryeo soldiers gritted their teeth, yelled, or cursed under severe pain and threw their weapons at the Sui soldiers facing them behind the horses. Immediately afterwards, they were either seriously injured before they died or
They all clung to the barrels of the guns inserted into their bodies. As a result, most of these horse-repelling spears only assassinated once. It can be said that the Goguryeo reinforcements performed extremely bravely.
However, the anti-horse guns connected by iron chains were the nemesis of the Goguryeo cavalry. With these, they could not charge. They could only wait for their own infantry to use their lives to clear the way.
Wang Junlin stood on the command platform on the top of a short mountain and watched the fierce battle on the front from the beginning. He felt deeply that these Goguryeo reinforcements were all elite soldiers who had experienced many battles. As expected, most of them came from Pyongyang.
The Goguryeo infantry in the middle of the canyon pounced on them in batches, engaging in frantic stabbings through a layer of horseback.
Wang Junlin's face was solemn. Although their casualties were much less than those of the Goguryeo reinforcements, they were still somewhat beyond his previous expectations.
The fighting power of the Goguryeo reinforcements was stronger than he imagined. The Goguryeo reinforcements soldiers who rushed to the front of the horse were all pushing forward desperately, trying their best to poke or cut with the spears and swords in their hands. Many of them
They didn't see their opponents at all, because their vision was blocked by their own companions, but as long as they could find an opening, they would follow their instinctive experience of fighting on the battlefield and fire their weapons at random.
However, the most weapons waving above the Juma were Wang Junlin's unique spears. They drew dense silver trails in the air, pricking the Goguryeo soldiers on the opposite side until they cried for their mothers. These Goguryeo soldiers were stabbed indiscriminately by the opposite side.
The forest of spears drove him back again and again.
The battle line was filled with screams one after another, and the dull thud of spears piercing flesh was also continuous. At the same time, there were waves of heroic killing cries from Goguryeo soldiers.
Ten breaths later, Goguryeo's infantry once again paid the price of more than a thousand people, and finally broke through the resistance and cleared the road. At this time, including those killed by previous long-range attacks, there were nearly two thousand casualties.
, and the Sui army suffered only more than 200 casualties. The casualty ratio was close to that of the attacking and defending city.
After breaking through Wang Junlin's cavalry resistance line at such a high cost, Li Guangsheng's face became extremely ugly. He never thought that using cavalry and infantry to attack the opponent's infantry would lead to such a failure in this battle, even for the Sui army.
He had never heard of this tactic.
If they continue to suffer losses at this ratio between ourselves and the enemy, they will definitely lose today.
"It's okay now, the long-range attack is over, and those damn horses have been broken. Next, it will be a close fight. It depends on how you, the infantry of 10,000 people, can resist my 10,000 cavalry and more than 8,000 infantry.
Charge." Li Guangsheng said through gritted teeth.
Li Guangsheng straightened his legs, stood up from the saddle, and stood up with the stirrups. The riding whip in his hand pointed at Wang Junlin's army opposite: "Send the order, continuous assault. Don't give the enemy time to breathe. We will be here soon."
Defeat them within the time required to burn incense."
However, the battle has just begun, and for Li Guangsheng, the "surprise" and shock have also just begun.
At the moment when the resisting horses were broken, the drumbeat of Wang Junlin's phalanx suddenly changed and turned into a slow drumbeat with intervals. The nearly 11,000 infantrymen retreated seven steps neatly, pulling away from the already destroyed
The distance between the opposing horses was endless. This scene made all the Goguryeo generals, including Li Guangsheng, shrink their pupils.
"This...how is this possible? How did they do it?" Li Guangsheng shouted out loud. For the army of this era, there was no need to turn around, and the army of more than 10,000 people could be heard in unison with just a command or the beat of a drum.
Taking seven steps back in two breaths, and causing almost no chaos, this scene is just the most basic queue requirement for the army in later generations, but in this era, it will make people who see such a scene for the first time feel incredible.
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"Stand sideways and shoot!" Guan Xiaotong, standing at the front, roared. Eleven thousand infantrymen, led by Guan Xiaotong, Lu Han and Luo Chunlai, were divided into two echelons, and each echelon was divided into five square formations.
At this time, the first three rows of the five phalanxes of the first echelon leveled their spears. Each soldier's body turned to the right, with the left hand in front and the right hand behind. The spears were pointed in the direction of the Goguryeo reinforcements. This action
With the left hand as the support point, the right hand plays the role of controlling the gun body. It can be held all the way to the tail of the spear shaft, which can not only save physical strength but also maximize the attack range of the spear.
Since all the infantrymen on Wang Junlin's side were armed with spears nearly one foot and four feet long, it was difficult for the Goguryeo soldiers to accurately judge the timing of the thrust. If they rushed over and thrust, they would often bump into the opponent's spear head without stabbing themselves.
To find the opportunity after approaching the opponent slowly like this is the most suitable for a battle with a long spear.