Chapter 1561 The wealth of the world is concentrated in the gatekeepers
After another ten breaths, 30,000 Li family light cavalrymen fled back to nearly 20,000 people in embarrassment, and the other 10,000 or so armored cavalrymen turned into corpses.
Li Shentong and all the officers and soldiers of the Li family army were suddenly stunned. They never thought that this war would lose more than 10,000 people in such a short period of time. You must know that they have a total of nearly 100,000 people and only 50,000 cavalry.
In one fell swoop, one-tenth of the troops and one-fifth of the cavalry were lost.
What Li Shentong didn't know was that the Far East Army had rehearsed the process of just ten breaths countless times, so it was able to connect so closely and cooperate so closely. In order not to miss the best opportunity, there was no any in this process.
The commander gives the command and everything is implemented according to the previously designed combat plan for such situations.
Otherwise, as long as they react a little slowly, the 30,000 Li cavalrymen will react and start to swim and shoot, keeping the distance between them, and the number of casualties will definitely be reduced by more than four or five times.
The hundreds of Li family light cavalry who were still howling, rolling, or crawling on the snow were all shot into hedgehogs after another round of small-scale steel string bow throws, and then there were no more any on the battlefield.
A living creature that can move.
There were no cheers from the Far Eastern Army for their first victory, and no curses or screams from the Li Army on the opposite side. The entire audience fell into a strange silence for a moment.
Only the corpses on the ground and the fear in the eyes of most of the Wolf Guard soldiers told people what exactly happened just now.
Of course, Li Shentong's red eyes, gloomy expression, and Wang Junlin's relaxed smile also reflected the state of the two armies at this time.
"They didn't lay mines, but they dug a lot of horse traps under the snow." Li Shentong instantly figured out the key reason why they interrupted their charge of 30,000 armored cavalry and caused heavy losses behind them.
"Sheep can indeed detect whether there are landmines, but they can't detect horse traps." Wang Junlin seemed to be understatement, but the joy in his expression could not be concealed.
Experienced cavalry actually don’t like to ride at high speed on snowy roads or in the dark on unfamiliar terrain. This is because neither the cavalry nor the horses can see what is on the road, such as whether there are holes or raised hard rocks under the snow.
It is enough to break the legs of a galloping war horse.
According to Wang Junlin's design led by the Far East Army's deputies, in addition to a few deliberately left passages in front of the four camps, in these days, Far East Army soldiers have dug hundreds of thousands of tunnels within a hundred steps of other places.
Extremely standard and uniform in style, the horse traps are just a little larger than a horseshoe and are densely packed like a honeycomb.
What made Wang Junlin feel a little regretful was that the 20,000 light cavalry of the Li family army did not charge first. Otherwise, with the speed of 20,000 people, the trap would have been more effective and most of them would have been killed, so that would have been better.
It has to be said that the troops led by Li Shentong are indeed elite and have a very strong will to fight. Even after experiencing the tragic defeat just now, Li Shentong didn't know what he said to the entire army and asked the soldiers around him to repeat it in unison.
Afterwards, the remaining troops cheered in unison, and their morale actually recovered a lot.
Moreover, soon the 20,000 light cavalry in the front slowly came forward. The war horses walked in small steps, cautiously testing, and slowly pressed towards the Far Eastern Army's central camp.
In Li Shentong's view, tens of thousands of people were lost in the battle just now, but that was because they fell into the opponent's trick, and they still had an army of over 90,000, so he still had confidence.
Besides, Wang Junlin only has more than 10,000 troops at his side, and the opportunity to be surrounded by them is really rare. In other words, Li Shentong will never be willing to retreat without a close fight.
Wang Junlin had already determined where Li Shentong was and locked the latter with a telescope to see how he would react so that he could make the most correct response at the first time.
Li Shentong first ordered the light cavalry to test and attack the Far Eastern Army camps on both sides. After the test, they quickly discovered the road that was only about two feet wide and had no horse traps. They tried to launch a charge along this road.
, but under the attack of the gunpowder packs fired by the trebuchets and the giant crossbows and guns, five to six hundred corpses were left on each side, and they retreated in embarrassment. They could only charge in the passage that was only two feet wide.
Trebuchets, giant crossbows, and guns don’t even need to be aimed too much.
The remaining nearly 20,000 armored cavalry of the Li family army facing the Chinese army to the west of the Far Eastern Army camp did not continue to advance. They were three meters in front of the Far Eastern Army formation.
He stopped about a hundred and fifty steps away.
"Li Shentong is really prudent in his actions, and he is also very cunning." Wang Junlin snorted and couldn't help but curse secretly. About three hundred and fifty steps was just the best distance for the armored cavalry to launch a charge.
If the distance exceeds this range, with the weight of the armored cavalry, the horse power will be greatly reduced if it rushes over, and the speed will not be increased in the final charging stage.
And if it is too close, it is not enough to increase the speed of the cavalry to the maximum, and there is not enough time to adjust the charge formation. The most important thing is that if it is too close, the effectiveness of the Far Eastern Army's giant trebuchets and giant guns and crossbows
Within range.
Li Shentong was able to grasp this distance so accurately. He was indeed a rare good general with rich experience in cavalry battles.
However, there is a huge difference in weapons and equipment between the two sides, and the Far East Army is fully prepared for this war. Wang Junlin's ability to command and fight is no worse than Li Shentong. In addition, the Far East Army's individual combat capability is much stronger than that of the Li Family Army. Various factors
Under this situation, even if Li Shentong's military strength is nearly ten times that of the Far Eastern Army, it is obviously not easy to defeat the Far Eastern Army.
It can be seen that the armor of the Li Jiajun cavalry is not light. Fortunately, the horses under their crotches are all good horses. They are authentic Turkic horses with tall height and long legs. Otherwise, they would not be able to carry the armor and people weighing nearly two hundred kilograms.
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Wang Junlin also considered setting up two thousand heavy armored cavalry in each battalion of the Far Eastern Army. In order to gather enough good horses for the heavy armored cavalry, the Far Eastern Army also tried its best and spent countless money. In order to protect these good horses, the war
As long as there is no need for heavy armored cavalry, they will not dispatch them, but let these two thousand officers and soldiers wear ordinary steel plate armor to fight as ordinary cavalry.
Taking into account the imbalance between the effect and the effort, the Far East Army has never implemented it. I don't expect the Li Yuan Group to easily come up with 30,000 such good horses, how can it not make Wang Junlin envious or even jealous.
At the same time, it also shows that the saying "most of the world's wealth is concentrated in the hands of powerful families" is not a lie.
"In any case, only by crippling these elites led by Li Shentong can we truly send troops to Taiyuan." Wang Junlin couldn't help but thought to himself.