Their mobility is not weak, after all, there are three horses per person, and it doesn't make sense if they have short legs.
But they are also really boring and have nothing to fight.
During the Western Expedition to Liangzhou, if Lord Umu hadn't been too greedy and insisted on swallowing up his good ally Liugu Tubo, and sent people to delay the attack, they would not have been able to fight at all.
Later, the main army of Umu was defeated and fled, and the cavalrymen pursued them all the way. They even became ridiculous characters who needed others to protect them, otherwise they would be killed by the cavalry archers.
On this northern tour, as part of the Flying Bear Army, Tie Yaozi naturally had to join the fight. But along the way, there was nothing but rushing. It was extremely boring.
They can't do the job that a silver gun can do. They can't find the opportunity to do the job that they can do.
Today's opportunity is actually not that good.
The Hedong cavalry are still capable, and their mobility is better than that of the Iron Kites: some are armored, but their horses are not; some are armored, but their horses are not armored. No matter which type, their mobility is better than that of the Iron Kites.
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Therefore, we can only look for opportunities to steal some tricks.
648 knights in heavy armor rushed to the front, followed by more than 300 knights with incomplete armor. They took advantage of the downward momentum and rushed into the battlefield.
It should be said that the investment in armored cavalry was quite timely.
Although the battlefield at that time was chaotic, the characteristics of the Hedong cavalry's strong hand-to-hand combat ability gradually emerged. The silver spears were all good at riding and shooting, and they should not have faced off against the enemy's hand-to-hand cavalry.
Although they have trained diligently in the past year, their organization has been greatly improved, and their equipment has become much better, they are still unable to confront the Hedong cavalry head-on.
This is not their mission.
Their stage is behind enemy lines, where they harass the enemy's food routes, attack the enemy's light armored or unarmored infantry, burn their warehouses, destroy their farmland, and plunder their population. These are their specialties.
It's not impossible to fight head-on, but I'm really not good at it. One year is too short, and I haven't made any great achievements yet, so I rushed into battle.
The timely appearance of the armored cavalry helped them a lot.
Anyuan Xinbu had just dispersed the Shuofang cavalry on the opposite side, but when he encountered the iron kites charging straight down, he had no time to maneuver and was cut into two pieces.
An Yuanxin slapped his horse and ran wildly, while turning around and shooting arrows, but the arrows could not enter, and he could not even scratch the itch.
He was a little annoyed.
Kang Junli was the commander-in-chief, and he kept urging everyone on their way. When he found the cavalry of Shuofang's army, he started to fight, but he didn't expect that there was such an armored cavalry hidden next to him.
Armored cavalry flourished in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. Since the early years of the Guo Dynasty, they have been rarely seen.
Jinyang Xizuoyuan can produce four hundred pairs of vests a year, but most of the time they do not make this thing, but make armor for human wear. This also makes the iron armor rate of Hedong infantry very high.
Shuofang's army is really interesting. They don't even have enough human armor, and they also use horse armor. They really focus on cavalry and ignore the infantry at all, right? Leather armor and iron armor are two different things!
An Yuanxin complained, ridiculed, and cursed while desperately escaping to the outside, intending to use his mobility to get rid of these armored cavalry.
But they didn’t know where they got these horses. They had strong load-bearing capacity and were not very slow. After rushing down the slope, they bit the nearest Yasuhara Shinbu and took advantage of their carelessness. At the same time,
The battlefield was a bit chaotic. It was a good opportunity to rush in from the flank and block it, which was invincible.
The soldiers whose silver spears had been scattered automatically gathered together and dispersed to both sides of the Leopard Cavalry, protecting them and continuing to kill towards the center of the battlefield.
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Li Siyuan was on the verge of killing.
Under Tie Lao, more than ten Shuofang cavalry have fallen. One of them seems to be a general, and his name seems to be "Piga"?
By now, he was confident.
The ten thousand people heading north include six thousand combat troops and four thousand auxiliary troops. The Shuofang army on the opposite side seems to be of the same size, with five thousand combat troops.
The soldiers from both sides fought bravely, while the auxiliary troops hid in the temporary camp behind.
The advantage of the Shuofang Army is accurate archery, while the advantage of the Hedong Army is its strong melee fighting ability. It may not be obvious at first, but after fighting for a while, the advantage gradually tilts towards the direction of the Hedong Army.
The reason is also very simple, the battlefield is too chaotic!
In cavalry combat, especially large-scale cavalry combat, both sides will not release all the people at once. Instead, they will be divided into batches and types: those who break through the strong points, those who follow up to fight, those who travel to outflank, and those who fight
The longer it takes, the more chaotic the battlefield becomes.
Once there is chaos, there will be less room for detours, the advantage of Shuofang Army will be weakened, and the advantage of Hedong Army will be strengthened.
Li Siyuan led hundreds of horses, charging left and right.
When Tie Lao struck, a man fell off his horse; when he raised his bow and shot, a horse fell down.
Kill happily! If you kill for a while longer, you will definitely be able to defeat Shuofang's cavalry before the horse power decreases.
The appearance of the iron kite shattered his dream.
When the shining silver armor appeared in his eyes, Li Siyuan almost cursed.
"Let's go!" He pinched the horse's belly and ran away.
The soldiers carried the big flag and followed, followed by a large group of cavalry.
There are five people in a group, with five steps between groups and twenty steps between groups. Even now, they still maintain battlefield discipline and do not fight randomly.
Li Siyuan took away the fastest five to six hundred men, but those behind him were not so lucky. Iron kites rushed past like a flood, and almost no one could block their blow. The originally complete and tight formation instantly collapsed, and the cavalry group
They have become stragglers, which makes people want to cry without tears.
The flood continued to rush forward, heading straight in the direction of Kang Junli. That big flag was the most dazzling and valuable.
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On the battlefield that was in a mess after the flood, Wang Chong came to kill again, but he still couldn't swallow this breath.
In the initial wave of attacks, almost a quarter of the more than 300 people died, and even I was almost wiped out by Tie Lao.
After going around in a circle, they led another three to four hundred people into the battle formation, but Li Siyuan disappeared.
He noticed the charging process of the armored cavalry, and felt a little sad. Zhe Congyun had made another meritorious service, which was probably the kind that turned the tide.
But now is not the time to lament, beating the drowned dog is the real thing. He turned his horse's head and rushed towards the enemy in chaos.
Behind him were soldiers holding high flags, and scattered cavalrymen kept gathering around.
There were quite a lot of casualties today, and I don’t know who was following behind them at this time. There were private soldiers, some were organized, and some were scattered cavalry. They all relied on this big flag to gather people.
The reins of two horses were also tied behind Wang Chong's saddle. The first horse was injured by an arrow and was thrown directly on the battlefield by him. Now it is riding a new spare horse.
An enemy cavalry is coming towards you.
These Hedong cavalry were indeed good and dared to fight. Even though they were knocked out of formation and became wandering cavalry, they still did not lose their will to fight. They were indeed very different from the grassland herdsmen.
Wang Chong tightened his spear and released the barrel of the gun the moment it hit the enemy's chest. Then without looking at the result, he pulled out the ring-handled knife from under the saddle and faced another person.
"Poof!" Another dead soul was added to the sword.
"Walking around Qinghai at night with a knife, slaughtering stone forts in the west to get purple robes, haha, so happy!" Wang Chong laughed wildly.
The people he killed used iron laos, which is the weapon he hates most now.
Weapons such as horseshoes, iron maces, iron whips, etc. all take a long time to practice and are much more difficult than spears. This will kill one more person and Hedong will lose a point of vitality.
Get as many Uighur soldiers as you want! If that doesn't work, go to Ganzhou, Suzhou or even Shaqi to recruit troops. You can always defeat your Hedong cavalry before the last Uighur is dead.
"There is a thief general, kill him!" Wang Chong took the spear handed over by his own soldiers and pointed it from a distance.
"Whoosh!" An arrow flew over and was inserted into An Yuanxin's armor, and his tail feathers trembled endlessly.
There were many stray arrows on the battlefield, and many brave generals were not killed directly, but ended up being killed by stray arrows. An Yuanxin did not think that anyone was specifically targeting him, so he still led his men to continue the charge, planning to go to Kang Junli first, and then make further calculations.
Horse hooves formed in formation, and a group of cavalry rushed towards them.
An Yuanxin raised his hand and fired an arrow, but the opponent cleverly dodged it. The arrow hit the soldier behind him in the throat, and he suffered a bloody fate for eight lifetimes.
"Death!" The spear came towards me.
An Yuanxin was well prepared and dodged sideways, then pulled out a small chisel and threw it at him.
But there were too many people, so Wang Chong was not hit, and he didn’t know who he hit.
"Why are these Hedong cavalry generals so difficult to deal with!" Wang Chong was about to go crazy. When fighting the Tubo tribe, it was not so troublesome.
After An Yuanxin and Wang Chong passed by each other, they also kept cursing.
If we fight normally, we should be able to win today, but with that armored cavalry, it's hard to say.
During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, one of the favorite bad tactics of both sides was to use light cavalry to come forward and shoot arrows to lure the opponent's cavalry to pursue them, and finally lead them into a place where armored cavalry ambush. However, today Shuofang's army did not send bait to provoke, but instead
This side took the initiative to bump into it!
This especially makes people vomit blood.
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The iron kite crossed the entire battlefield with an imposing momentum.
Their armor is extremely thick, and their horses are surprisingly heavy. Even if they are held in their hands and not swung, they can move forward as long as they hold them flat and charge.
Kang Jun's flag flew quickly to the southeast.
He is not stupid and knows how to avoid the sharp edges.
The armored cavalry is incredibly powerful, but it also consumes a lot of money. In a battle, you can charge twice at most, so why go head-to-head?
Shi Yan and Li Chengsi were also very aware of the situation and followed Kang Junli closely.
The Hedong cavalry who were chasing after the silver spears just now turned their horses' heads as if seeing the god of plague.
They did not mess up the order, but gathered together one by one, gathered as many scattered troops as possible, and reorganized to the south.
But it can't be completely closed.
The cavalry generals of Shuofang's army gathered more than a thousand people. On the battlefield after the armored cavalry rushed through, they used their numerical advantage and coordination advantage to kill a large number of scattered Hedong cavalry, and achieved fruitful results.
How many of these people can escape?
Today's battle was going quite smoothly at first, but in the end it ended up in this situation, and I didn't know what to say.
Kang Junli and others slowly stopped.
The war horse was panting heavily and the sergeant's face turned pale.
Shi Yan's hair was disheveled and he didn't know where he had gone. Everyone behind him was injured and dejected.
Li Chengsi didn't have any injuries on his body, but his face looked very ugly: Could it be that he was ambushed today?
"Shao Thief's armored cavalry is exhausted." Li Siyuan ran back in embarrassment, but he was in good spirits and knew how to say a few words to adjust the atmosphere.
His official position is not high, much lower than that of Kang Junli, Li Chengsi, Shi Yan and others present, but because he is the adopted son of the Longxi County Prince, no one says anything about him.
"They should be able to fight again." Shi Yan said solemnly: "Do you want to fight again?"
An Yuanxin was the last one to run back, followed by only a few more than 300 riders.
Kang Junli asked him to organize his troops and horses and enter the battle. Then he took a rough look and his heart sank: I am afraid that more than a thousand cavalry will be lost in today's battle.
They attacked Huangchao and Zhaoyi, but they never lost so many cavalry in a single battle.
He could see that Shuofang's army was not well prepared for this battle. If they were equipped with armored cavalry that were skilled in hand-to-hand combat, they would be defeated in this battle.
For both sides, it turned out to be a hasty and confusing battle.
"No fight!" Kang Junli sighed: "Even if Shao Thief is really in Xuanhong Pond, this battle can no longer be fought. The morale has been weakened and the army has no fighting spirit. I will go back and apologize to the commander.
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"What should we do with Wan Shengjun?" Shi Yan asked inappropriately.
Kang Junli glared at him.
The cavalry's march north was blocked, and Wan Sheng's army did not bring much food and grass. If there were no reinforcements, they would probably surrender. What else could they do?