Chapter 384

In the past four months, Wuwei army, together with Guiyi army and Longjia private soldiers, fought a decisive battle with the main force of Huihe outside Dunhuang.

Together, the two sides killed more than 200000 troops. Huihe, which absorbs the food culture and craftsmanship, has much stronger combat effectiveness than when it was a pure nomadic nation.

Its army composition is no longer a single light cavalry, but an advanced composite Corps including heavy infantry, light infantry, projection arms, heavy cavalry and light cavalry.

The officers and men in the Huihe army are not only the Huihe people, but also many local famous generals in central and Western Asia, such as Dashi, Persia and so on. Its combat command capability is not weak.

Therefore, the battle became white hot at the beginning. The tactics adopted by both sides were very similar. They were hammer anvil tactics surrounded by cavalry on both wings and opposed by infantry groups in the middle.

Because the impact of infantry is not strong, it is very difficult for the square array group to quickly distinguish the victory and defeat, so who can defeat the other cavalry first is the key to this battle.

The war horses on the Huihe side are all excellent war horses in the Dashi area, and their impact is stronger than that of the Tang army. Moreover, most of the Knights are nomads, and the horsemanship of the cavalry is better than that of the Tang army.

But Tang Jun has more sophisticated equipment, strict discipline, excellent tactics and strong will.

At the beginning of the war, the two sides were half weight. In recent years, the Tang army trained the wall riding wave charge tactics, which were more advanced than the usual clutch tactics of Huihe.

The clutch tactics are mainly the tactics of light cavalry. They usually gather and disperse. They usually ride and shoot guerrillas to disrupt the opponent's formation. If the opponent's formation is loose, they will quickly assemble and launch an assault to defeat the opponent in one fell swoop.

If the other side rushes in and cannot resist, it will be scattered in all directions, like loose sand. Then, in areas far away from the battlefield, they gathered again to integrate the military potential.

This is the best clutch tactic of nomadic light cavalry, which is difficult to deal with on the vast plain.

At the same time, the other party also has heavy cavalry, which usually launches a group charge to confront the Tang army, and the combat effectiveness is very strong.

Wei Ran's 8000 Fenglin army was not assigned to deal with the enemy's heavy cavalry. Although he was not the commander-in-chief of the whole campaign, he did not prevent him from taking actions conducive to the victory or defeat of the battlefield after completing his tasks.

His Fenglin army is a half armour cavalry. The cavalry wears armour, but the horse does not wear armour. Therefore, it has better mobility than Huihe heavy cavalry, but it has stronger frontal confrontation ability than the light cavalry wearing only leather armour. This is still the case without counting the personal qualities of individual soldiers.

His task is to defeat the other side's light cavalry on the flank, and then assist his own side to ride the heavy cavalry with his back to the other side.

The first task is not easy to complete. Just like on the left wing of the big array, Zhao Xuanqing's troops with the same task repeatedly defeated the other party's light cavalry, and then adopted the way of small team pursuit in order to prevent the other party's light cavalry from converging.

As a result, on the left-wing battlefield, Zhao Xuanqing and the enemy rode lightly for dozens of miles. Everywhere they were guerrillas. They could not tell the victory or defeat in a short time, and it was very easy to consume horsepower.

Wei Ran did not adopt such tactics at all.

His Fenglin army has the position of commander of a thousand cavalry, that is, there is a commander in chief for a thousand cavalry.

Now he took the thousand cavalry as a combat unit, and the eight thousand cavalry formed eight rows of horizontal wall mounted array with a distance of 30 steps, and each column was not perfectly aligned back and forth, but arranged like a ladder.

For example, the first column is only 50 steps away from your heavy cavalry force, the second column has at least 80 steps, and the third column has 110 steps, which are arranged in turn.

This formation directly widens the battlefield range controlled by 8000 cavalry of your side. If the other party wants to bypass the flank to attack your side. It takes a long distance to go around.

And on the way of mobility, they will also be shot by their own rear cavalry in sections, gradually consuming their troops. Not to mention the strong crossbow soldiers and crossbow chariot soldiers standing on the flanks of the infantry array also have strong long-range support capability.

The Fenglin army arranged in a strange array took advantage of their heavy cavalry and the enemy's heavy cavalry to fight each other. The task of 8000 cavalry is to expel the enemy's harassed light cavalry, protect their heavy cavalry and the flanks of infantry, and try to defeat the enemy's light cavalry and back against the enemy's heavy cavalry.

Wei Ran used the first row of riding walls to attack the dense place where tens of thousands of light riders gathered at a relatively slow speed. Looks like it's saving horsepower.

At this time, the Qingqi behind Huihe still chose to bypass the flank and attack the flank of Fenglin army with excellent war horses.

But as soon as they moved to the side of the first horizontal array, they suffered a rain of arrows thrown from the infantry formation.

Huihe Qingqi is an evacuation formation. The arrow rain frightens them more than the actual lethality. On the contrary, the second horizontal array, which is 30 steps away from the first horizontal array, and the third horizontal array, which is further away, can easily shoot them in a flat shot.

Although riding and shooting are not as powerful as stepping shooting, it is easy to kill light riders wearing only Leather Armor within the range of 60 steps.

Moreover, Wei Ran's cavalry is very elite, and the accuracy of shooting each other is higher. Moreover, the attack distance of the equipped bow and arrow is longer than that of Huihe Qingqi.

This light cavalry, which harassed the flanks of Wei Ran's first horizontal array, suffered a lot of casualties before it could shoot an arrow.

At this time, they can forcibly rush to the side of the first horizontal array, but the first horizontal array ignores it and speeds up the speed of attacking the gathering place of Huihe Qingqi.

The second horizontal array also speeds up the horse speed. If the more than 2000 harassed Huihe Qingqi doesn't care to rush up, it is to expose their flanks to the second and third horizontal array of the other party, which is a disastrous consequence.

Therefore, the leading Huihe general can only open the lateral distance after weighing, so as to prevent being attacked on the flank. Then he attacked the flank of the horizontal array behind the Fenglin army, hoping to find a chance to rebel their whole array.

However, each of the rear horizontal arrays protruded a little, forcing them to stay further away from the flanks of the whole formation.

And all the way down, the number of casualties unknowingly shot and killed was not small. The horsepower loss during continuous mobility was also very huge. Wei Ran's eighth horizontal array seized the opportunity of horsepower relaxation. At this time, facing them directly is the eighth horizontal array closest to the periphery.

Wei Ran's army was not dogmatic and knew clutch tactics. At this time, the eighth column cavalry formation was completely loose, and the cavalry formation rushed up almost in a swarm. However, the other party's horsepower consumption was quite large, and he had to distance himself. He couldn't do it for a time. Before he dispersed, he was killed and killed by the Fenglin army rushed up in a swarm.

This harassing army is completely scrapped. Even if there are survivors who escape, it is difficult to gather with other cavalry into a military array.

Almost shortly after the contact, the right wing of Huihe was destroyed by two thousand Qingqi. I can see that Zhao Hui and Huihe Khan have their eyelids jumping.

Zhao Hui pointed at Wei Ran's right wing with a whip and said to the left and right: "this battle must be that the right wing can quickly distinguish the victory and defeat. Fenglin army will not disappoint me!"

Huihe Khan also paid attention to the right wing, but judging from the military strength, he still had 20000 cavalry on the right wing. The combat effectiveness of the elite heavy cavalry force was still strong, and did not take the slight defeat of the right wing as one thing.

Then the Huihe general, who commanded on the right, found another quality of Fenglin army. The eighth horizontal array can quickly return to its original position after defeating its own 2000 light cavalry, maintain and start the general formation, and will not be tempted to pursue by the defeated army.