Chapter 206

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Cavalry combat is not so simple. The first premise is that the horse needs enough warm-up and can enter the best sprint state after waiting for warm-up.

Obviously, the Yao cavalry only moved for less than a quarter of an hour. Looking at the breathing rhythm and sweating condition of the war horse, it is difficult for the war horse to warm up after running for a quarter of an hour.

No matter whether the warm-up is good or not, on the premise that the war situation needs it, the Qiang officers leading the team can only take the lead to turn around in a few rapid trumpets.

It was found that the Qiang cavalry was about to attack, the war drums sounded in the Han Dynasty, and the officers kept shouting military orders.

In response, the spearmen began to organize a gun array. Their spears were about four meters long. The spearhead was pointed out half obliquely, and the bottom of the spear was tightly pestled on the ground. One spear after another is half tilted. It looks like a dense forest of spikes. Infantry have always used a close formation to resist cavalry, which is a tactic handed down from the ancient pre-Qin era.

The archers behind the spearmen are also arranging an arrow array. They are probably a team of 50 people, a small arrow array, and then a large arrow array composed of many small arrow arrays.

The crossbow troops blocked by the human wall were manipulated by the sound of military orders. The instrument soldiers nervously and quickly adjusted the crossbow. They listened to the military orders and adjusted the shooting direction and angle again and again.

Except that the crossbow was hit by a winch to speed up the loading speed because of Liu Yan's suggestion, there was nothing special about it. It was even a single shot crossbow. The Han Dynasty did not master any more advanced technology and was interested in studying double shot or three shot, or even more than three shots. Unfortunately, there were not many achievements for the time being.

Once the infantry form a tight formation, the cavalry will certainly not bump into it. What the cavalry should do is to harass constantly.

Of course, the Qiang cavalry knew what they should do. They kept pulling apart from each other in the sound of horns. The cavalry who could ride and shoot gradually became the vanguard, picked up the horn bow and took the arrow.

"Shoot!"

It was the archers in the Han Dynasty who shot first. This time, they took a one-time cover. After a round of archery, the vanguard of the Qiang cavalry kept falling to the ground with arrows from people or horses.

In fact, the arrows fired by infantry will be farther than cavalry. That's a very simple truth. The reason why cavalry's horn bow is affected by the bow string is that it can shoot 70 to 80 steps, and the maximum lethality is only about 30 steps. The infantry bow can shoot more than 100 steps. Should the maximum killing range reach 50 steps?

In the past history, there were many examples in which cavalry could not attack and form a tight formation of infantry. The most famous example was that Li Ling led 5000 troops to be besieged. As a result, he was besieged between the two mountains by Xiongnu and Kui Hou Shan Yu with 30000 cavalry. Li Ling formed a simple formation of vehicles with baggage carts. He did not surrender until Li Ling's army consumed all the arrows. Before the surrender, the Hun cavalry destroyed by Li Ling's army reached an amazing more than 10000.

The Han troops who went out of the city did not have a vehicle array, but they could form a long spear array. In fact, it was not bad. After several rounds of volley, the archers fired again in the wave band. The Qiang cavalry dared not even approach at last. They could only cruise outside the range of the Han archers.

"That's ridiculous!" Yao Lan was both frightened and depressed: "it should be so!"

Actually, what else could it be? The cavalry can restrain the infantry, but unless they are equipped with armour and riding equipment, the cavalry is always just mobilizing the enemy infantry, causing confusion in the movement of the enemy infantry. Waiting for the formation of the enemy infantry to be disordered is no longer a dense formation, and the cavalry can play its due power in the face.

"Attack the enemy in the scuffle?" Wang Teng was calm: "attack him and save him. Mobilize the enemy."

Yao LAN didn't lose his head. Naturally, he knew what to do.

In the battlefield of the Chinese army, two thousand system swordsmen are the forerunner. The Qingzhou soldiers who have beaten Liu Zheng continue to retreat. As the battlefield moves forward, the dead bodies are left behind. Even if there are Qingzhou soldiers who are only injured but not dead, they will be made up by the Han soldiers who follow the system swordsmen.

Liu Zheng was about to send someone to ask Yao LAN for help, but he saw that the Qiang cavalry on both wings changed again in the sound of a horn. A small number of cavalry were left on both wings, and the rest made a detour away from the battlefield. It seems that the detour direction is to attack the rear side of the advancing Chinese army.

Most of the Hu people use horns to transmit military orders, while the Chinese civilization tends to use war drums to transmit military orders. It can't be said who is easy to use. It's mostly a habit. In fact, it's easy to put it bluntly. Since the Hu people use horns, the Chinese civilization has always been at war with the Hu people. It should be different. Otherwise, it's really troublesome to identify horns.

Of course, Liu Yan found out where the Qiang cavalry was going to attack. He smiled and waved his hand.

The war drum "Dong Dong..." became rhythmic again. The troops on the left and right wings of the Han Dynasty moved slowly, and the leading troops at the front stopped advancing and turned to defense.

The roar of horse hoofs sounded in the Han Army array. About 600 cavalry should leave the brigade and rush towards the Qingzhou soldiers who want to form a whole team.

Liu Zheng and Yao LAN, who had seen that the Han Dynasty had to take the defensive under the threat of cavalry, smiled successfully one moment, but frowned the next.

The action of Qiang soldiers forced Liu Yan to adjust, but Liu Yan sent cavalry to attack the chaotic Qingzhou soldiers, and it was the coalition's turn to make a choice.

"We have a large number of cavalry. We can divide thousands of people, cut off the rear wing of the Han cavalry, and strive to attack from both sides to destroy Liu Yan's only cavalry!" Wang Teng pointed to the moving left and right wings of the Han Dynasty: "command the cavalry on both wings to attack, ride and shoot, and slow down the convergence of the whole army of the Han Dynasty."

Facing the correct suggestion, Yao LAN had no reason to refuse, and soon sent a messenger.

Indeed, some orders can be given by the rhythm of the horn, but if they are more complex, they can only be transmitted by people running.

The war situation is carried out in the continuous military orders issued by the commanders of both sides. When one party makes adjustments, the other party is bound to make targeted deployment. However, there is no sign of stalemate and delay in the war situation. On the contrary, the pace of response measures is accelerating because of the continuous changes of both sides.

Generally speaking, the Han side is still at a disadvantage because of the lack of enough cavalry.

The Han cavalry just tried to attack the chaotic Qingzhou soldiers. A burst of charge once again disordered the Qingzhou soldiers who might be reorganized, and then immediately returned to the array. They have to retreat. If they don't retreat, they will be attacked by Qiang cavalry. They can't retreat at that time. But they were able to go back or rely on the archers of this array for cover, so that they were not bitten by the Qiang cavalry.

After the friendly forces on both wings approached, the Hanbu leading force resumed its advance again, forcing the coalition to put in new troops to block the direction of the Chinese army.

The coalition is putting in new troops, and Liu Yan is also mobilizing troops from other areas of the battlefield.

Han reinforcements from other regions took the corridor, and the way was not so stable. Coalition forces were attacking the corridors in several regions, which led to Liu Yan's mobilization of troops not so smooth.

There is no way. The coalition forces have an advantage in military strength from the beginning. They can invest elite troops in the main battlefield, and slave soldiers can be used to harass the rest of the local battlefield. It would be better if they could play a greater role.

The fighting started at dawn for nearly an hour and a half, which finally reduced the intensity. After all, people are people. It's difficult to run faster after a lot of physical exertion.

When the physical strength of the soldiers on both sides is consumed by more than half, the war is the time to pay attention to will.

Of course, the coalition forces with a large number of troops have other choices besides fighting will. They can rotate by relying on their strength advantages, but the Han warriors in the Chinese Army battlefield seem like monsters. After fighting for so long, although they seem to be slow, they still show fierce aggression.

"Those... Warriors are more fucking dead than dead men!" Yao Jing scolded like this more than once: "who will fight the war of attrition with this absolute elite? Is Liu Yan crazy?"

After fighting for so long, the casualties of the two thousand system swordsmen who have the "aura" of fearless death are actually very serious. Visually, there are only less than 800 left, but even these 800 system swordsmen are still advancing, but the coalition forces fighting with them have collapsed at least six times.

If Liu Yan had more troops in his hands, or if he could have more than 2000 cavalry, the Han Dynasty would have broken through the position of the central army of the coalition army. The problem is that Liu Yan's available force is only more than 10000, and there are only less than 400 cavalry left, which can only be consumed.

The senior leaders of the Allied forces are very ugly. They are on the side of military superiority. Not only are they more than the Han Army, but also there are many cavalry, but the war situation has developed like this?

"Are we too incompetent, or..." Liu Zheng came to Yao LAN and said after a long silence: "or is the Han Department too strong?"

No one thinks Liu Zheng is making excuses. So far, they have made no obvious mistakes. From the beginning, the war is a relatively obvious war of attack and defense, and there is no way of strange soldiers such as ambush.

It can be regarded as an open confrontation, but the coalition is on the side with more troops, but it can not obtain obvious advantages. It can only rely on the mobility of cavalry to suppress in multiple battlefields?

The coalition forces are only suppressing, not destroying or defeating. For the party with dominant troops and an advantage in cavalry, it is already in a disadvantageous state and should be ashamed.

"The other side is very stable and the soldiers have strong willpower." Yao LAN looked at Yao Jing without leaving a trace, and then said in a low voice, "the Han Dynasty is not only a threat to Qingzhou, but also an enemy of the Yao family."

Although Liu Yan has repeatedly denied that he is from Jin, all Hu people will only regard him as from Jin. Now there is a kind of public opinion in the state of Zhao in Shijie. It is a statement raised under the advocacy of Salmonella (Buddhism), saying that the Jin people are about to recover and should be comprehensively suppressed. Only then can Shi Hu continuously consume the Jin people by wantonly collecting women and building palaces.

"Maybe..." Yao Lan said with great difficulty, "we should retreat first, prepare enough and then destroy the Han Dynasty at one time?"