Chapter 488

The Han Army in Huainan battlefield is not completely free of cavalry, but compared with the northern battlefield, there are very few cavalry in the southern battlefield.

The 10000 cavalry in Xu Zheng's hand was ready to invest again when the Jin army showed signs of collapse. At the beginning of the campaign, he only planned to send out infantry.

There are really too many fronts in the Han Dynasty.

The Northern Expedition Corps under ran min's command not only continued to fight in Shijie Zhao state, but also had to deal with Murong Yan state. Even more and more Hu people joined the war as they moved northward, including the Hun tribes and many miscellaneous Hu and Xianbei tribes, and even some scattered battles with the Tuoba generation army.

On the other side of the pass, the Han Army re entered the land of the three Qin Dynasties. Fu Hong did not watch the Han army attack cities and land, and even Zhang Liangguo often came out to be active.

Liaodong is a big battlefield. The Han Army integrates the vassal states above Koguryo, Baiji, Silla and the Japanese islands, and fights back and forth with the murongyan army on the border between Koguryo and murongyan.

The relatively large-scale battlefields are the north line battlefield, the Guanzhong battlefield, the Liaodong battlefield and the south line battlefield. Some areas are also engaged in relatively small-scale battles, such as the settlement of powerful forces in the Han territory and the settlement of participating forces and powerful forces of the enemy in the newly occupied areas.

If there is a dynamic map to publicize the trend of the Han Army, you can definitely see many signs representing the Han Army on it. It must be a beacon everywhere. It is right to say that Liu Yan is more militaristic than Liu Che, and it can even be said that Liu Yan is more exaggerated.

The terrain where the Northern Expedition Corps is located determines one point, that is, let the Han state invest cavalry in the north line on a large scale. The Han state has more than 150000 regular cavalry, of which 100000 are placed in the north line, 10000 are allocated to Xu Zheng's southern expedition corps, 20000 are fighting with di nationality in Guanzhong battlefield, 10000 are in Liaodong battlefield, and the last 10000 are used as reserve troops.

There is no shortage of horses in the Han Dynasty. In fact, if Liu Yan is willing, he can make another forty or fifty thousand cavalry, which is that his combat effectiveness can never be compared with those cavalry of the field corps. In terms of the Han Army's army building concept, he will not be recruited unless he has to.

The terrain of the southern invasion decided that cavalry could not be used in places with dense water networks and many mountains. Infantry and Navy were the main force, but it was still very useful to invest cavalry in local battlefield.

Liu Jian used the cavalry as the forward. The cavalry of the 1000 Jin army, including the episode, rolled forward in the roaring sound of horses' hooves. The Spearman of the Han Army opposite immediately stopped in the sound of bugles.

"Tilt the spear forward!"

The length of the spear of the Han army was close to six meters. It was not strong enough to play at all. The soldiers tried to get close in a tense and busy situation. A sharp cold awn was shining in the forest of spikes composed of six meter spears.

The cavalry of the Jin army, led by Liu Jian, has been accelerating, approaching the spear array of the Han army for about 50 steps. A "gun throwing" was roared out, and the 200 or so episodes of the Liu family threw the long gun out from a distance.

Almost when the cavalry of the Jin army threw their lances, the strong crossbow soldiers behind the spearmen of the Han Army also fired crossbows and arrows. The throwing guns and crossbows met in mid air. Some bumps showed that the throwing guns and crossbows touched each other. With the falling of the throwing guns and crossbows, screams appeared on both sides.

Less than 200 shotguns were thrown into the long spear array of the Han army. Some of them bumped against the tilted spears. Naturally, there were also shotguns that hit the soldiers of the Han army. As long as they hit the target, they definitely didn't kill and kill only one person, creating chaos at the front end of the long spear array of the Han army.

Fifty steps for the cavalry, that is, the distance that can be reached by charging in a few breaths. At the last moment, the gun is thrown in, and at the next moment, the cavalry stepping on the roaring hoofs will come.

Liu Jian used his horse to poke away the spear in the way and control the horse to jump high. When he landed, the front two hoofs of the horse heavily trampled on the frightened Han soldier. The sound of the bones being crushed was loud. The Han soldier trampled by the hoofs didn't even hum and died immediately.

The Jin cavalry in the rear rushed up at high speed. They failed to avoid the spear or sweep away the spear. They ran into an inclined spear at absolute high speed, and the spear tip penetrated through the neck of the horse and then pierced the knight on the horse's back. Then they smashed down with people and horses. When they fell, they often took at least one Han soldier.

The cavalry of the Jin army who were not stopped by the spear. After they successfully rushed into the Han Army, few people wielded weapons. They were lying on the horse's back and slapping the horse's ass with one hand, so that the galloping horses could use their speed to collide.

When the cavalry charge at high speed, the impact force brought by speed is really terrible. If they are arranged in a dense formation, that is, they can bear a one-time impact, they can force the cavalry to stop. If the formation is loose, they will be knocked out one by one by the war horses.

The Han Army in yitun, who first launched the counter charge and then set up a spear array, was soon submerged by the cavalry of the Jin army. Liu Jian found that after rushing out, he didn't have time to catch his breath, but he caught a sharp forest composed of spears less than 30 steps ahead.

In fact, after the Jin army sent cavalry as the vanguard, Dou A immediately ordered the spearmen to set up a spear array every 30 steps. This is the experience from the fight between the Han Army and the Zhao army in Shijie. Even if the cavalry can break through a intercept line, it will also reduce the speed. Setting up a intercept line beyond 30 steps can effectively block the enemy cavalry. Even if it is broken through again, it should force the enemy cavalry to lose speed completely.

The cavalry charging at full speed did not want to stop in an instant, Liu Jian almost just thought [bad]. After less than three breaths, he had reached the second spear array of the Han army. He instinctively swept away the front spear with his horse's paw. The horse gave a fierce meal in the collision sound. People were thrown into the air by a huge force. When he fell, he watched a sharp spear below.

"Get out of the way!"

"The captain wants to capture the enemy general!"

That is, the Han sergeant was 1 trained to obey the orders of the officers subconsciously, so as to prevent Liu Jian from being stabbed into rags when he fell. He fell heavily on the ground. When he wanted to roll with inertia, he bumped into the Han sergeant in the military array. As a general, his instinct was to sweep the horse and force the Han Sergeant away, The horse didn't sweep out, and the body was pointed by the tip of a spear.

Only a few of the cavalry of the Jin army who rushed up behind them were able to force the forest of spears. Most of them rushed up and ran into them by themselves. The movement of people tumbling up lasted for a long time.

Liu jianben came with a great reluctance to close his eyes, but the own cavalry rushed up behind disrupted the Han Army's action to capture him alive. When he realized that he had a chance to get out of trouble, he abandoned Ma Shuo and took out the war sword around his waist. When he turned over, he kept waving the war sword, killing and killing several Han soldiers. Seeing that the four sides wanted to break through, he was trapped by the Han Army before he could find the opportunity.

From Liu Jian's perspective, the cavalry of the Jin army charged straight. Dou a had already mobilized troops to use the disconnection between the cavalry and infantry of the Jin army to cut off the connection between the cavalry and infantry of the Jin army. As a result, the fast-moving cavalry of the Jin army fell into the marching array of the Han Army, while the slower infantry of the Jin army was intercepted for fighting.

"Tell the captain that he has captured the enemy general."

"Very good."

Doua himself was watching the battlefield. About 2000 people were still fighting with the cavalry of the Jin army. More than 2000 people formed a front to block the infantry of the Jin army. In fact, the local battlefield was divided into two parts.

Xie Shang, who was also looking at the battlefield, saw that the Han army only sent about 5000 troops to fight with Liu Jian. He thought that 1000 cavalry and 9000 infantry should break through the 5000 Han army. Unexpectedly, after the war, his own cavalry was only powerful. For a short moment, he fell into a "mud pool", and the infantry with an absolute number advantage were blocked.

"The Han Army has much more combat experience than us." Xie Shang pulled down the visor of his helmet and signaled that he was ready to attack. Xie Wan on the opposite side said, "at present, we can only press it up, and we can't give the Han Army breathing time."

Xie Wan is Xie an's younger brother and Xie Shi's elder brother. Although he is relatively old, he only entered the official career in the seventh year of Xiankang of emperor Cheng of Jin Dynasty (AD 341). His official position is much lower. Before joining Huainan, he was actually a local civil servant.

The door lords and aristocratic families in the south of the Yangtze River have a very serious problem of uneven children. There are many aristocratic families like pigs, but the aristocratic families with better family style actually cultivate family children in both civil and military aspects, that is, there must be a gap in talent.

In fact, the Xie family should be regarded as the best family under the small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty in cultivating family children. They follow the line of combining civil and military forces. Unlike the Wang clan, which focuses on cultivating literati, nor the Yu clan, which focuses on military affairs.

At present, the Xie family of Yangxia is divided into three branches. Xie Li's descendants are now the main veins, including Xie Yi, Xie Ju, Xie an, Xie Wan, Xie Shi and Xie tie. Xie Shang, as the son of Xie Kun, was a member of the same family. They had few contacts and married Chu Li. Another pulse is Xie Guang. In fact, this pulse has completely declined. People who are not familiar with the Xie family would not remember such a pulse.

In fact, the whole North Bank of the huaishui river is in a state of full-scale war. All kinds of bugles and shouts are intertwined in the air. The double soldiers are fighting in the intersection of metal and body.

The number of Jin troops is twice that of the Han army. After they are pressed on the whole line, the front presents a distorted line. Generally, the Jin army located in the central army is the most forward, and the Jin troops on both wings are firmly blocked by the Han Army no matter how hard they fight.

Xie Shi couldn't fly into the sky. Otherwise, if he looked down from a high place, he would find that the reason why the central breakthrough of his own forces was smooth was that the Han army took the initiative to stretch out a half moon formation at the beginning, and even the central area of the Han Army was deliberately retreating, so that the overall Yan Moon shaped formation had quickly evolved into a semicircle.

"The attack on the left and right wings was seriously frustrated..." Sun Chuo needed to sort out the war reports gathered by all parties and said to Xie Shi with a serious face: "the central battlefield can advance."

As a general, you should have enough imagination. After Xie Shi was awakened, he immediately showed a picture in his mind. The first thing he thought of was that the enemy deliberately emptied the center, obviously to carry out a siege.

"The two wings turn to attack for defense!" Xie Shi seemed to sneer and said, "send troops to the front battlefield in the middle and order that even if it is a pile of corpses, it will be chiseled through by Ben!"

The formation is dead. Whether it can be maintained depends on whether the troops can adhere to it and who can reach the goal first.

Xie Shi knows very well what kind of state his troops are facing. The army without a way back can only attack with that tone. No matter how dangerous or unfavorable the situation is, they will attack. Once they fail to show their will to attack, they will be left with a path of defeat.

It should be said that the current morale of the Jin army is still available. The soldiers are stimulated by a series of false victories. In addition, the will of the top generals is firm enough. No matter whether it is smooth or frustrated, at least there is no collapse on the local battlefield.

As the defensive side of the Han Army, they were more or less surprised by the resilience of the Jin army, and even found that the Jin army had a stronger desire to attack than the Hu army.

"The present Jin army may still be those people, but their will is very different from that of the previous Jin army." Tiaoyou also wanted to sort out the war reports. He said: "the enemy has established a solid front on both wings, and the central battlefield is making a fierce attack at any cost."

"The intention of encirclement was discovered." Xu was watching the war report in his hand about Shouchun and Dangtu. Without looking up, he said, "it doesn't matter. They patronize here. We have taken Dangtu."

Tiaoyou nodded approvingly. He knew that the national war between countries never just looked at the victory or defeat of a certain battlefield, and used one battlefield to attract the enemy's greatest attention, even if it was used to attract the enemy's failure. As long as the other battlefields could achieve their goals and obtain the greatest advantage in the whole national war, it would be a genuine national victory.

Generally speaking, it is impossible for the Han Army and the Jin army to gain an absolute advantage in the huaishui battlefield for the time being. At this stage, it is a battle in formation, and it is impossible to distinguish the victory from the defeat in a short time.

"Now we just hold on." Xu Zheng looked up at the battlefield and said, "the morale of the Jin army has fallen."

Tiaoyou nodded with great approval. No matter how Xie Shi aroused the high morale of the Jin army, once the Jin army found that it could not defeat the Han Army in a short time, the Jin soldiers would doubt and hesitate, and there was room for other actions of the Han army.

"Yes, what did the King say about breaking the water with a whip?" Xu Zheng really forgot. After being reminded by TIAOYU, he grinned: "our king... We have to do something that we can't understand. For example, before crossing the river, we must say, 'take my people's journey, throw a whip into the river and cut off its flow', and there are other things that long history can do!"

With speechless nodding, he nodded and said he would make complaints about himself. Where did he know that Liu Yan was ensuring that some Chinese words must be born!