The two cavalry began a no-frills collision charge.
The terrain is flat and wide, which is good for the cavalry to spread out. Since it is an excellent place for cavalry warfare, it also means that it will be a place where people are easily killed, and the speed of death should be very fast.
Qiang cavalry is the light cavalry among the Qingqi. On the one hand, they are poor and can't "heavy" at all; The Archer. Ke Jian, the young Qiang commander who had a bloody feud with the Xu family in Beiliang, finally stopped deliberately suppressing the horse team's charging speed. Looking horizontally, you will be amazed by the muscularity displayed by these high-headed war horses while running. The habit of blindfolding the horse’s eyes during the charge in the Central Plains has never been popular, but it is an old custom that has been passed down for hundreds of years on the grasslands. At the beginning, it was to ensure that the horses were fearless when facing the Central Plains infantry’s repelling horse phalanx. , At the same time, it can deliberately "shock" the horses. Before the fleeting and fierce collision between the cavalry and the cavalry, the cavalry flogged fiercely, which can cause the horses to explode with greater leg strength, and use the speed of the horses to drive the cavalry to charge. Penetration. However, looking at the elite cavalry in the world, I am afraid that only Beiliang cavalry disdains to use this kind of "small trick". Uncountable amounts of silver. Behind every familiar horse that finally set foot on a large battlefield in Beiliang, one or even several horses died before it.
On the battlefield, there were only the roaring roars of more than 1,600 Qiang cavalry.
Comparing the two, the three thousand Dragon Elephant Army, who were also Qingqi, seemed particularly weird at this time. One reason for the collective silence before the fight was that they were simply outlaws who used Qingqi as heavy cavalry.
After the Dragon Elephant Qingqi accelerated his charge with his spear, he went straight to the opponent, and even gave up a light crossbow to splash the lethality of the enemy's cavalry formation!
Beiliang iron cavalry is good at fighting, and dare to fight to the death!
The soldiers in the Central Plains have always been good at combining cavalry and infantry. The infantry is in the center and the cavalry is on the two wings. The biggest advantage of the army itself is its strong mobility. In the long series of classic battles in the Spring and Autumn Period, this undisputed battle formula was brought into full play. As long as he is a general who can be crowned with the title of famous general, even if he is the commander of the infantry, if he is given a cavalry army of thousands of people, he can command it in an orderly manner. This is probably the so-called long-term illness. At that time, the large group of high-ranking military generals in Liyang who had been affected by the flames of war could not use cavalry or break cavalry, so they were embarrassed to say hello to their colleagues when they went out. However, once this combination of riding and walking tactics is moved to a place where supplies are difficult, it will inevitably be unacceptable. When Tianzi took the initiative to launch those wars against Beimang after he ascended the throne, he suffered a lot. Many situations that seemed to be good in the early stage, They were all destroyed by some battles that took place outside the main battlefield. Take Beimang Tuoba Bodhisattva and Dong Zhuo two generations of famous Beimang generals as examples. After a long-distance attack, he went around to the rear of Liyang's army in one breath, and directly smashed one or even several main supply lines. The famous generals of the Liyang court, especially the cavalry generals, were very annoyed by this, but for some reason, there has never been a talented general who, with the cooperation of the disengaged infantry, went head-to-head with the Beimang cavalry, but even so, the cavalry must The signs of splitting off to be independent, and a series of books on the art of war that followed appeared. Lu Shengxiang, who was recruited by Zhao Yi to go to the Guangling River, and Xu Gong, who had never had the chance to fight outside the Great Wall, each had their own books on war. Not handed down, but well-known in the military, Xu Xiao admired the Long Xiang general Xu Gong who came from Gumu Xu's family, and thought that this person should have overshadowed Lu Shengxiang, who "leads the southeast coquettishly alone". However, those high-ranking figures in Liyang knew it well in their hearts. If Chen Zhibao and Chu Lushan were given a chance at that time, then these two people would undoubtedly become no less than the four famous generals of the Spring and Autumn Period in the new battlefield of Beimang. At that time, even if the new emperor was willing to give Chen Zhibao a chance out of selfishness, the big group of "founding country" veterans would not allow the Xu family to have successors.
In the nearly 20 years of perennial battles with Beimang, the Beiliang cavalry has also developed a set of highly targeted and mature tactics. For example, the Beimang cavalry army has fewer crossbows but more bows. If it weren't for sharp warriors with amazing physical strength, it would be difficult to break armor from 80 steps away from ordinary bowmen. The two armies collided and rushed. Abandoning the process of bow and crossbow shooting, relying on the armor to dominate, let the reckless riders throw and shoot, and one's own side just concentrates on charging. Therefore, Chen Zhibao once made an arrogant conclusion that made the outside world feel unbelievable: under the premise of roughly equal or even slight disadvantages in strength, the life of the Northern Mang Cavalry Army is only enough to survive forty steps!
After all, outsiders cannot witness this scene with their own eyes, and they always hold a strong skeptical attitude.
But it cannot be denied that regarding the precious experience of fighting against cavalry troops with more than 10,000 pure cavalry, the entire Liyang Dynasty probably has the unique Beiliang Frontier Army. Don't look at the Zhao family's court as if it is pretending to be blind about the affairs in the northwest, but every time there is a disturbance, Li Xifeng, who was in charge of the Golden Thread Weaving Bureau, will take the trouble to quietly deliver the secret package to the capital. As for the contents of these brochures, Guangling Wang Zhao Yi and Yan Chi Wang Zhao Bing spent a lot of favors and relationships to successfully buy them, so that many staff and advisers can ponder over and over again.
At the same time, the Liyang court did not wait to die. It simply regarded Beimang and Beiliang as imaginary enemies, thinking about how to truly counteract the iron hooves of those horses. What kind of wine bags and rice bags are quite effective, and the distribution of arms and weapon partners of the infantry in formation and refusal of horses can be described as the pinnacle. In the imperial examinations in the Spring of Yonghui, there were even meaningful and similar related examination questions. This has led to many unconstrained ideas appearing in the answer sheet. Although most of them are considered nonsense of bookishness, among them, there is an argument that suddenly shines after several years of silence, and that is to fight extremes with extremes , the examinee who lost his name in the imperial examination at that time proposed to devote all his financial and material resources to develop the deformed heavy cavalry, and strive to cross the threshold of 10,000 people. An important town not far from the border. His answer sheet was thrown into the sea by the Liyang court at the time, but in fact, almost at the same time, the Beimang court began to use silver to pile up heavy horses crazily, and it was not until many years later that the Liyang court realized it. The two king tent iron cavalry named after the country's name, Yelu heavy cavalry and Murong heavy cavalry! The number of people could reach the threshold of 10,000, but layman civil officials also knew that to raise these two heavy cavalry, it would be tantamount to cutting the flesh and blood of the country to feed these two big gluttons. Because the real cost of heavy cavalry is not in the establishment, but in raising soldiers. The Liyang Chaotang, who knew it later, was forced by the public opinion pressure from the government and the public, especially Gu Lu from the Ministry of War and the Eastern Front Frontier Army, so he bit the bullet and followed Beimang's ass to create the Duoyan Iron Cavalry and the Yanmen Heavy Cavalry , the number of the former is less than 8,000 riders, and the number of the latter is even less than 5,000.
As for why the scholar who went to Beijing to rush for the exam died inexplicably in an unknown alley, who cares
However, if anyone knew about this secret, they would all be moved by it. A small article of less than a thousand words written by an unknown Jiangnan scholar would actually affect the lives and deaths of two million soldiers in the desert frontier.
Eighty steps away from the enemy and us, the Qiang cavalry in the front row spread out like a turbulent tide, skilled in bow and arrow shooting.
The violent bumping of the horse's back during the fast charge, the armor of the enemy's cavalry, and the lack of time to change shots in the rapid contact battle are all important reasons why riding and shooting can only be icing on the cake.
The spears and spears of Beimang's regular frontier army were not bad, not to mention Dong Zhuo's Dong family army, those generals and the direct lineal army who held the festival, fully reached the level of Liyang's elite frontier army. It's just that this Qiang cavalry is much poorer. It's not that Bei Mang is too stingy to take out more than ten thousand refined spears, but that even if it is given to a Qiang cavalry with its own set of familiar tactics, it will only be superfluous, and absolutely It's not a quick gift. The training of war horses is already a headache, let alone the cultivation of the strength of cavalry and horse warfare? The relationship between the weight of the sword, the length of the spear and the strength of the cavalry's arms, how many fights and how many lives are needed to find the best answer? The precise area where the spear stabs the enemy cavalry, the optimal angle for the sword to slash, and the appropriate weight of the armor are all different from person to person, and they are all learned, so it would be too extravagant and too much for all Qiang cavalry to suddenly replace the main battle weapon. Unfamiliar spears and spears have dragged down the consistent transfer speed of Qiang cavalry, so once this Qiang cavalry arrives in Liuzhou, it will either be lucky and not encounter the Dragon Elephant Army. For example, at the moment, Wan Fuchang Jincheng doesn't even need to think about it, just turn around and run away, trying to sell those spears and exchange them for a fortune.
Those Spring and Autumn survivors who left Hongjia and went north brought many secret and superb casting skills to Beimang. However, the large amount of iron deficiency in Beimang made many craftsmen of the Southern Dynasties become poor wives who had no rice to cook.
Chen Zhibao once said: Northern barbarians who lack spears and spears are nothing more than a group of pawns on horseback!
It can be said that Ye Baikui, a soldier of Western Chu who is good at matching arms, pushed the cruelty of large-scale wars to a peak step by step, so Chen Zhibao divided the scrutiny of large-scale wars to every small captain.
The latter not only remembered the names of every captain under his command, but even their personal character and style of commanding troops, as well as their comprehensive combat power under normal circumstances and their war potential in emergencies, everything was well planned.
"Everyone in the ancient military likes to describe the unpredictability of wars as fast-changing. Chen Zhibao has long been familiar with the 'ever-changing'. He is well-deserved as the number one soldier since the Great Qin Dynasty, far surpassing the sages and peers."
This kind of flattery that sounds like a bad street can be said by any Jiangnan scholar who has read a few military books and admires the demeanor of the white-clothed soldier.
But in fact, the people who said this were Cao Qingyi and Cao Changqing, who were recognized as invincible officials in the game of chess.
Liuzhou doesn't hear the horns sobbing, and doesn't hear the drums of war.
Just like that, he quietly died in a hasty contact battle.
Qiang Qi's two rounds of long-distance riding and shooting made reasonable meritorious service, but the size of the military exploits surprised Qiang Qi.
When an arrow was accurately nailed into the face of a dragon elephant light cavalry, the cavalry's head was instantly pulled backward by the powerful arrow, and then fell off the horse and died.
The ownerless war horse continued to charge forward in inertia.
Many Qiang cavalry cheered for it.
A Qiang arrowhead knocked out a string of sparks on the breastplate of a dragon elephant Qingqi, but failed to pierce through. However, the soldier from the northern Liang border had bad luck. His horse was killed by another extremely heavy feather. The arrow hit the neck in the gap between the iron armor, the horse neighed, and the horse leaned slightly and slumped into the ground.
The light cavalry who lost his momentum quickly stood up. The arm that he held the spear earlier had been broken, but after he lost the spear, he quickly drew the cold knife at his waist, and faced those who were only twenty steps away. Qiang Qi, who was about to hit him, began to stride forward on a straight path!
Ke Jian felt a sense of powerlessness that went deep into his bones, not only because the two rounds of intensive arrow rain only caused less than a hundred casualties to the dragon and elephant light cavalry, but also because these enemy cavalry could use their long spears to push away the oncoming arrows, but none of them Riding to make such an action that damages the impact force of the spear!
Not a single ride!
The two armies rode out suddenly, and the enemy and ourselves were indistinguishable.
The recklessness of the young commander brought disaster to the 1,600 cavalry that he and his family had accumulated through 20 years of hard work.
Even if the Qiang cavalry saw something bad, the tidal front line facing each other quickly began to stretch and slant to the left, hoping to use the speed of the Qiang cavalry to reduce the loss of the frontal battlefield.
Qiang Qi's striker evaded a slight slant to the left.
However, Longxiang Qingqi responded almost instantly, leaning to the right as a whole, and the momentum of horseshoe blasting thunder did not diminish in the change!
The rapid changes on the battle line, distributed to the positions of every two hostile cavalry, are actually not many.
The Dragon Elephant Army and the Qiang Cavalry are embedded in the cavalry battle formation!
In just such a short blink of an eye, more than 300 Qiang cavalry were pierced through their bodies by a single shot! These Qiang athletes died before they were completely off their horses!
Among them, dozens of corpses of Qiang cavalry were directly lifted into the air by the dragon elephant iron spear.
On the line that symbolizes life and death, there are blood spurts from Qiang cavalry casualties.
There are also lucky Qiang people who escaped the spears of the Dragon Elephant Qingqi in the front row, but were soon pierced by the spears behind.
Some of the Qiang cavalry who were lucky enough to survive for a while, even if they survived the spears of the dragon elephant Qingqi in the second row, were instantly killed by the Qingqi in the third row.
There was a Qiang rider whose shoulder was pierced by the second Dragon Elephant Qingqi who was in the front position. He swayed, and before he had time to rejoice, he was pierced into the neck by the third iron gun. The body fell backwards and slid out on the horse's back. After a short distance, he finally fell to his death on the sand.
Lieutenant General Wang Lingbao of the Dragon Elephant Army shot out three candied haws.
This charge.
A dragon elephant riding lightly is as easy as a heavy hammer piercing through a window screen.
With a flick of his wrist, Scarfaced Wang Lingbao slid the three Qiang cavalry bodies out of the iron spear, without turning his head to observe the battlefield, not even looking at the corpses on the ground, and continued to gallop forward.
It is not far from the second Qiang cavalry army.
Behind Wang Lingbao, there were corpses of Qiang cavalry all over the ground, covered in blood.
Many Qiang cavalry horses ran for a short distance after their masters died in battle and fell off their horses, and then stopped slowly.
More than 300 cavalry soldiers of the Dragon Elephant Army who were injured and fell off their horses stabbed those Qiang cavalry who were still alive with their knives again and again.
Some Qiang cavalry spoke words that Longxiang Qingqi could not understand, they should be begging for mercy, but no one showed mercy.
For forty years since the general led a hundred cavalry out of Liaodong, the Xu family cavalry had no habit of taking prisoners.
Excluding the 1,600 Qiang cavalry and the forty or so cavalry at the extreme ends of the forward line, the rest of the Qiang cavalry were killed by only one charge of 3,000 dragon and elephant cavalry.
The young commander who broke into Liuzhou for revenge and meritorious deeds also died after shooting one person and assassinating two.
One side killed very simply and neatly, and the other side died without sloppiness.
Ke Jian's original intention was naturally not to use the 1,600 horses accumulated by his family in 20 years of hard work to pave the way for Jincheng's future success in the Beimang court.
This Qiang athlete who is used to enjoying victory on the border grassland of Beimang, remembers the bloody feud 20 years ago, but forgets the existence of the enemy he wants to avenge. Before leaving that hometown that can only be regarded as a foreign land in the final analysis, he heard that the Dragon Elephant Cavalry Army killed most of Gusai Prefecture last year, but he also heard from many people in the Southern Dynasty that it was just Gusai. The negligence of the general guarding the army, and I heard someone say that as long as Dong Zhuo or any other general's troops are dispatched, none of the Dragon Elephant Army that went deep into the hinterland will be able to return, and the Northern Mang Frontier Army will kill those who have been cut off. Heads were thrown on the border between the two countries.
Ke Jian came for revenge, but it was a pity that his youngest son who was still waiting for his father to come home on the grassland had to wait another twenty years before continuing to take revenge.
For the Qiang people, the history of exile in the past hundred years is to go from one foreign land to another.
He lay in a pool of blood, the sun blinding his head.
Then he found a shadow above his head, it was a dragon-elephant light cavalry whose shoulders were raised and lowered due to injuries, and Ke Jian was dying, trying to lift the sword tied to his arm.
The Qingqi in captain's attire seemed to have noticed Ke Jian's futile resistance, frowned, and chopped off the head of the young Qiangqi youth with a knife, and after a little thought, chopped off the right hand of the corpse.
Then the captain was exactly the same as many dragon-elephant Qingqi who could still fight. After cleaning up the battlefield, he looked for a suitable horse, got on the horse, and charged again.
In many affluent places in the Central Plains, no matter who kills whom, most of them will be full of intrigues and tricks, that is, gangs fight to the death, and there may also be competitions between government backers and secret instigation by conspirators .
After all, there, killing people is not pleasant, and dead people are not happy.
But on the next reckless frontier, the dead will be easy, and as fast as a bow and crossbow.
After killing through the 1,600 Qiang cavalry team who were looking for their own doom, under the leadership of Wang Lingbao and the two captains, Longxiang Qingqi's war horse gait slowed down and accelerated with implied regularity.
In this way, the war horse can give full play to the second wave of momentum to ensure effective pursuit.
This is the invisible difference between a famous general and a mediocre general on the battlefield.
A war, especially a local battle, of course requires tens of thousands of enemies, but it also needs generals like Wang Lingbao who are familiar with the rules of the battlefield.
Without the former, the battle will be more difficult, but without the latter, there will only be defeat.
About half a mile away, the ten thousand husband chief Jin Cheng was completely dumbfounded, but this middle-aged Qiang cavalry, who had more experience in the battlefield than Ke Jian, did not show any sluggishness, and led the Qiang cavalry to retreat around an arc without saying a word.
The reason why they didn't turn around and flee after stopping their horses was because the Dragon Elephant Qingqi, which had negligible loss of combat power, didn't allow them to waste this little bit at all.
Wang Lingbao calculated the distance between the two sides and the speed of the horse in his mind, and with his belly clamped, he wanted to go to Xu Longxiang's side and express his thoughts. But the young commander of the Dragon Elephant Army had already raised his arm and made a simple gesture known to all soldiers in the Northern Liang.
Fast ride to intercept!
Xu Longxiang, who didn't show too much exaggerated combat power in the previous charge, just hacked to death three Qiang cavalry with that saber, all of them chopped off their heads with one blow.
When Wang Lingbao saw the coach jumping high, he abandoned the horse and started running with the knife.
Wang Lingbao smiled, a little dumbfounded, our coach is really helpless.
After Xu Longxiang made that gesture, the Dragon Elephant Cavalry Army, who had been deliberately keeping the team neat, finally changed.
More than four hundred horses with more explosive power rushed out of the army in an instant.
These fine cavalry decisively followed the commander who was the god of war in his mind, and went to intercept and kill the Qiang cavalry army, which still had more than 7,000 troops.
The aristocratic family pays attention to the fact that the country can be destroyed, and the inheritance of the torch of a family cannot be destroyed.
But for an army, the backbone supported by countless martyrs is even more unbreakable!
The backbone of Beiliang cavalry.
Ning broken continuously.
As for whether Bei Mang has the ability to smash this backbone, then they have to strangle each other.
While Xu Longxiang was running faster and faster, a giant black tiger rushed to his side.
Then the 400 fast riders behind the boy in black, and the 2,000 dragon elephant Qingqi behind him saw an extremely weird scene.
Xu Longxiang bent down without slowing down, grabbed the black tiger's legs with both hands, spun his body, and smashed the black tiger towards the center of the Qiang cavalry army!
After the huge black tiger crashed to the ground, it kept rolling.
Countless dust was raised on the earth.
Countless muddy corpses and a large number of people were thrown off their feet.
The corner of Wang Lingbao's mouth twitched uncontrollably.
Those guys who got hit will definitely hurt a lot.
When the four hundred quick cavalry in front were about to catch up with the tail of the Qiang cavalry army, Wang Lingbao glanced at the big hole blown out by the black tiger in the back, and huge blood flowers bloomed on the muddy corpses. .