sweeping the world

Chapter 488 I Can't Understand It

The Han army on the Huainan battlefield is not completely without cavalry, but compared to the northern battlefield, the southern battlefield has much less cavalry.

Xu Zheng's [-] cavalrymen were prepared to invest when the Jin army showed signs of collapse. At the beginning of the battle, only infantry was planned to be dispatched.

Han Guo's current fronts are really too many.

The Northern Expedition Corps under Ran Min's command will continue to fight against Shijie Zhao State, and they will also have to deal with Murong Yan State. Even as they advance northward, more and more Hu people join the war, including the tribes of the Huns and many miscellaneous tribes. The other tribes of Hu and Xianbei, and even some sporadic battles with the Tuoba Dai army also occurred from time to time.

On the other side of Guanzhong, the Han army re-entered the land of the Three Qin Dynasty. Fu Hong didn't just watch the Han army attack the city, and even Zhang's Liangguo came out to be active from time to time.

Liaodong was a big battlefield. The Han army integrated the vassal states on Goguryeo, Baekje, Silla and the Japanese islands, and fought with Murong Yan's army back and forth on the border between Goguryeo and Murong Yan.

The relatively large-scale battlefields are the northern battlefield, the Guanzhong battlefield, the Liaodong battlefield, and the southern battlefield. Some areas are also engaged in relatively small-scale battles, such as the surrender of powerful forces in the Han territory and the participation of the enemy forces in the newly occupied areas. , Strong payment.

If there is a dynamic map used to publicize the movement of the Han army, you can definitely see many marks representing the Han army on it, and it must be everywhere.It is right for the outside world to say that Liu Yan is more aggressive than Liu Che in the past, and it can even be said that Liu Yan has done more exaggeration.

The terrain where the Northern Expeditionary Corps is located determines one point, that is, let the Han State put cavalry on a large scale into the northern line. The Han State has more than 15 regular cavalry, of which [-] are placed on the northern line, and [-] are allocated to the northern line. Under Xu Zheng's Southern Expedition Corps system, [-] were in the Guanzhong battlefield to fight the Di people, [-] were in the Liaodong battlefield, and the last [-] were used as reserve troops.

There is no shortage of horses in the Han Dynasty. In fact, if Liu Yan is willing, he can produce about [-] to [-] cavalrymen. In terms of combat effectiveness, he will definitely not be able to compete with those cavalrymen of the Field Corps. In terms of the Han army's army building philosophy, it is definitely not a last resort. will not be recruited.

The terrain of the Southern Invasion War determined that the cavalry could not be used in places with dense water networks and many mountains. The infantry and naval forces would be the main force. However, it is actually very useful to invest cavalry in local battlefields.

Liu Jian used the cavalry as the vanguard, and a thousand cavalry of the Jin army, including the trilogy, rolled forward amidst the sound of rumbling horseshoes, and the spearmen of the Han army on the opposite side immediately stopped in the sound of bugles.

"Put the spear forward at an angle!"

The spears of the Han army were nearly six meters long. Unless they were strong and strong, they could not move at all. The soldiers moved as close as possible amidst the tension and busyness. A forest of spikes composed of six-meter spears glowed with a sharp cold light. .

The cavalry of the Jin army, led by Liu Jian, was accelerating all the time, and approached the Han army's spear formation for about fifty steps. A "throwing gun" was heard, and the spears in the hands of about two hundred generals of the Liu family Throw it far away.

Almost when the cavalrymen of the Jin army were throwing their lances, the crossbowmen behind the spearmen of the Han army were also firing crossbow bolts. The spears and crossbow bolts met in mid-air. Some knocking sounds indicated that the throwing spears and the crossbow bolts collided with each other. As the crossbow arrows fell, there were screams from both sides.

Less than two hundred spears were thrown into the spear array of the Han army. Some of them bumped into the spears that were protruded obliquely. Naturally, some of the spears hit the soldiers of the Han army. Killing and wounding one person created chaos at the front of the Han army's spear array.

For cavalry, fifty steps is a distance that can be reached in a few breaths. One moment a spear is thrown, and the next moment the cavalry arrives with the sound of rumbling horseshoes.

Liu Jian used a horse spear to push aside the spear blocking the way, and controlled the horse to jump high again. When it landed, the front two hooves of the horse stepped heavily on the terrified Han soldiers, and there was a sound of bones being crushed. There was a loud noise, and the soldiers of the Han army trampled by the horseshoes died immediately without even groaning.

The Jin army cavalry in the rear were all sprinting up at high speed, and the Jin army cavalry who failed to avoid or sweep away the spears, they collided with the slanted spears at absolute high speed, and the spear tip fell from the neck of the horse. The whole body penetrates through and then pierces the knight on horseback, and then smashes down the man and the horse heavily. When it falls, it can often take away at least one Han soldier.

Those cavalrymen of the Jin army who were not stopped by the spears, after they successfully rushed into the formation of the Han army, there were very few people wielding weapons. Use speed to collide.

When the cavalry charge at high speed, the impact force brought by the speed is really terrifying. If they are arranged in a dense formation, they can withstand a one-time collision and force the cavalry to stop. If the formation is loose, they will definitely be hit by horses one after another. fly out.

A group of Han troops who first launched a counter-charge and then set up spear formations were quickly overwhelmed by the cavalry of the Jin army. Liu Jian realized that after rushing out, he caught the enemy less than [-] steps away before he had time to catch his breath. Another forest of spikes made of spears.

In fact, after the Jin army dispatched cavalry as the vanguard, Dou'a immediately ordered the spearmen to set up a spear array every thirty steps.This is the experience summed up from the battle between the Han army and the Shijie Zhao army. Even if the cavalry can break through an interception line, it will also slow down. Setting up an interception line [-] steps away can effectively stop the enemy cavalry, even if it is broken through again. Forces enemy cavalry to lose speed completely.

The cavalry who charged at full speed didn't want to stop instantly. Liu Jian almost said [not good] just now, and arrived at the second spear array of the Han army in less than three breaths.He instinctively swept away the spear in front of him with a horse spear, and the horse gave a hard stop amidst the sound of the collision, and he was thrown into the air by a huge force uncontrollably, and when he fell, he watched helplessly as a piece of spiked growth below him. spear.

"Get out of the way!"

"The captain wants to capture the enemy general alive!"

That is to say, the soldiers of the Han army were trained to subconsciously obey the orders of the officers, so that Liu Jian could not be stabbed into rags when he fell. He fell heavily on the ground, but when he wanted to use the inertia to roll, he bumped into the army formation As a soldier of the Han army, the instinct of a general is to sweep Ma Qiang and force the Han army soldiers away. Ma Qian did not sweep out and was already pointed at by the tips of spears around his body.

Only a few of the cavalry of the Jin army who charged up from behind were able to push through the forest of spears, and most of them rushed up and ran into them by themselves. The movement of people turning their backs on their backs lasted for a long time.

Liu Jian originally wanted to close his eyes with extreme reluctance, but the cavalry of his own side who rushed up from behind disrupted the movements of the Han army to capture him alive.When he realized that he had a chance to get out of trouble, he abandoned the horse at the first time, drew out the sword at his waist, turned around and kept waving the sword, killing and wounding several Han soldiers, looking around Breaking through the encirclement, he was surrounded and trapped by the Han army before he had time to find an opportunity.

With Liu Jian's vision, he couldn't see anything. The Jin army's cavalry charged straight ahead. Dou'a had already mobilized his troops to take advantage of the disconnection between the Jin army's cavalry and infantry, and cut off the connection between the Jin army's cavalry and infantry, causing them to run very fast. The cavalry of the Jin army fell into the infantry of the Han army, but the slower infantry of the Jin army was intercepted and killed.

"Inform the captain that the enemy general has been captured alive."

"very good."

Dou himself was watching the battlefield. About 2000 people were still fighting with the cavalry of the Jin army, and another 2000 people formed a front line to block the infantry of the Jin army. The partial battlefield here was actually divided into two parts.

Xie Shang, who was also looking at the battlefield, saw that the Han army only dispatched about [-] troops to fight Liu Jian. He thought that [-] cavalry and [-] infantry should break through to the [-] Han army. The cavalry fell into the "mire" after only a short moment of majesty, and even the infantry, which had an absolute superiority in numbers, was blocked.

"The Han army has far more experience in combat than ours." Xie Shang pulled off the visor of his helmet and said to Xie Wan who was beside him after indicating that he was ready to attack: "The only thing we can do now is to push up, and we can't give the Han army time to breathe."

Xie Wan is the younger brother of Xie An and Xie Shi. Although he is older, he only entered the official career in the seventh year of Xiankang (341 A.D.) of Emperor Cheng of Jin Dynasty. His official position was much lower. Before joining Huainan, he was actually a as a local civil servant.

In the aristocratic families south of the Yangtze River, the quality of their children is very uneven. There are many aristocratic families who are like pigs. However, the aristocratic families with better social status actually train their children in both civil and military fields. There is definitely a gap in talent.

The Xie family should actually be regarded as the best among the families under the small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty in terms of training their children. They followed the line of advancing both civility and military affairs. Unlike the Wang family, which focused on cultivating literati, and the Yu family, which focused on military affairs. .

The Yangxia Xie family is currently divided into three branches.The descendants of Xie Po are currently the main line, including Xie Yi, Xie Ju, Xie An, Xie Wan, Xie Shi, and Xie Tie.As the son of Xie Kun, Xie Shang is from the same line, and their lineage is thin, and they are married to Chu Po.The other line is Xie Guang, this line has actually completely declined, if it is not for those who are familiar with the Xie clan, they will definitely not remember that there is such a line.

The entire north bank of the Huai River was actually in a state of full-scale combat. The air was intertwined with the sound of various bugles and shouts, and the soldiers on both sides were fighting for their lives amidst the screams of metal and flesh.

The number of the Jin army is twice that of the Han army. After they press the whole line, the battle line presents a distorted line. Generally speaking, the Jin army in the center is the most advanced. The Han army was firmly blocked.

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 advance of his own troops was smooth was because the Han army actively stretched out a half-moon formation at the beginning, and even the center of the Han army. The area is deliberately retreating, so that the overall crescent-shaped military formation has almost evolved into a semicircle.

"The offensive on the left and right flanks has suffered serious setbacks..." Sun Chuo had to sort through the battle reports collected from all parties, and said to Xie Shi with a serious face, "But the central battlefield can advance."

As a general, you need to have enough imagination. After Xie Shi was awakened, a picture immediately appeared in his mind. The first thing that came to mind was that the enemy intended to empty the center, obviously to conduct an encirclement battle.

"The two wings turned from offense to defense!" Xie Shixiang sneered, and said: "The frontal battlefield in the central area will then dispatch troops to go up, ordering that even if it is a pile of corpses, it must be pierced by the general!"

The formation is dead, and whether it can be maintained depends on whether the troops can persist, and on who can reach the goal first, the defender or the attacker.

Xie Shi knew very well what kind of situation his troops were facing. An army that had no way out could only attack in a low tone. No matter how critical or unfavorable the situation was, they would attack. Once they failed to show their will to attack, what was left for them Definitely a way to lose.

It should be said that the current morale of the Jin army is still available. The soldiers were stimulated by a series of false victories, and the will of the upper-level generals was strong enough. Regardless of whether it was smooth or frustrated, at least there was no rout 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 discovered that the Jin army had a stronger desire to attack than the Hu army.

"The current Jin army and the previous Jin army may still have those same people, but their will is completely different." Tiao You also wanted to sort out the battle reports that came up. He said: "The enemy has already stabilized the front on the two wings, and the central battlefield is under attack. Onslaught at any cost."

"The intention to encircle has been discovered." Xu was watching the battle report about Shouchun and Dangtu in his hand, without looking up, he said: "But it doesn't matter, they patronize this side, we have already taken Dangtu. "

Tiao You nodded in approval. He knew that the national war between countries was never just about the victory or defeat of a certain battlefield. Using one battlefield to attract the enemy's maximum attention, even if it failed to attract the enemy's side, , as long as the remaining battlefields can complete their goals and gain the greatest advantage in the entire national war battlefield, then it will be a genuine national victory.

Generally speaking, it is impossible to see who has gained an absolute advantage between the Han army and the Jin army in the Huaishui battlefield.

"Now we just hold on." Xu Zheng looked up at the battlefield and continued: "We will hold on until the Jin army's excited morale drops."

Tiao You still nodded in approval, regardless of how Xie Shi aroused the high morale of the Jin army, once the Jin army found that it was impossible to defeat the Han army in a short time, then the soldiers of the Jin army would doubt and hesitate. There is also room for manipulation in other moves.

"That's right, what did your majesty say about throwing the whip and cutting off the water?" Xu Zheng really forgot, and after being reminded by Tiaoyou, he grinned: "Our majesty... must do something that can't be done in this general." For things that you understand, such as before crossing the river, you must say a sentence, "With my fellow travelers, throw a whip on the river, and stop the flow", and other things, Chang Shi must do it!"

Tiaoyou nodded with a troubled face, expressing that he would obey, but in his heart he complained speechlessly.How did he know that Liu Yan was guaranteeing that some Chinese words must be born!
(End of this chapter)