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Chapter 789: An Ancient Unit
Every civilization will have its own characteristics, not only in terms of culture, but also in terms of military units.

The assault cavalry is not exclusive to Zhuxia. The civilization that first created this army was the nomads, but the productivity of the nomads was not good. Most of the cavalry belonged to the type of light cavalry.

It was not until the period of the Five Chaos, when the nomads invaded and occupied the Central Plains, plundered resources and enslaved enough labor, that the assault cavalry was considered to shine, and it was even the first time for the nomads to play with the armored riding equipment. .

It was the Xian Han who played the most slick cavalry. Several famous troops were actually well-organized cavalry. They were light cavalry used to deal with nomads. record.

In the empires of the world during the same period in the pre-Han Dynasty, the Hun Empire played with light cavalry, and the Parthian Empire in Persia played with armored cavalry. The Roman Empire did not pay much attention to cavalry at all.What is more strange is that Persian armored cavalry equipment has been repeatedly taught by Roman armored heavy infantry and javelin soldiers.

There is a horse-producing land in Ah San, but the most distinctive feature is the elephants. They also have their own elephant soldiers, and the elephant soldiers have a glorious history, such as during the Macedonian-Greek invasion period. played an important role.

Not all countries can afford elephant soldiers. Apart from some necessary taming and training skills, it is actually related to financial resources. For example, Jitanado also has elephant soldiers, but the number is only a few hundred, which is not like being rich and powerful. The Gupta Dynasty could feed and maintain tens of thousands of elephant soldiers.

In addition to the elephant soldiers, Ah San's most important thing was the chariot troops. On the contrary, Zhu Xia's most important cavalry was not much higher than the infantry.

Zhuxia has a history of measuring the strength of a country by the number of chariots. It is a period of time when building chariots requires certain resources and necessary technology, and productivity is low. The more chariots you have, the stronger the national power. At the same time, each chariot is equipped with a source of troops. Without enough soldiers, it is impossible to equip as many chariots.

The historical stage of Asan's side is similar to that of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods of Zhu Xia. To measure national strength, one first looks at the number of elephant soldiers it has, and then the number of chariots it owns. The cavalry unit is not included in the reference range.

According to Qian Jiantong's understanding, or according to the concept of the Han people, it is only natural that the cavalry is a sufficient threat, and that is why Qian Jiantong chose to lead his own troops to meet Jitana's multi-step cavalry mixed troops.

The battle has entered the stage where the Han army is constantly cruising and seizing the opportunity to attack. The rhythm of the battlefield is completely controlled by the Han army.

Jitanado's cavalry fell into the continuous chaos of being attacked, and the infantry never "woke up" at all. Qian Jiantong was delighted and surprised by the smoothness of the battle. field battle.

In fact, Jitanado had never fought against the Han army. While he did not understand the tactics of the Han army, there were also mistakes in the appointment of generals by Zantep Deilaos Shulaka. In war, whoever makes mistakes loses the advantage. Once a mistake is made and the opponent seizes the opportunity, victory or defeat will be determined in that instant.

At the same time, Qian Jiantong also clearly discovered that the enemy army they faced had a low coordination ability, and it was really not a strong army.

There is nothing surprising about this point. It is a universal truth that a small country does not have a strong army. It is doomed by national strength first, and then it lacks the self-confidence of a strong person that a member of a strong country has.

To put it bluntly, a strong country is built by fighting, and the self-confidence of being a strong person is built, but the will and confidence cannot be achieved in a short time.

Qian Jiantong can control the rhythm of the battlefield, but he knows that it is impossible to wipe out this enemy army on the spot, and the only thing he can do is to defeat it.

Next, what the Han army did was to drive away the tactics, preventing the enemy cavalry from reuniting with the whole team, and constantly exerting pressure on the chaotic enemy infantry.

It took nearly an hour, and the Gitanado infantry, whose will had collapsed, began to flee on a large scale. Before that, a considerable part of Gitanado's cavalry had dispersed and fled.

After Jitanado's army fled, the performance of the Han cavalry was officially staged, dispersing the enemy army in groups, causing the fleeing enemy to be everywhere, driving and harvesting repeatedly, more and more The mentally broken Ah San chose to give up resistance and escape, kneeling and surrendering.

Almost as the battle on Qian Jiantong's side has come to an end, another battle has also begun.

Somewhat different from Qian Jiantong's battlefield, Li Jun led the Han army and the attached army to face the chariot soldiers and infantry of Jitanado. The two armies did not start a confrontation at the first moment. There is a tacit understanding, or they all need to be prepared, and they all stop when they are about a mile apart.

Li Jun saw nearly a thousand chariots, and through the telescope, he could find that Jitanado's chariots were very different from Zhuxia's.

The chariots of Zhuxia are actually heavy-duty according to their classification. They are generally four-horse chariots. The number of soldiers or units on the vehicle will be adjusted according to the needs, such as removing the shield soldier and taking two archers, or not carrying the archer and carrying two halberd soldiers.

The Asan chariot that appeared on the battlefield is a bucket style, unlike Zhuxia's chariot that has guardrails on all sides. After the chariot is emptied, there are only waist-high guard walls on the front, left, and right. It looks a little small, and it is pulled by two horses. It is classified according to the carrying members. One is a combination of a driver, a spearman, and a shield player, and the other is a combination of a driver, a shield player, and an archer.

Li Jun was very careful, Ah San's chariot did not have an axle, but each of the two wheels had a scalloped sharp object protruding out, no need to guess that it must be a big killer mounted on the wheel.What's more, he clearly saw that some sharp blades were fixed on the horses pulling the chariot, which should be lethal weapons that used speed during the collision.

"We...have not trained how to fight against tanks." Dai Shen, as a captain, also had binoculars. He saw Asan's tank in his eyes and was somewhat worried: "This terrain is very flat. There were no obstacles to chariot operations. We had no time to dig trenches."

Chariots have long since disappeared from the battlefields of Zhuxia, and were replaced by cavalry. In the era of advanced information, even one thing has disappeared in society for a long time, but some entertainment, such as movies, serials, and novels, basically In the past, there would be some reliable targeting methods, but now is precisely an era of underdeveloped information.

"You can only rely on shield soldiers to create slopes to overturn them." Li Jun actually had not read any military manual on how to deal with chariots. He simply reacted in the simplest way: "Chariots run on wheels, one high and one high. Low will definitely roll over."

It's a very correct way of targeting, but it not only tests the courage of the shield soldier, the shield must also be strong enough, and then the reaction of the shield bearer and whether the body is strong enough.

Waves of powerful horn sounds were blown from Gita Nado's side, followed by shouts like a roaring mountain and a tsunami.

The Han people couldn't understand Ah San's words, so they didn't know what they were shouting at all.In fact, even if he could understand Ah San's language, it was difficult to tell what he was shouting when the shouts sounded very irregular.

"Beat the drums."

In the army of the Han Dynasty, the infantry will definitely carry large or small war drums, and the cavalry will carry horns, and soon the "dong dong dong" war drums will be sounded.

Li Jun would have such a reaction, because the army is very particular about momentum, no matter what kind of noise is caused, the noise created by the enemy cannot surpass his own, otherwise the momentum will be compared, causing the morale of one's own side to shake.

The number of Gitanado's chariots should be around 1000 to [-], and the number of accompanying infantry is about [-]. They simply put the chariots at the front, and the infantry stood behind without any formation.

Judging from the battle flags, there are quite a lot of battle flags of different styles and even different patterns on Jitanado. It should be that every Kshatriya family has a battle flag belonging to its own family?
In fact, not only the battle flags, but also the chariots can see some obvious differences, such as the patterns painted on them, and the obvious features of some car wall styles.

Not to mention military uniforms, Jitanado doesn't have uniform uniforms at all. Not only are the styles of clothes different, but the colors are also varied.

Li Jun used the binoculars to observe the direction of the northeast, where the dust was flying. Although it was obscured by the dust, he could not see what happened, but he could guess that his own cavalry was fighting with the enemy.He wasn't worried about his boss at all. Although there were only two thousand cavalry going to fight, they were Habayashi cavalry. Even if they couldn't win, they wouldn't suffer a big loss.

A slightly orderly shout drew Li Jun's attention back. It was a slogan shouted by the Assams in front of the formation, and the chariot in the front row also waved the long whip of the driver, and the horses began to pull the chariot forward.

Of course, the wheels are made of wood, there is no such thing as rubber wheels, the wooden structure rubs against the road surface, even if the ground is flat, there will inevitably be some stones and the like, which will cause the chariot to shake, causing people standing on it to be shocked. With the ups and downs of the car body, a larger bump would make them need to reach out and hold the car wall to stabilize their bodies.

After Jitanado's chariots were dispatched, the attached army behind the Han army was visibly agitated. Li Jun was confident in the supervisory army he had arranged, and he had already done what should be done, and his energy should be focused on commanding the battle. He looked back and did nothing else.

Dai Shen was already walking forward with his headquarters, and a battle cry of "Han army mighty" was yelled out, followed by a "drink" sound in unison every time the queue took a step forward.

Ah San's "one mile" is not the same as the Han country's "one mile". It should be said that the name and length of the length unit in most countries are different, but the judgment of the sense of distance depends on the eyes.

The sound of the footsteps made by the Han army marching forward in an orderly manner was not at all quieter than that of Ah San's slowly accelerating chariot.

After the Han army moved forward for a certain distance, the tower shield soldiers who formed a small team broke away from their headquarters and began to accelerate. They were 11 people in a small team, and the teams were separated by more than five meters from each other.

Afterwards, the entire army formation stopped, and the spearmen began to form a hedgehog formation amidst the officer's command, and in an instant the front of the army formation turned into a forest of thorns.

The crossbowmen also organized the arrow array under the command of the officer. They moved very quickly. They received the order immediately after completing the formation. They raised the crossbow machine to an angle according to the officer's instructions, and then pulled the trigger to complete the launch at the command. .

The rest of the arms also needed to be busy. Gradually, the entire army formation was changing. The obvious thing was that the overall formation was being pulled apart. On the left and right wings, including the inside of the army formation, many soldiers were digging hard with shovels.

In the rear, the attached army was ordered to move to the left and right. As long as they were not driven to charge against the chariots, they were still very obedient. They also learned that they needed to encircle the battlefield from the left and right wings when they gained an advantage in combat. Excuting an order.

The wheels of the chariot were rolling forward, and the battlefield was full of noises when the wheels rolled or rubbed against the road.

There was a scene on the battlefield. I don’t know if it was because of cutting corners, or because it was in disrepair, or because it was too bumpy and caused an accident. A chariot suddenly fell off one side of the wheel while it was galloping. The first time they hit the road, they were thrown out. The horses pulling the cart were pulled down by a huge force and smashed to the ground. It hit the ground with a loud bang.

Once the first chariot had an accident, the second and third appeared soon, and the number was actually not too many, that is, chariots without axles to control large turns could only make small turns, and chariots were even more difficult. There are brakes, even if the chariot behind wants to avoid an accident in front of it, firstly, it cannot stop at a high speed, and secondly, it can only make a small turn, and it is inevitable that it will not be able to avoid it and hit it directly.

"That's why our ancestors eliminated the chariot as a unit." Li Jun was not gloating: "The combat method of the chariot is rampage, and it pays great attention to the combat terrain, and the control of the direction is too rigid."

Speaking of which, Zhuxia's chariots are not only pulled by horses, but more chariots are pulled by oxen.Zhuxia's territory is mountainous, so there really isn't much room for chariots to play. Even if it is pulled by a slow animal like a cow, it is still strict about the terrain.

Most of the arrows fired by the Han army's arrow array fell into the air, and some of the arrows that hit have good or bad killing effects on Asan on the car body. It all depends on the reaction of the shield hand on the car body. In time, the next thing is the number of falling arrows.

The arrows of the Han army were not aimed at Ah San on the chariot, but the horses pulling the chariot, they were not put on armor...

(End of this chapter)