Chapter 3008: Iron Cavalry Racing
It is true that the armored cavalry has various weaknesses, such as insufficient mobility, excessive maintenance and maintenance, etc., and has never been able to expand on a large scale in history, making it a conventional arm.
But there is one thing that all arms cannot compare with, and that is impact.
The horses in the armored cavalry are all of the highest quality. They are usually nearly two meters tall and weigh more than 1,500 kilograms. They are powerful and have sufficient endurance. The weight of the knight is also around 150 kilograms. Plus the human armor and vest , the overall weight is often close to two thousand kilograms.
The two-thousand-kilogram behemoth rushes at a speed of nearly fifty kilometers per hour. The oppressive feeling is like the pressure of a mountain or a tsunami. It often scares the enemy's courage and collapses their morale before they reach the enemy's formation.
In addition, being covered in heavy armor and not afraid of swords and arrows, in this age of cold weapons, the armored cavalry can be called the king of field battles!
As long as it has enough charging distance, even the most elite army in the world will be unable to resist.
What's more, these rabble-rousers in the Goguryeo army have not received much formal training...
So when the shadow of the armored cavalry appeared from the sight, its rumbling cry drowned out the roaring river, and it rolled over like a mountain. The momentum of the landslide and the ground cracking made all the Goguryeo soldiers feel wary and fearful. Desperate!
Gao Huizhen stood up suddenly, drew his sword, and shouted: "Form up! Form into formation! Those who flee in fear of battle will be killed without mercy!"
He kicked a soldier who was running in front of him to the ground, and then swung his saber to chop it down hard. Blood spurted out, and he cut off the head of the defeated soldier.
Facing the cavalry, especially the heavily armored cavalry, the infantry could only have a chance of survival if they formed an array and resisted desperately. If they fled in all directions, they would die.
No matter how fast two legs are, can they be faster than four legs? Once the armored cavalry breaks through the array, no matter how many soldiers there are, they can only be chased and killed like lambs!
The generals and commanders around him also reacted, drew out their sabers one after another, and killed more than a dozen defeated soldiers in a row. Only then could they stabilize the chaotic situation. The brigade commander, team commander, chief commander, and corps commander began to gather their troops and quickly formed an array in brigade units.
The spearmen are outside, shieldmen are guarding them, and the archers are guarded in the middle, shooting them from a distance with bows and arrows... This is of course useless, the armored cavalry are fully armored, and the bows and crossbows are ignored at all. It's just that this kind of square formation has always been used to face the cavalry. In a hurry, the officers in the army subconsciously ordered the soldiers who had not undergone much training to form a square formation.
By the time it was discovered that the arrows fired could not penetrate the armor of the enemy cavalry, it was already too late to change the formation.
More than two thousand light cavalry separated in front of the formation and ran to the left and right like a tide. The knights on horseback drew their bows and nocked arrows, and the arrows were fired at the phalanx of the Goguryeo army like locusts. The cavalry has an impact bonus and can throw bows and arrows from horses with a longer range. It can easily throw the sword rain into the square formation of the Goguryeo Army, but the Goguryeo Army's bows and arrows cannot reach the Tang Army's light cavalry at all.
The arrows rained like locusts, and the sharp triangular arrow clusters easily penetrated the leather armor and thin clothes of the Goguryeo troops. Blood spattered and they fell to the ground one by one.
Hundreds of armored cavalry maintained a constant speed, and in groups of ten, they mounted fiercely on the phalanx of the Goguryeo army.
It was like the ocean tide rolled up huge waves and beat wildly on the rocks on the shore, making a "booming" sound. It was the sound of armored war horses mounted on human bodies, splashing a spray of blood, which was dizzying. . The Goguryeo soldiers with broken bones and tendons were knocked backwards, and their bodies hit their companions behind them hard, causing the still tight formation to suddenly loosen.
Gao Huizhen's eyes were about to burst, and he roared: "Hold it! Counterattack! Counterattack!"
The Goguryeo soldiers also knew that the lethality of armored cavalry was astonishing. If they could not withstand this wave of charge, everyone would probably die on the spot, so they struggled to stab the horses and enemy soldiers with their spears and knives, their eyes were red with blood. Try your best to block the enemy.
However, how can human beings resist the impact of armored cavalry?
Countless spears and knives failed to withstand the impact of the armored cavalry, and were violently rushed into the array. The places where the iron hooves stepped on were bloody and bloody. The Tang army on the horseback was holding a wide Mo Dao, and the sharp blade passed by Everywhere, blood spurted out, ghosts cried, wolves howled, and countless stumps, broken arms, and internal organs flew everywhere.
The miserable state of the Goguryeo army was like a ghost land.
Gao Huizhen gritted his teeth and frantically commanded the troops around him: "Charge forward! Charge forward to entangle the enemy, don't give them room to charge!"
This is a self-destructive strategy, but it is also the only tactic that can deal with armored cavalry.
The combination of men and horses indeed provides huge impact and strong protection, and is almost invulnerable. However, its weakness is its poor mobility. After rushing into the enemy's formation, it must either break through the formation, or return immediately, distance itself and sprint again.
Once entangled by the enemy, it loses its impact and becomes a moving iron coffin...
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Xue Wanche has always taken the lead and charged forward.
At this moment, he controlled the war horse to rush into the enemy's formation, and slashed the Mo Dao to the left. An enemy soldier who was holding a long knife and trying to chop at the horse's leg was split into two pieces by him. The splashing blood and organs drew a blood-red rainbow in the air, which made Xue Wanche go crazy!
Holding Mo Dao in both hands, he charged forward bravely, looking like a killing god!
What about officialdom, what about worldliness, what about beauties... all of those things have nothing to do with me, I can't play with them!
Only by being on this battlefield can I show my abilities. I was born for the battlefield!
Xue Wanche, who was inexplicably excited, only relied on his legs to control the war horse. He held the Mo Dao in both hands and flew up and down. The enemy soldiers would die if they were touched or touched. Blood flowed out and corpses lay on the pillows within a few feet in front of him. He fiercely attacked the enemy's formation. Kill in the middle!
Where is the general who can unite?
The surrounding soldiers' morale was stimulated by Xue Wanche's bravery, and they fought bravely behind him. Hundreds of armored cavalry were like sharp chisels, driving hard into the enemy's array. The enemy troops in front of them were like weak chickens, killing and slashing at will, making these Tang soldiers feel their blood boiling and they were crazy with excitement!
Xue Wanche took the lead. Every time Mo Dao swung his sword, blood would splash out. He suddenly felt the pressure in front of him loosen, only to find that he had already killed a square formation. He had the guts to kill, so he didn't care, his legs clamped tightly on the horse's belly, and the horse sprinted again, slamming into the next phalanx.
Logically speaking, the tactics of armored cavalry are not like this. After killing a square formation, you have to turn back and take a breather, so as to leave enough space to fully increase the speed of the horse and exert the maximum impact. And if there are too many enemies, you cannot be reluctant to fight, otherwise once you are trapped in a tight siege, the impact will not be exerted, and you will be in a deadlock.
Xue Wanche couldn't do anything else, but he was definitely a first-class expert in fighting. How could he not understand this truth? But his goal was not to annihilate all the enemy forces in front of him, and he couldn't annihilate them all. At a glance, there were densely packed ant-like heads. How could there be 70,000 to 80,000 of them? Even if these Goguryeo soldiers are pigs and can be driven all over the mountain, he will not be able to kill them all...
The strategic purpose is just to kill the enemy's effective forces and undermine the enemy's morale so that they cannot smoothly support Anshi City. That is simple.
Just kill and have fun!
Not far behind him, the infantry led by Wang Wendu had already formed a formation and were slowly pressing forward.
Once Xue Wanche fell into the enemy's encirclement and suppression, Wang Wendu would kill directly to disperse the enemy and allow him to leave calmly.
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Gao Huizhen naturally saw the Tang Army's infantry appearing slowly in the distance, and immediately understood the Tang Army's intention - they were planning to meet the armored cavalry!
He found that he seemed to have captured a fleeting fighter opportunity, which might change the situation of the battle, but he was not sure that he could stop this Tang Army infantry.
However, there was no room for hesitation at this time. Fighters were fleeting on the battlefield, so where was the opportunity for him to think over and over again and demonstrate carefully? He immediately shouted to his lieutenant: "Lead my commander's personal guards and rush forward to stop the Tang army for me! As long as you prevent them from picking up the armored cavalry, I will ask for credit from Damolizhi!"
The deputy general is also a fierce general who has been in battle for a long time. When he understood the intention of his commander, he immediately gritted his teeth and said: "The last general will not retreat to the death and must stop the Tang army!"
Immediately led the elite personal guards, together with thousands of soldiers, bypassed the rear path of the armored cavalry, and charged towards Wang Wendu's troops in billowing smoke.
The light cavalry guarding the armored cavalry kept weaving in and out, causing constant damage to the Goguryeo army that was trying to rent Wang Wendu. However, the Goguryeo people completely ignored the casualties and did not even look at the light cavalry who were running up and down shooting around them. They rushed towards Wang Wendu's headquarters without fear of death.
Suddenly, there was a situation on the battlefield where the armored cavalry penetrated deep into the enemy formation, and the rear was cut off by the Goguryeo army. However, Wang Wendu, who came to support him, was about to be held back by the Goguryeo army... (End of this chapter)
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