Chapter 1154: Depth
Sure enough, as Zan Jian expected, by the evening, more Hun cavalry were surrounding him.
They were divided into ten batches and moved around around the vicinity.
As the Zanjian army was in power, he learned the tactics of Jin Dynasty, used vehicles to protect the wings, and the infantry walked in the middle to prevent the enemy from rushing directly.
But how to say this kind of tactic is very dependent on the quality of soldiers.
In the past, Ma Long "study" in Luoyang, he finally won 3,500 elite soldiers. He then broke through the siege of the Bald Fat Tree's functional cavalry and successfully rescued Liangzhou. He lost news in the middle, making people think that they were wiped out.
Shao Xun also created a special side van to train tactics early, and selected elite silver guns with melee, long-range shooting, and three battles.
It is really a bit dangerous for ordinary soldiers to do this and may not be able to withstand it. Just ask, can you give the defensive tasks to Bazi with confidence and sleep with peace of mind under the constant harassment of the enemy cavalry day and night?
The Zanjian tribe had just been out for several miles and had to stop.
A corner of the chariot formation has been opened, and the cavalry temporarily assigned to them have removed armor and horse lances, replaced with cavalry bows as their main weapons, and are ready to attack at any time.
But Zan Jian was hesitant and did not issue an order for a long time.
The reason is very simple. It is not easy to raise some cavalry in Shu and the cost is also very high.
The source of cavalry is easy to find. Although the children of the six counties have become a little degenerate, there are more than 200,000 people. There are always tens of thousands of men of the right age. It is not difficult to pick and choose thousands of people.
If these people are not good, there are also Qiang people grazing in the mountains to the west, and there is no shortage of cavalry talents, but what they lack is qualified war horses.
So far, there are only about 5,000 cavalry in the country, two thousand in Hanzhong and one thousand in Jiangzhou, and the remaining two thousand people have been brought over.
When the emperor learned that the Hun cavalry was attacking, the emperor sent a thousand cavalry to help, but now two hundred have been lost, and there are still eight hundred left. If he is sent out, I don’t know how many people will be left to come back.
He just observed that the Hun cavalry that surrounded him might have two or three thousand cavalry, and eight hundred people took off their iron armor and rushed up to play riding and shooting with the Huns. Even if one is changed, it would be a big loss.
After thinking about it, after the cavalry commander looked at him several times, Zan Jian ordered the cavalry to dismount and walk, leaving no more care.
Let’s stick to it first. Guanghan County City is more than ten miles south. You can take a breath and then make a decision.
The convoy continued to move forward.
Seeing that the Huns did not attack, they did not need to wait for orders, and they surrounded them like wolves.
For a time, horse hooves inside and outside river valleys and hills were bursting with sounds of arrows breaking through the air. This situation almost made people return to the moment when Shao Xun led the Silver Spear Army from Yiyang and advanced into Luoyang.
The same situation and the same tactics were just adjusted. Now Liang Jun used cavalry archers to test whether Li Cheng's infantry could withstand and whether he would panic.
At the critical moment, Li Yu seemed to have stimulated blood. I saw him standing on a ox cart with a long spear in his hand, glaring at the Hun cavalry cruising in the distance.
As if feeling his gaze, more than a hundred riders rushed over.
Their speed was not too fast or too slow, and they slowly dispersed their formation during the journey, approaching to two hundred steps, and finally slowly accelerated.
Li Yu became nervous for a moment.
The followers raised the big shield in front of him and on both sides, almost obscuring his vision and looked very funny.
"Swoosh! Swoosh!" The fangren step archers on the ox cart couldn't hold back and took the lead in shooting the arrow.
Too far away, there is almost no threat, and a round of opportunities is wasted.
The Huns Light Cavalry was getting faster and faster. When the archers rushed out the second round of arrows, the Huns Light Cavalry's horn bow also threw out the arrows.
In an instant, people on both sides fell down screaming.
"Dode!" A muffled sound came from a shield in front of Li Yu, and the arrow penetrated the skin and nailed into the wooden board.
Li Yu felt the blood on his face fading away.
"Dodo!Dodo!" Two more arrows flew over, and a series of sounds were made on the shield.
Not far away, there seemed to be screams and the horse's neighing.
"Arrow! Archery!" I wonder if the pressure was too great, Li Yu suddenly shouted: "Bridge! Where is the crossbow? I haven't installed it for so long?"
"Ah!" A scream sounded close to you. It turned out that a person in the ox cart was shocked by Li Yu. His hand shook, and the shield was crooked and he was shot directly in the thigh.
"Bad!" Li Yu didn't know who he was scolding, so he shouted nervously: "Arrow! Everyone is here to shoot arrows!"
Everyone was timid and didn't know what to do.
Zan Jian in the distance saw it, sighed, waved the flag, and ordered a hundred knights to put on their armor and rush out from a corner of the carriage.
A group of Xiongnu light cavalry rushed too close and shot too attentively. They were intercepted by the cavalry that rushed out and were directly dispersed.
Chengjun cavalry chased after him for hundreds of steps before he let out anger and returned to victory.
And the threat here was lifted, and the other side was in crisis again. More than 200 Xiongnu light cavalry wading from a shallow river in the east, and unexpectedly rushed to dozens of steps away. The horn bows were fired, and the fanged infantry on the ox cart kept crying. There were countless people who fell to the ground. Even the infantrymen who were marching were frightened and squatted on the ground and refused to leave.
Zan Jian dispatched another group of crossbowmen, and under the cover of the sword and shield soldiers, he barely drove the enemy cavalry away.
He had just breathed a sigh of relief, and the left rear was anxious again, so he sent someone again.
The left rear stabilized, and the front reported that more than 200 Hun cavalry dismounted and fought in the field.
So he ordered the gang soldiers in front of him to defend, mobilized another 300 people to support, and ordered the cavalry to attack and intercept the dismounted Xiongnu cavalry...
The whole afternoon was fighting and stopping, and there was not a few miles in total. Seeing that it was getting dark again, the entire army stopped, and the carriages and horses remained at the foot of the mountain, and the entire army camped on the hills.
At this time, Zan Jian discovered a headache: throughout the afternoon, the archers shot more than a dozen arrows and dozens of arrows. Even if they didn’t pull the bow and shoot vigorously, they would lose their physical strength.
He inspected the crowd and found that the most powerful people who ejaculated were sore and weak, and it was difficult to fight again in a short period of time, so he had to rest.
Zan Jian was speechless.
If everyone can shoot arrows, they can easily rotate at this time, and always maintain a dense rain of arrows, blocking the haunted enemy cavalry, increasing their casualties, and damaging their morale, so that they dare not try it easily.
This is how it happens a lot of times. The opponent was hit hard at the beginning, so that the opponent could not take advantage of it, so the other party would not fight hard because it was meaningless. But if you give the other party hope, the Huns will be arrogant because they see hope to break through the chariot formation.
But - Where can so many people who can shoot archers in the world come from?
In order to deal with grassland cavalry during the Han and Wei dynasties, the infantry of the crossbowmen was strengthened, but only about 40% or 50%.
It would be great that the Luoyang Central Army in the former Jin Dynasty could have achieved 30% of the results.
There are even fewer troops in Shu, and 20% is considered a lot.
Overuse of the archer is just a trouble. Now Zan Jian is even more worried that someone will come to harass him at night. Will these soldiers with less experience in the battle formation be so noisy that they can't sleep...
Zan Jian was worried, and Wanqike was in a hidden valley, summarizing the battle process of the day with the soldiers.
"Prince, I found that the enemy archers only had one bow, and they were probably not good at fighting. Once they approached, they would probably run away in scattered places." Someone said.
"Oh? It's true?" Wanqike was overjoyed.
He heard from his father that the archer who rushed over to kill Emperor Shao suffered a great loss. Those people directly pulled out the ring-headed sword to fight with you, and their skills were very superb.
Later, when I inquired, there were 6,000 people in the first battalion of the Silver Spear Army, equipped with bows, guns, and knifes. The reason why one point was missing was that there were crossbowmen, civil servants, grooms, doctors and other mixed people.
In front of such a unit, you still have to dismount and fight in close combat. Is it a waste of life?
But there are many crossbowmen in this world who are "not familiar with swords and guns". When they encounter melee battles, they can only be "slaughtered" - "The common bows and crossbowmen do not learn guns and swords. Although each brings a sword, they are not taught by Yuan Dynasty." Although this sentence is about the Northern Song Dynasty, it is actually very common. The troops that require close combat and long-range shooting under the legacy of the palace soldiers are exceptional.
"Really, the commander." Someone said, "I took people off the horse during the day and tried it. Those fangmen archers and crossbowmen were in short-lived, but I think their ability to fight might not be as good as me. This is not the Silver Spear Army or the Black Wild Army, so I have to fight."
Wanqike was overjoyed when he heard this.
After fighting for so many years, I have encountered troops with pitifully few crossbowmen and weak in close combat.
Actually, this is right.
Who brought up the "bad habits" of infantry that both need to be close combat and long-range shooting in the North? It made their cavalry very uncomfortable and was controlled everywhere.
"I'll take someone to try it out in the evening." Wan Qike slapped his thigh, stood up from the ground, and said, "You choose a few heroes who have good eyes and can fight, and follow me to fight."
"As for your order." Everyone answered in unison.
"Person Huan is coming..." Wan Qike shook his head and said, "The soldiers from Feilongshan Town come. Pingyang, Xiheqiao, Wang, Liu, Bu, Lan and other tribes all come here, and even Shiloushan Hu are coming. Alas, I heard that Governor Duan is coming too."
"Right-Knight Guard?" Someone said in surprise: "Didn't they go to Dianjiang?"
Wan Qike looked at him and sighed, "How can Dianjiang compare to Li Xiong? When he heard that he was coming, Duan Liang led his army northward. Killing Li Xiong, Shuzhong will be settled."
Everyone felt a sense of urgency.
Their family knows their own affairs, so they may not be weak, but they are still much worse than cavalry "guards" like the left and right cavalry guards. Because most of the soldiers from the palace come from various guards, they also called the soldiers in the Daliang Dynasty "guards".
The guard eats better than you, practices more than you, has excellent equipment than you, and is better than you, and has more battles than you, how can you compare?
When these people come, they can't catch up with the heat even if they eat shit.
"People are divided into two groups." Wan Qike thought for a while and said, "The attack in the first half of the night made him sleep uneasy and his physical strength was greatly damaged. The second half of the night was dismounted and he would fight for a stairs. If not, forget it, wait until Captain Huan comes over to talk about it."
"Guardian, do you want to go and rush to Li Xiong?" someone asked, "They are ten miles north."
"Try it first and become a thief's front army, and then siege Li Xiong after finding the depth. This time, you must not let him run away." Wan Qike shook his head and insisted on his own opinion.
Everyone stopped talking and took their own people to rest, waiting for the order to go to war.
(This chapter ends)