Three Kingdoms

  Chapter 594 Different combat modes

   After all, war is not a child's play, nor can it be won on paper. Without suitable generals to lead, even the best plan is useless.

Ma Yan was born as a cavalry soldier, and basically spent most of his life with horses. Therefore, when leading the cavalry, he not only knows how to deploy soldiers, but also knows the physical strength of the horses under his crotch. The adjustment strategy to distribute the physical strength of the horses.

Many of these things are based on experience. Maybe one day, when Ma Yan gets old and can no longer lead soldiers, he will sit down and think about it slowly, and then he will be able to reproduce one or two on the scroll, but now, it is still possible. It was Mayan's instinctive reaction.

   Having said that, why did Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty seem to have won a series of victories after he promoted Wei Qing, but has anyone ever wondered whether the reason why Wei Qing was able to achieve some achievements that the Han people did not have before was related to his previous occupation?

  A horse is a strange and loyal animal, unlike a pet like a cat, which may play tricks anytime and anywhere. Horses are timid, shy, not good at expressing, good at running, but not good at long-term high-intensity running, but the horse's personality is very tired, and it rarely barks. He knows how to refuse, so under the driving of his master, he will even run to the point where his blood boils, and run to death on the road...

  Anyway, from ancient times to the present, there are many horses running to death on the road, but I have never seen a cat running to death on the road.

As a general, he only knows soldiers, so it is no problem to be an infantry general, but to be a cavalry general, he must also understand horses, know when to use horsepower, know what terrain is suitable for horses to gallop, and know how to let the horse rest …

  So to mobilize the Xianbei cavalry to go around in circles forty or fifty miles south of Pingding City for molesting, only Ma Yan is suitable, and other people really can't do it.

At least Xu Huang and Huang Cheng haven't reached that level. Of course, it's no problem for these two leaders to attack and cover up, but it's still a problem to command the horse's speed as if it were his own two legs like Ma Yan did. There is a certain gap.

   Therefore, the cavalry on the east road led by Xu Huang naturally adopted a completely different method from Ma Yan. Xu Huang deliberately chose a stronger horse to ride on, otherwise the weight of his big ax would basically be more than half of the person added out of thin air...

  But the first step was the same for Xu Huang and Ma Yan. When they saw the three thousand cavalrymen killed by Xianbei, they turned around and ran away.

As long as you are not stupid or have any special requirements, otherwise a thousand cavalry against three thousand cavalry, even if the equipment of the Han cavalry is better, but it is relatively good in terms of consumption and impact. Therefore, it is a natural reaction to retreat immediately when the situation is not good.

   Just like the police went to the street and saw someone running away, they would subconsciously chase after them. The Xianbei people almost followed up with their bodies before their brains had finished thinking.

People's thinking is always fixed, and the Xianbei people are no exception. When the scouts scouted and investigated, they said that there were more than a thousand cavalry, so the cavalry in front of them is also about a thousand, so the Xianbei people didn't think about other things, but they didn't Thinking of Huang Cheng, he brought a team of soldiers and horses, and slowly followed Xu Huang's formation, using the lack of eyeliner of the Xianbei scouts swept out by Xu Huang's troops, to ambush.

   Therefore, the Xianbei army, which was happily chasing, was hit by Huang Cheng's long-planned violent attack.

   There was a clatter of clappers, and many Han people with bows and crossbows stood up behind Xiaopo, and they hit the Xianbei cavalry who were chasing head-on.

The rising Xianbei people who were chasing after them couldn't dodge at all. Ordinary bows and arrows could do huge damage to Xianbei people with light armor or even no armor. What's more, there were hundreds of strong crossbows. Whether it hits a person or a horse, almost always as long as it is hit, it will definitely kill in one hit, and the lethality is obviously much stronger than that of bows and arrows.

The troops who rushed to the front were shot to death, tripped and fell by the corpses of people and horses on the ground, trampled and squeezed each other, reined in their horses in a panic and ran left and right, all of a sudden the vanguard of the Xianbei people The momentum of charging and chasing was completely interrupted in an instant.

At this time, Xu Huang turned around and rushed back with his men. The huge long-handled battle ax was extremely heavy, and it was swung up in circles. Regardless of the weight, whether it is a gun barrel, a saber, or a human body, it is basically either thrown away or chopped into two pieces.

   The guy with the big ax in the front was difficult to deal with, and Huang Cheng's archers and crossbowmen shot at him from the side. The Xianbei couldn't hold on immediately, leaving three or four hundred casualties and retreating the whole team.

Xu Huang didn't chase after him, Yu Huang Cheng's troops gathered together and retreated slowly, taking away probably less than a hundred Hu people's horses that were lucky to be uninjured on the battlefield, leaving only corpses and horses all over the ground. Some Xianbei troops were wounded and howling on the ground.

When Da Danghu came east with his soldiers, he bumped into the entire Hui army. He was shocked and angry when he heard that it was an ambush. When he rushed to the ambush point with his troops, he found that the Han troops had already It has already evacuated.

  Da Danghu’s face was sinking like water, while sending out scouts to investigate, while having people clean up the scene.

Nearly 300 people died, and more than 30 people were seriously injured. Basically, there was no cure. More than 20 people lost their hands or legs. Whether they can survive in the future depends on God's will. The other 60 to 70 people suffered from various injuries, which were relatively mild...

  Horses, most of which were slightly injured were recovered, and more than 200 of those who were seriously injured or died on the spot were taken away by the Han people, about 70 or 80 horses...

  The scouts came back and said that the Han people all rode horses and walked very fast, and they had already evacuated to thirty miles away.

  The big boss cursed bitterly, and ordered to turn around and go back.

Now it is approaching dusk, let's not talk about the night if we continue to chase, the horse's vision has deteriorated severely, and it is inconvenient to march. I am very unwilling, and I can only stop for a while, and wait until tomorrow morning, and then look for opportunities to fight.

The damage of four to five hundred troops is not very large for the weight of more than ten thousand troops, but it is also a big blow to Xianbei's morale. Therefore, at night, except for the soldiers on duty, most of the Xianbei people lost their usual hustle and bustle, and found a place to sleep soundly...

   Late last night, a cockroach unexpectedly flew onto the bed where the author was sleeping...

   There are mosquito nets and you can climb in...

   Simply speechless...

   However, the water and soil in Guangxi seems to be a good place to raise insects...

   The author has seen cockroaches with a length of 5 cm that can fly, black beetles that are about the size of a small fingernail, green beetles that are stupid and bump around, barefoot centipedes that exceed 20 cm...

   But there are also butterflies with two long tails...

   Light blue, very pretty...

  (end of this chapter)