Chapter 543: The Great Victory on the Plains of Luoton "So, Panin won the battle" In the world-famous castle in Loulan City, in the warm study, Du Weiwei stood by the fireplace, staring at the roaring fire, picked up a piece of firewood at random and threw it in, and asked in a low voice in an indifferent tone.
Standing beside Du Weiwei was the middle-aged nobleman.
"This battle, Panin did win."
Du sighed slightly: "Although with Paning's ability, winning a battle is not too unexpected, but I am still very curious about how he won." ” "Panin spent half a year in Nulin Province, and one of the biggest things he did was to reorganize his armaments.
After taking over the military affairs of Nulin Province, he did something that everyone was shocked, he broke up the armies of the two divisions of the original Thor's Whip.
The two cavalry regiments that were directly subordinate to the two divisions were transferred, and the personal guards cavalry battalions of the division generals of the original two divisions were added, and these elite cavalry were organized into a separate army, which was temporarily called the First Cavalry Regiment.
This cavalry regiment is a reinforced regiment, consisting of two cavalry regiments of the original Thor's Whip and the personal guard cavalry battalions drawn from various generals, with a strength of about 4,000. ” The middle-aged man said slowly in a very careful tone: "In addition, the local garrison army of the second line of Paning's rectification, as well as the original logistics baggage troops, have transferred all the horses and formed a cavalry unit with the elite backbone selected from the second-line garrison army.
The elite of this cavalry unit is naturally far inferior to the one just mentioned.
But after all, it is the elite selected from the second-line local garrison, and relatively speaking, the combat effectiveness is not weak.
This cavalry regiment was temporarily called the 3rd Cavalry Regiment.
The strength of the army is about about 2,000. ” Speaking of this, the middle-aged nobleman's tone was a little funny: "Speaking of which."
Panin's measures also aroused the opposition of those generals under his command for a time, after all, the cavalry is the elite of the army.
In particular, Panin forced those generals to contribute all their personal guard cavalry, which was tantamount to stripping other people's flesh.
But all that.
Under Panin's iron fist, it was forcibly completed by him.
In order to make up this more than 7,000 cavalry troops, almost all the people in his army who could fight on horseback were removed.
Even when there was tension, in the northwest theater controlled by Panin, only the heralds could still maintain their war horse mounts, and there was no one who could ride horses in the other troops, all of them were infantry. ” Du frowned slightly.
After thinking about it, he said slowly: "Even if he did his best, the seven thousand cavalry he put together can be used, I admit that the elite combat effectiveness of the Thor's whip is still very good, and the Thor's whip failed to stop me at the beginning, purely because their commander was frightened by me, and the combat effectiveness of the army is still very good."
But even if it is like this, 7,000 cavalry, fighting on the plains, even if it is an ambush, it is difficult to get such a big victory after taking those steppe people by surprise. ” "Yes.
According to the information received, there is another key to Panin's victory.
I just told you about these two cavalry teams under his command. 1st Cavalry Regiment, and 3rd Cavalry Regiment. ” Du nodded slightly: "Well, with the first and the third, then there must be a second cavalry regiment."
"Yes."
The middle-aged nobleman smiled bitterly: "In fact, the information we have obtained is not much information about this Second Cavalry Regiment.
Now it is only known that this second cavalry regiment was formed by Panin's own personal guard cavalry troops. ” "Even if he's a duke.
But how long has he been the new duke, where can there be so many elite cavalry guards.
If there can be a few hundred people, it will be up to the sky.
How could there be so many cavalry regiments. ” "That's true, I heard that Panin formed this second cavalry regiment with his own cavalry team directly under his own guard.
There were never more than eight hundred.
The most accurate guess we have is that the number of people is probably between six hundred and eight hundred. ” "Between six hundred and eight hundred, that's just a reinforced battalion."
"Yes, but the combat effectiveness of this reinforced battalion played a key role in this campaign" "Don't you know that guy is really amazing."
Ade sat on the chair, gasped, picked up a cup of tea, took two sips, swallowed all the tea and tea leaves into his stomach, smacked his lips, and quickly continued: "He has a cavalry unit under his command, all of which are composed of Panin's own personal guards.
This cavalry unit is known as the Second Cavalry Regiment, but the actual strength is only more than 700 people.
But these more than 700 cavalry are really remarkable I have been working as a liaison officer at Panin according to your instructions, what kind of military observer position you mentioned, to be honest, I really don't know what to do, anyway, I just have one, Panin walks there, I will follow there, Panin fights, I must be on the side to watch how he fights.
This battle is simply amazing."
Ade was foaming at the mouth Next, according to Ade's description, Chen Daolin had a general understanding of this ambush battle in the Lotton Valley.
Panin deliberately replaced a group of second-line garrisons on the defense line of the Luoton River Valley, showing weakness, deliberately allowing the steppe people to break through the defense line at this point, and taking the initiative to expose a big flaw in his originally complete western defense line.
The cavalry units of the steppe people finally got a coveted breakthrough.
And behind this tear is a flat area that seems to be very suitable for the steppe people to fight Thirty miles of flat land was enough for the steppe people to swing their iron hooves into battle.
This bait, I am not afraid that the steppe people will not take the bait And in fact, the steppe people did take the bait.
The steppe people broke through the defense line of the Rodon valley in the morning, and in order to prevent the counterattack of the Roland army, the steppe people did not make any delay, and quickly crossed this line of defense, and the army went deeper.
These thirty miles of small plains in the river valley are enough for the steppe people to swallow the bait.
Around noon.
More than 30,000 steppe cavalry entered the valley of the Loton.
The most important thing is that the steppe cavalry that entered the Luodun Valley were all directly under the royal court of the steppe king Other words.
This cavalry is the most powerful of the various tribes in the steppe.
Free novels bring you joy and joy ---> storyskyline.net
The King of the Prairie King's Army.
The steppe is still tribal, and there is no concept or system of the so-called central government army.
Every tribe, large and small, has its own people, and the so-called royal court of the Prairie King is only the most powerful tribe among them.
Because the soldiers are strong, they can make the other tribes submit and worship him as king.
The royal court of the Prairie King, the direct possession of troops.
It is of course an exaggeration to say that the tribe of Wang Tingben controls 100,000 strings, but there are still 60,000 or 70,000 cavalry.
Among the other tribes on the grassland, if a single tribe can have 10,000 or 20,000 cavalry, it is already considered a top first-class tribe.
Therefore, the royal court of the Steppe King has enough troops to make other tribes succumb to fear, which is also the biggest reason why he can sit on the throne.
In the previous battle, it was the cavalry team of the royal court headquarters of the Prairie King who stormed this direction of the Roton River Valley.
Because the Lorton Valley has always been the main direction of the steppe attack, the reason is naturally behind the defense line of the Rotton Valley.
It was a thirty-mile-long plain of a river valley In the concept of the steppe people, whoever can break through the defense line here will enter the thirty-mile-long plain next.
Naturally, it is such a good thing as driving straight in, cutting melons and watching vegetables, of course, the king of the grassland is left to his own royal court headquarters.
And in fact, that's how things went.
The steppe people are moving forward very fast.
In the afternoon, more than 30,000 cavalry poured in from this opening, into the thirty-mile valley plain, which they considered to be the "land of victory."
It's interesting to talk about the topography of this plain of the Loton Valley.
From the map, it's a very interesting sandwich biscuit-like terrain.
It looks like a "three" word.
The top one.
It's the Loton River, which isn't too wide.
The middle one is horizontal.
It's equivalent to this plain, about thirty miles long.
At its widest point, it reached five or six miles.
Resembles a flat strip of land with an irregular strip shape.
The bottom one is a typical loess hilly terrain in the northwest, the loess slopes are located in the northwest wilderness, the terrain is complex and rugged, most of the places are all kinds of large and small loess hills, during which the mountain roads are winding, and it is not suitable for the army to deploy to fight.
After the 30,000 royal court cavalry of the steppe people rushed into the plain of the river valley, they advanced all the way to the east, and the momentum was very fierce, after all, they had just completely annihilated the defense line in front of the Rodon River Valley, and the Roland defenders.
And at about three o'clock in the afternoon, the steppe people were ambushed by Panin's long-planned plan.
Panin's attack is interesting.
At the top, he sent a flotilla Yes, that's right, a flotilla indeed The northwest is a place where water is scarce, but Panin has created a fleet in the northwest The size of this fleet is not large, with just over a dozen small and medium-sized vessels.
The fleet descended from the upper reaches of the Loton River, and the boats were civilian and even small merchant fishing boats brought from the Lancang Canal and the eastern part of Nulin Province The boats were grouped up and sailed down the Loton River, not many soldiers, but loaded with many weapons.
Ballistas, long-range longbows, and even a few larger ships, Panin actually sent someone to load a small catapult It is said that this small catapult was assembled, and it is the latest product of the Imperial Academy in recent years, and it has not yet been mass-produced.
This flotilla, on the Lotton, began an intrusive assault on the ranks of the steppe people of the plains on the shore.
Bows and arrows, ballistas This plain was originally long in shape, the widest place was only six miles, and the narrowest place was only two or three miles, only two or three miles, and only one or two thousand meters, and there was almost no need to consider the range of ballistas and longbows.
The steppe people marching on the shore were attacked from the water.
This is a headache for the steppe people.
The steppe people lack long-range and heavy weaponsNo, not to be precise, but no, at least this cavalry does not have their combat purpose to advance eastward as soon as possible, to ensure the strong mobility of the cavalry, where will carry heavy and long-range weapons As a result, the steppe cavalry on the shore did not fight, but there was no way to fight back Panin's fleet of wonder troops.
Fighting with joy on the water, he threw his ballistas and bows and arrows at the heads of the steppe people walking on the shore.
This has brought a great deal of confusion to the grassland people and they are unable to fight back, which makes the grassland people a little at a loss.
After all.
They must not swim into the river on their horses.
Use the fleet on the water to attack and harass the steppe people, slowing down their advance.
At the same time, it brings chaos to them.
Panin's fleet was bad, the steppe people ran on the shore, and they followed all the way on the water.
Run all the way, fight all the way.
Such an attack, about in the evening, arrived In the northwest, and it's winter again, it's dark early.
Free novels bring you joy and joy ---> storyskyline.net
Around four or five o'clock.
The sun has almost gone down.
At this time, the fleet on the water began to use small catapults to project a firearm into the ranks of the steppe people on the shore It was a kind of gunpowder jar, a black clay pot, and when it was thrown out, it was like a bomb, and it fell to the ground, and the gunpowder exploded.
In all fairness, this kind of thing looks a little scary, but the lethality is actually limited.
But I can't bear it, it's already night Dark night.
The light was dim, but I saw the fire pot from the head of the catapult exploding in all directions, and there was fire everywhere.
The steppe people themselves were not really a professional army.
Lack of a full-fledged professional army formation.
If it is said that in the army of the steppe people, those generals rely on their personal bravery and prestige to lead the army, then the quality of a professional army that these steppe people lack the most is: command After being attacked by several rounds of such fiery bombs When the chaos of the steppe cavalry reached a certain level, Panin's killer weapon came By this time, the large army of the steppe people had already walked to a predetermined area in Panin.
This is the place where Panin prepared an ambush for the steppe people, and the cavalry of Panin, who had been hiding in the hills of the loess hillside below the river valley, rushed out of the ambush and charged the steppe people from the flank One is that there is mental arithmetic and no intention.
At the same time, in the darkness, the steppe people did not know how many cavalry troops the Roland people attacked, so the resistance of the steppe people was very panicked.
The 1st Cavalry Regiment, together with the mixed 3rd Cavalry Regiment, simultaneously charged the steppe people from the flanks.
The battle has come to this point.
In fact, it's just that the two sides have reached a stalemate.
Although the steppe people were flustered, after all, the cavalry of the steppe people was strong.
The elite iron horses of the royal court with more than 30,000 are not so easy to collapse.
And Panin's cavalry.
There are only 7,000 people when the battle is full, and the combat effectiveness of the mixed Third Cavalry Regiment is indeed not very good.
After the initial panic, the grassland people gradually stabilized the situation, and the two sides fought in the dark.
It was a tie.
When the battle was deadlocked, Panin threw in his last killer move. 2nd Cavalry Regiment That is, the cavalry regiment of only six or seven hundred men "This Second Cavalry Regiment is really powerful," Ade said, his eyebrows fluttering: "I don't know where Panin got so many good things, these seven hundred cavalry, everyone is wearing armor, that kind of full-body armor, it looks thick and tight, it's like wrapping people in an iron can, but I tried to carry it, in fact, the weight is not as heavy as I imagined, I estimate, it is about half the weight of the heavy cavalry full-body armor in our army."
I heard that this is also a good thing researched by the Imperial Affairs Academy, and it should be the latest military steel armor.
It seems that it has not yet been put into the assembly, and all of Paning's family funds have just got such hundreds of sets of armor from the imperial capital.
Not only the cavalry, but also the war horses were all armored, not to mention that these 700 war horses were all the most majestic horses carefully selected, plus the whole body was covered with horse armor, and the rush of the heavy armored cavalry was like a boulder rolling on the ground Seven hundred heavily armored cavalry, lined up, and when they were inextricably killed on the battlefield, they suddenly rushed out of the darkness My God, at that time, the momentum of the charge of the seven hundred cavalry, the sound was as if thunder was thundering in the sky, it was terrifying I've never seen a war like this These 700 horsemen rushed up, where is it called fighting, it is simply all the way to crush the team in front of the steppe people, not a single one of them was stopped, and it was directly crushed I stood on the top of the mountain, and I saw these 700 horsemen rampage on the plain, and the steppe people could not resist at all, and were washed to pieces Panin personally led the charge again, and he ran at the forefront of these 700 horsemen, which was simply invincible.
The team of the steppe people seems to be huge, but in front of these seven hundred horsemen, it is like tofu, and it will shatter when it hits How can this battle be fought?
Soon the steppe people will completely step down, and the steppe people in the brigade will begin to rout, and there will be more and more people, so let's run westward one by one Panin's team began to chase, all the way, from east to west, without even stopping to pick up the steppe cavalry that had fallen behind.
I saw with my own eyes that many of the defeated troops of the steppe were overtaken by Panin's troops, and the steppe people jumped off their horses, knelt on the ground, raised their swords and surrendered, but the Panin people did not even look at them, and chased them all the way west.
For a while, I even wondered if Panin's cavalry had made a mistake and were racing against the steppes.
When they reached the line of defense on the west side of the valley of the Lodon River, which had been missed, Panin's team stopped chasing, and the ships on the river docked, and a group of infantry disembarked and reoccupied the line, and even carried all the ballistas and bows and arrows down.
Then the Panin cavalry began to turn around and clean up the battlefield.
This one is the most ruthless.
Those steppe cavalry scattered in the valley plain were all scattered before, and at this time, seeing that the retreat route was blocked, they didn't even have the heart to resist, plus Panin took the seven hundred heavy horsemen to block the killing god and block the killing god.
The steppe people were barely able to form much resistance, and when the rout reached the extreme, the steppe people began to surrender in batches.
Panin was so ruthless that he collected the defeated army of the steppe people, and first captured them in batches.
When the captives were finished, the weapons and horses were collected, and the army was allowed to retreat.
Then the cavalry went up and slaughtered There was no need to cut people for this massacre, and the cavalry went directly to charge the captive team and drove them into the river It was a terrible scene Almost ninety percent of those prairie people are landlubbers, and there is no river on the prairie.
Few of them can swim.
Driven by the cavalry with swords, charged, the captives of the brigade were killed and all rushed to the river Then I saw that the river was full of people, and it was full of heads.
Struggling, scolding, crying After more than half an hour, I gradually lost hearing anything Panin, this guy was so ruthless that he didn't even bother to use the knife, and drove the prisoner directly into the river I estimate that in the past two days, there will be many, many corpses in the lower reaches of the Lorton River “”: