The equipment of the light cavalry of the Great Food Army is much lighter than that of the heavy cavalry.
There are no vests, and the knights only have light leather armor and leather helmets.
They are equipped with riding bows and scimitars.
When the leading general saw a group of Tang Army infantry holding broadswords appearing on the hillside ahead, During the formation, he immediately ordered everyone behind him to take out their bows and shoot arrows at the Tang army's Modao army.
"Swish, swish, swish" a shower of arrows shot out.
Zhao Hu's eyes narrowed and he shouted: "You are as handsome as Lin Wei!"
After hearing the order, all the soldiers of Modao Army moved slowly down the hillside to meet the light cavalry of the Great Food Army who rushed up.
The entire formation was as neat as the trees in the forest.
At the same time, they waved their big guns in order.
Mo Dao, the rain of arrows fired from below by the light cavalry of the Great Food Army were swept down by the forest of knives.
Only a few soldiers were shot, but they were blocked by the armor and made a clanking sound.
The Dashi Army fired three waves of arrows from the light cavalry who went up the mountain, but they were all swept down by the swords of the Tang Army's Modao Army.
The effect was very little and almost no casualties were caused to the Modao Army.
At this time, both sides were about to be about to They collided together, and Zhao Hu shouted again: "Still as motionless as a mountain!"
The Mo Dao Army stopped with a "boom", and the light cavalry of the Food Army rushing over from the opposite side also collided with each other.
There was a constant sound of weapons clashing, and the war horses hit the blade.
The Mo Dao Army in the first row It suffered a huge impact, but was not overwhelmed and stood firm.
At this time, the light cavalry of the Dashi Army behind were still rushing upwards, and the contact between the two sides was so densely packed that the soldiers of the Modao Army had to insert their sword poles diagonally on the ground as support to withstand the pressure of the other side.
He yelled again in greeting: "Push forward and chop like a wall."
After hearing the order, the soldiers of the Mo Dao Army in the front row immediately raised their Mo Dao and took a step forward.
The Mo Dao in their hands was slashed from top to bottom.
The figures of "Puff, Puff" kept sounding, and each of the big food soldiers lightly struck.
The cavalrymen and horses were immediately split in half, and blood spurted out.
Immediately afterwards, the second row of Modao troops followed up to take over the first row of Modao troops, took a step forward past them, and under Zhao Hu's command, cut the row of light cavalry of the Great Food Army into two pieces.
Row after row, moving forward slowly, neither fast nor slow, never stopping.
The way forward was blocked and the way back was cut off.
The light cavalry of the Great Food Army who rushed up the hillside were unable to advance or retreat.
They were trapped in place and became lambs to be slaughtered.
The scimitars in their hands were short, while the Mo Dao Army's Mo Dao was long and had no speed.
With the help of the help, these light cavalry of the Great Food Army on horseback could not cut down the soldiers of the Modao Army at all, and could only watch as the Mo Dao Army's Mo Dao slashed at themselves.
"Oh, Allah, what did I see?"
Said, who was behind the Dashi Army, saw an infantry phalanx of the Tang Army slowly advancing down the mountain from the mountain.
After a flash of sword light, his light cavalry were beaten like watermelons.
Split open, red and white sprayed everywhere, and within a few breaths, several rows were cut down.
Said felt a deep sense of powerlessness at this time.
He originally thought that he would rely on the impact of the heavy cavalry to penetrate the Tang army's formation, and then let the light cavalry follow him up the mountain to kill the Tang army's general and defeat the Tang army's command center.
In this way, the Tang Army could be defeated in one fell swoop, but he did not expect that the Tang Army would deploy such an infantry with equally powerful defense and lethality around the command center.
At this time, it is no longer possible to order the Qingqi, which has less than 500 people left, to withdraw.
They are already trapped in a tight siege and are now on a dead end with no way to save them.
Said took another look and saw that all the heavy cavalry under his command had been divided and surrounded by the Tang army's light cavalry, and they were encircling and annihilating them.
The only ones he could use now were his own 500 guards, but these 500 guards were too powerful for the more than 30,000 troops participating in the battle.
It has almost no effect on the battlefield.
Fortunately, he still has 2,000 infantry and 2,000 cavalry in Henglus City.
If he waits for reinforcements, he should be able to sustain it for a while.
He could originally support the 10,000-strong army with food and grass for a month.
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It can last for two months now.
Although he was heartbroken at the loss of three thousand heavy cavalry, at this point, he could only bear the pain and give the order to retreat.
Said quickly fled the battlefield with the remaining 500 guards, but Zhao Ziliang had no intention of letting him escape so easily.
He immediately ordered the men in front to detach 3,000 light cavalry to pursue them, while the others stayed to continue to encircle and annihilate Dashi. military.
This battle lasted from early morning to noon, but the battle to encircle and annihilate the heavy cavalry of the Great Food Army lasted a whole day before it was completely over.
Among the 3,000 heavy cavalry of the Great Food Army, more than 1,800 were killed, and only one was left.
One thousand two hundred cavalry were captured, more than 2,600 of Dashi's light cavalry were killed, and only four hundred cavalry were captured.
Cleaning the battlefield went into the night, and Zhao Ziliang saw Zheng San walking into his camp to report post-war losses and seizures.
"General, we have lost more than 4,000 light cavalry this time.
Most of them are soldiers and horses of the Ten Surname tribes.
There are countless injured.
It is not possible to count the number for the time being.
These are almost all caused by the heavy cavalry of the Great Food Army.
We The army cavalry did not engage in combat with the enemy, so they only lost eight cavalrymen.
The Modao team lost 102 people, and Zhao Hu suffered some minor injuries. .
We captured 1,200 heavy cavalry and 400 light cavalry of the Great Food Army, captured 2,200 heavy cavalry horses, 2,100 light cavalry horses, and 2,400 complete heavy cavalry suits. , 5,600 scimitars, 2,600 riding bows, 500 sets of intact leather armor, in addition to ten days' food supply for an army of 6,000, and a certain amount of gold and silver."
After hearing this, Zhao Ziliang waved his hand and said: "Okay, you first send people to sort these things and send people to strictly guard them, especially the heavy cavalry horses and heavy armors that eat people.
Without the consent of this general, no one can attack them. idea, do you understand?”
Zheng San agreed: "I understand."
Zhao Ziliang has always wanted to form a light cavalry regiment that can be used for long-distance attacks, has full endurance, and can adapt to various environments.
He also wants to form an armored heavy cavalry regiment.
The main enemies of the Tang Army were the Tibetans and the Steppe Turks.
Therefore, there were only a small part of the heavy cavalry in the Tang Army's cavalry.
Moreover, the thickness and protective power of the knights' armor and the vests of the horses were far inferior to the heavy cavalry equipment of the Great Food Kingdom and the Byzantine Empire. , Now for the Tang Dynasty, except for Tubo, other surrounding small countries and tribes were out of date.
He wanted to build a heavy cavalry regiment that could compete with the heavy cavalry of the Western Empire.
Zhao Ziliang is not short of money now, nor is he short of building light cavalry horses, but he is short of horses suitable for heavy cavalry.
Such horses need to be tall and strong, with explosive power and sprint speed.
You can buy some strong Ili horses.
However, after all, the Yili horse is not as good as the big food horse.
Use the tall and strong high-grade war horse among the big food horse.
As heavy cavalry, all war horses are the most suitable.
Now he has captured more than 2,000 horses.
This is not enough, but it can also be used as the basis for forming heavy cavalry.
With so much heavy cavalry equipment captured, he only needs to use Just let the blacksmiths re-forge it and make it suitable for Tang Jun's height, body shape and style.
This is why Zhao Ziliang is so nervous about these captured war horses and heavy cavalry equipment.
He will never allow others to take advantage of them.
Zhao Ziliang witnessed the impact of the heavy cavalry of the Dashi Kingdom with his own eyes.
Three thousand armored cavalry could kill 20,000 light cavalry.
The impact was simply shocking.
When these cavalry charged, they actually killed and injured nearly 3,000 people. , which made him determined to form heavy cavalry as soon as possible.
As for the quantity and quality, he would slowly find ways to improve it in the future.
Zhao Ziliang summoned the leaders of various tribes and gave a brief report on the battle losses, captures and prisoners, and comforted the tribal leaders who had suffered heavy losses, saying that they would receive some additional compensation after the battle.
It made them feel better and no longer complained.
On the morning of the next day, Zhao Ziliang led 15,000 men to attack Hengluosi City, leaving 10,000 men in the camp to guard the food, prisoners and trophies.
There are now more than 4,000 food troops in the city, and Zhao Ziliang has brought 15,000 people this time, which is more than enough to siege and attack the city.
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When the Tang army arrived at the city, Zhao Ziliang ordered to surround the east gate, south gate and north gate.
Leaving the west gate unencircled is called "encircling three but one" in the art of war.
If one gate is left unencircled, the defenders will not have the courage to fight to the death.
Hengluosi City, the city lord's palace.
Said was a little worried about arranging the city defense at this time.
The loss of more than 60% of his troops made him start to beat the drum in his heart.
The Tang army's troops were too powerful, and although the Tang army's leader Zhao Ziliang looked young, he was extremely experienced in using troops.
Not only did they not get an advantage when they went out to fight against the city for the first time, but they also came back defeated.
Only a few hundred light cavalry broke through the siege and escaped back.
Hengluosi City is not a tall and strong city wall.
The Shiguo people did not store much defense weapons and materials here at first.
Therefore, if they want to defend the city now, they need very few city defense weapons and materials, and the Tang army is too far away.
Fast, they don't have much time to prepare.
Zhao Ziliang's siege deployment made Said understand that if he did not have the determination to live and die with the city, the only way to survive now was to lead the army to retreat from the west gate to the desert to the west, and return to the Dashi Country through the desert, but the desert to the west stretches for hundreds of years.
Here, it is not easy for an army of more than 4,000 people to cross.
Otherwise, the whole army will be annihilated in the desert.
Said, who was observing the Tang army's siege deployment at the east city gate, inspected the city defenses and saw a general under his command walking over quickly with an extremely embarrassed centurion.
The centurion still had a knife stuck in his back.
An arrow came towards him and saluted him with great difficulty: "Mr.
Lord Governor, the Tang Army sent a cavalry to raid Baishui City.
Our three thousand cavalry in Baishui City were defeated by the Tang Army in the middle of the night.
The subordinates and more than 70 people escaped, but near Hengluosi City They were attacked by the Tang Army's reconnaissance cavalry again, and only my subordinate and two subordinates escaped through the west gate."
"What, Baishui City was attacked by the Tang Army?"
Said's mind buzzed, he felt dizzy and almost fell down.
Two guards were still holding him up.
He calmed down and asked quickly: "How many people escaped?"
The centurion shook his head and said: "I don't know, but I am sure that we suffered heavy casualties.
There should be less than 500 of the 3,000 people who can escape alive."
After hearing what the centurion said, Said murmured: "It's over.
The occupation of Baishui City will completely cut off our retreat.
With the Tang army blocking Baishui City, even if we are in the Sogdian Zhaowu Kingdom, With all the 10,000 garrison here, we may not be able to break through the Tang Army's defense line in Baishui City within a short period of time.
If we want to retreat now, we can only retreat from the west gate to the desert to the west.
How many of us can return home alive depends on our luck
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