"The general of the Cilicia Military Region is Ereches.
The army he brought this time has three thousand cavalry, including one thousand heavy cavalry and two thousand light cavalry.
The heavy cavalry's equipment is thicker than the light cavalry's armor.
The soldiers all wore thinner plate armor. and chain armor, but the horses do not have vests, and the equipment is worse than their armored cavalry.
It is incomparable with our heavy armored cavalry.
The light cavalry all wear cowhide armor."
Captain Duan Wei of the Scout Battalion reported to Zhao Ziliang about the Eastern Roman Empire's army situation.
Zhao Ziliang asked curiously: "Does Cilicia have so many cavalry?"
"Originally there were only more than a thousand cavalry, and the two thousand cavalry were formed in recent years.
There are many places where horses can be raised in Asia Minor, and it is the main producing area of war horses in the Eastern Roman Empire.
In recent years, various military regions have cooperated with Constantine The relationship between Constantinople and Constantinople has always been tense.
Many military generals privately withheld some of the horses sent to Constantinople and stayed to form some cavalry themselves."
Zhao Ziliang touched his chin and asked: "What is the combat effectiveness of these cavalry?"
Duan Wei said: "Due to the short formation time, it is conceivable that the combat effectiveness will not be high.
Most of the soldiers have only learned to ride horses.
It is also feasible to arrange them into military formations to fight.
After the observation of our army's spies, , they will quickly mess up formations and military formations when running at a command, and they only know some hacking skills on horseback.
They have very few tactics.
Basically, they are the same old tricks of their cavalry, and they are not very skilled in riding and shooting.
Don’t understand at all” Establishing and training cavalry is a long-term process.
It is very difficult to build a cavalry army with strong combat effectiveness in just one or two years.
This requires time to accumulate.
It is similar to establishing and training a navy.
It not only requires It requires a lot of training and time, and also requires the support of strong comprehensive national strength, which is very expensive.
Therefore, in terms of cavalry confrontation, Zhao Ziliang is really not afraid of the cavalry armies of other countries in this era.
Just when Zhao Ziliang was about to send a force to fight Erechis's army, the Western Qin Dynasty received another news.
An army from the Eastern Roman Empire advanced towards Ceyhan from Kadili in the north.
There were about three thousand people.
It seemed that the Eastern Roman garrison in the north also got the news that the main force of the Western Qin army had penetrated deep into Cilicia, so they sent troops to fight.
"It seems that I can't go to fight Erechis in person."
Zhao Ziliang said, looking at the generals in the tent, and asked: "Which general is willing to lead his troops to fight against Erechis?"
"I am willing to lead the troops to attack Erechis."
The qualified generals in the big tent stood up one after another, and no one was left behind.
Even the generals who usually kept silent were not willing to lag behind at this time. , you must know that there are not many opportunities to lead troops to fight.
If you miss one, you will miss one.
Maybe you will not get a single battle to fight in the entire war.
That is the saddest thing.
Zhao Ziliang looked around, his eyes constantly scanning the faces of the generals, and finally fell on Su Guanglie, the commander of the Seventh Army: "They have a military region general here, and we can't send someone of too low a rank here. , otherwise people will say that we don't pay attention to them, which is also impolite.
General Su, take the Seventh Army to fight against Erechis, and wait here for your victory."
Su Guanglie clasped his fists and said, "I accept your order."
There are still 3,000 Eastern Roman troops in the north.
Zhao Ziliang said: "The 3,000 Eastern Roman troops in the north have 500 cavalry, and the rest are infantry.
Which general is willing to lead the army?"
The generals at the level of legion commanders did not stand up this time.
They also wanted to save face.
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There are only three thousand people.
Do you want to send out a legion to crush them with ten times the strength?
It is a bit of a big deal to bully the small ones.
Moreover, the other party's leader The people's military positions are not high, and they are not worthy of army commanders like them to lead troops to fight.
How can you kill a chicken with a sledgehammer?
Zhao Ziliang's eyes rested on a tall young general named Nie Jianxiong.
Although his surname was Nie, he had nothing to do with Nie Sanniang.
He was a general from civilian background.
He joined the army at the age of sixteen and grew up as a border guard.
In the beginning, he was promoted to his current position step by step through meritorious service.
In the meantime, he also entered the military academy for systematic military study.
"General Nie, take two thousand cavalry and three thousand infantry to meet the Eastern Roman army coming from the north."
Nie Jianxiong's spirit was shaken, he clasped his fists and lowered his head and said: "I obey the order."
On September 15, Su Guanglie led the 7th Army of the Western Qin Dynasty and the army led by the Eastern Roman Empire's Cilicia Military District General Erechis encountered each other on the west bank of the lower reaches of the Ceyhan River.
Sentries from both sides discovered it immediately Knowing the location of the opponent's army, it was already too late to make too many arrangements at a distance of only ten miles.
They could only carefully move closer and closer to each other.
As the landowner here, Erechis took the lead to find a high ground and set up camp. , set up military formations and stand ready.
"Reporting to the commander-in-chief, the enemy troops began to set up camp and set up military formations on a high ground six miles away from the left front of our army."
The detective's report made Su Guanglie narrow his eyes, "Oh."
Turning around and looking around, Su Guanglie observed the surrounding terrain and immediately said: "Come here, please set up camp here and send out sentries to find out the terrain within a radius of fifty miles and draw a terrain map."
This is a location on the river bank that turns west, with the river on the left.
Camping here can ensure that one side will not be attacked by the enemy.
It is surrounded by a large flat wasteland with no cover.
Even if you camp here, there will be no Special advantages, but absolutely no disadvantages.
After the efforts of tens of thousands of people, we finally set up camp before dark.
The tents in the camp are also scattered like stars.
If you look down from a high altitude, you will find that the tents in this camp are set up like a Bagua diagram, this can be used when the camp is raided, the soldiers can arrange a Bagua formation as quickly as possible, so that the enemy troops who break in can't come back.
Su Guanglie arranged the camp like this without intending to use it to kill the invading enemies.
It was purely for the sake of safety.
After all, the Western Qin Army was a guest army here.
They were not familiar with the terrain and climate here, and they did not know the enemy general Erechis.
Characteristics of the army, this method can only be used to take into account all adverse factors that can threaten the safety of the army.
Late at night, Su Guanglie received the reconnaissance report just sent by the scouting post.
This was a military combat map made by the scout battalion after centrally sorting, checking, and inspecting the terrain maps drawn by many scouts.
The map was very detailed.
Carefully, even the creeks and ditches on the map are drawn.
After reading the map, Su Guanglie had to say that the location occupied by Erechis was very good.
It was the only highland within fifty miles.
Although it was not very high, it was within his sight for more than ten miles.
That is to say, the camp of the Western Qin Army can be seen by it, but it must not be clearly visible.
After all, it is still six or seven miles away.
"Occupying the high ground, and then asking me to lead my troops to attack the high ground from low to high is very difficult.
The other party can seize any of our subtle loopholes, and make timely tactical adjustments to attack our loopholes, and then Further expand the results” Su Guanglie lay on the map and thought about it carefully.
In terms of military strength, Erechis was at an absolute disadvantage.
Morale, equipment, and training were all combined into combat effectiveness.
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Erechis was also at a disadvantage.
If he wanted to win, he could only use his strengths and avoid weaknesses.
Soldiers make dangerous moves.
Taking advantage of the terrain to set up camp and stay still, luring him to lead troops to attack, this is to maximize strengths and avoid weaknesses, taking advantage of his familiarity with the local terrain and avoiding confrontation with the Western Qin army, a typical defensive counterattack tactic.
At this time, an urgent voice sounded outside the tent: "General, there are enemies attacking, about two thousand Qingqi" "Come in quickly" Su Guanglie immediately stood up and shouted.
Duan Wei walked in quickly and clasped his fists and said: "General, the secret sentry in charge of the alert used the art of listening to judge that there are about two thousand cavalry slowly coming from the north of us, and they should be light cavalry."
"North" Su Guanglie was stunned and immediately looked at the map.
The north is now under the control of the Western Qin Army.
However, since the army is currently focusing on the west, there are fewer security forces in the north.
This also gives Eastern Rome The imperial army took advantage of the gap between the Western Qin Army's security patrols to switch defenses.
A sneer appeared on Su Guanglie's face: "Ereches' courage is not small.
It has not been developed today.
They want to attack at night as soon as they set up camp.
Over the years, they have become familiar with our Eastern tactical thinking and have learned a lot, but Want to learn the essence, they It's still far from enough.
There are many successful sneak attacks in history, but they all came under special circumstances and at the right time.
They immediately sent out a signal and asked the soldiers to get ready.
It wouldn't be in vain for us to give them an invitation to the urn.
This Bagua formation was painstakingly arranged.”
"Yes, General" The signal was passed on silently, and the soldiers who were already sleeping or preparing to sleep got the news and immediately picked up their weapons and lined up in the battalion commander's camp in a well-rehearsed formation.
Not long after, the ground began to shake, a faint rumbling sound came from the distance, and a large number of panicked sounds came from the Western Qin Army camp.
This made the general of the two thousand light cavalry of the Eastern Roman Empire who was running wildly very angry. excited.
"Quick, quick, quicken your speed, rush into the camp before they can form a military formation, break them up, defeat them, hunt them down, and kill them all," the commander-in-chief yelled, waving his sword.
The weak fence was broken open, and two thousand Eastern Roman Empire light cavalry rushed into the camp like a long black dragon.
There were only sporadic lights in the camp illuminating the main passages between several camps, but in the Eastern Roman Empire Before the imperial army could rush to the front tent, suddenly, all the tents in the camp were overturned to the ground.
Groups of Western Qin soldiers were waiting in specific military formations on the overturned tents.
At this time, it was too late to stop the attack and retreat.
They were about to run into the jungle of swords and guns of the Western Qin army.
The cavalry of the Eastern Roman Empire could only turn around and rush through the passage between the military formations.
Since the ones in front turned, the cavalry behind them The Roman cavalry naturally followed suit.
In a short time, two thousand Eastern Roman cavalry got into the Bagua formation arranged by Su Guanglie.
The Bagua formation quickly changed.
The soldiers near the passage raised their heads.
The tall shield sandwiched the Eastern Roman cavalry
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