As soon as it got dark the next day, the coalition forces began to gather and arrange their troops.
The Western Qin Army scouts monitoring the coalition camp quickly discovered anomalies.
After careful observation and speculation, they came to a rough conclusion.
When the coalition forces completed their deployment, they When the formation moved toward the Western Qin Army camp, the coalition's intentions were finally exposed.
"Oh, all the coalition forces are coming."
Liang Zhenwu was a little surprised after hearing the sentry report.
"Yes, Marshal" After receiving the affirmative answer, Liang Zhenwu's mind changed, and he immediately understood the enemy's intention, which was to force him to fight a decisive battle.
He knew that the coalition forces could not afford to delay it, and it was reasonable for the entire army to send out to force him to fight a decisive battle.
According to the information he knew, there were approximately more than 60,000 troops belonging to the Frankish Kingdom in the coalition.
There were originally 80,000, but more than 10,000 were lost in previous battles.
The Eastern Roman Empire had nearly 30,000 defeated troops.
There were also more than 10,000 other barbarian servants who surrendered to the Frankish Kingdom, and nearly 10,000 mercenaries.
Therefore, the total strength of the coalition forces totaled 120,000.
There are many people, twice as many as the troops in Liang Zhenwu's hands.
What really made Liang Zhenwu fearful was the more than 60,000 Frankish troops.
This army had complete equipment and high military quality.
This was by no means comparable to the incompletely equipped defeated generals of the Eastern Roman Empire and the Frankish servant army.
While Liang Zhenwu was still weighing the pros and cons, another scout came to report: "Commander, the vanguard of the coalition forces has been dispatched.
There are more than 50,000 people in total.
They are composed of the remnants of the Eastern Roman Empire, Frankish servants and mercenaries.
These people are rushing towards our army in a mighty manner, and Frank's main army of more than 60,000 people is following twenty miles behind."
Liang Zhenwu's eyes narrowed: "Charlie actually sent these miscellaneous troops to lead the charge.
It seems that there is a lot of internal fighting among the coalition forces.
Since he has sent this great gift, how can I not accept it?
Come on, send an order to the whole army to hurry up."
Assemble and prepare for battle.”
"Follow your orders" Fifty thousand Western Qin cavalry assembled as quickly as possible and formed a formation.
Liang Zhenwu left 2,000 men to guard the camp without defense facilities, and led the remaining 40,000 people to attack the coalition vanguard.
The coalition's vanguard of more than 50,000 troops is composed of six motley crews from Thrace, Macedonia, Dalmatia, Serbia, Frankish servants, and mercenaries who are not affiliated with each other.
This army has no shortage of combat effectiveness, but it wants to exert its However, their combat effectiveness is not good, because they are not subordinate to each other, their combat effectiveness is uneven, and they lack cooperation and tacit understanding.
On the march, the originally neat military formation became a mess in less than half an hour of marching.
There was constant noise along the way.
The orders passed down from above had not reached the ears of the soldiers for a long time.
As the temporary commander of this army, Leo V was so anxious that he almost drew his sword and wiped his neck.
"Commander, the vanguard of the coalition forces has arrived, and they are less than four miles away from us."
A cavalry sentry came to report to Liang Zhenwu.
Qin Wuyang, the commander of the Chinese army next to him, wondered: "Commander, I feel a little strange.
Why did Charlie divide the coalition into two parts?
Why did he use these miscellaneous troops as the vanguard to attack us first, while he himself led the main force behind?
Is there any conspiracy in this?"
Liu Guangjian, the commander of the left army, said: "General Qin, what's strange about this?
The coalition forces are not monolithic.
They are also fighting fiercely among themselves.
Charlie wants to let these miscellaneous troops come to die first, which consumes a lot of energy from our soldiers.
It's normal, and all the soldiers of the Frank Army are wearing Heavily armored, the marching speed is much slower than that of these lightly-armed motley crews.
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With so many armies put together, how can they be so uniform and well-organized?
If it were me, I would also separate my main force from these motley crews. , lest these miscellaneous troops drag down the combat effectiveness of the main army."
Qin Wuyang thought that Liu Guangjian's words made some sense, but he still felt uneasy and said: "No matter what, Commander, I think we should be careful.
This Charlie is not an ordinary person.
He is also an emperor who was killed in a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood. , it’s impossible not to have some calculation in your heart.”
Liang Zhenwu touched his beard and said in a deep voice: "No matter what plots and tricks he has, in the face of absolute strength, all plots and tricks are in vain.
Pass my order.
Once an attack is launched later, attack with all your strength and leave no force behind."
I defeated these miscellaneous troops in one fell swoop, and then took advantage of the situation to pursue them.
I rushed into the main Frankish army formation at the rear.
I don’t believe that the Frankish army could withstand being swept away by the rout and then being charged by our army.”
The generals clasped their fists in unison and agreed: "I obey."
The two armies met soon.
Liang Zhenwu without delay issued the order for the entire army to attack across the board.
More than 40,000 elite Western Qin cavalry rushed toward the 50,000-strong vanguard of the Western Allied Forces with an overwhelming force.
The sound of countless horse hooves gathered together. formed like one Waves of thunder spread across the area.
Wherever the Western Qin cavalry passed, a large amount of smoke and dust shot straight into the sky, forming a large black cloud in the sky.
This huge cloud moved as the Western Qin cavalry moved forward quickly.
Coming straight towards the vanguard of the coalition forces.
The huge momentum immediately frightened all the coalition soldiers and made them tremble with fear.
Many of them could not even hold their weapons steady, and their legs began to tremble when they walked.
As the commander of the vanguard army, Leo V did not know Charlie's detailed battle plan at all.
He just thought that the purpose of Charlie sending the vanguard army was to fight with the Western Qin army, and then wait for Charlie's main army to arrive and then annihilate the Western Qin army. , he also doubted it at first Charlie had an ulterior motive and wanted to use the hands of the Western Qin army to destroy these miscellaneous troops, but he immediately rejected this possibility.
He knew that Charlie was not a fool, and wanted to use the hands of the enemy to destroy them at such a critical moment.
It is absolutely unwise to get rid of these motley crew.
Leo V was very happy to be able to obtain the command of this motley army.
As long as this battle was fought well, his status in the coalition would be higher and higher, so he did not consider Charles at all.
With ulterior motives, ever since the vanguard army advanced towards the Western Qin Army, , he tried his best to maintain the military formation of this army, trying to integrate them into an army that could be commanded in a very short period of time, but he was destined to be disappointed until he encountered the Western Qin army.
Nor was it possible for military orders to flow unimpeded among this vanguard army.
Facing the overwhelming Western Qin cavalry, the vanguard soldiers of the coalition were all frightened by the unparalleled momentum and turned pale.
Many of them could not exert any strength at all, but a considerable number of these people were with the Western Qin people.
Veterans who have fought in the war know that they must not escape at this time.
The more they escape, the faster they will die.
They can only bite the bullet and rush forward.
As soon as the motley crew of the coalition troops set up their spear array, they were hit by a large area of arrows from the Western Qin cavalry.
The coalition soldiers raised their shields unevenly, and many soldiers were shot to the ground by arrows.
Several rounds of arrows After the arrow strike, the spear array in the front row was already full of holes.
The Western Qin cavalry who rushed over rushed into the array and penetrated it directly.
Naturally, the ability of light cavalry to charge into battle cannot be compared with that of heavy cavalry.
However, this kind of military formation with lax defenses, dilapidated formations, inconsistent people, and lack of coordination cannot withstand the impact of being charged into the formation at the first glance. strangeness.
The eight thousand heavy cavalry of the Western Qin Dynasty that attacked the center of the coalition vanguard were even more powerful.
All enemies in the front were crushed to pieces.
The impact speed of these eight thousand heavy cavalry did not weaken much after rushing into the formation, just because These coalition soldiers did not have much resistance.
In just a few breaths, the Western Qin heavy cavalry rushed in front of Leo V.
Leo V was so frightened that his liver and gallbladder split.
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He was at a loss.
He was desperately held up by the guards and turned around to the rear.
Escape.
These miscellaneous troops themselves are not united.
Now that the coach has fled, how can the others stay and wait to be slaughtered by the Western Qin people?
"The enemy is defeated, all officers and men will follow me to pursue him."
Liang Zhenwu raised his long spear and drew it forward, then immediately clapped his horse and rushed towards the defeated allied troops.
Most of the coalition vanguards were light infantry, with only a handful of cavalry.
Under the pursuit of the Western Qin cavalry, these coalition vanguards were hunted down horribly, with numerous casualties.
Under the leadership of Liang Zhenwu, the Western Qin army pursued for more than ten miles, and finally ran into the main Frankish army that was coming later.
Charlie was well prepared.
Seeing that the defeated troops were fleeing far away, he immediately ordered the entire army to stop advancing and reorganize.
He arranged the military formation to be airtight, and at the same time sent people to the front of the military formation to drive the retreating soldiers to both sides to prevent them from breaking up his main Frank army formation.
"Commander, look, it's the main Frankish army, such a dense and well-organized formation," Qin Wuyang, the commander of the Chinese army, shouted.
Liang Zhenwu looked forward after hearing this, and sure enough he saw that the Frankish army was ready in front.
Rows of Frankish soldiers were wearing heavy armor.
The spear formations stood on the ground and reflected pieces of cold metal light.
There were also a large number of heavily armored cavalry protecting the two wings.
Liang Zhenwu subconsciously raised his hand to stop the army and asked: "Where are our heavy armored cavalry?"
Qin Wuyang replied: "Commander, our heavy armored cavalry was exhausted during the charge and is no longer able to charge again.
It is now resting in the rear."
How could he break up this densely defended heavy armored infantry formation without heavy armored cavalry?
Liang Zhenwu frowned and turned to look at the army behind him.
In this short period of time, the army had gathered together one after another.
He immediately made an immediate decision.
Said: "Can't we fight without heavy armored cavalry?
We ordered the army to be divided into two to attack the two wings of the enemy's formation.
They used the method of guerrilla cavalry to attack the opponent's heavy armored cavalry back and forth until they were exhausted and killed. other side":