Chapter XXXIV: The Governor's Decision The reason why Yu Chilei chose to stop and wait for Yu Supu's vanguard army was such an unwise approach.
It was all out of distrust of his cavalry skills.
A man on a horse with a weapon is not necessarily a cavalryman, and similarly, a man who can run around on a horse is not necessarily a cavalryman.
Cavalry has never been an ordinary class.
According to the explanation in "Liutao", a cavalryman should be good at riding and shooting, agile and agile, advancing and retreating, daring to climb hills, taking risks, overwhelming the enemy, and chaotic the public.
How can there be so many guys who have been cut out with so many conditions?
Tie Xinyuan generally calls this kind of person a talent.
If Tie Xinyuan simply formed a cavalry according to the conditions of the people of the Western Regions, now, there were no less than 40,000 cavalry in the Hami Kingdom.
If the cavalry is trained according to the conditions on the "Liutao", there are only more than 1,000 people in the Hami Kingdom who meet the conditions for cavalry.
What's more, Tie Xinyuan also requires his cavalry to know how to read......
As a result, the number of cavalry in Hami was less than two hundred.
In the West, cavalry is also called knights, and they fight for honor!
Even at the expense of everything!
This is the creed that the knight adheres to.
The title of "Knight" is an honor in itself, and it is not easy to receive such a title.
For a candidate knight to become a full-fledged knight, there are many rigorous tests that require not only good riding skills, but also outstanding command, a wealth of combat experience, and a conspicuous and iconic achievement.
Their honor comes from the recognition of the gods and people.
The gods bestow the honorable title of knight on those who are qualified, but whether their words and deeds in the future can not dishonor the glory of the knights also depends on whether they adhere to their faith and fight for God and the people as always.
Every knight is a staunch believer.
If we look at the true knightly standards in the West, after screening the eight virtues of humility, honor, sacrifice, valor, mercy, spirituality, honesty, and justice.
Meng Yuanzhi and Ah Da are not real knights, while Tie Yi can only be regarded as six dark knights at most......
And the Iron Three Hundred and Rahman can only be counted as scouts and assassins.
Tie Xinyuan's requirements for cavalry were too high, which was not a secret in the Hami Kingdom, and Meng Yuanzhi thought that he was capable of being a war knight who was one of the legendary Four Knights of the Apocalypse.
However, Tie Xinyuan does not plan to change his high requirements, the level of the goal determines the quality of the Hami cavalry, and if he sets the goal in the sky, he is likely to stand on the top of the mountain, and if he sets the goal on the top of the mountain, he is likely to stand on the mountainside.
There is no need for many elites, in fact, there has never been many elites, and Li Shimin's Xuanjia cavalry has never exceeded a thousand.
However, a hundred Xuanjia cavalry could crisscross Dou Jiande's 100,000 army, stirring this army into a pot of porridge, and finally captured Dou Jiande alive.
Therefore, Hami's cavalry may be the most intensively trained cavalry in the world, and the material supply should also be the most abundant in the world.
At least more than half of Hami's money and food were spent on cavalry.
Wei Chilei led only a group of eliminated cavalry, and Ah Da only had 500 selected cavalry around him.
The rest of the cavalry remained in Hami.
They either trained on the Gobi, or went to encircle and suppress the few horse thieves in the land of Hami, or charged and circled in various complex environments under the leadership of Zaohong.
The scouts constantly reported the enemy's position, and the army by the river gradually became nervous.
Behind him is the autumn and the end of the river, the river is turbulent, there is only a dead end to retreat, Yu Chilei according to Ada's request to put himself on a Jedi river.
Only in this way can the cunning Yusupu's entire army be pressed on.
Cavalry rarely built positions, preferring to kill and wound the enemy in motion, and it has always been the prerogative of infantry to build positions.
After a short period of preparation, there were three more trenches in front of Yu Chilei.
These trenches could hinder the speed of the cavalry, giving the crossbowmen more time to kill the enemy.
Rows of canisters of fire oil were placed at the bottom of the trench, and as soon as the enemy's cavalry rushed through the first trench, a single gunpowder bullet could ignite all the canisters in the trench, forming an impenetrable wall of fire for the enemy.
The time for the scouts to report became shorter and shorter, and gradually blood began to appear on the scouts' bodies, and there were already traces of battle.
The distance between the two armies was so small that the scouts could not avoid the other side's scouts.
When the locals appeared on the horizon, Rahman no longer sent scouts to the opposite side, but ordered the scouts to expand to the flanks, keeping a close eye on the enemy from both flanks.
Once the enemy also appeared on both flanks, the general camp had to stretch the pontoon bridge that sank to the bottom of the river in half a pillar of incense, and the army had to light the oil in the trenches to hinder the enemy, and take the opportunity to cross the river itself.
This has been planned for a long time, adhering to the habit of Tie Xinyuan, to do everything to leave a back road, to have a brake device, must have a stop-loss mechanism.
After Yusupu's vanguard army appeared on the horizon, it stopped advancing, and only a small group, a small group of cavalry galloped out on both sides, presumably also scouting the terrain to check if there was still an ambush here.
The river beach is crowded with war horses, this is Wei Chilei's war horse, since it has been decided to fight a sniper war, the war horse is not very useful, in case of big trouble, it can also be transported across the river at the first time.
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The confrontation lasted from the morning to the middle of the day.
The autumn sun is scorching the earth.
Wei Chilei is not in a hurry, his military formations are all by the river, and the end of the river is full of tall poplar trees, with trees for shade, and the autumn tiger can't help him.
The Khotanese army on the opposite side was hard, when the sun went overhead, the earth became hot, the moisture on the earth was steaming, and a trace of water vapor distorted the vision.
The number of Khotanese troops continued to increase, until the sound of a trumpet came, and a tall flag appeared in the ranks of the Khotanese people.
Yusupu's army finally arrived.
Rahman jumped down from the tall tree and said to Lieutenant Chi Lei: "I can't see the general's team, Yusupu's cavalry has already arrived, and they are lined up in front, and they don't see the infantry, so they shouldn't have arrived yet." ” Yu Chilei smiled: "So, the general went to Yusupu's huge number of infantry?
” "It should be so, there are less than eight thousand cavalry on the opposite side."
Yu Chilei took out a long knife and stuck it on the ground, stretched out his hand and asked his soldiers to help him wrap his wrist with a strip of cloth, shook his head indifferently and said: "Anyway, let's start preparing for battle, field warfare is different from siege warfare, we have gunpowder shells, siege is very simple, field warfare is a little more difficult, and immortal warfare is fruitless." ” When the sun was in the west, the Khotanese began to move, and the rows of cavalry slowly advanced towards the end of the river with broken steps, and the sun at this time happened to shine on the west, which greatly affected the crossbow arrows of the Hami army.
These days, the Khotanese and the Hami army have suffered enough of the loss of crossbows, and preventing crossbow overrides is their first priority.
Yu Supu stood under the banner and looked at the Hami defense line not far away and said to his lieutenant general, the big cannibal Yureka: "They are waiting for us!"
” Eureka said expressionlessly, "The order of the King of Wisdom cannot be questioned. ” Yusupu frowned and said, "Eureka, we have been working together for fifteen years, and you still refuse to tell me, why did Boktu Khan transfer power to the King of Wisdom?"
” Eureka looked at Yusupu and said, "My brother, please trust your brother Eureka no matter what, okay?"
You should understand that in the last fifteen years, we have not been brothers, but we have been better than brothers, and there have been many times when I would rather sacrifice myself than hurt you.
I beg you, don't ask me anything about Boktu Khan again, the less you know, the more peace you have. ” Yu Supu was silent for a moment, then continued to look at the backs of the cavalry under his command and said, "If, I mean if, if I want to be the real king of Khotan, what will you do?"
” Eureka smiled, "All in your power to help you sit on the throne you've been waiting for!"
” "But the King of Wisdom ......"
"The greatest wish of the King of Wisdom is to go east, to launch a holy war, as for who the king of Khotan is, whether it still belongs to the Qarakhanate, the King of Wisdom will not care, let alone pay attention, as long as you accept the orders of the King of Wisdom, this is enough."
After receiving a definite answer from Eureka, Yu Supu opened his mouth and laughed, and casually whipped the war slave beside him, who trembled for a moment, and then puffed out his cheeks and blew the horn that represented the charge.
The cavalryman, who seemed to be leisurely with broken steps just now, became nervous for a moment, the spurs on the horse boots were pierced on the belly of the war horse, and the war horse suddenly began to speed up, and after two hundred steps, the speed had increased to the extent that it could charge.
A distance of 1,000 paces is exactly the distance that a war horse can increase its speed to the highest degree, Yu Supu looked at the cavalry that was galloping wildly, and said to Eureka: "Is Boktu Khan really dead?"
” Eureka clenched her fists and watched the cavalry charge and whispered, "No one can answer you, and no one can know." ” If you are not on the battlefield in person, you can't feel the powerful visual impact when the two thousand cavalry charge.
Eight thousand horses' hooves trampled heavily on the earth, like war drums, like heavy hammers on the earth, before people arrived, the dust rose first, and two thousand cavalry loomed in the dust, like a demon driving the clouds, in the neighing of war horses, advancing by leaps and bounds in the direction of the Hami army.
"Crossbow ready, triple shot, let's go!"
The squadron of the Hami Army was shouting military orders over and over again, and when the cavalry stepped into the range of four hundred paces, the first set of crossbow arrows flew up into the air like a dark cloud, and then shrouded the charging cavalry group like a torrential rain.
The cavalry raised their left hands one after another, covered the vital points with small arm shields, and continued to drive the horses to gallop.
The rain of arrows that fell constantly pierced into the body of the cavalry, into the body of the war horse, or landed on the arm shield, was bounced high, and then scattered.
The arrow-hit fell under their horses, and the lifeless horses fell to the ground, and before they could flee the battlefield, they were trampled into pulp by the latecomers.
The distance of 400 paces seems to be a long way, and for the crossbow archer, there are only two opportunities to shoot, one hanging and one flat, and after the two shots are used up, hand-to-hand combat is unavoidable.