There were about 20,000 cavalry on both sides, and the four hooves of the war horses under their seats rolled up the dust, and from a distance, the two dust mist were close to each other, and the neighing of the war horses and the shouts of people came out through the sound of the horses' hooves.
The Qiang people are all light cavalry, and when they want to get close to the Han army's cavalry, they choose to shoot arrows first, and the arrows are like locusts in an instant.
Arrows will fly in mid-air for a distance, most of them are shot in the air when they fall, the galloping Han cavalry will bend down, the person or horse shot by the arrow will see where it hits, the non-vital is blocked by leather armor is only injured, only the hit will make them fall to the ground.
"The cavalry of the Han army can't be mounted and shot" Yao Yizhong actually didn't see it very clearly, and said in surprise: "It seems that there is really no bow assembly." ” The assault cavalry of the Han army really can't ride and shoot, that's a limitation of the system, and it's not that Liu Yan can change it if he wants to.
At this moment, about 3,000 Han cavalry cavalry, archers and a small number of cavalry were cruising around the perimeter, looking to find an opportunity to attack from the flank of the Qiang cavalry.
When the cavalry collided with each other, the war horses collided head-to-head with two cavalrymen thrown out by a huge force and danced in mid-air, more of which staggered each other, and the cavalry on the horse waved or stabbed their weapons when they staggered each other.
The Han cavalry were armed with cavalry spears and swords, and the cavalry spears in their hands would shatter on their own when they hit the enemy, which was a scene of sawdust flying.
When the lance is damaged, they draw the cleaver that is placed on one side, and they don't need to swing it too much, they only need to swing it horizontally to inflict damage.
The equipment of the Qiang cavalry is relatively miscellaneous, if there is a spear or a spear with a metal sharp object on the head, not all of them are at the level of military generals, resulting in many Qiang cavalry who stab the target will be dismounted by the shock.
Falling off the horse on the battlefield against the cavalry means death, and it can be a very miserable death.
The vast majority of Qiang cavalry had blunt weapons, i.e. maces or wooden sticks.
The blunt weapon is the most used murder weapon by the Hu people, not only because the Hu people lack productivity, but also because the Hu people do not have such a strong background as the Chinese civilization.
Weapons such as swords or swords, the Hu people have the least number, which is really limited by the lack of productivity.
Riding is a state of sport, and it is not a trivial matter to be hit with a mace at high speed, even if it is whipped with a wooden stick, it will cause serious injuries.
It is the same as hitting an object at high speed, it is a kind of kinetic energy brought by a sprint, for example, people will have an accident when they run and hit a wall, let alone take a moment in each other's high-speed gallops.
Cavalry battles that intentionally charge each other have always had no low casualties, and if it were not necessary, the Hu people would not actually use similar hard-hitting tactics, they were more accustomed to shooting arrows at each other in a long cruise, and using a time-consuming method to compare toughness, and whoever could not hold on first would be the losing side.
In the grassland, the Hu people fought for pasture, and the main purpose was only to drive the other party away from the pasture, so the casualties were not too high.
After the two cavalry collided with each other, the Han cavalry cruising on the flanks was like a cat and mouse leading the pursuing Qiang cavalry, and the painting style and the hard-hitting collision were two different things.
"This" Yao Yizhong noticed the situation over there and was a little surprised: "But I didn't expect the Han army to have such a knight with such horsemanship."
Yao Yizhong had to be surprised, about 2,000 or so Han troops shot arrows while moving, and nearly 5,000 cavalry from this side chased all the way to death, if they could catch up, it would be fine, but there was really no sign of catching up.
The five thousand Qiang cavalry actually wanted to give up the chase, the kind of seeing that the other party could not do any damage, but chasing all the way to the death, anyone would be frightened and frustrated.
They had to chase after them, or they watched as the Han army entered from the flank of their own army.
Looking at it, the cold in the hearts of Yao Yizhong and other generals of Shijie Zhao State continued to rise above their heads, and they continued to understand why the productivity of the Han army was so strong, and then there were new questions, that is, where did Liu Yan find those knights who were good at riding.
The cavalry of the two armies were fighting, and the movements in other places did not stop, but the attention of the commanders of both sides was temporarily attracted by the fighting cavalry.
The cavalry hedge was soon over, and after the two sides staggered, the people on the sidelines struggled to make a quantitative assessment.
"Our losses are more than three thousand."
Hu Yansheng's archery skills are very good, and people who have good archery skills generally have a pair of eyes with good eyesight: "The loss of the other party is about a thousand" The losses of the Han cavalry were not as much as 1,000, the exact number was 680, and the losses of the Qiang cavalry were 3,306.
That is the asymmetry of the weapons and armor of the two sides, and it is also the gap in quality.
Light cavalry and assault cavalry hedged, and it was normal for a battle loss ratio of five to one.
Yao Yizhong was not surprised by the loss of so much, he said calmly: "One thousand at a time, and Liu Yan will lose his mobile strength if he comes a few more times." ” The generals and colonels of Shijie Zhao State, they just took advantage of the small number of troops of the Han army, and formulated a plan to seduce the Han army out of the camp to fight a war of attrition, especially to consume the few cavalry at Liu Yan's hand to serve the next general attack.
In the next few days, the battlefield situation was boring and repeated, the Qiang infantry army that should have advanced to build the fortifications suffered heavy casualties and continued to work, and the Han cavalry should be lured out of the camp to continue the battle.
The battle on this side of the main battlefield was boring and bloody, and the battle on the periphery was also started with the arrival of Liu Yan's reinforcements.
Yao Yizhong found out that the Han army had a fleet approaching the Luoyin line, and he sent 40,000 foot cavalry to it, and the commander was Hu Yansheng, the general of the tiger wing.
They originally wanted to prevent the Han army from landing, but the Qiang troops who went to the edge of the river to block the attack were first fired by bed crossbows from warships, and then joined by strong crossbows and strong bows.
Hu Yansheng immediately sent cavalry after the Han army landed, but this time they were faced with the Han army's foot soldiers who used tower shields to build a shield wall and a large number of pikemen to form a gun array, and the Han army's archers and crossbowmen were naturally not absent.
After all, in the face of the dense phalanx of the infantry army, as long as the infantry army does not collapse on its own, even if it is equipped with heavy cavalry, it will feel frightened, and what will happen to the light cavalry charging should be known after a little thought.
Hu Yansheng's report to Yao Yizhong was that the Han army that came to help was definitely elite, and reported the composition of the Han army, especially mentioning a class of troops that he encountered for the first time, that is, the Great Swordsman.
According to Hu Yansheng's description, the Han army's heavy infantry armed with a big broadsword was quite ferocious, and it was like a wall when it advanced, the difference was that this wall was an equipped heavy infantry wielding a big broadsword, and his own light cavalry had fought against it, and the situation encountered by the light cavalry was extremely bad, but anyone who was hit by a huge broadsword was broken by both men and horses.
Yao Yizhong looked at the document in his hand, with a strange expression on his face, and he wondered: "How can Liu Yan have such a development" There is nothing unusual about equipped heavy infantry, and the Chinese civilization created such a situation with foot warfare, becoming the mainstream nation in the Eastern world, and once became the only overlord on the Eastern continent.
This does not mean that the Chinese civilization will not ride and fight, in fact, since the horses were tamed and able to drive, both the chariot and the cavalry have been used by the army of the Chinese civilization, and this is not nonsense.
Spring and Autumn has a special name, that is, the country of many multiplications.
In the Warring States Period, as long as it was the Warring States connected to the northern grasslands, who lacked cavalry, even if there was a cavalry cultural fault in the Chinese civilization caused by the competition for the throne at the end of the Qin Dynasty, the Han Empire also absorbed the cavalry skills of the Xiongnu and Zahu and made good use of them, and expelled the Xiongnu with the re-learned method of cavalry warfare.
At present, even if the Sima clan moved south with a large group of families, the Jin army still mastered the tactics of cavalry warfare, and there were not a few Jin people in the Central Plains who could fight on horseback.
The Chinese civilization is not good at riding war, and it takes until the two Song Dynasty to reappear, but that is also caused by the loss of the breeding ground.
Yao Yizhong was even more depressed, he had repeatedly lured the Han army out of the camp to fight in recent days, but after fighting for several days, he found that no matter how many Han cavalry were consumed the day before yesterday, there would still be no more than 5,000 Han cavalry every other day, giving him a strange impression that the cavalry in Liu Yan's hands would never die.
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"How many Han cavalry and archers have we consumed" Yao Yizhong got a data that should be four thousand, and said with great wonder: "Is it that we have miscalculated, or have we not noticed that Liu Yan is constantly entering the camp with reinforcements" Mu Jian, the general of Ningbei of Shijie Zhao State, said with great certainty: "If it was uncertain before, it can be confirmed after strengthening reconnaissance and sentry posts, and there are absolutely no reinforcements entering the Han army camp."
Yao Yizhong was still skeptical, he really couldn't understand how the cavalry in Liu Yan's hands could be maintained at about 5,000 all the time, that was completely unreasonable In fact, there is one thing that Yao Yizhong doesn't know, the 5,000 cavalry sent by Liu Yan repeatedly is not the limit at all, that is because the intensity of the war on Juyeze's side has increased, and the Praetorian Guards on the battlefield of Juyeze continue to die, which means that the number of places that Liu Yan can "summon" is rising.
Yao Yizhong's side is the main battlefield, and the places he sent out to block Liu Yan's reinforcements are local battlefields, and Dongping County, which is far away in the belly of Yanzhou, and Gaoping County, which is in the northwest of Yuzhou, are not local battlefields If you look at the overall situation, the total number of Shijie Zhao troops serving Yao Yizhong is definitely more than 500,000, which is a situation with Shi Hu's consent, which means that the entire Shijie Zhao State attaches great importance to the Han Department: