The Jin army has cavalry shortcomings, but it does not mean that all the Jin army is a waste, otherwise even if there is the Yangtze River as a moat, the Hu people should have destroyed the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty a long time ago.
In fact, once the Jin army is commanded by the right people, then the combat effectiveness of the Jin army is actually worth looking forward to, especially in the battle against the infantry army.
And this is actually a characteristic of Chinese civilization, foot combat uses the formation as a coordination hub, and there will be defeats without collapsing on their own, but it is relatively rare to lose even the bottoms.
Huan Wen was surprised to see that the Jin army had cavalry dispatched, the Eastern Jin Dynasty had a regular army of 200,000, and among the 200,000, there were less than 20,000 cavalry, and the number of the Jin army that was considered a cavalry was even less.
But what did he see that the cavalrymen of the Jin army who came out of the village were wearing armor, and the front half of the war horse also had fish scale armor, what was it if it was not a cavalry.
The cavalry of the Jin army went out of the village to fight was something that the Han army did not expect, even if Huan Wen mobilized his own cavalry to engage with it, there would be a delay, so he could only watch the Jin army's assault cavalry rush towards the Han army's advancing infantry formation.
About 1,000 Jin cavalry were already shouting, rolling forward with the sound of horses' hooves, and after they stood out, they slowly turned into a traditional cavalry charge in the hooves galloping, the Jin knights at the forefront raised their small round shields to defend against arrows, and the Jin knights slightly behind were holding strong crossbows at a forty-five degree angle and ready to shoot.
The advancing Han army's infantry stopped, and the tower shield soldiers and pikemen in front of them were in the shouts of the officers, the tower shield soldiers were busy building shields with each other to organize the shield wall, and the pikemen used their weapons to stretch out the gap in the shield wall, and soon there was a shield wall and a forest of spikes.
Behind the shield wall, the crossbowmen quickly dispersed, each waiting for the order to shoot.
The crossbows in the Han army's infantry readjusted the direction of their fire, almost as they were ready to be on standby, and the strong crossbowmen in the formation had obeyed the officer's command to pull the trigger, which was a strong recoil in the hand, followed by a burst of bowstring rattling and a sharp sound of breaking the air, and then dense crossbow arrows filled the sky.
The Jin cavalry that attacked made a detour, becoming a semi-circle that could be used to break out of the crossbow arrow area fired by the Han army, only a small part of the tail part was "gnawed off", and then they took advantage of the advantage of speed to make a detour, and their entire route of action was like a snake's posture.
"It's not a military general."
Huan Wen knew what the regular army of the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty was, and he said: "It is the private soldier of the Xie family." ” The family private soldiers south of the Yangtze River are different from the regular army of the imperial court, and there are certain differences between the family private soldiers, for example, the regular army of the imperial court and some family private soldiers do not need to be tuntian in a state of war, but some family private soldiers do not produce but only exercise killing skills, such as the Yu family, the Xie family, the Huan family, and the Wang family have similar private soldiers, but the number is definitely limited, and they are all elite cavalry.
The snake posture of the Jin cavalry was very slippery, they kept trying to get close to the distance of their cavalry, but they never had a chance after repeated attempts, that was because the frequency of the Han army's strong crossbows was much faster than Xie Shi imagined, and they could not bear the huge cost of casualties and just wanted to mount and shoot after getting closer.
"Mingjin let the cavalry withdraw" Xie Shi finally lost a smile on his face, and replaced it with a full solemnity, which was both puzzled and terrifying: "Why can the strong crossbow of the Han army shoot so fast?"
The Jin Army's crossbow requires about forty breaths to reload after firing1 Elite, and it is a powerful crossbow that relies entirely on human hand pulling or pedaling.
The Han army's strong crossbows were fired at a frequency of about fifteen breaths, mainly because the crossbows were equipped with a kind of winch parts.
If there is a huge gap between the reloading time of the Jin army's strong crossbow and the Han army's strong crossbow, there is also a Han army that adopts an arrow formation rule similar to "three-stage shooting", and the shooting frequency will naturally exceed imagination, but if you want to adopt a similar arrow array technology, you must have enough strong crossbow soldiers numerical advantage.
Although Xie Shi ordered his cavalry to withdraw in time, they underestimated the Han army's use of cavalry, and it was a misjudgment of the Han army's strong crossbow shooting speed.
At the beginning, there were Han cavalry moving towards the attacking Jin cavalry, although the terrain they were in had a limit on the speed of the cavalry, it should definitely not be so slow, they were completely observing the movement of the Jin cavalry, and they were waiting for the signal of their own infantry army.
The dense arrows were no longer fired after the marching cavalry, but covered some of the directions where the Jin cavalry might retreat, forcing the Jin cavalry to choose those positions that were not covered to move, and then collided with the oncoming Han cavalry.
Before the cavalry of the two sides was about to collide, Xie Shi, who was on the camp nest car, couldn't help but clench his fists, and what he saw was that the cavalry of the two sides fired arrows almost at the same time, and when the arrows were still floating in the sky, the two cavalry each issued their battle calls.
What the Jin army is shouting is: "I am invincible" The Han army roared: "The Han army is mighty" At the same time as the sound fell, the arrows in the sky also fell, and the cavalry at the forefront used their shields to protect their bodies as much as possible, and when the rain of arrows fell, the "clanging bells" of the arrows and shields resounded endlessly, and more of them were the arrows that were shot in the air and trembled on the ground, and naturally the sound of people being shot and horses being shot was indispensable.
Huan Wen, who was also in an absolutely safe position and was watching the battle, heard the battle call of the Jin cavalry, and said with a smile: "Sure enough, it is the Xie family's private soldiers." ” The private soldiers of each family south of the Yangtze River have their own battle numbers, Huan's battle call is "brave and fearless", Yu's is "there is no enemy and no self", and Wang's is "our army is mighty", each with its own characteristics, very much "feudal characteristics" in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.
For example, the battle call of the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty is very targeted, and they shouted "The king is invincible".
The fire only caused a small loss to both sides, and the two armies soon collided with the sound of horses' hooves, that is, the cavalry and the cavalry collided headlong and fell on their backs, or the cavalry staggered each other and swung their weapons to kill and wound each other, and the cavalry wearing white and red robes "eroded" each other, and every moment there were knights who became the ghosts of the battlefield.
After the cavalry of the two armies fought, Huan Wen and Xie Shi made the same move, that is, to mobilize the infantry, the difference is that Huan Wen needs his infantry to be close enough to the defense line arranged by the Jin army, and Xie Shi wants the infantry to meet the retreat of his cavalry.
"It's quite equal" Yuan Qiao watched the battle of the cavalry with a telescope, and said in his mouth: "It's basically one for one, and we have a slight advantage." ” The non-systematic units of the Han army's assault cavalry no longer used piercing armor, but used a lighter plate armor style.
The Han knights with plate armor on the front chest and leather armor on the rest of the assembly are lighter and more flexible than the armor style, and it also reduces the weight of the war horse, and it has been repeatedly proved that the plate armor is not weaker than the armor in terms of protection, and it also has more advantages in speed and endurance.
Huan Wen knew what Yuan Qiao's words meant, it was nothing more than that the cavalry of the Han army had an advantage in equipment, but the cavalry of the Jin army had an advantage in fighting skills.
"We can afford it."
Huan Wen said realistically and cruelly: "Even if the 1,000 cavalry fighting against it are all gone, we still have 2,000, and the 1,400 cavalry of the Jin army will be lost." ” In view of the importance of eliminating the Jin cavalry for the rest of the battle, Huan Wen issued a frightening order, that is, to have the approaching Han crossbowmen indiscriminately cover the position of the cavalry in battle, and let the pikemen charge.
There is a tactic in Europa, after the cavalry charges, the archers in the rear do not care about the coverage of the enemy and us, and use the corpses of the soldiers on both sides to create an obstacle wall, and then the infantry arrives to form an encirclement and annihilate the enemy in one fell swoop.
You can watch the sixth season of Game of Thrones, it seems to be the sixth episode and this tactic is also used in real life, and there are many more times Xie Shi immediately slapped his palm on the guardrail of the nest car after discovering that the Han army's long-range troops were covering indiscriminately, and there was a loud "bang", and it was also a huge pain in the palm of his hand, and he roared: "Shameless and shameless is really both shameless and beastly behavior" After all, the current enemy army, which is more concerned in the fierce battle, has no time to pay attention to what is going on on the periphery, and only thinks that the other side is strong enough, and can shoot arrows in the gap between charging each other, even if they are shot to death, they are considered to be dead in vain.
The infantry of the Jin army came out of the camp, and they had to stop for a distance to stop more than a rigorous battle formation, because the other two arrows in the trident of the Han army made a persecutive posture, if they did not stop the infantry formation, they continued to advance in a loose formation, and the impact of the two cavalry of the Han army would not only cause heavy casualties but also collapse.
Xie Ping, who organized the infantry to prevent the two Han cavalry from succeeding, was ordered not to stop and to do his best to rescue his own cavalry.
The little master couldn't see the situation clearly, Xie Ping only hesitated slightly, and the next moment he yelled: "Keep going" The cavalry of the Jin army that attacked and fought was Xie's private soldier, but the infantry army was the army of the imperial court, even if Xie Ping couldn't bear it anymore, but he could sacrifice the imperial army and rescue the family's private soldiers, how to choose didn't have to think about it at all.
"Yo he" Huan Wen was full of schadenfreude: "Look, if there is a chance to save it, that kid will really decide to sacrifice the army of the imperial court." ” There is nothing to laugh at, the gate valve or family of the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty is a virtue, not only Xie Shi will do this, but any family, including Huan Wen or Yuan Qiao, will be that choice.
"The enemy commander is already in chaos."
Yuan Qiao constantly observed the overall situation on the battlefield and suggested: "We should let our cavalry divide our troops to threaten the left and right flanks of the enemy's defense line, and the infantry and cavalry should be advanced by the whole army, breaking through the enemy's defense chain in one fell swoop." ” Huan Wen accepted Yuan Qiao's suggestion without any hesitation.
Bursts of war drums began to sound from the Han side, which was the signal for a general attack, and the troops in the front were instructed to attack more violently, and the troops behind began to move forward.
The two cavalry teams that had fought before, the soldiers on both sides who did not die unconsciously found that their space for movement was getting smaller and smaller, and there were piles of corpses made of people and horses everywhere, and the dead cavalrymen or horses were full of arrows, and the ground was more like a dense jungle of arrows suddenly grew.
The heads of the surviving cavalry were basically blank, and the Han cavalry suddenly found that there were their own pikemen in the battlefield, which appeared from the gaps in piles of corpses, and then harvested.
The pikemen of the Han army who entered the battlefield trotted forward shoulder to shoulder, and encountered the surviving Jin cavalry, and in an instant more than one spear was stabbed out, they were in all directions, killing the enemy soldiers in a state of confusion, and sending the wounded enemy soldiers who fell to the ground for the last time.
The Han army pressed in an all-round way, and the two flanks of the Jin army's defense chain were threatened, first the first Han army broke through the Jin army's defensive line, then the second and third forces, until the first line of defense arranged by Xie Shi was completely lost, and the isolated Jin army lost direct connection with the rear.
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Xie Ping came to Xie Shi, who had retreated to the rear, with blood all over, and he didn't have any extra nonsense, and immediately shouted: "Our army in front has been flanked, and it will soon be unable to support it."
The second line of defense will not last long, I will lead people to try my best to drag down the Han army, and the little master will quickly lead people to break through" Since the development of the situation became unfavorable to the Jin army, Xie Shi was in a state of tinnitus and confusion, he actually didn't remember how he retreated to the back, and he didn't know anything about the extent of the development of the battle.
He looked at Xie Ping in a daze, there were long rings in his ears, and he couldn't hear Xie Ping's voice and could only see his mouth moving.
It wasn't until Xie Ping asked Xie Shi's private soldiers to hold up Xie Shi that Xie Shi could be regarded as waking up a little from his completely stunned state.
"We lost" Xie Shi's face was unusually pale: "It shouldn't be that we have an absolute advantage in geography, and our troops are even more than the Han army, so we shouldn't be defeated."
Xie Ping didn't pay attention to Xie Shi who seemed to be talking to himself, and yelled at the family's private soldiers: "What are you doing to take the little master away, after leaving the battlefield, find an opportunity to send the little master back to Jiankang" "No, no.
No" Xie Shi began to struggle, roaring: "Impossible, how can it fail, I won't go, I must not go, and I can fight with the Han army for another three hundred rounds" As the private soldiers of the Xie family who directly guarded Xie Shi, they must all be powerful, if it weren't for the worry of hurting Xie Shi, Xie Shi wouldn't be able to twist his body at all.
They glanced at Xie Ping, and one of the guards slashed at Xie Shi's back strength with a hand-stab, which directly made Xie Shi snort and fall softly.
It is not a simple matter to want to break away from the battlefield, especially when the two armies have been completely mixed together, if you want to get out of the battlefield and not be caught, it absolutely depends on the timing, the best way is to find a place where you can hide first, not to rush out directly.
Xie Shi, who woke up again, found that he couldn't see anything, his mouth was covered when he was about to yell, and the next moment he immediately knew what his situation was, he should be hiding in a cellar without light.
His next action was to touch his waist, both ashamed and resolute to kill himself, but he didn't touch anything: