The Han army in the Huainan battlefield was not completely devoid of cavalry, but compared to the northern battlefield, the cavalry on the southern battlefield was much less.
The 10,000 cavalry Xu Zheng had in hand was prepared to be re-engaged when the Jin army showed signs of collapse, and at the beginning of the campaign, he only planned to send out infantry troops.
There are really too many fronts in the Han Kingdom at the moment.
The Northern Expeditionary Corps under Ran Min not only had to continue to fight against Shijie Zhao, but they also had to deal with Murong Yan, and even the more Hu people joined the war as they advanced northward, there were actually more and more Hu people, including the Xiongnu tribes and many Zahu and Xianbei tribes, and even some scattered battles with the Tuoba Dynasty army also occurred from time to time.
On the side of Guanzhong, the Han army re-entered the land of Sanqin, and Fu Hong did not watch the Han army attack the city, and even the Liangguo of the Zhang family often came out to be active.
Liaodong was a large battlefield, with the Han army integrating the vassal states of Goguryeo, Baekje, Silla, and the Wa Islands, and fighting back and forth with Murong Yan's army on the border between Goguryeo and Murong Yan.
The relatively large-scale battlefields are the northern front battlefield, the Guanzhong battlefield, the Liaodong battlefield and the southern front battlefield, and some areas are also engaged in relatively small-scale battles, such as the liquidation of the powerful in the Han border and the liquidation of the participating forces of the enemy army in the newly occupied areas.
If there is a dynamic map used to publicize the movements of the Han army, you can definitely see many marks representing the Han army on it, and it must be everywhere.
The outside world is right to say that Liu Yan is more reckless than Liu Che in the past, and it can even be said that Liu Yan has done more exaggerated.
The terrain where the Northern Expeditionary Corps is located determines one point, that is, let the Han State put the cavalry into the northern front on a large scale, the Han State has more than 150,000 regular cavalry, of which 100,000 are placed on the northern front, 10,000 are allocated to Xu Zheng's Southern Expeditionary Corps, 20,000 are in the Guanzhong battlefield and the Di people, 10,000 are in the Liaodong battlefield, and the last 10,000 are used as reserve troops.
There is no shortage of horses in the Han Kingdom, in fact, if Liu Yan is willing to make another 40,000 or 50,000 cavalry, it will definitely not be able to compete with those cavalry of the field corps in terms of combat effectiveness.
The terrain of the southern invasion battle determines one point, the cavalry cannot be used at all in places with dense water networks and many mountains, and the infantry and naval army will be the main force, but the cavalry in the local battlefield is actually very useful.
Liu Jian used the cavalry as the vanguard, and the 1,000 Jin cavalry, including the troops, rolled forward in the sound of rumbling horses' hooves, and the spearmen of the Han army on the opposite side immediately stopped at the sound of military trumpets.
"Hold the spear diagonally forward" The length of the spear of the Han army was approaching six meters, and it was impossible to play unless it was strong and strong, and the soldiers tried to get closer to each other in a tense and busy situation, and a forest of spikes composed of six-meter spears was shining with a sharp cold.
The cavalry of the Jin army, with Liu Jian as the front, has been accelerating, approaching about fifty paces of the Han army's spear array, and a "throwing spear" was roared out, and the two hundred or so troops of the Liu family threw the spear in their hands far away.
Almost when the cavalry of the Jin army threw the cavalry spear, the strong crossbowmen behind the spearmen of the Han army also fired crossbow arrows, and the throwing spears and crossbow arrows intersected in mid-air.
Less than 200 spears were thrown into the spear array of the Han army, some of them were knocked into the spears that were erected diagonally, and naturally there were also throwing spears that hit the Han soldiers, as long as they hit the target, they definitely did not kill and wound only one person, creating chaos at the front end of the Han army's spear array.
Fifty paces for a cavalry is a distance that can be reached by a few breaths, and the cavalry will arrive with a spear thrown in one moment and a cavalry with the sound of horses' hooves in the next.
Liu Jian used the horse lance to remove the spear blocking the way, and the control horse jumped high again, and when he landed, the two horse hooves at the front end of the war horse stepped heavily on the frightened Han soldiers, and the sound of bones being trampled was violent, and the Han soldiers who were trampled by the horses' hooves did not even snort and died immediately.
The Jin cavalry in the rear all rushed up at high speed, and the Jin cavalry who did not succeed in avoiding the spear or sweeping away the spear were colliding with the oblique spear in absolute high speed, the tip of the spear penetrating through the neck of the war horse and then piercing the knight on horseback, and then the man and the horse were smashed down heavily, often taking away at least one Han soldier when they fell.
Those Jin cavalry who were not stopped by spears, after they successfully rushed into the Han army's military formation, there were very few people wielding weapons, lying on the horse's back and slapping the horse's buttocks with one hand, so that the galloping war horse used its speed to charge.
When the cavalry charges at high speed, the impact brought by the speed is really terrifying, if you line up in a dense formation, that is, you can withstand a one-time collision to force the cavalry to stop, if the formation is loose, it is definitely one after another by the war horses to fly out.
The Han army, which was the first to launch a counter-charge and then set up a spear formation, was quickly overwhelmed by the cavalry of the Jin army, and Liu Jian found that after rushing out, he didn't have time to catch his breath, but he caught a forest of spikes composed of spears less than thirty paces ahead.
In fact, after the Jin army dispatched cavalry as the vanguard, Dou'a immediately ordered the spearmen to set up a spear formation every thirty paces.
This is the experience of the Han army and the Shijie Zhao army, the cavalry can break through an interception line will also reduce the speed, and the interception line set up thirty steps away can effectively block the enemy cavalry, even if it is broken through again, it should force the enemy cavalry to completely lose speed.
The cavalry that fully accelerated the charge did not want to stop instantly, Liu Jian almost had a bad heart just now, and after less than three breaths, he had already approached the second spear formation of the Han army.
He instinctively swept away the spear in front with his horse lance, and the horse slammed into the collision, and the man was thrown into the air uncontrollably by a huge force, and when he fell, he saw a spiked spear below.
"Dodge" "The captain wants to capture the enemy alive" That is, the Han sergeant was trained by 1 to subconsciously obey the officer's orders, so as to avoid Liu Jian being stabbed into rags when he fell, he fell heavily to the ground, and when he wanted to use inertia to roll, he hit the Han sergeant in the military formation, as a general, his instinct was to sweep the horse lance and force the Han sergeant away, and the horse lance did not sweep out, and the body around the body was already pointed by the tip of a spear.
The cavalry of the Jin army that charged up behind, only a few of them were able to force away the forest of spears, and most of them rushed up and crashed into them themselves, and the movement of people turning over on their backs lasted for a long time.
Liu Jian was originally unwilling to close his eyes, but the cavalry that rushed up behind him disrupted the Han army's action to capture him alive.
He abandoned the horse lance as soon as he realized that he had a chance to get out of trouble, and pulled out the war sword at his waist, and the person turned over and kept wielding the war sword, killing and injuring several Han soldiers, seeing that the Quartet wanted to break through, but he didn't have time to find an opportunity but was surrounded and trapped by the Han army.
With Liu Jian's field of vision, he couldn't see a little, the cavalry of the Jin army charged straight, and Dou'a had already mobilized his troops to take advantage of the disconnection between the cavalry and the infantry of the Jin army, cutting off the connection between the cavalry of the Jin army and the infantry army, resulting in the cavalry of the Jin army running fast falling into the infantry formation of the Han army, and the infantry of the Jin army, which was relatively slow, was intercepted and killed.
"Tell the captain that the enemy general has been captured."
"Good."
Dou'a himself was watching the battlefield, about 2,000 people were still fighting with the Jin cavalry, and the other 2,000 people formed a battle line to block the Jin infantry, and the local battlefield was actually divided into two parts.
Xie Shang, who was also looking at the battlefield, saw that the Han army only dispatched about 5,000 troops to fight Liu Jian, and thought that 1,000 cavalry and 9,000 infantry should break through to the 5,000 Han army.
"The Han army has far more combat experience than us."
Xie Shang pulled down the visor of his helmet, signaled that he was ready to attack, and then said to Xie Wan on his side: "At the moment, you can only press up, and you can't give the Han army any more time to breathe." ” Xie Wan is Xie An's younger brother and Xie Shi's elder brother, although he is relatively old, but he only entered the official career in 341 AD in the seventh year of Emperor Xiankang of Jincheng, and his official position is much lower, and he was actually a local civil official before joining Huainan.
The door valve and the family south of the Yangtze River, their children are uneven The phenomenon is very serious, and there are many families like pigs, but the family with a better style actually has cultivated family children in both civil and military aspects, that is, there must be a gap in talent.
The Xie family should actually be regarded as the best one among the families under the rule of the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty in terms of cultivating the children of the family, and they take the route of advancing both civil and military, unlike the Wang family gate valve who focuses on cultivating literati, nor is it like the Yu family gate valve who focuses on military affairs.
The Yangxia Xie clan is currently divided into three branches.
Xie Pei's descendants are currently the main lineage, including Xie Yi, Xie Yi, Xie An, Xie Wan, Xie Shi, and Xie Tie.
As the son of Xie Kun, Xie Shang is in the same line, and their lineage is sparse, and they are married to Chu Li.
The other vein is Xie Guang, this vein has actually completely declined, if it weren't for people who are familiar with the Xie family, they would definitely not think of such a vein.
The entire north bank of Huaishui was actually in a state of full-scale combat, and the air was intertwined with all kinds of military trumpets and shouts, and the soldiers on both sides were fighting for their lives in a mixture of metal and flesh.
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The Jin army, which was twice as numerous as the Han army, pressed on the whole line, and the battle line showed a distorted line, generally speaking, the Jin army in the center was the most advanced, and the Jin army on both wings was firmly blocked by the Han army no matter how they fought for their lives.
Xie Shi couldn't fly into the sky, otherwise if he looked down from a high place, he would find that the reason why the central breakthrough of his troops went smoothly was that the Han army took the initiative to stretch out a half-moon formation at the beginning, and even the central area of the Han army was deliberately retreating, so that the overall glaive-shaped military formation had quickly evolved into a semicircle.
"The offensive on the left and right flanks has been seriously frustrated" Sun Sui needed to sort out the battle reports gathered from all sides, and said to Xie Shi, who was full of seriousness: "The central battlefield can be advanced. ” As a general, you must have enough imagination, and after Xie Shi was awakened, a picture immediately appeared in his mind, and the first thing that came to mind was that the enemy army deliberately emptied the center, obviously to carry out a siege.
"The two wings turn from attack to defense" Xie Shimian sneered and said: "The frontal battlefield in the central part will be dispatched to go up, and the order will be cut through even if it is a pile of corpses."
The formation is dead, and whether it can be maintained depends on whether the troops can hold on, and it also depends on who can reach the goal first between the defender and the attacker.
Xie Shi knew very well what kind of state his troops were facing, the army with no way out could only attack with that breath, no matter how critical or unfavorable the situation was, they would have to attack, once they could not show the will to attack, they would definitely be defeated.
It should be said that the current military spirit of the Jin army is quite usable, the soldiers are stimulated by a series of false victories, and the will of the upper-level generals is firm enough, regardless of whether it is smooth or frustrated, at least there is no retreat.
As the defending side of the Han army, they were somewhat surprised by the resilience of the Jin army, and even found that the Jin army was even stronger than the Hu army's desire to attack.
"The current Jin army and the previous Jin army, the people may still be those people, but the will is completely different."
He said: "The enemy has secured a strong front on both flanks, and the central battlefield is attacking at all costs. ” "The intent to encircle has been discovered."
Xu Zheng looked at the battle report submitted by Shouchun and Dangtu in his hand, and said without looking up: "But it doesn't matter, they are patronizing here, we have already taken down Dangtu." ” Tiao Yu nodded approvingly, he knew that the national war between countries has never been just about the victory or defeat of a certain battlefield, using one battlefield to attract the greatest attention of the enemy army, even if it is used to attract the enemy's side of the defeat, as long as the rest of the battlefield can complete the goal and achieve the greatest advantage on the battlefield of the entire national war, then it is a real national victory.
In general, the Huaishui battlefield is temporarily unable to see who has gained absolute superiority between the Han army and the Jin army, and at this stage it is a battle to open the formation, and it is impossible to distinguish the winner in a short period of time.
"Now we're just holding on."
Xu Zheng looked up at the battlefield, and then said, "Until the high morale of the Jin army has dropped. ” Tiao Yu still nodded very approvingly, no matter how Xie Shi aroused the high morale of the Jin army, once the Jin army found that it was impossible to defeat the Han army in a short time, then the Jin soldiers would be suspicious and hesitant, and there would be room for operation in other moves of the Han army.
"Yes, what did the king say about throwing whips and cutting off the water" Xu Zheng really forgot, and after getting a reminder, he grinned: "Our king must do something incomprehensible, such as crossing the river must say a sentence before crossing the river, throw the whip into the river, cut off its flow, and other things, Changshi must do it."
Tiao Yu nodded with a tangled face and said that he would comply, but he complained wordlessly in his heart.
How did he know that Liu Yan was guaranteeing that some Chinese words must be born: