The Han army's southern invasion was a war of confidence, and it was not too opportunistic, but to make those people in the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty understand the gap between the two sides in all aspects, destroy the self-confidence of those people, and make them internally disintegrate and lose their will to resist.
Similar strategies have emerged in many wars, and the best goal of engagement is to destroy the enemy's self-confidence, rather than to make the enemy resist with confidence at all times and let the war turn into a war of attrition.
Once the war is a war of attrition, even if it can be won every time, it should be broken.
This is also part of the "conspiracy on top" mentioned in the Book of War.
Xie Shi's shogunate pro-army repelled the Han army in one game, and the momentum was stimulated because of the smooth opening.
The part led by Xie Wanqin first repelled about 5,000 Han troops, and in the face of the Han army's organized arrow arrays to block them, they could be regarded as slowing down the speed of advance, but they did not cause them to retreat.
After the Han army showed a sharp arrow array, the Jin army seized the tools that had been building shield carts, shields and other tools that could block arrows at all times, and the shogunate pro-army was brought with them when they went into battle.
There was such a scene on the battlefield, the attacking Jin army, in front of the array was covered by shield vehicles, with soldiers carrying shields, under a dense rain of arrows as if it was raining, they did not stop advancing despite their slow advance.
Xie Wan was no longer at the forefront, he was temporarily staying in the rear with about 2,000 cavalry, watching the arrows falling from the sky not lose as dense as when it rained, and his own soldiers still suffered large casualties even if they had shield carts and shields.
"How is the terrain surveyed" Xie Wan was wearing a set of armor, and similar armor was the mainstream in the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
He said quickly, "Let the scouts be faster."
Although the terrain on the north bank of Huaishui is relatively open, there are still a lot of small mountain packs, and the frontal advance route of the Jin army is not straight forward, and the sight of some places is actually blocked by bulging mountain bags.
The Jin army, which was advancing in the rain of arrows of the Han army, originally had about 3,000, and there were less than 2,500 left after advancing less than 100 steps, which shows how dense the arrow array of the Han army was, resulting in such casualties in shield vehicles and shields.
The Jin soldiers who followed the shield car tried their best to hide behind the wooden planks of the shield car, and the rear of each shield car was basically no less than twenty people, and the result was that some of the soldiers walked out of the front of the shield car and were shot over, not to mention some arrows that were vertically dropped from the head to the body and died.
The Jin soldiers holding the shield are lifting the shield by leaning sideways against the shoulder, the upper body can be protected, but the lower body is empty, often some soldiers fall first with arrows in the legs, and then die after the shield is turned over by several arrows.
Slowly, the advancing Jin army stopped, and the soldiers who watched the shield cart lined up the shield cart in a straight line, and the soldier holding the shield was building the shield into a wall to support it upward.
"Push the Eight Horses Up" The Jin army's eight-horse crossbow was very large, divided into single-shot and three-shot styles, and it took at least sixteen people to carry it by manpower, and it also required two horses or eight people to pull it in the carriage.
The range of the eight-horse crossbow can reach up to 225 paces away, and you don't even think about it, you can fire the standard crossbow arrows, and you can also fire a spear, and it takes about half an hour to rewind a round.
"On-site manufacturing Yongdao" Dou A is standing on top of a small hill, his troops are not on the front line, and standing next to him is Zhong Xing, who is participating in the battle.
He looked up and pointed at something as if he had found something: "Bed crossbow" The Han army's arrow array offensive did not stop, the Jin army made shield walls and tunnels on the spot, and the Han army used the range advantage of its own strong crossbows to cross those fortifications to attack the rear of the Jin army.
Zhong Xing looked in the direction of Dou'a's finger, and could see that there were some vehicles pulled by manpower or animal power in the Jin army, and they were covered with cloth.
He ordered the standard-bearer next to him: "Inform the rear that the Jin army has dispatched bed crossbows." ” The Han army has long had a flag language, which can be used to report or exchange information remotely.
The arrows quickly adjusted their coverage, and then the cart and bed crossbows joined the diffuse ranks.
It is not the first time that the bed crossbow and car crossbow of the Han army have been dispatched, and it can only be said that there are relatively few opportunities to use them.
Bed crossbows and cart crossbows are used to shoot at skirmishers, and are usually used against densely packed enemy formations, or during sieges.
The strong crossbow arrow array is to shoot at the rear of the Jin army, and the bed crossbow and car crossbow are the fortifications built by the Jin army, and as the side being shot, people fall all the time.
First, the earth-shattering war drums were beaten, so that the Han soldiers on the battlefield couldn't help but look at the location of the general flag, and found that there was no new order to be given, and their hearts were confused.
The sound of drums was covering the dispatch of the cavalry, and it was difficult for those who were far away to distinguish between the hooves of the horses and the drums, and the closer Zhonghui and Dou'a were attracted by a dense roar, and they took advantage of their geographical height to turn their heads and look back, a sea of cavalry was gathering behind the mountain pack, and the number would definitely not be less than five thousand.
Braving the rain of arrows to carry the crossbows of the eight horses to a suitable distance, the Jin army lifted the cover, revealing a huge looking machine, which had already been wound, and the arrows in the shape of halberds were braving the cold light.
"Shoot" In the sound of the huge bowstring, the car carrying the eight-horse crossbow shook, and the car continued to tremble after the crossbow arrow left the string, and the surrounding Jin troops were shouted by the officers to hurry up and rewind it.
The Jin soldiers who controlled the eight-horse crossbow did not work in a safe environment, and the situation that occurred was that someone was hit by the crossbow arrows shot by the Han army from time to time during the winding process, resulting in the bowstring pulled by the joint force suddenly losing one person and losing all the previous efforts, and even the situation that people were thrown out by the bowstring.
The crossbow arrows shot by the eight crossbows were scattered, and their target was the Han army, which was located in a straight line two hundred paces away, shooting about a hundred shots, and less than thirty fell in the Han army's formation, and each shot could bring a scream.
Knowing that there is a bed crossbow to shoot the Han army, why don't they hide is very obvious The reason is there, and how the soldiers should go after going into battle is restricted, many times they know that they will die and still have to be motionless, and it is those who do not move to die, and the chaos will make the military formation chaotic and kill more people.
The popular saying is that once you become a soldier, even if there is a sword mountain and a sea of fire in front of you, you have to wade through, and what kind of road to take is no longer up to the soldier himself.
Not only for the Han army, even if it is shot, it must be stiff, for the Jin army, it may be attacked by arrows at any time and stay on the battlefield, being on the battlefield has never been involuntarily, if it is normal to say that it may be shot by arrows, the sky suddenly appeared one round thing after another with the sound of the whistling wind and smashed down, after it hit the ground, it smashed the human body into flesh, and then rolled and swept the legs of the person, such a scene is extremely terrifying.
The sudden use of catapults by the Han army was a great horror for the Jin army, but the coordinates of the Han army's launch of the rolling stones were wrong, and the fortifications organized with shield carts and shields should be shot.
The Jin army, which was attacked by stone bullets, was not only hit by people, but also some eight-horse crossbows were also smashed to pieces, and the screams and shouts of horror did not stop, resulting in chaos in the Jin army for the first time.
"Haven't you found a route that allows the cavalry to make a detour" Xie Wan looked at the miserable scene ahead and was stunned: "A quarter of an hour, a quarter of an hour later, I haven't found it, and the scouts are all killed" The Han army's arrow array was too sharp, and it was arranged with car crossbows, bed crossbows, and stone throwing carts, and the cavalry of the Jin army could not charge directly at all, if they really rushed Xie Wan's 2,000 cavalry, it would be lucky to have 500 rush to the front of the Han army.
After the readjustment, the Han army's stone-throwing cart was reloaded, and the round stone bullet fell after a mid-air leap, and the stone bullet that hit the Jin army's fortifications was smashed into a piece of flying sawdust.
After the sawdust splashed out, it was necessary to bring a scream, I don't know how many Jin soldiers fell to the ground with blood all over their bodies at that moment, and it was a relief to die in an instant, and if they died in an instant, they had to suffer unimaginable pain and torture before they died of blood loss.
Xie Shi, who was further behind, could only vaguely see what was happening in front of him, and he didn't know why a bad feeling rose.
"The Han army suddenly beat the earth-shattering war drums," Sun Sui said in confusion, "It is related to the use of many instruments."
A hint of inspiration appeared in Xie Shi's mind, and he roared with a drastic change in his face: "Let Xie Wan be careful of the Han cavalry" There is no flag on the Jin army's side, so they can only use the sound of drums and trumpets to alert the front, but the battlefield has long been resounded with war drums, and all kinds of voices with people and horses are also full.
Xie Shi warned Xie Wan that it was a drum and a trumpet and a man who sent it, and that the drums and trumpets were useless, and the people sent would definitely not be able to notify them for a while.
Xie Wan, who was in command at the front line, of course, also felt that the meaning was wrong, and the Han army's bed crossbows, car crossbows, and stone throwing vehicles were very targeted, as if they wanted to create conditions for a counteroffensive.
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He had already ordered some of his troops to be on tight alert, to be careful that the Han army would go out into battle for a counterattack, and that there were no new instructions for those troops in front of them who were being shot.
Without too much observation, in fact, the Jin army in front of the battle line had already appeared to run backwards.
These routs fled, and the rear overseers first shot arrows to warn, but the warnings were ineffective and shot to death, and those who did not shoot were also waiting for the rout to get close and pounce on them.
Xie Wan didn't notice the collapse of morale, but he couldn't withdraw the troops whose morale was close to collapse.
The terrain of this area is very similar to a valley, the difference is that the mountains on both sides are just small hills, if the troops in front of the battle are retreated, I don't know if it will evolve into a collapse, but if there is a possibility that it will impact the friendly forces in the rear, he needs to stop it.
A desolate horn suddenly appeared on the battlefield, and patches of smoke and dust were also swept into the sky by the wind, and the first Han cavalry appeared in Xie Wan's sight, followed by a large area of Han cavalry from the billowing smoke and dust.
The moment the desolate horn sounded, the Han army's long-range attack weapons had stopped shooting, and the Jin army, which had long been stunned, had not had time to feel relaxed, and the Han cavalry that suddenly appeared was in the roar of a horse's hooves and a slight vibration on the ground, so that the Jin soldiers who first saw the Han cavalry were stunned and immediately shouted in horror, and the movement in front affected the rear, and the group of people who had long been unable to hold on took the lead in escaping, driving more people and becoming an uncontrollable rout.
"It's also determined."
Zhong Hui smashed his lips and commented simply: "More than 30% of them were killed or wounded, and they could still hold out until the cavalry came on the field before retreating." ” Dou A nodded approvingly: "If you can hold out until you are killed or wounded, you can be regarded as an elite army." ” Being in a place where you could die at any time is not scared and weak, and you are already very courageous.
You can see familiar or unfamiliar people all the time, the last moment is still alive, the next moment it becomes a corpse, whether it is a strong impact on the vision or the soul again and again, not according to the instinctive drive to escape to a place where you feel safe, in fact, how can you be considered a brave person.
Whether it is a heroic killing of the enemy or trying to endure fear, those who dare to go to war are heroes.
The army, which was formed by a large number of people, found that Pao Ze could still hold on to the defeat after a large number of deaths, and it could really be praised as elite.
After all, the elite of the army is not about how high or good the martial arts are, but about the collective cooperation and the ability to tolerate casualties.
"Archery" Xie Wan is roaring: "Regardless of friend or foe, the rain of arrows will cover" The front troops of the Jin army, who had been subjected to all kinds of shots for a long time, could still run backwards about seven or eight hundred, and they were running hard with absolute horror on their faces, and their minds were full of hurry back to the friendly army, running and running with the arrows of the friendly army, and before they died, they still carried the desire to live.
The roaring sound of horses' hooves continued to roll forward, and behind them there was not only billowing smoke and dust, but also a muddy path of blood, that is, the flesh and blood of at least two thousand people had been trampled by the horses' hooves into mud.
Xie Wan had already moved with about 2,000 cavalry from his headquarters when he found out that the Han army had dispatched cavalry, and the warning from Xie Shi from the rear had not yet arrived at this time, and even if it was delivered, it was actually useless.
The Han cavalry had accelerated to the fastest speed, and the cavalry at the front rode wildly, they looked at the plate armor cavalry, and the pair of eyes hidden behind the armor stared ahead, where the archers of the Jin army were constantly firing arrows, and behind them were improvised arrays of spears or spears.
Rumpets rang out from the roaring hooves of horses, which were commanding to diffuse.
It was not the long-range troops in the rear of the Han army who wanted to shoot, it was the Han cavalry in the charge who picked up the riding crossbow hanging on the side of the war horse during the gallop, and pulled the trigger the moment the horn fell, and after shooting, he directly threw away the riding crossbow connected by the rope sleeve, raised the riding spear with one hand, and protected the vital point with a small round shield with the other hand.
The crossbowmen on the Jin army's side shot arrows in a panic, and then ran to the sides.
If you can listen closely, you will find that heavy breathing has become the mainstream of the formation and waiting for the Jin army, and the Han cavalry in their sight is getting closer and closer: