Ran Min initially led 3,000 cavalry into battle, and from morning to afternoon, the number of cavalry beside him dropped to less than 1,000.
It's not that Ran Min encountered any strong army and lost 2,000 horsemen, it's that the environment here is too complicated, they are killing the retreating Murong Yan army all the way, and Murong Yan's army is running around, and the troops chasing out will inevitably be separated from most of them.
In a battlefield full of enemy routs, it is not so easy for even the dominant side to meet after being separated, this is true in the open field, even more so in the woods full of trees, and there are about a thousand people following around, which has already reflected Ran Min's good ability to command troops.
And in fact, Ran Min didn't care much about how many subordinates followed closely, he personally killed more than three hundred enemies today, the guy in his hand was full of blood, that is, the double-edged spear and the hook halberd, Zhu Longma and his own body was covered with a layer of blood, and when he killed happily, he just cared about catching people and killing them constantly, and he didn't bother to pay attention to so much.
If it weren't for Sima Jun's reminder, Ran Min wouldn't have noticed the flag sent by Xie Ai's department.
Ran Min, who was notified by the friendly army, learned that there were mink leopard cavalry on the battlefield, and his blood burned instantly.
He had the experience of fighting with the mink and leopard cavalry, which was the battle of Shi Hu's personal conquest of Murong Xianbei, when he was the rear army after Shi Hu took the lead in escaping, with less than 3,000 men against more than 30,000 Murong Xianbei cavalry, as a role that was chased and killed for a while.
"Revenge, revenge, revenge" Ran Min's eyes were red, brandishing a hook halberd to pick up an enemy soldier who was in the way, and shouted in the right direction: "Rush" Murong Yanjun's current situation is very bad, most of the people only want to escape from this Shura field, or the posture of being ordered to escape, and only a few people can still be mobilized by Murong Ke to fight in an organized manner.
There were a lot of people in the battlefield, and there was no coordination at all, and some of the dizzy Murong Yan troops even fled and fled and headed southwest, only to be blocked by the Han army that was being chased away.
The collapse of Murong Yan's army was caused in a very short period of time, and 70,000 people fled for their lives everywhere in the mountains, except that there was really no way to escape before they abandoned their weapons and knelt down to beg for surrender.
This will be the effect of the Han State's large-scale pit killing of the Qiang people in Bingzhou and Shuozhou, and the soldiers of Murong Yan's army are full of fear that they will also become the target of being buried alive, and the result is that they will never surrender if they can not surrender.
There are killing arenas everywhere, and even cavalry is difficult to maintain a high-speed gallop all the time, and it will continue to slow down in the continuous fighting, and it is actually very good to be able to run.
There were only about a thousand knights around Ran Min, but there were nearly 6,000 war horses accompanying him.
There is no shortage of war horses in the Han Kingdom, even light cavalry can achieve one person and two horses; In addition to two horses for alternate change, the Turquoise cavalry also had a pack horse for carrying heavy loads; For example, the armor of the Tiger Ben Army is used to alternately replace the war horses used to ride and fight, but there is also a war horse used for infantry in ordinary times, and a pack horse used to carry goods is indispensable.
Ran Min and his subordinates are about a thousand people, and there will be about 6,000 horses with them, which is the nature of horses to be gregarious, which is equivalent to the rest of the scattered robes, and their spare horses and pack horses are almost all here.
Horses that do not carry weights are of course lighter, and they will definitely run faster than horses that carry knights, but it is only because of the long-term training that they will be more disciplined, so they will not run in the front.
Some of them were connected by horses carrying knights, while others simply followed the crowd, trampling all the way to the sound of roaring horses' hooves, and anyone who stood in their way would be knocked down, and then trampled into flesh by countless horses' hooves.
Xie Ai used the height of the nest car to look at the battlefield, and only then turned his gaze away when he saw Ran Min killing the position of the mink leopard cavalry.
At this moment, the woods to the southwest were still pouring out, the number of cavalry was not much, and the enemy and the enemy on foot appeared in the flight and pursuit, and everywhere you could see the sharp blades flashing and blood splashing, and then the body fell to the ground heavily.
The cries of "surrender or kill" could already be heard in the woods, and Xie Ai smiled when he heard it.
Persuasion to surrender will only happen under the premise of dominance, and the call for persuasion to surrender means that the main force of the Han army has also caught up, and Xie Ai is both surprised and surprised that his main force came over so quickly.
"Order the infantry to push forward slowly."
Xie Ai shook his hand below as he spoke, and the plate layer of the nest car slowly descended in a creaking sound: "Still haven't you found Murong Ke?"
"Nope."
Yuan Qiao put down the binoculars that had been covering his eyes: "It should be Yanqi coming, but I don't know if I am still present or have fled." ” "The enemy's armor and cavalry are still there."
Xie Ai meant that the mink leopard cavalry was the heavy weapon of Murong Yan Kingdom, how could Murong Ke leave it and run away.
Seeing that the plate layer had stabilized, he pushed open the door and walked out, while saying: "Changshi continues to observe the battlefield and wait for an opportunity to give an order, and a certain person will rush to the battle line in person." ” Yuan Qiao bowed: "It should be so." ” The reason why the battlefield is a battlefield is not only a bloody place, but also enough chaos and noise, Ran Min has been charging all the time, and he is also killing all the way, but in fact, it is impossible to confirm whether the route has turned or not.
In the middle of the battlefield, unless you are on high ground, it is really difficult to identify the target when you look at it.
After all, the battlefield is full of people, and if they don't die, they will move in the fight, but there is no reason to stay where you are and wait for someone to kill.
The real situation is that Murong Ke had already personally come to the position of the mink leopard cavalry after the cavalry of the Han army came out of the forest in the southwest.
He knew that this army was finished, and the rest of the troops would not be saved if they could not be saved, so he wanted to take the remaining mink and leopard cavalry away from the battlefield.
It is not a rational act to disarm in a battlefield, but if you don't disarm your armor, you can't run far, and you can't even think about changing horses and riding while galloping.
Only when the knight takes off his armor and the mount should also remove the vest, and the weight of that body is shared by multiple horses, can the physical strength of the long-distance gallop be ensured to the greatest extent.
"Henggong, Ran Min is coming up."
Liu Xiang didn't want to look so cowardly, but the problem was uncontrollable: "Let's go quickly" "It's not just Shi Min" Murong Ke's gaze was looking at the southwest, but in fact, he couldn't pass through so many figures, and he couldn't see through the dense trees, and said in a deep voice: "The main force of the Han King is not far away. ” It's not been a day yet, and Murong Ke feels like everything is in a dream.
At the last moment, Murong Yan's army still had a large-scale defense line, and the 40,000 troops who were left to garrison the defense line, and the 70,000 troops who were in a state of evacuation, actually collapsed in one day, but I don't know how many people were able to escape.
The disarming of the mink leopard cavalry has been about a quarter of an hour, and the disarming speed has increased a lot without regard to the damage to the armor, and the first batch of evacuees should have seven or eight hundred, and the number of people who have not completed the disarming will not exceed five hundred.
The battlefield was very noisy and chaotic, Murong Ke used his best efforts to observe the surroundings, and found that a Han cavalry had approached within two miles, but the surrounding troops were only facing the enemy with their backs, and while their hearts sank, they shouted: "The people who are still wearing armor are ready to meet the enemy, and the rest of the people come with so-and-so." ” The mink leopard cavalry, who had not been disarmed, was stunned by the repeated shouting of orders, watching the auxiliary staff run away, and then looking at the companions who had been disarmed, with a happy face, at that time there were really mixed feelings in their hearts.
The mink leopard cavalry has always enjoyed super high treatment in Murong Yanjun, and the invincibility in the past has also cultivated their own pride, but today they are too aggrieved, and the long-term cultivation of obeying orders makes the group of people who are left behind habitually choose to obey orders no matter how complicated their hearts are.
"Fuck off" "Get out of the way" "Roll" Because the mood is complicated, it will become irritable, and it also needs space to set up a formation, and the mink and leopard cavalry of about five hundred still scolded at first, and then simply waved their weapons at the disobedient friendly troops.
Ran Min, who has always been killing, gradually felt that something was wrong, and when he was fighting, his attention was on killing, and he would inertly face the enemy's position in which way he ran, and there was nothing wrong with going around in circles and repeatedly tossing on the route that had already been rushed.
Ran Min sensed that something was wrong because there were fewer enemies around him, and his eyes caught the rout running to the left and right in a certain place, and gradually saw the mink leopard cavalry lined up in the first line.
"Changing horses" After a period of fighting, the number of cavalry of about 1,000 people dropped to less than 800, and no one knew how many were killed, but the "whirring" sound made by the mount could distinguish the fatigue.
After the speed slowed down, Ran Min neatly turned over from the Zhulong horse to the back of the group of black horses on his side.
This black-covered West Pole horse was named Wu Hu, which Liu Yan selected from many majestic war horses, and was specially rewarded to Ran Min after naming.
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The name of the general's mount is more particular, generally according to the coat color of the war horse, for example, the red rabbit horse is actually a horse with a fiery red coat color, and the coat color of the Zhulong horse also tends to be red.
It is named according to the color of the horse's fur and the color of individual parts, and it is generally not named randomly, and it is not a name that any horse will be cautious about.
Ran Min has the reputation of Xiang Yu in the world, and Liu Yan will reward the war horse named Wuhu.
The meaning is probably that Liu Yan recognized Ran Min's martial arts and encouraged Ran Min to kill the enemy fiercely and something like that.
After the formation of the mink leopard cavalry was opened, they didn't care whether there were friendly troops on the road, and they had already begun to advance slowly, and the heavily armored war horses were rampaging everywhere they passed, and the iron chains dragging on the ground brought up more than dust.
The cavalry who had completed the horse change made a turn under the leadership of Ran Min, and they did not rush directly into it.
They need an acceleration time and are well aware of the need for a detour.
In the final analysis, the assault cavalry of the Han army is a kind of cuirassier cavalry, and the strongest protection is in the chest, and the rest of the parts are at most thick leather armor covered against arrows, which is lighter and more flexible than the heavy cavalry wrapped in metal, and the overall weight is incomparable.
To use a metaphor that is relatively clear to modern people, heavy cavalry is a tank, and assault cavalry is an armored vehicle.
The mink cavalry has iron chains between each other, and it is not generally difficult to change direction after charging, and it is more dependent on the cooperation of the rest of the troops than other equipped heavy cavalry, at least the two wings need to be guarded by friendly troops.
The problem is that most of Murong Yan's army is now only concerned about fleeing for their lives, and the five hundred mink leopard cavalry who were ordered to charge were quickly blinded.
Yuan Qiao, who was on top of the nest car, saw it more clearly, and applauded loudly for Ran Min to lead his troops to attack the side.
It was the moment when the cavalry staggered into each other from the waist side, and the mink and leopard cavalry, who could not turn and dodge maneuvers, could only passively suffer the impact, and the moment when the cavalry staggered with each other, the weapons beckoned to each other, and every moment the knight fell off his horse.
Just two back-and-forth charges, Ran Min no longer saw the mink leopard knight who could safely ride on horseback, he laughed wildly as if he had a bad breath, and did not forget to lead his command to continue to slaughter Murong Yanjun, who fled in panic.
In another place, Xie Ai was personally gathering the cavalry, and had already begun to chase the disarmed mink leopard cavalry that had withdrawn early.
It was almost evening, when Liu Yan came out of the forest area and into the open field, and when he came, the battle here had already entered the stage of collecting prisoners of war.
"Your Majesty."
Yuan Qiao was the first to come to meet Liu Yan when he came, and after saluting, he reported: "The Marquis of Meiyang and the Marquis of Xinting led the army to pursue, and the ministers presided over it here. ” In recognition of Xie Ai's meritorious service, Tinghou was newly sealed during the Chinese New Year, and there were four other people who were crowned together with him, which can be regarded as making the great Han country have more than double-digit marquis.
The results of today's battle have not been fully counted, the Murong Yan army on the other side of the defense line has become about 30,000 prisoners of war, and the pursuit of Murong Yan's army in the forest is also continuing, and it is an established fact that Murong Ke's 110,000 army was defeated in the first battle.
Yuan Qiao said that he ordered people to bring a large number of armors, and deliberately explained: "These are the equipment equipped by the enemy's armor and cavalry, and there are 1,300 of them. ” It is really difficult to calculate how many mink leopard cavalry are killed, and it can only be judged according to the captured cavalry heavy armor, after all, once the heavy cavalry loses its own armor and cavalry, it is not easy to build it in batches with the national strength of various countries, and the capture of the armor and cavalry of the heavy cavalry is equivalent to eliminating a heavy cavalry.
In fact, Liu Yan didn't know how many mink leopard cavalry Murong Ke had brought, and he was not so afraid of heavy cavalry on the premise that he had already used gunpowder weapons.
For the current Han army, any type of army is a matter of several rounds of stone-throwing vehicles shooting explosive packets, and if one round can't be killed, then a few more rounds.
In fact, after the appearance of gunpowder weapons, Liu Yan is considering the lightness of the army's armament, and in the future, gunpowder weapons will be used in large quantities against the enemy, and before artillery and muskets are made out and installed in large quantities, grenades will be the killer weapon of soldiers, and when attacking cities or conducting battles, they will use stone-throwing carts and bed crossbows to teach the enemy what to call into the era of hot weapons
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