In most wars, there are not many fancy things in the battle between the two armies, some are just two armies know the existence of the other, and after a series of small-scale trials, the two armies finally meet face to face, and then start fighting.
The reason why a few wars have become legends is because of the special circumstances or the stupidity of the commanders of individual parties, and it is precisely because they are too rare that they will become legendary wars.
It is necessary to understand a convention, only the more difficult things to do, the more worthy of special mention, only the more precious will be repeatedly advocated and mentioned, if everyone can do it, who will go out of their way to record or describe it, just as no one would write a special article on how to breathe.
Liu Rui doesn't think that he is a military genius that is rare in a century, and he can't play the battle example of the other party being able to approach and raid quietly even though the other party has already spread sentry posts and scouts.
Nor would he put his hopes in the stupidity of the enemy commander to imagine that the enemy would forget to set up a guard post or not send scouts if he took the initiative.
No jokes, take Huo Quai, the famous general who is best at fighting rushing battles, as an example, he is definitely a genius who commanded cavalry battles in the history of Zhuxia.
But what is the premise of his repeated success, is that the Huns at that time did not believe that the Han army could play a thousand miles of raids, let alone believe that the Han army would recognize the road of the grassland, but did not expect that the Han army knew where they moved and grazing, and it was with the above premise that he was able to run and succeed repeatedly.
But he also has examples of failed raids, and those failed examples were all discovered in advance without exception, and if they lost their concealment, they could not achieve the suddenness of the surprise attack, and there was no need to fight again.
In the early stage of the Han-Hun War, the Han army could still play a thousand-mile attack, waiting for Huo Qubing to do a few sensational causes, the Huns had a sense of vigilance, and the Han army had no chance, and the war between the two sides entered a period of attrition, and a dozen was one or two hundred years.
"Enemy scouts have appeared around our army."
Fan Jin, as the commander of the army, is dealing with all kinds of intelligence, he has just received a report from the scout battalion, and several groups of reconnaissance cavalry from the Western Regions have appeared around: "The enemy army is quite cautious."
They had already marched more than ten miles to the west, and they were still fifteen miles or so from the area where the enemy's advance had set up camp.
At this time, the enemy's reconnaissance cavalry appeared, and more than one was discovered, which can only be said that the commander of the Western Regions attaches great importance to the observation of the surrounding enemy situation.
The Han army has already detected that there are three enemy forces, and it is not clear who the commander of the coalition forces on the Western Regions side is, and he does not know who the commander of the three roads is, but he only roughly knows the composition of the enemy army.
"There is no shortage of horses here in the Western Regions, and there are 5,000 enemy troops, and there are 3,000 cavalry."
Liu Rui led 10,000 people into battle, and there were only 2,000 cavalry in the team, and the rest were infantry: "They have a lot of cavalry, so let's stop after five miles, arrange the formation, and continue to advance in formation." ” In fact, there is no shortage of horses in the Han Kingdom, that is, high-quality war horses are basically mastered by the standing army, especially the high-quality war horses of the Tiger Ben Army equipped with armor and riding equipment.
For example, the Western Regions Corps, a semi-official and semi-civilian military organization, there will be some high-quality war horses, but the number is really quite small, and then there is no special standard horse harness, and the knights rarely have armor and weapons that can keep up with the times.
What is called light cavalry is to use Mongolian horses as the main war horses, stirrups and saddles will have, but they are not professional, and then knights may have armor, but they can't do it, especially to impact the dense infantry phalanx, they can only fight a dozen cruising battles or something.
In fact, the steppe cavalry is a kind of light cavalry, and it is possible to concentrate knights who can ride and shoot to form a special archer, but more steppe cavalry is the kind that cannot even charge in a dense infantry formation.
If the lightly armed cavalry really hardened their hearts and rushed back, they would definitely hit their heads in front of the infantry formation and break the bloodstream, and they would be taught to be a man by archery and arrows before they even rushed to the ground.
Their battles with the infantry were always cruising and fighting, constantly harassing and attacking the infantry's food routes with their mobility, pulling and dragging down the infantry with movement, and occasionally seizing the opportunity of the infantry to organize a military formation and killing them.
The infantry is against the lightly armed cavalry, and the infantry in a battle is never false, and I wish the lightly armed cavalry could come to attack their own military formation.
The advantage of cavalry over infantry is not to charge into battle, but to fight lightly armed cavalry when they want to fight and run away if they don't want to.
The disadvantage of infantry over light cavalry is that victory usually results in few small victories, but if it is defeated, it is chased behind to collect human lives when it is scattered.
Of course, the Western Regions Coalition found the Han army attacking, and the intelligence of the scout cavalry was quickly sent back.
"It's about 10,000 Han troops.
There were about two thousand cavalry, and the rest were infantry.
Rorschach sounds like a Han Chinese name, but he is actually a blonde, blue-eyed man with a beard.
He was from Qiuzi and was the commander of the 5,000 advance of the coalition forces: "The road is basically grassland, and there is no hiding environment, and they must know that." ” Large-scale ambush warfare in the grasslands is a joke, and not only the people of the grasslands know this, but anyone who knows enough about the grasslands knows it.
Everyone in the tent waited for Rorschach to finish speaking, and then they all looked at a middle-aged man with yellow skin, black hair and blue eyes, his name was Chi Zhelu.
Chi Zhelu was a Xiongnu with one-eighth Han Chinese ancestry, and like many Huns living in the Western Regions, he was actually a horse thief active in the Gobi and the steppes with a group of people.
People like them have long stopped thinking of themselves as Huns, because the bloodline is messed up, and then they are in a complex area and have received too much culture, and they really don't have too obvious characteristics, and they are gradually called Tiefu people.
There are many Tifer people who are targeted, and they are generally born in the steppe in the patrilineal line, but they are combined with women from other regions or ethnic groups to give birth to mixed-race children.
Another kind of Tiefu people are men who marry grassland women, and the grassland calls its son-in-law is also called Tiefu.
Tiefer is currently a general term used to refer to individuals as well as to a tribe.
The Tiefu tribe, which is not a critical role now, if history has not been changed, a huge force has been created later, and Helian Bobo was born in a certain Tiefu tribe.
Who is Helian Bobo is the Xiongnu Tiefu who is named Liu Bobo, and after he rises, he started to build a city, and it is the Tongwan City that is considered inappropriate to kill a large group of people when it is considered inappropriate to inspect how much the project has entered.
Now the various Tiefu people or Tiefu tribes, they are regarded as various tribes of scum and thieves, Chizhelu appeared in the coalition camp, and it was the Qiuzi people who paid to hire his entire team of horse thieves.
He himself was very familiar with this area, and he was very good at leading cavalry.
"There's nothing to say, give me a thousand cavalry."
Chi Zhelu had already stood up when he spoke: "Try the Han army's catties and taels, and then decide how to deal with it next." ” Rorschach did not hesitate and clapped: "In addition to your headquarters, I will give you another thousand cavalry."
As he spoke, he looked at a white-skinned man with brown hair: "This is the border of Shanshan, you should be dispatched."
The rest of the cavalry went out to the Sogdians. ” Shanshan is Gu Loulan, and the lips of the person named moved, obviously hesitant, but he didn't dare to object.
Shanshan as a country has long existed in name only, they are the Han people's power in the Western Regions declined and left, because of the Han people's incomparable cooperation in the Western Regions, they were brutally ravaged countless times by the surrounding countries, the king was slaughtered, the following city-states and tribes have stood on their own, until now there is no recognized king, and only a thousand people were drawn out of the coalition army, including only 300 cavalry.
There is no country called Sogdia in the Western Regions now, and as a country, Sogdia has perished during the Western Han Dynasty.
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However, the Sogdians were still very active in the Western Regions, with Sogdian beauties being the most popular, and men being basically horse thieves.
The so-called Sogdians are actually one of the "Zhaowu Nine Surnames", and they can still be active in the Western Regions after the fall of a country, because the members of the Sogdian State in the Western Regions come from a plateau further west, and they are actually Iranians.
Chi Zhelu refused to command Shanshan and the Sogdian cavalry at the first time.
As long as you stay in the Western Regions, you will be no stranger to Shanshan and Sogdians, Shanshan people are famous for their soft-footed shrimp, and the Sogdians are simply famous for all kinds of Ji, anyway, they are not a warlike nation.
"The old rule, what should be the reward, is what the reward."
Rorschach was talking about the bounty offered by Qiuzi for the heads of the Han Chinese.
He looked at Chi Zhelu with a smile and said, "If you can win, there is another reward. ” Qiuzi is rich, very, very rich, and they offer a reward for the heads of the Han people, which not only attracts countless horse thieves to come and defect, but also attracts a large group of surrounding tribes, otherwise how could the coalition army exceed 100,000 people Chi Zhelu came out of the military tent, called out to Agapa and Labadi, frowned, and said, "I will not deliberately consume your manpower, don't pick any random person." ” Agapa laughed: "The most elite fighters will definitely be chosen." ” Labadi shrugged his shoulders and said nothing.
Although these Sogdians were horse thieves in the Western Regions, they also attacked some small tribes and small caravans, and they really didn't touch any hard stubble.
They only work as horse thieves by the way, and their job is actually to sell some slave girls.
Chi Zhelu looked at the backs of the two leaving, and his brows were furrowed all the time.
He has one-eighth of the Han blood, and when the Han people ruled the Western Regions, they actually took advantage of it somewhat, and the area of activity was on the border of Shanshan, so he knew very well the urine nature of the Shanshan people.
He didn't have much contact with the Sogdians, but just knowing that the Sogdians were famous for their pimping business, he really didn't expect much from the Sogdian cavalry.
It took more than three hours from the time the order was issued to the time when the people were assembled, and it was already dark.
"Departure" Chi Zhelu is the leader of horse thieves, and what he is good at is to move in the dark.
He told Agapa and Labadi, who were following him: "Keep your team up close." ” This horse thief of Chizhelu had more than 200 horsemen, including 300 Shanshan cavalry and 700 Sogdian cavalry, which combined with more than 1,200 cavalry.
If you want to say that there is no shortage of horses in the Western Regions, it depends on who it is, Chi Zhelu's gang of horse thieves are relatively good, one person is equipped with at least two horses, most of them still have a piece of leather armor on their bodies, and most of the guys in their hands are also iron; Shanshan was influenced too much by the Han family, and the cavalry were all wearing uniforms of uniform colors, but each person only had a war horse under his buttocks, and there were few people wearing armor, and there were all kinds of guys in his hands; Even more chaotic were the Sogdian cavalry, seven hundred dressed in a chaotic outfit that looked colorful, some with only one horse, others as many as four.
Chi Zhelu must have wanted to understand what kind of Shanshan cavalry and Sogdian cavalry were, and he found that the notoriously weak Shanshan cavalry could still ensure the order of the ranks when marching, and the Sogdian cavalry could only be described as "chaotic".
After all, he was still trained by the regular army of the Han Chinese, and he still left some foundation.
What Chi Zhelu knows is that what Shanshan people can't do is mentality, that is, they don't have self-confidence.
He didn't have much hope for the Sogdian cavalry either: horse thieves were like that, and the Sogdians were the worst of the many horse thieves.
"General, we" Agapa looked around the darkness frequently, and his ears were full of horses' hooves: "We are going to take advantage of the night to raid the Han army" "Raid" Chi Zhelu showed an expression of joking, that is, Agapa couldn't see it in the dark: "That's the Han army that reunified the central country, the Xianbei people were killed cleanly, and the Xianbei people were killed and fled to the ice field, thinking it was the army of the Western Regions country?"
Agapa, in an incomprehensible tone, asked, "Then we will march overnight."
"It is impossible for the army of the reunified central country to be surrounded by an an, and maybe there are scouts of the Han army around us."
Chi Zhelu thought about the Han army in the most powerful direction, and did not intend to hide his plans: "Don't even think about any surprise attack, sneak attack or anything."
All we can do is the old routine, cruising and looking for an opportunity to come all of a sudden, and kill a few as many.
Most of the Han army were infantry, and if they were too arrogant, they might be able to wipe out the pursuing Han army. ” Alapa immediately breathed a sigh of relief, what he was afraid of was that Chi Zhelu would go to fight the Han army head-on.
"That's how it should be."
Rabadi didn't care whether the Han army would approach his camp and start a position, he said: "We are here for the bounty, it is enough to be able to have a more secure capture, but don't be stupid to fight any head-on battle." ” Of course, Chi Zhelu knew that this style of play was very cowardly, at most, it would slow down the march of the Han army a little, but they were facing the Han army.
"I heard that the general has Han Chinese blood" Agapa lowered his voice: "The Han people could easily sweep the entire Western Regions hundreds of years ago.
Although they have been weakened for a while, but now that they have destroyed the Qian, and they have beaten Xianbei and other tribes to flee, it will definitely be difficult to deal with. ” Chi Zhelu raised his eyebrows, but he knew that the various tribes of Shanshan had united and sent people to the east, so he had to guess what Agapa meant by those words
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