Li Kuang was in a dilemma, he knew very well why the enemy army would choose to retreat, it was that the enemy army had to wait for the change of seasons, and many sections of the Penchi River would be exposed in the summer, and the enemy would have a breakthrough at that time, so there was no need to attack as when the water level was high.
Once the riverbed is exposed in the summer, the hundreds of miles long is destined to be full of holes, and as a defending side, it will be unimaginable to have troops stationed to plug those holes, and at the same time, it will give the enemy every opportunity to break through.
"I can only chase it."
Song Ping also knows what the situation is right for: "I have to chase, but how to chase" It must be pursued, the enemy army is now about 300,000, and nearly 200,000 are gathered together, and the Han army cannot let the enemy army get out of a position far enough so that the enemy army can change its arrangement without pressure.
"You can't use the infantry army."
Li Kuang frowned: "The cavalry is relatively mobile, and it can fight and retreat. ” Since the enemy army has retreated, it must have made corresponding arrangements, and the Han army will not pursue too many troops, and once the Penchi River is lost as a dividing line, the enemy's numerical superiority can be brought into play.
The Han army on this side of the Penchi River, including the regular army, auxiliary troops and servant troops of the Anxi Protectorate, numbered only 80,000, facing an anti-Han axis coalition army of nearly 200,000.
Among the 80,000 Han troops, the regular troops were only 10,000, which was the absolute main force; The 50,000 Han auxiliaries were split into a part, and although the Han people had some military literacy because of the relationship between the "two seasons of military training", they really could not be compared with the regular army, and could only fight a dozen defensive battles, and the losses in the field of swimming nature would definitely be very heavy; The 30,000 servants of the Western Regions are both a help and a hidden worry, and it is difficult to determine whether they will fight back.
"Less than 3,000 cavalry" Song Ping frowned: "It's very risky."
Anyway, we can't let the enemy army break away to the point of letting go of themselves, and the infantry army will inevitably be surrounded if it presses up, so we can only use cavalry to constantly harass it, so that the enemy army can rest calmly, and the enemy army must not be too comfortable.
"Reinforcements from the Junjishan Captain's Department will arrive on the Penchi River front in two days."
Li Kuang still attaches great importance to this support army: "There are about 12,000 firearms troops in the reinforcements, and there are 64 cannons of various calibers alone. ” "Your Highness is among them," Song Ping said Liu Shen, which would not be a secret at all to middle and high-level generals like them who were in the same war zone: "Duhu will deploy His Highness as the garrison of the shogunate when the time comes." ” Li Kuang really wanted to do that, but he had scruples.
Liu Yan sent his eldest son to the army not for gilding, as the eldest son of the emperor, Liu Shen went to the army to experience life at the same time, but also the royal family to express closeness to the military, and the matter was too obvious to cause the negative impact of the Anxi Protectorate not enough to take responsibility, and it might even hurt Liu Shen.
"When the time comes," Li Kuang said with a headache: "Let's talk about it depending on the situation." ” The cavalry of 3,000 was the largest mobile force in the Anxi Protectorate, and it was they who had been cruising and maneuvering to destroy the enemy troops who had crossed the Penchi River, beheading more than 800 people and capturing more than 1,000 enemy troops.
The Han army knew that because of the existence of such a cavalry unit, there was no need to worry too much about the rear being infiltrated by a large number of enemy troops; The enemy army has such an eye-catching cavalry, which has the necessary attention and fear.
"Metropolitan Protector ordered us to cross the river."
General Qin Song received the order in his arms, looked at the surrounding troops who were resting, and after saying to the adjutant general, he gave an order to his own soldiers: "Blow the assembly horn." ” A desolate "woo-woo" sound was blown, and the knight, who had been doing whatever he was doing, began to clean up.
Among the more than 3,000 cavalry, only more than 300 were Han Chinese, and the rest were from various tribes of Wusun.
The Han Empire's pastoral policy, which was now shackled, drew on the policy of the Han Dynasty towards vassal races, and constantly selected warriors from various Wusun tribes and recruited them as their righteous followers.
The first Han is the combined name of the contemporary Han people for the Western Han Dynasty and the Eastern Han Dynasty.
In the middle of the war between the Western Han Dynasty and the Xiongnu, the Han family would recruit troops from the tribes that had surrendered, and the Yue Cavalry Battalion and the Changshui Battalion were the two most representative, and the Karasuma people accounted for the largest proportion of them.
After arriving in the Eastern Han Dynasty, the three battalions of the five schools of the Northern Army, including the Tun Cavalry, the Yue Cavalry, and the Shooting Voice, also accounted for a large proportion of the Han Dynasty, but from the Karasuma people in the Western Han Dynasty to the Xiongnu people.
The current Wusun is no longer the Wusun of the past, and the Han people are still Han people.
The Wusun people feel extremely honored to serve the Han Empire, and if they serve the Han Empire themselves, their relatives in their hometown will become human beings, even if the leader of the tribe does not dare to drive as wantonly as before, they have to make a good offering.
If they can make great contributions, they will be able to settle down in the Han Empire and become Han Chinese, not like the people of the Western Regions.
With driven interests, coupled with spiritual satisfaction, the obedience of the Wusun people is very high, and the desire to fight is not lacking, and they have all turned over in less than five minutes after the horn sounded, and there is no shadow of the Hu people's procrastination.
There was no passage to cross the river in the direction they were in, they needed to go to the pontoon area, and there was no delay after arriving, leaving a few people to verify the military order, and the rest of the cavalry did not slow down and crossed the river directly from the pontoon bridge.
The number of more than 3,000 cavalry is neither too much nor too small, but the movement created cannot escape the eyes of the anti-Han axis coalition forces.
"The Han army did not choose the infantry to press up."
Malus was somewhat disappointed, he was not so familiar with cavalry combat, and asked Elbata, "Which troops should we choose to fight against" This group of anti-Han Axis coalition forces had about 30,000 cavalry, of which 7,000 were vassals brought by Rome, 8,000 in the Persian army, and the rest were cavalry from various countries and tribes.
"The Hun" Elbata did not hesitate to say: "A collision hundreds of years apart will certainly be very exciting." ” The so-called Huns are the Huns, a tribe ruled by the descendants of the Xiongnu who fled west to the north.
The Xiongnu have never been a simple-blooded people, when they dominated the grasslands, the real Xiongnu actually only accounted for a minority of them, more of them were annexed in the expansion, and some tribes who saw the strength of the Xiongnu did not hesitate to call themselves Huns.
Hundreds of years have passed, the Northern Xiongnu still have the saying of the clan, the clan is still the core of the leadership of the tribe, the ruling group is changing again and again, many of them are conquered Central Asian ethnic groups, such as the Alan people, the Xiangcai people, the Dayi people, the Lega people and the Miaotes.
In today's era, only a very small number of nationalities have developed national concepts, and the weaker the nations, the less national they have, let alone any sense of national belonging.
Stronger countries, such as the Han Empire, Sassanid and Rome, would have a clearer sense of nationhood.
"Hmm" Glenbardes looked at Elbata strangely, and his eyes turned to Malus again: "Feud" As a contemporary leader of the Huns, Glenbardis was very satisfied that the Persians and Romans who were in charge of the matter had come in person.
He sounded very excited about what Malus said about the feud between the feuds, the epic revenge, the bar, the la, the la, the la, the like, but he was not interested in being asked to fight.
"Yes."
"After hundreds of years apart, you two descendants of the same powerful race, meet again on the battlefield, no matter what the final outcome of the war is, the Han people will once again know that the Huns still exist, and your reputation will not only spread throughout the East, but also in the Western world." ” The Huns, or the current leader of the descendants of the Northern Huns, Glenbardes was still not interested in listening to the translation.
He came to the East this time purely for fun.
Glenbardis knew that the Han people were feuding, but he really had no interest in the epic battle that broke out again hundreds of years later.
Their interests have long been out of the east, and they have just lost the battle in the westward march not long ago, and they have some intention of avoiding the difficulties of some old guys in the tribe before going out, bringing the elite of the royal court, so they are not interested in losing in a battlefield that does not belong to them.
"Of course we will teach the Han people a lesson."
Glenbardes shook his head, and before Malus and Elbata could show happy expressions, he continued, "But not now. ” "How come," Elbata said very incomprehensibly, "We have learned a message from the Han Empire, as long as the Han people know where you are, even the ends of the earth will come to destroy you.
The Han people have a deep obsession with destroying you, Great King."
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"Huh."
Glenbardis did not hide his displeasure, not believing Elbata's statement so much, but thinking that the Persians had gone too far: "They are almost done crossing the river, don't waste your time." ” The Northern Xiongnu who broke off the inheritance, some records of the ancestors only left a few shamans who were almost old and toothless, and the new generation had not even heard the title of Han people, and Glenbardis, as the leader, only knew some fragmentary information, where did there be any bitter hatred.
The Han also knew that they would hunt down Glenbardes regardless of distance, and whoever believed it was especially sick in the brain.
"Get ready."
Glenbardis said to the people on the left and right with a gloomy face: "Be ready to retreat at any time." ” Glenbardis brought light riding, a standard one-man two-horse configuration, and many of the horses were lactating and could fight and escape.
Marus and Elbata, who had thought that the Huns were happy to go to war, left in confusion.
Elbata didn't lie just now, the last time Sassanid revealed the information of the Huns to the Han Empire, the Han Empire made it clear that since they knew that there were still people in the Northern Xiongnu, they would definitely hunt them down.
He just didn't understand one thing, shouldn't the Huns hate the Han people more, after all, that war was the final victory of the Han people, and it was the Huns who embarked on the road of escape The 3,000 Han cavalry that crossed the river did not directly attack the enemy troops who were left behind.
They made a detour to the north, somewhat wondering how the anti-Han Axis coalition forces watched themselves cross the river, and the distance between the two sides was repeatedly reduced, and the anti-Han Axis coalition forces did not send cavalry to intercept them Qin Song waved his hand at the soldiers who were not far away, and pointed ahead.
The desolate sound of the horn sounded again, and the slow galloping three thousand cavalry began to adjust to the sound of the horn, and they slowly turned their front to aim at a disorganized enemy army.
"We're going to send two thousand men each," Elbata nodded when he saw Malus, "Most of the Han cavalry in that army are Wusun, not all of them. ” In the cognition of the anti-Han axis, the most powerful troops of the Han Empire were the firearms troops, and then there were those standing armies that fought abroad all the year round, and there was not much knowledge of the cavalry units of the Han Empire.
According to Elbata's understanding, the cavalry troops of the Han Empire are definitely not much worse, you must know that the Han Empire has completely solved the threat of the northern grasslands, and if the cavalry of the Han Empire is poor, it will definitely not be able to do this.
The Romans had their own cavalry units, but they were very scarce.
The Roman legions brought by Malus had only a few Roman cavalry as scouts and scouts, the number was about seventy or eighty, and the two thousand cavalry dispatched could only be vassal races.
Most of the anti-Han axis was still withdrawing westward, and the troops left behind found that the target of the Han cavalry was not their own, and they had to make targeted formation changes according to the direction of the Han cavalry.
Qin Song was eyeing an enemy army that had fallen into confusion due to the adjustment of formation, and when they approached the position of one hundred and fifty meters, the enemy army fired arrows, which seemed to be two or three hundred in number, but not a single arrow touched them.
An ordinary bow and arrow can shoot sixty or seventy meters, which is considered a long way, and only a standard strong bow can shoot one hundred and fifty meters.
Previously, the Han army and the anti-Han axis coalition had been fighting for twenty-four days, unless the anti-Han axis coalition was hiding deep enough, otherwise what type of long-range weapons would have been figured out long ago.
"Shoot" Within 120 meters, 300 Han cavalry were fired, and they had two types of crossbows, one with a range of 130 meters, and the other with a burst but only 30 meters.
No matter what dynasty the Han people were, the control of crossbows was never relaxed, and the Anxi Protectorate did not equip the Wusun people with crossbows.
The Wusun people were used as the second echelon, and they lost more than a dozen people after a wave of arrows, and they did not fire arrows until they were within fifty meters.
Of course, Qin Song would not lead the team to charge, they were just here to play the role of a dog's skin plaster, constantly attacking and harassing, and the enemy army would do whatever it was uncomfortable with.
"Woo woo" There was another desolate trumpet, and the Han cavalry changed direction again, that is, Qin Song found that the enemy army had two groups of cavalry, and they needed to open up the distance from the enemy's army and move to a more open place at the same time
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