After two days of exposure, the soil on the ground has regained its hardness, but it will not become muddy if trampled slightly, and it will still become soft after repeated trampling.
One after another the horses' hooves trampled down heavily, and when the horses' hooves stepped up, they turned up a lump of mud, and the ground was also left with a horseshoe pit mark of about five or six centimeters.
Habibullah observed the two Han light cavalry on the left and right flanks back and forth, the relationship between them was relatively far away, and then the cavalry galloped up a cloud of smoke and dust, in fact, it was not very clear how many people there were, and what kind of equipment the cavalry were.
The Sassanid army met the Han army face to face without knowing it, but fortunately the terrain on this side was flat, and the two sides saw each other from a long distance, and if they were in a place with complicated terrain, they should see each other when they saw each other, and the next moment they should fight.
"Let the cavalry out" Habibullah was not so sure whether this Han army was equipped with firearms or not, and did not have much confidence in organizing a frontal defense: "It is better for the troops of the rear line to pull out some" No matter how Habibullah said it, he was a high-level person, and he had never seen the scene of firearms wielding power with his own eyes, but he could know how to face the Han army equipped with firearms from some channels.
In short, when fighting with the firearms units of the Han army, you must not set up a dense formation, otherwise you will send the heads of the artillery of the Han army.
Again, once you launch a charge, don't hesitate, you must rush up as fast as possible and mix with the Han soldiers.
The current Sassanid army is not in an offensive position, because of the mixed formation of infantry and cavalry, and then the Han army found out that it was all cavalry, according to the tradition to choose to stop and rectify, and arrange the necessary defensive front formation.
About 50,000 foot riders occupy a range that is not small, and the space occupied after being placed is constantly increasing.
This area is absolutely flat, there is no slope to be seen, there is no dense vegetation, not even a few trees are visible, and at a glance it is grayish-yellow surface.
About 6,000 Sassanid cavalry attacked under the orders of Habibullah, and not long after they broke away from their main formation, they were divided into two columns, one with about 4,000 cavalry, and the other with about 2,000 cavalry, respectively, to meet the Han cavalry that attacked from the left and right flanks.
On the battlefield, there are already drums and trumpets.
The main instrument of war of the Persians is a trombone horn, which is blown to listen to the low cry of an elephant.
They had been using this instrument for more than a thousand years, and their opponents had always been unaccustomed to hearing this war horn, and the Romans gave it a soft evaluation.
Now, the Han army listens to the trombone horn on the side of the Sassanid army, and the evaluation that appears in the minds of countless people is "the sound of indifference".
The Sassanids don't just have a war instrument, they also have war drums.
It is a flattened drum, which sounds crisp when beaten, and is not as strong as a war instrument.
Every country will have its own war instruments, and the Han army, for example, uses horns and war drums, and the sound will sound relatively strong.
What the Han people know is that the war instrument of the Romans is mainly a copper trumpet, and the sound wave is not too long, probably a kind of "doodoo" rhythm.
The Yulin Army did not carry war drums, but there were trumpeters who carried a horn-shaped horn with them.
The war instruments of the Han army, when carrying war drums, would be constantly sounded after the battle, and the horn would only be blown when the military order was transmitted.
On the battlefield now, the sound of war instruments is all from the Persians, which makes the officers on the Han side wonder a little, the Persians continue to use war instruments to create movement, waiting for what kind of situation it should be when they want to use war instruments to convey military orders.
The sound of war drums and trombones was incessant, the stomping of horses' hooves was continuous, and the Sassanid infantry began to shout incessantly.
"What are they shouting" Li Jun asked a translator who knew Persian: "Why do you listen to the syllables so fixed?"
The interpreter listened for a moment and replied, "It's the shouting of killings and the names of some gods." ” "There shouldn't be a language other than Chinese in this world" Li Jun showed a disgusted expression: "It sounds too weird" What can the translator do, he can only nod his head in agreement.
One of the Han cavalry, which was attacking from the left and right flanks, was about to make contact with the Sassanid cavalry of about 2,000.
The other Han cavalry on the right flank, they were making a relatively large detour, with the Sassanid cavalry of about 4,000 in circles.
The cavalry of the Han army gathered a long line in the movement, and slowly turned into three cavalry teams, each of which was two cavalry side by side, and behind them were the robed knights who were also side by side.
From a bird's-eye view from high in the sky, you will see that the Han cavalry stretched three long lines, the lines are not absolutely straight, but on the contrary, they are twisted like snakes, and they will constantly change shape under the leadership of the knights in front.
To explain the battle formation of Zhuxia, the three Han cavalry teams are all arranging long snake formations.
This cavalry formation was not intended for charging purposes, but was primarily used to pull enemy formations while attacking with ranged weapons once within range.
Every knight of the Han army, they will maintain a safe distance of more than three meters from the robe, so that the formation looks stretched again.
The light cavalry of the Han army, their main armament was a cavalry spear, a cavalry sword with a curved amplitude, a riding crossbow and a riding bow.
Because it is a light cavalry, the war horse does not have any defensive armor, but is actually wearing a light cavalry style leather armor.
The so-called cavalry style armor is a type with skirt armor, the length of which covers the thighs.
Leather armor is basically not very effective for defending against melee type weapons, and the defense against long-range metal arrows is not high, unless it is an arrow that uses bone or stone arrows, or it is actually to prevent abrasions, and then it is a psychological comfort.
"Shoot" Different languages, soldiers from different camps, shouted at almost the same time.
The Han cavalry did not use crossbows, and the knights who entered the shooting range were armed with bows and arrows.
On the Sassanid side, professional cavalry archers used a large bow, while ordinary cavalry used horned bows.
The Han cavalry bows and the bows used by the Persian archers looked very similar in appearance, with the length of the bow body being longer than that of ordinary bows, and the shafts of arrows used were slightly longer.
The sound of the bowstring is not obvious in the thunder of the horse's hooves, the arrows that are shot are flying in the air, and when they fall, only a very small part of them hit the knights and horses, once a person is shot, most of the arrows are penetrated, and the horses will stumble and fall to the ground when they are shot.
This Han cavalry was a long snake formation, and while firing at each other, the overall formation was not only greatly bent, but even "broken" into more long formation parts.
The Sassanid cavalry fighting against this Han army, they unknowingly followed the Han cavalry in the movement, and carried out the division of troops separately.
The two sides kept shooting at each other in motion, and every moment there were knights who were hit by arrows and fell off their horses, or the arrows on the horses were out of control.
The Han cavalry had already drawn up the formation and waited for the Sassanid cavalry to "bump" into it, and they were shooting arrows, but at the same time, there were more Han cavalry shooting arrows.
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In this way, for every knight who falls on the Han side, there will be at least three knights on the Sassanid side, and the formations waiting for both sides are pulled and broken in the sports battle, and the Han cavalry is at least more than 1,900 in two days, but the 2,000 cavalry of Sasanid is less than 1,700 left.
After the two cavalry groups that were officially engaged in battle no longer had any formation between each other, the development of the war gradually turned into a contest between squads and squads, or a fight between individual horsemen.
After the battle situation changed, the equipment advantage of the Han cavalry was maximized, for example, during the pursuit period, it was easy to pick up the crossbow and aim and shoot, and if the shot missed, it would shoot again until the opponent was knocked off the horse.
The knights of the enemy and the enemy who hedged, the Han cavalry had a cavalry spear with a length of six meters, the Sassanid cavalry was mostly a short weapon such as a scimitar, and the cavalry battle was about an inch long and an inch strong, and the scimitar of the Sassanid cavalry was still a few meters away from the Han cavalry, but it was stabbed by the spear of the Han cavalry.
Both groups of cavalry numbered about 2,000 at the beginning, and it took only about five minutes for them to go from entering a state of fighting to evolving into a squad melee.
As the commander-in-chief of the army, Li Jun will only pay attention to the troops that have entered a state of fighting in the front, and will focus more on the overall mobilization.
"The Han people are really powerful not only when they use firearms."
Habibullah paid more attention to the fighting after the battle: "We lost about three soldiers to destroy a Han army" The Persians still have a deep understanding of the strength of the Han people, and they really do not regard the Han people as rookies, on the contrary, they pay more attention and fear to the Romans than they do to the Romans.
The firearms of the Han people in the back were too eye-catching, which led to the fact that firearms were more feared by the Persians, and in some respects ignored the strength of the Han army in addition to the strong firearms.
"Your Excellency the Governor" Sha Zhan was a Persian general who had always paid attention to the headquarters of the Han army: "They moved" Habibullah's gaze shifted to see that the headquarters of the Han army was approaching him at a slow pace.
"For the time being, no Han troops have been found to be carrying firearms."
Sha Zhan is still quite excited about this discovery: "If they didn't have firearms, shouldn't we be more bold?"
Not counting the previous Persians who had entered the territory of the Hunite with many of their allies, they were in fact the first Sassanid army to engage the Han army in their own country.
As the first commander of the Sassanid army to fight the Han army, Habibullah's psychological pressure was beyond imagination.
It is precisely because the pressure is too great that he is more inclined to be conservative when making choices, dividing troops to attack the Kingdom of Jidoro has to be done, and leading the army to press up is a strategic consideration.
Just now, Habibullah was still thinking about withdrawing a cavalry from his own formation to save his own cavalry that seemed to be doomed, but before he could make a choice, the headquarters of the Han army was pressed in.
When the Han army headquarters pressed in, the Han cavalry on the right flank, which had been in a state of cruising, had already turned into a formation of sharp arrows, and launched a charge against the 4,000 or so Sassanid cavalry in front.
Li Junhui let the headquarters move forward, which was to deal with his own cavalry on the left and right flanks, one of which was to ensure the results of the imminent victory on the left flank, and then to give more psychological pressure to the enemy's commander.
In the contest between armies, victory or defeat mainly depends on the grasp of the battlefield by the commander-in-chief, and it is usually to make arrangements to give their own troops who have entered a state of engagement more opportunities to achieve results.
Generally speaking, it is the most basic quality of a general to avoid a certain part being at a disadvantage and to ensure the expansion of the results of a local battle in which there are advantages.
What Li Jun is doing is to ensure the expansion of local advantages, and will make the next choice according to the state of the enemy's army.
"Cavalry" Habibullah gritted his teeth and shouted: "The cavalry is all out of their own formation, don't think more, and rush directly to the enemy who can be seen" Habibullah was reminded by Sha Zhanyi to wake up, they were ten times more numerous than the Han army, and being too cautious not only undermined the morale of their own soldiers, but also gave the enemy a chance to eliminate them one by one.
Li Jun, who was personally leading the headquarters forward, heard that the enemy's war drums and horns had changed their rhythm, and then saw that the enemy's main formation was hula rushing out of the cavalry, and the infantry forming the formation was also moving in the direction, so he cursed secretly and ordered: "Order the left and right flanks to leave the battlefield, and the headquarters to turn north."
The situation that Li Jun least wanted to see still appeared, what he hoped was that the enemy army was afraid of his own side enough, and only sent the right number to engage each time, if the enemy army launched a whole army attack regardless of it, they would be full of iron and could hit a few nails, so they could only choose to distance themselves.
"Hahaha" Habibullah pointed to the retreating Han army and laughed: "The Han people will also be afraid" The evacuation of the Han army caused the Sassanid soldiers to cheer, as if they found that the original Han people were not invincible, and the little heart finally did not have to beat so fast, and the hands and feet did not need to tremble anymore, and for a while the courage returned.
"The evacuation speed doesn't need to be too fast" Li Jun heard the Persians let out a warm cheer, and the response was a sneer: "Let them chase" The Han army was all cavalry, but the Sassanid army was a mixed group of infantry and cavalry, and Li Jun was very happy to see the Persians happily pursue.
Li Jun was still depressed that the enemy army was calm enough, if the enemy army really maintained a formation, the Han army, which was full of cavalry, would really not be stupid to attack.
Now, the Sassanid army moved on its own, and it was in pursuit, and the army was getting more and more scattered: