People were shouting and killing, and the horses neighed from time to time.
In the wilderness, cavalry were constantly staggering or colliding, and every moment and every second, someone threw their blood and fell on this battlefield.
The two enemy cavalry who were the first to meet each other, they didn't have much room to detour at all, they just bumped into each other so hard.
The Sassanid commander noticed that a Han army had appeared from the flank, and he was slightly flustered and chose to divide his troops to meet him.
The Sassanids did not have more troops on this battlefield than the Han army, and they only had a slight advantage, but as the Han army in all directions continued to advance, their position would soon be lost.
In fact, the light cavalry should not fight in such a relatively narrow terrain, but should use their short-distance speed to break out in a wide space, constantly looking for opportunities to take advantage of the cruising and detours, gnawing at the enemy's vital force little by little, accumulating enough results with each small kill, slowly making the enemy lose their fighting spirit, to defeat the enemy, and annihilate the enemy in the process of pursuing later.
However, it is difficult for the army to fight on the battlefield that suits it every time, and more often it fights in the terrain that is unfavorable to itself, and whether it can overcome the discomfort is a crucial moment to test the army.
The light cavalry of the two sides who kept meeting each other, they were like ice and fire meeting in an instant, the ice was constantly melting by the fire, and at the same time, the fire was extinguished because of the ice, the life of the colliding boundary line was disappearing, and blood was spilled all over the earth.
The Han army, which represents the fiery red, is generally in a state of advancement, not fast but able to steadily push the battle line forward.
The Sassanid light cavalry, which would be grayish and yellow, disappeared from the horses in a matter of moments, and in many cases planted to the ground with men and horses, and then turned into flesh in the trampling of the hooves of both the enemy and the enemy.
Zuo Si was fighting with a cavalry spear before, and the cavalry stabbed an enemy cavalryman before he could draw it back, and the weapon in his hand turned into a war knife.
In this kind of battlefield that crosses each other at high speed, as long as the blade is sharp enough, in fact, there is no need to make much effort to chop the action, the speed will make the blade bring great lethality when sweeping the human body, even if it is just a wipe, it will pull out a long bloody hole, and it must be a state where the belly is cut.
At some point, if a person's limb touches the blade, and the person holding the weapon makes the slightest slashing motion, the person's arm will be broken in an instant.
The most vulnerable area for cavalry to engage is not actually the upper body, and the knight will generally take great care to protect his upper body, using shields or weapons to block.
The area that is really extremely vulnerable to injury is actually from the waist plate, which is the thigh.
The knight's gaze on horseback is generally level and forward, and the gaze does not particularly move forward and downward, so the position of the thigh is greatly neglected.
Some cavalry tossed on horseback, most of the time the weapon was hanging down, maybe they would deliberately lift the weapon in their hands when the enemy was about to stagger between the enemy and me, but because of the time difference, only halfway to the staggering had already occurred, the weapon was unintentionally in contact with the enemy cavalry below the waist plate when staggering.
Why the cavalry has an extra skirt armor than the infantry is definitely not meaningless, on the contrary, it is specially designed according to the needs of the cavalry in battle.
Look at the Sassanid cavalry and Han cavalry on the battlefield, most of them who are not dead but have blood on their thighs must be Sassanid cavalry, on the contrary, the Han cavalry will only be damaged because of the protection of the skirt armor.
People will ignore that they are injured in special circumstances, especially in extremely noisy battlefields, unless the main torso has been severely damaged, otherwise it is a very common situation that they will not find themselves injured for a while.
They usually find that their wheezing is getting more and more urgent, wondering how the consumption of physical strength is so much faster than usual, and people are inexplicably becoming weaker and weaker.
In fact, if there is an injury somewhere, the blood in the body is constantly flowing out, and the more and more blood is lost, the person will naturally become weak.
On the real battlefield, the cavalry of both sides will really not give up and only target the cavalry on horseback, on the contrary, the first target of a qualified cavalryman will be the war horse under the enemy's crotch.
Cavalry is small in size and has a much greater reaction to danger than animals, so they will inevitably dodge or block when encountered.
Although the war horse also has wisdom and will dodge when it encounters danger, it is large and controlled by the reins, and many times it wants to dodge because the controlled relationship cannot be avoided at all, and it is attacked by force.
Of course, the physique of the war horse also determines that if it is not killed instantly, its ability to resist blows is definitely much stronger than that of people, and it really will not die because of an arrow or a blow.
One thing is very realistic, the war horse is in a state of intense movement, once they are injured and the bleeding speed will be very fast, and the speed will slowly decrease at the same time, and the accident of falling over the hoof may occur anytime and anywhere.
Zuo Si found that the speed of the war horse under the crotch was losing, and he didn't dare to look left and right on the battlefield, but he used the corner of his eye to observe where his deputy horse was, and he kept sinking if he didn't find his heart.
As the Sassanid cavalry stationed on the battlefield, they left their secondary or auxiliary horses at the side of the large army before charging, and launched an offensive with only one man and one horse.
The Han army came from afar and had the opportunity to drive the auxiliary horses and auxiliary horses away from the brigade, but they did not do so.
As the Han army that wants to support Peshawar, what is needed is an indomitable momentum, and there is no intention to have too long a pause after the victory of the battle, once the auxiliary horses and auxiliary horses are driven away from the team, I don't know how much time it will take to find them.
Charging with the auxiliary horse and auxiliary horse can actually make a bigger scene, and the auxiliary horse and auxiliary horse that no one rides will also have a killing effect because of their own collision force.
For the Han Empire, which was no longer short of war horses, it was not a problem to sacrifice some horses, if it was possible to sacrifice two or three war horses to keep a soldier, it would be more cost-effective in either way.
The speed of the war horse under Zuo Si's crotch is decreasing, and next to him is riding one robe after another to surpass himself and charge forward, he has the kung fu to lean slightly and pull a deputy horse who doesn't know who, and find an opportunity to make a transfer, his eyes look at his war horse, there is an arrow stuck in the chest of its body, and the ass is not known to be slashed by one or more guys who should be stabbed a few times.
Because he was no longer at the forefront of the entire charging formation, Zuo Si had the kung fu to find out if he had any injuries, but fortunately, although the leather armor on his body was damaged in many places, and the injuries were only on the flesh and skin, not to the point of hurting his muscles and bones.
After Zuo Si checked himself, he began to observe the battlefield, and in the rear were large areas of corpses of men and horses, and some scattered enemies and enemies were chasing and fleeing.
"I don't know if my brother can survive" Zuo Si's brother Zuo Wei is also in this vanguard army, but he doesn't know that Zuo Wei was selected as the selector: "After this battle, my brother should be a public car." ” As the vanguard of the Han army, not everyone was killed, and about 200 of the 500 or so people waited for their follow-up troops to join the battlefield.
On their side, in fact, the charge line composed of 4,000 Sassanid light cavalry had been drilled, and the cavalry charging at the forefront saw the enemy's main formation, but the enemy's main formation was too thin.
The Sassanid army was divided again and again, and there were less than a thousand chariot troops and about 2,000 cavalry of all colors remaining.
Among them seems to be an army of about 500 mounted cavalry In the rest of the part, on the left and right were Han cavalry and Sassanid charioteers and cavalry, and the difference in numbers between the two sides was not large.
The most important thing is that not all the forces of the Han army have been fully put into the battlefield, and there are two Han cavalry units with a combined number of about 13,000 or so that are detouring on the edge of the battlefield.
The Han army, which had cut through the 4,000 Sassanid light cavalry troops, continued to gallop directly towards the Sassanid main formation without any pause, and when they rushed to about 700 meters away from the Sassanid main formation, a battle horn was shouted in unison again: "The Han army is mighty" Only nearly fifteen minutes have passed since the battle, and the 4,000 light cavalry that Sassanid had fought in the early stage were not all finished, but should have about 2,000 or so left to be hunted by about 1,000 Han cavalry.
It is hunting in the real sense, the morale of the Han cavalry is like a rainbow, but the Sassanid cavalry is panicked, and the mentality determines the trend of the battle, resulting in the fact that the number of Sassanid cavalry is more than that of the Han army, but the Sassanid cavalry is in the role of being chased and killed.
The Han army that rushed to the Sassanid main formation was the first to shout the battle call, and the Han troops in the rest of the directions shouted in response.
As if it were a new signal, the two Han cavalry, which had been cruising and detouring around the periphery, amounting to about 13,000, changed direction and surrounded the Sassanid main formation.
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"How long has it been" Salbasgatlo stood on the body of the chariot, his face was pale: "With the time of the Han people, it is less than twenty minutes."
In Salbasgatlo's understanding of cavalry engagement, shouldn't cavalry engagement have to fight for a few days and nights to distinguish obvious advantages and disadvantages between friend and foe?
They came not only with cavalry, but also with charioteers, but charioteers looked worse than cavalry It can be seen that the Han cavalry did not have close contact with the Sassanid charioteers at all, and it was the Han cavalry who threw their cavalry spears at the wheels of the Sassanid chariot during the gallop.
Of course, many of the cavalry guns were thrown empty, but if they hit the wheel, most of them would be bounced off by the high-speed spinning wheels, and if a horse spear was inserted, it would inevitably cause the Sassanid chariot to roll over.
It looks elastic when it rotates at high speed, but if there is a hard object inserted into the support bar, it is not the metal structure of the support rod will break, even if it does not break, there will be an instantaneous braking effect, and then because of the sudden frustration force, the chariot that was already speeding at high speed will have a huge movement.
Zhu Xia hadn't seen a chariot in the true sense of the word for a long time, and even if there was a chariot, it was only used as a martial chariot, and it was generally used to carry soldiers and transport supplies.
When the Han army fought in the Asan Continent, it did not encounter a lot of chariots, and it was a hard-hitting way to deal with it at first, and it needs to be said that the battle damage was slightly worse than the battle.
The later army and all aspects of the part of the study, throwing the cavalry gun to the wheel of the chariot is only one of the ways to deal with it, and it is also the most convenient way for the cavalry to deal with the chariot.
The Sassanid chariot was still a model with no axles or brakes, which meant that it was impossible to make sharp turns or stops, and there was little flexibility to speak of.
Or the use of chariots does not mean backwardness, in fact, some plain terrain using charioteers can really rampage, there is no shortage of plain terrain in Sasansan, and even the countries around Sassanid are dominated by plains, which is one of the reasons why the Persians have not given up charioteers for so many years.
The Persians themselves have done relevant experiments, once it is a battle on flat terrain, the cavalry is actually unable to defeat the charioteers head-on, cruising each other to consume the physical strength of the war horses or something is not very effective on the charioteers, and if you want to defeat the charioteers, you can only fight hard.
Even though they knew that the charioteers of the Gupta Empire still could not win against the Han army, the Sassani still did not give up the idea of charioteers, and some of their high-ranking people even placed their hopes of defeating the Han army on the charioteers.
The reason is that they knew that the Han army was struggling to deal with the charioteers of the Gupta Empire, and they felt that the charioteers of their country were no better than the charioteers of the Gupta Empire.
The charioteers of the Gupta Empire can make the Han army hard, so the Sassanid charioteers whose combat effectiveness is stronger than that of the Gupta Empire will not have a problem in defeating the Han army Now, the first large-scale battle between the Sassanid charioteers and the Han cavalry was already underway, and the Persians were watching the confrontation with great eagerness, but the more they looked at it, the muscles of their faces stiffened, and some people couldn't help but cry when they saw it.
"They are all cowards, they only dare to throw things at a distance, they don't look like a warrior at all" "But it works" The scene of the confrontation between the Sassanid charioteers and the Han cavalry was actually a bit miserable, usually as long as the Han cavalry could avoid being shot by the Sassanid charioteers, then the Han cavalry would definitely have a way to deal with the Sassanid chariots.
The Han knights threw their spears at the chariot from a distance, and threw something like a horse rope when they were closer.
It was a short rope with heavy objects tied to both ends of the rope, which was quite useful against both men and horses, and would tie people up in rotation, and it would be just as effective against the wheels of a chariot: