Traveling through the early Tang Dynasty starts with hanging

Chapter 606 Erzhu Yichen
There is a big difference between the ancient battle formation and Li Shan's imagination. After all, he is not a professional, but he knows one thing very well. Cavalry is the most important unit to defeat the hundreds of thousands of Turks who control strings.

Therefore, after taking control of Daizhou, Li Shan has been trying every means to build elite cavalry. In addition to using various methods or buying and selling from outside the Great Wall, or tricking, or ripping off, he got a lot of horses, and saddles, stirrups, and horseshoes. A variety of tools appeared successively.

This makes the elite of the Daizhou Army basically maintain two categories, either infantry or cavalry.

Uh, Li Shan's idea is pretty good, but it's a bit out of touch with reality. In this era, other arms can also play a role on the battlefield.

Like today.

Er Zhu Yichen, who still held an old-school military viewpoint, stood on a high platform in the army formation, watched all directions, listened to all directions, and issued various orders non-stop. The Tang army surrounded the city with a chariot formation to resist the Turkic attack.

The soldiers either held their shields high, or shrank behind the chariots, avoiding the long arrows that could be shot at any time. Under the command of the army chief, the archers sprinkled a wave of arrows from time to time, and the spearmen shot them from the gaps in the chariot array. The spear was stuck firmly outside the car.

What Ashina Sheer wanted was time. Driven by him, the Turkic cavalry automatically divided into several teams, pulled the formation around the Tang army formation, tested with bows and arrows, and after looking for weak points, the cavalry rushed into the formation regardless of their lives.

The high roar and the neighing of the war horse became one piece, and the sharp spear tip easily tore apart the flesh and blood of the tall horse, but the war horse weighing hundreds of catties often knocked the chariot and the soldiers of the Tang army attached to the chariot. rise.

Soldiers of the Tang army with long knives quickly rushed up from both wings, entangled the Turkic cavalry who had to slow down after being forced to slow down by the fallen horses, and the archers in the rear no longer cared about the long arrows that might kill them at any time, and desperately spread arrow rain into the distance , more than a dozen chariots were rushed forward by the soldiers, trying to fill the gap.

It is said that in the Warring States Period, Hu Fu rode and shot, but in fact, from the Spring and Autumn Period to the Sui and Tang Dynasties, chariot soldiers have always been an important arm of the army of the Central Plains Dynasty.

Thanks to Li Shan's ignorance and not being uncommon, a large number of chariots were abandoned in Daizhou, which made Er Zhu Yichen useful.

Glancing at the bloody gap, Er Zhu Yichen turned his head and looked around, looking at the Turkic cavalry outside the formation who were trying to gather their forces and rushed over. He waved his right hand, and the guards behind him waved their battle flags.

Ma Sanbao, who had been waiting impatiently for a long time, let out a stern voice, raised his long spear to the sky, and led hundreds of cavalry to gallop out through the passage prepared in advance.

For more than a year, Li Shan has spent countless thoughts and money on the cavalry, and even shamelessly begged Princess Pingyang to get a large number of long spears, sabers, and armors to create a cavalry with enough impact. fine riding.

Er Zhu Yichen's timing was also very precise. Ma Sanbao led the Tang cavalry and appeared on the side of the Turkic reinforcements who were running wildly. In terms of rushing, the Turks cannot be compared with the Tang cavalry.

Ma Sanbao strung up a candied haws effortlessly with the long spear in his hand, then dropped the horse spear, drew out the long knife, slashed left and right, and at the same time kicked the horse's belly desperately. Cavalry side.

Ashina Sheer, who was watching the battle from a distance, was overjoyed and did not dare to go straight to Yanmen Pass. It was simply because of the thousands of Tang cavalry. As long as the Tang cavalry was destroyed, he would simply bypass the Tang army's large formation and press Yanmen Pass...those thousands of infantry Even if you want to stop it, you can't stop it, and you can't catch up if you want to chase it.

Bypassing Nao County, the terrain is flat, even if troops are sent on behalf of the county, it will be difficult to stop the Turkic cavalry from attacking Yanmen Pass.

But before Ashina Sheer could catch up, hundreds of cavalry from the Tang army galloped out from the other direction, ignoring the gap battlefield that was still fighting, and went straight to the other side of the Turkic reinforcements.

Ashina Sheer reined in the horse and dropped the whip with a sullen face, "It's late, it's late!"

Sure enough, although there were more than [-] Turkic reinforcements rushing to the gap, under Er Zhu Yichen's ingenious arrangement, the more than [-] cavalry were divided into two groups and attacked from two directions, completely disrupting the formation of the Turkic cavalry.

The Turkic people's battles are about being far and near, and they want to be close, but the Tang cavalry is different. They are armored and well-armed cavalry. Falling behind.

The chief general Er Zhu Yichen quickly dispatched troops to fill the gap first, and then the soldiers on the periphery pushed the chariot forward, and the infantry covered by the chariot sprinkled a rain of arrows, covering the cavalry slowly retreating, without much loss. Seeing that there was no chance, the small Turkic cavalry retreated one after another... At this time, the Turkic cavalry from other places had not yet arrived.

Staring at the Tang cavalry slowly retreating into the formation, and the chariot retreating at the same time to narrow the range and strengthen its resistance, Ashina Sheer turned his head and asked, "Who is the general of the Tang army?"

The attendant beside him replied: "Zhu Yichen, Simaer of Daizhou."

"Erzhu?"

"It's from the Qihu tribe..." Ashina Sheer sighed, "There are so many heroes under the command of King Handan!"

Among the officials of Daizhou General Manager's Mansion, Er Zhu Yichen may be the most inconspicuous in terms of status and fame. He is not like Zhang Shigui and Zhang Gongjin who came from the Qin Palace where many heroes came out, and he is not like Su Dingfang, Ma Sanbao and Xue Wanche. Military exploits, known as famous generals.

But at the critical moment, Su Dingfang followed Li Shan's instructions before his departure... If there is a big event, use it as much as possible.

Relatives may not necessarily be on Li Shan's side, but others... Li Shan really can't believe it, and Er Zhu Yichen also showed his ability in this battle.

The battle lasted until dusk, with corpses strewn across the field. The Turkic cavalry rushed forward several times without hesitating casualties, but they were all stopped by the chariot formation. Ma Sanbao led the cavalry to attack several times, but they were always within the range of their own archers. Both sides suffered heavy casualties, but there was no progress... This kind of result is acceptable to the Tang army, but not to the Turks.

The setting sun was like blood, and Ashina Sheer on the hill looked worriedly to the south. Will Bingzhou send troops?

Those people swear that it is unlikely that Bingzhou will send troops to the north for the war in Daizhou, but Ashina Sheer dare not put his fate on the promise of these people... Not to mention anything else, in Xinzhou, the Bingzhou Army will come after.

Be quick, you must defeat the Tang army in front of you as soon as possible... Ashina Sheer turned his head, and his eyes fell on the slowly retreating Tang army formation.

On one side of this place is a mountain, close to Lanzhou, and on the other side is a big river in the distance. Ashina Sheer is thinking, maybe he can leave [-] cavalry to stare at the Tang army, and lead [-] cavalry to bypass the Tang army and head north.

After hesitating for a long time, Ashina Sheer decided to take a look at the situation of the battle tomorrow. For tomorrow's battle, he has a lot of confidence... If he is not sure at all, how dare he rush into this enemy who is surrounded by enemies? Where is the danger?

(End of this chapter)