Late Tang

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A whole night passed, and the bloody battle came to dawn.

Both the Shatuo Black Crow Army and the suppressing army are already exhausted, but the battle situation has turned to the suppressing army.The Shatuo people had no retreat, the Yellow River was behind them, and they were blocked by a fleet of ships.Although the town leaders in front were also exhausted, this was not the whole story of the town leaders.

When the belly of the fish in the east is exposed, the morning sun and the first ray of light come.

At this time, Li Jing finally transferred the [-] cavalry who had been waiting for the battle to the battlefield.

The east and west gates of Feng'an City suddenly opened, and two torrents gushed out like a flood that broke a bank, and eight thousand Tang cavalry were dispatched.The cavalry poured out from the city gates on both sides, and finally bypassed the infantry formation in front of the south gate, and rushed directly towards the Shatuo cavalry.

Yu Yu, who was watching the battle at the top of the city, was surprised to see that the cavalry below the city suddenly divided into three groups, and the red sun jumped out. Under the first ray of golden light from the morning sun, the three cavalry were wearing completely different armors.

All the way to the left, wearing red battle robes and armor, and flying a red flag, Yu Jian recognized at a glance that they were the three thousand cavalry from the Zhenwu Army and the Tiande Army.But the road on the right is all silver, silver armor, silver battle robe, silver cloak, even the helmet tassels are all silver.

"Three cavalry battalions of silver saddles, silver guns, and white horses, all in silver, the three elite light cavalry battalions of our army!" Li Jing answered to the teacher with a light smile along Yu Yu's hand.

"What about the cavalry in the middle?"

Yu Jian pointed at the cavalry that passed by like a torrent, but they were completely black like Shatuo people.

Black flag, black armor and black robe!

Li Jing looked at the cavalry unit with only 2000 men, and said proudly and with a hint of complacency: "That's the Xuanjia heavy cavalry!"

Yu Yu's eyes were wide open when he heard the words, and he turned his head to look hard at the cavalry under the city. After a long while, he said in a trembling voice: "When did you equip a heavy cavalry, why did you never see you when you were in Hedong?" used?"

Xuanjia heavy cavalry, this is Li Jing's newly formed cavalry unit, drawn from the original cavalry, with a staff of 2000 horses, all the knights are the most elite cavalry, and all the horses are all black horses.Their equipment is even better because of the reloading of their equipment.

Heavy cavalry, that is, armored riding equipment.

Armored riding equipment, knights wear iron armor, and horses also have equipment. Horse equipment is divided into "face curtain" to protect the horse's head, "chicken neck" to protect the horse's neck, and "dang chest" to protect the horse's chest. The "horse body armor" on the horse's body, the "back" to protect the horse's buttocks, and the "parasitic" erected on the horse's buttocks and the knight's back.

The heavy cavalry reached its peak during the Southern and Northern Dynasties. In large-scale battles, it is a powerful force that can win with one blow and decide the situation on the battlefield.The Xuanjia Army is an elite cavalry army formed by Li Shimin, Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty.

Because the armor equipped by this cavalry is black, it is called the Xuanjia Army.As the strongest force of Tang Taizong, the Xuanjia Army can be ranked among the top ten cavalry troops in the past dynasties, and it is extremely powerful.

According to historical records, the king of Qin and the people selected more than a thousand elite cavalry, all of whom were dressed in black armor and were divided into left and right teams. Qin Shubao, Cheng Zhijie, Yuchi Jingde, and Zhai Changsun were divided into them.In every battle, Shimin was appointed as the vanguard by Shuai Xuanjia, and took the opportunity to attack, destroying everything, and the enemy feared him.

The Xuanjia Army was dismantled after Emperor Taizong ascended the throne, expanded when Empress Wu arrived, and reorganized during Emperor Xuanzong, but in the end this elite army became an ornament and completely lost its combat effectiveness.

Heavy cavalry, since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, the heavy cavalry has gradually declined. In the past, it was the key force that determined the victory of the battle. In the end, because the heavy cavalry required expensive equipment, extremely high soldier quality, and Good war horses make heavy cavalry gradually withdraw from the battle arena.

In addition to Chang'an's imperial guards, there are also some heavy cavalry who look like heavy cavalry, and there are no heavy cavalry in the entire Tang Dynasty.Now across the world, the strongest is the Shatuo cavalry, and then the Hu cavalry of various tribes, they are all light cavalry.

At the peak of the heavy cavalry, all countries in the past dynasties had armored cavalry, even in large numbers. The heavy cavalry shocked the world with its terrible impact and destructive power, which made people chill.The attack of the heavy armored cavalry can often defeat the opponent ten times as large as oneself, and the formation collapses. More than 200 years ago, Tang Taizong Li Shimin's Xuanjia heavy cavalry had only 1000 soldiers and horses. He once used 6000 Xuanjia elite soldiers to defeat Wang Shichong and captured more than 3500 people.In the battle of Hulaoguan, which determined the ownership of the world, Dou Jiande led more than [-] elite troops to support Wang Shichong. Among the ten thousand people, Dou Jiande fled with only a few hundred cavalry

But with the passage of time, after the Tang Dynasty ruled the world, the Xuanjia Cavalry was finally split into two, part of which served as Taizong's guard, and part of which was handed over to Li Jing to lead the attack on the Turks. To the mainstay role.

But then the Tang Dynasty was at peace, and the wars were all concentrated in the frontiers.Firstly, armored heavy cavalry is expensive to equip, and secondly, it is not suitable to be transferred to the frontier to fight against the enemy. Over time, it becomes useless and is finally forgotten.

For the cost of training and equipping one light cavalry, you can train and equip five infantrymen.For the price of training and equipping one heavy cavalry, you can equip five light cavalry.

Therefore, even though the vassals and towns continue to be separatist, they have not seen any fan commander who is willing to spend five times the price of light cavalry, or the price of 25 infantry, to train armed heavy cavalry.

Others think that heavy cavalry is already outdated, but Li Jing believes that on the Central Plains battlefield, an elite heavy cavalry, although a bit more expensive, is the sharpest sword and can play a decisive role. The role of the time to control the battle situation.The plan for the heavy cavalry had been in Li Jing's mind, and he had secretly started to build the armor and riding equipment for the heavy cavalry, and it hadn't been built yet when he dispatched troops to Hedong.

When Li Guochang was captured, Dengzhou letter sent two thousand sets of armor and riding equipment to be built, and the excited Li Jing immediately had them transported to Hedong.During this period, after selection, two thousand elite cavalry were finally selected to form the Xuanjia Army.However, since there was a Xuanjia army in Chang'an, and this army was built by Emperor Taizong himself, Li Jing did not dare to use this name openly.Therefore, in the end Li Jing awarded the two thousand heavy cavalry the title of "Black Banner Army".

The bugle was directly awarded. This is the first troop below to have a bugle since Shengfan Town in the town.Countless generals of the first Black Banner Army Envoy stared at this position, but Li Jing finally took the position of the first Black Banner Army Envoy himself very unceremoniously.Li Jing promoted Gao Shunli as deputy military envoy after considering for a long time, with [-] soldiers and horses, set up two battalions in ten capitals, Zhou Dewei was appointed as the commander of the left battalion, and Li Juyi was appointed as the commander of the right battalion.For the positions of the ten generals below, six of the disciples were promoted to the positions of generals this time, and the remaining four were selected from the cavalry as four people with both military exploits and prestige.

The armor of the knights of the Black Banner Army did not choose the Mingguang armor that the Xuanjia Army originally equipped, but equipped with two armors, one was the Mountain Mantle Armor, and the other was equipped with a rope armor covering the outside.The helmet uses a full-faced phoenix-winged pocket.With the addition of black battle robes, black cloaks, gray tassels, and black horses and vests, it is even blacker than the Shatuo Black Crow Army.

This is the first time the Black Banner Army has appeared in battle, and Li Jing is full of confidence in this army.

The two thousand armored cavalry were all dressed in black armor, with black fringes on their helmets, and carrying specially equipped spears on their flat sides. They quickly completed their preparations for the attack under the city, and formed a formation of twenty teams. The teams are arranged in a formation of two, three, four, five, and six, forming a front and arrow charge formation.

The sky is getting brighter and brighter, the red sun in the east has already jumped out, and the golden light of the rising sun reflects the cavalry under Feng'an City, reflecting a faint light.A breeze blew gently, blowing the helmet tassels on the soldiers' heads.

Gao Shunli rode his horse and stood in front of the formation, full of excitement for being able to serve as the deputy envoy of the most elite ace division in this town.

Looking at the exhausted Shatuo army in front of him, Gao Shunli gradually calmed down.He raised his right hand high, and the cavalry behind him were silent.Suddenly, the raised right hand pressed down forcefully.The knights let out a deafening roar: "Wherever the black flag goes, we are invincible!"

Gao Shunli put down the visor on the helmet, hiding his entire face under the armor.Through the two fine holes in the visor, he fixed his eyes on the Shatuo cavalry, swung the horse spear forward in his hand, clamped the horse's belly with his legs, and the horse galloped out.

Two thousand armored cavalry saddled and jumped their horses one after another, and the torrent of iron cavalry rushed from the flanks to the Shatuo cavalry who were still fighting with the infantry of the suppressing army, and the sound of horseshoes resounded like thunder.

Although the opponent is such a world-renowned Black Crow Army, the newly formed armored cavalry is not afraid at all.

Today is the day when the Black Banner Army ends the Black Crow Army.From then on, the title of the world's number one cavalry army will belong to the Black Banner Army.

Located in the direction of the attack of the Black Banner Army is the left wing led by Sha Tuofei Huzi Gaiyu. Due to the shortest distance, he was the first to feel the great deterrence and terrifying momentum brought by this same black-clothed four-armored cavalry.The Black Crow Army was originally an elite force with many battles, and they were not afraid of any enemy.But now, they still couldn't take down the opponent's infantry formation after a night of fierce attack, and when the enemy army killed such a powerful armored cavalry, the Black Crow Army felt fear and panic for the first time.

Between the ranks of the Iron Armored Army, amidst the howling, people can always feel the terrifying fighting spirit like a lion like a tiger, which makes the oncoming Black Crow Army tremble!

Gai Yu was riding on the horse, the hand holding the sword in his hand was already trembling, he was too exhausted, too tired, the Tang army standing in front of him was like an insurmountable mountain, and now, the town army unexpectedly killed an armored cavalry , For an instant, Gai Yu's mind was confused.

Sha Tuo, is he really about to perish? Where will his way out be? (To be continued.)