Chapter 2477: The Great Victory of Haojing (9) of the White Horse Yichou VS Feixiong Army
Chapter 2474: The Great Victory of Haojing (9) in the White Horse VS Feixiong Army
Baima Yicong may not be the strongest cavalry in the Qin Dynasty, but it is definitely the coolest and most eye-catching elite.
The white horse Yicong rode all the white war horses of the Qin Dynasty, and they were all white war horses, and they were paired with silver helmets, silver armor, silver spears, white robes and other silver-white equipment. They were so gorgeous that they were extremely gorgeous.
No one I see is handsome.
Such a gorgeous and powerful elite cavalry is obviously the dream of all generals, but Emperor Ying Hao of Qin never changed its command.
That’s right, Bai Ma Yi has always been Gongsun Xuanyuan as the leader.
Until half a year ago, Gongsun Xuanyuan might have thought that the white horse was too arrogant, or perhaps because of other reasons, he voluntarily wrote a letter to resign from his position as General Bai horse. This elite commander was replaced and transferred to Liangzhou.
As the only elite camp of the Qin army in Guanzhong, Li Shimin naturally paid great attention to the White Horse Yicong.
After learning that Bai Ma Yi''s brother was transferred, Li Shimin asked his subordinates to confirm repeatedly many times, and all they got was that Bai Ma Yicong really went to Liangzhou. He felt relieved.
But what Li Shimin never expected was that Baima Yicong, who was supposed to be in Liangzhou, now appeared on the battlefield of Haojing.
Although the wise horse in front of me was no longer a white horse and its equipment was not a very **** silver-white equipment, Li Shimin still easily recognized that this was a white horse.
The reason is nothing else. The slogan of the White Horse is "Where the righteousness comes, life and death follow each other, the heaven can see it, and the white horse is proof. ’Li Shimin has heard it too many times.
Each elite battalion has its own slogan, and each army is also its own pride. Generally, they will not shout slogans from other troops. One is disdain, and the other is that they have little meaning.
So it is obvious that this cavalry is a white horse.
After drawing this conclusion, Li Shimin''s uneasiness became even more intense.
It turned out that Bai Ma Yiqiong was transferred to Liangzhou was a conspiracy, and half a year ago, the Qin Dynasty was planning for this day.
I just don’t know if this plan was made by Wu Qi or what Wang Jian thought.
Wu Qi thought about the strategy of transferring Baima Yicong. He deliberately let another cavalry, even an army that might not be a cavalry, wear the equipment of the white horse Yicong and ride away all the white horses to mislead Li Tang.
Under inertial thinking, the senior officials of Li Tang, including Li Shimin, thought that the white horse and silver armor were the white horse Yicong, and they also thought that the white horse and Yicong had been transferred to Liangzhou, and the Qin army had no elite camp in Liangzhou.
But in fact, Bai Ma Yicong was still in Guanzhong and was just under Li Tang''s nose. He just changed his equipment, but no one in the entire Tang Dynasty discovered it.
Li Shimin did not discover the entire conspiracy. It was not because he was careless or anything else, but because he never expected that Daqin would use such a trick.
Facing different opponents, their styles of behavior are completely different.
Even when facing a powerful opponent, Daqin is upright, with integrity as the main focus, and then supplemented by strange strategies.
When facing a weak opponent, you obviously use your power to suppress others and use your strength to push forward, and you will basically not use conspiracies.
With the size of the Qin Dynasty, facing a weak country like Li Tang, it is obvious that it can be pushed hard, and there is no need to use such a trick.
But the Qin army not only used it, but also used it at the most critical moment, which made Li Shimin a little uncomfortable.
The senior executives of the Qin army never underestimated the Tang army from beginning to end, but instead underestimated the Qin army''s chief general Wang Jian.
As soon as he thought of this, Li Shimin felt very regretful, but it had already happened. It was too late for him to regret it any more.
The most important thing at the moment is to defeat Baima Yicong. Only in this way can you defeat the Qin army and achieve victory.
"Flying Bear Army, kill me."
Li Shimin drew his sword and shouted, and was about to participate in the fight in person.
Among the eight thousand Tang cavalry, only three thousand are the flying bear army, and the other five thousand are ordinary Western Liang Iron Cavalry.
Seeing that the lord participated in the battle in person, the Tang army''s cavalry increased greatly. They all had red eyes, roared hard, shouted and rushed towards the Qin army, but they were hit by a rain of arrows in front of them.
The Qin army''s crossbow range is farther than that of the Tang army. If the cavalry faces head-on, it will shoot the Tang army for two more rounds based on the distance calculation.
The best thing about Baima Yi is riding and shooting. The arrows shot more accurately than ordinary Qin cavalry. In just two rounds of shooting, six or seven hundred Tang cavalry fell off the horse.
Li Shimin felt very satisfied when he saw this. The nine thousand Qin Iron Cavalry, only shot six or seven hundred people in two rounds of shooting. It seems that the White Horse Yi has never been very good.
What Li Shimin didn''t know was that he was deceived by Wang Jian again. He thought there were nine thousand Qin cavalry opposite him, but in fact there were only six thousand, and three thousand were hidden by Wang Jian.
Li Shimin calculated based on nine thousand, so the Qin cavalry''s cavalry''s hit rate was absolutely low, but if it was six thousand, the hit rate would be quite high if it was shot down by one-tenth of its own enemy in two rounds.
After two rounds of crossbow arrows, the Tang army also fought back, and the two sides began to shoot at each other.
After three rounds of shooting, the distance between the cavalry on both sides had been shortened to fifty meters, so both sides tacitly put away the crossbow and replaced it with a javelin.
Seeing that Tang Jun was actually equipped with javelins, Wang Jian and Huang Tianhua both showed painful expressions, and they were obviously surprised by this.
"Li Shimin really has a trump card," Wang Jian sighed softly.
He is not a person who likes to bet, but at this moment he is praying in his heart, hoping that Li Shimin has no other trump card to play, otherwise even if the Qin army can win in the end, it will probably be a miserable victory.
The javelin was also the first equipment used by the Qin army and shone in cavalry warfare.
But before this, no other countries except Qin had used javelins on a large scale.
The reason is that javelin consumes too much steel.
Javelin is a big iron-consuming enterprise. It is a full metal javelin that weighs at least eight pounds.
The heavy javelin that deals with heavy riders weighs fifteen kilograms.
If the cavalry is equipped with javelins, it will be fine if the war is won, but after all, it can be taken back and used repeatedly.
But if you don’t win or lose, those thousands of javelins and tens of thousands of kilograms of steel will be given out in vain, and this is just a war.
In this era when many countries still use wooden and iron spearheads, javelin equipment is too luxurious and not affordable to ordinary countries.
It is better to replace the spearmen''s spear with all metal standards to build a javelin.
This is also the main reason why only Daqin has been using javelins again. Other countries don’t want to use it, but they can’t afford it at all.
The Qin Dynasty will not use javelins in all wars, but will only use them in some key wars. After all, if a big battle will have dozens or even hundreds of small battles, it is indeed a bit too luxurious if all use javelins to fight. Even the Qin Dynasty cannot afford such consumption.
Li Tang even used wooden spearmen, and obviously he couldn''t afford to use javelins.
But Li Shimin equipped the cavalry with javelins in this battle. Obviously, after a long period of planning, he secretly built a large number of javelins just to use them in this battle in order to catch the Qin army off guard.
Li Shimin regarded the javelin as a trump card, and his plan did succeed.
Neither Wu Qi nor Wang Jian expected the Tang army to fight with javelins.
For the cavalry, the distance of fifty meters is very short, and the iron cavalry on both sides projected two rounds.
The Tang army threw more than 15,000 javelins, causing only more than 1,000 casualties to the Qin army. Although the hit rate is less than one-tenth, it was the highest hit rate of the Tang army.
The Qin army threw more than 11,000 javelins, but caused more than 1,500 casualties to the Tang army, with a hit rate of more than one tenth.
This also shows that the Tang Dynasty''s use of javelins is still far from that of Qin.
After two long-range attacks on crossbow arrows and javelins, the Tang army had 5,500 cavalry left, while the Qin army had 4,500 cavalry left.
Before they even fought head-on, the Tang army suffered 2,500 casualties, while the Qin army suffered 1,500 casualties, two-thirds of which died under the javelin.
Li Shimin''s secret trick caused the Qin army to pay a heavy price for it, but it was still within the affordable range.
Before the war started, Wang Jian had a general estimate of the casualties in this battle. As long as the number of casualties and cavalrymen was not more than 10,000, it would be a big victory, and if it exceeded 10,000, it would be a miserable victory.
Although it seems a bit thrilling now, the casualties can still be kept within 10,000.
Boom...
After the long-range attack, the cavalry of Qin and Tang dynasties finally collided head-on.
Before the two armies collided, Li Shimin finally realized that the number of iron cavalry in the Qin army was not right.
He can''t estimate the specific number, but it is definitely not 9,000.
Li Shimin never expected that Wang Jian had 13,000 infantry and cavalry against his 25,000 army. He would not have done his best, but he would still dare to divide his troops.
There is no one else in this courage, Ying Hao is not as brave as him.
As things developed to this point, Li Shimin also roughly guessed that Wang Jian’s next goal was nothing more than to block his central army and then use the hidden cavalry to detour his own wings.
Now the battle situation between the two wings is in a state of anxiety, and any Qin army''s intervention may become the last straw that broke the camel''s back.
As soon as he thought of this, Li Shimin immediately ordered Hou Junji in the rear to take a thousand men to transport the sulphur truck prepared in advance to the necessary road to the combat zone between the left and right wings. Once the Qin army was found approaching, he would immediately set fire to prevent the Qin army''s cavalry from supporting the left and right wings.
If there is a big fire, the Qin army can only take a detour, and taking a detour means delaying time.
As long as the Qin army can be delayed for an hour, the Tang army will definitely win this battle.
"Wang Jian, Wang Jian, I don''t believe you have other trump cards. No matter what your purpose is, as long as the central army cannot defend it, you will be defeated in this battle."
Li Shimin shook his head and gave up distracting thoughts. Yuwen Tai and Changsun Wuji, who were commanding the infantry in the rear, led all the infantry from the flank to surround the Qin army.
Even though the number of iron cavalry of the Tang army is one thousand more than that of the Qin army, and the force increase of the "Zhenguan" is still different from that of the Qin army.
Careers alone cannot defeat the Qin army, so they still have to rely on infantry, or military strength advantages to have the possibility of defeating the Qin army.
Yuwen Tai and Changsun Wuji had been waiting for a long time, and after receiving the order, they each led 8,000 troops to attack.
Since then, all 60,000 troops of the Tang army have been dispatched, and no new forces can be mobilized, while the Qin army has left three thousand iron cavalry and has not appeared yet, and the new forces of the 4,000 infantry have not participated in the war.
Wang Jian dragged Li Shimin''s army with just 23,000 infantry and cavalry. This ability to command formations was only a handful of Qin''s famous generals.
Qin army camp.
Ji Dan saw that 16,000 Tang army infantry surrounded the country, but there were only 4,000 infantry left on his side. He couldn''t help but feel a little worried and asked Wen Zhong on the side: "Sir, it''s not that I don''t have confidence in you, but that Changsun Wuji and Yuwen Tai are both famous generals of the world and have extraordinary abilities. Are you really sure that you can stop them at the same time?"
Wen Zhong said confidently: "It''s just two younger generations. Today I will let them see how the older generation of soldiers fight."
Wen Zhong is not an arrogant person. The reason why he is so confident does not care about himself, but about the four thousand troops that Wang Jian gave him.
The four thousand troops left by Wang Jian were named "Qin Wuzhu". They have been trained by three famous generals Li Jing, Wu Qi and Wang Jian. Although they are not yet named as elite camps, they already have the combat power of elite camps. It is only a matter of time before they become famous.
Wang Jian''s elite cavalrymen were Yicong, and the elite infantrymen were Qin Wushang. It was with these two elite troops that he dared to use 30,000 infantry and cavalry to fight Li Shimin head-on.
In contrast, although Li Shimin had a large number of troops under his command, he only had the elite Feixiong Army, and the Xuanjia Army was left in Chang''an by him.
If Xuanjia Army is also there, the result of this battle will probably be lingering.
Of course, if Wang Jian knew about it, he would definitely make other arrangements.
Seeing that Changsun Wuji and Yuwen Tai wanted to cooperate with Li Shimin to double-team Wang Jian, Wen Zhong decisively ordered: "Send the order and the whole army will attack."
"kill…"
Four thousand Qin Wushang roared. There were only four thousand people, but they shouted out the momentum of 40,000 people. They each held a sword in their hands, but were wearing light armor.
Of course, this is not that the Qin army cannot produce 4,000 heavy armors, but that the positioning of Qin Wushou is like this, and a certain degree of mobility needs to be retained.
Under Wen Zhong''s leadership, four thousand Qin Wushang went down the mountain like a tiger. Five people and one small pair of people formed a squadron, with a total of four hundred squadrons, and rushed straight to Changsun Wuji and Yuwen Tai.
Both Changsun Wuji and Yuwen Tai obviously did not expect that the last four thousand Qin troops would be so powerful, and they also hid such a strong general as Wen Zhong, so that they were beaten to a barrage and suffered heavy casualties.
I originally thought that this chapter could be written in this battle, but there was too much content and I was already writing it, but I still haven''t finished it, so I had to wait for the next chapter.
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(This chapter ends)