sweeping the world

Chapter 1086 Not a Level

People were shouting and killing enemies, and war horses neighed from time to time.

On the wilderness, cavalrymen are constantly crisscrossing or colliding, and every minute and every second, people shed blood and fall on this battlefield.

The two cavalry of the enemy and us who were the first to meet each other had no room to turn around at all, and they just bumped into each other head-on.

Commander Sassanid found a Han army appearing from the flank, so he was a little flustered and chose to divide his troops to meet it.

On this battlefield, the Sasanian troops were not more powerful than the Han army, and they only occupied a little bit of ground. However, as the Han army continued to move forward in all directions, the ground they occupied would soon be lost.

In fact, light cavalry should not fight in such relatively narrow terrain. They should use their short-distance speed bursts in a wide space, constantly looking for opportunities while cruising and detouring, and biting the enemy bit by bit. With each small kill, you can accumulate enough combat results to slowly make the enemy lose their fighting spirit, defeat the enemy, and annihilate the enemy in the subsequent pursuit.

However, it is difficult for the army to fight on a battlefield that suits it every time. It is more common to fight on terrain that is unfavorable to it. Whether it can overcome the discomfort is a crucial moment that tests the army.

The light cavalry from both sides are constantly attacking each other. They are like ice and fire meeting in an instant. The ice is constantly being melted by the fire, and at the same time, the fire is extinguished because of the ice. The intersection line where the collision occurred is disappearing, and blood is spilled. The earth is full.

The Han army, which represents fiery red, is generally advancing. It is not fast but can push the front line forward steadily.

Sassanian light cavalry in grayish-yellow color, they disappeared on horseback in a short time after going up, and in many cases they fell to the ground together with the horse and the horse, and then became flesh under the trampling of the horseshoes of the enemy and us.

Zuo Si was fighting with a lance before, and the lance stabbed an enemy cavalry before he could pull it back, and the weapon in his hand turned into a saber.

On this kind of battlefield that criss-crosses each other at high speed, as long as the blade is sharp enough, it doesn't take much effort to chop and chop. The speed will cause the blade to cause great damage when it hits the human body. Even if it is just wiped for a while, there will be a long bloody hole. If it can hit the stomach, it must be a state where the belly has been cut open.

There were times when a person's limb came into contact with the weapon, and the person holding the weapon made even the slightest move to strike with force, and the person's arm would be broken in an instant.

The most vulnerable part of cavalry battles is not the upper body. Knights generally pay great attention to protecting their upper body, using shields or weapons to block.The part that is really vulnerable to injury is actually below the waist, that is, the position of the thigh.

The knight's gaze on horseback is generally straight forward and does not move forward or downward in particular, so the position of the thigh is greatly ignored.

Some cavalry were bumping on their horses, with their weapons hanging down most of the time. Maybe they would deliberately lift the weapons in their hands when the enemy and we were about to cross paths, but due to the time difference, they only raised them halfway before the collision had occurred. The weapons were When they staggered, they inadvertently made contact with the enemy cavalry below the waist.

Why do cavalry have an extra skirt armor than infantry?Such a design is definitely not meaningless, on the contrary, it is specially designed according to the needs of cavalry combat.

Look at the Sasanian cavalry and the Han cavalry on the battlefield. Most of them who did not die but had bloody thighs must be Sasanian cavalry. On the contrary, the Han cavalry would only suffer damage to the skirt armor because of the protection of the skirt armor. .

People will ignore that they are injured under special circumstances, especially in extremely noisy battlefields. Unless the main torso has been severely damaged, it is very common for people to not notice that they are injured for a while.

They usually find that their breathing is getting more and more urgent, wondering why their physical strength is being consumed so much faster than usual, and people are becoming weaker and weaker inexplicably.In fact, a certain place was injured, and the blood in the body was continuously flowing out. As more and more people lost blood, they would naturally become weaker.

On the real battlefield, the cavalry on both sides of the enemy and our side really will not give up their minds to only target the cavalry on horseback. On the contrary, the first target of a qualified cavalry will be the enemy's horse.

Cavalry is small in size and has a far greater reaction to danger than animals. When encountering danger, they will inevitably dodge or block.

Although the war horse is also intelligent and will evade when encountering danger, it is large and controlled by the reins. Many times it wants to evade but because it is controlled, it cannot be avoided at all, and it is attacked abruptly.

Of course, the physique of the war horse also determines that if it is not killed instantly, its ability to withstand blows is definitely much stronger than that of humans. It really will not die just because of an arrow or a hit.

One thing that is very realistic is that war horses are in a state of intense exercise. Once they are injured, they will bleed very quickly. As the speed slowly decreases, accidents may occur anytime and anywhere.

Zuo Si found that the speed of the horse under his crotch was losing speed, so he didn't dare to look left and right on the battlefield, but used the corner of his eye to see where his auxiliary horse was, and he kept sinking when he couldn't find it.

As the Sasanian cavalry stationed on the battlefield, they left their auxiliary horses or auxiliary horses beside the large army before charging, and they launched the offensive by riding alone.

The Han army came from afar, and had the opportunity to drive the deputy horses and auxiliary horses away from the brigade, but they did not do so.

As the Han army wants to support Peshawar, what they need is an indomitable momentum. They don't plan to pause for too long after winning the battle. Once the auxiliary horse and auxiliary horse are driven away from the army, it is not known how long it will take. Go find it.

Wrapping the auxiliary horse and auxiliary horse together to launch a charge can actually create a bigger and grander scene. The auxiliary horse and auxiliary horse that are not straddled will also have the effect of killing the enemy due to their own impact.

For the Han Empire, which already had no shortage of war horses, sacrificing some horses was not a problem. If two or three war horses could be sacrificed to keep a soldier, it would be more cost-effective in any way.

The speed of the horse under Zuo Si's crotch was slowing down, and beside him was Pao Ze, who was riding one after another, surpassing him and charging forward. He had the time to lean slightly to hold an unknown side horse, and found a chance to change rides He looked at his war horse with his eyes. There was an arrow stuck in its chest, and its buttocks had been hacked a few times by one or more guys who should have suffered thousands of knives.

Because he was no longer at the forefront of the entire charging formation, Zuo Si had the time to explore whether he was injured. Fortunately, although the leather armor on his body was damaged in many places, the injuries were only on the flesh, not to the point of hurting the bones. .

After Zuo Si checked himself, he began to observe the battlefield. Behind him were large bodies of people and horses, with some scattered enemies and ourselves chasing and escaping.

"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 'selected vanguard': "After this war, my brother will It should be the bus."

As the vanguard of the Han army to sign in, not everyone was killed. There were still about 200 people out of the [-] who waited until their own follow-up troops joined the battlefield. Some of them controlled the horses to slow down and became the rear team, and some of them Still on the front line.

On their side, they had actually pierced through the charge line composed of [-] Sasanian light cavalry. The cavalry charging at the forefront saw the enemy's main formation, but the enemy's main formation seemed too thin.

Sasanian's main formation has been divided again and again, leaving less than [-] chariot troops and about [-] cavalry of various colors.Among them, there seems to be a cavalry of about [-] or so?

In the rest of the area, there were Han cavalry fighting Sasanian chariot soldiers and cavalry on the left and right, and the difference in numbers between the two sides was not large.

The most important thing is that not all the troops of the Han army have been fully deployed on the battlefield, and there are two cavalry units of the Han army with a combined number of about [-] that are roundabout on the edge of the battlefield.

The Han army, which had penetrated four thousand Sasanian light cavalry troops, continued to gallop towards the Sassanid main formation without any pause. When they rushed to about 700 meters away from the Sasanian main formation, a war cry was heard again. They shouted in unison: "The Han army is mighty!"

Only about 15 minutes had passed since the battle. The [-] Sassanian light cavalry that had fought earlier were not completely destroyed. There should be about [-] left that were hunted by about [-] Han cavalry.

It is hunting in the true sense. The morale of the Han army cavalry is like a rainbow, but the Sasanian cavalry is panicked. A character being chased and killed.

The Han army rushing to the Sassanid front line took the lead in calling out the battle horn, and the Han army in the other directions responded with shouting.As if this was a new signal, the two cavalry of the Han army who had been cruising and rounding around the perimeter, with a total of about [-] cavalry, changed direction and surrounded Sassan's main formation.

"How long has it been..." Salbas Gatelo was standing on the tank of the chariot, his face was pale: "In the time of the Han people, it's less than 10 minutes?"

In Salbas Gatlo's understanding of cavalry combat, shouldn't it take several days and nights to distinguish between the enemy and ourselves in a cavalry engagement?The battle showed a clear trend of victory and defeat in just 10 minutes. Isn’t it too fast?
They came not only with cavalry, but also with chariot soldiers, just chariot soldiers...why does it seem to be worse than cavalry?
It can be seen that the Han cavalry did not have close contact with the Sasanian chariot soldiers at all. It was the Han cavalry who threw their lances at the wheels of the Sasanian chariot while galloping.

Of course, many lances were thrown empty, but if they hit the wheels, most of them would be bounced off by the high-speed rotating wheels, and if a lance was inserted, it would definitely cause the Sasanian chariot to roll over.

The wheels are not all solid wood, but have a lot of gaps. It looks elastic when it rotates at high speed, but if a hard object is inserted into the support rod, either the metal structure of the support rod will break, or it will not break. There will also be an instant braking effect, and then because of the sudden setback force, the chariot that was already speeding at high speed will undergo huge movements.

Zhu Xia has not seen a real chariot for a long time. Even if there are chariots, they are just used as Wugang chariots, usually used to carry soldiers and transport supplies.

When the Han army fought on the Asan Continent, they often encountered tanks. At first, they dealt with them head-on. It needs to be said that the battle losses were slightly less beautiful than the battles.

Afterwards, the army and various parts will be studied. Throwing cavalry guns at the wheels of chariots is only one of the coping methods, and it is also the most convenient way for cavalry to deal with chariots. When necessary, even swords can be thrown. Drive the horse to hit directly.

Sassanid chariots were still the type without axles and brakes, which meant they could not turn or stop neatly, and had almost no so-called flexibility at all.

The use of chariots does not mean backwardness. In fact, some plain terrains use chariots and soldiers can really rampage. There is no shortage of plain terrain in Sasanian territory, and even the countries around Sassanian are mainly plains, which is also the Persian for so many years One of the reasons why we still haven’t given up on the chariot troop.

The Persians themselves have done relevant experiments. Once they fight on flat terrain, the cavalry cannot actually defeat the chariot soldiers head-on. The stamina of the horses is consumed by cruising around and has little effect on the chariot soldiers. If you want to defeat the chariot soldiers, Soldiers can only fight hard.

Even knowing that the chariot soldiers of the Gupta Empire were still unable to win against the Han army, Sassan still did not give up the idea of ​​chariot soldiers. Some high-level officials even put their hope of defeating the Han army on the chariot soldiers. .The reason is that they knew that the Han army fought very hard against the chariot soldiers of the Gupta Empire, and felt that the chariot soldiers of their own country were better than those of the Gupta Empire.

The chariot soldiers of the Gupta Empire can make the Han army fight hard, so the Sasanian chariot soldiers with stronger combat effectiveness than the Gupta Empire will not be a problem to defeat the Han army, right?
Now, the first large-scale battle between the Sasanian chariot soldiers and the Han cavalry is already underway. The Persians are watching the confrontation with extremely eager anticipation, but the more they look at it, the muscles on their faces become stiffer. Others couldn't help crying when they saw it.

"They are all cowards. They only dare to throw things at each other from a distance. They don't look like warriors at all!"

"But it worked..."

The confrontation between the Sasanian chariot soldiers and the Han cavalry is actually a bit horrible. Usually, as long as the Han army cavalry can avoid being shot by the Sasanian chariot soldiers’ shooters, then the Han army cavalry will definitely have a way to deal with the Sasanian chariots. .

The knights of the Han army threw lances at the wheels of the chariot at a distance, and threw something like a horse rope at a distance.

It was a short noose with heavy objects tied to both ends of the rope. It was very useful whether it was against people or horses. The noose would tie people up while spinning, and it was also very effective against the wheels of a chariot!

(End of this chapter)