Qinglong Three Kingdoms

Chapter 721

According to the news sent back by Zhang Liao, after Han Sui's army withdrew from Chang'an City, they were preparing to retreat to Liangzhou in the direction of Yunyang County and Qi County.

After being stuck by Zhang Liao, Han Sui's army could not advance at full speed even though it was a cavalry unit. Therefore, if Chang'an went directly to Yunyang County, they could still stop Han Sui's army.

Of course, the real situation on Zhang Liao's side is actually better than the news he reported back.

Although there are only more than [-] light cavalry on Zhang Liao's side, these light cavalry are also equipped with basic weapons such as ring swords, double arc hand shields, bows and arrows, and only wear ordinary leather armor, so the main fighting method is Mounting and shooting, it is difficult to forcibly break through the enemy's army formation.

But Zhang Liao found that the light cavalry under his control had previously trained cavalry and archery tactics, and it was too advantageous when facing Han Sui's cavalry on the Guanzhong Plain.

When Zhang Liao took over the light cavalry, he still didn't understand the so-called kite tactics they trained (actually the Mongolian mangu evil tactics, just to make the cavalry understand better, so the name kite tactics was used). This is a bit beyond Zhang Liao's old view of cavalry warfare. At the same time, because of the terrain in Jingzhou, it is not clear how many light cavalry have much advantage on the battlefield.

Many times, Zhang Liao felt that the light cavalry he commanded was at best a tactic to help Zhang Xiu's heavy cavalry harass the enemy's formation first.

But after arriving in Guanzhong this time, Zhang Liao realized more and more how advanced the cavalry and archery tactics his light cavalry had trained.

Not to mention the one-day battle against Cheng Lian, Ma Wan, Li Kan, and Cheng Yin. At that time, it can be said that Zhang Liao led the light cavalry to bully them with the advantage of numbers, but he hadn't used the kite tactics of the light cavalry.

But on the Guanzhong Plain in Feng Yi's Mansion, facing Han Sui's army, which had at least half the strength on his side, Zhang Liao discovered that the kite tactics used by the light cavalry he led were really shameless and powerful.

Before that, Zhang Liao led his troops a few miles away from the north of Chang'an City, preparing to ambush Han Sui's army who had withdrawn from Chang'an City.

It's just that it is really difficult to find a suitable ambush location on the Guanzhong Plain, and the only way to achieve a sneak attack on the enemy is to use surprise tactics. Therefore, at first Zhang Liao just found a woodland to hide his cavalry troops.

Then a large number of scouts and cavalry were sent out to look for traces of Han Sui's army. As expected, Han Sui's army was discovered by Zhang Liao's scouts and cavalry, so Zhang Liao led nearly [-] light cavalry towards Han Sui's army.

Of course, such a large-scale cavalry raid was actually easily discovered by the experienced Han Suijun, so when Zhang Liao arrived with the cavalry, Han Suijun had already organized troops to meet it.

As a result, although Zhang Liao's more than ten thousand light cavalry shot down some of Han Sui's outer cavalry with feather arrows after a round of charge, they did not actually produce much results against Han Sui's army.

On the contrary, a large number of cavalry were separated from Han Sui's army and began to counterattack the light cavalry of Zhu Weijun led by Zhang Liao. However, it was the counterattack of Han Sui's cavalry that made Zhang Liao really discover the advantage of the kite tactics of Zhu Weijun's light cavalry.

Facing the counterattack of Han Sui's cavalry, Zhu Wei's light cavalry led by Zhang Liao immediately turned around and fled according to tactical training. Of course, this so-called escape was actually to distance themselves from Han Sui's cavalry, and then use bows and arrows to kill the pursuing Han Sui's troops. cavalry.

The so-called kite tactics are originally like flying a kite, hanging the chasing enemy troops to fight.

All Zhang Liao brought were light cavalry, and the cavalry running on horseback did not consume a lot of physical strength of the horses, so they could let the horses run for a long time, and naturally they could hang the chasing cavalry of Han Sui's army on the Guanzhong Plain.

At the same time, Zhu Weijun's light cavalry is equipped with high saddles and double horses on the horseback, so that the light cavalry can perform various actions on the horseback more stably, even when the horses are running fast, Zhu Weijun's light cavalry The cavalry can also let go of the reins, use the high saddle to stabilize the body, and then turn around and shoot arrows without falling off the horse.
It can be said that Zhu Weijun's nearly [-] light cavalry have been able to carry out mobile riding and shooting on the horseback under the training, and the accuracy of riding and shooting can also reach the standard of a few hits with ten arrows.

As for Han Suijun’s cavalry, although most of them came from Qiang people and horse thieves, and their riding skills are not bad, their horses only have ordinary saddles, and they cannot rely on their legs to clamp the horse’s back and stabilize their bodies during the fast rush of the horses. archery attack.

They either had to stop their horses to shoot arrows, or they could only try to catch up with their horses and attack the enemy with spears, knives, axes and other weapons. It can be said that Han Sui's cavalry still mainly fought in close combat.

But if they couldn't catch up with Zhu Weijun's light cavalry, they would have no way of attacking Zhu Weijun's light cavalry. No matter how capable they were, it would be useless.

Then Han Suijun's war horses are not nailed with horseshoes. Even if they don't have any heavy equipment, the load on the war horses is not very heavy, but they still can't let the war horses continue to run for a long time. This is equivalent to letting you chase them barefoot. Opponents in shoes.

Therefore, when the horses of Han Suijun's cavalry ran, they would instinctively slow down to protect their horseshoes. Even the cavalry of Han Suijun would protect their horses instead of desperately urging their horses to run regardless of foot pain.

In this way, it will naturally be more difficult for Han Suijun's cavalry to catch up with Zhu Weijun's light cavalry.

It can be said that Han Suijun's cavalry chased Zhu Weijun's light cavalry, but they couldn't catch up with Zhu Weijun's light cavalry at all, and they could only be killed by Zhu Weijun's light cavalry with bows and arrows. so-so.

But once they stopped chasing and wanted to give up chasing and killing Zhu Weijun, Zhu Weijun's light cavalry would turn their horses around and chase them instead. Keep your distance and shoot them with bow and arrow.

This really made Han Suijun's cavalry feel that it would be wrong to chase, and it would be wrong not to chase.

Zhang Liao discovered this trick during the pursuit of the cavalry of Han Sui's army, so he realized that the light cavalry under his command used to fight like this, so as a cavalry general with a good background, he would naturally be able to play better. The advantage of this tactic.

Of course, if all the cavalry of Han Sui's army gathered together, then they could use bows and arrows to counterattack the incoming Zhu Weijun's light cavalry, but even so, they still stood in one place and shot arrows, while Zhu Weijun's light cavalry rode their horses and moved to shoot. .

Therefore, Han Suijun's cavalry is a fixed target, and Zhu Weijun's light cavalry is a moving target. Compared with the two, Han Suijun's cavalry naturally suffers...

(End of this chapter)