Tang Dynasty good husband

Chapter 74 Bold Guess

Qin Chao sat on the horse and let Lao Hei lead the horse and follow the team slowly.

Only the sound of horses stepping on the ground and the sound of weapons colliding were left in the team. Other than that, the entire army was peaceful, but it still couldn't conceal the excitement and joy in the army.

This battle can be said to have played out the prestige of Datang, and no one knows what such a result means better than these experienced soldiers.

It's just that Qin Chao is not as excited as the others at the moment, and his head is also in chaos.

He just wanted to survive, and he just wanted to live with the four hundred Tang troops.

Qin Chao has never thought of establishing any unworldly merits. He is very clear about his own details. In his previous life and present life, he is nothing more than a dick. It is his responsibility to earn some more money, build a villa in Qinhe Village, marry a mother-in-law, and preferably have another few hundred acres of land, with wives and concubines in groups. This is the life Qin Chao yearns for.

It's just that Qin Chao didn't expect that God would make such a big joke on him during his trip to Chang'an.

Going to the battlefield in a daze, had to fight the Turkic people in order to save their lives, and made military exploits in a daze, it is impossible to run even if they want to.

Qin Chao didn't want to participate in the melee of the court, it was too tiring and bothersome.

Thoughts were flying all over the sky like a breeze. After an unknown amount of time, the team stopped, and the atmosphere in the whole team suddenly changed again in an instant. From the original excitement, it turned into tension, but this tension gave people a feeling of anxiety. different feeling.

"Deputy Lieutenant, there are about a thousand Turkic riders coming towards our army. They should be the reinforcements called by the Turkic man who fled earlier." Su Lie roughly checked the size of the cavalry group in front of him, and he had a faint feeling in his heart. But this confidence is not enough.

Qin Chao glanced at the billowing smoke in front of his eyes. Su Lie said it was Qianqi, so it was Qianqi. Anyway, Qin Chao couldn't tell the number of troops from the scale of the dust and smoke.

Glancing at the dying wounded soldier in the team, he shook his head helplessly, sighed, jumped off the horse, picked up a small wooden stick, and drew a formation diagram on the ground: "Formation to meet the enemy! Qianniuwei column In front of the formation, the government soldiers hold bows and line up [-] steps behind, in groups of three, each group is divided into three teams, front, middle and back, and the target is ten steps behind where Qianniuwei is. After the front team shoots, the squadron shoots and the squadron shoots. After the shooting, the team shoots, back and forth."

"No!" Everyone didn't understand Qin Chao's new tactics, but with the help of the simple formation diagram, they still understood Qin Chao's intention.

Although I don't understand the reason for this arrangement, but with the previous combat experience, no one doubts Qin Chao's command ability at this time.

It's just that Qin Chao's set of tactics seems to divide the troops into zero, and separate more than a hundred soldiers from the government to use as archers. For three groups, spread the firepower, what tricks are they doing?
Even Su Lie had no choice but to get on the horse and lift the knife with deep doubts, and walk to the front of Qianniuwei himself.

"Brother, where are Maverick and I? What are we doing?" Cheng Chumo couldn't help asking a little impatiently when he saw that Qin Chao still didn't assign tasks to the two brothers.

"Brother, my horizontal knife is already too hungry..."

"Shut up, the task of the two of you is to protect me. If the coach makes a mistake, we will all be finished." Qin Chao didn't want to talk to these two guys, and he was afraid, but he still wanted to save face.

But the two of them had to do this, but Qin Chao didn't dare to let them go to the front line rashly. Generally speaking, these two guys are still underage, and this age is not the age to go to the battlefield. It is okay to experience it occasionally, which will help Their growth, but this level of fighting, just stay behind and watch.

Qin Chao finally figured out what these two guys were thinking. After Qin Chao's words, the two guys didn't even have the idea to refute, so they directly accepted Qin Chao's arrangement.

To tell the truth, people of their status, even if they follow any general of the Tang Dynasty, they will be ordered to guard the battlefield. As long as they go to the front line, they will have military exploits. , very few.

Yuchi Jingde realized that this formation might be facing a fierce battle, and even he himself had to carry out the battle himself. If these two guys were to be with him, some accidents would inevitably happen, and it would be difficult to explain them at that time. So he asked them to follow Qin Chao to the flank to ambush.

However, Yuchi Jingde did not expect that the situation encountered by Qin Chao on the deep flank was not much better than that of the main formation.

"Brother, something seems wrong..." Cheng Chumo frowned tightly, saying that he was not nervous would be a lie, with more than [-] people facing Turkic Qianqi, no one would not be nervous.

However, he was born in an upstart family, and Cheng Yaojin had high hopes for Cheng Chumo. Whether it was studying or practicing martial arts, he tried to teach him the best. Although Cheng Chumo had never been on the battlefield, he had listened a lot. More or less there are some judgments, although not so sure.

"What's wrong?" Qin Chao asked a little depressed.

"At this moment, we are still three miles away from the Turks at least. When we saw them, they were four or five miles away. No army would choose to charge at such a long distance, and our army is only equipped with infantry longbows. The effective lethality is only about a hundred steps at most. In other words, the farthest charge distance of an experienced enemy is between 150 and [-] steps.

When our army saw the Turkic people, the Turkic people were charging, and when they ran in front of our army, the horses were already exhausted, and the impact force was almost negligible. "

"What? The cavalry didn't start charging until they were within two hundred paces?" Qin Chao was taken aback for a moment, looking at Cheng Chumo in surprise, with a feeling that his world view had been subverted.

By the way, didn't the cavalry start charging from a long distance?Or, he came from a fake Datang?
"Eh..." Cheng Chumo was startled by Qin Chao's reaction, and the confidence on his face returned a little, and he puffed up his chest and explained: "Not necessarily, the charging distance of the cavalry is mainly due to my distance. It is related to the range of the bows and crossbows equipped by the army. Generally, the charge will start between [-] and [-] steps beyond the maximum range of our army's bows and crossbows.

However, the cavalry needs about [-] steps to accelerate, and only [-] steps to charge. Any more will only be a waste of horsepower. "

Only then did Qin Chao realize that he had made a mistake. The Turkic people were veterans who had experienced many battles. Of course, it was impossible for them to make such a mistake. Judging from the current situation, the distance the Turkic people seemed to be galloping was not too far away. Not too close, even the war horses showed a tired posture.

From a distance, the morale of the Turkic people does not seem to be that high.

Could it be that this thousand-riding Turkic army was defeated on the front line?Qin Chao couldn't help but have a bold guess in his heart.

(End of this chapter)