From Soldier To Emperor

"My lord, the cavalry of Richard's army from behind is catching up. Are we going to stop and meet the enemy?"

After receiving the report, Zhaowu Dizhe coldly glanced at the smoke and dust raised by the chasing soldiers behind the team, and ordered: "Send all the tooth soldiers out to cover the infantry brigade, and the infantry brigade will change into a phalanx and continue to advance. If the enemy forces approach, immediately drive them away with crossbows.

We can't stop, otherwise the main enemy infantry forces will soon follow and catch up. If those cavalry dared to rush our infantry array, let them know how powerful we are! "

After simple adjustments, although the speed of Zhaowu Dizhe's men and horses has slowed down, they still maintained their forward state. Hundreds of tooth soldiers armed with bows were patrolling around the infantry formation. If you ride closer, you will be shot by arrows immediately!

The bows and crossbows used by these Tang Army field troops are all high-quality hard bows. The arrows are also armor-piercing arrows for Tang Army field troops. They can shoot through light iron armor within a hundred steps!

On the other hand, although the frontier elite cavalry is a cavalry, it is not an archer, and it is impossible to get close to the marching infantry group unless they form a charge queue to kill them!

A small number of fine cavalry from the frontiers could not delay the infantry brigade, because the hundreds of tooth soldiers would be forced to expel them.

Therefore, there is only one way to leave the enemy in front of the 3,500 frontier fine knights-attack!

They did exactly that!

Regarding Richard's military order, the frontier army will not compromise.

They didn't need an officer's order, and soon formed a shock wave of cavalry, and divided into three directions, respectively from left and right to kill at the same time the Tang army led by Zhaowu Dizhe team!

After seeing this scene, Zhaowu Dizhe had to order the army to stop and form a defense on the spot. He did not expect that these thousands of cavalry would really dare to charge his infantry phalanx!

"Where did Richard get so many cavalry who are not afraid of death?"

Zhaowudi muttered with a gloomy expression on his face.

The cavalry on the opposite side occupies an advantage in number. If he is really determined to attack, his troops will most likely be wiped out!

However, Zhaowu Dizhe has no choice. He can't throw away the last essence of Shi Guofu of more than 2,000 people...

If he did that, even if he fled back to the State House of Shi, he would not be able to resist Richard's soldiers...

The most important thing is that Zhaowu Dizhe knew very well that once he ran away, the remaining infantry would collapse immediately and descend into the wind!

Rather than being so cheap that Richard, why not stop and fight with the chasing cavalry who has already started charging, what if he wins?

Hundreds of horse-riding dental soldiers saw the brigade’s frontier troops coming in formation and charging. Because of the small number of people, they could only use the speed advantage to avoid them, and gave up the infantry array in the rear.

The armored cavalry on the opposite side seemed to be completely professional assault cavalry, and the tooth soldiers who spared their lives were naturally unwilling to make a hard top.

After they fled to the outer circle, the spears of the frontier soldiers slammed into the phalanx of the Tang Army's field troops under Zhaowu Dizhe's infantry from three directions!

The erected spears of the infantry and the spears of the elite cavalry of the frontier pierced into each other's body almost at the same time. Both sides were like the scene of a large-scale car accident.

In later generations, many people think that it is impossible for the cavalry to charge against the infantry on the cold weapon battlefield, but it is not.

In the era when firearms were not popularized, apart from siege warfare, cavalry was completely king in the field.

The reason why the cavalry did not attack the formation of the spear infantry formation was not because they could not win the battle, but because the battle loss was too bad!

Cavalry heads into the infantry phalanx, and the casualty ratio generally does not exceed one to one. This is obviously very unfair to the cavalry side. How much does it cost to train a qualified cavalry, and how much does it cost to train a spearman?

Therefore, even with the same number, professional shock cavalry can often smash the elite infantry phalanx, but there are still not many generals who do that, so it hurts!

However, Richard's cavalry is exchanged for air luck coins, and the price is the same as that of Tier 4 infantry, and this cost is naturally infinitely close to that of infantry.

What's more, because the maintenance cost of the cavalry is too high, the 3,500 cavalry is naturally very convenient to use, but the maintenance on weekdays can not be supplied by Richard's current site!

The cost of feeding a strong man cannot be compared with the cost of feeding a strong war horse!

The reason why there are few cavalry in the Western Regions is inseparable from the unsuitability of horse breeding and the high maintenance costs.

Now Richard is a poor grassroots class. If he has maintained a contingent of thousands of cavalry, it will be a huge challenge to his logistics and finances.

Therefore, as long as the goal of strategic victory can be achieved and the sacrifice of these cavalry is worthwhile, Richard does not care at all. Anyway, these cavalry will not play a big role in the next siege...

In one round of attacks by the fine cavalry of the frontier army, the infantry was less than the fine cavalry of the frontier army. In addition, the frontier army's finest cavalry was not afraid of death. Soon the front line was shocked!

However, these former Tang Army field troops did not fall into their name, and they actually relied on the body of the infantry to achieve a one-to-one casualty ratio with the fierce and undaunted frontier cavalry!

Just when the infantry array was about to fail, hundreds of tooth soldiers rushed over from the flanks, trying to use their bows to consume the elite cavalry of the frontier army.

These tooth soldiers have watched the powerful impact of the frontier army's elite horses all the way before, but they don't want to oppose this group of Lengtouqing...

However, how could the fine cavalry of the frontier army let himself be consumed by the cavalry bow of the tooth soldier?

Soon, a group of frontier soldiers who did not initiate a charge attacked the Fangfang soldiers, and chased them from all directions!

The number of elite cavalry on the frontier army is too great, and naturally it is impossible to throw them all in when charging. The infantry phalanx is so big, so many cavalry rushing over can not be opened!

The speed of the tooth soldiers was not superior to that of the frontier elite cavalry. Soon they were stuck by a large number of frontier elite horses. The two sides fell into a state of catching each other because of the chasing battle. These tooth soldiers are all in the past. In the part of the government with the strongest combat effectiveness, all the small officers in the team have stepped into the realm of flesh and blood.

Therefore, in the fight against each other, the individual combat power of the elite cavalry of the frontier army was obviously suppressed by the tooth soldiers!

However, the frontier army's elite cavalry firmly occupies the advantage in numbers, and they continue to rush into the battle group with more people and less people!

Although those tooth soldiers can fight, the fine cavalry of the frontier army is not to be underestimated. Coupled with the fighting method of the frontier army's fine cavalry and fear of death, the tooth soldiers with stronger single combat effectiveness are actually at a disadvantage!

When some of them realized that something was wrong and wanted to escape, they raised their eyes and looked around. They were already surrounded...