Chapter 238 Goals (Continued)
In the wilderness, infantry throwing out armor, cavalry riding horses, young and strong running around, burning catapults, flags all over the ground, and chaos everywhere.
The Anzhou cavalry who rushed out of the city along the earthen mountains made the siege position outside the eastern suburbs of Xuanhu City mess up the siege positions. The soldiers and young men who ran and fled on foot were chased and trampled by them, as relaxed as cutting wheat.
The enemy troops, who had been attacking the city with all their might, never expected that the defenders would dare to go out of the city to counterattack, and they were large-scale cavalry attacks. All the counterattacks organized in a hurry were defeated and soon they were defeated.
King Yuwen of Xiyang, who was riding a horse, chased the defeated soldiers and was chasing them with great strength. The mount under his crotch was shot by a runaway arrow. The horse, which was already covered in bruises, wailed, and could no longer withstand the pain. He was about to fall forward when his body swayed.
But the carefully selected war horses are different from ordinary horses. Even though they are seriously injured, they still try their best to maintain balance. They run more than ten steps forward, and their speed gradually slows down. They exhausted their last bit of strength before falling to the ground.
Yuwen Wen, who was riding on the horse, jumped off the horse before his mount fell to the ground. It was not until then that he noticed that his mount was caught in several arrows, which was almost the same as himself.
However, he had armor protection made of cold forged armor leaves on his body, but the war horse did not. He had a few arrows inserted on his body, which looked like a target, but was just a slight injury to flesh. The war horse was covered with blood, and it was already considered excellent endurance until now.
The war horse lying on the ground was still gasping for breath, but it was too serious to stand up. The huge horse gaze looked at the master, as if tears were overflowing. Yuwen Wen pulled out the dagger to give his "comrade-in-arms" a pleasure.
With the cavalry on both sides leading the horses, Yuwen Wen put away the dagger, first pulled out the arrows inserted on his body, then turned over the horse, and led his subordinates to continue riding the horse, seized the time to kill and injure the enemy as much as possible.
In the eastern suburbs of Xuanhu City, the siege position was in a mess. Looking around, Yu Wenwen's battle this time was a rich result, and he specially asked the war horses not to wear armor to highlight the power of the motor as much as possible.
The cavalry on the battlefield are divided into light cavalry and heavy cavalry. The heavy cavalry of this era is an "armored cavalry" with both men and horses focusing on armor. It has high protection and strong impact. Once it rushes, it is really unstoppable.
However, armored cavalry is expensive. Because of the heavy burden and limited endurance of war horses, in order to maintain their strong and continuous charge and detour ability, light cavalry with armor on the battlefield is very common.
Yuwen Wen and other Anzhou cavalry who rushed out of the city to fight were all light cavalry without their horses, in order to maintain a faster movement speed as long as possible, and to kill and injure the enemy soldiers and young men as much as possible before the enemy cavalry reacted, and then retreat to the city.
So now it is impossible to delay for a moment.
Now it is not a wild land war. The enemy has dug long trenches and built long sieges outside Xuanhu, and there are four big villages as support, with a complete encirclement net (defense circle), and cavalry wandering and supporting the outside, and their forces are far above the Anzhou cavalry.
Yuwen Wen could not reproduce the brilliant record of Erzhu Rong defeating Ge Rong's 300,000 soldiers with seven thousand cavalry, so he could only stop when he saw the good news. He looked east, looked at the huge camp, and looked at the long encirclement that looked like the Great Wall, and felt helpless.
At this moment, he suddenly realized that a mound hundreds of steps in front of the enemy's camp in the east was filled with people, and a spear formation was also arranged, while a cavalry on his own were surrounding the mound.
When he looked at it with the Qianli Mile Mile, Yuwen Wen felt that his breathing was about to stop: the banner on the mound showed that the Prime Minister was the King of Shu, and the King of Shu, Yuchi Dun, was under the banner.
"Why...Yuchi Dun is here?!"
Yuwen Wen blurted out, and the cavalry next to him was stunned when he heard this, then looked at each other: They had seen the banner on the mound early in the morning, but the King of Xiyang kept charging and did not go to the mound. They thought the commander had made a choice, so they did not dare to say anything.
It turns out that King Xiyang has never seen it!
Seeing the awkward expressions of the soldiers, Yuwen Wen became embarrassed. He just rode his horse to climb the Tushan Mountain. Seeing the enemy troops at the foot of the mountain, he felt his blood surged, and he was so excited that he had goose bumps all over his body. After rushing down the mountain first, he fell into a "bloody pig burst state."
He only cares about rushing and completely forgot to observe the overall situation of the battlefield.
If Yuwen Wen is just a general of the army, it would be fine to lead the charge. However, as the commander of the entire army, he charges by himself. He cannot just slaughter people, and he must also be clear about the changes in the battlefield situation.
Once the enemy has flaws, you must adapt to the situation, adjust your tactics in time, and defeat the enemy in one battle.
This is the difference between Jiang and Shuai, and Yuwen Wen has become so angry that he has forgotten everything.
If Yuchi Dun was indeed on the mound, it means that this person had been watching the battle and watching the results of the siege of the city. Then when Yuwen Wen rode his horse from Xuanhu to climb the Tushan Mountain, Yuchi Dun should have also been on the mound.
However, Yuwen Wen did not notice that the enemy commander was on the battlefield in person. When he saw the enemy troops at the foot of the mountain, he became crazy and was only concerned about charging, and did not expect to rush to the mound to behead him.
In other words, once he charges on horseback, he falls into a "pig storm" state, and if he does not change his fault, he will not be a qualified cavalry commander.
His face was a little hot, Yuwen Wen didn't say anything, and led his subordinates to gallop towards the direction of the mound. At this moment, his thought was to make up for the loss of sheep and rush into the mound at any cost before the enemy reinforcements arrived, and capture Yuchi Dun alive!
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The mound was protected by the spearmen who were waiting for the battle, and the archers lived in it, bent their bows and arrows to meet the Anzhou cavalry that were galloping around the circle outside. The two sides confronted each other a hundred steps, but did not shoot a single arrow.
Generally speaking, the effective killing range of cavalry bows during combat is about fifty steps, and the effective killing range of insurgent bows is about seventy steps. However, moving cavalry is not easy to shoot, and cavalry does not need precise aiming to shoot infantry in formations.
Therefore, once the cavalry sieges to form infantry formations, the cavalry will have a slight advantage when shooting at the two sides. However, the strange scene now is really puzzling.
Yuwen Wen, who arrived hurriedly, was a little angry when he saw his cavalry surrounding the mound but not attacking. Such a waste of time-consuming behavior made him a little angry, but he did not attack because the enemy was indeed ready for battle.
The enemy soldiers gathered at the mounds, with more than a thousand troops, have formed a complete spear formation and a large number of archers. It is not easy to attack such a tight insurgent formation, not to mention that the number of cavalry in Anzhou is not advantageous.
No matter how powerful the cavalry is, if you want to attack the spear soldiers who form a formation head-on, you are looking for death. Only by constantly using cavalry shooting to force the opponent's chief general to deal with it inappropriately and to lose his position will you have hope of breaking the formation.
If the opponent's main general escapes first, it will be much simpler. However, Yuwen Wen heard the general surrounding the Tumolou, and there was no sign of escape. He was ready for battle from the beginning. The Anzhou cavalry could not rush in and could not take effective measures to break the formation in a hurry.
"There is no way to break the formation? Don't you have any turbulent bombs!"
In order to facilitate arson in this battle, Yuwen Wen equipped the team that attacked the camp and destroyed the war equipment with precious sulphur bombs, and the rope-pulling fire type, which is very convenient to use.
Although there are not many such sulphur bombs, he felt that if he wanted to solve the enemy's mound, as long as he dropped all the sulphur bombs, he should have a chance to mess up the opponent's spear formation, and then the cavalry could drive straight in and defeat the opponent in one fell swoop.
If Prime Minister Yuchi Dun is included, then Tumo is the most valuable target. As long as the opponent is killed or captured alive, the besieged army will inevitably retreat without fighting, and the situation in the world will also change.
As long as you can capture or kill Yuchi Dun alive, it is worth it to pay 3,000 cavalrymen, but you said you can't break the formation?
Chapter completed!