Chapter 457 What is the advantage of cavalry over infantry?
Wei Liao had a dream since childhood, which was to become a military expert and write a famous military book.
Sun Wu, a senior who was a Qi country, and he and Wei Liao were both from Qi, once wrote the famous "The Art of War", so Wei Liao also secretly made up his mind that his future military strategy would be called "The Art of War of War".
But things like military art do not mean that you think you are good after writing them, but you must have a record support.
As the main general, Sun Wu once led the weak Wu troops to defeat the powerful Chu capital Yingdu with the assistance of Wu Zixu, causing Chu to fall into a situation of nearly destroying the country.
Wei Liao thought he was no worse than Sun Wu, so it was necessary to lead the relatively weaker Qin army to defeat the current overlord Zhao State.
In fact, Wei Liao was somewhat unsatisfied with today's battle.
There is no suspense for the 30,000 elite Qin garrison troops and 12,000 Zhao cavalrymen.
It's a bit bullying.
But Wei Liao also understood that he was just a fledgling man, and he still had a steadily victory.
Li Mu, Li Mu, when you meet this general, you can only blame you for being unlucky! Under Wei Liao's order, ten thousand Qin army vanguards followed 600 chariots and pressed towards the Zhao army's formation in the distance.
Among the Zhao army's main formation, Li Mu naturally saw the strange formation of the Qin army at the first time.
Yi Qusheng said with some confusion: "What's going on with the Qin people?"
Li Mu touched the under his jaw for a long time and had not been trimmed. His beard looked a little messy and showed a smile: "This Wei Liao really has some ideas.
He wanted to use these 600 chariots to form a hard line of defense on the front, so as not to let our Chiyou Army's heavy armored cavalry break through from the front!"
Yi Qusheng was stunned when he heard this: “Ah?
Then what should we do?"
Although Yiqusheng is the so-called "Yiqu King", when he was born, the Yiqu Kingdom had already been in a state of crisis and could destroy the country at any time. Yiqusheng has not commanded a regular army of more than tens of thousands of people until his birth. This is the first time for him to come, and he has no experience at all.
Li Mu smiled slightly and said to Yiqusheng: "King Yiqu, do you know what the advantage of cavalry over infantry is?"
Yiqiusheng thought for a while and said, "Speed?"
Li Mu snapped his fingers and laughed: "The King of Yiqiu is indeed smart, it's speed! Come on, send orders, and send a thousand cavalry from each wing to harass the enemy's vanguard army, the main central army - retreat ten miles away!"
When Yi Qusheng heard this order, he froze: "Retreat?
General Li Mu, you can’t retreat! Once you retreat, our formation will be chaotic, the enemy will take advantage of the situation to cover up and kill, and we will fail!"
Li Mu's smile became stronger and stronger: "King Yiqiu, think about the question I asked you just now?"
Yiqiusheng was stunned at first, then came to his senses completely.
The infantry array is very complicated, and every position and every banner are given priority, so that the main general can control the movements of the entire army with the sound of flags, drums, and gold sounds.
Therefore, if it is an infantryman, choosing to retreat at this time is basically equivalent to handing over the head to the enemy.
But the cavalry is different.
The cavalry is born with formation type and has no special requirements for position.
Because the cavalry has speed.
The speed of the cavalry is too fast compared to that of the infantry. Such a fast speed is simply impossible to require a dense formation, and soldiers to be required to follow the squad, platoon, company and other organizations to conduct centralized combat.
Even if a cavalry is completely separated from his usual comrades and commanders during the battle, it doesn't matter. As long as he can keep shooting arrows, charging together, and fighting together, and then returning to the team after the battle.
This is a major internal reason why the ancient nomadic peoples were clearly without culture and had no military tactics, but they were still able to fight with cavalry and the Central Plains dynasty in an indissoluble manner.
Infantry is like an ant, with many different divisions of labor.
The queen of ant is responsible for reproduction, the princess is responsible for replacing the queen of ant at any time, the male ants are responsible for reproduction, the princess is responsible for the offspring, the worker ants are responsible for daily work... and so on.
The cavalry is like a pack of wolves. Everyone just needs to follow the wolf king, bite the prey tightly and kill it. There is no other priority, just a job! Therefore, infantry cannot retreat, and they will be in chaos as soon as they retreat. The enemy on the battlefield will not give the infantry time to regain their momentum after retreating.
But cavalry can retreat, and they can retreat anytime and anywhere. It doesn’t matter whether they are in chaos or not. Anyway, as soon as the arrows and flags come out, everyone will follow them and get on.
After understanding this, Yiqusheng woke up from his dream and looked at Li Mu with an expression of admiration.
"General Li Mu, you are so awesome!"
Li Mu laughed and said to Yiqusheng: "What are you waiting for in the Yiqu King? Retreat!"
A sound arrow soared into the sky and shot towards the rear of the military formation.
Then, ten thousand cavalrymen moved one after another and headed towards the rear.
In the Qin army's main formation, Wei Liao also received the movements of the Zhao army.
"General, the Zhao army did not respond at all, but sent a small group of troops on both wings, each with about one thousand people, which are harassing the left and right wings of our vanguard army!"
This news did not make Wei Liao worry at all, but instead made him happy and smiled at Meng Wu beside him and said, "General Meng Wu, have you seen it?"
Li Mu had no way of advancing our frontal chariot, so he could only deal with it with the stupid tactic of harassing the two wings."
Meng Wudao: "How is the general going to deal with the harassment of the two wings of the Zhao people?"
Wei Liao waved his hand and said in a deep voice: "If you send the order, you will immediately send a thousand crossbowmen on both wings of the vanguard army! The Zhao army attacked light cavalry, and our crossbowmen are enough to deal with it!"
Seeing the messenger leaving, Meng Wu couldn't help but bow and said to Wei Liao: "I didn't expect that the ace of the Chiyou Army, which had always troubled the princes of the Central Plains, would be broken here by General Wei Liao today."
Wei Liao couldn't help laughing loudly and said to Meng Wu: "To be honest, before I sent troops, I had visited the mansion of Wu'an Jun Bai Qi and asked him about such a tactic.
Who knew that after hearing my tactics, he actually said that my tactics were useless, which was really infuriating! After today's victory, I will go back to Xianyang to ask Wu'anjun why my useless tactics can defeat Wu Xinjun's ace troops, but he can only repeatedly be defeated by Wu Xinjun Zhao Kuo!"
At this moment, another Qin scout rushed over and reported another new news.
"General, the main cavalry of the Zhao army has retreated ten miles!"
After saying this news, Wei Liao suddenly froze and his smile disappeared completely.
Chapter completed!