However, when the sound of horse hooves sounded from behind them, everyone changed their colors. The smiles they once had had disappeared without a trace, replaced by endless coldness.
"Fire the arrow!"
Before the Dongyi people could fully recover from the shock, Shi Yongkai saw that they were already within the range of bow and arrow shooting, and immediately gave the order to attack.
"Boom boom boom..."
There was a continuous sound of bowstrings, and arrows poured down on the heads of the Dongyi army like a heavy rain.
After all, the Zhendong Army did not grow up on horseback like the knights on the grassland. Although there is no one among the Zhendong Army who has mastered the skill of riding and shooting, it is a black cavalry and does not include these. Ordinary troops.
However, although these ordinary cavalry cannot shoot arrows while riding horses, what if they use crossbows instead of bows?
With the help of mechanical crossbows, it is much simpler to operate on horseback than bows and arrows.
The war horse galloped with four hooves. The cavalryman on the horse stood up slightly, letting his body rise and fall with the war horse. The moment the war horse fell into the air after the four hoofs fell, he quickly raised the crossbow in his hand, shot the arrow, and then When the war horse landed, he took out the next arrow and looked for the next target...
"Soldiers who, deception also."
This sentence in "The Art of War" has delayed many people.
"Sun Tzu's Art of War" is not about thirty-six strategies. It does not emphasize the need to defeat the big with the small, the weak with the strong, and win with deception every day. Deception is deception, but if people don't fall for it, no matter how deceitful it is, it's useless.
Deceit is not the main part in the art of war. The trick is mostly used before the battle, not during the battle.
Only the weak are forced to use deception in battle, while the strong fight most of their battles with righteousness.
Many people in later generations think that war must be exciting. Without dozens of strategies and strategies, can it still be called a war and can it be watched?
But in fact, the principle of war is very simple, not complicated. The complexity lies only in operations, timing, and deployment...
The way of a saint is inherently simple.
The reason why you cannot be great is because you are unwilling to settle for mediocrity.
We always make things complicated because we don't want to believe in simplicity.
"Sun Tzu's Art of War" actually only has two words, one is calculation and the other is victory, and the rest is gone.
"Five Things and Seven Strategies", "Winning by counting more, losing by counting less", "Those who are good at fighting should first be invincible, and then wait for the enemy to be victorious. The invincible lies in oneself, but the victorious lies in the enemy..."
The most misunderstood thing is "use righteousness to win, use oddness to win". The word "odd" is not pronounced qí, but pronounced jī. The odd number and even number are also called Yuqi. It is the extra part, which is the reserve team, so Sun Tzu This sentence has been misunderstood by many people. In fact, the real meaning is that the commander-in-chief must hold the cards that have not been played out until the critical moment, and then play them out to win in the end.
Cao Cao also said in his annotation that "the first to join forces is the right one, and the last one is the surprise." "Zhengqi" is a concept of sequence. Don't play all the cards at once, keep one card in your hand and play it out at the critical moment.
Is not it simple?
In this battle, it was Wang Dangzhi who finally kept his last card until the end. Naturally, the side that truly had the upper hand would become the next one.
"Throw your spear, get ready!" Seeing that he was about to rush into the enemy formation, Shi Yongkai's serious expression showed a hint of mischief.
Naturally, it is impossible for the cavalry of the Zhendong Army to be equipped with a high proportion of crossbows, and it is even more impossible for these ordinary cavalry to be equipped with a crossbow.
In order to ensure the attack power of this unit, and to ensure that Shi Yongkai's troops could successfully defeat Yelu Abaoji's soldiers in the shortest time, although there were not so many crossbows for them, none of them could equip them with one. Each of them was equipped with a throwing gun.
Although each person is only equipped with a throwing gun, it is actually enough. With the charging speed of the cavalry, they would not be allowed to make too many attacks before a close encounter.
Sharp throwing weapons such as spears are often thrown suddenly when they are close to the enemy. Although the speed is slower than bows and crossbows, because of their heavy weight and the fact that they are thrown at close range, their accuracy and destruction Sex should not be underestimated, especially as it will create a strong psychological shock to the enemy. Imagine that the comrades around you suddenly have a short gun embedded in the body, or have half of their heads cut off...
Moreover, the power of a spear thrown at close range is much stronger than that of most crossbows. Even if the enemy puts up a shield array, it may not be able to defend it. If you use a shield, you may be able to block a small number of spears, but if a large number of spears are thrown, then the shield cannot block it.
After all, don't think that the shields equipped by ordinary soldiers are made of iron. How big is a shield? If it is made of pure iron, can the soldiers lift it?
Most shields are actually just wooden shields, at most they are only covered with a thin layer of iron.
Unless it is a specially made shield, such as the shield used by the Panshan Heavy Infantry, one of the two signatures of the Zhenxi Army. However, that kind of specially made shield, regardless of their output and cost, just its weight alone is It is not something that ordinary soldiers can equip. Only such shields, coupled with the fact that their soldiers are much stronger than ordinary soldiers, can block the projection of large-scale javelins.
"cast!"
Seeing that the distance was almost close, Shi Yongkai roared and took the lead in throwing a throwing spear. Then all the Zhendong cavalry also threw their throwing spears.
Countless spears were like small whirlwinds, and with the momentum of the Zhendong cavalry's charge, they instantly crashed into Dongyi's formation.
"My king, if we continue to fight like this, it will not be good for our army!" Yelu Helu looked at the Chinese army that was already in chaos, and his expression changed drastically.
Yelu Abaoji was able to hold the left and right wings of Su Dingfang and Guo Ziyi because he devoted a lot of troops to it. Although Hancu actually only had 8,000 troops, he created an identity of 30,000 troops. In order to encircle and destroy this group of troops, Yelu Abaoji must have dispatched troops as if the opponent had 30,000 troops. .
Therefore, at this time, Yelu Abaoji's Chinese army camp was extremely empty, and almost all the extra troops and horses had been mobilized. Facing the sudden attack of Shi Yongkai's 20,000 cavalry, it was simply difficult to resist.
(End of chapter)
