The Tang army moved too fast!
There were elite soldiers in ancient times, but most armies in ancient times also had similar queues and formation training. But in fact, because there is no complete and unified queue command training, the training of elite soldiers in the ancient army is very difficult.
Take the well-known Romance of the Three Kingdoms as an example. For example, some of the more famous armies in it, such as Gao Shun's trap, Li Ke used the formation and queue training of the elite troops of the Tang Dynasty as a reference. He felt that Gao Shun's trap The formations may not be as good as the array regulations of modern armies after complete training in later generations.
Putting aside how to unify sword-wielding, spear-thrusting and other similar cold-weapon warfare techniques and tactics, let's just talk about the basic formation. Because if the basic queue is engraved in the bones and becomes instinctive, the various commands such as swinging the sword, attacking, holding the shield, etc. under the unified command only require a little training.
This is why in ancient times, good generals were important, but generals who could train troops were even more scarce.
The reason why there is no complete set of military training techniques is also the reason why many armies in ancient times had strong personal styles of generals.
Because the soldiers are all trained by themselves, the general will naturally know how to command his soldiers in combat. If a general is not familiar with these instructions, his combat effectiveness will naturally decrease.
The White Horse Yi Cong led by Gongsun Zan is called White Horse Yi Cong, but if it were a White Horse Yi Cong trained by another person, it would not be the White Horse Yi Cong.
So to a certain extent, in the cold weapon age, the formations and formations of ancient armies were much slower than those of modern times.
When we arrived in the Tang Dynasty, the army of the Tang Dynasty was the government soldiers, which meant that they could not train year after year like professional soldiers. After a few months of basic training, they would have to go back to farming in a year at most. Until next service.
In this limited time, most of the training carried out by the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty were various formations and tactics, that is to say, how to kill the enemy on the battlefield.
In terms of formations and queues, it only requires simple training to understand the general's commands and act in unison. The requirements are not high. An army that can completely change its formation is considered an elite soldier.
There were formations in ancient wars, but they were not as exaggerated as described in later novels, such as Bagua formations and the like, only simple formation changes and so on. Being able to do this in ancient times is already amazing.
After Li Ke's enhanced formation training, the daily life of the Tang army now includes various training commands integrated into their bones. When a certain order is actually executed, even ordinary recruits will There was no time to think about whether or not to do it or how to do it.
Because his body will automatically be enveloped by the surrounding soldiers, and then quickly form a unique iron-blooded discipline.
Under this kind of coercion, on the battlefield, even if there is a mountain of swords in front of them, most of the soldiers will hit them directly due to the conditioned reflex.
In the era of cold weapons... this is terrible!
Looking at the overall situation, Li Daozong and An Xinggui immediately noticed this advantage and benefit on the tower!
When something happened in their city, the Turkic scouts who had been observing the city on the mountains on both sides discovered the abnormality, and they also began to issue early warning to the large forces as soon as possible.
However, the Tang army in the city completed a series of operations including gathering, lining up, running, uniformly leading shields, lining up with shields, passing through the city gate, and lining up again. Only then did the armies of Gaochang and Turks complete the transmission of vigilance orders!
After seeing them through the telescope, officers at all levels began to quickly call on their soldiers to line up and run. The Turks were also running towards their horses quickly. They really never thought that the Tang people would dare to take the initiative.
By the time their formation was completed, Datang's army had already begun to advance! The front row holds a thousand soldiers holding special giant shields that are 1.4 meters high and 60 centimeters wide. There is a special iron support tripod behind the shield to assist the soldiers in supporting the shield when standing.
And when it is attacked by an enemy, it can assist in resisting the enemy's impact. There is even a hidden buckle on the back side of it, which can connect all the shields into a whole and turn it into a steel wall.
It is not a pure steel shield, but is made of wood wrapped with a steel plate of about 0.5 cm. It is not light in weight. The entire shield weighs 60 kilograms. It is not easy for a strong soldier to carry it and push it slowly. Disaster.
At this moment, behind this slow-moving steel city wall are three rows, each with 500 soldiers with single crossbows. Next to each soldier holding a single crossbow is a soldier carrying a hand crossbow and a small round shield. Soldiers, who assisted in shooting, and used the hand crossbows in their hands to shoot at the enemy if they broke into the vicinity.
Ju Wentai and Anda, who had finally assembled their team in the distance, saw this scene. A bright steel city wall composed of a huge shield was advancing towards them.
These shields... were obviously polished frequently, and the fronts looked extremely smooth. It was afternoon, and the slanting sun made the opponent's shields reflect the sunlight, making them look extremely scary.
"What...what should His Majesty the King do? Should we retreat directly?" Anda's face didn't look good.
Because the enemy is wearing full-body armor, there are about three thousand soldiers here who are all in full-body armor. And the news just brought back by the scouts on the mountain shows that there are obviously soldiers in the opponent's city. In other words, this is not a big city. There are at least five thousand soldiers inside!
The key point is that they saw the enemy's war horses, and there were not many of them. It looked like there were only about five hundred.
However, the enemy was sending infantry at the moment, so they could retreat if they wanted to. After all, Gaochang's soldiers did not have such full-body armor, and their marching speed was naturally slower than them.
But what you need to be careful of is the enemy's five hundred cavalry.
"General Anda, you have to lead your army to launch a wave of bows and arrows at them from a distance to test the enemy. If we retreat directly, I'm afraid we won't be able to escape at all." Ju Wentai's face looked ugly. He wanted to run, but He knew very well that once he made this decision, only 500 cavalry among the 5,000 soldiers in Gaochang could escape! There are less than 4,000 infantrymen left and thousands of auxiliary soldiers who carry supplies and cannot escape at all!
And without these troops, his Gaochang Kingdom would be doomed.
The Turks can run, they all have horses, but Ju Wentai can't let him run! If the other party insists on running away, then you can't blame him and Ju Wentai will die with him.
