In most wars, there are not many fancy things in the war between the two armies. Some are just that the two armies know the existence of each other. After a series of small-scale tests, the two armies finally meet face to face and fight.
The reason why a few wars have become legends is that the special environment or the commander of an individual party is too stupid. It is just too rare that they will become legendary examples.
To understand a routine, only the more difficult things are worth writing, and only the more precious things will be advocated and mentioned again and again. If everyone can do it, who will deliberately record or describe it, just as no one will write a special article on how to breathe.
Liu Rui doesn't think he is a military genius once in a century. He can't play a war example that clearly the other party has widely distributed sentries and scouts, and can quietly approach and raid. Nor will he place his hope on the premise that the enemy commander is stupid enough to imagine that the enemy will forget to set up sentries or not send scouts when he takes the initiative.
I'm not kidding. Take Huo Qubing, the famous general who is best at running attacks, as an example. He is definitely a genius in directing cavalry operations in the history of Zhuxia. However, what was the premise that he was able to succeed many times? The Huns at that time did not believe that the Han army could run thousands of miles, let alone that the Han army would recognize the road of the grassland. Unexpectedly, the Han Army knew where he moved and grazed. Only with the above premise could he succeed in many times. However, he also had examples of failed raids. Without exception, those failed cases were discovered in advance. Without concealment, he could not achieve the suddenness of the raid, so there was no need to fight again.
In the early stage of the Han Hungarian war, the Han army could still attack thousands of miles. After Huo Qubing had done several sensational undertakings, the Huns had a sense of vigilance, the Han army would no longer have a chance, and the war between the two sides would enter a period of consumption, one dozen is one or two hundred years.
"Enemy reconnaissance has appeared around our army." Fan Jin, as commander of the army, deals with all kinds of intelligence. He has just received a report from the Scout camp. There are several investigative cavalry of western people around: "the enemy is very cautious!"
They had marched westward for more than ten miles, about fifteen miles from the area where the enemy forward set up his camp. At this time, the reconnaissance cavalry of the enemy appeared and found more than one. It can only be said that the commander of the people of the western regions attached great importance to the observation of the enemy situation around them.
The Han Army has noticed that there are three-way enemy forces. It is not clear who is the joint commander of the western people. It does not know who is the commander of the three-way army, but only knows the composition of the enemy forces.
"There is no shortage of horses in the western regions? Five thousand enemy troops have three thousand cavalry." Liu Rui led 10000 people to fight. There were only 2000 cavalry in the team, and the rest were infantry: "they have many cavalry. We'll stop five miles ahead, arrange the formation and continue to advance in the form of formation."
At present, there is no shortage of horses in the Han Dynasty, that is, high-quality war horses are basically mastered by the standing army, especially the most high-quality war horses of Huben army equipped with armour and riding tools.
For semi official and semi civilian military organizations such as the western regions corps, there are some high-quality war horses, but the number is really quite small. In addition, there is no special standard harness, and knights rarely have modern armor and weapons. Armor and riding equipment do not exist. Even sudden cavalry do not exist. They are very traditional light cavalry.
What is a light cavalry? Mongolian horses are the main fighting horses. Stirrups and saddles are available, but they are not professional. Then Knights may have armor, but they can't rush into the array, especially to attack the dense infantry array. They can only fight a dozen cruising battles.
In fact, the grassland cavalry is a kind of light cavalry. It may concentrate knights who can ride and shoot to specially prepare a bow cavalry, but more grassland cavalry belong to the kind that can't even attack the dense infantry army array.
If the light cavalry really hardens down and rushes around, they will hit their heads and break blood in front of the infantry array. They will be taught to be a man by bows and arrows before they even rush. They have always been cruising and fighting with infantry, constantly harassing and attacking the food channels of infantry with their own mobility, pulling and dragging down infantry with movement, and occasionally seizing the opportunity of infantry not having time to organize a military array.
Infantry is never empty against light cavalry in battle. I wish light cavalry could attack their own army. The advantage of the cavalry over the infantry is not to rush into the array, but the light cavalry will fight if they want to fight and run if they don't want to. The disadvantage of infantry against light cavalry is that they usually win a few small victories, but if they lose, they will be chased behind and reap human lives when they break up.
Of course, the Western allied forces found the Han Army, and the intelligence of the reconnaissance cavalry was sent back soon.
"About 10000 Han troops. About 2000 cavalry, and the rest are infantry." Luo Xia sounds like a Chinese name, but in fact, he is a white man with blond hair and blue eyes. He comes from Kucha and is the commander of the 5000 forward of the coalition Army: "there is basically grassland along the way. There is no hiding environment. They must also know this."
It is a cold joke to fight a large-scale ambush on the grassland. Not only grassland people know this, but anyone who has enough knowledge of the grassland knows it.
The people in the tent waited for Luo Xia to finish and looked at a middle-aged man with yellow skin, black hair but blue eyes. His name was chizheru.
Chizheru is a Hun with one eighth of Han descent. Like many Huns living in the western regions, they are actually horse thieves with a group of people active in the Gobi and grassland. People like them don't think of themselves as Huns for a long time. The reason is that their lineage is so chaotic. In addition, they live in complex areas and receive too many cultures. They really don't have any obvious characteristics. They are gradually called Tiefu people.
The target Tiefu people are very many. Generally, the father is born in the grassland, but they combine with women from other regions or nationalities and give birth to mixed race children. Another kind of Tiefu people is a man who married a grassland woman. The grassland calls his son-in-law Tiefu.
Tiefu is a general term at present, which is used to address individuals and a tribe. At present, Tiefu tribe is not an important role. If history has not been changed, it has created a huge force. He Lianhuo was born in a Tiefu tribe.
Who's herringham? It was the Xiongnu tiefubu man named Liu Huo. After his rise, he played the game of building a city, that is, the Tongwan City, which was considered inappropriate to kill a large group of people when checking how many projects were smashed.
At present, all kinds of Tiefu people or Tiefu department are regarded as various scum and thief tribes. Chizheru appeared in the coalition camp, and the Kucha paid for his whole horse thief team. He himself is very familiar with this area, and then he has a good skill in leading cavalry.
"There's nothing to say. Give me a thousand cavalry." Chizheru stood up when he spoke: "try the weight of the Han Army, and then decide how to deal with it next."
Luo Xia didn't hesitate and decided: "in addition to your headquarters, I'll give you a thousand cavalry.", Then he looked at a white man with brown hair: "this is the border of Shanshan. You should send out. The rest of the cavalry... Send out the Sogdians."
Shanshan is Gu Loulan. The person named moved his lips, obviously with hesitation, but he dared not object.
Shanshan, as a country, has long existed in name only. After the Han people's power in the western regions declined and left, they were severely trampled by the surrounding countries because of the incomparable cooperation of the Han people in the western regions. The king was slaughtered. The following city states and tribes stand on their own. Up to now, there is no recognized king, and only 1000 people have been involved in the coalition, There are only three hundred cavalry.
There is no country called Sute in the western regions. As a country, Sute has perished in the Western Han Dynasty. But the Sogdians are still very active in the western regions. Sogdian beauties are the most popular, and men are basically horse thieves.
The so-called Sogdians are actually one of the "nine surnames of Zhaowu". As a country, they can still be active in the western regions after its demise, because the members of the Sogdians in the western regions come from a plateau further west. In fact, they are Iranians.
Chizheru refused to command Shanshan and Sute cavalry at the first time.
As long as they stay in the western regions, no one is strange to Shanshan people and Sogdians. Shanshan people are famous for their soft foot shrimp. Sogdians are simply famous for all kinds of Ji. Anyway, they are not a fighting nation.
"The old rule is that whatever reward should be, it is what reward." Luo Xia said that Kucha offered a reward to the head of the Han people. He smiled at chizheru and said, "if you can win, there will be another reward."
Kucha is very, very rich. They reward the heads of the Han people, which not only attracts countless horse thieves to defecte, but also attracts a large group of surrounding tribes. Otherwise, how could the coalition army exceed 100000 people?
Chizheru came out of the army account, shouted agapa and rabadi, frowned and said, "I won't deliberately consume your hands. Don't pick anyone."
Agapa smiled: "I will choose the best soldier."
Rabadi shrugged his shoulders and said nothing. Although they are horse thieves in the western regions, they do it against some small tribes and small caravans (people). They really don't touch any hard stubble. They do horse thieves only by chance. In fact, their job is to sell female slaves.
Chizheru looked at the back of the two men and frowned deeply. He has one eighth of the Han people's blood. When the Han people ruled the western regions, they actually took a little advantage. The activity area is in the Shanshan border. They are very clear about the urine nature of the Shanshan people. He didn't come into contact with many Sogdians, but just knowing that Sogdians are famous for their pimping business, he really wouldn't expect too much from Sogdian cavalry.
It took more than three hours from the time the order was issued to the time when the manpower was assembled. Then it was dark.
"Let's go!" Chizheru is the leader of the horse thief. What he is good at is to move in the dark. He told agapa and rabadi on the side: "let your team keep up."
Chizhelu's horse thief has more than 200 cavalry, including 300 Shanshan cavalry and 700 SUT cavalry, which together is more than 1200 cavalry.
The western regions do not lack horses, but it depends on who they are. Chizhelu's gang of horse thieves are relatively good. One person is equipped with at least two horses, most of them have a leather armor, and most of the guys in their hands are also iron tools; Shanshan was influenced too much by the Han family. The cavalry wore uniform color robes, but everyone had only war horses under their hips, few people wore armor, and there were all kinds of guys in their hands; What's more chaotic is the SUT cavalry. The 700 cavalry are dressed in chaos. They look colorful. Some have only one horse, while others have as many as four.
Chizhelu must want to know what kind of Shanshan cavalry and Sute cavalry are. He found that a weak Shanshan cavalry can still ensure the order of the team when marching. Sute cavalry can only be described as "chaos".
[after all, he has been trained by the regular army of the Han people, but he still has some foundation.] chizheru knows that what Shanshan people can't do is their mentality, that is, they don't have self-confidence. He didn't have much hope for the Sute cavalry: [this is the way the horse thief is, and the Sute is the worst among many horse thieves.]
"General, we..." agapa looked around the darkness frequently, and his ears were full of horse hoofs: "are you going to raid the Han Army at night?"
"Raid?" Chizheru showed a joking expression, that is, agapa couldn't see it in the dark: "that's the Han Army to reunify the 'central country'. The Jie people were killed cleanly, and the Xianbei people were killed and fled to the ice field. Do you think it's the army of the western countries?"
Agapa asked in an incomprehensible tone, "shall we march all night?"
"It is impossible to reunify the army of the 'central country' without scouts around. Maybe there are Scouts of the Han Army around us." Chizhelu thought about the Han Army in the most powerful direction, and didn't intend to hide his intention: "don't think about any surprise attack or sneak attack. All we can do is the old practice, cruising and looking for opportunities. Suddenly, we can kill a few. Most of the Han Army are infantry. If they are too arrogant, they may be able to destroy the pursuing Han army."
Arapa immediately breathed a sigh of relief. What he was afraid of was that chizheru was going to confront the Han army.
"That's how it should be." Rabadi didn't care whether the Han army would come close to his camp or not. He said, "we came for a reward. It's enough to gain more safely. Don't be silly to fight a frontal battle."
Of course, chizheru knew that this kind of play was very counselled. At most, it slowed down the marching speed of the Han Army, but they faced the Han army.
"I heard that the general has Han blood?" Agapa lowered his voice: "the Han people could easily sweep the whole western region hundreds of years ago. Although they weakened for some time, they have now destroyed the Jie people and fought Xianbei and other nationalities to flee. It must be difficult to deal with."
Chizhelu eyebrowed, but he knew that the tribes in Shanshan united and sent people to the East. He had to guess what agapa meant by what he said.