Li Kuang was caught in a dilemma. He knew why the enemy chose to retreat. It was because the enemy had to wait for the change of season. In summer, many sections of the Pinchi river would expose the riverbed. At that time, the enemy had some breakthrough points and didn't have to make a strong attack like when the water level was high.
Once the riverbed of many sections of the phanchi river is exposed in summer, the hundreds of miles of the phanchi river is bound to be full of loopholes. As a defense party, it will be unimaginable for the troops to be stationed to block those loopholes, and it will also give the enemy the opportunity to break them one by one.
"I can only chase." Song Ping also knew what the situation was: "I have to chase, but how should I chase?"
We must catch up. The enemy now looks like more than 300000, and nearly 200000 come together. The Han army can't let the enemy leave far enough to change its layout without pressure.
"You can't use infantry." Li Kuang frowned: "the cavalry has strong mobility and can fight and withdraw."
Since the enemy retreated, it must have made corresponding arrangements. The Han army will not pursue too many troops. Once the Pinchi river is lost as the dividing line, the enemy's quantitative advantage can be brought into play.
The Han Army on this side of the phanchi River, including the regular army, auxiliary troops and slave troops of the Anxi capital guard, numbered 80000, facing nearly 200000 anti Han axis coalition forces.
Of the 80000 Han troops, only 10000 are regular troops, which are the absolute main force; At the same time, although the Han people have some military literacy because of the "two seasons of military training", they really can't compare with the regular army. They can only fight a dozen defensive wars, and the field losses of the mobile nature will be very heavy; Thirty thousand people from the western regions have joined the army, which is both a help and a hidden worry. It is difficult to determine whether they will fight back.
"Less than 3000 cavalry..." Song Ping frowned: "great risk!"
Anyway, we can't let the enemy leave to the point of flying ourselves. The infantry will be surrounded when they press up. We can only attack and harass the enemy with cavalry. We can't let the enemy rest calmly, and we can't make the enemy too comfortable.
"Reinforcements from junjishan Colonel's headquarters will arrive at the pinchihe front in two days." Li Kuang still attached great importance to this reinforcement: "there are about 12000 firearms troops in the reinforcement. There are 64 guns of various calibres alone. Although the number is small, it is a force that can control the war situation."
"Your Highness is among them?" Song Ping is talking about Liu Shen, which will not be a secret for their middle and high-level generals in the same Theater: "Duhu will deploy his highness to become the garrison of the shogunate at that time."
Li Kuang wanted to do that, but he had scruples.
Liu Yan didn't send his eldest son to the army for gold plating. As the eldest son of the emperor, Liu Shen came to the army to experience life. At the same time, the royal family was expressing a sense of closeness to the military. If things were done too obviously, it would have a negative impact on the anxidu palace guard, and even hate Liu Shen.
"Then..." Li Kuang said with a headache: "it depends on the situation."
The cavalry with a scale of 3000 is the largest mobile force of Anxi Du's escort. They have been cruising and maneuvering to destroy the enemy troops who have crossed the Pinchi River, beheaded more than 800 before and after, and captured more than 1000 enemy troops.
The war record looks small, but it has a very eye-catching sense of existence for both the enemy and ourselves. The Han Army knows that because of the existence of such a cavalry force, it doesn't have to worry too much about being infiltrated by a large number of enemy troops in the rear; The enemy had the necessary attention and fear because of such an eye-catching cavalry.
"Duhu ordered us to cross the river." General Qin song received the military order in his arms, looked at the rest troops around him, said to the deputy general, and ordered the soldiers: "blow the assembly horn."
A bleak "Wuwuwuwu -" sound was sounded, and the knight who had no matter what he was doing began to clean up.
Among the more than 3000 cavalry, only more than 300 are Han people, and the rest are from the tribes of Wusun.
The Han Empire's grazing policy, which is now shackled, learned from the policy of the former Han Dynasty on the vassal race, and constantly selected warriors from Wusun tribes and recruited them as their righteous followers.
The former Han Dynasty is the combined name of the Western Han Dynasty and the Eastern Han Dynasty.
In the middle of the war between the Western Han Dynasty and the Xiongnu, the Han Dynasty recruited wuwan, Xianyu, Weishi, zahu, and even the Xiongnu from those obedient tribes. Yueqi camp and Changshui camp are the two most representative ones, of which wuwan people account for the largest proportion.
After the Eastern Han Dynasty, the three battalions of tunqi, Yueqi and Shesheng in the five schools of the northern army also belonged to the Han Dynasty, accounting for a large proportion, but changed from the wuwan people in the Western Han Dynasty to the Huns.
Today's Wusun is not the Wusun before, and the Han people are still Han people.
Wusun people feel extremely honored to serve the Han Empire. When they serve the Han Empire, their relatives in their hometown will become masters. Even if the tribal leaders dare not drive wantonly as before, they have to make a good confession.
If they can make great achievements, they will be able to settle down in the Han Empire and become a Han people, not like the righteous Hu of the people of the western regions.
Driven interests, coupled with spiritual satisfaction, the Wusun people are very obedient and have no lack of fighting desire. They have all turned over and mounted in less than five minutes after the horn sounded, and there is no sign of procrastination like the Hu people.
There was no channel for them to cross the river. They needed to go to the floating bridge area. There was no delay after arriving. Several people were left to verify the military order. The other cavalry crossed the river directly from the floating bridge without slowing down.
The number of more than 3000 cavalry is neither too much nor too small, but the movement created can not escape the eyes of the anti Han axis coalition.
"The Han Army didn't choose infantry to press up." Marus was somewhat disappointed. He was not so familiar with cavalry combat and asked albata, "which troops should we choose to fight against?"
There are about 30000 cavalry in this group of anti Han axis coalition forces, 7000 vassals brought by Rome, 8000 in the Persian army, and the rest are cavalry of all nationalities.
"Huns!" Albata said without any hesitation: "a collision hundreds of years apart will be very wonderful."
The so-called Xiongnu people are the tribes ruled by the descendants of Xiongnu from the west to the north.
The Xiongnu has never been a nation of pure blood. When they dominated the grassland, the real Xiongnu people actually accounted for only a few of them, more of them were tribes annexed in the expansion. Some tribes who saw the power of the Xiongnu began to call themselves Xiongnu people without hesitation.
Hundreds of years later, the northern Huns still have the saying of patriarchal race. Patriarchal race is still the core leadership of the tribe. The ruling population changes again and again. Many of them are conquered ethnic groups of Central Asia, such as Arameans, Yacai people, Dayi people, lega people and Miao people.
In today's era, only a few nationalities have national ideas. The weaker the nationality, the less national ideas, let alone the sense of national belonging. Stronger countries, such as the Han Empire, sassanne and Rome, will have clearer national ideas.
"Well?" Grenbadus looked at albata strangely, and his eyes turned to marus: "feud?"
As a contemporary leader of the Huns, grenbardis was very satisfied with the presence of the Persians and Romans in person. He was very interested in what marus said about the duel between feuds, epic revenge, bar, bar and so on, but he was not interested in being asked to fight.
"Yes." With an impassioned expression, marus said, "after hundreds of years, you two are also descendants of a powerful race. You meet on the battlefield again. No matter what the final result of the war is, the Han people will know that the Huns still exist. Your reputation will spread not only throughout the East, but also in the western world."
The Hungarian... Or the current leader of the descendants of the northern Huns, Glen badis is still lack of interest after listening to the translation. This time he came to the East, it was purely for fun.
Glen bades knew that the Han people were feuds, but he was really not interested in the epic war that broke out again hundreds of years later.
Their interests are not in the East for a long time. They just lost the war in the westward advance not long ago. They went out to avoid the difficulties made by some old guys in the tribe. They brought the elite of the king's court, so they were not interested in losing in a battlefield that did not belong to them.
"Of course we will teach the Han people a lesson." Grenbadus shook his head. Without waiting for marus and elbata to show a happy expression, he continued, "but not now."
"How could..." elbata said very incomprehensibly, "we have learned a message from the Han Empire. As long as the Han people know where you are, even the ends of the earth will come to destroy you. The Han people have a deep attachment to destroy you, King..."
"Ha ha." Grenbadus didn't hide his displeasure. He didn't believe elbata so much. He just thought that the Persians fooled too much: "they are almost over crossing the river. Don't waste your time."
After the inheritance of the northern Huns was broken, there were only a few toothless shamans left in some records of their ancestors. I still remember that the new generation had not even heard of the name of the Han people. As the leader, Glen badis only knew some fragmentary information. Where could there be any deep-rooted sense of hatred.
Do Han people know that they will pursue and kill at the ends of the earth regardless of distance? Glenn bades thought that whoever believed it was mentally ill.
"Get ready." Grenbadus said to the people around him with a gloomy face, "be ready to retreat at any time."
Grenbardis brought light cavalry with standard one man and two horses configuration. Many horses are lactating and can fight and escape.
Marus and elbata, who thought the Huns were happy and agreed to fight, left with confusion.
Elbata didn't lie just now. Last time, Sasan revealed the information of the Huns to the Han Empire. The Han empire made it clear that since it knew that there were still people in the northern Huns, it would definitely pursue and kill them. He just didn't understand that the Huns shouldn't hate the Han people more? After all, the Han people won the final victory in that war. It was the Huns who set foot on the road of escape!
The three thousand Han cavalry crossing the river did not attack the enemy behind the cushion. They made a detour to the north. They wondered how the anti Han axis coalition army watched them cross the river. Under the repeated reduction of the distance between the two sides, the anti Han axis coalition army did not send cavalry to intercept?
Qin song waved to the soldiers not far away and pointed to the front.
The bleak horn sounded again, and the 3000 cavalry running slowly began to adjust in the horn. They slowly turned their front into a chaotic enemy.
"We each sent two thousand people?" Albata saw Marius nodding: "most of the Han cavalry are Wusun people, not all Han people."
In the cognition of the anti Han axis, the most powerful force of the Han Empire is the firearm force, and then the standing troops who fight abroad all year round. In fact, they don't know much about the cavalry forces of the Han Empire.
According to elbata's understanding, the cavalry of the Han Empire is absolutely not bad. You know, the Han Empire has completely solved the threat of the northern grassland. If the cavalry of the Han Empire is bad, it can't do this.
The Romans had their own cavalry, but the number was very small. Among the Roman legions brought by marus, there were only a few Roman Cavalry as scouts and scouts. The number was about 70 or 80, and the 2000 cavalry sent out could only be vassal races.
Most of the anti Han axis was still evacuating to the West. The troops left behind found that the goal of the Han cavalry was not themselves. According to the direction adjustment of the Han cavalry, they had to make targeted formation changes.
Qin song was staring at an enemy that fell into chaos because of the formation adjustment. When they approached 150 meters, the enemy fired arrows. It seems that there should be two or three hundred, but none of them touched them.
An ordinary bow and arrow can shoot 60 or 70 meters away. Only a standard strong bow can shoot 150 meters.
Before that, the Han army fought with the anti Han axis coalition army for 24 days. Unless the anti Han axis coalition army hid deep enough, what types of long-range weapons had long been found out.
"Shoot!"
Within 120 meters, 300 Han cavalry were launched. They had two crossbows, one with a range of 130 meters, and the other with a continuous shot but only 30 meters.
No matter what Dynasty the Han people were, they never relaxed their control over the crossbow. The Anxi protectorate did not equip the Wusun people with crossbows.
As the second echelon, the Wusun people suffered a wave of arrow rain and lost more than ten people. They didn't launch arrows until they were close to 50 meters.
Of course, Qin song will not lead the team to charge. They just come to play the role of dog skin plaster and harass the enemy as much as they feel uncomfortable.
"Woo woo..."
There was another bleak bugle. The cavalry of the Han Army changed direction again. Qin song found that there were two cavalry of the enemy. They needed to distance themselves from the enemy army and move to a more open place at the same time.