Three Kingdoms

In fact, the Han people planted the recognition flag on the ground not to laugh at the opponent, but to confirm their military merits.

Although Zhang Liao was the only one who led the team this time, the Han cavalry also followed their usual habits and planted the identification flags belonging to their own team or division near the corpses of the enemy soldiers who had been hacked to death.

In this way, the Han cavalry did not have to stop to count the results of the battle, and naturally the queues would not be scattered and the impact would be weakened.

Although Zhang Liao was obviously conducting a blitz this time and would not stay much longer or count the results of the battle on the battlefield, these Han cavalry still followed their custom and stuck the identification flag near the bodies of the Shanshan people, and also on the In Tong Geluojia’s heart.

That's the benefit of being a professional soldier.

Among Zhang Liao's ranks, even the so-called "recruit eggs" have received nearly a year or even a year and a half of specialized training in Chang'an and Beidi. All kinds of military discipline and battlefield order are almost imprinted on them. In the minds of these people, even if there is no order, generally everyone knows who is in what position and what should be done, and they can do it according to the muscle instinct formed by training without even thinking too much. .

Such soldiers are not only elite and brave, but also equipped with excellent armor, their survival rate is also greatly improved.

Because on the battlefield, the interval between life and death is often just one or two seconds.

A soldier who is poorly trained or has no actual combat experience will often forget what to do due to nervousness, or his movements will be unbalanced, and then he will die.

And a professional soldier who has gone through a lot of training and has almost engraved the formation, order, cooperation, and skills in his muscles and in his bones will often be at risk of large-scale death only in fierce confrontations, otherwise he will only lose by accident. That’s all.

Especially under the command of an excellent general, the power of the Han cavalry will be doubled.

The Shanshan people began to retreat. Zhang Liao noticed it almost immediately, and then ordered to slow down the horse speed to let the horses recover, and expanded the queue outwards, forming a larger outline than before, like The cat raises its fur to make itself larger, as if to intimidate its opponents.

Shanshan's leader ran away, and his men naturally followed suit. Seeing the fierce posture of the Han cavalry, they ran faster.

Tong Geluojia regretted why he chose this area as a camping place before. He swore that it was definitely not because it was far away from the military camp, nor was it to avoid anything...

In fact, Shanshan doesn't have no chance at all.

The entire array of Shanshan is distributed in a large oval shape, like an egg tipped over. If he has the time and determination to organize the formation, the focus of defense will naturally be concentrated in the center of the egg, and if the subsequent support from other Western Region coalition forces is also in place, then it is possible for him to transform from an egg that breaks at the touch of a touch. of hard stone.

Zhang Liao would knock out his teeth if he didn't think so.

But this is not something that can be achieved just by thinking about it...

The Han cavalry obviously would not allow him enough time to form an array. To achieve such an effect, the Shanshan people had to use blood and death to block Zhang Liao's footsteps one after another. Only then could they delay the Han cavalry and allow other Western Regions to move forward. The countries have time to rush over, but the problem is that most of the other neighboring countries will not have any good intentions to support and help the Shanshan people. Perhaps more people from the Western Regions are waiting to take advantage, wondering whether they can carve up the Shanshan country after the war. Territory, eating and drinking the remaining cattle and sheep of Shanshan.

The people of the Western Regions could not unite.

It's like giving everything except a discount, everything except help. If you want to bring in real money, any method will do, but if you want to take out real money, it's absolutely impossible.

Now that the Shanshan people are stuck in the line of attack of the Han, their tenacious resistance will not end well, and they may even have to bear the misery of the future, so why not lie down now? Is it possible that if you experience more pain, the Buddha will be more compassionate?

So Shanshantong Grojia didn't care whether Taksa had any orders, and immediately ordered a retreat and ran away. Regardless of his grand strategy, long-term plans, or lofty ideals of the Western Regions for ten years or a hundred years, at this moment Shanshan Tong Grojia was only thinking about how much of his own men, horses and property were left...

Shanshantong Grojia could see the danger of facing the Han cavalry, and the generals of other countries could also see it, so the entire Western Region Allied Forces began to move in chaos.

It's just that the direction of these movements is completely opposite to Taxa's instructions.

What?

What escape?

This is called strategic transition!

So among the Western Region Allied Forces, is there really no one who dares to fight the Han people head-on?

It’s not that there are no such people at all. People who feel good about themselves can be found everywhere.

For example, the people of Kucha State became red-eyed after seeing the Han cavalry.

If there was a country in the Western Regions that was the most seriously injured in the previous stage of the war in the Western Regions and therefore hated the Han people the most, it was the Kingdom of Qiuci.

Lu Bu's massacre of the royal city of Qiuci is actually generally in line with the concepts of ordinary Han people.

Because during the three to four hundred years of the Han Dynasty, the kingdoms that were slaughtered included but were not limited to Yelang.

Lu Bu didn't have any special hatred for the Kucha people at that time, or it was completely justified. He just needed money and people, and Kucha happened to be in front of him, so he did so.

But this approach is undoubtedly very harmful to the Kucha people. On the one hand, it is because they have relatives, friends, children, and parents who died in this massacre. On the other hand, is there a reason...

It's rather strange.

The Kucha people must show a brave resistance to the Han people in front of everyone, well, of course everyone in the Western Regions, and fight to the death. Otherwise, the Kucha people will soon be regarded by everyone in the Western Regions as people who can be bullied and bullied at will. Devour the object, and then there will be no more.

Only warriors have status and value in the Western Regions. Even if their country is broken and destroyed, these warriors can still find a good position elsewhere, but if they are a coward...

So when the Kucha people saw the appearance of the Han people, they gathered together almost subconsciously, separated from the other Western Region coalition forces, and faced the Han cavalry that rushed towards them like a tide in a skirmish formation.

At this moment, in the eyes of these Kucha people who are going upstream, life and death no longer matter, because they must prove their worth, otherwise their future will be dark.

The bravery of the Kucha people just bought time for other countries in the Western Regions to adjust their teams...

But the length of this time depends on how long the Kucha people can hold on.

Everyone knows that the Kucha people's approach is actually no different from a moth flying into a flame. After all, no country in the Western Region dares to say that it can fight the Han cavalry one-on-one. When Lu Bu conquered the Western Regions, he only had three to five thousand troops, and then he killed the 20,000 to 30,000 troops from the Western Regions and fled.

In the earlier legends of the Western Regions, there are even stories of the Han Dynasty defeating tens of thousands of people from the Western Regions with a few hundred people.

When Taksa saw the Kucha people attacking them, he let out a long breath and immediately began to curse the Shanshan people.

Although he also has troops directly under him, he also needs to queue up.

Taksa originally thought that Shanshan would be able to resist for a while because of his rough skin and thick flesh, and then he would be able to carry out his plan smoothly. However, he did not expect that Shanshan seemed to have a lot of people, but they were very weak. He immediately fell in love with him not long after the contact. It collapsed. If the Qiuchi people hadn't stepped up, it's hard to say that the situation would have deteriorated immediately.

It's a bit of a breath of relief now.

Taksa saw clearly that in fact, the number of Han cavalry was not large, and as he expected, the Han cavalry came to him, so he only needed the Kucha people to be able to stand up for a while and let him gather them. The manpower of other countries in the Western Regions, when the Han people start to fall into the trap, the morale of the people in the Western Regions countries will be boosted immediately, and then such a siege...

Simply perfect!

By that time, there will be an unprecedented victory!

His name will be resounding throughout the Western Region!

The remaining Han people will be frightened by the news. Can they pursue it from behind and then push it to the foot of Xihai City in one go?

Oh hahaha!

Taksa couldn't help but smile, as if a bright future was waving ahead!

In Taksa's mind, he had already raised his estimate of the Han cavalry as much as possible. At least after the failed attack on the military stronghold, he had once again raised his estimate of the Han's force value, and even thought about it in his mind. If the Han people really counterattack on a large scale, then he must run away first...

But before running away, Taksa must get enough benefits, otherwise wouldn't this trip to the Western Region be in vain?

And in Taksa's opinion, the Han people shouldn't have many powerful soldiers and horses, right?

Just like his direct guards and ordinary Western Region coalition herdsmen.

If this is the case, then the Han people will be much easier to deal with, and he is still confident that he can fight the Han people.

A small number of elites, a majority of ordinary people, this is the fighting mode that Taksa is accustomed to. This is also the model adopted by many countries in the Western Regions, even countries such as Kushan and Anxi.

This is not accidental or coincidental, but the inevitability of productivity.

This is why Fei Qian has been deliberately controlling the number of soldiers.

Although the Third Assistant of Chang'an has a high desire to serve as a soldier, the children of good families have no chance at all, and those with slight disabilities and weak bodies will not be able to do it. Even with such high standards and strict requirements, the team is always lined up during every recruitment. Elders, those who were not shortlisted lamented and were heartbroken.

Fei Qian's soldiers are well fed and clothed, and have excellent weapons and armor. It can be said that among all the local princes in the Han Dynasty, Fei Qian's soldiers have the least to worry about rebelling and surrendering to the enemy, even for individual generals. His mind was shaken, but the only people he could take away were his immediate subordinates, and some ordinary soldiers who might not know the truth.

Should we raise one elite soldier or ten ordinary soldiers?

Should we raise a thousand elite soldiers or ten thousand ordinary soldiers?

Should we raise 10,000 elite soldiers or 100,000 ordinary soldiers?

The more the value expands, the more people choose elite soldiers. Because soldiers not only need food, but also clothing, accommodation, military pay, a place to live, daily training, emotional needs, physical desires, etc. The more people there are, the more various habits and problems they have. For example, if there is no curry, the kind of soldiers who go on strike on the spot, but they are finally recruited and all the money is spent, can they suddenly get rid of the problem on the spot?

But raising elite soldiers requires a certain amount of productivity.

Without sufficient metallurgical technology, don't even think about having large-scale armor and equipment.

Without corresponding farming technology, there is no need to think about becoming professional soldiers who are out of work.

Without a certain degree of cultural development, logistics management, local officials, transportation, etc., there is no way to think of concentrating a large number of non-productive professional soldiers in a certain area...

Therefore, Taksa believes that most of the Han people should be ordinary soldiers. For example, the cavalry currently commanded by Zhang Liao should be the elite among the elite, and they are directly under the guard type of soldiers and horses, which is also reasonable.

Because he believes that his experience is the world he can see...

On this battlefield, the gap between elite soldiers and ordinary soldiers, or half soldiers and half civilians, formed a strong contrast.

Driven by strong hatred, the Kucha people admirably shouldered the heavy responsibility of intercepting Zhang Liao and others. However, they were scattered in twos and threes and could not form a formation at all. This kind of loose formation may not be able to form a formation in the pursuit battle. Or they can have better maneuverability and flexibility in the melee, but if they want to use this to face Zhang Liao and the Han army's charge array, it seems so feeble.

The speed of the Han cavalry was well controlled.

Almost all Han cavalry knew that there were several levels of speed for the cavalry.

Charge, full speed, half speed, slow motion.

Although it is impossible to be like a machine that is fixed in a certain gear and will not move, as long as a command is issued, the entire army can maintain a similar speed without too much nonsense and no need to go out for a long time. Time for whole team to adapt.

Zhang Liao was responsible for issuing the order, and the guards around him were responsible for spreading the order. The non-commissioned officers in the queue repeated it over and over again, and then every Han cavalry was able to receive the change of order. Most of the time, ordinary Han cavalry were silent, because too much shouting would affect the sensitivity of receiving instructions.

And what about the Kucha people?

Everyone was shouting, venting their emotions and physical strength unscrupulously, and dancing with their weapons. Everyone heard the shouts around them, and no one knew what was shouting next to them. They seemed eager to cut down the Han cavalry in the next moment, but no one cared whether the power exerted by Kong would affect their endurance in battle. .

Zhang Liao glanced at the scattered Qiuci array approaching, and then aimed at the Western Region Allied Forces farther away.

Zhang Liao has no interest in fighting with the Kucha people, even though these Kucha people are obviously no match. He needs to drive away the Shanshan who are fleeing, and then use them to rush into the opponent's front line like sheep...

"Blow the whistle!" full speed! Turn! 』

Zhang Liao issued the order.

The copper whistle was blown, and the sharp whistle sounded amidst the sound of horse hooves.

The flag representing speed and direction was raised high in front, and at the same time, the middle and lower-level military academies in the queue were repeating orders loudly. As the cavalry at the front began to change speed and direction, the Han cavalry at the rear also made the same move.

Although Zhang Liao admired the Kucha people's courage to challenge them, admiration did not mean that Zhang Liao had to cooperate.

As a first-class cavalry general, Zhang Liao knew that the most valuable element of cavalry is speed.

If you want to have speed, you must first have rhythm.

The cavalry is the dancer on the tip of the sword.

Therefore, Zhang Liao unceremoniously demonstrated the power and beauty of elite cavalry in front of the Western Region Allied Forces.

As the whistle sounded and the order sounded, the Han army turned.

Just like the eagle in the sky fluttering its wings and drawing an arc in the sky, or like the meandering flow of the Tarim River drawing a curve on the ground, the Han army's cavalry array gathered into a whole. Instead of a pile of loose sand, countless war horses gathered into one huge war horse, and countless people unified into a giant, trampling and dancing between the heaven and earth in the Western Region!

For one person to ride a horse and turn a corner, all it takes is a better riding skill, and then for several people to turn together, all it takes is some tacit understanding among each other. But now, it is not one person, nor a group of people, but a thousand people. A large number of Han cavalry turned around almost at the same time. This was something that no other country in the Western Region coalition could do.

The bright tricolor flag and the blood-red Han flag, at this moment, were like two ribbons on a giant, floating by. This is not just the dance of Zhang Liao alone, nor is it just the dance of the Han cavalry led by Zhang Liao, but a dance that represents the productivity, technical level, and cultural heritage of the Han Dynasty!

Power and beauty!

Iron and blood!

The Han cavalry controlled the war horses, showing group riding skills that even the Hu people who had lived on horseback their entire lives were inferior to, and passed by the rushing Kucha people's skirmishers.

The Kucha people screamed eagerly, and then were enveloped in the smoke and dust raised by Zhang Liao and others, and coughed one after another...

Many people in the Western Region Allied Forces couldn't help but exclaimed when they saw this scene, and then immediately felt the crisis coming, and the surprised expressions solidified on their faces like frost and snow on the Tianshan Mountains.

Although the Kucha people bravely stepped forward to stop them, they were unable to slow down the Han cavalry!

Suddenly, countless people among the Western Region Allied Forces lamented and exclaimed at the same time, and then were trampled to pieces under the hooves of the Han cavalry!

All the Western Region Allied Forces were stunned, but the Han people did not stop. These Han people continued to drive the Shanshan people, like pushing a snowball from a high mountain, rolling down!

The Kucha people who were praised by everyone in the Western Regions for their courage a second ago turned into stupid, slow idiots and were greeted in various languages ​​​​by people from all over the Western Regions...

Of course, more people are also criticizing Shanshan people.

But at this moment, Shanshan talents don't care whether they will be scolded or not. They ran hard!

The Western Region Alliance Army is very large and has many people, which means there are many Taoist friends, oh, and monks.

But there is only one poor monk!

Dead monk friend, immortal poor monk!

Fellow monks, the poor monk is here!