Chapter 776: Sunrise in the East (1)

Alundai never thought that the Donghu people should hide in the city to defend, even if the enemy was stronger than him. The expeditionary army came with great momentum, and the vanguard cavalry reached 15,000. Alundai did not hesitate at all and immediately led 10,000 cavalry out of Jingyuan to fight.

Alundai had been defeated twice in his life, both times by Gao Yuan. The first time was when Gao Yuan's light cavalry raided Yulin thousands of miles away. He was ambushed by Gao Yuan during the pursuit, and was also attacked by Bai Yucheng. In the end, he escaped with his body. The second time was during the Yan State's expedition to the Donghu. In Huaying, in a thick fog, he was defeated by Gao Yuan again. Thousands of cavalrymen died on the battlefield, and his Tieling cavalry was almost crippled. In the end, it was Thorpe who merged the three crippled Keller tribes into Tieling, which restored his vitality.

These two battles left a deep impression on Alundai. Whenever he thought of this, the scar on his face would ache. This time, the expeditionary army came again, and the cavalry commander was replaced by a woman.

How could Alundai think that he was inferior to a woman?

First defeat their cavalry, then defeat their infantry, this is Alundai's simplest and most realistic idea.

The two cavalry totaled more than 20,000 people, and they encountered the sweet water well more than ten miles away from Jingyuan.

Helanyan helped Gao Yuan train cavalry since Gao Yuan was still a small soldier in Fufeng. As Gao Yuan's power expanded, she trained more and more cavalry. For example, the iron foot soldiers who are now famous all over the continent are her real apprentices. It can be said that the infantry who only knew how to ride horses back then can become the famous cavalry commander today, which is inseparable from her.

Years of cavalry training have given Helanyan a deeper understanding of cavalry combat than ordinary cavalry generals, and Gao Yuan is under his command. The population composition is complex, there are Xiongnu people who grew up on horseback, and Yan people who are not good at riding and shooting. Later, there were refugees from Qi, Qin, Zhao, Wei, Han and other places. How to combine these uneven warriors into a powerful cavalry once made her brains hurt.

Excellent cavalry cannot be trained in a day. In a short period of time, it is a dream to make those warriors who can barely ride horses become excellent cavalry. Compared with the Donghu people. This innate disadvantage is irreversible.

So there were four hundred black guards for Helan Yan to experiment with, and there were Mei Hua and Wu Yalangjiu who were eliminated from the black guards for their outstanding riding skills.

Among the four hundred black guards, no one's riding skills are outstanding, and they can only be regarded as mediocre, but strict discipline, strong team strength, dense formations during combat, and swift charge like a dragon. Let this black guard be refreshing when it first went to the battlefield, played a huge role, and had this successful experience. After becoming the commander of the independent cavalry division of the Northern Army Group, Helan Yan immediately began to build her own cavalry unit according to this model.

Among the original cavalry,

except for the leading officers of each cavalry, the remaining ones with excellent riding skills were eliminated and sent to the infantry as cavalry scouts. Her approach was opposed by Gongsun Yi and Luo Lei. But under the dominance of Helan Yan, the two had no choice but to obey. After more than half a year of training, Helan Yan made this cavalry division reborn.

This is also the reason why Helan Yan convinced Gongsun Yi and Luo Lei. This cavalry. If pulled out alone, it may not be the opponent of any Donghu people, but when they gather into a group, the energy that bursts out makes Gongsun Yi and Luo Lei, who have fought old battles, also shocked. The two also thought about it from the perspective of others. If they stand on the opposite side of Helan Yan, how should they face the group charge of such a cavalry?

The two of them first thought about it separately, and finally gathered together to discuss. The final conclusion was that if they were given twice as many cavalry as Helan Yan, they could win by attrition. They attacked head-on and contained the enemy, and roamed and shot from the periphery, peeling off Helan Yan's cavalry layer by layer like peeling an onion.

But in this way, the cavalry facing the containment will pay a heavy price.

Helan Yan has been training this cavalry for more than half a year. Seeing that a big battle is about to be fought and it will be used, how can she not personally go to the battlefield to command? But she happened to be pregnant at this time. For this, she had already cursed Gao Yuan half to death in her heart. After a struggle, she finally decided to personally command this battle. Seeing her hard work bloom on the battlefield, nothing could be more tempting than this.

At this moment, Helan Yan reined in her horse on a hillside and walked down the hillside. Her 15,000 cavalrymen were divided into three attack formations. They were all dressed in black, which was particularly eye-catching under the blue sky and green grass. Unlike most of the flags of the Eastern Expedition Army, which were bright red, Helan Yan's black-clad guards even had black flags.

"Division Commander, it's enough for you to watch this battle here. Let me and Luo Lei take the boys to go." Gongsun Yi said to Helan Yan in an almost pleading tone. "Even if you don't think about yourself, think about the little prince in your belly. How can you bear the bumps of the warhorse? If you have a small accident, even if we win this battle, we will still lose."

Gongsun Yi had something else to say in his heart. He had finally climbed from a cavalry captain of a small tribe to the current high position, which was exchanged for scars. If the baby in Helan Yan's belly had any problems, I'm afraid his road to success would end here.

"Don't worry, I'll be watching from here." He Lanyan nodded, "As long as you try harder and beat this Arundai to the ground, do I have to eat sand?"

"That's good, that's good!" Gongsun Yi felt relieved. "Just keep an eye on it!"

Gongsun Yi galloped towards his formation. Looking at his back, He Lanyan smiled proudly. He is so easy to deceive. I finally got to the battlefield. If I could just watch here. , what am I doing here?

Smoke and dust were rising in the distance, trumpets were shrilling, and thousands of troops and horses were galloping forward. Looking at the scene of the Donghu cavalry attacking, He Lanyan couldn't help but snorted, "It's the same old thing, nothing new at all. Blow the trumpet, attack!"

Behind He Lanyan, ten cavalrymen holding bugles raised their bugles at the same time. The loud bugles sounded from under the banner of the Chinese Army. Following the horns of the Chinese Army, the three attack formations sounded responses at the same time. With the bugle call, the 12,000 black-clad guards were divided into three attack formations and began to slowly start.

There are tens of thousands of cavalry, boundless. The visual effect and visual impact of the charge of ten thousand cavalry are far beyond what Ten Thousand Bufu can compare with. Standing in He Lanyan's position, all he can see is The endless Donghu cavalry were rushing towards her direction, like a river with a broken embankment, unstoppable. An ordinary person would easily feel fear under such momentum, but He Lanyan was used to large-scale cavalry charges and was not moved at all.

On the battlefield with a radius of more than ten miles, the Donghu cavalry was like a flood that filled the sky, unstoppable, but the three Eastern Expedition Army cavalry attack groups rushed straight into the flood like three black swords.

Feathers and arrows were flying in the air like locusts. The art of riding and shooting was commonplace for the Donghu people, but it had always been a problem for the cavalry of the Eastern Army. It was no longer possible for them to maintain such a dense formation and strict lineup by bending their bows and nocking arrows on horseback. Therefore, after the cavalry entered the range of the feather arrows, the first thing they had to do was to endure the opponent's long-range attack. In order to reduce the load on the horses, the cavalry cannot wear too thick armor, and this cavalry division obviously cannot be like the red guards in Gao Yuan. The armor on each person is specially made. Therefore, they can only protect the most important parts of their body, such as helmets and goggles, and in other places, they only wear leather armor.

The only good thing is that the cavalry's bows are relatively soft. As long as they don't hit key points such as the face, it is generally not fatal. The cavalry in a dense formation, when the opponent's arrows are like locusts, use their spears in unison. Reaching into the air and waving hard, most of the feather arrows were knocked down by this blow. A few got into the crowd and caused extremely limited damage.

The feather arrows did not disrupt the opponent's formation, and the opponent did not even make any evasive movements at all. It was still like a big ax, slashing straight at Arundai. This scene made Arundai accustomed to traditional cavalry combat. Lundai couldn't help but be stunned. He had never seen the cavalry fighting like infantry, lining up in such a neat formation, crushing them like stone mills.

"Contain from the front, shoot from the flanks!" He was surprised, but Allendale still made the correct judgment and the best choice in the shortest time. The only shortcoming was that he did not have enough troops to fight. On the attack surface of the three frontal attacks of the Eastern Army, his strength seemed too thin.

Gongsun Yi, Luo Lei and others were all accustomed to using scimitars, but in this cavalry team, they also had to pick up their spears like the most ordinary soldiers and finally survived the range of the arrows. Gongsun Yi roared, He lowered his body, thrust his spear forward, and roared: "Break the formation!"

"Break the formation!" The cavalrymen of each independent cavalry division roared. Thousands of people lowered their bodies and pointed their spears forward. From a distance, it was a spectacular sight. Of course, The opponents opposite them would not think so. In front of their eyes, what appeared instantly were spears with gleaming cold light.

Impact, assassination, never stop. In this process, falling off the horse can only lead to death, because the subsequent charging team will never stop at all (to be continued)