When I was in Qin Dynasty, I lost contact with the wave

Chapter 687: Are you qualified to call it a formation if you can't defeat the minority with the majority?

The Donghu had not fought with the Qin army in these years, and the lands bordering them were mostly Yan and Zhao. The Qin State did not border many areas with the Donghu, and mostly adopted a defensive strategy.

Over the years, the Donghu knew that Yan and Zhao were no match for Qin, so they all resorted to plundering, and naturally picked on the weak. Anyway, what they got from the plundering of Yan and Zhao was enough for them to live a good life for a while.

This also led to the Donghu's lack of understanding of the Qin army, so this almost one-sided battle situation was really beyond the expectations of the Donghu generals.

"What kind of formation is this? It's so weird?"

Many Donghu nobles were confused. In their understanding, wasn’t a formation just something to stabilize the queue?
According to the traditional cavalry tactics, after the two armies charge and meet, they will engage in a fight.

In a large army, cavalry usually fight in units of a hundred men. A hundred men fight individually, but they never form any formations; they just fight as individual riders.

The cavalry history of the Steppe Wolf Tribe is much earlier than that of the vassal states in the Central Plains. When the vassal states in the Central Plains were still in the period of cumbersome chariot warfare, the Steppe Wolf Tribe relied on its fierce cavalry to repeatedly attack the Central Plains.

Therefore, the grassland wolf tribe has always boasted of being the originator of cavalry warfare, and has always despised the princes of the Central Plains in cavalry combat, believing that the victory of cavalry is simply riding skills, swordsmanship, archery and bravery, nothing else.

The purpose of the formation is to allow soldiers to charge and fight in an organized manner, while avoiding accidental injuries caused by trampling and collision.

This is also the difference between Chinese formations and foreign formations.

The formations of foreign countries at most consider the ratio of military types and strength, but the Chinese formations always think about how to form a local situation where the majority defeat the minority and thus use the minority to defeat the majority.

Of course, not all the grassland wolf tribes lacked understanding of the Qin army, but the Xiongnu and Yuezhi, who had conflicts in the northern and western borders of the Qin State, obviously would not inform the Donghu of this information.

Touman and the King of Yuezhi would rather the Donghu lose more people, so how could they be so kind as to remind the King of Donghu?
Moreover, even Touman and the King of Yuezhi only knew about the Qin army ten years ago. It had been many years since the Qin State had had a large-scale conflict with the Xiongnu and Yuezhi.

The devil is often hidden in the details.

The leader of the Donghu army discovered a detail that frightened him even more: many of the Donghu knights were holding broken weapons in their hands!

"Eternal Heaven, what on earth is going on!"

"Are these the Heavenly Soldiers from the Central Plains?"

The Donghu knights looked at the black-armored Qin soldiers in front of them in horror. The black horses, black armor, and black flags were like a plague god passing by, leaving no grass growing wherever they passed. In fact, the ironware of the grassland wolf tribe did appear very early, but this does not mean that their smelting technology was superb.

The reason why the Huns had a large number of sophisticated military equipment in history was that they took in many craftsmen who fled to the grasslands during the Qin Dynasty's unification of the world and at the end of the Qin Dynasty. Another important reason was that they conquered the Western Regions.

The Western Regions have many excellent iron ores and superb smelting technologies.

But the Donghu did not have this condition. The Western Regions still maintained autonomy, so it was naturally impossible for them to have very sophisticated equipment. In fact, much of their equipment was looted from Yan and Zhao.

An old weapon that has been passed down for generations actually wants to collide with the Qin weapons created by the Mohists with all their efforts?
Not to mention that the Yulin cavalry were equipped with almost the most sophisticated equipment in the entire Qin army. Even the standard Qin swords in the hands of ordinary black iron armored soldiers were no match for the crappy weapons in the hands of the Donghu cavalry. Even their armor was rarely penetrated.

Some unlucky Yulin cavalrymen were hit by more than ten arrows, but they found that the arrows were only stuck in the outer armor of the armor, without even damaging the inner armor close to the body, not to mention the innermost silk lining used to reduce the damage of arrows.

If they are scattered, they fight on their own, and the lone one will be killed. If they gather together, they will overlap and collide with each other. In this situation, the weapons will break when they collide, and the enemy will not be hurt. How can they fight?
If you lose your money, you can rob again; if you lose your woman, you can marry again; if you lose your child, you can have another one. They don’t want to die!
Many soldiers in the Danhanshan Royal Court thought so. The Donghu soldiers who were stationed in the royal court at the moment were basically relatives of the Donghu nobles, and most of them were young masters. How could they be willing to die to protect the royal court or other nobles?
Who knows, if the nobles above him died, he might be able to take the throne if he were still alive!
The escape of some individual Donghu noble soldiers gradually turned into a large-scale rout. People tend to follow the crowd, and this is also true on the battlefield.

"Pass the order down, take no prisoners, save only the old and the young!"

Su Jiao looked at the Donghu cavalry that was defeated by Zhang Han. This was the last organized Donghu army of the Danhanshan royal court that resisted the Qin army. Then he turned his attention to other places.

Looking at the flames burning all around and listening to the screams and wails, he was not happy about taking down the Donghu King's Court. Instead, he had foreseen the crisis they would face after tonight.

The Donghu will not swallow such a bitter fruit silently. What will happen next is that the Donghu will hunt them down to their death.

Therefore, the Yulin Cavalry would not have any extra energy to guard the prisoners.

"The general has ordered that no prisoners be taken!"

As Su Jiao's order spread, the Yulin cavalry in the surrounding areas completely relaxed.

Zhang Ji had been promoting the volunteer army system for some years, and the idea of ​​replacing beheading with prisoners had been deeply rooted in people's minds. Those fires were not set by the Qin army, but when the Qin army was fighting with the Donghu, no one knew which side knocked over the torches.

But none of this matters. When the order was given, the Yulin Cavalry no longer held back and launched a bloody and brutal killing feast!
(End of this chapter)