Now, what Meng Tian knows is that if the cavalry he led at this time faced the cavalry that had been used by the previous cavalry when the Qin Dynasty unified the six kingdoms, it would definitely be able to fight five. This is the benefit of the update of tactics and armor and weapons to these cavalrymen of Qin.

Of course, Meng Tian knew Seleu's cavalry and knew that they were very powerful cavalry and had a lot of combat experience. But at the same time, he also knew that Seleu's cavalry had no formation.

And it was Ying Gao who really proposed to apply the formation to the cavalry of the Qin Dynasty.

Just a while before they attacked the Mauryan Dynasty, Ying Gao once proposed to generals such as Han Xin and Meng Tian that compared to the previous cavalry's single battle, should five, ten or dozens of them be used as a combat unit, and then some cooperation between each combat unit, so that once they face an enemy who is only rushing, can they play the role of one against two, or even one against five, or one against ten.

Although Ying Gao did not specifically talk about the cooperation between each combat unit, this proposal alone made Han Xin and Meng Tian feel enlightened. Of course, they were thinking about how to improve the combat effectiveness of the Qin cavalry almost every day, but no one had ever thought of Ying Gao's method.

Ying Gao's proposal did complicate the previous simple battle, which may be very difficult to train, and it will be even more difficult to integrate the application in combat. However, once it is successful, the effect will definitely be many times better than before.

So before attacking the Mauryan Dynasty, all the generals who could command cavalry in the Qin Dynasty were studying the formations mentioned by Ying Gao.

Five people formed a formation, ten people formed a formation, fifty people formed a formation, the formation during charge, the formation during defense, and the formation during positional warfare. There are too many things derived from them. After several months, they have only developed two or three formations and have the cavalry of the Qin Dynasty started training.

The formation was indeed a bit immature at that time, but after attacking the Mauryan Dynasty, both Han Xin and Meng Tian began to study the problems of the formations carefully, and made great progress in more than a year.

This war against Seleu was also when Han Xin and Meng Tian wanted to apply the cavalry formations well. Such a battle against each other was the best test of the formation.

Antioch III personally led his army. When he knew that the number of enemies was the same as that of him and was led by the opponent's commander, his heart was filled with fighting spirit, thinking that as long as his cavalry lost less than the opponent in this battle, no matter how much the match was, it was equivalent to giving the Qin army a heavy blow, letting them know that Seleu was not so easy to attack.

Both sides have their own ideas, but of course, they will not be able to see the result until the two armies truly confront each other.

This time, because the cavalry of the Qin Dynasty came suddenly, Antioch III attacked very resolutely, and both sides also had the intention to do such a battle with real swords and guns, so the confrontation was inevitable.

In just a moment, two groups of 200,000 cavalry rushed to one place.

Once such a situation occurs in this era, unless both parties or one of them suffers serious casualties, they will never stop easily.

Seleu's cavalry were indeed well-trained. After seeing the Great Qin cavalry in front of them, they had only one belief in their hearts, that is, to kill the enemy in front of them as soon as possible. The previous combat experience had clearly told them that fearing death in such a situation would only make them die faster. Only by killing the enemy without them and still alive is the best way to save their lives.

But as soon as they fought, Seleu's cavalry discovered that their enemies were very different from those they had faced before.

When the Seleu people were at their peak, the cavalry of the Qin Dynasty formed a small group, all using their defensive weapons to block the enemy's attack.

On the horse, the figure was very difficult to control. The cavalry of the Qin Dynasty was able to control the horses and let several people form a small team. This was obviously achieved after very hard training.

The first round of attacks of the Seliu people was thus resolved by the Qin Dynasty's defensive formation. Seeing that their training was effective, Han Xin and Meng Tian both breathed a sigh of relief. This seemingly simple defensive formation cannot be practiced overnight. The reason why two people came out with 50,000 people, not more was that the formation was mastered by these 100,000 people very skillfully, while the others were not good. This was enough to show how difficult it was to train the formation.

"What kind of way does the cavalry of Daqin have? Will you not attack?"

Antioch III also saw the situation. He was very surprised at the formation of Daqin at the beginning, because in the past, you basically had one knife and one shot, one side slashing wildly, and the other side was defending as soon as it came up, because everyone knew that the best defense was attack. Even if you blindly defended, even if you defended well, you would eventually be killed by the enemy.

As it turns out, Antioch III's concerns about the Qin cavalry were redundant.

After catching the first wave of attacks from the Seleu people, the cavalry of the Qin Dynasty remained tightly leaning together, but the methods changed. The two people in front of them were still defending, but the few people behind changed their strategies. They began to draw out their spears hanging on the horse and see the opportunity to stretch out from the gaps of their companions' shields. Each shot would almost be the life of an enemy.

This seemingly simple action was only completed after years of training by the Great Qin cavalry. Even they themselves didn't know what it was for them to train these things. After all, the Mauryan Dynasty had been defeated by them. They didn't believe that there was any force worth their efforts to practice such a complex formation.

Moreover, because the formations need to be trained on the sprinting war horses, during the training of various formations, the cavalry of Daqin really did not have any casualties. The people who had not been meticulous in the previous riding training almost all died under their horse hooves.

After the pain at the beginning, when they practiced all the formations very proficiently, their confidence was completely raised to a different level. Just like this war now, when the enemy was fighting, the cavalry of Daqin knew that the enemy would definitely not be able to beat them. This is the confidence brought to them by the long-term formation training. In their eyes, although Seleu's cavalry was considered to be very powerful, they were just a group of scattered soldiers and had no rules.

The cavalry of the Qin Dynasty began to counterattack, and they still formed a small team of five or ten people, advancing and retreating together, with different divisions of labor. Seleu's cavalry faced them as if they were facing hedgehogs who didn't know where to start. When they hesitated, their lives were harvested.

Antioch III had been secretly observing the situation on the battlefield. When he found that more and more cavalry under his command were helpless and killed after facing small groups of the enemy, a feeling of uneasiness rose in his heart.

He had to admit that the Qin Dynasty's tactics were much more advanced than theirs. He also knew that if he did not take measures, what awaited him in this battle would be a crushing defeat. In this case, even if his 100,000 troops were all consumed, he could only take away the lives of the other party's 20,000 to 30,000 people. This was a situation that the Seleu cavalry had never encountered before.

If such a situation is really formed, then he will not only lose these 100,000 people, but also the confidence of all the soldiers under his command in this battle. If the battle is fought like this, failure will become a solid matter.

"Speed ​​quickly, retreat, retreat at all costs!"

Not long after the battle began, Antioch III issued such an order. After hearing this order, Seleu's cavalry soldiers turned around and rushed back into one of their cities as if they were granted amnesty.

Although the battle didn't last long, the 100,000 cavalry that Seliu came out had already lost 20,000 to 30,000, and the Qin Dynasty had only lost thousands of people. There was a very shocking gap between them. Han Xin and Meng Tian believed that if Antioch III was replaced with a general with insufficient combat experience, he would probably have half of the people he brought when he found out that his side was not at the advantage.

"General, the Seleu people thought they had discovered a formation that could not deal with us and had already begun to retreat. Should we pursue it?"

The Seliu people had just begun to retreat for not long. Han Xin, who was commanding the central army, received such a message. He thought for a moment and ordered: "Don't pursue it at will. Just use my Qin crossbow from Qin to shoot. Once they withdraw from the range of our Qin crossbow, they will return to the empty city we passed by before to rest!"

As for this war, Han Xin knew that the days were still long, and he could not have forgotten because of this victory. This time, the tit-for-tat was just an emergency caused by the generals and men in the city ahead of Seliu. Neither Daqin nor Seliu expected such a situation. He could take advantage of this battle, but it was almost impossible to use this battle to determine the world. It was definitely not a good way to go deep behind the enemy without understanding the enemy's defense.

In this way, the battle between the two sides, caused by the escape of Hu Hai and Zhao Cheng, ended. The Seleu people hurried back to the city where they built a defense, while the cavalry of the Qin Dynasty calmly returned to the city where Hu Hai and Zhao Cheng were before.

"Quickly check it out for me. Did the princes of Daqin Hu Hai and Zhao Cheng run to such a place? We helped them without hesitation when they were in danger, and when we needed them, they left without saying goodbye! They couldn't run away, but before they ran away, they told me! The cavalry of Daqin scared them out of fear before they arrived!"

The failure of this battle made Antioch III the most angry was naturally Hu Hai and Zhao Cheng's farewell without saying goodbye. If they had run away early, Antioch III would not have been so passive. They actually ran away on the eve of the Qin cavalry attacking the place. This has to be said to be completely killing Antioch III, otherwise they wouldn't be so angry, right?

Although the generals under Antioch III knew that the most urgent task was not to find out where Hu Hai and Zhao Cheng were, but to find a way to figure out how to defend their city, Antioch III spoke, and no one dared to refute it. His men could only agree to Antioch III's conditions to investigate this matter.

At this time, it was actually very difficult for the people under Antioch III to find out where Hu Hai and Zhao Cheng were going. The route they escaped had been planned long ago. Although they were carrying tens of thousands of people, almost all the desolate places passed along the way, until they arrived at the new city where Zhao Hu had been fully developing.

After arranging this matter, Antioch III broke up and stopped asking for the matter head-on with the cavalry of the Qin Dynasty, but focused all on consolidating his defense system.

The situation is already very obvious to him now. He must be unable to beat others on the front battlefield. If he wants to save his Seliu, he can only put down his posture and defend well, because compared with Daqin, he is really a complete weak man.

Although Han Xin and Meng Tian’s side did not achieve what they wanted because of Antioch III’s vigilance, they saw the success of the formation through this battle, which was the biggest gain of their hard training in the past two years.

If a cavalry with a formation faces a cavalry who does not know how to form, it means that at least one fights five. This is true that the cavalry of the Qin Dynasty itself is already convinced.

That night, Han Xin and Meng Tian were sitting in Han Xin's tent and were discussing their next plan. Although Han Xin was the leader of this war and he was indeed very energetic, Meng Tian's combat experience must be richer than Han Xin after all.
Chapter completed!