No one wants to die if they can live, so although Yuxi Timur has the determination to break the net, it is difficult to achieve. He organized another attack after dawn, still trying to crush the enemy in front of him and open the way south. The other generals believed that with the enemy's heavy forces in front of them and a large river to block them, even if they could defeat the enemy in front, they would also suffer heavy losses and could not afford to continue southward. Now it is better to take advantage of the fact that the enemy's defensive line in the rear is not yet stable, break through in time, and return to the north and south, although it is a futile, it is better than leaving all the troops in Jiangdong.

In the face of the dissent of the generals, Yuxi Timur still insisted on his opinion, he thought that he had concentrated all the forces of the Southern Dynasty in Jiangdong in front of him, and as long as he could defeat the enemy, the front would be unimpeded and go straight down to the south of the Yangtze River. In fact, since the southern crossing, their actions have been passive everywhere and have been frequently frustrated, and their rhetoric is no longer convincing to the generals. He could only once again show his authority, subdue the generals, and personally stepped forward to supervise the battle, and fought with the Song army again.

However, today's battle is difficult to reproduce the glory of yesterday. Not only was the camp built by the Song army reinforced, but he found that the Song army's formation was arranged for the strong impact of his own cavalry, and what was prevented was the straight-line impact of the cavalry. The defensive line was arranged in multiple echelons of frontal depth, and each line of defense was divided into several arrays, and their living forces were consumed layer by layer by using guns and cannons until they were invisible.

What made Yuxi Timur even more depressed was that whenever the cavalry attacked, the cavalry arranged on the left and right flanks of the Song army would detour to their flanks, and then the following infantry troops immediately established a new defensive line, constantly squeezing their space for movement. And when the frontal attack weakened slightly, the retreating Song army turned back and recaptured the lost defensive line. In this repeated struggle, the one-day bloody battle not only failed to break through the frontal defense line of the Song army, but also squeezed his own space for movement.

Heavy casualties and repeated defeats made the generals even more resentful, and the shortage of food and grass and the lack of advance and retreat also greatly demoralized. Yuxi Timur knew that if he still failed to break the deadlock, his authority would be weakened day by day, and it would be difficult to control the army. And just when he was thinking hard about how to break the enemy, one of his thousands of households begged for a strategy.

Wanyan Qi is a Jurchen, and his ancestors have also been beautiful, and he was born in the side branch of the royal family of the Jin Kingdom. Later, he was defeated and surrendered in the Battle of Mengjin, and was assigned to the right hand of Yuxi Timur's grandfather, Wanhu Borshu, and then with his campaign, he became a thousand household chiefs of Yuxi Timur's direct right-hand Wanhu in his generation. Naturally, I have heard my predecessors talk about the ancients, and they talked about their proud works, one of which was to break the Song Army's 'stacked array'.

After the Song Dynasty crossed to the south, in the face of the strong attack of the Jin cavalry group, the infantry-based Song army summed up the experience from practice, and gradually explored one of the new tactics of "riding by foot", and this is the most famous in the Sichuan and Shaanxi famous general Wu Lan's creation of the stacking array, which is designed to restrain the Jin cavalry in the plains and wilderness.

The essence of the stacked array is to determine the priority position of each arm in the queue by the distance of the weapon attack, and to arrange the horses, spears, and bows and crossbows in echelons, relying on fortifications, in order to give full play to the power of different weapons and arms, and kill and injure the enemy with the greatest effect under the premise of effectively protecting themselves. The formation is dominated by infantry, and the cavalry is in an auxiliary position, and when the infantry is replaced, it does not have any combat ability, not only needs its own cavalry to cover in front, but also needs to resist the horse to cover. Therefore, the use of the rejection horse plays a decisive role in the entire battle formation.

Horse rejection is a movable obstacle equipment, located in key places to stop and delay the movement of enemy military horses, so it is also called horse rejection gun, which is easy to carry and move. Its system is made of bamboo, three branches and six heads, and the poles are intertwined. The head has a blade, and the ground is planted. The iron is used as a rope throughout, and it is more linked. That is, the horse rejection is placed between the left and right cavalry and the infantry of the main formation, plus the horse rejection placed in front of the formation, then the entire main infantry formation is basically surrounded by the horse rejection, which is a full encirclement, or at least a structure of most of the encirclement, which resembles a camp to cover the entire battle array.

In addition, another function of rejecting horses is to prevent the collapse of the formation. Because the Song army mainly relied on long-range projectile weapons to kill and injure the enemy in battle, whether the crossbowmen could "hold full" in wartime was directly related to the killing effect. However, the soldiers of the Song army were not as stoic as the Jurchens, and their organizational discipline was relatively weak. If we want to change this situation, apart from strengthening training and ideological education in peacetime, we can only think of ways to arrange the battle formation.

In flat field warfare, the mobility of infantry itself is inferior to that of cavalry, and the more mobile and flexible the tactics, the higher the requirements for the organization and discipline of soldiers. In this case, simply give up maneuvering completely and use static braking. Wu Xuan used the rejection of horses to lock the formation, completely restricting the movement of the soldiers, the soldiers knew that they had no way to retreat, so they could only fight to kill the enemy, and persisted to the end, Yu Yunwen also commented that this practice can "make the soldiers unable to collapse", which objectively played the effect of "binding the military order" in the ancient military law.

In addition, in the face of the Jin army, which was good at continuous attacks and protracted battles, in addition to using the relatively passive countermeasure of rejecting horses and locking the formation to calm the army's heart, Wu Lu's system also organized the army into several echelons, fought in turns, and rested in turns, so as to wait for work at ease and brake quietly, that is, the so-called "to restrain its perseverance, there is a method of changing the rest of the war." However, such a shortcoming is also very obvious, the rejection of horses was originally used to restrict the enemy's mobility, but Wu Lan's use of horses to lock the formation means that the soldiers in the formation have also lost their ability to act, and it is difficult to carry out an effective counterattack.

Yuxi Timur is not a fool, after a little thought, he understood what Wanyan Qi meant when he talked about this, and also knew that the general principle of the stacking array was to put the horse in the outermost layer, and then arrange the pikemen, and then cooperate with the crossbowmen. And the pikemen, in addition to protecting the crossbowmen, also had to protect the repulsive horses to prevent the cavalry from breaking through and preventing their own soldiers from escaping in the event of defeat, leading to the collapse of the entire array.

Thinking about the current combat method of sending the army, it is officially similar to the stacked formation, and the front is arranged to block the rapid maneuver of their own cavalry, forcing them to slow down and dismantle the rejection of the horse during the attack, and the Song army can use firearms to kill and injure them at this time. It can also explain why the Song army did not retreat even after its own defense line was broken repeatedly, because although the rear did not resist the horses, the great river played the same role, so that they could not retreat.

Yuxi Timur figured out the key to it, and naturally knew that Wanyan would not talk to him for no reason, so he asked him for advice on how to break the formation. Wan Yan Qi naturally would not give up this opportunity to show his merits, and said that the key to breaking the formation was to 'fight on foot'. That is to say, first dismount and fight on foot, drive away the cavalry of the Song army, and then break through the Song army's rejection of horses and intercept by progressing, and then use a strong bow to expand the results of the battle.

Wan Yan Qi heard what his predecessors said, and the Jin army used this method to break the Song army's stacked formations, and it was tried and tested. The specific operation is to select a brave army, called the 'hard army', wearing heavy armor in front of the formation, with part of the cavalry to meet the enemy cavalry used to plunder the formation, the rest are dismounted to fight, through hand-to-hand combat to defeat the enemy soldiers who protect the rejecting horses, and then use strong bows and crossbows to suppress the enemy troops in the rear to expand the results. Taking advantage of the confusion of the enemy's counterattack, he destroyed the rejection of the horse, opened the passage of the attack, and recharged the cavalry into battle, in order to completely defeat the Song army's defense line that had lost the protection of the rejection of the horse.

It is said that 'if you are sick and rush to the doctor', it will be difficult for Timur to advance for several days, and their grain and grass industry has been in an emergency, and some troops have begun to kill horses to satisfy hunger. And he also knew that if he continued like this, the morale of the army would definitely be unstable, so he was also eager to try to break the confrontation. After listening to Yan Qi's method of breaking the formation, he felt that it was not unreasonable, so he began to deploy troops to prepare for another attack.

Because Yuxi Timur had realized the critical situation and was determined to break the deadlock in a war, he no longer kept it and staked the old capital. He selected 5,000 elite soldiers from his direct right-hand 10,000 households as the main force of the attack, and ordered the troops and horses of the headquarters of the 10,000 households in Shandong and Hebei to be the front army.

Although the Wanhu Mansion in Huaibei, Henan Province is not strong in combat, it is the main force of this southern invasion, and it has suffered a lot of losses in many hard battles along the way, and its morale is low and its grievances are the greatest. Therefore, Yuxi Timur ordered Ha Tusun to sit in the rear army, and the headquarters to protect the safety of the two wings. He sat in the Chinese army to supervise the battle, and the time was set for tomorrow's dawn, and he launched an attack when the sky was light, broke through the Song army's defense line in one fell swoop, and forcibly crossed the Songjiang River.

At dawn the next day, the selected 'hard army', under the leadership of Wan Yan Qi, suddenly launched an attack on the Song army's position. After several encounters, he had realized that the enemy artillery was the most damaging to them, and only by rushing through the artillery blockade line at the fastest speed could he enter the enemy's front line, and exert the power of the bow and crossbow to suppress the enemy behind the rejection of the horse, and win the opportunity to fight with the enemy for the 'infantry army' to destroy the rejection horse.

Therefore, the forward army hid behind the sand belt before the battle, and as soon as the attack order was issued, it immediately rushed forward from the concealment, taking advantage of the light of the sky and the poor sight of the enemy's artillery, and the slow reaction time of the enemy's artillery, and the short opportunity for calibration to rush through the artillery blockade zone and enter the forward position of the Song army. The crossbowmen immediately unfolded and fired arrows as fast as they could, while the hard men in front of them used their axes to disrupt the horses and open the way for attack.

The Song army also reacted quickly, and immediately launched a blocking shot after discovering the enemy, and the sparse gunfire at first also intensified, and the soldiers who destroyed the rejection of the horse in front kept falling, but the soldiers behind swarmed up, pushed the rejection horse away, and rushed into the fortifications of the Song army......

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