Chapter 587: The Iron Rider (1)

The great battle came suddenly.

In the thirteenth year of Jinghan, the battle that broke out on the night of September 24 was also a huge and infigurable mess for Ning Yi. Of course, this is also because what he is responsible for has not penetrated into the upper echelons of the Wu Dynasty army, even if there is the intelligence of the Secret Investigation Division, Qin Shaoqian's penetration, for the overall situation of the war, Ning Yi's information is still rough, only know that on this night, Yao Pingzhong led his own 30,000 Yao family troops to attack the camp, and then surrounded by more than 200,000 troops near the entire Bianliang to complete a big battle.

With an army of more than 200,000 people, the entire ecosystem is vast and colossal. In it, Ning Yi can only identify many things through the numbers, if pushed to the front, the tens of thousands of soldiers of the Wurui Battalion who began to pull out the camp at nightfall are like a mighty river, in the night, on the field, it is difficult to see the beginning and the end, Ning Yi is responsible for more than 20 large carts in the back of the team, which carries hundreds of elm cannons in a usable state, but for where these cannons are transported and who to snipe, it is still necessary to see the development of the war.

In fact, the role of more than 100 elm cannons in such a large battle involving hundreds of thousands of people is also minimal. And Ning Yi values more about the power that these cannons can really exert in actual combat.

The development of the same weapon always has to go through one kind of trial and such a run-in, and he has been using the elm cannon for two years, and he has used it once or twice, but those are all petty fights, and if he really wants to perfect it, he still has to go through this kind of tempering after all -- this is the original intention.

Around Bianliang, the towns where the armies of Wurui and Wuwei were stationed were twenty or thirty miles away from Mutuogang, and the army began to advance at nightfall. The speed of the march is not slow, if it is a qiē shun lì, from midnight to early morning, it can completely sweep the entire Mu Huogang, even if Yao Pingzhong's western army loses, the entire army array. I was able to connect it, too.

Even though the Jurchen East Route Army Commander drove straight to Bianliang, at this time, everyone still had confidence and illusions about this battle. On the one hand, it is because he has to have confidence, on the other hand, he also feels that no matter how bad it is, the soldiers of the Wu Dynasty will not be reduced to Cheng Dù, who is completely unbearable. Even if the sneak attack fails, the more than 200,000 troops will be killed with them, and it is not without a chance of victory.

After all, the enemy hit the city of Bianliang. can only break the cauldron and sink the boat, hoping for victory.

However, if there is an omniscient perspective, it can be seen. Just when the 200,000 troops were still halfway there, near Mu Huogang, the first round of killing had already begun, and under the dark sky, tens of thousands of Jurchen cavalry rushed back and forth around Yao Pingzhong's nearly 30,000 people. In the first place, the battle formation of the Yao family army was defeated, and the flames and blood bloomed on the field. The Jurchen cavalry ploughed through the crowd with bloody plows, frantically tearing apart all the formed troops.

At the same time, the remaining 40,000 Jurchen cavalry of Mu Huogang divided into nine routes, galloping and spreading in a radial direction to the northeast and southeast, and in this direction, the 200,000 troops of the Wu Dynasty were ignorant. Assault is coming.

On the front line of the war, Yao Pingzhong chose to flee at the first time, but the direction he chose was not Bianliang City, but the direction west of Bianliang, and since then he has withdrawn from the historical stage. According to the wild history. After the defeat, he traveled more than 700 miles in one night, and finally went to Huashan to become a Taoist priest, obtained the Tao, and lived for more than 80 years before leaving the mountain, still full of red light and high spirits. There is no record of it in the official history.

After the 30,000 Yao family troops that were left behind were defeated in the entire formation, they were slaughtered by the Jurchen infantry that rushed after, and the more than 10,000 Jurchen elite cavalry who defeated him, under the leadership of the general Shu Liesu, turned their heads to the east to chase reinforcements.

The wind and clouds became ominous in the sky......

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"I always felt ...... Something is wrong. Tens of thousands of people were moving forward, Zhu Biao rode a horse and followed the cart and whispered.

The light of the torches was sparse, and little by little it stretched into the distance, and the array of tens of thousands of people, in this atmosphere of marching, seemed mysterious and quiet, and when the buzzing whispers came, the silence was deepened.

"Don't be a crow's mouth." Ning Yi raised his head from his horse, "Even if there is a problem, what can you do?" ”

……

A few miles ahead of the marching formation of the Wurui battalion, in the dark, the scouts marched forward.

Night birds fly past the sky.

One knight took hold of the reins and listened, while the other looked up to the sky, then jumped off his horse, and was about to lie on the ground, attaching his ears to the ground, when suddenly a sound struck.

"Be careful!" A low, short shout, for these scouts, even in the most critical moments, could not shout loudly, but with this low shout, the war horse attacked. The Jurchen knights rushed over, slashing with steel swords.

"Wow-" In a sharp and fierce shout, the swords slashed together, sparks burst out in the darkness, and the scout on the ground drew his sword and jumped out, and another Jurchen cavalry rushed past where he had just been. The scouts of the Wurui camp were two, and the Jurchen scouts were three.

"Kill!"

"Let's go!"

In the darkness there was a low shout of rushing and killing, and the war horses ran quickly in a small area, circling each other. The Wurui battalion scout, who was originally on the horse, rode his horse and galloped, and a Jurchen cavalry was about to kill from the side, and the Wurui battalion scout on the ground rushed over and flew up, and the Jurchen's steel knife slashed into his body, and he also pulled the Jurchen to roll to the ground.

"Let's go!"

The wounded scout let out another low shout, got up from the ground, and met the rushing Jurchen war horse, and the Jurchen cavalry who was pulled off the horse rolled up and slashed him again, and the Jurchen war horse knocked him out, and he rolled on the ground a few times and immediately staggered to his feet, and then was split to the ground again.

The scout's hooves galloped, and the fallen figure was quickly drowned in the darkness behind it.

The chase of the first and third was not long before it caught up with the other scouts in the field, and then turned into a skirmish.

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In the midst of tens of thousands of troops, it is not difficult to realize the sudden change in atmosphere. Whether it's a commotion or panic, as long as it happens, it will sweep away like a ripple in a short time, but not many people know exactly what happened.

This kind of atmosphere changes. In fact, there are both true and false, especially at night, when there is a slight commotion and a poorly disciplined army may bomb the camp because of a chain reaction. In wartime, the Judge Advocate Corps is extremely sensitive to such matters. It is also for this reason that, even though everyone felt some incongruous atmosphere, everyone was still moving forward, quietly and nervously watching.

"What's wrong?" Ning Yi climbed onto the roof of the car and looked into the distance, at the edge of the stretching military formation, there was a faint cavalry with orders galloping, "Zhu Biao, go and ask." ”

"Okay." Zhu Biao took the reins. Riding his horse to the side, not long after he left, the battle horn sounded, and someone shouted: "Array." "The front line of the long line quickly assembled.

"The Jurchens are here." Some people are saying this, but the matter has developed to this point, even if they don't say it, everyone can probably understand what happened, and the military formation next to it was quickly put together. Complex, high-pitched commands, tens of thousands of footsteps. In the dark night, it was like a tidal wave, and soon someone rushed over.

"Ning Gongzi." It was a personal soldier beside Qin Shaoqian, who also knew Ning Yi, and Ning Yi arched his hand: "How is it?" ”

"The Jurchens came, too quickly. General Qin asked you to wait for the opportunity to act, if you can't do anything, take these things back quickly, don't lose them all here. ”

"What came too fast, how fast?" Ning Yi quickly turned to the subordinates next to him. "Is there any place nearby that can be used as a sniper point, hurry up and find ......"

Before he could finish speaking, far away, on the other side of the hills, a black shadow spread up with a little firelight.

It was the Jurchen cavalry, in the night, I don't know hundreds of thousands of cavalry rushed here, with a little bit of fire, but after a while, the point of light stretched out, and it was the cavalry who lit the arrows wrapped in oil cloth in the gallop. In front of the array of the Wurui battalion, hundreds of people shouted in unison: "Formation-" This neat sound shook the entire night sky in an instant, and thousands of infantry crowded together on the field, shields raised, spears like forests, archers holding longbows, and then, the middle column of the formation shouted in unison: "Formation-" and then the third formation.

In the training of the Wurui battalion, to say that the soldiers of the Wu Dynasty were not able to use the overall element, but under Qin Shaoqian's hands, they would always accumulate thousands of available elite soldiers. Coupled with the more than 1,000 people trained by Ning Yi in Dulonggang, the combat power of these people may not be able to defy the sky, but Qin Shaoqian divided them into three parts, and it is not useless to drive the morale of the entire battle formation with this kind of neat cheers during the battle, after all, speaking of it, how much is the difference between the shouting of thousands of people and the shouting of tens of thousands of people, if you don't actually feel it, it is difficult for ordinary people to know.

Thousands of people shouted in unison, which is enough to bring tens of thousands of people a symbol of "unity".

Arrows like flying locusts swept across the night sky.

Without too much psychological preparation, after the Jurchen cavalry shot the rocket, in the face of the same flying arrow rain, there was no intention of slowing down, and in the front of the Wurui battalion ranks, the infantry tightened their horses and stepped tightly, and they had been crowded into an airtight large area, and on the side of the military formation, the two thousand cavalry of the Wurui battalion were also galloping and mobilizing rapidly.

In the past, the Wu Dynasty army had a 70 or 80 percent victory rate against the Jurchen cavalry, facing an iron bucket-like defense, and after the first round of archery, the Jurchen horse team would hover to the side and keep a distance. But in this night, nothing happened as expected, and Ning Yi, who was standing on the roof of the car, didn't fully expect this, even if he knew something about war, he was not familiar with it after all. But as Qin Shaoqian, he may have realized these things, so he asked the guards to come over and give orders.

Tens of thousands of troops stretched forward, and farther away, the Jurchen cavalry rushed through the so-called "land of one stone". The horsemen, dressed in leather jackets and long-tailed felt hats, threw hooks at each other, which they hung on their saddles as fast as they could, while the few cavalrymen who had been hit by arrows had been left behind the rear of the brigade.

The distance between the two sides was already so close that there was no chance for either side to release the arrows.

Everyone pulled out their steel knives, their mouths were drunk, their eyes were red from congestion, and thousands of Jurchen elite horses, in an array of several or dozens of horses, connected each other and rushed straight to the front of the ranks of the Wurui battalion.

At this moment, no one can retreat.

In the Jurchen warfare, the tactics of attacking from the side, preserving their own strength, and seeking the opponent's flaws are called abducting horses, and on the chess board, the horse is always crutched, which probably comes from this. And when they really made up their minds to charge head-on, the war horses colluded with each other, and the momentum of the dozens of horses was fully unfolded, which was the chain horse.

In this situation, even if there are people who are greedy for life and afraid of death in the battle array, or even horses who are greedy for life and afraid of death, it is impossible for them to retreat.

In the battle array, Qin Shaoqian's eyes widened, and he waved his hand violently: "Kill!" ”

In the forefront, the soldiers who were crowded on the front line were all tied to their horses, holding swords and shields, looking at the cavalry team that was rushing quickly, and let out hysterical roars, which were about to crack.

"Kill—"

"Kill—"

"Kill—"

Three neat shouts sounded in the front, middle, and rear columns of the military formation, one wave after another.

The distance of the war was reduced to zero.

The horse team rushed into the dense infantry array, team after team, like a crazy pile driver, constantly ramming into the army of the Wu Dynasty. Thousands of sword lights flew on the front, blood burst and splashed, and the horses and people were smashed into flesh on this crazy front, and the cavalry on the horses swung their swords into the dense crowd. The whole war, at the moment of this confrontation, was elevated to the most tragic Cheng dù.

Qin Shaoqian commanded the troops to rush forward quickly, and the horse team also pounced straight up. He also wanted to leave some new forces, but at this moment, there was no point in keeping any qiē retaining, and retaining any strength was just death.

As a high-ranking general of the Wu Dynasty, he understood at least one thing, the victory rate of the Ping Su Wu Dynasty army in the face of the Jurchens was a meaningless joke. Only when the Jurchens unfold a chain of horses and rush over like this, is it the time to really be tested and tortured, that is: when the Jurchens really recklessly launch a frontal battle, who can stop this murderous army that has annihilated the entire Liao State.

The Jurchens are less than 10,000, and they are invincible.

The cavalry and infantry all rushed together, and the three choruses arranged by Qin Shaoqian before also played a lot of role in boosting morale, as if putting a tough shell on the Wurui camp and blocking the front of the Jurchens.

At least...... Blocked for a while.

Soon after, the entire line of the Vui army collapsed.

On the same night, in other directions of the field outside Bianliang City, the rest of the armies suffered the same fate. (To be continued......)