Chapter 588: The Iron Rider (2)
Under the night sky, the battlefield is like a giant grinding wheel.
The horses' hooves galloped, circling over the chaotic and vast battlefield, and the horse teams were like a torrent through the interweaving, dividing the originally dense formation of the Wu Dynasty army. In the light of the fire, blood and corpses spread out, and the field was full of fleeing routs, and there were also self-defeating formations of various scales, and when the Jurchen horse team charged past, they were scattered one by one, and what appeared in front of them was almost a large-scale massacre.
The Wusheng army, which was originally defending the Daimyo's mansion, was torn in half by force under the first charge of the Jurchen cavalry, and after the elite cavalry who charged head-on shattered the frontal resistance of the army, a cavalry team of thousands of people launched an attack from all directions, crushing the resistance of this army of up to 60,000 people at an astonishing high speed.
For the soldiers of the Wu Dynasty, the qiē in front of them can only be called tragic. On the huge battlefield where tens of thousands of people gathered, there were people everywhere, and the attack of the Jurchens was cut in. No matter who it is, after encountering this scene, it is first unbelievable, and then there is a huge fear that is difficult to resist, a shaken military heart, a great panic, a panicked, hysterical shouts and screams around them, and the Jurchen cavalry charged over, and the surrounding people avoided and crowded each other, and then they were smashed by the war horses that rushed to their eyes, and their bodies were slashed. On this battlefield where people everywhere, no matter where these cavalry went, they set off a shocking mountain of corpses and blood.
Wu Shengjun commanded Chen Yanshu to flee without his life, just now, the cavalry of the Jurchens broke through the arch guard of his own soldiers, and almost handed the blade to his eyes, and two arrows were still shot at his armor - this Jurchen team was targeted to kill, and what they wanted to take was the head of the main general of the army.
When the Jurchen cavalry appeared in front of the large army. Chen Yanshu also wanted to give it a go through the sea of people, and when the chain of horses that rode a few or a dozen rode frantically attacked the front line, he didn't think about retreating. However, a qiē is really too fast.
Infantry against cavalry, if you want to fight a tough battle, you rely on an airtight crowded formation, when thousands of them are squeezed into a large block. The front line could not run away, but the rear team fought forward, forming a huge human wall that the horse team could not break through. However, it is one thing to say, when the threat of death appears, the front of the queue will also subconsciously want to avoid and retreat. If the whole army is regarded as a whole, how much bravery outweices cowardice determines whether the formation is strong or not.
The Jurchen charging team quickly smashed this sea of people. Even the battle-hardened generals will be shocked, one of the two thousand cavalry tore through the sea of people and rushed straight to the banner of the Wusheng army, Chen Yanshu tried to block this "strong crossbow end" cavalry with the elite of the army, but the sea of blood that was set off before only seemed to stimulate the ferocity and blood of the Jurchens, they resisted attacks from all directions, and at the same time frantically chiseled into Chen Yanshu's personal army.
Or, rather, they were slashing at all directions as they could reach them, and they were also advancing at a rapid pace.
Chen Yanshu's personal soldiers resisted for a moment. The huge pressure caused them to suffer heavy casualties, and Chen Yanshu was terrified. When arrows were fired at him in the confusion, he began to retreat quickly, mobilizing the rest of his army to come this way and block the attack for him.
After such a transfer, the whole army has already begun to be in chaos. The killing of the Jurchens shredded the night sky, and the control of the entire Wusheng army was no longer effective. Gradually, the fringe ranks have begun to rout frantically, and the soldiers in the battle formation are either fighting or turning in under the leadership of mid-level officers, but the slaughter has become the main theme of the whole battlefield. There are so many people that it is so convenient to slaughter.
It is more than ten miles away from here. The Wuwei army has also been scattered and crushed, and the nearby battlefield is the Jin general Saira. One after another, the Jurchen cavalry rushed to kill each of the soldiers of the Wu Dynasty with a distinct mark.
On the hills, the large army that could not run was chased by a cavalry of about a thousand men, and the Ouroboros were slaughtered. Large swaths of the rout rushed into the nearby woods, but the Jurchen cavalry outflanked and circled around the edge of the woods, and then began to light fires in all directions, and it was already late autumn and early winter, and the weather was dry, and in a short time, a large number of open flames began to burn, lighting up the entire forest. Nearly 3,000 Wu Dynasty soldiers were slaughtered and forced into the river by a nearby river valley. Soon the Jurchens began to shoot arrows into the river, and the entire surface of the river was stained red with blood.
More than ten miles to the south of this place, the battlefield of the Wurui camp is also tragic and unspeakable. Its collapse was slower than that of the two armies of Wusheng and Wuwei, but the chain horses also broke the resistance of the infantry ranks, and had already cut the entire battlefield into several large pieces. Inside and outside the battlefield, the morale of the army is also crumbling, and a small half of the troops have begun to break up and flee.
A Jurchen cavalry of about 1,000 men swept around the edge of the battlefield towards the routing crowd.
On this huge battlefield, Ning Yi could no longer find Qin Shaoqian's position - soon after the battle began, he rushed towards the Jurchens with the two thousand cavalry of the Wurui Battalion, but no matter how precious this team was to the Wurui Battalion, first of all, the war horses of the Wu Dynasty were not as good as the war horses of the Jurchens, and secondly, the Su zhì of the Wu Dynasty cavalry was also a lot worse than the Jurchen cavalry in front of him, this cavalry hedge was extremely tragic, and the casualties were also quite heavy.
Seeing that the battle situation in front of him collapsed, and several Jurchen cavalry rushed towards this side from different directions, frankly speaking, Ning Yi wanted to leave. His position was surrounded by fields, and there was no place to occupy high ground, and it was surrounded by various armies, and if his convoy wanted to make a big move, everyone would start to bomb the camp and flee.
During that time in Qi County, Ning Yi communicated with Qin Shaoqian about the use of the elm cannon, if there is a large army to respond, choose a narrow strip of land to meet the enemy head-on, for the Jurchen horse team, there should be a good kill. Even if the terrain is not good, if there is a large army to respond, the artillery position is in the front and high, which can also play a lot of roles, but the cooperation of the army is indispensable. And now, even if the artillery array is laid out on the flat ground, he doesn't know which side to face.
When they went over this time, their original plan was to fight the Jurchens near Mutuogang - either Yao Pingzhong succeeded in robbing the camp, and more than 100,000 troops just outflanked the Jurchen army and finished it in one fell swoop; Either Yao Pingzhong will fail, and more than 100,000 troops will be concentrated. Set up a position to fight with the Jurchens in a dignified manner, however, before they arrived, the Jurchens came, and even the information of the scouts was not much in advance.
Qin Shaoqian realized this, and also realized that Ning Yi's elm cannon might not be able to play a role. Only then did he take care of himself, and if he couldn't do anything, he would flee quickly. However, Ning Yi didn't want to be the first to collapse.
More than 300 people under Yue Fei's command have been assembled, and under the training of this young general, the formation of more than 300 people is well trained, but they are still nervous and apprehensive, and all the soldiers have some fear on their faces. Ning Yi also has a lineup of more than 300 people, all of whom are the elite of Zhuji, and those who followed Ning Yi to Luliang Mountain are all here. Although they were not in a dense formation of a large number of infantry against the cavalry, most of them had no fear in their eyes.
Of course, some technicians are still afraid.
Standing on the roof of the carriage, watching the front line of the slaughter gradually spread to this side, Ning Yi was actually afraid. Jurchen chain horses, and even the later heavy cavalry Tiefutu. In later legends, Yue Fei dealt with them by cutting off the horse's legs. However, during this period of time, after Ning Yi understood a little, he knew that the focus was not on cutting the horse's leg at all.
When the war horse rushes over and cuts off the horse's leg, it is common sense that all those who have experienced the battle formation can know. Only in legend it turns into a "cheats". Because the focus is not on such a simple thing at all, the key is that when more than ten war horses swept like tanks in later generations, how to make the soldiers in the front line calmly, efficiently and accurately hand out swords and guns to the horse's legs.
Even if it hits. There is a ninety percent chance that these soldiers will also be killed by the runover.
It may take countless simple and boring trainings, highly strict discipline, and the tempering of war before it is possible to train such soldiers. And after having them, what they need to do is to exchange their lives with the war horses, so that the infantry can really have the power to fight with the cavalry. And right now, the more than 300 people trained by the young general not far away are also very far from such a Su zhì, as a militia-like armament, they just did not collapse and escape.
When the Jurchens began to charge into battle, Ning Yi stood on the roof of the car and watched, the thousands of Jurchen horsemen rushed into battle, the momentum was huge and amazing, and the forefront of the Wurui battalion also acted as a stubborn resistance, but the real loss of these thousands of horses was probably only more than 100 horses, more than 200 horses. Qin Shaoqian's three choruses of shouts boosted morale, but at the forefront of the ranks, only morale could only make people wave their knives feverishly, and even they themselves didn't know what they had chopped, and when the Jurchens' charge hit the array for the first time, their casualties plummeted.
The shouts of the big battle spread, the Jurchen killing wave extended everywhere in the field of vision, and the order for the nearby troops to advance was also issued at a rapid pace - most of these people near Ning Yi were scattered soldiers and volunteers who rushed over from all directions, some of them were still bloody and brave, and under the leadership of the generals around them, they began to kill in front of them, and some people began to flee, until the Jurchen cavalry had already killed in this direction, and the number seemed to be hundreds or thousands, and panic and riots became more obvious around. Then, more routs spread around like a tidal wave, and many people began to flee.
Ahead, Yue Fei was holding a steel gun and looked at this qiē indifferently.
Zhu Biao, who had already returned, came to the back of the carriage and looked around: "Do we want to help enforce military law?" ”
Among the guards of Zhuji, there are also many people who are looking at this qiē with cross-eyebrows. People who practice martial arts have a lot of blood and bravery, and when they see such a big battle, they will not hesitate to step forward and fight hard, and they are also not used to seeing these people who flee without a fight. However, Ning Yi still shook his head: "We have to leave later, we will lose too quickly, there are hundreds of us, there is no point in stopping them." ”
Zhu Biao was silent for a moment: "Our artillery array can't be opened." ”
In such a crowded and chaotic place, even if it is really opened, a salvo will only kill your own people.
The night sky was noisy, the fires were spreading, the cavalry swept across the battlefield, setting off waves of blood, and the scenes of death and serious injuries appeared in front of us in large swaths, it was an indescribable scene. Ning Yi stood on the carriage and clenched his hands, this was the first time he had experienced such a huge war and such a huge defeat since he came to the Wu Dynasty. He has already experienced many things in his life, but it is another thing to experience such a scene, at this moment he really wants to lead people to rush forward, and he also wants to set up an elm artillery array to give the Jurchens a head-on blow, but even if he mobilizes all his brain power to calculate, it is meaningless. In the front, Qin Shaoqian and the others are still fighting, that is because they have to fight, if they don't fight at this time, they will lose even the last chance to escape.
Another cavalry of about 1,000 men came around from the flank and came near the battlefield.
The Jurchen general who led this cavalry was named Sukna, and the cavalry team slowed down slightly, and he was also observing the situation on the battlefield.
"It's time to go." Ning Yi said, and then raised his hand towards the nearby Zhuji people, "I know you guys want to rush forward, but while there is still a chance, we have to ...... Flee back to Qi County. Go to the side first, don't ...... too fast"
Even if the carriage moved slowly, it also caused crowding, but fortunately, Ning Yi did not choose an escape route at this time, and it had not caused everyone to swarm and disperse. Not far away, the Jurchen general Sukna stretched out his finger: "There, the convoy of the Wu Dynasty people must have all kinds of baggage utensils. Come with me! That's ours! ”
"Wow-" There was a frenzy of shouts in the Jurchen cavalry, and then the cavalry rushed towards the crowd that began to panic.
The cavalry attacked the battle formation, setting off a wave of blood, and then another rout and escape, more than two hundred meters away, through the thick crowd, Ning Yi looked over there.
"It's coming towards us." Zhu Biaole turned his horse's head and gestured around.
"I'm in trouble...... Ning Yi frowned and muttered, "Continue to transfer and prepare for war." ”
Not far away, Yue Fei, who also discovered the situation, began to transfer the team, here, the convoy was still moving to the side, and the good fighters in Zhuji had all gathered. The battlefield farther away was fiercely fought, and the Jurchen cavalry came like a torrent, and soon after the entire field fell into the Shura field, Ning Yi and the others fell into this vast battle and became a part of it.
In the capital, a murderous and strange atmosphere is fermenting. The news of the Yao family's fiasco had already come first...... (To be continued......)