Chapter 1431 Tiefutu and the Kidnapping Horse

As soon as the Iron Float appeared, it showed a strong momentum and shocking power. When Bai Qi was defending the city in Xiongzhou, he had already learned from the soldiers who had fled back from Bazhou that the Jurchens had such a strong army of soldiers and horses. However, Bai Qi thought that these soldiers might be exaggerating, and that there was no cavalry in this world that could completely ignore the attack of the Great Zhou Arrow Crossbow and rush to the city, which was most likely an excuse made up by these defeated soldiers to escape punishment. However, when Tiefutu rushed out of the passage that the opposing cavalry had taken the initiative to get out of, Bai Qi almost screamed in surprise.

Black, gray and black armor, people and horses are like knights from the underworld emerging from the ground, with a bad aura. The fanged masks made them even more terrifying. As soon as they appeared, the focus of the entire battlefield fell on them. They advance calmly, neither fast nor slow, but with a suffocating sense of oppression.

"Iron Float, Iron Float!" Among the soldiers of the Great Zhou Dynasty, there were people who had experienced the battle of Bazhou, and they cried out in horror, their voices full of fear.

Although Bai Qi was also shocked in his heart, he knew that this was a heavy cavalry, not a real knight from hell. They are only men and horses in heavy armor, and they may not be invincible.

"What's the panic? Archers, don't let go of the arrows yet! Bai Qi shouted.

A dense rain of arrows immediately arrived, and tens of thousands of powerful arrows mercilessly enveloped the formation of the Iron Floating Cavalry. Bows and arrows struck the armor of the heavy cavalry and the armor of the horses, and a clanging sound erupted. It's like a rain shower hitting a green lotus, dense and noisy. Countless arrows bounced on the heavy armor, and the iron arrows were so powerful that they slammed countless sparks into the armor. Under such a dense rain of arrows, the ordinary cavalry had already been emptied like cutting leeks, but the Tiefutu cavalry did not move. The knight on horseback was only slightly shaken by the impact of the arrows, and dozens of horses were shot in the legs by the arrows and overturned. The whole cavalry seemed to be advancing in a raging storm, and the speed did not slow down in the slightest, which was terrifying and desperate.

Bai Qi's heart was cold, and he finally understood that the situation described by the soldiers before was not nonsense, it was all true. The armor of this heavy cavalry knight and horse is impenetrable with arrows, and this is really a soldier and horse that ignores the bow and arrow. No wonder it's called Iron Floating Tower, which is really like a moving iron tower, and it can't be destroyed at all.

"Shoot their horse's legs, shoot their horse's legs." A general beside him shouted loudly, because he found that the dozens of fallen horses of the opponent had fallen from the calf of the horse by an arrow, and that was the only place that could hurt the opponent.

Bai Qi didn't give the order for a long time, because he found out that the armor on the other party's horse was actually only a foot from the ground. In other words, the opponent's weakness is only the part of the legs of the four horses that are a few feet above the ground. But how accurate is it to shoot a horse's leg? Moreover, the reason why the bow and arrow can densely cover the opponent's formation is because the bow and arrow have an angle of upward fire. If you can only shoot the horse's legs, you must shoot the bow diagonally. So only the soldiers in the first two rows have an angle, so what role can it play? And even if he shot the other horse, the knight would not be hurt at all. He had seen the horses fall to the ground before him, and the heavily armored knight rolled up in the snow, unscathed. Soon they were on the spare horses that followed behind, and they were unable to inflict any damage on them.

The formation of the two sides is very close, only slightly

After a moment's hesitation, Tiefutu had already rushed to the front. Bai Qi was helpless, and led the cavalry to meet it with a roar. It was already the only thing he could do.

"Brush Lala!" Before the other party rushed up, the Iron Floating Cavalry swept out two spears in unison. They had a peso on their arms, one end of which was wrapped around the shaft of their spears, and when they raised their spears with both hands, the tips of their spears were raised flat, and the tail handle of the spear was pressed against a groove in a leather pocket around their waists. This is one of the most common methods used by assault pikemen to stabilize their spears and use pressure to relieve impact.

The next moment, the cavalry of the two sides collided head-on, and Tiefutu rushed into the dense Great Zhou cavalry formation, and their spears went straight forward, piercing the bodies of the Great Zhou cavalry rushing forward. Many Great Zhou soldiers were directly impaled from their horses by spears, pierced on the tips of their spears, and then fell to the ground with bloody holes in their chests and abdomen. There were also Great Zhou cavalry who forcibly broke into the narrow gap between the Tiefu Tu, and they got the opportunity to slash with long knives, however, the long knives looked at the heavy helmets, except for the noise of a ping-pong pong, it was a splash of sparks. The Iron Float cavalry was not harmed in the slightest, and they even ignored the existence of these cavalry, and passed them with their spears in their own hands. Then, the next wave of Tiefutu's spears that rushed in a staggered formation pierced and fell close to the Great Zhou cavalry.

This is no longer a mutual attack between cavalry, but like the flesh and blood of the Great Zhou cavalry against a huge spiked iron battlefield, it is a kind of suicidal act, the other party is safe and sound, but his own side is shattered.

The Iron Floating Cavalry rushed forward more than a hundred paces, and the muddy snow behind them was covered with corpses, and everywhere there were corpses gushing with blood, staining the snowy battlefield for miles in a radius.

Anyone who faces such an opponent will no longer have the courage to fight, let alone the soldiers and horses of the Great Zhou who forcibly condense their morale. In the face of monsters like Tiefutu, the Great Zhou cavalry had no place to start, and they were terrified and began to rout. The Iron Float finally showed its ferocity in a head-to-head encounter, and no cavalry could meet the trampling charge of the Iron Float head-on. They calmly crushed and crushed the opponent's formation.

Wanyan Agu Da would not let go of this excellent opportunity to charge, he gave a loud order, and the Jurchen cavalry outflanked from both sides of the Iron Floating Massacre, charging towards the opponent's formation, which was already in chaos.

The battle ended at noon, and the scene was terrible on the snowfield wilderness within a radius of more than ten miles on the south bank of the White Horse Crossing. Patches of red blood on the snow were like plum blossoms blooming in the snow. Countless corpses lay on the snow, blood and flesh quickly froze stiff, and some remained in the posture of painful struggle before death. With his mouth bared and his teeth bared, his expression was hideous, making people feel as if he was in a ghost, which was extremely terrifying.

The 150,000 soldiers and horses that had been amassed with great difficulty were almost completely wiped out in today's battle. More than 50,000 were killed and wounded, more than 40,000 were captured, and the rest fled. Bai Qi once again magically escaped, after his own formation was completely broken, before the unstoppable power of the Iron Floating Slaughter, Bai Qi knew that this battle was irreparable. Fortunately, the thousands of cavalry in his personal guard battalion still had considerable combat effectiveness, and he led the cavalry of less than 3,000 people to rush out of a bloody road and successfully escaped death.

The Jurchen army also suffered a big loss this time, and in the melee at the beginning of the river crossing, the Jurchen cavalry suffered more than 13,000 casualties, and also lost nearly 300 Tiefutu cavalry. Although the bow and arrow cannot cause the Iron Float to take damage, it is in the mix

During the battle, when the infantry of the Great Zhou Dynasty was trampled by the Iron Floating Tu, someone desperately cut the horse's leg, causing the knight on the horse to fall from his horse. The heavily armored knights were actually very cumbersome on the ground, and it was difficult for them to get up after they fell to the ground, and hundreds of brave Great Zhou soldiers who knew that they were going to die simply rode on them, stabbing their daggers through the two eye holes in their masks. The dagger went through the eye socket and into the brain, killing the opponent.

Compared with the more than 10,000 ordinary soldiers and horses killed and wounded, Wanyan Aguda was most distressed by the loss of the Iron Floating Massacre. Because he had already realized the strong combat effectiveness and role of the Iron Floating Slaughter on the battlefield, every time he lost one, he was distressed. In the two battles of Bazhou and today's battle, the Tiefutu lost more than 400 people, and the 3,000 Tiefutu only had more than 2,500 horsemen left. The good news, however, is that fifteen hundred Iron Floating Heavy Cavalry are rushing to join the army. It was the latest batch of heavily armored Tiefutu, before because of the rush of time, only 3,000 Tiefutu moved with the army, and in the past two months, another 1,500 cavalry could be put into battle, which would greatly increase the combat effectiveness of the Jurchen army.

After the war, the Jurchen army made a summary. Wanyan Aguda first officially affirmed the strategy of the military advisor Li Guoqiu in front of all the generals, affirmed his status in the army, and asked the generals not to have a heart of exclusion for Li Guoqiu. Wanyan Aguda did this, naturally he didn't really want to completely ignore Li Guoqiu, in fact, since he knew Li Guoqiu's heart to restore the country, Wanyan Aguda took stricter precautions against Li Guoqiu. After all, he was about to attack Bianliang, and he needed Li Guoqiu to give advice to himself, so he wanted to express his disrespect to the military advisor to Hu Lu Yalu Buhua and others under him, so as to move Li Guoqiu and let him work hard with all his heart.

Secondly, Wanyan Aguda proposed a tactic that he learned from this battle, that is, in frontal combat, using Tiefutu as the vanguard of a frontal attack to break the formation, after destroying the opponent's formation, the light cavalry will outflank and charge from both flanks, completely disrupting the opponent's defensive system. The tactics of the general Wanyan Agu to outflank the two wings of the cavalry are called 'kidnapping horses'. In everyone's imagination, this is indeed the most suitable cooperation between the two different types of cavalry. Tiefutu kidnappers and horses, coordinated seamlessly, this is a new tactic, a new way of fighting. Wanyan Aguda is indeed a person who is good at summarizing and diligent in thinking, after the battle. It has been his habit to reflect and sum up, and this time he was able to sum up effective tactics from the process of fighting, which is indeed beyond the comparison of ordinary people.

Finally, there is the loss of soldiers. The 250,000 Jurchen army began to attack the Great Zhou, and although it was overwhelming along the way, the casualties were never broken. The 250,000-strong army has now left only 180,000 men. Although the number is still large enough, in fact, the number of soldiers in the army is only 150,000. Of the 30,000 men, 10,000 were logistical and heavy soldiers, and 20,000 remained in the various cities and cities that were captured by the remnant. The large state capital left 2,000 men, and the small state capital and the county seat also left a thousand soldiers and horses to garrison, which was not only to ensure the smooth flow of supply lines, but also to be able to scavenge more supplies and grain and grass in the occupied areas.

If 150,000 soldiers and horses attack Bianliang City, it seems that they are a little overwhelmed. There are 200,000 forbidden troops in Bianliang City alone, plus other soldiers and horses in the city, as well as the strongest city wall defense system in the world, can it really be captured?

In the face of such questions, no one has a bottom in their hearts.