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At the same time that the horse sent by Yelu Buddha reached the vanguard army on the right side, the Tabai of the vanguard army on the right side also probed the army on the top of Yelu Buddha.

No.

It should be said that Tabai, who had a telescope on the right side, was the first to discover the horse sent by Yelu Buddha.

Because he won a first opportunity, the vanguard army on the right side of the army decisively chose a big detour, and then found the specific number of people and horses of the Liao army in Heyin, and they were lucky to find the 3,000 horse army that Yelu Buddha had divided.

Tabai of the vanguard army on the right hurriedly reported these news to Yang Zaixing, and Yang Zaixing told these news to Yue Fei, Zhang Xian and others.

The operational staff drew the distribution of the Liao army on the map, and after Yue Fei and others watched it, Yue Fei asked Wang De, Zhang Xian, and the staff officers of the accompanying army: "What do you think?" ”

Chief of Staff Lin Shiyi said: "In my opinion, you might as well eat the 3,000 men and horses he divided first, specifically, you can use the Beiwei army to detour back to that forest, and then set fire to the forest, force them out, and kill them." ”

I have to say that Lin Shiyi's plan is really poisonous.

Just imagine, if the forest is on fire, not to mention whether they can burn the 3,000 Liao troops to death, just say that even if they can escape, they must be panicked, and if they can fight, they will definitely be able to win easily.

Yang Zaixing felt that Lin Shiyi's plan was good, and said, "I think this plan is feasible." ”

Zhang Xian objected: "We can't lose a big one because of a small one, our strategic goal this time is not to defeat the army in front of us, but to annihilate the army in front of us as much as possible, the ultimate goal is to capture Yingzhou City, to establish a bridgehead for Xianggong's army, once we first attack the enemy's three thousand strange soldiers, I am afraid that we will be startled by the snake, unable to annihilate its large army in one fell swoop, if they let them escape from Yingzhou City, then we want to attack Yingzhou City, I am afraid that we will have to waste some hands and feet." ”

is still the same thing, Zhang Xian is too confident in the Shenji Army, he believes that only the Shenji Army will definitely defeat the Liao Army in one fell swoop, and then annihilate it.

What Lin Shiyi and Zhang Xian said is actually reasonable, and at this time, it is necessary to test the commander's decision-making ability.

Yue Fei pondered for a while, then turned his head and asked Zhang Xian: "Brother Zongben, are you really sure that the Left Army of the Divine Machine will defeat the Liao Army in one fell swoop?" ”

Zhang Xian said unequivocally: "I am willing to make a military order." ”

Yue Fei didn't talk nonsense, and said: "Then pick up the biggest hit, after all, only the first exposure is the most likely to achieve the greatest results." ”

Seeing that Yue Fei had already made a choice, Lin Shiyi and other staff officers immediately perfected Yue Fei's decision-making and gave the most feasible battle plan.

After repeated discussions by Lin Shiyi and other operational staff officers, they unanimously agreed that as long as the Shenji Army moved fast enough, it would be impossible for the Liao Army, which was a strange army, to rush to the battlefield at all.

But—

Just in case, they still suggested, "When the enemy is in the right position, the decisive victory is in surprise, and the front and back can be corresponding, then you will always win and not be defeated." That is, a thousand heavily armored infantry troops and a thousand cavalry can be divided as mobile troops just in case.

After the battle plan was specified, Yue Fei, Zhang Xian, and Yang Zaixing did not immediately lead the army to Heyin, but first buried the pot to make rice, so that the soldiers and war horses could get a full rest.

At noon, the vanguard army on the right left for Heyin.

By the time the vanguard on the right reached Hayin, the sun had already set in the west.

Yelu Buddha looked at the sun opposite his head, and knew that this Song army must be under the control of the generals, because they even calculated the direction of the sun.

Looking at it again, the Song army that came came actually had five or six thousand horse troops, and the look on the top of Yelu Buddha became even more dignified!

And yet—

What Yelu Buddha didn't understand was that after the Song army finished arranging the formation, it was unusual-the horse army that was originally at the front retreated to the back!

Yelu Buddha looked at it again, and saw that the Song army had actually placed the infantry army in front.

After a closer look, Yelu Buddha found that the soldiers of the infantry were holding strange weapons - they were three bamboo-shaped single iron pipes...... Hammer?

Jerodha asked, "Do you know what kind of weapon it is?" ”

Everyone shook their heads.

Yelu Buddha looked at it again, and finally saw some weapons he was familiar with—bed crossbows.

Yelu Buddha Ding was very afraid of this kind of big killing weapon, in the past wars of Song and Liao, this kind of big killing weapon brought countless nightmares to their Liao people.

Yelu Buddha said in his heart: "I'm afraid this battle is not easy to fight." ”

Looking at it again, Yelu Buddha was stunned to find that there were still some things covered with coarse cloth in the Song army.

Yelu Buddha thought with some concern: "These things they hid are they suspicious, or are they a means to win a decisive victory?" What will be under the cloth? ”

After thinking about it, Yelu Buddha waved his hand, called a person, and said, "Go and question Song Jun, why do you want to offend our Liaotu?" ”

When the man heard this, he immediately flew a white flag to the Song army's formation, and then asked: "The Song Dynasty is a country of etiquette, and now it is the first to raise troops to the north regardless of the friendly covenant. ”

In fact, Yelu Buddha Ding This was a delaying tactic, the purpose was to buy time for the three thousand strange soldiers to come to the battlefield.

Yelu Buddha's little trick was seen through by Lin Shiyi at a glance, and he immediately told Yue Fei about it.

Without Lin Shiyi to say, Yue Fei could also guess what Yelu Buddha's idea was.

Yue Fei didn't even raise his eyelids, and said, "Cut it, the head is hung high." "——The selection of the vanguard army on the right side is mainly an infantry army, and it cannot take the initiative to attack, so Yue Fei can only kill to see if he can force the other party to take the initiative to fight.

Pity!

Although Yelu Buddha was angry, he did not immediately send troops, because the three thousand strange soldiers were still too far away.

It wasn't until he felt that the 3,000 strange soldiers should be able to catch up with this battle, that Yelu Buddha shouted loudly: "The southerners took advantage of our danger to fight without declaring war regardless of the covenant, they bullied me too much, and they were too despicable and shameless. ”

"Kill, kill, kill!"

"Kill, kill, kill!"

"Kill, kill, kill!"

“……”

Yelu Buddha's words resonated with the Liao people, "We can't beat the people of the Jin Kingdom, can't we beat you Song people?" Let you fight without declaring it, let you take advantage of the danger of others, let you ignore the covenant, it's too bullying, today with you, there is no us, we fight! ”

On the other side, Yue Fei is also boosting morale: "Soldiers, they should live for war and die for peace; Soldiers, should be proud of "the battlefield died in battle, the horse leather shroud"; Soldiers, you must be worthy of the eight sons of "use me in the first battle, use me to win...... The Liao army has 10,000 horse troops, our 5,000 horse army, 10,000 infantry troops, and the strength is equal. ”

Zhang Xian alone encouraged Shenji Zuo Jun and said: "Whether the Han people can recover Yunzhou, and whether future generations can live and work in peace and contentment, it all depends on us." In addition, on this unobstructed plain, it is impossible for the infantry army to outrun the horse army, so only if you are victorious, you can live, and if you are defeated, you will die. ”

Yang Zaixing encouraged Beiwei Jun and said: "We are a group of wild wolves, a group of howling wild wolves!" Any enemy is a piece of meat in our mouths, and we will eat their flesh and chew their bones......"

"Tiger Tiger Tiger!"

"Tiger Tiger Tiger!"

"Tiger Tiger Tiger!"

“……”

The morale of the vanguard army on the right was also mobilized by Yue Fei and the others!

In the era of cold weapons, cavalry had a natural advantage over infantry.

This advantage is mainly reflected in maneuverability and impact power.

To put it in layman's terms, the infantry fighting the cavalry is unable to catch up if it wins, and it cannot run away if it loses, while the cavalry can use the total weight of men and horses to form a greater impact on the infantry phalanx in front of it when attacking the infantry.

Some of the larger horses can even weigh up to a ton and two, and because they move fast, the impact is extremely terrifying.

More importantly, mobility can go some way to reversing the numerical balance between armies.

In other words, the side with good mobility can concentrate superior forces to attack a certain area of the opponent, and a local superiority in forces is formed.

Although the defending side may have more troops on the whole, the defending side needs to defend a lot of places, and in one locality, the attacking side can form a numerical advantage and eliminate the local defenders before the defender's reinforcements arrive.

That's where mobility comes in.

An army with good mobility can always form a superiority in strength in the local battlefield by quickly transferring its own troops, so as to gradually annihilate the side that lacks mobility.

Therefore, nomads always have an innate military advantage over agrarian peoples.

It is precisely because of this that there is the Great Wall.

So how should the farming people deal with it?

One way was to use the terrain, that is, to use the mountains to block the cavalry's run, and to attack from a high position, and the Great Wall was exactly such a defense.

Another way is to use cavalry against cavalry, by forming a strong cavalry corps to fight against the nomads, Han against the Xiongnu, Tang against the Turks, are all the same strategy.

Now, Yue Fei has deployed his infantry in front, still on the plain without any dangerous terrain.

In the eyes of the soldiers of the Liao army such as Yelu Buddha, they were already invincible before they fought.

Plus the hatred for the Song people.

These Liao people, who were extremely aggrieved by the Shangjin people before, rushed up with a shout!

Although it was the first time in his life to command a decisive battle of this scale, Yue Fei showed an unusual calmness, which made Zhang Xian and Yang Zaixing not only nod secretly, but also said in their hearts: "No wonder the Metropolitan Governor is so supportive of him." ”

After the Liao army crossed the river and reached a distance of three hundred paces, Yue Fei ordered: "Bed crossbow attack!" ”

Seeing the flag spoken by the flag commander, Zhang Xian, the commander-in-chief of the front formation, immediately commanded Wang Lan, the commander of the bed crossbow: "Bed crossbow, put it!" ”

In an instant, dozens of bed crossbows pulled the trigger at the same time!

The bed crossbow of the Jinwu army, all are three-bow bed crossbows, also known as the "eight bull crossbows", the arrows are made of hard wood as the arrow shaft, and the iron piece is the feather, the world is known as "one gun and three sword arrows", when it is fired, it is magnificent, the arrows are like javelins, and the close-range firing can be directly nailed into the city wall, when the salvo is fired, the rows of pedal arrows are firmly nailed into the city wall, and the siege soldiers can climb up the edge by this, shoot people, shoot horses, even if they are wearing the best heavy armor, they will definitely die, and even the people and horses can be nailed to the ground.

Moreover, the bed crossbows of the Jinwu army are all one crossbow and four arrows.

In other words, nearly two hundred javelin-like iron spears were shot out at once.

"Woo Woo Blah ......"

In an instant, there were sixty or seventy Liao army soldiers and war horses, and they fell off their horses!

The Yelu Buddha who bore the brunt of the attack, relying on his vigorous skills, hid under the horse's belly, and luckily picked up a life, but he was also scared to the point that his back was cold!

Soon, the second round of bed crossbows of the "Boom Blah Blah ......" began to fire, and then the third round of bed crossbow firing.

These three waves of bed crossbow shooting alone caused nearly 200 casualties to the Liao army officers and soldiers.

It is no exaggeration to say that if the vanguard army on the right can still shoot three or five rounds of bed crossbows like this, it may be able to defeat the Liao army with only bed crossbows.

After all, what the bed crossbow has is not only the lethality of fear, but also a strong psychological shock!

It's a pity!

The cost of bed crossbows is really expensive, the key is to create trouble, it cannot be mass-produced, and it is also troublesome to transport, so that if you have money and skillful robbery, such as Cai Ying, you can only configure a hundred bed crossbows for each infantry army.

Moreover, through these three waves of rotational attacks, the front army of the Liao army has come to a distance of less than one hundred and fifty paces, and in this case, even if they still have bed crossbows, they will not be useful.

Yelu Buddha also knew this, he raised the iron spear in his hand, and said solemnly: "It's our turn to attack!" ”

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