Chapter 270: The Falling Star

The cavalry of the Jin Kingdom is like a wild wolf, in the process of rushing and killing, the combat effectiveness is getting stronger and stronger, although the western army is brave, but in the face of the strong impact of the cavalry, it is still retreating. The torn opening was gradually increasing, the front was impacted, the sides were torn apart, and the 40,000 army could not resist the impact of the 5,000 gold army.

The Jin army is far stronger than the Western Xia army, but this is not the time to summarize, the master is not a veteran commander who has been in battle for a long time, and the Western army is not the most powerful army in the Great Song Dynasty, and soon made the necessary adjustments when the large array was rushed away.

With the shaking of the military order flag, the Western Army changed from the original four-elephant golden lantern array that was fully attacked and defended to a three-talent bottom formation that was fully defended.

The entire large array was triangular, and although the front was rushed away, the defense behind was getting stronger and stronger. The speed of the Jin Army's sprint finally slowed down, and it was very difficult to take every step forward. Dense spears pierced from behind, and although the western army in front was hunted by cavalry, these cavalry became live targets for the spears behind. The cavalry dodged the assassination, but the horses could not dodge, and the two sides were intertwined, and the casualties of the Jin army began to increase significantly.

The biggest feature of the Sancai Bottom Formation is that the flanks are tightly defended, and the left flank, which was originally torn apart, was quickly blocked, and the light cavalry without armor could not attack at all, and the long-range shooting effect was not great.

The battle soon appeared a stalemate, and the passively beaten Western Army obviously counterattacked by force, but the Jin Army lost the advantage of impact power, and the attack was a slow advance, with increasing casualties, and every step forward was a price of blood. After all, the Western Army has as many as 40,000, although the front has more than 5,000 casualties under the impact of the Jin Army, but there are still as many as 35,000, and the Jin Army has more than 1,000 casualties, leaving more than 4,000 cavalry, and it is absolutely an impossible task to defeat the 35,000 infantry who are waiting for the battle and defend intensively.

Seeing that the Western Army's Sancai Bottom Formation had been completed, Wanyan Zongzhi quietly ordered the attack to be suspended, but only used cavalry to contain the Western Army, and the cavalry gradually left the battlefield and no longer entangled with the Western Army.

The cavalry no longer rushed into battle, and at this time, the old commander understood that the generals of the Jin army were unable to storm the large array, and in this case they were ready to withdraw their troops.

Killed more than 5,000 Western troops, and wanted to retreat with all their bodies, how could there be such a cheap good thing. Counterattack, the old handsome breeder Dao ordered a counterattack.

The Sancai Doudi Formation is a full defensive formation, but because it is a positive triangle formation, the counterattack is still full of power, although due to the congenital deficiency of the infantry, it is not possible to completely annihilate the cavalry, but it is still possible to defeat the opponent. As long as the Jin army is forced back to Hekou Town and encircled, it can still be completely annihilated.

Retreat, the Jin army did not retreat quickly, but constantly used cavalry to entangle the western army, such a retreat casualties were very small, and the two sides still did not open the distance, the battle is difficult to say that that side must have an advantage, that side must win.

There are almost no shortcomings in the three-talent bottom line of the whole defense, and the defense on three sides is unbreakable, but once the defense turns to the attack, then the rear defensive loopholes will come out, and the long battle line, it is difficult to cooperate with each other in place, once it is impacted, the consequences are unimaginable.

Seeing that the speed of the Jin army's retreat was not very fast, as if it was deliberately entangled, the old handsome master realized that something was wrong, and he understood that the Jin army in front was just a bait, and there must be cavalry behind him.

Just when the old handsome master was about to adjust, 20,000 Jin State cavalry came over from behind. The 20,000 cavalry, one left and one right, were like the two claws of a tiger, fiercely tearing open the last side of the Sancai Doudi Formation, and the cavalry soon rushed into the large array.

When the 20,000 Jin troops in the back came over, Wanyan Zongzhi's cavalry no longer retreated, began to reverse, and began to attack the Jin army. In this way, the two Jin armies attacked back and forth, and soon crushed the Western Army's large array.

In this battle, Wanyan Zonghan's purpose was very clear, that is, to completely annihilate the 40,000 Western Army, and now the total strength of the Jin Army has reached 24,000, and it has broken the large array of the Western Army, and began to divide and encircle the Western Army, and victoriously fill in the tilt towards the Jin Army.

The Western Army, which has always been brave, suffered an unprecedented defeat, and the hundred years of glory of the Seed Army were destined to be overshadowed in this battle and doomed to be killed.

On the plains, once the cavalry launched a separate encirclement of the infantry, it was definitely a nightmare for the infantry, the counterattack was pale and powerless, and in the face of the crushing of the cavalry, no matter how brave and good at fighting, it was only a little bit encroached, and it was difficult to return to the sky. If you want to escape, it depends on luck, after all, two legs can't run on four legs, and if you escape, you will still be killed, but you will scatter and flee, and it is difficult for the cavalry to achieve total annihilation.

Defeat is a foregone conclusion, and if you don't retreat, you will be wiped out, but at this time, the conservative character of the old handsome seed master has harmed the western army, he thinks that his younger brother is not too far away from him, as long as he sends a distress signal, the 60,000 army is killed, and he can still turn defeat into victory.

After sending out the distress signal, Seed Master Dao not only did not order a retreat, but instead organized the Western Army to converge, using defense to delay time, and delaying to reduce casualties.

Cooperation, the cavalry of the Jin State was surprisingly cooperative, and the cavalry did not carry out inhumane killing, but gave the Western Army a chance to close, as if the best opportunity to strangle was missed.

The 20,000 western armies gradually converged, and were no longer divided and surrounded by cavalry, but were surrounded by cavalry as a whole to the center. Now it's clear whose strategy is right. For the Western Army, now that it is closed, the casualties will be reduced, and the time can be delayed to the maximum extent to wait for the arrival of reinforcements, of course, it has missed the best opportunity to break through, to be exact, the door to the breakthrough has been closed, if there are no reinforcements, then the remaining 20,000 Western Army is destined to be annihilated, and there is no possibility of escape, and the breakthrough has become a thing of the past.

For the Jin army, if they gave up the division and encirclement and let the western army close, they would miss the opportunity to strangle, and after the western army was closed, it would be much more difficult to strangle, and the casualties of the Jin army would be further increased. Not only that, but once the Western Army has reinforcements, it is uncertain where the balance of victory will tilt. Of course, the advantage is that the encirclement of the Western Army has been realized, which provides the possibility of completely annihilating the Western Army.

Wanyan Zonghan knew that there would be no reinforcements from the Western Army, so he chose to encircle and let the Western Army close. He is like an experienced old hunter with enough patience and enough time to play with his prey.

Reinforcements, reinforcements will not be available, and the five thousand iron floats block the way forward in the division. It is impossible for the 5,000 Tiefutu to annihilate the 60,000 Western Army, but as a roadblock, no matter how strong the 60,000 infantry are, it is impossible to cross the Tiefutu and advance.

There are only 8,000 Tiefutu in the entire Jin Kingdom, and this time in the Song Dynasty, 5,000 of them were handed over to Wanyan Zonghan, and the remaining 3,000 were not dispatched at all in the Jin Kingdom. This is not Marshal Wanyan Xian's preference for Wanyan Zonghan, this is the strategy of the Jin State. The focus was on attacking the capital of the Song Kingdom, so there were many soldiers and horses on the East Road, as many as 200,000. The Western Route Army only had 100,000, but it had to fight against the strongest Western Army of the Song Kingdom, so he handed over 5,000 Tiefu to Wanyan Zonghan. You must know that in the end, the 3,000 iron floats were obtained by the Imperial Forest Army to protect the Emperor of the Jin Kingdom, and it is very rare for the West Road army to have 5,000 iron floats.

More than 20,000 Jin cavalry trapped more than 20,000 Western troops in the center, and the two sides launched the final killing, but neither side played with their lives. The reluctance of the Western army to play with their lives was to stall for time and wait for reinforcements. Of course, in a defensive state, it can only be adjusted according to the attack of the Jin Army, and it is difficult to play with life.

Jin Jun is unwilling to play with his life, because he doesn't want to increase unnecessary casualties, and besides, he has already trapped the prey, so why let the prey bite him? Wanyan Zonghan is not in a hurry, he knows that as time goes by, the Western Army will gradually panic, and when he is sure that the reinforcements will not come, he will definitely break through with all his might, and at that time, a strangulation will definitely be able to wipe it out.

Sure enough, as time went by, the pressure on the Western Army increased, and the long-awaited reinforcements did not appear, and the experienced old handsome Planter Dao knew that he had been fooled, and he also knew that his younger brother had encountered resistance in the Planter. But it's too late to say anything now, breaking through the encirclement of the Jin army, it is unknown how much it can rush out, it can only be the destiny of each other.

After fighting geese all his life, he was blinded by a goose peck, and the annoyed seed master Dao ordered a breakthrough. In frustration, the eyes of the seed master turned black, a mouthful of blood spurted out, and the whole person fell from the horse unconscious.

The old marshal's coma caused the Western Army to be leaderless, and there was no one to command when they broke through, causing huge casualties, and finally rushed out less than 2,000, and a generation of famous generals did not wake up in the end, and the star fell.

The star fell, and Wanyan Zonghan showed due respect for the old handsome master and ordered a thick burial.

After the more than 20,000 Jin cavalry were reorganized, they set off with all their might, and the target was the 60,000 Western Army blocked by Tiefutu.

The seed division was also in a vicious battle, and when it was blocked, the seed master knew that something was wrong with the eldest brother, and the Jin army sent Tiefutu to block it, and the only purpose was to prevent himself from rescuing the eldest brother.

If the 60,000 army is deployed to withstand the impact of the Tiefutu, it will still be able to withstand it, after all, the strength of the army is twelve times that of the opponent, but if you want to break through the defense line of the 5,000 Tiefutu, it is even more difficult than ascending to the sky.

Impact, it is impossible for 60,000 troops to rush up, and each impact is up to 10,000 people, but it is obviously unrealistic for 10,000 infantry to attack 2,000 Tiefutu, and they can only win and consume the opponent's physical strength to the maximum. For a long time, the Western Army has no good way to deal with this kind of heavy armored cavalry armed to the teeth, it is difficult to strangle it, and it can only win to maximize the consumption of the enemy's physical strength, after all, the biggest weakness of the heavy armored cavalry is that the durability is very poor.

For more than a hundred years, the Western Army has been fighting against the Western Xia Iron Harrier in this way, and the effect is not bad. After all, there were only 3,000 iron harriers in the entire Western Xia, and the number was too small to play a role at critical moments, and could not be used as a conventional means of warfare.

The two thousand iron floats in front of the 10,000 Western troops, and the one thousand iron floats in the center to cover, which can protect the two thousand iron floats in the back to replace the front of the iron float. In this way, 5,000 Tiefutu took turns to go into battle, blocking the advance of the Western Army to the death.

After more than an hour of rushing and killing, the seed master knew that there was a big trouble, and if it went on like this, he really didn't know that Ma Yue would be able to break through Tiefutu's defense line in the Year of the Monkey. But this group of guys is already armed to the teeth, and no matter how brave the Western army is, it will be difficult to inflict casualties on them. Such a rush can only continue to increase the number of deaths, and Tiefutu's casualties are few.

It's not that the Western Army is not brave, but Tiefutu is covered in heavy armor, and even the war horses are covered in heavy armor, in this case, how can it be harmed? The knife can't be cut, the spear can't be pierced, the only flaw in Tiefutu is in the horse's leg, just imagine, how many possibilities can cut off the horse's leg?

It is possible to cut off a horse's leg if it is rigorously trained, but it can still cause great casualties. In later generations, the Yue family army did train the war horse legs, but the casualty ratio was still ten to one, that is to say, if one Tiefu was killed, the Yue family army with sample training would have to sacrifice ten excellent soldiers.

The current seed army is facing Tiefutu, which is armed to the teeth, and the casualty ratio is definitely more than one hundred to one, or even greater. If Tiefutu attacks the Western Army's main array, the casualty ratio can be controlled to less than thirty to one, but Tiefutu is now defending with all his might, and the casualty ratio of the Western Army is of course very large.

(The proportion of infantry casualties against Tiefutu is not a nonsense made up by the author.) There have been cases in history where seventeen cavalry defeated two thousand infantry, and imagine that it was not Tiefutu, but just ordinary infantry, so one hundred to one is definitely true. )

After receiving the eldest brother's distress signal, the planter knew that he couldn't wait any longer, and he ordered the 30,000 army to go up and attack, and he must impact at all costs, no matter what, he must break through the barrier of Tiefutu and rescue the eldest brother.

In the face of the impact of 30,000 Western Army, Tiefutu was also under great pressure. After all, the physical strength of the heavy armored cavalry is consumed too quickly, especially the war horses.

In the face of the lifeless impact of the Western Army, in order to reduce casualties, Tiefutu no longer carried it hard, but chose a strategic retreat, of course, the speed of retreat was very slow. 'Tiefutu's retreat was to stall for time, and although the heavy cavalry was not very fast, it was still faster and more mobile than the infantry.

It seems that the Western Army is losing and retreating, but in fact, the advance speed is slow, and the impact of an hour is not even ten miles, and if it goes on like this, even if it rushes over, it will be difficult to break the siege.

The seed master knew that with his brother's character, if it wasn't for the moment of critical survival, he would never ask for help. He has been blocked by Tiefutu for two hours now, and if he can't rush through, the big brother will be in danger.

In desperation, the seed division ordered an army of 50,000 to press and divide into five groups, each group entangled with a thousand iron floats, not seeking to break through the defense line, but only to entangle. He personally led 10,000 Western troops to the rescue by bypassing Tiefutu. No matter how strong Tiefutu is, in the face of the entanglement of 10,000 Western troops, it is difficult to ask for entanglement in a short time, so he watched the middle of the seed division leave.