Chapter 1284: Fierce Battle
As soon as the two sides fight, they know the superiority. The Jurchens moved as swiftly as tigers and leopards, and they did not use a saddle and sat directly on the back of a sleek horse, but their bodies seemed to grow on the back of a horse. Leaning forward and backwards, extremely flexible. The meniscus in their hands has a strange shape, with a wide circle in the middle, which may seem extremely inconvenient, but it is a multi-purpose knife, which can be stabbed, slashed, and even used as a small shield. But in fact, the reason why the Jurchens used this kind of scimitar with a wide middle was for the convenience of hunting. The blade in the middle can be used as a cutting board, a fire table, meat can be placed on it as a barbecue board, and wood can be sawed with the serrations around it. According to legend, it was a multi-purpose knife invented by a warrior of the Jurchen tribe. This solves the problem that the Jurchens carry too many inconvenient items when they cross mountains and mountains, through forests and streams. A knife to streamline the outfit makes it much more convenient to act.
In a short tea time, the Liao cavalry suffered countless casualties, and the screams resounded through the wilderness. The 30,000 cavalry quickly suffered thousands of casualties under the heavy encirclement, and it was completely a one-sided crushing and strangulation situation. Soon after, the Liao cavalry began to rout and gave up resistance, because they were no opponent at all and could not organize a decent formation to fight.
Nearly 20,000 Liao cavalry began to turn their horses' heads and gallop towards the way they came, and the Jurchens would not let them go. At this moment, they showed another use of the Meniscus Knife. All the Jurchens threw the meniscus knives in their hands in the midst of shouts, and the air suddenly resounded with the sound of tens of thousands of scimitars spinning in the air and breaking through the air. Throwing a weapon is a big taboo, and anyone knows that throwing a weapon is equivalent to losing the ability to fight, and no one is stupid enough to do that.
However, the Jurchens used practical actions to tell the world that throwing weapons was not a stupid move, but on the contrary, it was a big killer move for them. The scimitars hovering in the air flew in the air, and the sharp blades swept over the bodies and arms of the fleeing Liao cavalry, splashing countless blood mist, and then these scimitars hovered and flew back into the hands of the people who threw them in strange trajectories. The meniscus became a throwing whirling weapon in the hands of the Jurchens. This is the greatest mystery of the strange shape of the meniscus.
Jurchens could do without arrows, but every Jurchen threw a boomerang. In the midst of many obstacles, the skillful Jurchen warriors could throw their weapons from among the dense woods, and after hitting their prey, they could hover and fly back. If this hand is in the Great Zhou martial arts, I am afraid it is a subtle secret weapon kung fu. From this point of view, all the Jurchen warriors can be regarded as masters of martial arts.
The whistling and circling scimitars made a whirring sound of wind and thunder in the night sky, and a terrible scream resounded through the wilderness, and one by one the Liao cavalry covered their necks and turned over and fell to the ground. The horses dragged their corpses and still galloped, but the people on the horses were lifeless. After the Jurchens chased after the horses, throwing whirling weapons, and after chasing out of the land of Lixu, more than 20,000 Liao cavalry had been cut like leeks
There are less than seven or eight thousand people left.
And at this moment, there were already the cavalry and horses of the panicked Yelucai's Chinese army brigade in front.
"Sons, kill me!" Wanyan Agu let out an earth-shattering roar, and all the Jurchen warriors were like hares running all over the grassland, densely spread all over the ground, and swooped towards the chaotic Liao cavalry army.
Yelucai was shocked after the sudden attack on the front team, and he was very cautious, but he still got on the road. How could so many soldiers and horses suddenly appear in this wilderness? It's incomprehensible that you didn't even notice it beforehand. However, Yelucai was not too chaotic, after all, he had been vigilant before, so he immediately ordered the Chinese army to set up a formation and prepare to meet the enemy. Yelucai did not dare to rashly order the main force of the Chinese army to rush into the battle group, because he did not know what the enemy situation was, and he did not know what traps there were, so he ordered 80,000 Chinese cavalry to lie in front, all of them bent their bows and arrows, and waited for the opponent's charge.
The black oppressive enemy came like a tide, and Yelucai gave the order to snipe with bows and arrows. Bows and arrows rained down on the front, and the galloping cavalry fell in the middle. However, soon, the Liao cavalry of the Chinese army discovered that they were not shooting Jurchens, but seven or eight thousand Liao cavalry who had fled from the front. These Liao cavalry successfully escaped from the opponent's ambush circle, and fortunately avoided the killing of the Jurchen whirling knife, and those who were able to escape back were already extremely lucky. However, in the end, they did not escape the rain of arrows from their own people. Seven or eight thousand Liao cavalry were almost wiped out by the dense range of arrows. At this point, with the joint efforts of both the enemy and us, the 30,000 Liao cavalry in the front team were all wiped out.
Not only that, after shooting their own soldiers and horses, the soldiers of the Liao Cavalry found that the Jurchens in the rear did not charge immediately after, they stopped hundreds of paces away, shouted loudly, and did not enter the range of bows and arrows. This means that the arrow's block doesn't hurt them at all. The two sides suddenly formed a brief confrontation situation, the Jurchen army did not seem to dare to rush closer, and the Liao cavalry army did not dare to step forward, only bent their bows and arrows.
But the confrontation did not last long, and as the sound of long trumpets resounded through the wilderness, the Jurchen cavalry moved east. They divided their troops and horses and galloped in a roundabout way from the two wings. Directly ahead, most of the soldiers and horses were still standing still. This is the most classic tactic to deal with the opponent's dense defense, when the opponent's counterattack firepower is fierce, the roundabout soldiers and horses on both sides can effectively mobilize the enemy's deployment, the opponent's original formation is to guard against the charging soldiers and horses in front, but now they have to change the formation to prevent tens of thousands of Jurchen cavalry on the flanks. If they did not change their formation, the Jurchen cavalry on the flanks would quickly break into the opponent's formation and disrupt the Liao formation. Thus creating an opportunity for a frontal assault on the frontal Jurchen cavalry.
This method really worked, and in order to prevent the opponent's flank from cutting in, Yelucai had to order the cavalry on both sides to retract
Reduced formation. However, once the cavalry formation, which numbered as high as seventy or eighty thousand, began to move, it was not so easy to control, and the formation appeared a gap in an instant, and there was a little chaos. And this little confusion was immediately seized by the Jurchens.
"Sons, the time has come to avenge the death of my Jurchen brothers, and to wash away the shame of my Jurchen being oppressed and bullied. Immortal Heaven is above, bless my Jurchen warriors with victory, and send these Liao dogs to hell. Kill! Wanyan Agu let out a loud roar, pointed forward with the meniscus knife in his hand, and rushed out with a roar.
In an instant, the entire earth began to tremble, and in the galloping of thousands of horses, the Jurchen cavalry let out a frightening strange cry and rushed towards the Liao cavalry formation hundreds of paces away.
"Heaw!"
The meniscus swirled overhead, and the Jurchen cavalry's bodies twisted from side to side on horseback, making various movements. If you think these are useless actions, you are wrong. When the bows and arrows of the Liao cavalry came all over the sky, the meniscus knife that rotated on the forehead above the head seemed to be a rotating shield, and the arrows were scattered. The writhing body often dodges the meteor-like arrows at critical moments. Although, as a general rule, writhing in the middle of a rain of arrows does not reduce the chance of being hit. But this act of twisting the body is actually giving the body a certain inertial vitality in order to avoid some deadly arrows at any time. It's like when someone likes to jump and shake their body during boxing, this is not in vain, but in order to maintain a certain rhythm in the body, so that it can make some evasive and offensive movements. The Jurchens don't think about the rationale, but they do, and they always do.
Yelucai shouted and ordered the cavalry to release arrows and snipe, and the Liao cavalry fired countless arrows at the enemy army. Of course, because the formation was moving, nearly 30,000 cavalry failed to shoot arrows in time. But even so, the dense feathered arrows still brought huge casualties to the charging Jurchens. The meniscus can't completely block the rain of arrows from the scoop, and the act of twisting the body can't guarantee safety. Countless Jurchen warriors fell with arrows, countless war horses fell to the ground and rolled and neighed, and in just a few moments, thousands of casualties were killed.
But the momentum of the charge has been achieved, and it is no longer able to resist. As the two Jurchen cavalry on the flank quickly cut into the Liao cavalry formation, in the front direction, the Jurchen cavalry, which had paid more than 6,000 casualties of soldiers and horses, also approached a distance of twenty or thirty paces. The next moment was the moment for the Jurchens to show off their skills, and countless meniscus knives swirled out with the sound of the whirring wind, like countless rotating blades cutting towards the opponent. They circled through the crowd, carrying a puff of flesh and blood, before flying back into their master's hands. It's like a living blade, as if it has eyes, shuttling back and forth.
When the front row of soldiers and horses of the Liao cavalry fell to the ground one after another, the formations of the two sides officially rushed to one place. A close-quarters battle has officially begun.