Chapter 361: Stepping into the Formation
The gentle winter sun in the sky exuded its own light without hesitation, and it still made him unable to open his eyes when he stabbed Zhao Buqian looking up at the sky.
Looking flat, what Zhao Butry saw was an endless flat and fertile field, which was rapidly being annihilated by a stream of black, and he could already clearly hear the sound of horses' hooves, and the gallop of tens of thousands of horse troops made the earth tremble gently.
There was a suffocating slaughter all around, no insects chirping, and no birds and beasts disturbing the sound.
There was only the sound of breathing, low and powerful, as if everyone was wearing a thick mask and had to breathe hard.
Until a terrible trumpet pierced the heavens and the earth.
Zhao Buxian's eyes suddenly bloomed, and he looked directly in front of the voice that came from, it was the Jurchens, the Jurchens in the shouting and shouting. His eyes lit up.
The cavalry is fast, not as easy to fight as the infantry, but it can still be cooked.
Zhao Bu, who had strong self-confidence in the Shenji Battalion, looked at the dust raised by the tens of thousands of elite horses of the Jin Army like a yellow dragon, and shouted loudly: "Tell the sons, work harder, and follow me forward!" ”
At this time, he had also received an order to advance to the Song army's large array and stand by. Zhao Gou didn't think that the front army was very likely to be unable to stop the attack of the Jin army's cavalry, but that together with this battle, the front army and the later Chinese army would inevitably be cut and separated by the Jin army. Even if he had replaced many of the archers in his army with pikemen hand-to-hand combat.
Therefore, the current situation makes it very unnecessary for Zhao Butry not to advance to the front army.
"Hurry up, keep up!"
"Sons, work hard!"
"It's all steady, don't panic!"
The grinding of the reels was constantly transmitted in the array of the Song army, and Zhao Butry no longer bothered to look at the battle ahead, but only urged the team to push the stone cannons to their destinations.
The stone cannon was also equipped with two ammunition wagons, and ten guards armed with knives and guns, exactly one of them (twenty-five). There were four artillery carts under the jurisdiction of the capital, and twenty in the first battalion. But Zhao Butry's Shenji battalion was 2,500 people, not just 500 people. This is said to be a battalion, but in fact it is a corps.
Four artillery battalions and one baggage battalion were all drawn from the Xiangzhou Army.
These people are different from those who don't know how powerful they are, they are full of confidence in the earth-shaking thunder, and they all believe that as long as they start to exert their power, they can immediately make the soul of the golden man on the opposite side scatter and annihilate the ashes.
Therefore, even if there were already fierce fighting shouts on the front battlefield, they were still there. Step by step, the artillery cart moved towards the center of the Song army in Hedong, that is, where Zhao Gou's handsome banner was located.
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The bowstrings on the Song army's array vibrated like countless cotton, and like a huge swarm of bees vibrating their wings, a wave of arrows rose densely into the sky, and then fell to the earth.
Eight ox crossbows, divine arm bows, and peg crossbows, shot in rows, so that the oncoming Jurchen iron cavalry hit an invisible wall, and the rows fell to death.
But they charged on their own, and the distance between the two sides was rapidly closing.
The Jurchens put bows and arrows on their riding bows, and no one would just be beaten and not fight back.
It's just that the Song army's shooting has not yet ended, and the crossbowmen in the Song army's array continue to exert their might.
From the Divine Arm Bow, the Peg Crossbow to the Eight Ox Crossbow, even if the Jin Army is wearing heavy armor one by one, they are also fragile melon skins in front of the Jin Crossbow.
After two rounds of fire, the heavily armored Jurchen cavalry also fell, and the front edge of the charging array was a little sparse - it was difficult for pure armor to resist the Song army's crossbows, unless it was draped in double armor, or even three-layer armor. But such people are in the minority after all.
However, these Jurchen cavalry still moved forward with their heads covered, without the slightest stop.
At the same time, they also started throwing feather arrows!
However, compared with the Mongols, who exerted the power of mounted archery to the extreme a hundred years later, the iron cavalry of the Jurchens was more inclined to hand-to-hand combat. Moreover, their armor-piercing heavy arrows were also difficult to penetrate the infantry armor worn by the leading soldiers of the Song army.
Not to mention that the first few rows of soldiers also carried large shields in their hands at the same time.
There was a clanging sound, and the rain of arrows falling from the sky fell on the bodies of the Song army's heavy infantry in the front row or on the big shields they held in their hands, causing not much damage at all.
The sound of the golden drum shook the earth and shook the earth, and with the trembling earth, it seemed that the heavens and the earth were about to collapse.
Jin Bing has rushed to the front, and the real contest and the real cruelty are about to be staged.
When the Jurchen cavalry advanced less than fifty paces in front of the Song army, the last bows and crossbows of the "Whoosh...... were shot out in unison. The Song army armor soldiers at the forefront instantly set up their spears.
Behind each column of shield walls were three rows of pikemen, and the spears like a forest were placed on the head of the shield wall, and every soldier blushed at this moment, waiting for the impending impact.
"Sons! Forge ahead! ”
At the back of the three-column shield wall, a Song soldier was shouting hoarsely, waving the broadsword in his hand, driving a group of heavy infantry with spears and heavy axes to line up and stride forward.
If you stand on a high place and look down, you can find that on the battlefield, with the arrival of the cavalry charge of the Jin Army, the soldiers in the front of the Song Army are looking at the front and crowding.
The front formation, which was originally more than 500 steps deep, had to compress half the distance in an instant.
It's a contest between a raging torrent and a strong dike.
On both sides were warriors in battle armor, and when they met on the 'single-plank bridge', they could not avoid and could not dodge.
The two sides collided fiercely! The spears of the Song army pierced the chest of the Jurchen cavalry, and the mace of the Jurchen cavalry shattered the Song army's Tianling Gai......
Zhao Gou looked at the scene in front of him with blazing eyes.
Flesh and blood fly, and human life is like mustard.
This was definitely the first tragic scene he had seen in his life. It's completely different from a gunshot killing. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the appearance of firearms made it difficult to have such a scene on the battlefield again.
- The confrontation between infantry and cavalry, the contest between courage and fighting spirit.
The powerful impact of the Jurchen cavalry allowed them to completely destroy the first and second shield walls, but although the third shield wall was broken through multiple gaps of different sizes, the remaining shield walls and spear forests that were still standing showed the end of the Jin cavalry's strong crossbows.
The former army commander Zhi Yanzhi commanded the soldiers to line up in a timely manner, and naturally blocked the sharpness of the Jin army.
In the end, it is the person who folds the family. "Zhe Zhonggu still has some ability!"
Zhao Gou nodded with satisfaction. Compared with Zhao Ye and Fan Ne, who were both under control, he brought the guilty Zhi Yan to his current position, and he was really not wrong.
Although this Zheyan quality fight with the seed master, Yao Gu and others led the western army east to the king of Qin, it seems that it has not won. Not to mention the Battle of Taiyuan, earlier he and Li Hui led 120,000 troops to garrison the Yellow River defense line, but because of the drum of the Jin army, more than 100,000 Song troops collapsed without a fight. As a result, the Yellow River that the Jin people easily crossed was dangerous, and Zhao Huan wanted to slaughter him with a knife.
demoted him to the deputy envoy of the Haizhou regiment and sent him to Yongzhou for resettlement, which was all cheap for him.
When Zhao Gou entered Yingtianfu, he unexpectedly found Zhi Yanzhi in the crowd, what this person did on the bank of the Yellow River was indeed very embarrassing, but in the end, he was a child of the Zhe family, he had been in the army for more than 20 years, not to mention rich experience, and he had fought a lot of tough battles.
It was in the Battle of Taiyuan, when the Song army was defeated and defeated, that the Song army rescued Taiyuan for the first time, and he sent troops with Xie Qian, the deputy envoy of the system, from the Weisheng army, and fought with the Jin soldiers for four days, and finally failed to succeed because of the Jin army's increase. However, his ability was also recognized by the imperial court, and he was promoted to the deputy envoy of Xuanfu in Hedong, Hebei.
Zhao didn't even want to think about it, so he pulled him under the tent.
This Zhen Yan quality is re-water, compared to the large group of generals in the Tianfu army that he has never heard of, then it is also advantageous.
Not to mention that he pulled Zhi Yan once, it was equivalent to forming a good relationship with the Zhi family and the Western Army, which could be of great use in the future. And for now, the quality of this fold is also very good.