Chapter 1466: The Great War

In the formation of the Luoyan Army, many soldiers who had seen this kind of big scene for the first time began to tremble. As Lin Jue said, although the Luoyan Army has undergone long and arduous training, it has also undergone psychological construction and counseling. However, once you get to the real battlefield, you know the gap. The enemy troops rushing all over the mountains in front of them, the deafening shouts of killing, the dazzling brilliance of the blades, and the scene of hunting with flags covering the sky and the sun, were the scenes and shocks that they could never comprehend in their imagination. These soldiers of the Luoyan Army are also a little unlucky, they cannot gradually gain the accumulation of experience and psychological construction from the small battles, and they are forced to face this suffocating scene directly, how can they not be frightened.

However, although they trembled nervously, they did not collapse on the spot. Because beside them, the veterans and generals of the Luoyan Army stood like mountains on horseback, standing in formation, without the slightest timidity or fear. They could also see that their coach Lin Jue was also sitting on the back of a five-flowered horse, holding a long knife without fear. The backbone of the Luoyan Army, the generals and veterans who have experienced the iron-blooded years of the Luoyan Army, and the baptism of battle, are now like rocks standing on the coast, welcoming the other party's soldiers and horses like a sea tide. Their composure played a role in stabilizing people's hearts and playing the role of the backbone of the army.

"Ready!" Beside Lin Jue, with Sun Dayong's shouting, a red order flag was raised high in the air, bright and dazzling.

"Ready!" The various formations of the Falling Goose Army immediately responded, the bowstring was opened, and the bow and arrow were mounted. The repeater clicked and the respring clicked, and the arrow magazine filled with crossbow arrows was quickly reloaded.

The overwhelming Jurchen cavalry only took less than half a pillar of incense to rush in front of the 20,000-strong cavalry team in front of the Luoyan army. At the same time, the red order flag of the Chinese army of the Falling Wild Goose Army waved violently, and with three red fireworks bombs rising into the air with a screaming sound, the cavalry team of the Falling Wild Goose Army began to snipe the attacking enemy with bows and crossbows.

Arrows as dense as flying locusts obscure the sky, and the hum of the bowstring is like a swarm of bees. The repeater spring made a short, powerful click as it fired. In the short time that the opponent entered the firing range, tens of thousands of crossbow arrows were fired, all pouring into the opponent's formation.

Blood bloomed like spring flowers in advance, and the blows of strong bows and repeaters caused countless blood-colored flowers to burst out of the Jurchen cavalry formation. The screams and moans, the mournful neighing of the horses, mingled with the terrifying swishing of crossbow arrows breaking through the air, and the low popping sound that pierced through flesh. Countless Jurchen cavalry were shot to the ground under the dense rain of arrows. The horses rolled on the ground, kicking up the grass and mud that was truly black. Immediately the knight was thrown into the air, screaming with teeth and claws. Some of them were shot into porcupines by a dense barrage of crossbow arrows before they landed in the air. Those who landed on the ground had no good fruit to eat, and even if they were not shot by arrows, they could not escape the trampling of the horse's hooves.

In a very short period of time, more than 3,000 Jurchen cavalry were shot off their horses, some of them were shot directly, and some of them were trampled to death by the hooves of their own cavalry that did not stop. Fortunately, the Jurchen cavalry had rich experience in cavalry charges, and they used a skirmish formation and a large depth echelon attack, rather than a swarm attack. Otherwise, they would have died from the rain of crossbow arrows and trampling on each other, resulting in even greater casualties. But even so, thousands of people were killed and injured in just one round of arrow rain, and the long-distance blocking ability of the Falling Goose Army was still extremely amazing

But all this failed to stop the Jurchen cavalry's attack, and being blocked by bows and arrows when charging was already a thing that the cavalry had to face, especially after entering the opponent's range, what they could do was not to evade, because there was no way to avoid it, but to rush forward more desperately until they broke through the opponent's defensive line. Therefore, although the opponent's sniper fire was fierce, the Jurchen cavalry charged faster.

The effective range of the bow and crossbow was only a little more than a hundred paces, and this distance of more than 100 steps was only enough time for two rounds of fire at most under the rapid charge of the cavalry. Although the cavalry of the Falling Goose Army possessed a perverted long-range attack weapon such as a repeater, they could shoot more than a dozen crossbow arrows in the arrow box in a short period of time. But the number of repeaters is limited after all. The entire cavalry of the Luoyan Army was equipped with less than 5,000 crossbows, and the rest were all ordinary bows and arrows. This thing is too complex and delicate to be easily copied in large quantities, and five thousand repeaters is already a very large number. But at this moment, it was obviously not enough to block the attack of the Jurchens.

In the blink of an eye, the Jurchen cavalry on the front had already rushed to within fifty paces. At this moment, the cavalry of the Falling Wild Goose Army had just had time to shoot a second round of arrow rain. The closer you are, the better your natural accuracy and the more lethal you are. This time, more people flipped on their backs, and more Jurchen cavalry were shot and rolled off their horses. However, having paid the price of more than six thousand dead and wounded, the Jurchen cavalry on the front also rushed to the front. The cavalry of the Falling Goose Army in front had no chance to fire their arrows, and they were already face to face with the rushing opponent, and had to engage in brutal hand-to-hand combat.

In the rear, Wanyan Aguda looked nervous and watched the situation on the battlefield after his cavalry rushed within a distance of fifty paces. Although he saw the scene of his own soldiers being shot and killed on his back, Wanyan Aguda laughed unexpectedly.

The generals and guards beside him were very inexplicable, thinking that the big leader had taken the wrong medicine. Seeing such heavy casualties among your own cavalry, but still gloating? It's stupid. Only Li Guoqiu knew why Wanyan Aguda was smiling so happily. Because, it was still the crossbow arrows that shot the Jurchen cavalry in front of the battle, not the firearms of the Luoyan Army, which made Wanyan Aguda worry the most. Within a distance of fifty paces, it was the distance where the shotgun firearm exerted its great power, and there was no roaring sound in front of the formation, which meant that the opponent's ordinary soldiers and horses were really not equipped with firearms. What Li Guoqiu said was right, how could the Luoyan Army be equipped with such a complex and expensive firearm? The soldiers and horses that attacked that day should have been the only cavalry in the Luoyan army armed with firearms. The number will not exceed a thousand. A big stone in Wanyan Agu's heart finally fell to the ground. As long as the other party does not have a large number of such firearms, everything is already under their control.

Hand-to-hand combat started on the front, relying on the powerful impact force, the Jurchen cavalry quickly rushed into the frontal formation of the Luoyan army. The two cavalry teams of the Falling Wild Goose Army in front were naturally not good at stubble, they were commanded by Shen Tan and Ma Qingshan respectively. When the other party rushed forward, Shen Tan and Ma Qingshan were already ready. At the sound of an order, all the cavalry had already drawn out their long, narrow and sharp greedy wolf knives to meet them. The two sides were staggered in formation and entangled in an instant.

The Jurchens grew on horseback and were skilled in riding and archery. When the cavalry in the world was so strong in combat effectiveness, the Jurchens said second, and no one dared to say first. The Liao people were known as the first cavalry in the world, but they were beaten into prototypes in front of the Jurchens. Therefore, in the minds of the Jurchen cavalry, they take it for granted that they are the first in the world, and anyone who dares to be self-conscious

Opponents who have fought on horseback are not self-sufficient. Therefore, from the beginning of the battle, they did not pay attention to the cavalry of the Luoyan Army at all. They thought that once they entered the stage of hand-to-hand combat, the cavalry of the Falling Goose Army would quickly collapse. Because what is there to be afraid of the cavalry of the ridiculous Great Zhou Nanren? Not to mention a rebel who is said to live in the mountains.

However, as soon as they fought, the Jurchen cavalry sensed that something was wrong. The cavalry of the Falling Goose Army is not a fish belly at all. The blades in their hands were different from those of all the opponents they had encountered, long, narrow, and sharp, more than a foot longer than the meniscus used by the Jurchen cavalry. The two sides slashed at each other, and the meniscus couldn't reach each other at all. The two sides slashed each other in a round, and the Jurchen cavalry fell off their horses one after another, and the people who were cut by the sharp greedy wolf knives turned over on their backs, suffering heavy casualties.

The Jurchen cavalry immediately used their best tactics, they got close to their opponents, monkey-like rushing on the back of the opponent's horses, and they wanted to use their nimble skills to engage in more close hand-to-hand combat, which was also their specialty. They can ride on each other's shoulders, stick to each other's backs, and then cut each other's throats with the blade, pick out each other's eyeballs with their fingers, and bite off each other's ears and noses with their teeth.

However, they were surprised to find that this method of warfare was simply sending them to death. The cavalry of the Luoyan Army all have the martial arts of hand-to-hand combat, and they are not inferior at all in hand-to-hand combat. The Jurchen cavalry who jumped on the back of the opponent's horse suffered an unprecedented defeat, they were reversed one by one, their fingers and wrist joints were broken, their necks were strangled by the opponent's back, and they were ruthlessly slaughtered after losing their combat ability.

At the beginning, Lin Jue had seen the combat methods of the Jurchens. Especially on the south bank of the Daling River, Lin Jue had seen an ambush battle against the Liao people by the Jurchens, and he had witnessed how the Jurchens defeated the Liao people in this way of tearing and biting like wild beasts. After returning to Funiu Mountain, Lin Jue of course had to take targeted precautions. The best way to defend yourself is to teach the soldiers of the Fallen Goose the art of hand-to-hand combat. To this end, Lin Jue hired more than a dozen martial arts people with high martial skills, including Bai Bing's master Bai Yushuang, as the instructor of the Luoyan Army. Targeted to teach the soldiers of the Luoyan Army the method of hand-to-hand combat. You don't need much, you just need to select the most practical dozen tricks, and you can implement them on horseback. Some people naturally thought that there was no need for this, but Lin Jue insisted on doing so, he just wanted to prevent such a day. Unexpectedly, this move really came in handy today.

Originally, I thought that the opponent's formation would disperse as soon as it rushed away, and it would soon become a one-sided hunting time. However, the frontal battle of the cavalry was blocked, and the Jurchen cavalry attacking the two 10,000-strong troops of the Luoyan Army not only did not defeat the opponent, but suffered great losses. But fortunately, the Jurchen cavalry had a large number of soldiers and horses, and although the 50,000 cavalry on the front had lost a lot, they still had an absolute advantage at this moment, and they would not panic to the point of rout.

The forward general Zarhan was extremely anxious in his heart, he was only able to become the forward general because his boss Hulu was killed by the surprise attack of the Luoyan army two days ago. He took over Hulu's position. In fact, in terms of qualifications, he is not qualified. So he really wanted to show something and not disappoint the big leader. Because his forward general is only temporary, if the battle does not satisfy the big leader, he will be removed immediately. Before the battle, Zarhan slapped his chest to defeat his opponent. In the current battle, his 50,000 cavalry has lost eight or nine thousand people, but he is blocked by the other side in front of the formation and has not made any progress at all, which is unacceptable. I'm afraid the big leader has already blown his beard and glared.