Chapter Seventy-Four: Ambush

Shi Bin's stimulation along the way made the Yuan people angry, eager to eat its flesh raw, drink its blood, pump its tendons, and crush its bones and ashes.

Since the occupation of Taiyuan, although the Song people have occasionally had several successful assassinations, the killers have fled immediately after the success, hiding in the jungle alleys, and never dared to deliberately leave a living message when they fled, so ignoring their fanatics.

Shi Bin's behavior can be regarded as a big slap in the mouth of the Yuan people, and it also makes them understand that there are many fearless iron men in the Great Song Dynasty, not all cowards.

Anger can easily make people lose their minds, especially this kind of repeated irritation, even soldiers who have only been on the battlefield for half a year can see that this is obviously a lure to the enemy.

But they didn't think so, and what made the Yuan people feel most confident was the invincible iron horse, so they were not afraid of this possible small risk.

In this land that has been occupied for more than ten years, they have long regarded themselves as the masters here, and they think that Shi Bin and the others have absolutely nothing to hide, as long as they catch up, what awaits this group of madmen is only destruction.

If they were too cautious, they would be ridiculed by their colleagues for their cowardice and lose the face of the Dayuan warriors, so Taiyuan Daru Huachi immediately sent men and horses to chase after the group of fanatics who rushed into the jungle.

As Shi Bin expected, there were only about 50 cavalry and two battalions of light infantry to catch up, and the infantry did not seem to be Mongols from the face, but Han Chinese, Hui people, and even Uyghurs.

In this way, the two "mongrel" battalions certainly do not have much combat effectiveness, not to mention the fact that there is still a lot of distance between the two combat units of cavalry and infantry. According to Shi Bin, a military fan and a half-hung general, this is under-pumping and looking for a beating.

Although angry, the captain of the Yuan cavalry who led the army was somewhat sensible, and after less than a quarter of an hour of chasing into the forest, he no longer moved forward, but waited for the rear infantry to follow.

Of course, he couldn't let the two forces be one, so Shi Bin ordered Wang San to take a small team of soldiers to attack the Yuan cavalry, provoke them, and disperse their combat strength.

The biggest advantage of Yuan people is that they are not afraid of life and death, and the biggest disadvantage is that they lack reason and are easily excited, both of which are the result of being irritable.

After Wang San's continuous stimulation of cold arrows, the cavalry captain became frantic again, and only fifty horsemen were divided into more than a dozen by him to chase Wang San.

The commander who used to seem to be a "madman" is now considered by everyone to be a very tactically minded general.

Because under his constant lure, the pursuing Yuan army had been divided into at least three groups, and they had been brought into a pocket-shaped valley.

And Shi Bin's order to his subordinates was: shoot or bomb these guys who don't know whether they are alive or dead on the premise of protecting themselves.

Everyone knows that the most combative in the mountains and forests are the mountain infantry armed with light weapons, especially crossbowmen, and the most ineffective are the Mongolian cavalry with sabers.

What made them even more confident was that this northbound assault team was also equipped by Shi Bin with a crossbow and a total of thirty tiger squat cannons.

Just as Shi Bin was full of ambition to let his thirty tiger squat cannons stun the group of Yuan soldiers and make them retreat without an army, Wang San suddenly sent the news that "the gunpowder is damp and cannot use the tiger squat cannon".

This can make him deflated at once, and he will be able to fight without intention, even if he wants to fight, he will definitely be able to win. However, the loss is definitely not small, so it is impossible to carry forward the next plan.

Jia Ling jumped out and said with a smile: "Commander Shi, you can't fight without the tiger squat cannon, so you are ready to retreat?" ”

In such an urgent moment of battle, there is absolutely no room for any laughter, and everyone must be serious.

Without saying a word, Shi Bin immediately glared angrily, and said to Jia Ling: "Shut up for me!" If you want to talk nonsense, go back to Ezhou; If you don't want to die, just give me a good lie here! ”

I really didn't expect that when it came to the war, her usually polite husband would actually speak ill of him, although tears were about to pop out of her eyes, she still held back. Choked up and asked, "Do you want to know how to win them at the lowest cost?" ”

Seeing that he was wearing a beautiful wife like this, he knew that he had just made her angry, but now he didn't have time to be a good husband who was considerate of his wife, and he said hard: "Say!" ”

"Group crossbow bolts stealth attack." After Jia Ling finished speaking coldly, she really hid behind a big tree and didn't care about anything else.

Indeed, this is the true meaning of jungle warfare, although jungle warfare has been repeatedly emphasized, and even the soldiers choose those who live in the mountains all year round.

However, the combat experience left for him was to ambush the Yuan soldiers in array when they were robbing and burning grain. Subconsciously, each person still wants to take at least twenty or thirty soldiers to attack from a distance in different locations.

But I forgot that the best way is actually to disperse all into small groups and shoot a medium and long-range attack in one place.

It is difficult for the enemy to fight hand-to-hand, because this is the valley, Shi Binbu is condescending, and the enemy army in the valley is the target, and if they want to fight hand-to-hand, they must first climb the mountain.

The Tiger Squat Cannon was supposed to be used to block and destroy groups of enemies, but now since they can't be eliminated in groups, they simply bloom everywhere and make them careless.

Shi Bin thought that it was indeed not necessary to be entangled in one method, and to fight flexibly, and immediately subdivided the combat units that had been divided into divisions according to Jia Ling's opinion, and ordered: 'Disperse and attack', kill people according to the method used when hunting in the mountains and forests, and no more than five people are allowed to gather, and no more than five people are allowed to act alone, let alone go out of this small valley.

changed the tactics, and the effect was really good, which reminded him of the group of Chinese soldiers in "My Regiment Commander, My Regiment", who had a hammer in the east and a stick in the west, and would never charge in groups.

Returning to the hunter's position, Shi Bin began his hunt. Slowly crawled to the vicinity of a cavalryman who was searching on horseback, and aimed a crossbow arrow at the guy's head. With the slight sound of the bolt slicing through it, he fell to the ground.

Regardless of whether the Yuan soldier was dead or not, Shi Bin turned around and shrank into the jungle on the mountainside.

At first, of course, they all dispersed so quickly, and the people who followed him didn't quite understand what this so-called scattered attack meant.

Although the essence of hunting is understood, it is to kill with one blow; But with many people hunting for multiple prey, I have never done it, and I just want to try it but I feel uneasy about this unfamiliar method of warfare that I have never been exposed to.

Of course, those guards would not disperse with the protection of Shi Bin as their first priority, and Shi Bin also made an exception to leave ten people by his side.

Gradually, the other soldiers under his command found that Shi Bin who followed him seemed to be being chased and killed in the woods, and it didn't look like he was ambushing at all.

I also began to find that it was easy to be caught up when walking together, and it was easy to be killed by the arrows of the cavalry, but those who ran behind were not afraid of anything when they hid in the grass and behind the trees.

They were even more puzzled and surprised by the behavior of their commanders, who traditionally hunted with traps and crossbow arrows. But this one still smashed with stones, tripped with his legs, and sprinkled the thistles on the road he ran over, but if he really couldn't run, he simply rolled to the side of the road regardless of his face and hid. In short, never engage in hand-to-hand combat.

Is this also called war? The group of amateur mountain soldiers under his command seemed to be watching some kind of drama, and in the eyes of these soldiers who didn't know what guerrilla warfare was, Shi Bin was more like a monkey playing with giant beasts.

However, the actual effect is worth a thousand words, their completely shameless commander who only wants to kill has indeed killed a lot of reckless soldiers, and he is almost not injured, at most it is just a little abrasion when fleeing for his life.

As if they all understood the meaning of 'scattering and attacking', they all pulled a few pleasing brothers to form small combat units to 'hunt'.

The most powerful thing about the Yuan cavalry was to use the speed of the cavalry and the group charge to disperse the enemy before they could wake up, and a massacre with arrows and sabers followed.

Now I have encountered such a group of scoundrels who do not come out to fight in a dignified manner, but like cats to fight black guns in the jungle.

It's good to catch up and duel like a hero! But they never fought hand-to-hand, only after throwing off their group of steppe warriors, they came out of another place to shoot crossbow arrows. Although they were so angry that they smoked, there was nothing they could do.

Before they knew it, the pursuers had lost more than half of them, and after coming to their senses, they finally thought of retreating.

In the land occupied by themselves, they were beaten by a small group of Song troops to retreat, this behavior is of course an insult to their Dayuan warriors, and it is unbearable, even the most reasonable people will be unwilling to hesitate, but if they don't retreat, the whole army will be exhausted, so they can only bow to reality.

The captain of the Yuan cavalry was finally forced to give the order to retreat, and withdrew from the valley with almost all the cavalry and most of the lost infantry.

Looking at the corpses all over the mountains, Shi Bin felt ambitious again. After all, this was actually the first real jungle warfare, and it was only based on crossbow arrows and fighting skills, not firearms.

Although it was very humiliating at the beginning, it suffered a lot of losses. But later, it turned into a one-sided massacre, making people fight more and more, as if the soldiers were not enough to kill.

From this battle, Shi Bin discovered the shortcomings of his troops' operations: they relied too heavily on firearms and did not have strong adaptability.

The adaptability is not strong and tolerable, but it is not good to rely too heavily on firearms, and it seems that it is still necessary to practice the use of crossbow arrows and cold weapons, otherwise the enemy will become a lamb to the slaughter once he gets close.

cast an apologetic and grateful look at his wife, and Jia Ling also returned an angry and arrogant gaze, which made Shi Bin laugh. made him feel Jia Ling's cuteness more and more.

When cleaning the battlefield, a lot of bows and arrows and short knives were collected, and dead horses were used as food, one for each person.

With these gains, the new mountain soldiers were completely convinced by this tactically minded commander.

You must know that these trophies are very rare, which can be said to be a status symbol. Now a Yuan human head is a great military feat, and it is even more honorable to be able to get trophies.

In the past, the war was completely fought to the death, and the idea of "killing one is enough, killing two to earn one" was pursued.

But this Shi Commander's style of fighting is completely abusing and killing the Yuan people, it is a one-sided slaughter, although it is a little insidious and cunning, but the war only needs to be a result.

Therefore, these soldiers on the battlefield still want to have such a very exciting and enjoyable action again.

After all, such a battle and such a smooth battle cannot be found anywhere.