Chapter 868: Provocation? Test? The purpose of the enemy army
The horn of "Woo ~~~~~" sounded for a long time, and the majestic horn and the continuous sound of reed leaves and beards, but seeing that a dark cloud rolled up under the banner of Xia Jun's erected teeth, the party and the horsemen waved a murderous aura in the sky. Xia Jun, who had braided hair and shoulder-length hair, rode with iron on his head, wore a chain of iron armor on his left cover, and the cavalry archery on the galloping horse was a sheep's horn bow and sand willow arrows, and from a distance, he saw countless small black dots dense and gathered together.
The rolling iron cavalry frenzy gathered by the cavalry of the Xia Kingdom surged wildly, overwhelmingly swept towards the Song army under Xiao Tang. In the camp of the Song army, Wang Jin squinted at the surging Xia State cavalry, and immediately shouted an order: "The generals of the Jingnan Army listen to the order, teach the crossbowmen to lie behind the antlers of the company camp, and listen to my order to shoot a volley!" ”
At this time, Xiao Tang, Liu Zhongwu, Yao Pingzhong and other generals of the Song army also rode their horses and led their troops to run to the front of the company camp. ”
The officers of the Western Army, the Jingnan Army, and the forbidden army under the rule of Guan Sheng and Hu Yanzhuo immediately shook the military flag and beat the war drums, and the officers and men of the three armies also immediately took action. When the rolling torrent of cavalry formed by the Xia army had just rushed to a distance of five or six hundred meters from the Song army's camp, layers of spears and shields had been laid among the infantry troops of the Song army, and the crossbowmen were also lined up under the command of the generals, and hooked their fingers on the bowstring with arrows.
Xiao Tang and Liu Zhongwu, Liu Qi, Yao Pingzhong and other generals of the Western Army escorted the battle to supervise the battle, but suddenly heard a sound of rolling horses' hooves from the oblique back, and suddenly bumped out of a cavalry of the Xia Kingdom in the southwest of the Song army company camp, the people and horses were like a tide, and thousands of healthy horses also slammed the ground and made a fierce roar, making the earth seem to tremble, and also suddenly rushed towards the Song army company camp!
Xiao Tang snorted coldly when he saw this, and he didn't panic at all, and the Song army under his command had quickly lined up into a formation under the command of the generals and generals. Even if the two cavalry teams with a number of nearly 10,000 people roared and killed, but the countless bows and crossbows in their own large array, the spears and swords were in array, and all the Song soldiers were also fearless, and they had already laid layers of anti-horse antlers around the camp. Rao is Xia Guo's Ma Army's impact is like thunder and waves, but if this kind of charging momentum wants to directly crush the layers of arrays that his side has been waiting for a long time, this is undoubtedly a fool's dream.
After another moment, the vanguard of more than 1,000 people in the Xia army's cavalry formation gradually distanced itself from the horse army in the rear, and slowly formed a wedge-shaped arrow impact formation, getting closer and closer to the Song army's camp. In the Song army camp, Wang Jin got Xiao Tang's military order, and saw that the enemy cavalry could rush into the range of his crossbowmen, so he immediately gave an order and shouted: "Release the arrow!" ”
"Woooo A series of heart-pounding arrows roaring through the wind suddenly sounded, and the humming sound of thousands of sharp arrows soaring into the air echoed in mid-air, and immediately turned into a rain of sharp arrows and arrows that shone with a cold glow, and the head and face were cut and fell down towards the Xia army cavalry formation that rushed to the front!
The cavalry of the Xia army, who urged the galloping cavalry, could raise the round shield in their hands to protect the vital point, but many people were still shot under the first round of arrow rain blows of the Song army, and there was a cry of surprise and misery in the Xia cavalry array, and then more than 200 Xia army knights fell from the bumpy horseback, and the war horse that was hit by the arrow was also neighing and screaming, and then fell to the ground heavily, and raised a large cloud of smoke and dust.
Before rushing to the Song army's formation and the enemy's short encounter, with the order of Wang Jin of the capital regiment, the crossbowmen shot out another round of arrow rain, and the tense humming sound of the bowstring sounded again, and in an instant, thousands of sharp wolf's tooth arrows broke through the air, and after traveling more than 100 steps in the air, a sharp screaming waterfall rain fell from the sky, and fell on the top of the Xia army's cavalry array in an instant.
The Xia army rushed to the front of the cavalry to leave a lot of corpses, but the momentum of the thunderous rush did not decrease, at this time the front of the strong cavalry had rushed to the front of the camp several erected in front of a forest of rejection horses and guns, the Song army infantry in the front was almost able to see the hideous faces of the Xia army knights in the front, but at this moment, the galloping Xia army cavalry turned around and turned, they could brush the edge of the camp, and drew an arc to reverse the left wing of the Song army camp, and the antlers of the horse were relatively less frontally arranged in the direction of pounce.
It seems that the generals who commanded the cavalry of these Xia armies also knew that most of the men and horses under their command were light cavalry with more rudimentary armor than ironclad heavy cavalry, and they were about to give full play to their advantages of strong mobility and combat flexibility, and would not confront the large array of the Song army's infantry army, which had long been well organized.
Xiao Tang had long expected that the enemy was likely to take advantage of the momentum of the war horse to attack east and west, thus disrupting the deployment of his own military formation. However, the generals of the Western Army such as Liu Zhongwu, Liu Qi, Yao Pingzhong, and Wu Jue under his command are all good generals who can attack and defend well, and are very good at commanding troops.
The dense formation of the front and rear wings of the Song army camp did not flow, although the Xia army's strong cavalry swept away to the left flank, and the dense spear formation in the front stood like a mountain, and also shot dense arrows from the rear formation. The horned bow raised by the knights of the Xia army also shot suddenly towards the military formation discharged by the Song army, and the wolf tooth arrows pierced the bodies of many Song army foot soldiers, and sharp arrow clusters burst out from behind the soldiers, and bloomed bright blood flowers, and the Song army soldiers who were hit by the arrows immediately fell straight to the ground one after another. The arrows of the cavalry of the Xia army who were galloping also fell from their horses one after another, and the rolling horses behind them still surged like a torrent, trampling those colleagues who fell from their horses under the hooves of the horses, and soon they were silent.
The thousands of Xia cavalry charging in front were just a disguise...... Xiao Tang just thought to himself in his heart, followed by another group of Xia army horsemen and rode over the antlers on the flank to reject the horse, still rushing to ride the horse, and when they rubbed against the infantry army array on the flank of the Song army, their sabers also dragged towards the Song army soldiers with the momentum of the war horse! The bodies of some Song army spearmen in the front were slashed by sharp blades, but more Song army gunners reached out with spears in their hands and squeezed towards the Xia soldiers who galloped to the close, but all the Xia army knights who were stabbed and fell off their horses immediately saw countless spears coming and were killed by random guns in an instant.
Although the flank attack of the Xia army's cavalry avoided large-scale casualties among their own soldiers and horses, the dense formation of the Song army stood still, although the surrounding enemy cavalry turned into a torrent to urge the horses to gallop, and the sound of tight horse hooves was like rolling thunder, but it was still unable to directly break into the enemy camp.
What is the idea of this enemy army?
Xiao Tang frowned, puzzled for a while, through these days of several battles with the enemy, Xiao Tang can also deeply understand the style of the Xia army, the Xia people in addition to the use of troops in addition to the more than the false village, set up ambushes to surround the enemy, often use the tactics of luring the Song army into their own encirclement, in the case of a failure in the attack, they will also choose to retreat immediately rather than fight to a single soldier, although many generals of the Western Army ridiculed the Xia people for "running away shamelessly". However, in addition to being able to fight fiercely, those Xia soldiers and horses can also flexibly use the escape strategy, and almost will not insist on making senseless sacrifices.
However, at present, most of the Xia army are light cavalry horses, and they can't use the momentum of the war horses to break up the soldiers and horses arranged by their own side, and several strong horsemen only care about shooting bows and horses around the Song army camp, and from time to time rub and crash into their own infantry phalanx, so it doesn't seem like they want to fight to the death with their own soldiers and horses, which is both like a temptation and a provocation.
No matter what the purpose of the enemy army is, now that they have killed in front of their eyes, they must always teach this group of Xia army cavalry to hurt their muscles and bones, and greatly damage their vitality, Xiao Tang thought in his heart, and immediately shouted loudly: "Niu Gao, Guan Sheng, and Wu Jue listen to the order, lead the horse army to get ready, and when I give the order, immediately lead the cavalry out of the battle to intercept the Xia thief!" ”