Chapter 1040: Flowering in the middle and outflanking the wings

It was only a moment later, and the first building of the Qianjun Dragon Guard's more than 300 heavily armored iron cavalry were all reimbursed on this two-mile-long official road, the road was covered with corpses, and there were several war horses that had lost their owners standing among the corpses and flicking their tails, constantly turning their heads and looking.

But it was these 300 dragon guards who killed more than 1,200 Song army heavy armored infantry, and the Song army infantry of nearly 2,000 people had set up a dense military formation on the official road, but now this team has been reduced by three-fifths.

The remaining 800 Song Army heavy armored infantry were sweating profusely at this time, their faces were extremely pale, and the hellish scene in front of them made them feel as if they had escaped death, but at this moment they were even more frightened than before.

The morale was dissipating little by little at this moment, and the casualty ratio of one to four made the remaining Song army heavy infantry feel a sense of powerlessness.

Zhao Junsheng looked at the long strip of corpses on the official road in front of him expressionlessly, he raised his hand and waved: "The second building of the Dragon Guard, up!" ”

The second building will step on the war horse and shout: "The second building will all obey the order, get on the horse!" ”

"Uhhh

"Riding a gun ready—"

More than 300 soldiers of the Dragon Guard Army also put the tail of the riding gun into the cowhide sleeve, holding the barrel of the gun so that the head of the gun was facing forward and upward.

"Follow me—drive!" The second pointed his spear forward, roared and struck his horse.

Behind him, the three hundred heavily armored iron horsemen slowly accelerated, accelerated, and accelerated again in row after row.

A large number of horses' hooves sounded again, and one after another shouts of killing roared out of the throats of these knights, and the war horses galloped at high speed with the knights, and the powerful momentum once again pounced on the Song army heavy infantry on the opposite side.

After the three hundred iron horses, the horses' hooves trampled on blood, corpses, and armor, and the armor was trampled to deformation, and the corpses were trampled into meatloaf.

"Bang Bang Bang ······" The cavalry of the first row of the second building collided with the Song army's heavy infantry again, and one by one, the Song army's heavy infantry and their shields were pierced by the cavalry spears and strung together, one after another.

One by one, the heavy armored infantry of the Song army was knocked into the air, spurting blood and smashing a large area behind them, and for a while there was the sound of broken spears and broken bones, this time there was no scream, and those Song infantry who were killed and strung together had no chance to scream at all.

The front row of ten Song army infantry was completely bulldozed in two breaths, in the face of such a powerful collision and lethal heavy armored iron cavalry, the remaining more than 700 Song army heavy armored infantry no longer had the courage to continue to fight against these cadre heavy armored cavalry, they avoided jumping into the paddy field and splashed muddy water.

After more than 700 Song heavy infantry jumped into the paddy fields, they found that their situation had not improved, and even worse, because they were wearing heavy armor and could not move in the muddy water at all, and they could not even pull their legs.

But the Iron Cavalry of the Cadre Army did not care about these Song Army heavy infantry at all, and they kept rushing forward, straight to the Song Army Commander Shen Qingzhi, who was at the end of the official road in this paddy field.

Shen Qingzhi's face changed drastically when he saw this scene, and the remaining seven hundred armored infantry instantly collapsed and fled into the paddy field, which put him and the lightly armed infantry and the bow and crossbow phalanx behind him into a dangerous situation.

But Shen Qingzhi was very calm, there were two thousand light infantry and two thousand crossbow soldiers phalanx beside him, and the heavy armored iron cavalry of the cadre army kept rushing towards Shen Qingzhi, but Shen Qingzhi was not nervous at all, and the Song army beside him did not make any moves.

Just when the heavy armored cavalry of the cadre army rushed over, only more than 100 steps away from Shen Qingzhi, the three rows of cavalry in front fell down one after another, "plopping and plop······ping" The horses neighed.

The iron cavalry of the Qianjun army behind quickly slowed down and stopped, avoiding the same fate as the three rows in front, the original official road in front was dug up, in such a short time, the Song army actually dug up more than two zhang long, connecting the paddy fields on both sides of the official road.

The war horses planted in the muddy water were stuck in the mud and could not move, and the dry army knights who were planted in the muddy water could not move, but they quickly took out their daggers and cut the ties to remove their armor, without the weight of the armor, these dragon guard soldiers quickly ran through the muddy water and ran onto the official road to hide behind the rows of ironclad knights.

"Whoosh ······" Arrows kept flying from the Song army's formation in front, wave after wave, and the arrows were all bounced off the ironclad knight.

The horses gasped, the knights on horseback put away their spears, they took their bows and arrows and shot forward, these counterattacks had some effect, and some people in the Song army were constantly shot dead, but this did not cause confusion and fear in the Song army.

The infantry on both sides of the official road in the paddy fields on both sides of the road have already exchanged hands, and the infantry of the cadre army have long taken off their armor, and even their shields and boots have been thrown away before the battle, and they only have weapons in their hands.

On the other hand, on the Song army's side, although these Song troops were light infantry, they still had light armor on their bodies, and their burden was much heavier than that of the cadre infantry.

As soon as the two sides fought, the infantry of the Qianjun army gained the upper hand because of their fast movement speed and flexible reactions, and the two sides fought and scuffled together in the paddy fields.

After a moment of the battle passed, the Song infantry could not hold on, they were burdened, their physical strength was consumed quickly, and the shoes on their feet also affected their movement speed in the paddy fields because they did not take off, and they died tragically under the dry saber one by one.

Despite this, the Song army was able to maintain an undefeated situation for the time being due to its numerical superiority, and the attack of the dry army iron cavalry in the middle was blocked by the cutting off of the official road in front.

The remaining 700 or so people of the Song army's heavy armored infantry were forced to jump into the paddy field because the weight was too heavy to move, and the dry army heavy armored cavalry on the official road did not retreat, nor did they stand idly by, they collected their rifles and began to shoot the Song army heavy infantry trapped in the paddy field with their own accurate arrows, and one by one the Song army heavy armored infantry was shot in the neck, forehead, eyes and other vital parts and died.

From a distance, Shen Qingzhi observed the situation here, and instructed his side: "Order the remaining heavy infantry to find a way to unload their armor and get out of the predicament as soon as possible!" ”

"Yes, General!"

Liu Yuanjing next to him observed and asked: "General, the infantry of our army in the paddy field seems to be a little unbearable, why are the infantry of this cadre army so brave and good at fighting?" ”

Sikong joined the army Zong Yu shook his head and said: "No, it's not that they are brave and good at fighting, in the opinion of their subordinates, I'm afraid it's because they don't have a load, and our army is wearing armor, moving infantry in the paddy fields, and they are not as flexible as the infantry of the cadre army, so they are suppressed everywhere, but at this time they have entered a state of melee, and there is no way to let them unload their armor!" The subordinates suggested sending reinforcements to reverse the passive situation with the advantage of troops! ”

Shen Qingzhi thought for a while and gave an order: "Send five hundred additional reinforcements to the paddy fields on the left and right!" ”

"No!"

After a few drums, 1,000 infantry came out of the military formation, and each divided into 500 and walked down the paddy fields on the left and right.

Zhao Junsheng observed the situation for a moment, he frowned and said, "Who made the second building stop?" Give the second general an order to find a way to fill in the dug up official road and continue to rush over to me! ”

"Yes!"

After a drum sounded, the flag-bearer stood on a high place and waved the flag.

The second general of the Song Army's heavy infantry who was organizing the soldiers to shoot the surrounding paddy fields heard the sound of his own drums, turned his head to look, and shouted: "Herald, what's the matter?" What is the command? ”

The herald looked at it, read the flag, and shouted: "General, Your Majesty orders you to find a way to fill in the dug up official road and continue to attack the main formation of the Song army!" ”

After hearing this, the second general ordered: "Come on, go to a team of 100 people and carry some horse corpses over to fill in this gap!" ”

The soldiers dismounted one after another, three in groups, five in groups carrying the horse corpses to the dug up official road gap, as the horse corpses were thrown into the muddy water, this gap of more than two feet long was filled in little by little.

Shen Qingzhi, the commander of the Song army not far away, jumped in his heart when he saw this, if the gap was filled by these cadres, they would definitely continue to rush over, and he immediately ordered: "Advance the infantry, give the general to block the gap without stopping the arrows, shoot as many as they can, and once they fill the gap, they will rush over, and do not give them the time, distance and opportunity to accelerate the charge!" ”

The remaining 1,000 infantry moved forward at a neat pace, and the distance of more than a hundred troops was quickly reached, and they completely blocked the gap and the shore of the paddy field, even if the iron cavalry of the Dragon Guard filled the gap, there was no chance to charge, because there was no acceleration distance.

"Whoosh ······" The Song army kept firing arrows, which had a great impact on the cadre army, and the soldiers of the cadre army were unable to carry the horse corpses to fill the gap, and people continued to die because they were shot in the weak points of defense.

At this moment, the sound of horses' hooves sounded, coming from the side.

"What?" Shen Qingzhi turned his head to look in the direction where the sound of horses' hooves came from, and found that there was a cadre army of about 500 cavalry rushing over from the direction of the river.

His face changed instantly, and he immediately ordered loudly: "Order the infantry to divide the forces of two buildings and quickly turn to the right flank formation!" ”

Although Shen Qingzhi seemed to be too late to give this order until this time, he could only do so, hoping that the infantry could be in place in time to block the five hundred Qianjun light cavalry, and give the bow and crossbow phalanx time to strike, as long as it can block the dry army's light cavalry for a while, the bow and crossbow phalanx can give the cadre army light cavalry huge damage, after all, the power of the improved repeater is not covered!

The general of the cadre army who led the team discovered the movement of the Song army, and also saw the bow and crossbow phalanx around the commander Daxu, he quickly adjusted his tactics, and no longer decided to rush directly to the location of the Song army's Daxu, but to the left side, without directly impacting the infantry that the opponent was arranging in formation.

Since the last time Liu Jinming, the cavalry general of the cadre army, suffered a big loss at the hands of the Song general Xiao Siyan, the cavalry generals of the cadre army have realized the power of the Song army's bow and crossbow phalanx.

The light cavalry of the 500 cadres rushing from the right flank completely attracted the attention of all the Song troops, so much so that they did not notice it at all when the 500 cavalry of the cadre army from the left flank rushed directly to the back of the Song army's bow and crossbow phalanx.

Knowing that the 500 dry army light cavalry rushed to the back of the bow and crossbow phalanx, it alarmed the Song army, but it was too late, and the Song army's bow and crossbow phalanx did not have time to turn to face the Qianjun light cavalry, and was rushed into the military formation by the Qianjun light cavalry.

The sky is pitiful, in the face of the light cavalry of the cadre army rushing over, the archers and crossbowmen of the Song army have no power to resist at all, and they are almost rushed to pieces in a breath, with heavy casualties and collapse.

Even the infantry with the two buildings that were transferred to block the cavalry of the right wing cadre army were instantly crushed, and the generals of the Song army, such as Shen Qingzhi, Liu Yuanjing, and Zong Wei, were scattered and fled for their lives by the rout, and were affected by the rout in the rear, and the battle in the paddy fields in front soon became one-sided, and the Song army was completely defeated.