Chapter 892: A Troublesome Confidant Worthy of Admiration
The Jin Army's Tiefutu is also a heavy cavalry with heavy armor used to break down and scatter the enemy's formation. However, this army was under the leadership of the Jin general Wanyan Wushu, first at the Xianren Pass by the Song army Yongjian who was led by Wu Jue and equipped with a divine arm bow, and then also tore up the Song-Jin contract in the Jin State and killed when rushing to Lin'an, although it attacked everything along the way, but was blocked by Liu Qi in Shunchang, and tens of thousands of Jin troops, 10,000 kidnappers and horses and 3,000 iron floats were all annihilated. Wanyan Wushu was intercepted by Yue Fei when he led his troops to retreat, and the remaining 2,000 Tiefutu, 5,000 kidnappers and tens of thousands of horse infantry were also wiped out by Yue's army, and the heavy cavalry force of the Jin army was completely wiped out by Tiefutu.
And Liu Qi and Yue Fei also used weapons such as hemp knives and big-handled axes to cut off the legs of horses that were difficult to protect even heavy armored iron horsemen in the fierce battle of annihilating Tiefutu, and this tactic was brought into full play.
However, the battlefield situation is changing rapidly, and every war should not copy the classic examples of the ancestors as it is, Liu Qi was able to defeat the Jin army Tiefutu in the Shunchang victory, in addition to ordering the infantry under his command to equip the infantry with knives and other blades used to cut off the legs of heavy horses, and more importantly, it was also to take advantage of the scorching weather at that time, which caused the Tiefutu heavy armor to suddenly launch a fierce attack and win a big victory when the heavy armor of the Tiefutu was exhausted.
However, the Xia State Iron Harrier and the Jin State Iron Floating Slaughter are also heavy cavalry troops, but their respective tactics are also very different.
Although the Iron Floating Horse is a heavy cavalry with iron armor, the Jin army is usually equipped with more mobile light cavalry such as heavy spear and horse crutch horses, bow and arrow crutch horses on its wings, so that the impact of the cavalry group can be maximized when charging, and the tactics of the Xia State Iron Harrier are usually the opportunity to meet the enemy, first break through the formation with heavy cavalry, and then advance by the infantry while the enemy is in chaos. In other words, when the Xia army encountered the enemy in the galloping place of the plains, it relied more on the effect of the Iron Harrier heavy cavalry to break the formation, and compared with the Jin army's iron floating slaughter, abduction horses, and light and heavy infantry tactical combinations, it was more simple and crude.
Whether it is the Iron Harrier or the Iron Float, the tactics of attacking the enemy and cutting off the horse's legs are also very applicable.
Although the heavily armored enemy horses in front of them were majestic and tall, the Xia army knights riding on the horses, holding spears like iron-armored monsters, and a large number of Song soldiers with simple swords still rushed over with a neighing and angry roar with a fierce voice. Rows of Pu knives shone out of the snow and cold, and the iron harrier army that rushed to the front was not afraid at all when they saw the situation, and the iron-clad war horses under their crotches were still rushing forward, and there were already several riding spears that pierced the bodies of more than a dozen Song army soldiers!
The fierce impact of the Xia army's heavy cavalry like a mountain and sea still had some effect, many Song army soldiers in the hands of the Pu knife did not wait to cut the leg of the iron harrier heavy horse, it has been pierced through the body by the sharp spear, and the foot soldiers crashed into the galloping iron armored warhorse, and were hit backwards by the powerful momentum, most of the viscera were scattered, the bones were shattered, and the mouthful of blood was killed immediately, but the second row of infantry soldiers holding the Pu knife still rushed forward one after another, although the momentum of the heavy cavalry's charge was like a mountain and a sea, However, the Song army in front of the army was still swimming against the current in the enemy's iron cavalry, and wanted to surround the iron harriers who had already charged into their own army formation!
More and more of the Song army Pu swordsmen under the command of the generals all bowed down, strode forward, began to step and swing the knife to the enemy's horse legs to chop hard, and finally there were a few galloping iron horse hooves were cut in two, after a few long neighing, those iron harriers even led the horse to the ground, and then the whole row of dozens of heavy cavalry also fell on their backs, some iron harrier heavy cavalry flew more than a dozen steps away under the huge inertia, and then smashed into the Song army's rear column!
The Xia army iron harrier, riding a good horse, heavy armor, stabbing in, with a hook and rope twisting, although the dead horse does not fall, but once the horse leg that is difficult to protect the vest is cut off by the enemy, how can the war horse without hooves gallop and gallop? Liu Qi also drank and ordered the various departments to focus on attacking the two wings of the iron harrier charging forward, and the heavy horse connected by the iron cable also fell to the ground one after another with a neigh, the dust in the sky was raised, and several teams of iron harriers behind him could not retract, and with a burst of fierce collision sounds, they were also tripped and fell to the ground by the heavy horse in front of them, and the iron harrier in front of him was forcibly stopped from sprinting, and the soldiers of the Song army all picked up their blades and outflanked them, and began to kill the heavy armored knights of the Xia army who fell to the ground!
Xiao Tang, who has watched "Water Margin", knows that Hu Yanzhuo originally led 3,000 serial heavy cavalry to repeatedly defeat Liangshan soldiers and horses, but why was Song Jiang, Shi Qian, Tang Long and others designed to earn Xu Ning and break his serial horses, and he also knows very well how Liu Qi, Yue Fei and other famous anti-Jin generals in the official history also annihilated the heavy cavalry unit Tiefutu in the Jin army. However, the Xia State and the Song State have mainly focused on the fortress attack on the border front over the years, and the Xia army has tried to maximize the effect of the Iron Harrier Heavy Cavalry Charge to break the formation, so it has been using hooks and cables to make the power of its charge more intensive, but it also retains this fatal drawback.
It's just that a large number of Song soldiers blocked the momentum of the iron harrier with their flesh and blood, and many of them had a rough texture of the Pu knife in their hands, and before they could cut off the legs of the enemy's horses, they died heroically under the fierce charge of the enemy.
However, Liu Qi's organization of these Pu Dao hands have already played a miraculous effect, the Xia Army's Iron Harrier was originally to highlight the Song Army's large array, like several rows of nailed walls to crush through, and completely overwhelm the dense defensive formation of Xiao Tang's troops and horses, but as the heavy armored cavalry connected by the hook and lock fell in rows, more and more gathered, and the iron harriers behind were tripped by their colleagues and horses with inertia, and in the deafening impact sound, these thousands of Iron Harriers had completely lost the advantage of impact.
Except for some iron harrier heavy riders who were killed under the violent impact, although the other heavy armored knights were still covered with heavy iron armor, they could not ride and gallop now, and those Xia army knights who fell into the Song army's formation and had not yet come to their senses were all surrounded and killed by the Song army's foot soldiers, and the blades in the hands of those Song army soldiers no longer only cared about slashing at the enemy's war horses and horses, but killing at these enemies wearing heavy armor!
At the same time, on the hill in the distance, Cha Ge was riding a horse to watch the battle situation, his face was stunned, he looked at the heavy cavalry elite iron harrier under his command only a small part of the cavalry fell into the Song army's encirclement, the rest of the heavy cavalry did not even wait for the horse to rush into the Song army's large array, they were knocked down by their colleagues in the front one after another, although the corner of the Song army's army formation began to rout under the heavy cavalry charge, but it was still able to maintain a dense defensive formation, originally intended to use the iron harrier to break the enemy's large array of tactics, Brother Cha found that he had completely miscalculated!
After being stunned, the calm and relaxed look on Brother Cha's face gradually faded, and the fierceness in his eyes became more and more obvious. After a while, Brother Cha suddenly laughed coldly and muttered, "Okay! Since he can break my iron harrier, then Xiao Tang is indeed my Xia Guo's henchman! You have such ability, and you are indeed worthy of the admiration of this king, so this king wants to kill you even more! ”