Chapter 704: Yan Yun (27)
"Now I can only fight hard." Wan Yan Xian's face showed a moment of hesitation, and it quickly turned into firmness. In the end, he couldn't give up all his infantry armor, so he only led the horse army to flee back to Datong Mansion.
"Puruhu, you lead the cavalry to attack the left flank of the Qi army! Yelu Yujian, you and take people to watch the Han cavalry on the other side. β
The Qi army has already flown with both wings and is pressing on a large scale. If you don't fight hard at this moment, it will be difficult to fight.
And since he had to fight to the death, he could only let go of the horse army in his hand, and rushed all the way in the two wings of the Qi army with all his might, beating them, and driving the defeated army to roll up the middle army of the Qi army. Only in this way can the Jin Army have a glimmer of hope for a turnaround in this battle. Otherwise, he would have to lose and lose.
In that case, there will be no hope for the situation of the Jin army in Xijing Province.
"Killβ" Puruhu did not hesitate, and after receiving the order, he ran back to the headquarters, wielding a mace and roaring loudly. Six thousand horsemen swarmed out, and Yelu Yujian also led four thousand Khitan cavalry to the side, faintly guarding the Purhu tiger.
Yang Zhi had no intention of calling the horse army in his hand to attack, he had six or seven thousand horse troops in his hand, almost half of which belonged to the Zhenghuang Banner Army led by Xuanzan, and the rest were the four cavalry battalions under the Governor's Mansion of the Right Army, as well as more than 1,000 scattered cavalry from all over the province of Hedong.
With such a patchwork team, the blue-faced beast will not fight hard with the golden cavalry, and he has a large number of infantry troops, with 20,000 infantry troops on each wing. It is to fight for consumption, and it is also to fight for the infantry first!
The main commander of the left-wing army was none other than Wu Song. He has gone from a martial artist who can only play ruthless to today, and he has paid countless efforts and painstaking efforts, who called his original foundation too poor.
The art of marching and fighting is very profound, and Wu Song has worked hard for it for many years, and he does not dare to say that it is a "through". However, he can gain a firm foothold in the army, not only because of his relationship with Lu Qian, he is not a black whirlwind. In the army, Wu Song relied on an obedience to orders and the courage to fight tough battles. He is not good at playing with some small tricks in specific command operations, and he always makes bold moves when he fights. But he also has what he is good at, that is, he can fight hard and dare to fight hard. And he himself often rushed to the front line, and he would be the courage of the soldiers, so the soldiers he led fought bravely and were not afraid of damage.
It can be said that today's Wu Song is a qualified general who can fight hard battles and obey commands, but he is by no means very handsome, or even a general who can be in charge alone.
In the Qi army, there are countless fierce generals and brave generals who dare to fight like this, but there are really few who can command one side and take charge alone.
Yang Zhi, who has a family history, is one, and Hu Yanzhuo is also one, but his qualifications are a problem. Don't say anything about the capable and the mediocre, that person's heart is flesh and blood, and the word 'righteous and heavy' is a deep mark engraved on Emperor Lu's body.
As for the Thunderbolt Fire and the Flower Monk, it is clear that the latter is more suitable for the Northwest.
In addition, Lin Chong, Hua Rong, and Xu Ning are also useful people, but they also lack some heat. Of course, Lu Qian knew the importance of sharpening, and the golden gunners had been leading troops in Nanyang for a long time, and there were signs of maturity.
San Ruan and Li Jun on the water also have to be sharpened.
As for Chao Gai, who has certain flaws in his personality, Lu Qian has always given him a heavy responsibility, and even put Hei Saburo in the position left behind by Yanjing, the reason is that although these two people are flawed, they both have a certain degree of command.
A general is a kind of talent, and a general is also a kind of talent.
As for the fact that Guo Yaoshi, Xu Huiyan and others surrendered in the future, Liu Fa and the middle class of the seed master could show up openly, and Lu Qian could only put them under the old man. At least in the short term.
Wu Erlang looked at the surging Jin Army's iron cavalry, stopped the army at the moment, and the 20,000 soldiers and horses quickly shrank the array. Behind the three columns of shield wall guns, rows of crossbowmen were already in full array.
The Qi army had gradually abolished the formation of foot archers, which were a necessary skill for the vast majority of soldiers. Crossbowmen, on the other hand, have not been completely banned. The god arm bow, which is expensive to build and cumbersome to work on, is still a precious thing and cannot be treated roughly.
It's just that the crossbowmen have been greatly reduced, or rather, many crossbowmen have been transferred to infantry hand-to-hand combat. Although they still have to be tied to the crossbowmen, they have to wind the arrows for the crossbowmen, and even have to protect the crossbowmen.
As mentioned above, in order to speed up the rate of fire of crossbow arrows, Zhao Song and a team of crossbowmen were divided into three columns, namely the upper crossbow - the entering crossbow - the hair crossbow.
The Qi army went one step further, and one 'transferred' shooter followed five helpers. Two on the crossbow, two on the crossbow, one on the bench.
You must know that the pull of the divine arm bow is extremely strong, and people who are not strong cannot do it, it is extremely exhausting. You can't do without a replacement object.
The shield wall was erected, and then the brush squatted down. The space above the head is called the Divine Arm Bow to exert its power to the fullest.
The horses galloped, and the sound was like thunder.
Seeing that the golden soldiers and iron cavalry kept coming, the first-line Zhe Kecun only felt that his whole body was hot and his mouth was dry, he had been in the army for many years, but he had never seen such a scene of thousands of horsemen swarming in. In his mouth, he said in a deep voice: "Brothers, and they are all steady." β
"Wait for the Jurchen barbarians to come within range before fighting."
Those who have not experienced the scene of a large number of cavalry rushing in do not know the impact of this feeling. But fortunately, the defeat of the front army of the Jin army made the Qi army feel greatly encouraged, and the morale was so high that it burst out, and everyone stood firm and stood firm at this moment. Whether it is the elite army of the Governor's Mansion of the Right Army, or the garrison soldiers and horses in Hedong and Guanzhong.
The speed of the horse's charge was very fast, and even if the horse did not reach the extreme speed before, it quickly ran to a distance of 200 paces.
The crossbowmen lead but do not fire.
Until the Jin army cavalry on the opposite side was close to a hundred paces, some people with good eyes could even see the hideous faces and stout figures of the Jin army cavalry in front. These people are wearing heavy armor, even two layers of heavy armor, and their bodies are bulging, and they know that they are wearing double layers of heavy armor. With a big sword in his hand, all of them are fierce and vicious.
"Beep beep ......"
A shrill whistle blew.
There was a 'buzzing' bowstring vibration on the Qi army's array, and it could be seen with the naked eye that a whole row of Jin army cavalry in front of them had suffered. No matter how strong your martial arts are, unless you are very lucky, you will only scream and turn to the horse.
The Qi army has orders, knowing that the horse army that rushes to the front is not only brave and daring to fight, but also wears heavy armor and double heavy armor, if you shoot at people, it is difficult to kill with one blow. It's better to learn from Du Fuzi and shoot people and horses first.
In this way, outside a few lucky people, the cavalry of the Jin Army, who rushed to the front, screamed and rolled off their horses one by one.
Not all of these people are dead, there are those who are strong and lucky, and although they are dizzy, they can still struggle to get up, and naturally there will be crossbows to deal with them later. I saw a few stout golden soldiers who stood up again, snorted, and the heavy armor on their bodies also burst out of blood flowers, and they were knocked to the ground one by one in the stumble.
The crossbowmen on the Qi army have fallen into a mechanical cycle. The first salvo, the second salvo, the third salvo. Against the golden cavalry in front of him, there was no need to aim at all. As long as the crossbow machine is pulled, there will be people on the opposite side.
There are also cavalry of the Jin Army, which is protected by God, and they rush straight over on horseback, and the rows of crossbow arrows are stunned but they can't stop people. But when the horses were approaching thirty paces, they were in trouble.
The ground was sprinkled with thistles made of black iron, and the cold light was dazzling on the upward tips.
The war horse knelt down immediately, and the golden soldiers on horseback led the horse to the ground, and when the captain broke his neck.
It was as if the surging waves met a hard reef, and when viewed from the air, the dense layers of the Jin Army's iron cavalry were all blocked at a distance of twenty or thirty steps from the Qi Army's battle array. That narrow 'line' seems to have become an insurmountable moat.
It's just that the Jurchens proved a truth with facts - there is nothing difficult in the world.
It was at this beginning that the crossbowmen were well prepared, the firepower was strong, and the Jin army that shot was miserable. But when the initial preparations were exhausted, the firepower density weakened, and more and more Jin cavalry stepped into the 'heavenly trench'. More and more golden horsemen stepped into the thistle, and although the latter turned on his back, he also used his flesh and blood to crash out of several passages.
Then the crossbowmen could only withdraw from the front line, allowing a large number of hand-to-hand armor soldiers to rise to the top, and the shield walls and guns on the front line also stood up one after another.
The collision between the cavalry and the infantry began at this time. But in the end, Yan Puluhu was disappointed.
The left-wing infantry stubbornly withstood the impact of the Jin army's iron cavalry. Wu Erlang's general flag always stood on the front line, and the three columns of shield wall guns were naturally 'shattered' under the impact of the Jin army's sacrifice. In the midst of the flesh and blood, although the Jin soldiers did not do well, because a large number of heavy armored soldiers of the Qi army were already waiting in formation, yes, the impact of the Jin army did not really succeed.
It's just a mutual disservice. I don't know how many Qi soldiers were trampled into pulp, and I don't know how many Jin soldiers lost their lives.
When the onslaught of the Jin cavalry was contained, hand-to-hand combat on both sides really came. Wu Erlang picked up an egg-thick dragon stick, jumped forward with an arrow, and the stick made of mixed iron tore through the air, making a low whining sound, and the cavalry of the Jin Army who stopped in front of him was powerless to resist, and even the people with their blades were thrown out by this split.
Later, only the crackling sound of bones and shattering bones could be heard, and the other two Jin cavalrymen were also smashed with iron rods, and the horses fell to the ground, and the people were beaten like kites with broken strings and flew out, and when they fell to the ground, they saw that they were not alive.
He led the guards and rushed straight to the front line.
This is the reason why the soldiers and horses he led will fight to the death. The second person is brave enough, and the commander of the army is fighting on the front line, and the incentive can directly add a halo of courage to the soldiers.
"Brothers, the time has come, come with meβ"
Wu Song danced the dragon stick, knowing that at this time, he could not completely put his mind at ease, and it was necessary to concentrate more soldiers on the front line, completely block the hooves of the Jin army, and then wrap them back, so that it could be considered safe.
Yang Zhi looked at the battle on the left flank from the Chinese army formation, and he was also relieved. "Wu Er is brave and resolute and dares to fight, and the Jurchen barbarians just hit him headlong, and they deserve to die."
"Governor, when is it time for us to go to war?" Xuanzan and Tang Bin said anxiously on the side. They have been waiting from the beginning of the fight to the present, and the flowers they have been waiting for are gone.