Gao Yu drove south along the Qi River, but it was not completely close to the riverbank. After all, it was more convenient to march by official road, and when building the official road, the problem of covering the march of the army was not taken into account. Therefore, more than 10,000 people under Gao Yu must first set up a quadripartite array, and then move in the direction of Qihe. Protect the east side of the Qi River with the Qi River, and then dig a trench and build fortifications with sandbags......

Uh, it's a textbook tactic. However, in actual combat, it is more difficult to complete this series of tactical actions.

After all, the enemy is not a fool either!

The Song army's quadripartite array had just been completed, and the rangers they had placed in the front had already retreated. After all, they are more than 200 horses against more than 1,000 horses, unless they are born girls who really dare to reach, or they can only fight and go.

The more than 200 rangers who appeared on the battlefield were the Liao people's Yuanzhu horses, and they soon discovered the Song army, which had formed a large phalanx and was moving slowly. Then a few horsemen ran like crazy to report the news, and the rest roamed around the Song military array. I didn't dare to get too close, because this Song army's large array was so tightly organized that people felt frightened!

This is not comparable to Zhong Fu's weak soldiers and Hebei's regimental training! Battle-hardened Khitan veterans can smell danger with their noses!

But soon, the Khitan brigade appeared on the open plain south of the Song army's formation. With the last bit of light at dusk, the Song army was finally able to roughly see the scale of the incoming Liao army.

The soldiers and horses dispatched by the Liao people, just in front of them, there are no less than 10,000 horses! Not to mention that the follow-up soldiers and horses are still coming. It seems that there are always about 30,000!

The crossbowmen of the Song army, before the Liao cavalry approached, rushed out of the spear array with the Tianjin crossbow, and then half-squatted in the snow. And behind the spear array that formed the array, the sword and shield men of the Lingzhou Army took out their longbows and prepared to shoot arrows - unlike those new armies under the command of Wu Haogu, the infantry of the Lingzhou New Army were much more skilled in martial arts. After all, they are Shaanxi people or Xixia people who grew up in the war, and everyone can play with bows and arrows.

Therefore, in the new army of Lingzhou, all the sword and shield fighters are equipped with two battles, which can not only shoot arrows, but also fight hand-to-hand.

And the Liao cavalry they encountered this time was also so fierce, and the armored cavalry that rushed in front of them, with a total of more than 2,000 people, with spears in their arms, rushed up with a roar!

The Song army leading the crossbowmen raised their hands and blew the whistle in their mouths. I heard a loud bang with a metallic trilling sound in the air, and countless arrows shot out, rushing straight towards the Liao cavalry that was surging in.

After the arrow was fired, they no longer opened their crossbows and arrows, but turned around and ran into the array of spears. The archers behind the pikemen immediately began to throw their arrows, and they were all heavy armor-piercing arrows, and they didn't shoot far, but they fell thirty paces away. It's not that they can't shoot from a distance, it's that the bowstring is a little weak because of the rain and snow, and it can't shoot heavy arrows too far.

Although bows and crossbow arrows have never been shot far, their lethality is amazing! I saw the Liao cavalry rushing to the front, and almost at the same time they fell down!

Within thirty paces, even if you have an armored horse, it is difficult to resist the fire of the Tianjin crossbow! Because the target of these crossbow arrows is not the well-protected armor soldiers, but the war horses under their crotches. Although there is also equipment protection, but due to the physique of the Khitan horse, the weight-bearing capacity is weak, and it is impossible to wear heavy equipment when a soldier is already carried.

Therefore, most of the Liao soldiers who fell on the snow were only slightly injured, and they struggled to get up and ran towards their own positions.

They can also change horses and fight again!

After the armored cavalry in the front row fell, the armored cavalry in the rear row did not slow down in the slightest, but frantically increased speed and speeded up again, and the spear was also flat in his hand, and slammed into the spear of the Song army, which had also been leveled!

……

Canopy ......

There was a dull crashing sound.

The spear pierced into the body of the human body and the horse, and the horse crashed into the spear-wielding warrior, knocking the human body into the air, and then falling heavily on the snow!

The smell of blood suddenly permeated the southern front of the Song army's quadripartite array, and the sound of screams, shouts of killing, the neighing of war horses, and the collision of weapons resounded all over the place.

The Liao cavalry's charge was ferocious, but it failed to break through the Song army's gun array, and the places vacated by the gunners who were knocked away were quickly filled by their comrades.

The Liao cavalry, which had failed in the charge, roared away, leaving only corpses and dying horses in the ground. However, their second wave of offensive was also launched quickly......

"Blocked!"

"The Liao people rushed very fiercely!"

In the Chinese army of the Song army, when Gao Yu let out a long breath, Li Yongqi spoke in a solemn tone.

Today's enemy is undoubtedly a strong enemy he has never encountered. Although these armored cavalry did not form a strict formation, their impact was already fierce, and they also caused some casualties to the pikemen of the Lingzhou army.

"Can you win?" Gao Yu asked.

"Let's hold on!" Li Yongqi said, and said to the herald beside him, "Go and tell Second Brother Wu to pile sandbags behind the southern line array!" ”

Building fortifications on the field battlefield is a tactic of the "academic school", in fact, as early as the Warring States Period, this kind of tactics of building fortifications while fighting is not uncommon, but it is rare in the Song Dynasty after all.

And after Wu Haogu "invented" the sandbag tactic, it became easier to repair fortifications in the field. The auxiliaries of the Lingzhou army, all carrying shovels and sacks, immediately began construction after receiving the order, digging up the snow and soil, filling the sacks, and then piling them up in the rear of the Song army's southern front battle columns.

At the same time, the Liao army also began to attack on the left and right flanks of the Song army. However, it was not an armored cavalry assault, but dismounted and shot arrows with a stubborn horn bow. Only in the rear of the Song army, there was never a single cavalry of Liao soldiers.

However, Gao Yu and Li Yongqi both knew that the Liao people were using the tactics of encircling three queyi, and there was no way to retreat, unless they could defeat the enemy in front of them!

……

"Your Majesty! Xiao Temo's troops encountered more than 10,000 elite Song troops on the east bank of the Qi River, and the other party formed a four-sided array, and the horses attacked three times, but they all found nothing. ”

On the east bank of the Qi River, Yelu Yanxi heard the report on the battlefield in Hexi, and narrowed his eyes, obviously a little hesitant.

"Your Majesty, Xiao Yuma has met the elite of the new army of the Song people!"

Xiao Fengxian suggested on the side: "Xiao Yuma is probably not an opponent!" ”

"I'm going to meet this Song army for a while!"

Yelu Yanxi said in a gloomy voice: "Fengxian, you continue to lead the army to attack the camp of the Song army, and be sure to expel it across the Qi River. ”

"Command!"

After the order was completed, Yelu Yanxi did not stop, and immediately led his imperial tent army and thousands of palace troops to the shallows of the Qi River that could be crossed.

The Liao lord, who was enraged by the treachery of the Song people, actually showed "extraordinary" military talent, and it seems that he can surpass the first marshal of the Great Song Dynasty, Gao Yu and Gao Taiwei!

Gao Taiwei didn't feel the danger coming, at least before Yelu Yanxi arrived on the battlefield, his more than 10,000 elites held the line steadily.

The tactic of piling sandbags in the immediate formation was effective after several charges by the Liao army. The Song spearmen, who retreated behind a waist-high sandbag wall, were no longer afraid of the onslaught of the Liao army's armored cavalry. This is because the sandbag wall can absorb most of the impact of the armored cavalry, thus reducing the casualties of the spearmen.

Finding that he could not break through from the front, Xiao Temo immediately changed his tactics and began to use armored cavalry to attack the two flanks of the Song army. At the same time, he also asked a part of the light cavalry and auxiliaries of the Liao army to dismount, bring swords and shields and follow behind the armored cavalry, and launch an attack.

That is, after the armored cavalry completed a surprise attack, taking advantage of the untidy battle line of the Song army's pikemen, he immediately threw in the sword and shield hand to slash and kill the pikemen.

However, the sword and shield hands of the Liao people were quickly counterattacked by the sword and shield hands of the Song army!

The bloody battle was fought on both sides of the Song army's formation, repeatedly.

At the same time, Li Yongqi once again ordered the auxiliaries to build sandbag fortifications behind the battle formation of pikemen and sword and shield men in the west.

A field battle, it seems, is about to be fought into a positional battle.

"Your Majesty, why did you come up in person?"

Xiao Temo, who was commanding the troops to fight hard, heard that Yelu Yanxi was approaching the front line, and hurried to meet him, and in the dark sky, by the light of the torches, he saw Yelu Yanxi with a pale face.

"How? Can you beat it down? ”

"Returning to Your Majesty," Xiao Temo said, "the enemy is likely to be leading the troops, many people saw Gao Yu's banner before dark, and the captured Song army light cavalry also said that Gao Yu was leading the troops." The soldiers are also elite, and they are extremely brave, and they also pile sandbags while fighting, and build two breastwork walls, which is very difficult to fight! ”

"Gao Yu!?" Yelu Yanxi snorted, "It's just in time!" I'm going to kill this guy! ”

Xiao Temo was stunned for a moment, and said in his heart: What is the deep hatred between Your Majesty and Gao Yu?

"Your Majesty," he shook his head, "it's hard to fight! They had many pikemen and sword and shield hands, and were good at hand-to-hand combat, and the Khitan warriors suffered heavy casualties. ”

The generals of the Cold Weapon Age, and even the early days of the Hot Weapon Age, knew that the enemy who was good at hand-to-hand combat was the most difficult to fight, much more difficult to fight than the enemy who was good at archery!

In the past, the Song army "one shot and nine bows" relied on bows and arrows and crossbows to make a living, even if they won, it was difficult to inflict major damage on the opponent - it was difficult to shoot a soldier with a bow and arrow, and it would be dead with a spear!

It's two different effects!

"What then?" Yelu Yanxi asked in a deep voice, "Could it be that I just let Gao Yu go of this thief?" ”

Gao Yu can deceive Yelu Yanxi miserably, how can he let it go!?

"This ...... The minister has a plan! "Xiao Temo was in a hurry, and he actually had a plan.

"Say!"

"Your Majesty might as well personally lead the royal tent army to sneak to the south of the Song army's Qihe camp at night, and make a big show early tomorrow morning to frighten the Song regiment training there, and you can also select warriors who can speak Chinese, and shout loudly 'Gao Yu confers the head', maybe you can scare away those regimental exercises." As soon as the Xiangzhou regiment practiced, Gao Yu was isolated, besieged for a few days, and starved to death! ”

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