Chapter 338: Horses are for running
Obviously, everything changed when countless armoured, rampaging Tang army horse army ranks rushed towards the neat square-shaped camp of the Great Song Dynasty.
This change could not be accomplished in a moment, it was gradually disintegrated under the fierce attack of 200,000 iron horsemen.
The current Great Song team is messy, because the square formation is interspersed with holes by the Tang Army, just like a piece of tofu being forced into mud by an obsessive-compulsive patient, it makes people worry to watch.
But the most worrying are the two generals of the Song army, Pan Mei and Cao Bin.
The two great generals of the Song Army once created a brilliant record that no one could match, but this time, they were very worried, really worried.
This inexplicable feeling of worry and pain comes from the pressure of the Tang Army, and even more so from this kind of tactics that I never dreamed of.
So the beard was pouted high, watching the neat formations of the Song army being broken and scattered by the Tang army again and again, and the two black-faced Guan Gong finally couldn't sit still.
"What the hell is going on?"
"He NND! The old man has fought all his life, and he has never seen such a fight, Tang Jun is too unruly......"
"Now that the formation is in chaos, how to remedy it, it is better to withdraw the troops!"
"! When the battle is in full swing, how can we withdraw......"
"So what do you say?"
"According to the old man, now, if you want to fight the military method and the formation, I'm afraid it's too late, so it's better to fight with the Tang Army! The old man is going to take the lead and kill him first......"
"General Pan, don't worry! The old man is also here to help! ”
The two main generals went out in person, not because they could kill many enemies, but now the Song army has already appeared what Yan Yu expected, because such an army has no individual combat ability at all, especially the infantry team.
"Launch a general assault on their infantry phalanx......"
The trumpet sounded again.
And this time, it is even more of a smashing attack on the enemy's vital point, which looks very clean and neat.
In half an hour, the Tang army had defeated the Song army's infantry phalanx, and when the stragglers who had untied the tofu block escaped again, the hundreds of cruisers across the river clearly told them that it was impossible to escape back.
Hahaha......
Yan Yu let out an arrogant laugh.
This laughter was very crisp, and it seemed that even Xiao Fei and Jiang Han, who were leading troops in the distance, could hear it.
Fighter alarms sounded in the air.
The cleverness and wisdom of the Song army had to make the Tang army cooperate, and in just a few days of fighting, the most primitive and simple air defense alarm had been developed.
The soldiers were busy beating their armor with their swords, making a delicate clanging sound like sand, of course, as soon as this alarm sounded, it meant that the air supremacy had been completely taken away by the Tang army.
The current Song army can fight with the Tang army except for the Ma army, and there is no possibility of any reversal of the tide of battle.
It's like a wild wolf being bitten by a Tibetan mastiff on the neck, depending on how brilliant you are in the past, but this time, you have to be under my hands.
Yan Yu sounded the trumpet again, signaling the whole army to launch a final onslaught.
These warriors had been fighting fiercely for a day and a night, and even when the final attack order was given, they could not run two steps, and lay directly in the pile of dead. They were not killed in battle, but fainted from exhaustion.
But the high-spirited military horses gave the Tang army momentum.
In addition to the original 20,000 military horses, the Tang army introduced horse breeds from the Hexi Corridor and Mongolia in the past four or five years to improve them, so as to train their own unique military horses, called the Proud Tiger. The Outback may be fierce, but their speed and extraordinary endurance are their key skills.
Bai Xiaofei's training is not like the screening and training of ordinary military horses, the career is done, and these military horses are all running out day and night.
There is only one rule of training, let these horses keep running, keep running, and keep running, until they get tired and faint.
Therefore, these horses seem to be thin, but they are the huge energy contained in the thin body that ordinary horses cannot reach, and it has become a shining black whirlwind on this battlefield.
Life is in motion, horses are in running.
When many of the Great Song Dynasty's war horses could no longer run, the horses of the Tang army could still advance at a galloping speed after a fierce battle all night, which was even more incredible in the eyes of the two generals Pan Mei and Cao Bin.
But they forgot the most important point.
The mechanized units of the Don Army were in the rear at this time, and they had not yet entered the battle at all.
They did not have an air force, and it was simply impossible to launch any decent offensive around the rear of the enemy army.
It's like a lion and a tiger fighting, before the lion can react, it has been bitten by the tiger on the neck, of course, the lion will not think about how to sneak up on its rear, but how to snatch the neck tiger's mouth back. And when the lion was trying his best to snatch his neck back, the tiger suddenly sent his two younger brothers, one on the river and the other in the sky, to carry out an all-round inhumane blow to himself.
This is the current Tang Army and the Song Army.
The battle was coming to an end soon.
The two great generals of the Song army took the lead and took the lead in the middle of the battle with their guns and horses, and they decisively issued the order to withdraw their troops.
It's not that the two veterans can't fight the small soldiers of the Tang Army, but they found that the battle was not fought like this, and Li Yanyu was very inauthentic.
The only drawback of this is that it will be difficult for them to set foot on the land north of the Yangtze River again with the remaining 70,000 or 80,000 soldiers.
Of course, Yan Yu's ruthless fighting spirit in the war and his ruthless values repeatedly conveyed to the soldiers were fully confirmed in this great victory.
This is not a compliment.
No one is perfect, but he didn't expose Yan Yu's shortcomings in the slightest, and he didn't let anyone find out anything wrong with his failure to show in this battle.
He should not let the infantry rush to the front, this is a big taboo, when it is found that the infantry can not break the enemy's iron-clad phalanx, the running horses behind the horses, the hooves of the horses rush forward, and I don't know how many brothers have been killed.
When the air force attacked, it carried a serious shortage of gunpowder and catapults, and after taking off, two powder canisters were fired and then withdrawn, which was an absolute drain and waste of resources.
Summing up experience, of course, now is not the time, because the Song army has been forced to a dead end.
When many Song soldiers looked at the Yangtze River, but there were countless Tang warships covered with rolling battle clouds, they knew that this time they were afraid that they would never be able to go back.
If they can't go back, it doesn't mean that they will die in battle, they can choose to surrender, or any other way, as long as they easily throw off the thick armor on their bodies, put on the clothes of the logistics people, and want to escape in the chaos of hundreds of thousands of people, in fact, no one wants to stop you.
However, whether it can be or not is a question, and whether it dares is another question.
At that time, at the beginning of the Great Song Dynasty, military discipline was still very strict, and being a soldier was treated as a supreme honor. Do you just throw away your armor and steal your life?
Most people don't choose that way. Of course, their two great, but somewhat trance-like generals at this time, also knew that they should not choose this way.
As a result, the main force of the Tang Army withdrew, not backwards, but to both sides, and at this moment, they saw what the so-called mechanized troops of the Tang Army looked like, which the ancients had never seen, and even since then, a battlefield weapon that will appear after a hundred, two hundred, and hundreds of years.
Here, on land, 1,200 guns of all kinds were aimed at them, some with large muzzles, some small. Behind them, on the river, there were also thousands of guns aimed at them, and the seamen on the ship carefully adjusted the orientation instrument carrying each of the guns, as if they were afraid of missing someone on the shore, and they seemed meticulous.
This dense gesture made them more determined in their hearts.
Who knows how to swim?