Chapter 166: Surrounded on All Sides
The sound of rumbling horses' hooves, what is the purpose of a large number of cavalry speeding up and rushing over without disguise? Na Himatsu's doubts were soon answered, and with the sound of horses' hooves came a rain of arrows that swished and overwhelmingly arrived.
At this time, the excellent individual combat quality of the Yuan soldiers was vividly displayed, except for the first wave of more than 100 people who fell to the ground with arrows, the Yuan army, which had been surrounded on three sides, did not panic and flee, but each looked for arrows flying from the cover, and the team leaders began to organize archery counterattacks one after another.
Another part of the men had already mounted their horses and rushed to the hiding position of the ambush in front of them for help, but under the attack of 8,000 cavalry on three sides, the more than 1,000 horses of Narisong were lost very quickly. Narimatsu was not only worried about the casualties of the soldiers' arrows, but also the horses here were not only the mounts of more than 1,000 people, but also a medium-sized temporary horse farm, which contained thousands of spare horses and a large amount of food supplies brought along the way, which was the basis for his harassment war outside the city.
After enduring it for a while, I could only see the arrows flying, and I couldn't even see the figure of the rider, it was very obvious that I wanted to trap this Yuan soldier here, and with the advantage of the bow and arrow, the attacking troops were already invincible. That day, Song was a little flustered in his heart, and immediately ordered the first transfer of spare horses and food supplies from the horse farm, and asked the ambush soldiers in front to give up their tasks and come back to rescue the base camp immediately.
Surrounded by the enemy on three sides, Risong could not see the reality of the Song army in the night, and for the first time he had the idea of escaping as soon as possible, especially the cavalry that appeared in the Song army, which made him feel strongly uneasy.
Hearing the sound of men and horses fighting and fighting over there, the neat infantry of the Song army here suddenly changed, and the big shield more than three feet long did not know where to take it out, and through the peephole in the middle, rows of shield bearers rushed into the ambush circle of the Yuan soldiers.
The 6,000 Yuan soldiers were scattered and hidden, and the men and horses close to Narisong received the notice of returning reinforcements, and had already sorted out the men and horses to go back to support, leaving ordinary people to continue to wait for the ambush of the Song army. When the shield hand of the Song army rushed into the firing range, the approaching Yuan soldiers immediately opened their bows and released arrows, but they did not expect that after two or three rounds of fire, they did not hurt a single Song soldier.
Song Jun in the first row squatted down and held the shield more than three feet high forward, and the people behind him just stacked the two shields together, forming a plane more than six feet high. The third man raised his shield above his head, covering the bodies of the three people, like a connected beehive, protecting not only himself but also his comrades.
After a few rounds of shooting, the Yuan soldiers took a closer look, and the bows and arrows were completely useless, and the infantry of the Song army was equivalent to making a large cover, covering the enemy's bows and arrows while moving forward slowly.
Several Yuan captains close to the Song army blew a loud whistle, which was to summon their men to prepare to draw their swords and charge, hoping to use the cavalry horse team to disperse the Song army's turtle shells, and then let the archers behind them kill the enemy.
The first wave of fifty-six horsemen rushed out of their hiding places, and under the cover of bows and arrows that were constantly shooting forward, they all held swords in their hands, and rushed towards the shield array of the Song army on the back of their horses.
"Alright, all launches! No one is allowed to spare. ”
Meng Shuirou's fingers loosened and released the first special armor-piercing cone made on Hong Kong Island.
"Weng!" The bowstrings of the first team of 100 people were loose, forming a buzzing sound of breaking the sky, and each longbow had a pulling force of more than two stones, and the armor-piercing cones were twice as heavy as ordinary bows and arrows, and they scrambled to pounce on their targets in the dark night.
"Weng!" The second echelon released the bowstring, and the front and back were separated by only a split second, forming two different trajectories of arrow rain.
"Weng!" The last group of longbowmen shot out the armor-piercing cone, and threw three blockades on the heads of fifty or sixty cavalrymen.
"Poof! Puff puff! ”
"Puff puff snort......"
A series of sounds sounded in the night sky, this was the sound of piercing the cowhide armor on the bodies of people and horses, and the warriors on horseback fell down like dumplings. The heavy and sharp armor-piercing cone pierced through the thick cowhide armor on Yuan Bing's body, no matter where it was shot, it all penetrated deeply into the human body, and even the sturdy Mongolian horse did not escape the fate of being shot through.
At this time, the bows in the hands of the first team were drawn again, this time against the horses that had lost their riders, and in the rain of arrows like flying locusts, no war horse could rush within ten steps of the Song army's formation.
In the past, the arrow wounds suffered by soldiers in battles, unless they hit a fatal place, they could immediately lose their combat effectiveness or die with a whine, and ordinary arrow wounds could resist for a while. There are even arrows that can only penetrate the leather armor, and when they enter the human body, they have no strength, and they only have a small wound of only three points into the flesh.
The Mongol cavalry pursued mobility and flexibility, and rarely had the habit of being equipped with metal armor, and generally wore light armor made of thick cowhide, which could defend against ordinary swords and arrows, and naturally lost its effect when encountering heavy weapons.
None of the fifty or sixty horsemen could get up after they fell from their horses. Each of them was hit by three or five armor-piercing cones, and the huge penetrating force tore apart the internal organs of their bodies, and at the same time took their lives.
In the tense and noisy battlefield between the two armies, for a moment it was as if time had stood still, and people stopped thinking and looked at the mess of corpses with wide eyes.
The warriors who were still murderous and energetic just now have turned into corpses lying on the ground in the blink of an eye, although some of them are still squirming and struggling, but they will definitely not be able to get rid of the fate that has been set.
Seeing the brave Mongolian cavalry in the past, now fragile as paper figures, the whole team of Song army infantry slammed the ground with the shields in their hands, and shouted loudly in their mouths to raise their voices.
"Roar!"
"Victory!"
"Roar!"
"Victory!"
This is just the opening piece of the night, and it has already dealt a heavy blow to the morale of the Yuan soldiers, and all the tactics they relied on in the past seem so naïve and powerless tonight.
The sudden rocket ignited a gloom, revealing the Yuan soldiers hiding in it, and more than a dozen thunderbolt cannons exploded one after another in the dense woods, and the bloodied Yuan soldiers fell to the ground and were stabbed to death by the infantry who surrounded them.
The encirclement began to compress little by little, and the number of 3,000 Yuan soldiers left behind dropped rapidly, as long as they came into direct contact with the Song army, whether it was dozens or hundreds of Yuan soldiers, they would not last much and they would all be wiped out.
No matter how strong the will and military spirit were, they had been completely lost at this time, and when the battle losses exceeded 1,000 people, the remaining Yuan soldiers had lost the courage to continue fighting.
After a few whistlings, nearly 2,000 Yuan soldiers turned their horses around and fled in all directions without organization and discipline. Along the left and right fields, wilderness, and mire, no matter what it was, as long as there were no soldiers of the Song army, it was a way to escape.
But in the fields that cannot be seen clearly, by the ditches, and in the clearing, there are hidden triplines......