Yan Xiushi couldn't help but be shocked when he got the report that his vanguard couldn't walk after encountering no more than a hundred cavalry, and hurriedly inquired about the situation carefully. The person who came to report said that the front of the team encountered Song scouts, and they couldn't catch up, and the team sent to expel had to confront the Song people on the spot. However, the Song people took advantage of the long range of bows and arrows and kept shooting with bows and arrows, and the officers saw that everyone was in a pile and was the target of others, so they had to order the soldiers to disperse. However, as soon as the Song people saw that the people were scattered, they rode up and shot and wounded the Goryeo soldiers.

The scattered infantry will only be slaughtered in the face of cavalry, not to mention that the Goryeo people do not have the heavy armor and crossbows of the Great Song army, so they will die faster. Shoot it with a bow and arrow, it seems that there are also Song people, but why are Song people the same?

After some of the dead and wounded, the rest of the Koreans could no longer hold on and turned and fled. But running on two legs is only four legs after all, and the infantry gives the back to the enemy cavalry, which is only a part of the slaughter. Or is it because most of these Song cavalry are really cutting people for the first time, and they are soft, which makes this group of Koreans run away by a third.

Although the group of Song crossbowmen on the side did not rush up to cut people, they were actually more troublesome. Because the range of their crossbow arrows is too long, in the distance against the dense Korean people a rain of arrows, not to mention the miss, it must be a burst of chickens and dogs. You send someone to expel them, and they get on their horses and go, and then come back in a while.

It's not the first time that the Koreans have seen such a scoundrel play. Yan Xiushi still had some knowledge, so he asked: "Is it true that the cavalry picked up the Song people?" How does it seem to be the Khitan tactics? ”

"Khitans?" Several generals did not understand.

Yan Xiushi said: "I heard that the Khitans did not engage troops at first when they encountered the enemy, but constantly sent cavalry to shoot arrows to harass until the other party collapsed, and then chased after them. ”

Now the generals all nodded, it seems that these Song people are indeed similar to the Khitan people's style of play. One of the generals asked, "Then what is the way to break the harassment of the Song people?" ”

Yan Xiushi had never seen how the Khitan cavalry fought, so he didn't know what to do. Another general had a brighter mind, so he proposed: "The Song people harassed like this, and it was all up to them to ride horses." Why don't we send some soldiers on horseback to catch up with them? ”

Yan Xiushi looked at this subordinate like a fool: "How many of our people can ride horses?" Do you want you and me to fight the Song people? ”

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Now the generals shut up. This time it was a battle on the island, who would have thought that they would encounter cavalry? The ones sent are all infantry, and few of them can ride horses except for a few officers, so who will be the cavalry?

Sorrow is sorrow, but Yan Xiushi still doesn't really realize the seriousness of the problem. Seeing that there was no way, he had to order the officers to pay attention to the bullet pressure, keep the team in a strict formation, and deploy the archers on the outside of the team to guard against the harassment of the Song people at all times, and the whole army slowly advanced.

In his mind, isn't it just a one-day journey, it's a big deal to walk for two days, as long as he finds a place where the Song people live, the Song people have to face the battle.

But the idea is good, but it is difficult to realize. When the Koreans had walked some way forward, Song crossbowmen on short horses appeared at the end of their ranks.

Behind the Korean team were the Tamna people requisitioned by the Star Lord, mainly to help the army carry food or something. A menacing charge and a rain of arrows, combined with shouts, allowed them to flee. At the end of the line, the Koreans were exposed and were constantly shot by arrows.

By dark, the Koreans had traveled less than half of the distance and had to set up camp on the spot. The night went on and on, and as soon as I lay down, there were rumors of war and trumpets not far away, and sometimes rockets were fired into the camp. After a few nights of fright, and they were all hungry, the Koreans only felt extremely sad.

Finally, I stayed up until dawn, and there was no need to cook, so I pulled out the camp early and marched westward, and the soldiers were tired and hungry. Fortunately, the cavalry of the Song people is not as active today as it was yesterday. After noon, Yan Xiushi estimated that he had walked twenty miles, and fertile farmland appeared on the side of the road.

The one sent by the star lord reported to him: "General, you can see the village of the Song people from the high place ahead. ”

Yan Xiushi put up a pergola and looked at the high ground in the distance, and breathed a sigh of relief in her heart: "It's gone!" ”

But he didn't have time to rejoice for long, when suddenly there were three roars ahead, and he hurriedly looked ahead, and saw that a dazzling reflection suddenly appeared on the high ground, with flags waving and drums and trumpets sounding.

The people in front ran back to report: "Ahead, the Song people are in formation." ”

Yan Xiu felt a burst of ecstasy in her heart. According to his idea, as long as he fought face-to-face, he could completely defeat the Song people with his numerical advantage, even if the loss was a little bigger, it was better than being constantly harassed. However, he rode his horse to the front and was dumbfounded, the Song people's procession was already approaching like a wall, arrows rained down from the sky, and many soldiers were suddenly shot to the ground while holding shields. What's even more terrifying is that a sharp arrow array pressed forward from the front is full of black and dull iron armor, and the bow and arrow are completely ineffective.

Looking at this array that rumbled over without any obstruction, the Koreans were terrified, and then as soon as they made contact, the last courage of the Koreans was completely destroyed in an instant—the Koreans' inferior knives and spears could hardly cause damage on the heavy iron armor, while the Song people's steel knives and three-edged spears were seriously injured as long as they did not die.

Seeing this one-sided injury, the soldiers in the vanguard completely lost their fighting spirit and turned around and ran.

On the high ground, Shi Feng saw the Goryeo people in the vanguard turn and run away, laughed, and pushed the drummer aside to pick up the drumsticks and beat the drums like a torrential rain. Three hundred heavily armored samurai followed the fleeing Koreans to the beat of drums, so that the Koreans did not dare to turn back.

It is said that it is a close pursuit, but in fact, wearing heavy armor, it will definitely not be able to catch up with the Goryeo people who have only a little iron armor or even only leather armor on their bodies and are eager to flee for their lives, but that kind of momentum makes the Goryeo people dare not stay, and desperately want to escape to a place where there are many people in themselves. At this time, the rear team of the Koreans was disrupted.

Now the Goryeo people are still marching in shape, and as soon as the front is in chaos, the rout will disrupt the team immediately behind and squeeze it into a pimple, which magnifies the killing of the Song people's bows and crossbows, so the people behind are already demoralized and can't stand it.

Yan Xiushi saw that hundreds of iron armors were already frightened, and then saw that the thousands of troops were in chaos and no longer had the intention of fighting, so he hurriedly ordered to retreat. This retreat order is even more chaotic. Before the order reached the rear team, the people in front retreated first. The rear team didn't understand what was going on, and when they saw that the people in front of them were running backwards, they also ran......

Shi Feng saw that the formation of the Goryeo people was completely disorganized, so he threw away his drumsticks and ordered: "Chongjia rests in place, and the others continue to pursue." ”

Luo Xiucai reminded: "Don't forget our purpose. ”

Shi Feng then added: "Stop after chasing ten miles. Don't chase any further! ”

After escaping back, Yan Xiushi counted the personnel and found that the loss was not large, so he shouted luck. Fortunately, the cavalry of the Song people did not take advantage of the chaos to chase and kill, and the infantry did not catch up, and finally let the prisoners carry the wounded back by themselves, otherwise it is difficult to say how much they can come back.

Thinking of the hundreds of iron armor of the Song people, he knew that this battle could not be fought, so he could only ask the imperial court to send reinforcements. So he ordered his officers to dig Hao to defend against the Song attack, and then wrote a letter asking for help to send people out of the island.

One of the Star Lord's ships was also burned by the pond fish during the naval battle, and there were few ships on the island that could cross the sea. Yan Xiushi had no choice but to write an extra letter asking for help, sending several boats to bring one for each boat. As for who can deliver it, it depends on luck.

Now that he has completely lost the courage to attack, he wants to wait for reinforcements to arrive, but he doesn't know that this is exactly what Luo Tong's calculations have fallen.