Chapter 343: Moonlit Night Soldiers
The trumpets of the Song army sounded again, and the cavalry began to turn to the flanks of the Western Xia army. However, the corpses of the Dangxiang people who were shot by the Song army's bows and crossbows became a jagged low wall, blocking the path of the Song cavalry's advance. The red-eyed cavalry of the Song army in front could no longer be swayed by the generals who commanded them. The blood of the Partisans had driven them mad, and these bloody men wanted nothing more than to break through the precarious shield wall in front of them and slaughter the despicable Partisans who were hiding behind the pikemen.
This is the revenge of the Han people against the party members for a hundred years.
"Kill! Their formation is about to collapse, work hard! "There are generals of the Song army shouting loudly to boost morale.
Looking at the spearmen barely supported by the cavalry of the Song army, who were charging repeatedly like crazy, Richard took the risk of throwing the 20,000 lightly armed spearmen guarding the two wings into the phalanx of heavy spearmen, the archers of the Chinese army were the backbone of this battle, and the spear phalanx at the front could never be broken.
The original phalanx of spears in a horizontal row eventually became a slightly concave formation in the middle, and Richard had completely abandoned the protection of the two wings.
Under his command, 10,000 archers began to divide into four teams, firing in turns.
Richard knew that there were not many opportunities for himself, and each archer only had two quivers, and these arrows would soon run out.
Due to the consumption of a large number of arrows in the previous battles, and the production capacity of the handicraft industry in Western Xia was far from being comparable with that of the Song Dynasty, the production of arrows was insufficient, and the quality was difficult to compare with the Song people.
Long before the battle began, Richard gave an order for the archers to shoot as many generals and officers as possible from the Song army, but in such a melee, although the archers were excellent hunters, it was difficult to achieve accurate sniping.
"Whoosh! Sou! The few officers of the Song cavalry in front of the formation were shot off their horses one after another. But the rain of arrows of the Song army's cavalry archers immediately covered it, and the two sides began to shoot fiercely, and the sky was full of flying feathered arrows.
The moon in the wasteland was as bright as silver, and the battlefield under the moonlight was full of unspeakable weirdness.
"Archer, abandon the bow and hold the sword!"
Richard knew that the longbow he relied on had shot all the arrows. Looking at the cavalry moving towards the right flank in the distance, Richard jumped off his horse and came to the archers who were already foot soldiers with his sword in hand.
It is the pride of every family to be able to cultivate a good hunter, and these Dangxiang hunters have been trained in bow and weapon fighting since the age of seven, and they can be said to be the most elite warriors of the Dangxiang.
"Shrink and change formation! Ring Defense! ”
The two ends of the mixed Western Xia formation began to shrink inward, and the gap in the middle was filled by archers who had turned into foot soldiers.
The infantry of the Song army followed the cavalry and rushed up, and the difference is that these Song army foot soldiers also have mounts, mostly horses and mules, after they rushed up quickly, they jumped off the horse with a horse chopping knife, in the face of the corpse of the mountain, many Song cavalry also began to dismount and fight, because in front of many obstacles, the cavalry's mobility ability has long been gone, after a few hours of fighting, the phalanx of the party people has been chopped up, and it has become an embellishment in the torrent of Song soldiers and horses, although the fighting spirit of the party people is still high, but it is only a matter of time before it collapses.
Flashed the oncoming knife, Gao Pet sent the horse chopping knife into the opponent's chest, the Dang Xiang people were completely divided and surrounded by the Song Army, and the small phalanx shrank smaller and smaller, Gao Pet was surrounded by the corpses of the Dang Xiang people, he didn't know how many people's heads and chests had been split, and the helmet with towering golden wings made him the target of the Dang Xiang people's key attacks, and the originally sharp horse chopping knife had appeared large and small gaps, but the enemy was still rushing up to him.
A war horse suddenly rushed up, the man stood up, and the party warrior on the horse shouted, and the snow bright war knife slashed high. The tall pet flashed, and the horse chopping knife in his hand swept towards the horse's legs.
With a wail, the war horse with a broken leg threw itself sideways to the ground, and the thighs of the party warrior on the horse were tightly pressed down, and the long knife in his hand fell in front of Gao Chong's eyes. Looking at the dense water patterns on the long knife, this is definitely a high-quality treasure knife, without having time to think about it, Gao Zhong grabbed the knife and swung it down, and the party warrior who was pressed under the horse opened his eyes in shock, allowing the blood gushing from the severed head to cover it.
Holding this newly acquired treasure sword, Gao Zhong cut down six more party warriors, and judging from the inscription on this knife, the personal guard of the commander of the Western Xia army also pressed up.
At this time, Sun Hui, who was hidden in the night sky, was watching the situation on the battlefield by the bright moonlight, and he could see every move of Gao Chong clearly.
Now the battle situation is very clear, and the defeat of the Western Xia army has been decided.
Although Richard's idea of using infantry against cavalry was very good, and the possibility of success was also very high, his DIY "cupola" completely shattered Richard's illusion of victory.
But at this moment, a Western Xia lightly armed cavalry suddenly rushed out of the woods and rushed straight in the direction where Wang Yan, the main general of the Song army, was.
Different from the normal Western Xia cavalry attire, all the people in this army are all dressed in black and black armor, with black scarves on their faces, and they look very much like the "Iron Floating Massacre" of the Jin Army, but these people are wearing light armor, their movements are strange, and they have no weapons in their hands, which is very different from the "Iron Floating Massacre".
Sun Hui secretly lowered his altitude in the air, ready for it, once they got close to Wang Yan, he had to make a move.
The Song army soon discovered this sudden appearance of the cavalry of the Western Xia army, and immediately a group of Song army light cavalry came up, and Wang Yan's personal guards also discovered them, and immediately rushed down the hillside to block the attack.
Sun Hui stared closely at this mysterious Western Xia cavalry, and he felt even more strange when he saw that these Western Xia cavalrymen had a big leather bag hanging on their horses, and there was only a short stick around their waists.
On the opposite side, the long knives of the Song cavalry glistened in the moonlight, in stark contrast to the Western Xia cavalry that looked bare-handed.
How were these Western Xia cavalry going to fight?
It didn't take him long to wait, and the Tangut people gave him the answer.
Just as they were approaching the Song cavalry, these Western Xia cavalry suddenly took out a round thing with a protruding bump from their skins, lit the fuse, and threw it at the Song cavalry.
One by one, the objects rolled into the array of the Song cavalry, and then with a flash of fire, they exploded, apparently a gunpowder weapon.
A series of explosions sounded in the Song cavalry, the fragments were scattered and flying, Sun Hui saw that the fire of the explosion was dark red, the sound was not very loud, the fragments seemed to be ceramic, and the lethality was quite weak, because after these fragments hit the Song cavalry, the Song cavalry rarely suffered casualties, and more of them were frightened by the horses, neighing up, and the people on horseback were lifted off their horses.