Ruan Dakui rode on his horse, watching a team of hundreds of iron horsemen, under the cover of nearly a thousand infantry, slowly approaching the small hill where he was, and couldn't help but squint his eyes.

The area around the city of Cho Lo is relatively flat, and Nguyen Dai Kui here and the hill opposite are the only two highlands that choke the way to the Kara River. At this time, the Dangxiang army was rushed into a mess by the Song army, and began to slowly move closer to Zhuoluo City, some hills on the periphery were useless, and the battlefield gradually pressed towards Zhuoluo City. Ruan Dakui's department slowly fell into the vast sea of the party army.

Ruan Dakui didn't understand that this kind of situation had been simulated before the troops were dispatched, and he acted according to the set plan. After being surrounded by the Dangxiang army, the Song army on these two hills no longer rushed down to kill, but stuck to the mountain. The Song army on the periphery squeezed towards Zhuoluo City, and would use a large force of troops to rush the party army formation head-on. If they could really force all the party troops into the city, they would have no way to escape, and achieve results that Xu Ping had never dared to think of beforehand.

Seeing that the party was forced to the foot of the mountain, Ruan Dakui said in a deep voice: "The first one dismounts, goes to the bow and arrow, and changes the long axe!" ”

All the heads agreed, dismounted with his subordinates, untied their waist swords, bows and arrows, all kinds of short soldiers, and replaced the long axes that they had prepared earlier.

Ruan Dakui turned his head to Cao Pinglun, the right Marquis of Yu beside him, and said, "Marquis Yu, you take the second capital to change to a long axe and fight on foot, and follow behind the first capital." The iron cavalry armor is heavy, and it is not fast to move fast, but this time it is from the bottom up, which is even more inconvenient. When the first one disrupts the formation of the iron knight, you take the second one to help and kill the knight. Remember, the thieves retreat, don't chase after them, just go up the mountain! ”

Cao Pinglun agreed, got off the horse, ordered the second capital, and changed the long axe.

The sun had risen, the dew on the hillside meadows had dried up, and green shoots had grown under the dead grass, and the iron had ridden over them, crushing the green of this spring. Overhead, there are goshawks hovering overhead, as if looking for their prey.

Kan Du looked at the Dang Xiang Tieqi who was slowly halfway up the hill, only to feel that his mouth was dry, and his heart was beating hard. It takes courage to use flesh and blood to fight back against the Iron Horse. Although I have practiced countless times in peacetime, when I get to the battlefield, I still can't help but feel nervous when I really face the enemy and really want to bleed to death.

True courage is not to fight and rush with blood, but to always keep a clear head on the bloody battlefield, and rush forward when you need it most. Chop your knife where your enemies fear it most, and bleed when you need it most.

A horn sounded behind him, Kan Dutou spat in his hand, shouted, and strode down the mountain to greet him.

Before the horn stopped, the earth-shattering drum sounded, and the rain of arrows swept over the head of the first capital, sprinkled on the party army.

The Song army had armor-piercing arrows, but in the face of the Yuan Hao personal guards, which were all iron-armed, even if the armor-piercing arrows could break the armor, the damage to the enemy was limited. The Song army's rain of arrows was not to shoot and kill the party soldiers who rushed up, but to suppress them, so that the ironclad cavalry who rushed up could not shoot arrows with bows and cover the first capital long axe infantry that rushed forward.

Kan Dutou felt that his heart was beating hard, as if he was about to jump out of his chest, his eyes gradually became blurred, and the oncoming party iron cavalry became like a mountain, pressing on his head.

He could not retreat, and the deputy head who was in the back was the only one who did not hold a long axe, and the steel knife in his hand would cut down everyone who retreated. And now in the military system, he can't take a person away when he retreats, he is the head of the capital when he executes military orders, and his position will be replaced by the captain of the first team if he does not carry out military orders. Without special authorization, the head of the capital has no power to change military orders, and at the level of commanders, all the commanders and deputy commanders and the left and right marquis must agree to change military orders. As soon as the military order is issued, it must be carried out.

It seemed that all the sounds in heaven and earth were gone, Kan Dutou could only hear his own heartbeat and footsteps, and the green tendons of the hand holding the long axe were exposed, I don't know if his hand became a part of the long axe, or the long axe became a part of his body.

"Kill! ——”

When he saw the face of the oncoming party cavalry, Kan Du shouted loudly. All the fear seemed to be shouted out by this loud shout, and the blood rushed up, and the whole world returned.

The long axe did not accurately cut the horse's leg, but only made a cut in the horse's leg, and Kan Du's head was flashed. His body staggered to his feet, gritted his steel teeth, and slashed at the horse's leg that was not far away.

The iron-clad tall war horse neighed and fell to its knees, and the knight on the horse was crushed under the horse.

With the fall of the first warhorse, the first capital was like a beast awakened from sleep, and met it in a scattered formation, smashing the horse's leg with a tomahawk. No kind of iron armor can protect the horse's legs, especially at the joints, one by one, the war horses have fallen.

The use of infantry to meet the iron cavalry, the long sword and halberd of the previous dynasties were used a lot, and the long axe actually became popular in the Song Dynasty. The long handle of the axe dodged the horse's attack, and the heavy axe, if not sharp, was enough to break the horse's leg. The horseless knight was clumsy, and had little power to fight back against the long axe.

The most effective way to defeat a charge is always a counter-charge at the most critical moment, and no amount of intensive and powerful long-range strikes can replace it. Cavalry is not a tank, and there are many restrictions on the charge of heavy cavalry, and they do not have many choices about what distance to prepare at a constant speed, what distance to start accelerating, and what distance is the best position to charge. If the infantry with long weapons is counter-charged at the distance that begins to accelerate, the heavy cavalry will be suffocated to death as if they could not lift it in one breath.

Even if it is a tank, when attacking, it must be protected by infantry, not to mention heavy cavalry. However, the heavy cavalry charge under the cover of the infantry army, such a difficult tactical combination, the party members did not have the ability to organize. In this era, there are very few troops that can be organized, and it is not necessary to do what is necessary, and it is impossible to do what is necessary.

Seeing that the second capital was under the leadership of Cao Pinglun, the Marquis of Youyu, holding a long axe like a wall, and slashing the iron horse that the first one had missed to the ground, Wulinu only felt a mouthful of blood gushing into his throat, and almost spurted out. It is not easy to use the elite infantry who are waiting for the iron cavalry to rush straight forward, and the best thing to use is the weak brigade that has shaken the heart of the Chong army, but seeing the Song army on the opposite side with a long axe to counterattack still makes him feel fear. He had heard of this kind of tactics, but he didn't expect that he would really be hit like this, and the Song army on the opposite side was simply explaining to him the tactics of the military book with practical actions.

Shaking his head violently, Wulinu shouted, "Step forward and save my iron horse!" ”

Cao Pinglun rushed to Kan Dutou's side and patted him on the shoulder: "Dutou, in today's battle, you will have no worries in your life!" The foot soldiers on the opposite side have already met us, we are slowly retreating, there is no need to fight them head-on! ”

Kan Du nodded woodenly, and his head gradually came to his senses, and then he felt unbearable pain in his waist. When I looked down, I found that there was a big hole in my waist, and blood kept coming out, and I didn't know when I was injured by some weapon.

The party foot soldiers slowly went up the mountain, and the long axe soldiers of the Song army who rushed out also slowly retreated to their own formation, and on the way back, they took care of the party knights who were not dead on the ground, and at the same time collected the casualties of their own side.

Returning to the formation, Cao Pinglun sang to Ruan Dakui: "Commander, the thieves have been repelled!" -- Our unit also suffered heavy casualties, and the first capital suffered more than 30 casualties, and it was already unbearable to fight again. The second ones were better, and only a dozen people were folded. ”

Cao Pinglun nodded: "The first wounded will go to the rear for treatment, and the rest will be under you for the time being, and they will be made up with the second one." Your military exploits have been recorded, and there will be a great reward after the war! ”

Cao Pinglun thanked Kan Dutou together, began to count the casualties of the battle, and arranged where the rest of the people went. In terms of the number of casualties among the officers and soldiers, the Song army still had more than the party, but it was a good deal. Song Jun's algorithm is that people, horses, and armor are added up in the same column, but for the iron horse, the actual horse and armor play a greater role than people.