But unfortunately, this guy was also a little lucky, he neither broke his neck nor broke his hand, and after rolling on the ground a few times, he actually got up again, and quickly climbed on the back of the horse of Yin Ulu, who rushed to help, and quickly got out of the battlefield.

Yue Fei saw that even six arrows failed to leave Jin Wulu, and let him run a hundred steps away, so he didn't let the arrows go after him, after all, this hundred steps through Yang said that he was hitting a fixed target, not a moving target, so why waste arrows.

When Yue Fei returned to the battle, it naturally attracted thunderous cheers in Liaoyang City, although Yue Fei failed to kill in this battle, but at least he also beat Jin Jiang and fled back in embarrassment.

After seeing that Jin Wulu and Yin Wulu both ran back to the front and back of the Jin army formation, Yue Fei also stepped forward again to call the battle, and as a result, in the Jin army formation, you look at me, I look at you, and then five people came out to fight, and soon looked at Wanyan Chilida, who was wearing a scribe's robe, came to the formation with his empty hands and said: "My Dajin asked to fight with the cavalry of the Song army, and each side sent a thousand horsemen to fight the male and female, how about it?" ”

Seeing that the Jin army was afraid of going head-to-head, and then wanted to change the group fight, Huang Jie turned around and discussed with the generals, and then he also approved the invitation and ordered him to lead a thousand horsemen to fight.

Immediately, I saw that the gate of Liaoyang City was opened again, and a thousand cavalry troops came out quickly, and they formed a strict ironclad cavalry formation in front of the city.

On the Jin army's side, he also saw a phalanx of more than a dozen thousand-strong infantry soldiers facing Liaoyang slowly moving towards the two wings, and then a group of cavalry wearing heavy armor came up from the direction of the rear army. It's just that the armor of these heavy-armored cavalry is still a little messy, and it is not as uniform as the Song army, and it can be seen that among the cavalry, there are both those with shields and swords, and those with bows and guns.

However, now it is not the two armies fighting in the field, but the dignified city wall, since the horse battle is agreed, it is impossible for the Jin army, which has nearly 300,000 troops, to make up a thousand heavy cavalry with shields and swords, right?

In this regard, seeing that the Jin army's thousands of horsemen and horses were still in the front formation, Huang Jie hurriedly went to find Zhi Keshi, who was ready to personally lead the team to kill: "General Zhe, this king sees that the Jin army's team is mixed from far and near, I am afraid that the Jin people may use some strange tactics, what preparations does the general have?" ”

In this pre-battle battle, the two sides specified that they would send teams to fight in groups, and its significance was also like a fighting general, mainly used to show martial arts and stimulate morale, so they could not use any tactics and strategies, let alone do anything to rush up to fight bad debts, which made the world laugh.

However, this does not mean that the two sides can only fight with open swords and guns, and cannot study some formations or small tactics. Just swept into the cavalry formation of the Jin Army, and then he also saw the clues, and said with a smile with Huang Jie: "Don't worry, the marshal, the Jin people want to make a plan, or the chain of horses that the Western Xia Iron Harrier is used to, it is very easy to break!" ”

The so-called chain horse, that is, the use of iron chain (iron chain) to serial several horses together, the history contains: "(Western Xia) with iron cavalry as the front army, riding good horses, heavy armor, stabbing inaccessible; Twisted with a hook and rope, although it will not fall immediately. ”

Hearing this, Yang Keshi on the side also stepped forward, pointed to the cavalry in front of the Jin army and said: "Marshal, Yang looks at this army, I am afraid that it is the Tiefutu of the Jin State, and he had the honor to fight with it in Hebei in the past, and his tactics are no different from the Western Xia chain horses." ”

As soon as he said that the other party might be "Tiefutu", Huang Jie was also very sure in his heart, after all, the Zhejia Iron Horse under Zhe Keshi's hand was built by him according to the "Tiefutu" he saw in his dream.

The so-called "Tiefutu", which is another name for the Jurchen heavy cavalry, has heavy armor and strong ability to attack fortifications.

In the history book Yang Ruyi's "Shunchang Victory over the Thief Record", the earliest record of "Tiefutu" ("Tiefutu"). According to the article, Jin Wushu (that is, Wanyan Zongbi) "responded with 3,000 soldiers from the generals, all of whom were heavily armored and fully armoured, and the captives were called Tiefutu, and they were also called fork thousands of households", and this "fork thousand households" refers to Zongbi's guards and pro-army.

In the "Jin Yu Tujing" also recorded that the Jin army "specialized in cavalry", cavalry was the only regular army in the early Jin country, all the infantry in the Jin army were played by the Han or the signing army, they were not a standing regular army, their role was "only to transport salaries, dig trenches, open the void, like grain and grass", it is impossible to equip expensive heavy armor.

In other words, those who wear such heavy armor will not be the infantry of the Jin army, and those who are qualified to wear heavy armor can only be the Jurchen cavalry. Of course, there is one more thing to say here that the main force of the cavalry of the Jin Army is generally divided into light and medium left and right wing cavalry "kidnapping horses", and elite heavy cavalry "Tiefutu" in the main force.

Ancient heavy armor was too expensive to equip on a large scale, and because the heavy cavalry had to fight while bearing the weight of the armor, they had to have a superhuman physique. In the historical books of the Southern Song Dynasty, whenever the "Tiefu Tu" is mentioned, it will be called "the victorious army", "the elite and the extraordinary", "the unstoppable" and so on, and its identity should also be different from the ordinary Jurchen cavalry.

In addition, it is a "heavily armored and fully armed" heavy cavalry with strong combat effectiveness and defense. The "kidnapping horse" can "advance or retreat, see the forward", and the "iron float" must "use the rejection of the horse after the person, move the horse one step, and show no hesitation".

Unlike the tactics of outflanking the two flanks of the Jin army's "kidnapping horses", the task of the "Tiefutu" is to attack the fortification head-on, and its role is like that of a tank in modern warfare, which is why it is equipped with such heavy armor at the expense of cavalry mobility.

Another characteristic of the Jin Army's "Tiefutu" is that in some occasions that are not conducive to heavy cavalry combat, they often dismount and use them as hoplites.

As Wang Ruohai said, "The besiegers of the city are called Tiefutu", and it is obviously impossible to attack the city on horseback. The case of the "Tiefutu" heavy cavalry dismounting and attacking the city can also be seen in the battle of Xianrenguan in the fourth year of Shaoxing contained in the 74th volume of the "Records of the Years since the Establishment of Yan", in which the Jin army "was connected by two armors and iron hooks, and the fish ran up".

In addition, the fourth volume of Zhao Yanwei's "Yunlu Manjian" of the Song Dynasty also mentioned: "The captives use sharp formations more often, retreat for a while, and come again and again, each formation is as heavy as a formation." When there are many heavy troops, they make a circle formation to rotate the enemy; If the enemy returns to a circle and is outward, he dismounts and fights on foot, and when he is defeated, he gets on his horse and pursues him, as has been the case since the use of troops. ”

There are also history books that say that "the vultures are relied on, and the army is always victorious." The besiegers of the city are called the Iron Floating Massacre, and the Iron Tower Soldiers, are double-layered iron pockets, and the perimeter turns are decorated with long eaves, and there are felt pillows under them. The three of them are in a company, connected by Piso. After rejecting the horse, the person went further, moved the horse one step, and showed no hesitation. With the iron horse as the left and right wings, the abduction horse is all Jurchen. Since the use of troops, the city that cannot be attacked is to gather this army. ”

However, in the tenth year of Shaoxing in the Southern Song Dynasty (1140), Wanyan Zongbi led his 100,000 troops, 15,000 kidnappers and horses, and 5,000 Tiefutu to Lin'an (now Hangzhou, Zhejiang), the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty.

On the way, Tiefutu and the kidnapping horse were invincible, and they were invincible, and they were all the way to Shunchang on the edge of the Yangtze River, and Liu Qi, the general of Shunchang, led the soldiers to fight bravely. Finally, the 50,000 army, 10,000 kidnappers and horses, and 3,000 iron floats were wiped out. Wanyan Wushu led the troops to retreat, but was intercepted by Yue Fei on the way, and 2,000 Tiefutu, 5,000 kidnappers and horses, and 30,000 troops were annihilated, and the legendary army of Tiefutu was destroyed.