Chapter 7 of the Circle is fierce like fire, and the battle is especially hearty, and the soldiers are like water, and they are often powerless
When the sentry detective brought the news of the Jin people's division of troops to Lu Junyi, Lu Junyi slapped the table and said loudly: "Okay, sure enough, the troops have been divided!" ”
In fact, when Sanniang and Lu Junyi deduced before, they also deduced many changes, in terms of the strength and combat power of the Jin army, in fact, the division of troops is not the best policy, the most advantageous, in fact, should concentrate the troops, turn around and fight to the death with some of the troops of Lu Junyi, after breaking through Lu Junyi's department, but the Yellow River, but all the way south, to the land of Lianghuai or Jingxiang to harass, turn in, to fight to nourish the war, anyway, it is the Song people who are destroying the city, the Jin people will not care, in this way, the Jin army of more than 200,000 raged in the land of Lianghuai or Jingxiang, It will teach Sanniang a big headache. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Fortunately, the Jin army did not choose this crazy strategy, because by choosing this strategy, the Jin army needed to abandon all superfluous things and move forward lightly, and the things to be discarded included gold, silver and jewelry, the things of the Zhao and Song royal families, the women who were kidnapped and so on. Perhaps Zong Han thought of this strategy, but it was useless, he could not persuade the 200,000 gold people to give up the gold and silver jewelry, silk and satin, and beautiful treasures that he had already obtained. Even if he is the boss, the military rule of the Jurchens is that after the looted things are divided, they are private, and no one can force others to give them up.
In short, no matter what, Zong Han and Zong Wang chose to divide their troops. The division of troops is the second best choice for the Jin people according to the current situation, provided that the Huazhou Shi Jin Department has not been able to open Tongguan, and the division has entered Tongguan. If the Jin people can hold Tongguan, and Zongwang has more than 100,000 soldiers, Sanniang is afraid that it will not be able to stop it, and the Jin people will flee back to the north from the three ancient ferries of the Yellow River. But it's a pity that Zong Wang and Zong Han didn't know that Sanniang had laid down Shi Jin in Huazhou many years ago.
Because of Shi Jin's move, in Lu Junyi's view, the division of the Jin army has become the most beneficial choice for the Song army. So Lu Junyi immediately ordered all the military horses that had been out of the camp to agitate up, and they must break the Zonghan department that left the palace as soon as possible, and then Lu Junyi's army and horses could pursue the main force of the Jin army of Zongwang's department, and attack Zongwang's department with Sanniang and the middle division of the seed division.
In fact, the various units of the Song army had already gone out of the camp in the afternoon, because at that time Lu Junyi had already obtained the flying pigeon biography of Zhongmu Sanniang, and Sanniang's department had successfully captured Zhongmu, and Lu Junyi, who got the news, ordered the troops and horses that had lunch to go out of the camp and line up, and saw that Lu Junyi's Song army was arrayed, and the Jin army retreated slightly, and then it was much later to get the news that Zhongmu was lost, and then divided the troops.
After the various units of the Song Army in Shandong got the military order to march, the formations of the various units moved forward steadily, 60,000 military horses, Lu Junyi sent 30,000 military horses out of the battle this time, and the rest of the military horses were reserve. The 30,000 army horses led by Bian Xiang and Suo Chao, Hu Yanzhuo and Deng Yuanjue led the first army, and Dong Ping and Zhang Qing led the first army, which pressed towards the western camp of the Jin army.
However, Zong Han did the opposite, ordering 20,000 military horses to stick to the avant-garde camp, and the military horses behind them ate some dry food, recovered their strength, and prepared to take over the battle. The 30,000 horses of the Song army quickly overwhelmed the camp, and then taught the firearms battalions of all departments to start fire preparations.
At this time, the tactics of the Shandong Song army were no different from the tactics of the two camps of the Jin army last night, that is, after the fire was suppressed, the infantry stepped forward to forcibly demolish the enemy's camp and fortifications, and then the cavalry assaulted, and the infantry army followed up.
This tactic seems to be rigid, but the Jin army has no way, the reason is simple, the Jin army has no firearms and cannot suppress the Song army's firearms. Just like in the early days of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in later generations, the Japanese army's tactics were as rigid as the artillery bombarded the infantry and the infantry rushed after the artillery bombardment, but the Chinese army, which was at an absolute disadvantage in equipment and firepower, had nothing to do about it, and it was simply eaten up half of the country. However, when the Japanese army encountered the more powerful firepower of the US army and the Soviet army, it was easily exploded in turn, which is the embodiment of the complete victory of specific tactics under the absolute superiority of firearms and firepower.
Zong Han stood on the enemy tower outside the tent and looked at the camp in front of him, the Jin army braved the enemy's sharp firearms to fight desperately, but he had no way, except for using human lives and consuming the enemy's firearms, hoping that the enemy's firearms would be used up sooner, he also had no good way. Zong Han's subordinates stayed to block the pursuit of the Song army, that is, they gave up the detour and outflanking tactics that the Jin cavalry was best at, and the narrow terrain around Kaifeng and the Yellow River was not suitable for outflanking and detouring, and the Shandong Song army also had cavalry, and the number and combat power of the cavalry were not under the Jin army.
So the Jin people gave up the combat methods they were good at and stuck to the camp, but the flesh and blood could not resist the power of firearms after all. After struggling to hold out for an hour, the camp began to retreat.
Zong Han also knew about this situation, but to his delight, the enemy's firearms began to thin out, and it seemed that they were almost consumed. So Zong Han ordered the military horses behind to prepare, and ordered the front camp to retreat, he planned to let the military horses behind take advantage of the situation to make a counter-charge, wanting to give the Song army a counterattack blow after the Song army broke into the camp.
However, it was said that the Song army was here, and Hu Yanzhuo and Deng Yuanjue's troops on the middle road first broke through the Jin army camp, Deng Yuanjue led the infantry army forward to open the way, and Hu Yanzhuo led the cavalry to break through. After not wanting to enter the camp of the Jin army, the defenders had already retreated, and they were met by the counter-charge of the Jin army's five thousand Tiefutu military horses.
Seeing that the oncoming cavalry of the Jin Army were all heavily armoured, under the reflection of the sun, flashing a dark luster, Hu Yanzhuo roared, and with a double whip, he ordered the three thousand dragoons under his command to also beat their horses and rush up. Dragoons are also generally covered with heavy armor, and their hands are also heavy axes, hammers and other armor-breaking weapons, and their heads are feathered helmets and pheasants.
The two armies soon collided fiercely, and the Jin people armed heavy weapons such as maces and iron bones fought fiercely with the heavy axes and hammers of the Song army. For dealing with heavy cavalry or heavy infantry wearing heavy armor, it is the best choice to use blunt weapons to hit hard, because the heavy blunt weapons strike is extremely strong, coupled with the speed and momentum of the horse, even if the heavy armor can withstand it, but the people behind the heavy armor can't bear it, and they are often hit by heavy weapons.
The heavy cavalry of the two armies strangled together, it was a life-and-death battle, the sound of the heavy cavalry beating Peng Peng was endless, the screams and horse chirpings were also endless, many heavy cavalry were still on horseback when they died, it seemed that California was intact, but the weapons in their hands were falling, in fact, they were already dead.
The number of cavalry of the Song army is small, but the soldiers do not retreat in the battle, and the old general Hu Yanzhuo is even more, holding heavy soldiers and double whips, coming and going like the wind, shooting down many Jin troops, and the morale of the Song army is greatly boosted, and it is actually comparable to the battle of 5,000 Jurchen Tiefutu.
Seeing the cavalry of the two armies fighting fiercely on the enemy tower, when they couldn't hold each other, Zong Han's eyes widened and said: "I don't want the cavalry of the Song army to be so brave and be able to fight on a par with Tiefutu." "The people on the left and right were also shocked, in fact, all the generals understood that if the Jin army and the Song army cavalry were equal in number, they were afraid that they had already been defeated, when did the Song army cavalry become so brave?
In fact, there is a reason why the dragoons are so brave, one of them is the war horse, since the three Ruan went to the South Seas, and the Arab merchants of the South Seas have purchased a lot of tall and excellent Arab thoroughbreds, all brought back to Shandong Road to domesticate, the war horse is better than the Hequ horse used by the Jin people. The second is the change of tactics, before the Song cavalry liked to use spears and halberds, which was good for breaking through the infantry, but it was a loss to the heavy cavalry, so with the help of Yang Tinghe and other Khitans and the Han people of Liao, the Shandong Road cavalry changed the tactics of spears and halberds, and switched to blunt weapons with heavy axes and hammers, and the Khitans and the Jurchens fought for a long time, and they all knew the tactics of the other party, so they simulated the tactics of the Jinren and looked for loopholes. The third is the improvement of armor, the Shandong Road cavalry used three layers of armor I don't know, the first layer is the chest plate armor, to protect the head, chest, abdomen, shoulders and neck, etc., the back layer is cotton armor, but it is Sanniang modeled after the Qing army cotton armor, cotton armor can not only guard against arrows, but also absorb part of the impact force when striking with heavy weapons, the last layer is the scale armor, light fit, and finally add clothes such as robes, in order to resist the blow, the dragoon has a slight advantage.
The two armies fought for half an hour, Zong Han felt sorry for the hard-won horses of the Tiefutu army, and knew that every Tiefutu was a baby bump in the Jin army, so he ordered the Tiefutu to retreat and ordered the Jin army infantry to cover it.
Hu Yanzhuo also ordered the military horses to retreat temporarily, a fierce battle, they have suffered more than half of the casualties, the three thousand dragoons only have more than 1,400 horsemen, and the Jin people only have more than 2,000 horsemen back, it seems that the Song cavalry has the upper hand.
After the cavalry retreated, Deng Yuanjue led the infantry army to rush up here, the infantry mandarin duck array was even more powerful, the Jin people were longer than the cavalry, and the infantry army was even inferior to the Liao people, the infantry fought for less than half an hour, the Jin infantry army was defeated, and the middle camp was broken through by the Song army.
Seeing that the Song army broke through the middle camp, Zong Han did not hesitate, seeing that it was almost dark, so Zong Han ordered all the military horses in front to retreat, and then ordered the military horses behind the palace to set fire to the camp to block the Song army's pursuit, Zong Han led the army to retreat fifteen miles, and then camped in Xiazhai, preparing to continue to engage with the Song army the next day.
After Lu Junyi's army and horses captured the west camp and the north camp, he quickly rescued some captured Zhao and Song ministers, Guo Yaoshi settled Huang Shang, Su Yuanjing and other loyal ministers in a temple outside the north camp, and sent some henchmen to guard it, and then the Jin camp was in chaos, and no one could take care of these people, but Sun Fu, He Li and other traitors and Yongchen were imprisoned in the Jin camp, and when the Jin people withdrew their troops, they burned the camp with fire, so they were all burned alive.
In addition to rescuing some loyal ministers and righteous soldiers, the Song army also rescued a lot of clan women, the Jin people retreated in a hurry, Zong Wang in addition to taking away more than a dozen favorite clan women, Emperor Ji, most of the clan women did not have time to take away, including the Empress Zhu of Qinzong who attempted suicide in order to protect her chastity.