Chapter 1047 [Breaking the Formation]
The battle in front of the city is different from the siege, and the attacking side naturally cannot put the military formation directly at the foot of the city, so that the defenders in the city who should fight in the city do not even have a place to stand after coming out, so they give up the battlefield in advance.
The battlefield with a length of about 3,000 steps and a width of nearly ten miles (the width of the city) is enough for tens of thousands of people to fight here, and a mere 2,000 cavalry is naturally more than enough to fight here.
As a result, I also saw that the two cavalry formations were slowly approaching the center line of the battlefield.
Let's talk about the coiling dragon array on the side of the Jin army first, if you want to talk about the image of a little metaphor, it is almost an "oOo" shape, the circle formed by the heavy serial horse "Tiefutu" in the middle is larger, and the circle formed by the light horses running on both sides to pull smoke and dust is smaller.
As for the moon array on the side of the Song army, there is just a symbol that can be used to describe it vividly, that is, "◎", the archer-wielding cavalry hedgehog gathers in the center to form a circular array, and the left and right armies with shields and melee combat run in circles around the circular array to form an outer circle.
Soon, I saw that the cavalry formation of the Jin army maintained the formation of "oOo" from north to south, and the Song army did not move northward in a hurry, and when the two armies approached to a distance of almost more than 100 steps, they also saw that the light cavalry formation on both sides of the Jin army took the lead in sending out a sharp whistle, and threw arrows at the Song army.
Although I don't know how the performance of the Jin Army's standard riding bow is now, with the average range of 120 paces of the iron tire riding bow that is standard in the Great Song Army, if it is projectile at a distance of more than 100 steps, if the arrow hits a non-armored or lightly armored target, it may also be able to make a contribution, but if it is a high-defense unit equipped with heavy metal armor all over the body, unless it is extremely lucky, it will be in vain.
Therefore, seeing that the Jin army had begun to shoot, and the Song army's side, except for the cavalry who ran in circles around the periphery to cover it, they shrank their heads and raised their shields to cover them, but they did not have the slightest disorder, and continued to run in without fear of the rain of arrows.
When the two armies approached a distance of almost 90 paces, the second rain of arrows from the Jin army's light cavalry was fired again, and the Zhejia army continued to move forward regardless of it.
When the two sides approached the distance of up to 70 paces, at the same time as the third wave of arrow rain from the light cavalry on both sides of the Jin army was issued, a nearly uniform "huha" sound was suddenly heard in the cavalry formation of the Zhejia army, and a large wave of black feather arrows suddenly flew out, shooting straight towards the light cavalry town on the left side of the Jin army's cavalry array.
Although this moment was very fast, most of the people inside and outside the battlefield could clearly see it, and the two rains of arrows took off separately at an almost perfect parabolic angle, and then staggered each other in the air, and finally rushed down without hesitation and went to their respective goals.
At the same time that the sound of feathered arrows breaking through the air dared to spread around the battlefield, the two armies also burst into the fierce sound of people neighing.
In the rain of arrows, I also looked at the cavalry formation on the left side of the Jin army, and in an instant, people turned over on their horses, and the cavalry array that was originally like a tornado and made smoke and dust suddenly collapsed. As for the Song army's side, there were also many cavalrymen with shields on the periphery who roamed and covered the ground with arrows, but the soldiers in the Chinese army who fired with bows quickly took their shields to cover their heads after shooting arrows, and they actually used cavalry to make the general effect of an infantry shield array, with very few casualties.
At this point, although the Jin army fired arrows first, and also shot two more waves, but after being hit by concentrated fire, the light cavalry with a bow could not withstand the blow of the Song army's cavalry bow at all, and at least nearly 100 casualties were inflicted on this occasion.
As soon as the two sides were fighting, a wave of counterattacks by the Song army crushed the light cavalry formation on the left flank, and the Jin army was naturally taken aback, and Liaoyang City was suddenly thunderous. However, this is just the beginning, and after looking at the time of about three or five breaths, the right cavalry formation of the Jin army shot out a wave of arrow rain again, and the Song army, which had approached a distance of almost fifty paces, also returned a wave of arrow rain with a backhand after resisting this wave of arrow rain. And as a horn sounded in the middle of the cavalry formation, the formation of "◎" instantly turned into a "↖↑↗" three steel torrents, and crashed straight into the Jin Army's cavalry formation.
I don't know if the IQ of the cavalry soldiers on the right side of the Jin army is generally higher, or if they quickly recharged their IQ after looking at the unlucky appearance of the cavalry formation on the left, the second wave of arrow rain launched by the Zhejia army was not as good as before, and with the change of the Zhejia army, looking at the Jin army's formation howling again and again, and then the original "oOo" formation of the Jin army quickly separated, becoming the appearance of "OooO".
The distance of fifty paces was a few blinks of an eye for the cavalry who raised their speed and launched a charge, and they also saw that the thousand cavalry were divided into three roads, and rushed into the Jin army formation as if they were "O↑o↑o↑O", and started hand-to-hand combat.
Spear stabs, spear stabs, arrows, the greatest power of the cavalry is the impact on the infantry and the sense of oppression brought by the people with men and horses like a mountain of meat, in fact, as long as the infantry is not timid, and knows how to use effective tactics and skills, the infantry can easily restrain the cavalry.
As for cavalry versus cavalry, it is a contest of courage and strength to say that it sounds good, and it is a bad battle to say that it is bad!
At this time, all the troops of the Zhejia family, whether it was the left and right armies that were covered by shields before, or the Chinese army that was holding bows, had already put away their shields and riding bows, took out spears and spears from the victory hook under the saddle, lined up like arrows, and rushed straight into the formation of the Jin army.
If you are lucky, the timing of the stab is just right and you will stab the spear into the enemy's body, either with the help of the impact force directly push the enemy off the horse to take the opportunity to draw out the weapon, or the enemy will catch the blade with his backhand under the injury, then he must decisively take off the weapon and draw out the spare long or short blade to fight again.
There are also those who are unlucky, either they don't stab, or they are swept by the enemy's weapon or hooked, and there are not many options for him at this time, one is to lose the weapon and run back to the team to dodge, and the other is to sacrifice himself to pounce on his teammates to create a chance to kill the enemy.
For a while, the sound of swords and guns and the shouts of fighting resounded in the sky, and a thousand Zhejia troops wearing red armor and red cloaks were like three red torrents, and after penetrating straight into the formation of the Jin Army, they were like three wandering dragons shuttling and swimming in the battlefield, and the Iron Floating Tu of the Thousand Golden Army was also very flexible and mixed into three black and yellow circle formations to defend and counterattack, and it was seen that every time the dragon approached the circle formation, it would inevitably bring traces of blood and light.
In the continuous impact and shuttle, the body of the red dragon began to slowly taper, and the body of the circle array continued to break and shrink like a punctured balloon.
In the end, Mo Yo was less than a tea time, the light cavalry circle formation of the Jin army on the left side could not resist at first, and could no longer form a circle to resist, and was instantly kicked by a red cavalry torrent and disappeared and invisible, followed by the cavalry formation on the right to see that the situation was not good, and then leaned towards the main formation of the Chinese army in the middle with death and two into one.
At this point, this coiled dragon array can be regarded as broken!