Chapter Ninety-Eight: The Kidnapping Horse (1)
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Wang Shen had to admit that he was scared. His body was trembling slightly, and his hands were so cold that there was no trace of warmth.
He felt miserable in his heart, looking at the soldiers of the Sizhou Army who were standing beside him, as if he had been stabbed with a knife in his heart.
So many young faces were collected from Jiangbei little by little. They trust me, and believe that I, the invincible general, can lead them from victory to victory and survive in this troubled world.
But today, because of my wrong decision, I want to take them away and want to die.
Wang Shen, Wang Shen, you are carried away by your ambition by fame and fortune, and you are delusional to rely on the foreknowledge of the traverser to play with history and take shortcuts. But you don't want to, history can crush you to pieces with just a finger.
It's useless, run away, maybe you can save your life.
However, in such a chaotic battlefield, once the troops were dispersed, they could no longer be gathered. Everything I have worked hard and struggled for will be in vain.
Jiankang, Jiankang is about to fall, Anniang, Anniang, what should you do?
What about the more than 200,000 people in Jinling?
It was about the discovery of a fully formed Sizhou infantry group, and the Jurchen war horses began to speed up and get closer and closer.
"Ah, it's over, it's over!" When the officials of Weizhou saw such a situation, and at the same time they shouted at the same time, they were about to disperse in all directions.
Suddenly, a man jumped up, and the knife in his hand fell fiercely, and the man who escaped the fastest was cut to the ground.
It is Du Shu, who has an iron face, this good old man has finally shown the hidden strong side of his character. He stopped the scribes with a bloody knife and scolded: "Don't go, pick up the spears on the ground and set up a formation." Straight mother thief, the soldiers fought all night, and they lost their strength, and it was time for us to contribute, at least we could make up a number. Dog, I don't see you shirking when you take money, and you want to run away when you want to fight, where in the world is there such a cheap thing. ”
"All of you here, who has not had family relatives and friends who died under the enemy's sword, now that the master is here, it is time for me to wait for revenge."
"Don't worry, my Sizhou army is the best in the world, it's a big deal to win this battle again."
Hearing him shout like this, the soldiers of the Sizhou Army who were murderous remembered the hatred of the country and the family in their hearts, and at the same time waved the weapons in their hands and shouted: "The Sizhou Army is the first in the world." The Tartars are coming, General, give orders! ”
And all the scribes said no more, but each took up a spear and went into the battle.
Wang Shen looked at the resolute faces of the soldiers, and suddenly felt a little ashamed in his heart.
In the distance, the enemy cavalry continued to advance, and the speed began to increase.
Kidnapping horses on the east and west wings.
The essence of the Jurchen essence.
Wang was so lucky, the first time he faced off with the Tartar battlefield, he encountered such a strong enemy.
He took a deep breath, slowly raised his right hand, clenched his fists, and shouted with all his strength: "The enemy is nothing great, yes, if we can win one game, we can win this one." You believe in me as a commander, and I believe in you. Don't worry, behind us stand our dead relatives, waiting for us to avenge them. Wait and use all our strength, even if we die, we will have the face to meet them! ”
All around, there was a bang.
"Sizhou Army!"
"Sizhou Army!"
"Sizhou Army!"
A month of arduous training finally paid off, and in an instant, the Sizhou army laid a thick infantry phalanx.
The enemy was all cavalry, and in this era, the highly mobile cavalry units of the Jurchens had always been a nightmare for the foot soldiers of the Song Dynasty. His cavalry is divided into two types: light and heavy, the light cavalry is the group of kidnappers in front of him, and the heavy cavalry is the famous Tiefu Tu.
In large-scale battles, the Jurchens' tactics are also simple to say. First of all, he repeatedly harassed with kidnappers and horses, so that the Song army could not calmly arrange a defensive formation. Wait until the main force is close, and then dismount with Iron Float to attack head-on.
If the Song army is still not chaotic, the heavy infantry behind will follow.
In this way, light and heavy cavalry plus heavy infantry attacked in succession. Usually by this time, the Song army had completely collapsed.
The rest was simple, and the kidnappers were once again in pursuit.
With such a simple tactic of coming and going, he fought all the way from the northeast to the Central Plains, destroying the two behemoths of the Liao State and the Northern Song Dynasty.
If the Jurchens had all the troops today, Wang Shen was afraid that he would immediately turn around and run away, which was no longer a battle, but a pure death.
However, the current terrain seems to be favorable to the Sizhou army. The place where the Sizhou army was deployed happened to be in a small open space on the official road, surrounded by rice fields. Although the crops in the field had been harvested three months earlier, the humid weather in the south of the Yangtze River made the soil in the field appear soft, and the criss-crossing ridges greatly limited the impact of the light cavalry, and there was no need to fear them outflanking.
The place south of the Yangtze River has never been a battlefield where large groups of cavalry gallop across the country. Judging from the real history, Yue Fei, Han Shizhong, Zhang Jun, Kong Yanzhou and others rarely dispatched cavalry when they exterminated Zhong Xiang, Yang Qi and other bandits in the south. Instead, they relied on the competition between the water army and the foot soldiers, one water fork after another, and one mountain after another. And the two armies of Tabai and Youyi under Yue Fei only made a name for themselves when they were in Zhuxian Town.
This time, Wang Shen gathered the phalanx arranged by his soldiers, and it was also very simple. In the front row was Lu Can's Divine Arm Bow and Crossbow Array, and behind the crossbowmen were Gu Lie's sword and shield soldiers. At the back, there is a spear with a protruding handle.
Soldiers and soldiers were close together, ready for battle.
The sky was already bright, and the snow had become even heavier, and it had become a white snow mist, which made the scene ahead hazy.
The Jurchens obviously did not take the infantry squad of the Sizhou Army of more than 1,000 people in their eyes, these cavalrymen who were devastated once they were put into the charge and had never tasted defeat were extremely arrogant, they did not close the scattered queues, they still lined up in several loose formations, and they came forward for a long time, like a leisurely stroll.
Perhaps, for them, the Song army in front of them does not pose any threat at all, and as long as they let their horses pass, they will break up and flee.
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"The enemy is two miles away from me."
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"The enemy is a mile away from me."
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All kinds of gongs and drums sounded in the Sizhou army, just like training on weekdays.
The officers shouted in hoarse voices, after a night of fierce fighting: "Steady, steady!" ”
"Attention, attention!"
"Prepare to engage the enemy."
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After entering Yili, the Jurchens had already entered the range of the Song army's bow and crossbow. At the same time, they also entered the optimal distance for the accelerated charge of the war horse.
Suddenly, their loose ranks slammed into the middle, like a sudden flash torrent, enveloping countless rocks and giant trees, and crashing headlong with a loud roar.
The horse was at its maximum, and the earth began to tremble violently, and the stagnant water on the ground rippled in patches, and the water vapor floated and rippled on the surface.
There are only 500 war horses, and they are like Mount Tai pressing the top. Try it, in that kind of national war of unprecedented scale, tens of thousands of cavalry on both sides of the enemy and us hedged, how magnificent.
When Wang Shen and Chen Lanruo led the cavalry to attack the old camp of Li Yuzhong's army, they won very easily. At that time, he still despised the incompetence and cowardice of the Jinan army, and the 20,000 or 30,000 people couldn't even carry a few hundred cavalry, and they died unjustly.
At this moment, as an infantryman, he became the attacked party, and only then did he feel the power of the cavalry group conflict on the cold-weapon battlefield.
Five hundred horses are not much, but they can be spread out, pulling out a huge front about three hundred meters wide, and pressing a large piece of black pressure, giving people the illusion that they are facing the impact of a mud truck.
The power of the individual seems so weak under this shock.
Breathing is not good.
500 meters......
400 meters......
300 meters......
All the Jurchens clamped their feet tightly around the horse's belly, their bodies dangling in the air, and only their feet landed on the stirrups. The heavy long weapons in their hands had been drawn, and their bodies rose and fell with the gallop of their horses. Five hundred people are like this, it's just a raging wave.
In front of him were people and angry war horses, and the white gas spewed out of their mouths and noses was connected in the air. There is nothing to see in sight, a cloud of blackness, except for the muffled thunder of the horses' hooves, which reminds you that the enemy will pounce on the advance army in the next moment.
Such a huge coercion made the soldiers around Wang Shen couldn't help but tremble slightly, some gulped and salived, some subconsciously clenched the barrel of the gun, some people's legs trembled slightly innorantly, and even the shouts of the officers were trembling. The Sizhou soldiers, who had been numbed by the hard training day after day, and who were still fighting bloody all night, were inevitably afraid in front of the enemy cavalry.
The Jurchen light cavalry first lined up in four rows and pushed forward like a comb, but as the Sizhou army was discovered, it began to gradually accelerate, and the team gradually converged in the high-speed run. At this moment, they sat on horseback with weapons in both hands, as if they were one with the war horses under the seats. Riding like this, it is so clever that it makes your scalp tingle.
In modern society, Wang Shen would go to the horse racing club twice a week to ride a horse, and he thought that even in the Song Dynasty, he was a qualified knight. Compared to any enemy in front of you, that is, a newbie who is just getting started.
We can't wait any longer, and if we wait a few more moments, the Sizhou army will collapse because it can't bear this pressure.
Wang Shen yelled: "Lu Can! ”
"Da!" More than sixty Divine Arm bows were fired at the same time, and the sound of bowstrings was only a single sound.
The maximum range of the Divine Arm Bow can reach 500 paces, and the effective killing distance is 300 paces.
The first volley fell into the enemy cavalry without any suspense, and Wang Shen's eyes kept following the feathered arrows in the air, and his heart was entangled.
With the power of the Great Song Crossbow, the enemy is a thinly armored light horseman, and such a distance is enough to shoot a transparent hole in the enemy's body. Especially when ten thousand crossbows are fired at once, it is simply an insurmountable steel fire net arranged in front of the formation.
It's just that Wang Shen doesn't have so many crossbowmen. Moreover, the reason why the military artifact of the Divine Arm Bow is so powerful is because of the complex structure of levers and pulleys. Because of this, it needs to be carefully maintained on a daily basis. Machines are prone to problems as soon as the structure is complex. After a night of bloody fighting, there was already a small demigod arm bow that could not be used.
With such a weak force, is it possible to arrange an arrow curtain in front of the formation?