Chapter 373: Before Juyong Pass (Part II)

Xue Yongli immediately climbed the slope, the direction on the plain in front of him was empty, this is an open land, in the south, is a huge Song army array, vanguard array, strategy vanguard array, large array, front array, east and west abduction horse formation, no division of horses, rejection of the rear formation, strategy palace rear formation......

At a glance, it is a small military array with different functions like countless chisels, axes, saws, files, cones, pliers, forming a sophisticated killing machine, although there are spacious intervals between each small military array, but no one dares to rush into it rashly, otherwise the team of hundreds or thousands of people is enough to be crushed in an instant.

The north side of the open field, that is, the side they came from, was actually the camp of the Jurchens, and the Jurchens also had foot soldiers, but similar to the Song army's configuration of more than seventy percent of the crossbowmen, the configuration of the cavalry in their army also exceeded seventy percent.

The front army of the Jurchen cavalry is arranging a cavalry suspension formation, which is a cavalry assault tactic studied by Huo Quai, the general of the Han hussars in the past, a cavalry cone formation is arranged in an orderly manner, the use of different weapons in front and back, left and right, and the interval between the horses is also different, leaving enough space between the horses, so that the enemy foot soldiers can dodge and make way when they charge.

But...... The cavalry ranks are also dozens or even hundreds of rows, and each cavalry is staggered, once they are allowed to exert their outstanding power, they can sweep everything in front of them like a weeder. They did not have a special archer, and it took a long time for the Song army to train a qualified archer, but all the knights on the steppe were good archers.

Xue Yong faltered weakly, and looked up at the Song army's formation. The large array was about to take shape, close to the valley on the right, and the cavalry of the Song army was concentrated. There were more than 4,000 to say the least, and it seemed that it was precisely because this cavalry team was pressing there, and the Jurchen horses on the opposite side were afraid that they would attack the flanks during the battle, so they maintained a state of confrontation with the Song army.

Seeing that the war was about to break out, Xue Yong looked up at the open space, and saw that the war horses in the Jurchen camp had moved slightly, and the Song army camp opposite. Behind them, the spearmen and archers were advancing "filed".

The three armies moved slightly, like the tilt of Mount Tai, and stepped heavily. The file sounds in your ears.

If Yang Ling is here, he will also be shocked, in the era of cold weapons, even if you are brave and champion the three armies, when you are not covered by your comrades, you can only die in the face of one or twenty spears. Once trotted or ran like a single soldier in the era of hot weapons. A rapid charge was bound to be in disarray, and it was an isolated spearman who was only rationed with food for the neat enemy army.

Xue Yong had been in the army for so many days, and he already knew that in the battle of a large group of thousands of troops, this kind of parade of formations was actually a sign of the immediate start of war.

Once the war starts, thousands of arrows fly together, thousands of troops and horses set foot on the battlefield, not to mention a sick child, who is in the staggered area of two charges. Who can survive?

"Sonorous and sonorous......" The Song army's spearmen were in sonorous iron armor and holding a shield spear. Lined up in a dense formation, there were twenty rows, forty columns, spears held high, like a forest stepped forward, with a loud shout, all the staggered soldiers knelt on one knee, spears pointed forward, lined up into a three-dimensional defensive gun formation.

On both wings of the gun array, the spearmen and foot archers under the wing protection of the vanguard formation also lined up in a neat queue and strode forward, so close to the distance, the fast horse rushed to arrive, they only had the opportunity to shoot three arrows, and they were left with a passage to retreat to the Chinese army in the middle of the military array, the Chinese army was hollow, and the rifle and knife men of the infantry army lined up in a dense formation into a square formation, and they could open the "door" at any time to let them retreat, with knives and guns outside, and auxiliary bows and crossbows inside, and Jiejing could still cooperate with the battle.

On the opposite side, the conical car suspension array of the Jurchen iron cavalry has also been arranged, and in the forefront, it is the warriors with heavy weapons such as chain hammers, maces, halberds, and fire forks hanging on the victory hook, and the heavy weapons are placed within reach, at this time they have held the bow in their hands, and slowly probed to the mouth of the quiver behind their shoulders with one hand, and then looked back, the scimitar is like grass, the road is reflected like the scale of the river, and in the middle of the Chinese army, a wolf's head flag is erected straight.

Wanyan Zongwang frowned a little, but in just one short night, the Song reinforcements had arrived, looking at the battle, at least no less than 20,000 troops, and the situation had reached a level where both sides were a little jealous.

If it is a battle, Wanyan Zongwang will definitely not be stunned, but the Jurchen army under Zongwang will go south this time, seize too much territory, get too many livestock slaves, and the morale of the three armies is a little tired.

What's more, Wanyan Zonghan has the heart of a tiger and a wolf, and his family and Wanyan Wu Qimai have just been able to balance Zonghan, if they fight to the death here and damage half of the family, I am afraid that the situation in the Jurchens will change again.

Wanyan Zongwang already has a plan in his heart, at this time, he just doesn't care what, let's try to see how the moisture of this Song army is, just control it within the scope of his control, the cavalry has an advantage in this point, and the advance and retreat are calm.

Wanyan Zongwang waved his big hand, and thousands of cavalry in front of the formation chirped and neighed, murderous, and looked at the Song array and pulled their horses away.

In fact, the infantry-based troops may not be invincible against the cavalry-based troops, and if they are in the mountains, canyons, and swamps, they may still be able to gain the upper hand, but in the plains and wilderness, the Shence army must suffer some losses.

In particular, the enemy cavalry of their team also has a fatal weakness, that is, it is difficult to chase after victory, and it is difficult to escape from defeat, so the Song army camp basically adopted a defensive position at this time to wear down the enemy, and fought together in a stone's throw outside Juyong Pass, while the infantry phalanx began to advance step by step after withstanding the fierce impact of the enemy cavalry, and rushed towards the cavalry army.

This march was slow, and they had to maintain a dense formation of spears during the slow march to counteract the cavalry assault advantage.

Under the notice of the Chinese army, the left wing cavalry brigade took an arc and launched an attack on the flank of the Song army's large array, while the right wing cavalry tightly bit the Song army's cavalry team, intending to eliminate the only mobile force of the Song army, but the Song cavalry leaned on the wall on one side and the vanguard spear array on the other side, and the contact with the Jurchen cavalry was limited, and it was not defeated for a while.

With the fierce battle, the battle arrays on both sides were a little shaken, and the scope of the battlefield began to show a trend of expansion, some rangers and stragglers on the edge of the battle array began to spread to both sides, Xue Yong was in a high place, only to see arrows in the air, fighting and shaking the sky, and the ranks were surging like a surging giant wave of water, although it seemed to be chaotic, in fact, each had its own rules. (To be continued.) )