Chapter 539: Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival (70)
Drawing a bow and firing a crossbow is a very energy-consuming task. xstxt.. Ordinary crossbowmen can fire their bows a dozen times at most, after which they need to rest for a long time. Gao Yang didn't want to waste his killer skills on those stragglers.
The crossbowmen, who had already fired their arrows again and were ready to shoot, received the order, and quickly turned around and lined up in line according to the queue of daily training, and ran towards the rear of their own formation through the passage left by the heavily armored soldiers.
After all the crossbowmen returned to their main formation, the heavily armored soldiers changed their formations again, leaning closer to each other, and with the sonorous sound of their battle armors, they re-formed a tight steel formation. With a firm step, he faced the golden ** array on the opposite side.
"Hiss~~~" Seeing all this, Wanyan Zongwang immediately gasped. The reaction was too fast, right? This is not a brawl of hundreds of people, this is a massive scuffle of hundreds of thousands of people!
In such a large-scale battle, it is really surprising that military orders can be changed so quickly. The crossbowmen fired only one round of arrows before retreating at full speed. The stragglers who pounced on them were even a hundred paces away!
This act of quickly executing military orders made Wan Yan Zongwang dumbfounded. Judging the form from the commander, he made up his mind, issued orders layer by layer, and waved the flag to the sergeants on the front line to carry out the orders. It couldn't have been done so quickly!
But what he saw in front of him completely broke the preconceived concept of Wanyan Zongwang. What kind of elite army does it have to be to do this? At this moment, Wanyan Zongwang wavered for the first time in his belief that he could win this battle.
The form on the battlefield was reversed in an instant. The stragglers who had gone to fight those incompetent crossbowmen in close combat were now facing a steel army array that was surging like Mount Tai. If nothing else, just the leather armor and even the cloth clothes on their bodies were given for nothing when facing the heavily armored soldiers.
The stragglers hesitated. They don't know what to do at this moment, do they turn around and run back? Or just pounce on it and send it to death?
After Yan Zongwang gave the order, he ordered the stragglers to retreat from the two flanks, giving up the wide frontal battlefield to the armor soldiers of their own formation behind them. And those armor soldiers of the main formation quickly stepped forward to engage the main formation of the victorious army, and after the two sides fell into a melee, the threat of those crossbowmen who hid behind would be greatly reduced.
Wanyan Zongwang's plan was to use heavy armor against heavy armor. He had great confidence in the heavy formation of his own warriors. I hope that they can break through the Chinese army. Defeat the main formation of the victorious army. After that, he released the killer weapon in his hand to determine the winner of this battle.
Hope is good, reality is skinny.
Wanyan Zongwang doesn't have a Motorola walkie-talkie! His orders want to be smoothly conveyed to the ears of the front-line sergeants on the noisy and chaotic huge battlefield, especially when the army has already moved and is ready to engage in battle, how easy it is to say!
The situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly, and once the army is on the move, it is not something that can change the reservation plan in a short time.
At this moment, the stragglers of the newly attached army in the midst of the great array of the two sides did not stop for long. Soon, under the urging of the Jurchen soldiers in the escort team, they rushed towards the steel fortress of the Changsheng Army.
Military orders are like mountains.
Even if you know that you are going to die, you have to go! How brutal the Jurchens were, these new vassals knew better than anyone else. Killing them really won't be soft!
Lightly armed skirmishers go to pounce on heavily armored soldiers in formation. Yes, everyone knows that this TMD is to turn on a flashlight in the toilet. It's just that on the battlefield, these cannon fodder-like sergeants can't make choices. Or rush up. Or just wait for military law to do it!
This new annex army is all Bohai people. These Northland men are brave and warlike, and extremely brave. Even if he knew that he would be sent to death if he pounced, he still rushed forward firmly.
The same is true on the side of the Changsheng Army!
The consequence of a large-scale expansion of the army in a short period of time is a drastic decline in the quality of non-commissioned officers. What's more, the victorious army is supplemented by the metropolitan gate forbidden army that has always had the habit of escaping from battle.
Even if these sergeants are carefully selected, even if they have undergone rigorous training and ideological education.
Gao Yang dispersed many veterans into the army and served as the backbone of the grassroots level. The military order that was given before the battle was that those who dared to escape from the battle would be killed immediately!
From the advance of the army to the present when the two sides are engaged, there have been at least hundreds of recruits of the Changsheng Army who were terrified and wanted to flee were killed on the spot by the generals beside them!
The method of marching on the battlefield was a great deterrent to like-minded recruits. Looking at the bloody heads rolling on the ground, the recruits' hearts were forced to settle down. The herd mentality must be stifled at the source. Otherwise, once it spreads. Then no one will try to stop it!
It's also a gap. The soldiers of the Jurchen clan are almost all battle-hardened warriors, and no matter what kind of battlefield situation they face, there will hardly be a matter of escaping from battle. But not the new vassals who clinged to them.
The Jin ** team does not strictly guard the new annexed army, and they are generally led by their own people as leaders. I couldn't see it when I was invincible before, but once I encountered a bad war. Then all the problems that are hidden under the surface of the water will explode in an instant!
In the noisy and noisy battlefield, the two armies walked opposite each other, and they collided fiercely together in an instant!
The stragglers who rushed to the front of the Jin ** team rushed to the front of the escort team, and under the severe pressure of the Jurchen sergeants in the escort team, they rushed to the main formation of the Changsheng army. They slammed their flesh and blood into the steel phalanx!
The sergeants in the front row of the Changsheng Army's main formation are all carefully selected tall and strong men. They were clad in sturdy foot armor and carried heavy long soldiers in their hands. The neat queue was lined up, and the long soldiers in their hands were stabbed out almost simultaneously when the two sides met.
"Puff~Puff~Puff~" The sound of the metal soldier piercing ** is endless. The rows of thick and long soldiers were instantly hung with gold ** soldiers like a string of sugar gourds. The Jin ** soldiers who were not dead screamed miserably and struggled frantically. Others stretched out their blood-stained hands and tightly grasped the long soldiers that ran through their bodies. I struggled to pull it out.
The tide hit the embankment and instantly turned into a scattered wave foam. A wave hits down, and nothing remains.
Although there were also extremely brave and clever rolling tactics among the Bohai people, they brought certain casualties and troubles to the victorious army. But the loss is not worth mentioning at all.
The new annexes pounced quickly, but retreated even faster. Faced with a desperate and powerless Iron Formation, the new annexes quickly collapsed like the waters of the ebbing tide. Even the brave Bohai people are powerless in the face of this situation. The Jurchens would never wear heavy armor for their new annexes!
At this time, even the swords of the Jurchen soldiers in the escort team could not stop their rup. Some of them were forced to be anxious, and they directly fought with the Jurchen sergeants in the escort team. Life is at stake, who cares about whom?
After the collapse of the new annex army that had been in battle for a short time, the front of the main formation of the Changsheng army suddenly opened up. Facing them directly was the Jurchen Honjin Formation, panting, heavy steps, wearing heavy armor, and amazing momentum!
It's a steel-on-steel collision!
"The heavy armor of the Jin Kingdom has entered the firing range." Through the unmanned reconnaissance aircraft hovering in the sky, it monitored the entire battlefield and quickly made a battlefield military report to Gaoyang.
Even if he was riding on a majestic black horse, Gao Yang could not fully observe the entire battlefield when the two sides began to fight.
The scale of the battlefield this time is too large. Moreover, there is no obvious high ground outside Bianliang City that can be used as an observation post, and the only option for Gao Yang to grasp the battlefield dynamics in real time is to pass through the Yuan.
"One hundred and seventy steps from the front!" Yuan was quick to give a distance calculation.
"Hmm." Gao Yang responded, turned his head to the guards on the side, and said in a deep voice, "Crossbow array shoots up, one hundred and fifty steps ahead!" ”
Like Gao Yang, it was impossible for the crossbowmen to observe the situation on the battlefield. They can only unleash a rain of arrows in a pre-planned direction and distance. This is also the reason why in large-scale battles, the crossbowmen are generally in front, desperately unleashing a rain of arrows, and quickly retreating when the enemy is approaching.
Without accurate bearing calculations, quick command transmission, and the rigors of the usual training, the crossbowmen were almost completely useless after retreating. This is also the reason why Wanyan Zongwang would rest assured and boldly let the armor soldiers of this formation fight directly.
All these difficulties apply to all cold weapon era operations. But only it doesn't apply to Gao Yang's ever-victorious army!
Real-time reconnaissance and transmission of intelligence on the battlefield of UAVs in the high altitude. Based on the information, accurate calculations of bearing, forward speed, and coverage area were quickly made. Gao Yang's channel for quick ordering and execution. The combination of all this is an important reason why Gao Yang used this crossbow array as a killer weapon.
Raise the crossbow arrow and point diagonally at forty-five degrees in the air. With the loud shouts of the generals, the dense sound of "oooo~~~" instantly sounded the entire crossbow array.
Panting for breath, the Jurchen armorers who held their blades tightly were adjusting their state and preparing for the final assault. But when he raised his eyes slightly, he saw that the rear of the Changsheng army on the opposite side was suddenly covered with dark clouds!
"What?!" The Jurchen armor soldiers in the front row were startled by the scene in front of them. But soon their faces turned pale, and their eyes were full of despair.
It wasn't dark clouds, it was a dense rain of arrows that filled the entire sky! There were so many of them that from a distance it looked like a thick cloud suddenly rushing in. But in fact, it is a killing weapon on the battlefield! No army can resist this indestructible rain of arrows. Neither can heavy armor!
Passed down from generation to generation in the Song Dynasty, the armor-piercing arrows were carefully crafted by skilled craftsmen. This weight is heavy, the shaft is thick and long, and the tip is a sharp shovel with a blood groove open.
After the crossbow with a huge twisting force shot out, it pierced the sky with huge kinetic energy, which was enough to penetrate a heavy armor in any world! Even if it's a step person, you can't bear it! (To be continued.) )