Chapter 356: Hastily Forming a Formation
After bathing in a rain of arrows from the Mongolian cavalry, the Song cavalry paid a lot of casualties, but they still rushed close to the ranks of the Mongolian cavalry. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
As a result, after the Mongol army collided head-on, the losses were equally heavy, and the first few rows of Mongolian cavalry, hunted by the shuttle spear, even fell off a large number of horses.
Coincidentally, Huang Yan and their luck was too good, Wu Liangha actually rushed to the front, facing a shuttle gun in the middle, and was used to passing by the shuttle gun, and the unlucky Wu Liangha looked down at the bloody shuttle gun on his chest in disbelief, and suddenly roared, trying to pull out the shuttle gun, but then his eyes were black, and he hit his head down, fell heavily in the herd of horses, and was immediately trampled into a mess of rotten meat by the soldiers and horses that followed, and he couldn't die anymore.
This Mongolian army suddenly lost its main general, and suddenly its morale was greatly hit, after a hedge down, although it killed a lot of Song cavalry, they also paid almost the same price, and after they lost their main general, they were a little overwhelmed for a while, although they instinctively formed a formation, but they didn't know who to listen to next.
Taking advantage of the Mongolian army's stunned effort, Huang Yan led the remaining Song cavalry to rush towards Jizhou without looking back, they did not flee, but to meet Gao Huaiyuan, and soon met Gao Huaiyuan's soldiers and horses not far away.
Gao Huaiyuan led the Japanese army and the Wusheng battalion and the Xuanfeng army, the strength was about 10,000 people, and he was supervising the rout of Zhang Rongjun's army in the back, and suddenly saw Huang Yan's cavalry rushing over, so he hurriedly collected the soldiers and horses, stepped forward to ask, after hearing the news, Gao Huaiyuan was still taken aback, but he didn't expect to fall into Polu's trap.
So he didn't dare to slack off, and immediately ordered his soldiers and horses to form a formation on the spot, and put the box cart outside the formation to form a line of defense, which is also the fastest thing he can do at the moment, after all, this time he is chasing the enemy, and he didn't think about bringing out any heavy weapons, let alone carrying deer and horses, etc., seeing that the situation is not good, Gao Huaiyuan quickly looked around, and found that there was a small forest not far from the barren farmland on the left, so he immediately led the army to move to the grove, looking at these arm-thick trees, Gao Huaiyuan suddenly had a flash of inspiration in his mind, and urgently ordered the soldiers to cut down trees on the spot, cut off the small trees, and leave a wooden stake one person high above the ground.
Although the generals didn't know what Gao Huaiyuan's move was for, they also knew that Gao Huaiyuan was a resourceful person who would not let them do useless work without a target, so they drew their knives and swung their axes vigorously to cut down this grove quickly.
So many people are working at the same time, the grove is simply in an instant, it was cut down to only the main trunk about one person high, and the area of this grove is very limited, it is not enough to accommodate more than 10,000 people, some of the soldiers will be deployed outside the forest, and in order to guard against the impact of the Mongolian army that followed, Gao Huaiyuan immediately ordered to scatter these cut trees outside the formation, especially the archers with the lowest defense, requiring everyone to cut a thick branch more than one person high, after the formation, Insert the sharpened tree trunk into the ground and point the tip out of the formation.
The army was again nervously busy, and the generals were arrayed, only to see a Mongol army appear on the horizon and roll towards them.
Array! Steady! The generals shouted to their soldiers.
The Song army stopped the work at hand, and entered their positions in accordance with the dispatch of the order banner, ready to meet the enemy.
Polu saw the existence of this Song army from afar, and led the army towards the Song army with an order, today he really brought the Song army into a trap, and although the price was very large, but for him, it was not worth mentioning at all, Zhang Rong's subordinates were passive and slacking off during this time, which had already made him feel angry, so he used Zhang Rong's subordinates as a huge bait this time to trick the Song army into attacking them, and he also expected that Zhang Rong's troops would collapse immediately under the attack of the Song army, And the time of his revenge was when the Song army pursued the remnants of Zhang Rong's army.
Sure enough, everything made him expect, after seeing him pull out of the camp overnight, the Song army really relaxed his vigilance, waved his army out of the camp, defeated Zhang Rong's troops in one fell swoop, and chased these Zhang Rong's routs all over the world, and gradually entered his ambush circle.
If the Song army formed a group to meet them, Polu was really not sure to defeat the Song army, but now the Song army has dispersed, and it is no match for their Mongol cavalry.
So Polu is in a good mood now, and he finally avenged the defeat of Shi Bu's army, and now that he has finally discovered the main force of the Song army, Polu, who is overjoyed, led the army to kill him.
Seeing that the situation was not good, Gao Huaiyuan immediately ordered the Wusheng battalion to march forward, and at the moment his strongest battalion was the Wusheng battalion, and the Wusheng battalion was basically a mixture of heavy armored infantry cavalry, and the combat effectiveness was very strong, only they could withstand the impact of the Mongolian army, so Hua Yue led the army to deploy in the front line, ready to meet the enemy, and the Song army took the grove as the center, and set up a square circle formation that was conducive to defense, the outermost was the partial box cart brought with him, and the inner part was the defense line composed of knife axe men and pikemen, A little bit further inside is a large number of Song army crossbowmen array, the armies are scattered, the arms are deployed in a centralized manner, and the commanders of the arms move, according to the dispatch of the Chinese army into the required position.
As long as the infantry of the Song army is reasonably deployed, although the attack power is still insufficient, the defense power is not too bad, and even looking at the world, the infantry army is really rare to surpass their soldiers and horses.
The rolling Mongol army kicked up a large cloud of dust on the plain, and the ground trembled slightly as the hooves of the Mongol war horses stepped on the ground.
Gao Huaiyuan was very frustrated at this time, and he still fell into Polu's tricks, although he didn't know the situation of the other teams now, but he must have been more than lucky, if he could think more, after quickly defeating Zhang Rongjun, he would collect troops and enter Jizhou City, then this battle would not have developed to this point anyway, after reviewing, he still felt that he had fought more battles with the wind during this time, and gradually had the psychology of underestimating the enemy, and he was eager to be greedy for merit, so he fell into Polu's tricks.
But now it's useless to think about this, he must block the Mongol army here, it's too late to retreat, he can only retreat into Jizhou City or the Song army camp after defeating Polu here, otherwise, he is likely to be wiped out here, then his northern expedition this time is equivalent to doing it in vain.
Seeing that the Mongolian army was getting closer and closer, Hua Yue immediately ordered the three hundred infantry of the Wusheng battalion to step forward, sealing the eye of the large array, strictly preventing the Mongolian army from breaking through the large array, and ordered two hundred heavy armored cavalry to arrange a group of men and horses on each side of the formation, and also prepared for a surprise attack.
As soon as Polu approached the Song army's large array, he immediately ordered a team of 1,000 people to rush towards the Song army from the front, and the two wings of the Mongolian army began to spread, forming a half-moon-shaped encirclement of the Song army at a very fast speed.
The Mongolian army has a feeling of raising eyebrows today, the generals are very excited, and the anger in the chest has been swayed out during this time, all the way to kill, each of them has a good kill, a good breath of sulk, the Song army along the way was defeated and fled, and after arriving here, seeing the main force of the Song army, so they were even more excited, each plan to go all out, and then the main force of the Song army was defeated, this time they did their best, even if they could not continue to attack Jingdong as they wished, at least they had a good breath of evil.
Therefore, the commander who was ordered to storm the main formation of the Song army led his soldiers and horses again and again, and crashed towards the defense line of the Song army.
The two wings of the Song army were arranged with partial box cars, and this thing was not the first time that the Mongols had seen it, but it was a pity that the people they saw had basically been lost on the east bank of the Yuhe River, and the current Mongolian generals did not know the power of this thing, but they were not stupid, and they also knew that this thing was used for defense at a glance, and only the eyes of the Chinese army did not arrange this kind of partial box car, so the idea of choosing the center to break through was not wrong.
But what they didn't expect was that today they were attacking the strongest combat effectiveness and the strongest defense in the Song army, and the thousand-strong team of the Mongolian army roared and after casting a burst of arrows, it was slightly intercepted by a rain of arrows from the Song army, and then crashed headlong into the array of the Wusheng battalion.
As mentioned earlier, the infantry army of the Wusheng Battalion is equipped with some improved version of the infantry armor, the defense is very strong, and everyone has a heavy shield nearly one person high in their hands, where is the row, it is a shield wall, and they also have a very long plain wood gun in their hands, a large shield column, the spear is handed out, and a gun forest is formed in front of the shield wall, and anyone who looks at it will feel a headache.
But the Mongols are eager to win at the moment, although they also see that the enemy army intercepted their troops and horses are unusual, but they do not regard these Song troops who have been killed by them just now as opponents, in their eyes, now is the best time for them to avenge the defeat of Shi Bu's army, so no one thinks much about it at all, so they don't know what is at stake in the howl of the commander of the thousand and collectively leaned over and rode through the rain of arrows, and the fierce head hit the array of the Wusheng battalion.