Chapter 244: The Great River Goes East (13)
Most of the pro-soldiers behind Hu Yanzhuo immediately responded to the promise and left loudly, and Hu Yanzhuo, surrounded by the remaining pro-soldiers, strode towards a high place near the left of the camp on the back road, taking all the battlefield into view.
His personal guards had already played the banner of Hu Yanzhuo to calm the hearts of the army, and more and more men and horses were mobilized with Hu Yanzhuo's order, ready to meet the sudden onslaught of the Liao!
At this time, Hu Yanzhuo realized what wishful thinking Liu Taiwei was, where is this Xiao Gan fighting the old breed, but it is just to paralyze his own captain, the persimmon picks up the soft pinch, and attacking the old breed is just slowing down our military hearts, he is waiting for this opportunity to suddenly attack!
However, Hu Yanzhuo is also very convinced that he will be able to hold this rear camp and wait for the main force of the Huanqing Army to come back!
On the left side of the rear camp near the battlefield, this was originally an open land of Pingchuan, and the cavalry of the Liao brigade was just relying on the dark hiding movement, and as the sky was brightened, the scale of the Liao army was finally seen by the Song army.
The Liao people dispatched soldiers and horses, just in front of them, not to mention the follow-up soldiers and horses, the Liao people cavalry almost filled all the sight!
Song army crossbowmen, before the Liao cavalry arrived, the Song army with a crossbow machine, a foot bow, and a bow to handle all kinds of shooting weapons shot out in a row, and the layers were obliquely inserted on the ground, which was the maximum range of various shooting weapons, and the officers at all levels led the team, holding a cold sweat in their palms, and watched coldly as the Liao army brigade gradually approached their own range.
There are too many Liaogou cavalry, so many that it seems that every arrow will not miss, and the horse is lifted from a distance, and it seems that he is not ready to turn around and go back for the next impact.
Officers and soldiers on the front. They all had a hint of premonition, but at this time, only the bow and arrow blades spoke.
Hu Yanzhuo led the generals who operated the Divine Arm Crossbow Soldiers to raise their hands and give a loud order, and they heard a sound of metal trills in the air, and countless short crossbow arrows burst out. Straight to the brigade of the Liao people!
The divine arm bow is the weapon of the Great Song Dynasty, a masterpiece of medieval warfare that cannot be restored by future generations, and the nightmare of all nomads and all those who have a strong cavalry commander!
In this era, in order to make this level of complex divine arm bow more convenient, the range of the Divine Arm Crossbow has been shortened from three hundred and fifty steps in the early Song Dynasty to two hundred and forty steps now, but this is already an astonishing long distance. If Yang Ling was at the scene and saw the scene of the continuous shooting of the divine arm bow, he would definitely think that the Liao cavalry rushing on the opposite side had been strafed by machine guns!
I saw several rows of Liao cavalry in front, almost at the same time, the men and horses rolled into a ball, and under the fire of thousands of crossbow arrows, they almost swept away the Liao army in several rows of forwards!
However, the Liao soldiers and horses quickly made up for the vacant positions in front. Still heading straight for the Divine Arm Archer, the already somewhat exhausted Archer handed the Divine Arm Bow to his assistant.
The tread strings are on the machine again. The range of the Divine Arm Bow was too long, enough to shoot seven or eight times before the Liao people rushed closer, and according to the experience of the Song army, there was never any cavalry army that could still persist in attacking after seven or eight rounds of such rounds. Not to mention that these Liao cavalry had to rush into the range of other bows and crossbows.
In the face of such a hedgehog-like bow and crossbow array, the cavalry has always carried a shield and pushed a ballista to lure the opponent's arrows from the left of the firing range.
Until the opponent's bow and arrow stamina are almost exhausted, then approach or shoot on foot or ride to fight for a while. Consume the physical strength and morale of a round of archers, and only then attack them and defeat the opponent in one fell swoop.
Often a battle will not end from dawn to dusk, and they only need to hold on to the bow and crossbow in their hands for half a day!
The generals of the Song army watched the Liao people fall with satisfaction, everyone was thinking about how many casualties the Liao people would turn back in a panic, the second round of crossbow arrows was fired, and the Liao people fell down again, and the people shouted the sound of horses neighing, and this distance was already able to rush to the face. But these Liao people still haven't retreated!
The limit of the horse was mentioned, so that the high-flying horses of the northern land seemed to be galloping in the air with four hooves, and the Liao knights should not hide behind the horse's neck, play not shrink by the saddle, and try to reduce the area of receiving arrows.
The Song army was surprised to see that there were so many Liao generals with tooth flags on their backs, and everyone had no intention of turning back!
But whenever an empire is in a desperate situation, there are always people who are willing to die in it, and the Jurchens are defeated and have nothing to say, and for the Song people, every Liao person is full of resentment.
The two countries have been reconciled for more than 100 years, and the border has not seen the beacon fire rising, and the monarchs of the two countries are about brothers.
It was this Song State that had been reconciled for a hundred years, and when the Liao people were in decline, they suddenly betrayed the alliance and sent troops, and stabbed a knife in the back, even if they died in the hands of the Jurchens, they couldn't make these Song people proud!
At this time, the Liao people, of course, forgot how they dug up the sixteen states of Yanyun from the territory of the Han people, and how Yelu Deguang went deep into Kaifeng.
At that time, countless cities were slaughtered on the north road of the Later Jin Dynasty, and since the Song Dynasty, before the Yuan, how did the Liao people support the Northern Han Dynasty to always fight against the Great Song Dynasty, and how they continued to fight the grass valley unscrupulously on the roads of Hebei, and later the whole country entered the country.
After the Yuan, the Liao people still did not settle down in the border areas of Hebei, and every time there was a little turmoil in the Great Song Dynasty, the Liao people would always come up with a little trick to extort benefits.
In the past few decades, with the disorganization of Liao's politics, the central government's ability to control has been weakened day by day, the troops in various places have been self-respecting, and the act of fighting grass valleys has resurfaced on the Song-Liao border, and the people of Hebei in the Great Song Dynasty have been devastated.
At this time, the Liao people were full of grief and indignation, and under the leadership of Xiao Gan, they borrowed water from the city and made a last stand!
If you win, the Great Liao may still be able to breathe, and if you lose, the children of the Liao people's military horses will become slaves of the Song people!
The bows and crossbows of the Song army were still shooting, and the corpses of the Liao people and horses were constantly falling down in rows.
But these Liao people still didn't care that the blood had been smeared all over the place, and they didn't care about how many of them were killed or wounded, so they crashed in!
The Song army still insisted on shooting, but from the generals to the soldiers, everyone had a frightened look on their faces, and no one thought that the Liao people would be crazy to such a point in the battle after this episode!
The Song army's spearmen, sword and shield men, and big axe men had already crossed the crowd and blocked in front of the crossbowmen, who shot and retreated. (To be continued......)