Chapter 6: The Battle of Linying 2
readx;?“ Shoot! The officers of the archers shouted loudly when they saw that the cavalry that had approached first had reached them. The archers in the front row of the pen & fun & pavilion www.biquge.info immediately poked the spears they carried with them diagonally to the ground, and the tips of the spears pointed diagonally in the direction of the Jin cavalry.
"Ignition!" When the artillerymen on the right flank saw that the artillery in the artillery array had been fully loaded, they waved the small red flag in their hands again.
The Jin army on the entire battlefield seemed to immediately hit an invisible wall, and blood and flesh flew on the spot, and a large piece fell in front of the Song army.
Even the strongest army, after suffering such heavy losses, could not continue to attack, even the Mongol cavalry in front of the Song army's artillery salvo, repeatedly collapsed, not to mention the Jin cavalry, the backward Jin cavalry no longer had the courage to charge forward when they watched the robes in front of them slaughter like mowing grass...
The panicked cavalry of the Jin Army began to turn their horses, turned around and tried to leave the battlefield and flee back to their own formation.
"Little ones! It's time for us to go! Rush with me! One of the lieutenants lined up on the right flank raised his spear, clamped his legs between the belly of his horse, and with a roar, he rushed out first.
After the Song army now surrendered to Tibet, the situation of the war horses has been improved to a certain extent, and the number of cavalry in the army has increased to a certain extent, but they are not the main force, and the work of the generals to the cavalry is to take advantage of the victory to pursue and cover the enemy.
The situation on the battlefield gradually began to be chaotic. "Good! The standard tactics of fighting the cavalry impact, it seems that the Jiankang Army has done a really good job in this regard! Brother Meng, the Chinese army can also start! Gao Huaiyuan has been watching the battle on the right flank, and when the Song cavalry began to countercharge, Gao Huaiyuan finally put down the monocular in his hand and said to Meng Hui with a look of relief...
"Obey! Pass my command, concentrate all the artillery, aim at the enemy and start bombardment, and immediately advance and shoot after the artillery salvo! The Ezhou Army pressed up in formation and defeated the Jin Army! Meng Heng turned his head and commanded the standard-bearer.
"Pass me the order! The two wings of the Jiankang Army also began to press up, encircling the Jin Army! The cavalry encircled Linying County and blocked the retreat of the Jin army! Li Xiaotian triumphantly watched as his right flank easily defeated the first assault of the Jin army, and then followed Meng Heng to give orders to his subordinate Jiankang army.
The Song army's large array suddenly boiled, the artillery arrays on both wings seemed to be boiling, and more than 100 artillery pieces concentrated their firepower, aiming at the direction of the Jin army's large array, and began to bombard...
The hot iron pills immediately sprinkled into the Jin Army's Chinese army array like hail, and pieces of blood mist rose in the Jin Army's array, and the Jin Army's stumps hit by the iron pellets continued to fly, and the Jin Army was immediately chaotic.
Although the range of artillery in this era is very limited compared to the artillery of later generations, it also far exceeds the range limit of the bow and crossbow, at least it can reach more than 500 steps, and it just so happens that the distance between the two armies is within this range, the Song army understands, but the Jin army does not know.
Seeing that the attack of the cavalry on the left flank was crushed by the Song army, and it did not have the purpose of disrupting the right flank of the Song army at all, Wanyan Heda had already begun to panic, and the power of artillery was also the first time he had seen it on the battlefield, before that, he had only heard of this kind of thing, but he didn't expect that the artillery was so powerful, and the two thousand cavalry were like rolling soup and pouring snow under the volley of artillery, and they were completely defeated in front of the Song army's large array without giving them a chance. Before Yan Heda could come up with a new way, the Song army moved together, and the artillery on both wings spewed out billowing smoke together, and the flames flashed wildly, and then the hail-like projectiles fell from his Chinese army's large array, which made the Jin army of his Chinese army large array wail all over the ground.
"Whoosh...... Boom" an iron pellet just landed on the right side of Wanyan Heda's Chinese army flag, a Jin army holding the flag was shot in the waist, when even if it was torn into two pieces by the heavy iron pellet, the upper body fell to the back with the banner he was holding, and the broken intestines were thrown on the face of a deputy general next to Wanyan Heda, and the deputy general wailed in fright, covered his face and quickly pulled it, pulling the slimy human intestines to the ground, and his face was stained with blood...
"Handsome! Hurry back a bit! The Song army's artillery is powerful! It's dangerous here! Several pro-soldiers immediately pounced, surrounded Wanyan Heda, and persuaded him to hurry back.
But Wanyan Heda's face was pale, and he kicked a pro-soldier to the ground with one kick.
"Get out! At this time, as soon as the commander retreats, the whole army will be in chaos, and I won't leave! Drumming! Drum fast! The whole army will meet it, no one will be allowed to retreat, once it retreats, our army will be annihilated! The sword and axe hand pressed the formation behind the formation, and anyone who dared to take half a step back would be killed on the spot! Roll back for me! Wanyan Heda kicked a few of his own soldiers away with kicks, and ordered almost frantically.
The Jin army looked at the Song army pushing over like a mountain, and they were all a little flustered, they didn't know that they were going to face a decisive battle today, but what they didn't expect was that the Song army would start to press up so quickly, without giving them the slightest mental preparation for the Jin army, the formation had begun to be a little chaotic under the bombardment of the Song army's artillery, and the shells that were still falling were creating casualties in their array every moment, and the Jin army officers and soldiers were a little at a loss. After the big drum of the Chinese army was beaten, these Jin army generals realized what they should do now, so they hurriedly urged the generals under their command and began to meet the Song army.
This kind of battle is very different from the battle they have experienced before, the two armies almost at the beginning, put all their forces into the battlefield, as the saying goes, there are more than 10,000 people boundless, in the south of the small Linying County, such a small plain, the two sides invested nearly 50,000 or 90,000 troops at once, everywhere is the scene of crowds of people, and the black and oppressive crowds rushed to each other like a tide under the command of their respective Chinese armies.
"Forward, quick! Push the cannon forward! Follow the Infantry Army! Don't stop! "The commanders of each artillery shouted loudly at the soldiers of the artillery crew...
One by one, the artillerymen exerted their strength, struggling to push the heavy artillery, and advanced towards the Jin army, and the flood-like Song army generals stepped on the drums, striding forward side by side, always keeping their queues unchaotic, each of the platoons straightened their chests, stepping on the drums and moving the standard pace, and the team on the other side continued to restrain the soldiers of the team to maintain a neat queue.
Compared with the way the Song army advanced, the advance of the Jin army seemed to be much more chaotic, at the beginning of the forward advance, the queue of the Jin army began to be chaotic, and then soon lost its formation, rushing forward in a swarm of chaos, this is the difference between the two armies, the Song army has been based on the drill methods of the modern army in later generations, and the battle is to maintain the neatness of the team in order to maintain military discipline, so that the army will not be chaotic, which is also the biggest advantage of the Song army, once the Song army is placed in the array, It will be difficult to break them again ...
The distance of a few hundred paces was rapidly shortened under the relative movement of the two armies, and although the Song army was not advancing fast, the formation had not changed, and the queue had always maintained a horizontal queue, pushing forward flatly.
The artillerymen sweated profusely and pushed the artillery forward, and when the enemy was close to their 200 paces away, the artillerymen, under the command of the officers, stopped their advance, and began to quickly reload on the spot according to the requirements of their respective artillery commanders.
Packets of loose shells were filled into the chamber by the gunner, and then the gunner pierced the gun door with an awl, piercing the medicine bag inside the gun chamber, and a letter tube filled with gunpowder was immediately inserted into the fire door, and all the gunners immediately ran to the back of the gun to line up...
"Ignition!" The officer in command of the artillery once again waved the red flag in his hand, and one by one the torches were pressed on the fire door with his command......
"Thorn!" The Song army in the front row finally met with the chaotic Jin army, and the escort team in the center of the queue immediately roared, holding the spear in his hand with both hands and stabbing forward, and the Song soldiers who were side by side with him also followed his movements, and stabbed towards the front with the gun in unison.
They don't know how many times they have practiced this kind of action, so that when they hear the order of the stab, it has become their instinct, no one pays attention to the knife and gun handed by the other party, but the front leg steps, the waist and legs and arms exert force at the same time, and they struggling to rush forward.
I only heard the sound of the tip of the gun stabbing into the ** where the two armies met, and then there was a miserable scream, the Jin army in the front row widened his eyes, and looked at the spear that entered his body unwillingly, and did not wait for them to grab the barrel of the spear, the gunner of the Song army struggled to pull out the tip of the gun, and a row of Jin soldiers immediately fell in front of the Song army, blood splattered everywhere, and many of the Song soldiers in the front row were sprayed with a lot of blood spots on their faces...
"Thorn ...... Stab...... ......The officers in the Song army kept roaring, the spears in their hands kept moving back and forth, and after each roar, the Song troops in the front row would stab forward at the same time, without the slightest hesitation, and the Jin army in front of them was stabbed to the ground by them one by one, as if like a harvester, harvesting the life in front of them.
Although the Jin army also counterattacked, but in the face of the uniform Song army's spurs, their counterattack seemed so weak, even if there was a Jin soldier who successfully beckoned his sword and gun to the hideous Song soldier on the opposite side, but it was often blocked by the whole plate armor on the Song army, but it could not effectively kill and injure the Song army.
Even if they were lucky enough to take down the Song soldiers in front of them, the Song soldiers behind them would immediately step forward, immediately fill the position of the fallen Song soldiers, and then follow the Song soldiers on the left and right, and began to stab forward non-stop.
After the Ezhou army pressed on the front, the infantry burst out with extremely strong combat effectiveness, and soon blocked the impact of the Jin army, and pressed the Jin army to retreat continuously.
Some of the Jin soldiers saw their brothers being slaughtered by the Song army like mowing grass, so they turned around and fled, but as soon as they retreated, they encountered a row of Jurchen soldiers of the warlord team like wolves and tigers, and before they could justify, this group of warlords immediately brandished their broadswords and cut down these retreating Jin soldiers to the ground, and in front of them, piles of corpses of the routs were soon piled up, and the blood gathered in some low-lying places, slowly seeping into the soil.
So the retreating Jin soldiers saw that there was no way out, and had to be forced to rush forward again, but in front was the Song army like a wolf, and the rear column was like a tiger to supervise the battle team.
Gao Huaiyuan silently watched the battle ahead, and the artillery on both wings was still advancing forward, stopping constantly, loading, firing, and cutting pieces of Jin troops to the ground.
The Jiankang army on both flanks has surpassed the Song army in the center by a lot, completely forming a semi-circular encirclement, besieging the Jin army in it, leaving only the direction of Linying County, leaving an opening for the Jin army.
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