Chapter 346: The Battle of the Trapped Beasts
When the frightened Shi Bu returned to their starting place in a hurry with the defeated army, they found that today they had encountered a group of unusual enemies, and the Song army in front of them was by no means as weak as the legend, but a cunning and fierce army, and it was obvious that they had come up with many ways to deal with their own cavalry of the Mongol army, and this time they led them across the river, obviously with the aim of eating them. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
It was only at this time that Shi Bu felt that something was wrong, this time he divided his troops into three ways to attack the Song army's defense line, and as a result, the soldiers and horses on all three roads were frustrated, and everything returned to the original point, the six thousand people at the time of departure, but only about five thousand people came back this time, and lost more than 1,000 people at one time, and the heaviest loss was Hadanud, his 1,000 soldiers and horses only came back nearly half, and even he himself died in front of the battle.
But the loss of the Mongolian army is not only the problem of these soldiers and horses, their biggest loss is the loss of the fighting spirit just now, the Song army's preparation, let them realize that it is obviously impossible to break through easily, they have to re-examine the Song army in front of them, Shi Bu must also make a new choice, where to go!
Behind the Mongolian army, there is a wide royal river, the five bridges on the royal river are still smoking and burning, obviously want to return to the west bank of the imperial river unless they swim over, but they are all northerners, the vast majority of people do not know water at all, and they are wearing armor, if they go into the water, the result will only sink immediately, the war horse can float for a while, but it is impossible to carry people across the river, so there is no way to retreat!
Only by taking these generals to break through and find another way can Shi Bu retreat outside Enzhou City, but is this possible? The sound of the explosion just now still echoed in Shi Bu's mind, and his ears still hurt faintly, the terrible explosion made him shudder when he thought about it, and his courage had been blown away just now.
And the Song army on both wings is obviously not easy to mess with, the opponent has already made all preparations, and it is clear that they will not let them escape easily, Shi Bu hesitated for a while, and he couldn't come up with any good way.
At this time, the Song army once again sounded the drums of war in the sky, and the Song army defeated the breakthrough of the three-way Mongolian army at this moment, and under the great morale, it began to close the encirclement and pressed in the direction of the ferry.
Seeing that the Song army began to act, Shi Bu had to grit his teeth and said angrily: Song Jun bullied me too much, how can we sit still like this? Now that the matter has come to this point, we can only fight to the death, break through the siege, and have a way to live, otherwise, we can only be trapped here by the Song army.
This is a battle against the water, and we have no way out! Come on, get on my horse for me, the whole army will attack north, break through the encirclement of the Song army, and then seek revenge!
After Shi Bu gave an order, the generals in the Mongolian army immediately turned over on their horses and put their weapons in their hands, Shi Bu said well, they have no way to retreat now, only to fight against the water, and fight out of the encirclement to survive, so many Mongolian soldiers once again ignited their fighting spirit, and shouted loudly after getting on the horse to cheer up for themselves.
Seeing the Mongolian army crowded at the ferry once again assembled on the horse, Gao Huaiyuan immediately ordered the armies to stabilize the defense line and prepare for defense, he was not in a hurry to swarm up and start a decisive battle with these Mongolian troops, in that case, even if he won, it can only be a miserable victory, that is not what he wants, what he wants is to slowly grind this Mongolian army to death, eat them little by little, until they completely collapse, now the initiative of the battlefield is in his hands, he will not easily let his subordinates go to death.
The composition of the Song army west of the ferry is obviously more complicated, the main force is the 5,000 Flying Tiger Army led by Fu Daquan, and the thousands of Divine Warriors led by Liu Dayong, and there are also some generals sent by Peng Yibin to accompany the army, so the composition of the force is somewhat complicated, and the banner is not very uniform.
And Shi Bu found this from these banners in the north, and made up his mind to break through from the north first, he didn't want to touch the Song army's Chinese army again, because he was afraid of encountering the Song army's terrible firearms again, and the south was obviously the main force of the Song army's continuous car formation blocked the passage to the south, and the car formation was obviously not conducive to the impact of their cavalry team, so he still chose the north.
So the 5,000 Mongol cavalry formed a formation again, and then, at the sound of the horn, once again urged the war horses to rush towards the north.
Fu Daquan spit out a piece of grass chewing in his mouth, looked at the actions of the Mongolian army, and immediately scolded: Damn, the tartar raised by the son of a bitch, do you think Lao Tzu's Flying Tiger Army is easy to bully? It's coming towards us! Come on, pass the order, don't take half a step back, block them for Lao Tzu, if anyone dares to retreat without authorization, be careful that Lao Tzu chops you with his own hands! Quickly lay out the rejection horse!
So the soldiers and generals under his command agreed in a hurry, raised the wooden rejection horse and immediately placed it in front of the array, and a group of sword and axe men with heavy shields also immediately placed the square shield behind the rejection horse, forming a second line of defense, and the spearmen and crossbowmen were arranged in turn after the shields, ready to engage in battle.
And Liu Dayong immediately ordered the Divine Warriors under his command to line up, put the fresh troops left in Hedong in the morning at the forefront of the ranks, and turned over their horses, galloped back and forth in the front of the ranks and shouted to the soldiers under his command: The brothers of the Divine Warriors have listened to me! Today is the time for us to make contributions, and as you have just seen, many of our brothers have fallen to the west of the river, how can we let their blood be shed in vain? Don't look fierce Tartars, but they are also people with two noses and eyes, and they are afraid of what they will do! Resist Lao Tzu, if anyone runs to the back alive, he will blame the ruthlessness of the official's knife, if you let the Tartars rush out of us, Lao Tzu will kill you first, and then wipe your neck to apologize to the handsome!
The soldiers of the Divine Warrior Army also responded to the order at the same time, strode forward, and arranged a neat formation, and with the remnants of the Divine Warrior Army's infantry and crossbows, at this time, under the leadership of Song Cheng, they had already gathered and joined the array of the Divine Warriors, prepared the bow and crossbow, and aimed it at the front.
At this time, the partial box cars were pushed out by the Song army, and they were also placed in front of the array, and the finishes were connected to form a line of defense.
Behind the Flying Tiger Army and the Divine Brave Army, a group of Peng Yibin's rebels helped the Song Army's bed crossbow battalion and the car artillery battalion to send the bed crossbow and traveling cannon to the front of the battle as auxiliaries.
The Song army has always attached great importance to the use of bed crossbows, and the army will always have a bed crossbow battalion with the army, and these bed crossbows are also relatively light bed crossbows, which can be used to act with the army, which is the sharpest weapon in the hands of the Song army, and the car artillery battalion is equipped with a single sentry cannon equipped with four wheels, which acts with the army, and is also a heavy field weapon of the Song army.
And the Flying Tiger Army and the Divine Warrior Army both have such weapon configurations, and now they have also pulled them up and placed them in front of the formation to prepare for the enemy.
When the Mongol army began to move, Shi Bu saw that the Song army in the north began to stop, and the formation blocked their way, and made a posture of waiting, knowing that the opponent would never let them break through easily, but at the moment he had no other way but to fight to the death.
Gao Huaiyuan has also been observing the actions of the Mongolian army, he knows that the enemy army is already about to fight the trapped beasts, and the direction they choose is also the weakest point of their troops, so he immediately ordered: The armies continue to move forward, surround the enemy army, send an order to Huang Yan, immediately lead the troops to the north, once they find that the Tartars break through the defense line of the Flying Tiger Army and the Divine Brave Army, they will desperately block them for him!
With the swaying of the flag, Huang Yan, who had been leading the back of the 2,000 cavalry array, immediately laughed and shouted with the big gun in his hand: "Brothers, come with me!"
After saying that, he immediately urged his war horse and galloped towards the north, and the two thousand Song cavalry immediately followed, raising a large cloud of dust and rushing to the north.
Five thousand Mongolian cavalry rushed like a torrent to the Song army's defense line, and the generals of the armies guarding the northern defense line gave an order, and fired arrows and stones in unison, facing the Mongol army head-on.
The Mongol army apparently also learned the lesson of the defeat of the first charge, this time adopting a looser formation, the vanguard took out their bows and fired arrows at the Song army in the gallop, and the two armies immediately exchanged fire and launched a life-and-death struggle.
The Mongol army repaid the determination to fight to the death, rushed to the Song army's defense line, ignoring the arrows and stones that came from the split face, while galloping wildly, while struggling to fire arrows forward, and the rejecting horses in front of them did not seem to be able to stop them at all, a large number of Mongolian cavalry rushed straight over without fear of death, and simply knocked over these rejecting horses with the force of the impact of men and horses.
The Mongolian army in front of the rejection horse was like a tide, and suddenly there was a blood-colored wave on the rejection horse, and many soldiers and horses were killed on the spot on the rejection horse, but their sacrifice was exchanged for the shattering of the rejection horse, and a large number of Mongolian cavalry broke through the blockade of the rejection horse and crashed into the array of the Flying Tiger Army.
The sound of the spear entering the body, the sound of the shield breaking, the sound of human fractures, and the howl of the soldiers dying were suddenly mixed together, and the shouts of killing were also filled with it, and the tragedy of the entire battlefield was vividly interpreted.
Although the Flying Tiger Army was strong enough, after all, the infantry suffered a great loss to the cavalry, although they laid several lines of defense, but under the desperate assault of the Mongol army, they were quickly broken one by one, and then the two armies were mixed together, and the soldiers of the two armies slashed at each other like crazy.