Hearing his brother say this, Qiu Youshou noticed that his back was really hot and painful, he quickly took off his armor, Qiu Youshou tore off the corner of his robe, wiped off the blood around the wound, and then carried a wound a few inches long, and the blood was still gushing out. Fortunately, the wound was not very deep.

Qiu Youcai hurriedly took out the wound medicine from his arms, which was uniformly distributed by the army, pulled out the plug, poured it on the wound, and then bandaged him with a bandage.

While they were bandaging, a rapid drum beat sounded from the Song army's position.

Qiu Youcai's face changed, he could hear it, this was a warning from the enemy's charge!

He hadn't bandaged it yet, so he didn't look back at it at all, but continued to bandage it. However, the third brother Qiu Youshou turned his head and saw the heavy armored cavalry of the Liao army sweeping over again like a storm!

The greatest advantage of cavalry is not hand-to-hand combat, but speed and great impact. The Liao army was well aware of this, so they would organize many repeated charges. The Liao army found that their first wave of charges had not been completed to break the Song defenses, and the two sides were in a stalemate, which was not what they hoped for, so they sounded the horn and let the cavalry retreat.

The retreat of the Liao cavalry was not defeated, but well-trained to leave the battlefield on both sides. Leaving the charge to the cavalry who served as the second wave of shock.

The cavalry in front pulled out of the battlefield, and after the shock side gave way. The second wave of the Liao army's charge began.

At this time, some of the soldiers of the spear and axe formation of the Song army, who had been disrupted by the cavalry of the Liao army, were wrapping up the wounds of their brothers like Qiu Youcai, and some were so tired that they threw away their blades and sat on the ground panting. Some were frightened enough by the tragic fighting, and now they are still standing there stupidly and afraid. Only a part of the soldiers quickly assembled according to their training and formed an anti-shock formation.

Although the Song army predicted that the Liao army would launch a second wave of charges when the Liao army retreated. So the drums of war were sounded, but the Song army was too inexperienced in fighting with a large number of cavalry, before this the main opponents of the Song army were also infantry-based Southern Tang, Houshu and other armies, and there were not many opportunities to directly fight with the cavalry of the Liao army on a large scale, so although the Yang generals had repeatedly emphasized this point during the exercise, they also made clear requirements that the formation must be immediately formed while the Liao army retreated. Facing the impact of the second wave of the Liao army, however, the mouth is finally shallow. You won't be able to understand the importance of it until you really experience it.

Song Jun is now getting such a valuable experience, of course, this experience is very painful. Because when the second wave of the Liao army charged. The Song army's most powerful trick against the Liao army's iron cavalry, spears and axes, has been scattered. No formation was formed. And the crossbowmen did not immediately organize an effective rain of arrows.

So, it was time for the Song army to be unlucky, and when they found out about the second wave of the Liao army's charge, it was already too late

The heavy cavalry of the Liao army rushed like a mountain and a sea, and the soldiers of the Song army had time to stand up and grab their blades, but they did not have time to form an anti-impact formation, which greatly reduced the damage of spears and axes to the cavalry.

When the Liao army rushed into the Song army's position, Qiu Youcai finally completed the bandage. He turned his head sharply and saw the iron hooves of the cavalry trampling in the chaotic Song soldiers. The long knives of the Liao soldiers flashed with cold light and chopped off the heads of the Song soldiers, and the blood flowers that were raised flew into blood strings of various shapes, forming strange patterns in the air.

The screams of the Song army resounded throughout the position. Qiu Youcai roared wildly, grabbed the long axe, and said to his younger brother who was busy wearing armor: "Hurry up! The Liao army rushed over! ”

Qiu Youshou only had time to put on his armor in a hurry, and he didn't even have time to tie it, and the Liao army's iron cavalry had already rushed in front of them!

Qiu Youcai roared wildly, swept over with an axe, and cut the front legs of the Liao army's iron cavalry that rushed to the front in two! The Liao soldier fell off his horse and rolled over, and at this time, Qiu Youshou had already grabbed the long knife and the round shield, and when he went down, blood splashed, and the neck of the Liao soldier who fell was split in two.

At this moment, the hooves of another war horse had already stepped on Qiu Youcai's head!

Under normal circumstances, it is impossible to form such a situation, but now the formation of the spearmen and axemen of the Song army has been chaotic, and there is no effective anti-shock formation, and there is no mutual protection, so that Qiu Youcai is attacking one of the enemy troops, but is attacked by another enemy army!

It was impossible for Qiu Youcai to recover the long axe and chop the war horse that trampled on him, and the only choice was to dodge. In the end, it was a veteran who had experienced a life-and-death struggle, Qiu Youcai immediately took off his hand and let go of the long axe, rolled on his side, and dodged the deadly hooves.

When he got up, he saw two Liao soldiers slashing at the third brother! The shield of the third brother Qiu Youshou could only block one of the long knives, and in the face of the other, he could only use the long knife to counterattack. But the other party is a cavalryman, on the horse, condescending, and the war horse under the crotch is covered with heavy armor, and the long knife chopping can't hurt the body of the war horse at all. It can't reach the vital point of the Liao soldiers, and the armor of the infantry is light armor, and the defensive power is not as good as the iron cavalry of the Liao army. So Qiu Youshou could only parry desperately, and in the blink of an eye, he had already been hit by two or three knives on his body, his armor cracked, and blood splashed!

Qiu Youcai didn't have time to find a weapon, so he jumped up like crazy, jumped up, hugged a Liao soldier who was attacking the third brother, and dragged him off his horse.

Qiu Youcai's eyes were red, he stretched out his right hand, his index finger and middle finger apart, and hated to insert it into the eyes of this Liao soldier!

Ahh

The Liao soldiers screamed, and the long knife in his hand slashed at Qiu Youcai's waist, and blood splashed.

Qiu Youcai rolled away, got up and looked again, another Liao soldier was slashing at the third brother Qiu Youshou one after another, Qiu Youshou resisted with a shield, his eyes were full of horror and despair.

Qiu Youcai grabbed the spear of the dead Song soldier's spearman on the ground, raised it over his shoulder, and threw it violently at the Liao soldier.

Strike!

The spear pierced into the body of the Liao soldier and knocked him off his horse!

At this moment, Qiu Youcai felt something hit hard in the back, knocking him to the ground. He knew that it must have been the war horse of the Liao army that hit him. Sure enough, then, another kick and trampling of horses' hooves, he heard the terrifying sound of the bones on his body shattering, and then his head was trampled by the iron hooves, and he immediately passed out.

Qiu Youshou saw his brother fall to the ground, he subconsciously wanted to run, but he couldn't, the only eldest brother, he couldn't let him die here, no one knows. He immediately fell to the ground, lay between the corpses of the soldiers, covered himself with a shield, and curled up.

The iron hooves of the Liao army stepped on his body, and the scuffling Song army ran past him.

When Yang Sanlang rushed back, the second wave of the Liao army's charge had already entered the position, and he saw the collapse of the Song army's defensive formation, so he immediately ordered the drum to give the order, and let the second batch of spearmen and crossbowmen behind the axemen release arrows and shoot the Liao army!

Just as the Liao army had more than one shock cavalry, the Song army did not have more than one defensive formation. This would prevent the whole army from being defeated after the rout at the front. It's just that the spear and axe team behind will not rush up to participate in the battle before receiving the order, but will maintain a neat anti-shock formation. Because this kind of spear and axeman, only by forming a neat formation, can they exert a strong defensive counterattack, once the team is chaotic and cannot protect each other, the power will be greatly reduced.

Behind the spearmen and axemen in the second wave of defensive positions, crossbowmen and shieldmen were also deployed.

Yang Saburo's order was to let the second wave of archers release their arrows to support the first wave of defenses, which were already completely chaotic.

As soon as the drums of war were beaten, the second wave of spearmen and axemen crouched down, lowering their spears and axes to make room. The crossbowmen in the back immediately fired a salvo of arrows and shot at the Liao army.

The Song army's bow and crossbow are so powerful that they are the most headache for the Liao army, especially the strong crossbow, which not only has a range nearly twice as long as that of the Liao army, but also has a great force, and can easily penetrate the heavy armor of the Liao army within the range. At the same time, the accuracy is also good.

The Liao army was hit by arrows one after another, and of course, because the two sides were scuffled together, many Song soldiers were accidentally wounded and shot.

The iron cavalry of the Liao army knew that they could not retreat at this time, otherwise they would become a live target for the crossbowmen of the Song army! Therefore, the Liao soldiers continued to charge forward and pushed the battle situation into the depth of the Song army!

The first wave of the Song army's defense line, which was already in disarray, could not stop the powerful impact of the Liao army's iron cavalry, and the Liao soldiers soon rushed to the front of the second wave of defense line.

After completing a salvo, the crossbowman immediately retreated to reload his arrows. And the axemen and spearmen who were crouching in front of them had quickly stood up, and their spears and axes were raised, forming a defensive formation.

The Liao army's charge stopped in front of the second spear and axe formation. Because this one is neat and orderly and well-trained.

The Liao army fell off their horses one after another in the spear stabbing, and the war horses broke their front legs in the long axe chopping and fell.

It's just that at the same time, the soldiers of the first line of defense of the Song army have fallen into the heavy encirclement of the Liao army's iron cavalry, and a Song army has to face three or four Liao soldiers to kill together, and the Song army's casualties have increased rapidly.

Yang Sanlang shouted angrily, and the war drums were again rapid and high. -- This is the drumbeat of the counter-charge!

The 20,000 Song army and horse troops deployed on both flanks began to rush towards the two ribs of the Liao army!

The number of horse troops in the Song army was small, and the horse army in this Northern Expedition only had a total of 50,000 troops, of which 30,000 were reserved for the main force, and the other 20,000 participated in the Western Route Army. Yang Dalang allocated them to the forward and rear armies respectively.

Yang Sanlang only had 10,000 horses in his hands. He fully knows that good steel should be used on the blade! Therefore, he has been dividing the cavalry into two teams, hiding behind the archers behind the left and right flanks of the forward, and the Liao army did not know Yang Sanlang's arrangement, so he did not send special cavalry to deal with it.

In the face of the powerful spears, long axe formations and strong crossbow formations of the Song army's frontal defense line, when the impact of the Liao army was stopped, with the dense charging war drums, the Song cavalry that rushed in from both wings became two sharp knives, piercing into the two ribs of the Liao army!

Cavalry vs. cavalry, the side that forms the shock wave will have an advantage, both psychologically and tactically.

The cavalry of the Song army participating in the western expedition this time were all light cavalry, although the armor was relatively thin, but the speed was fast, and the cavalry was equipped with crossbows, long knives and round shields. (To be continued......)