Chapter 32: The Battle of Yanzhou

There are two flowers, one on each branch.

Let's say that Zhao Yingying and the infantry were in a hurry, and after half a month, they finally arrived in Yanzhou.

At this time, the party members were also gathering around Yanzhou City, and they were preparing to happily return home!

"Your Highness, according to His Highness's plan, Weichen drove the enemy together, and they are concentrating in Fucheng. During this time, our special combat team has killed more than 1,000 enemies, and only a few of our own soldiers have been injured, which can be described as a complete victory! Jin Tai said to Zhao Ying with a smile.

"Well, that's good! It seems that you have trained really well, take care of the wounded soldiers, they are all my treasures of the Great Song! Zhao Yingfu was also very happy to hear this result, he was able to kill more than 1,000 enemies with zero casualties, which was very remarkable in the era of cold weapons, and it seemed that he really made the right move.

"By the way, how is General Zhe's situation?" Zhao Yingfu asked Jintai.

"Back to Your Highness, in order to let the enemy find out about our arrival later, after consulting with General Zhe, Wei Chen asked him to lead the cavalry around Yanzhou City to intercept and kill the enemy's grain transport team from a distance, and approach this side step by step. According to the intelligence, General Zhe is only a day's journey away from us. ”

"Very good, after such a long journey, it's time for the soldiers to rest and recuperate, and when General Zhe comes back, let's catch turtles in an urn and leave all these guys here." Zhao Yingfu said confidently.

"Report! Chief, our grain transport team was intercepted and killed by the cavalry of the Song Dynasty, suffering heavy casualties and a lot of grain and grass losses. The herald hurried into Hu Yanyi's tent and reported to him.

These days, Hu Yanyi's hand strength has become stronger and stronger, and he accidentally reimbursed another cup, only to hear him roar angrily: "Are you all waste? Or do you drink too much horse pee? was actually defeated by those cowardly guys in the Song Dynasty! ”

The herald prayed not to be angry, but he had to be careful to reply: "Chief, according to the defeated soldiers, they encountered different cavalry than we had seen before. They seem to be under the banner of a royal field army, equipped with repeating crossbows, much more powerful than we have seen before, our warriors have not yet reacted, they have shot thousands of arrows, and we have lost half of our clansmen in one face! ”

"And this? What kind of field army has heard of this, isn't that the little prince of the Song Dynasty playing with it, with such power? Send someone to find out, and call the other leaders to consult. ”

"Yes!" The herald touched the cold sweat on his forehead and quickly retreated.

"Leaders, we just got the news that our way home was cut off by the Song army." Hu Yanyi saw that all the leaders had arrived, and said straight to the point.

"What? The army of the Song Dynasty intercepted our back road! One of the leaders asked incredulously.

"According to the report of the scout, this time we met some royal field army formed by the little prince of the Song Dynasty. I originally thought that this was just a child playing around, but I didn't expect this army to be underestimated. They are armed with a large number of powerful repeaters, and although they are still far behind us in terms of mounted archery, the number of repeaters can make up for their shortcomings. Our grain team has fought with them, and they have been defeated, so we have to cheer up now! "Hu Yanyu will analyze the information he has obtained for the leaders.

"Leader Huyan, what do you say! We listen to you. "The rest of the small tribes are still very face-saving.

"Since they have cavalry, we can't retreat directly, otherwise we will be entangled by their cavalry, and we won't be able to transport back these trophies. I mean to deal with them right here, their cavalry is only 5,000 people, we still have nearly 20,000 warriors here, we can kill them and leave calmly, as for their infantry, they should be here to see us off! What do you think? Hu Yan Zhuoyin said with a low smile.

"Tou LinkedIn Ming...... "The rest of the people are also used to obeying his orders, just pat the sycophants."

In the early morning of the next day, the Song army camp was full of soldiers and horses, and the murderous spirit was vigorous. The scenes of the people shouting unjustly and tragically all the way in the past few days have deeply stimulated the souls of the soldiers, and it is from this time that the murderous spirit of this army began to sprout.

"Soldiers! You have worked hard and marched thousands of miles, and you have finally allowed us to catch up. At this moment, the enemy who killed my people is besieging my Yanzhou City in front. Today, this king commands you to destroy them, to capture alive the heads of the thieves, and to comfort the souls of the unjustly killed people in heaven. Kill! Zhao Yingfu stood on the stage and waved his arms and shouted loudly, and was mobilizing before the war.

"Kill! Kill! Kill ......" The armies lined up and shouted to move closer to the state city.

Hu Yanzhuo saw that almost all the troops of the Song Dynasty were infantry, and his face was full of smiles, fantasizing about the good thing that his 20,000 cavalry could defeat the opponent with a single charge. I didn't expect the other party to dare to take the initiative to attack, this is obviously not to give face, when did the infantry dare to attack the cavalry, this is the sun Daxi came out of the side!

Annoyed and angry, Hu Yanzhuo shouted loudly: "Zhongerlang rush me, crush those miscellaneous pieces, rush ......"

"Woo! Oh......" Hearing Hu Yanyi's order, all the party members rushed out with a strange scream. According to their experience, these Song people are all vegetables, and one charge can easily get them all done.

"Stand upright! Array! Seeing that the opposing cavalry began to charge, Chong Shiheng gave an order to the advancing team.

Hearing the order, the soldiers immediately stood still and quickly stood up in accordance with the battle formation they had practiced in peacetime. I saw that the soldiers were quickly arranged in small teams, with 6 shield soldiers in front of them in two columns, and the rest of the crossbowmen hiding behind, and the squads quickly formed a big square.

In less than 10 minutes, a large square appeared in front of the enemy, and the super spears outside the square made them a big hedgehog. At this moment, their performance intuitively shows the skills of ordinary training, don't underestimate a change of formation, in the ancient era of low personal quality, changing formation on the march has always been a problem. The famous armies of ancient times without exception had their own uniqueness in terms of battle formations, just like the mandarin duck formation of the Qi family's army.

By the time the field army had set up its posture, the charge of the party was still in progress......

Chong Shiheng rubbed his hands and said to Zhao Ying with a lewd smile: "Your Highness, you see...... Hey! ”

"Okay, put away your obscene expression, this king knows what you want, command you well, this king will press you down, go!" Over the years, Zhao Yingying has been disgusted by him, I thought that this should be a guy who is not smiling, but I didn't expect him to be a pit man without blinking, if it weren't for his strong ability to lead, Zhao Yingyi suspected that he was looking for the wrong person.

"Thank you, Your Highness! The little ones are going to kill them. When Chong Shiheng saw that he had achieved his goal, he put away his obscene expression, and instantly switched to the role of a general, and the speed of changing his face was almost catching up with Sichuan Opera.

"Little ones, stabilize General Ben, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is watching us! We've been practicing hard for so long, so let's take those miscellaneous flags today, and I'll kill them with Ben! ”

The enemy cavalry approached quickly step by step, and the horse's hooves kicked up a cloud of dust, and the momentum was really magnificent. A group of recruits who have never seen the world, seeing the swarming cavalry, said that they were not afraid that it would be a lie, and their hands and feet were trembling unconsciously.

The performance of the soldiers, Chong Shiheng looked at his eyesight, he understood whether it was a dragon or a worm, so he looked at this battle, and only after surviving this field army could it be truly established.

"Don't panic, listen to my commands, we will definitely be able to annihilate the enemy!" Chong Shiheng loudly boosted morale.

After a while, the enemy's cavalry had gathered no more than two miles, and was still approaching rapidly......

2000 steps...... 1500 steps...... At 1000 paces, nearly half of the enemy has entered the range of the bed crossbow.

"Bed crossbow and arrows ready...... 1000 steps ahead of the salvo, put! As Chong Shiheng chanted and the herald waved the flag, a cloud of arrows suddenly rose in the middle of the square, hundreds of bed crossbows, and tens of thousands of arrows flew towards the enemy thousands of steps away.

The party cavalry unit suddenly became two in the running, and the middle part seemed to be slapped to the ground by God. It is roughly estimated that nearly 5,000 people fell under the first round of arrow rain attacks, the scene was quite bloody, although nearly half of the arrows were shot empty, but they could not stand up to many arrows, and the cavalry at this time was quite concentrated in order to have a strong charge effect, and the worst body became hedgehogs, and even the horses were not alive.

The cavalry in the rear was frightened by the sudden blow, although the Song Dynasty also used these things before, but I have never seen such a scary scene, a large number of people are gone, gone......

Although the cavalry charge was fast, and the bed crossbow did not have time to put a second round, this blow achieved a tactical effect, turning the enemy cavalry in two, seriously weakening the impact effect of the cavalry.

Having said all that, the attacks of the field armies did not stop because of the enemy's losses. The nearly 10,000 cavalry who rushed to the front did not see the tragic situation behind, and still kept their original state and charged.

"Longbowmen prepare, keep throwing, put!"

This time the power is much smaller, and there is only one brigade of longbowmen in the entire field army, but the continuous damage of every ten seconds is still very objective.

"The crossbow teams are free to fight! Crossbowmen get ready, free fire! ”

The cavalry that rushed to the front was already very close to the infantry phalanx, and although after several rounds of blows, killing more than a thousand of their soldiers, nearly eight thousand cavalry still rushed over.

"Shield soldiers, prepare to engage the enemy, erect guns!" With the order of Chong Shiheng, the long spear was pointed obliquely at the cavalry that was coming.

The party cavalry, which was less than 300 paces apart, finally saw the true face of these super-long spear arrays, and they were sweating profusely with fright. Hurriedly tightened the horse's rope, and came a beautiful big loop, this riding skill was indeed not covered, and thousands of people urgently changed direction without causing much confusion.

Those dramas on TV, what cavalry impact gun formation, brain-dead things do that, I really think I am invulnerable! This is not the case, and the party members are not stupid, so they will not hit the gun! They also used their housekeeping skills, dragging out their bows and arrows one by one to show off their own mounted guerrilla skills.

Seeing that the enemy did not directly charge into battle, the crossbowmen of the field army were not idle, hiding behind the shield soldiers and coming at the enemy from time to time.

As a result, the two sides of the battlefield fell into a state of scorching, you have mobility, I have turtle shells, everyone you come and go, and they are happy to fight, but in general, the field army with a shield still has the advantage.

However, the rear cavalry, which was frightened by the party members, continued to attack under Hu Yanyi's strict orders, and the party members' morale increased greatly for a while......

The situation on the battlefield has increased and decreased, the momentum of the Song army has been suppressed by the enemy, and the balance of war has gradually slipped to the side of the party.