Volume 3 Mending the Crack in the Sky Chapter 61 The Shaking of the Sky (6)
Han Shizhong has a pair of eagle-like sharp eyes, and he cares about two battlefields at the same time.
High above their heads, is the sharp whistle of Niu Gao. And in the valley road at the foot, the cavalry formed a formation, ready to meet the attacking brigade of Hu cavalry.
Everyone was waiting for Han Shizhong's order, whether these two commanders would go up to meet Niu Gao and their retreat, or go to the middle of the river valley to meet the attacking Hu Qi.
The roads in the Lanshui River Valley, although not as large as the Fenhe River Valley, are large enough to place the villages and towns of the Xiazhou Military City. But it's enough to open up the army. At this moment, under the loud command of Xiao Han Wudu like a tiger, hundreds of cavalry troops, half of them dismounted, formed an arrow formation, and faced the west. The remaining half of the horses were mounted back a little, leaving people to watch the vacant mounts, ready to counterattack at any time.
The smoke and dust rose from the west, the sound of horses' hooves roared like thunder, and I don't know how many Hu Qiqi were lifting their horses quickly, desperately rushing towards here.
Han Shizhong took one last look at the top of his head, then turned his eyes and squinted at the rolling smoke and dust, and resolutely ordered: "Get closer to Du Ruhu!" Shoot Hu Ride on both sides! Another order was given to Niu Gao, so that he stood still, and he was not allowed to press down on these tartars on his head! β
Although Hongguzhai has fallen, Han Shizhong is still unwilling. In military affairs, the most important thing for a general is to take the initiative. If you can't grab the Honggu Village Pass, the Shenwu Changsheng Army will share the risk with the Jurchen army and horses on the back road, and you can only surrender to the Fenhe River Valley. If you can capture Honggu Village, maybe you can cover the follow-up military horses and go straight to the direction of Feiyuan Fort, and block the road for the Jurchen Tartars to continue to go south!
Although Han Shizhong led only more than 1,000 light cavalry, the equipment was insufficient, and the baggage did not keep up. But suddenly the Tartars who rushed to kill. A glance at Han Shizhong showed their combat effectiveness. The array is not formed. It's chaos. What can be done with the ferociousness and cruelty?
With the more than 1,000 elites he is now leading, it may not be impossible to defeat them and recapture Honggu Village in one fell swoop! These Tartars, I don't know where the Jurchens found the tribal vassal military horses, don't say that most of them are not stable at the moment, even if they are stable, I am afraid that they don't know how to defend the village!
If the light cavalry went straight into and snatched the Tartar of Honggu Village was of such a level, then maybe there was a possibility of taking it back. I only hate those Hedong troops of the Zhe family. I didn't even resist such miscellaneous Tartars, and let them in!
Han Shizhong made a decision in an instant, and the tartars that poured down from the mountain were terrifying. But foot fighting in the mountains is not their forte. And the light cavalry rushing in the valley and valley road is afraid that it is the main force of these miscellaneous Tartars, and if they are defeated, these miscellaneous Tartars will naturally lose their fear. As long as Niu Gao can hold on for a while.
First sweep away the main force of the miscellaneous Tartars in the river valley, and then turn to attack the village. Strive to snatch Honggu Village back!
With Han Shizhong's order, the personal guard flag in charge of the flag next to him flew over. The decision of the general was conveyed to the upper and lower military horses. Then the two commanders dismounted and fought on foot, and suddenly turned around. In the sound of the iron armor colliding, it had already turned down the mountain and moved closer in the direction of Du Ruhu.
And on the mountain, the head of the capital, who was left under the command of Niu Gao, watched the surging Tartars getting closer and closer, and couldn't help but look back nervously, paying attention to the banner where Han Shizhong was. Seeing the order, he also roared angrily: "The straight lady thief is all standing still!" Let the general defeat the tartars under the mountain first! β
All the armor soldiers also made a violent promise: "Stand still!" β
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The miscellaneous Tartars that poured down from the mountain rolled and jumped like a torrent and poured down, although the rain of arrows continued to splash out rhythmically from the small array composed of dozens of Southern Dynasty armor soldiers, and each round of arrow rain shot over more than ten miscellaneous Tartars. But their momentum still did not stop, and finally crossed the death zone blocked by the rain of arrows, and crashed headlong into the array of Song army armor soldiers standing like a mountain.
The sound of blades and armor clashing loudly, and the armor soldier standing in front of him to cover his own archer arched his front foot and his back foot propped up on the ground, his center of gravity lowered, and his riding shield in front of him. Immediately, I felt that I don't know how many heavy bodies slammed into the riding shield in their hands!
The horses led by Han Shizhong were all cavalry. It is not to lose in the dismounted foot battle, but after all, there is no array, and the side cards held by the battle infantry army are long and heavy, and the lower end is sharp, and can be smashed into the soil. If these miscellaneous Tartars hit such side cards, their heads may not be able to shake a few points. Now what these Shenwu Warriors are afraid of is the small shield in their hands and their own bodies!
The huge collision caused the armor array to collapse immediately, and the first to hit down the miscellaneous Tartar also fell to the ground dizzy. Neither side had long blades to carry and could not line up to stab each other before the collision. The grassland miscellaneous beard also does not have the fighting style of heavy armored infantry fighters in formation, holding long blades, stabbing each other, and fighting for people's lives. The idea of these miscellaneous Tartars is to even risk some lives to crash through the array, and then the people behind them will rush in and slash and kill.
Seeing that the already not very strong formation of the Southern Dynasty armorers was knocked loose, the front row of the two sides was full of people on their backs. The back rows of miscellaneous beards pushed each other to rush in, but a row of Southern Dynasty armor soldiers rolled up in front of them. But it was the sergeants who had just shot the last round of arrows and retreated, they quickly threw away their bows, drew their shields and raised their swords, and more than a dozen people lined up in a row. It's still the standard sword and shield infantry armor to engage the enemy.
The center of gravity is lowered, the left shield is lifted upwards to open the enemy's blade, progress, and the long knife is stabbed!
The sword light rolled over, and more than ten Shenwu Changsheng Army armor soldiers had already taken three steps forward and stabbed out three times! The array is still neat. Three into three stabs, neatly aligned, like more than a dozen killing machines. More than ten bloody paths suddenly opened up in front of him!
The long screams of the bearded tartars resounded through the mountains. The huge momentum was stopped in this way, and it was killed so much that it couldn't fight back!
The head of the small phalanx, with a wooden whistle in his mouth, and his long knife unsheathed, stood there with a contemptuous smile on the corner of his mouth. staring at the killing in front of him, he suddenly blew the wooden whistle in his mouth.
The armor of the Shenwu Everlasting Army, who had advanced three steps forward, suddenly retreated in unison. And in the back column, more than a dozen armor soldiers changed columns, still the same set of actions, lifting the shield and raising the sword!
Blood splattered. Screaming and screaming. It's just a change of column. Hundreds of bearded Tartars who poured down from the front of the mountain were killed and lost the courage to fight. Stops at the back. The front one is desperately squeezing backwards. Before the Shenwu Changsheng military array, the hedgehog formed a big pimple, and all kinds of nonsense shouting and crying and scolding sounded together, and they were killed like chopping melons and vegetables!
Under Han Shizhong, Xiao Yan started with the most veterans of the Shenwu Changsheng Army. Either the elite of Kansai who have been fighting in the Western Army and the party for many years, or the Youyan Hebei man who has experienced more wars and turmoil in Yandi. Under Xiao Yan's auspices, the salaries and salaries of the soldiers have never been scarce -- and they can even be called abundant. There are also people like Yue Fei who are naturally good at managing the army to preside over the drill. Even when the elite of Kansai had a drill every five days and ten days at most, the Shenwu Changsheng Army had been insisting on one exercise every two days. This military horse, which can be called an outlier in the Great Song Dynasty, knows that his family has the greatest basis for surviving in the Great Song Dynasty. It's the best fighting power!
And Han Shizhong's Chinese military department is the most elite of these elites!
On the horse can do horse fighting, whether it is a long-range run, a sharp whistle hard detective. Or is it equipped to be a heavy cavalry. You can get your hands on it.
After dismounting, the bow and crossbow can be set up in a strict arrow array, and the arrow can be shot one after another. When it came to Cheng DΓΉ in the hand-to-hand battle, whether it was holding a long blade and advancing step by step, forcing the opponent to change his life. is still a short and dangerous fight with a sword and shield, the most elite part of these Shenwu Changsheng Army, I have never been afraid of anyone!
The most precious 100,000 forbidden army combat power of Zhao Kuangyin when he founded the country. That's all there is to it.
In front of him, these have not yet formed the basic organization of the army, but they are just a good light horseman by instinct. And how can it be an opponent? Not to mention the huge difference in equipment between the two sides!
In an instant, the Zahu brigade, which rushed down from above, was killed and turned back. And the miscellaneous beards that surged up from both sides were even more frightened to stop far away, and hesitantly opened their horned bows and threw out feather arrows.
And those Shenwu Changsheng armorers who have been killed all over in blood, watching the feather arrows attack, are just casually covering the vital points. Let those feathered arrows knock a little spark out of their heavy armor on their body.
In the rain of arrows, all the armor soldiers, even a little leisurely, reorganized into a phalanx facing the enemy on three sides. And some armor soldiers reopened their bows, and returned rows and rows of arrows to expel the Tartars on the mountain road farther away.
In front of them, the mountain road was littered with corpses, and the wounded were struggling and moaning. For these Tartars, the armor of the Shenwu Changsheng Army didn't even have much interest in making up for it.
Suddenly, there was a loud cheer from all the soldiers. I saw Niu Gao and Qu Gai, covered in blood, escorting a few scarred sentries and retreating to the phalanx, and the miscellaneous Tartars who were chasing after them did not dare to approach, and even kept looking back, as if they wanted to retreat to the abandoned village platform where they had just hid.
Niu Gao entered the phalanx and slapped the head and shoulder of the man who had been standing and commanding: "Prisoner, fight well, stand firm!" I haven't lost it, I've always been optimistic about you! β
That's all pouting again, anyway, everyone has never expected you to be the bull general, who wants you to be optimistic............
"General, these Tartar thieves are really not beaten, do you want to counterattack and simply take down this bird village?"
Niu Gao stretched a little excitement after the fight, and almost agreed as soon as his brain was hot. If he dared to nod, Qu Gai, who followed him with an unpleasant appearance, would dare to be the first to rush up. However, Niu Gao is still a little sensible: "Wait for General Han's order!" β
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On the wall of Honggu Village, Yinshuke kept watching the progress of the battle, and his brows were furrowed.
Sure enough, it's still the strong army of the Southern Dynasties! Sure enough, it is still a strong enemy of our Jurchen army!
The fighting on the mountain road subsided slightly, and the roar of horses' hooves in the river valley became louder, and the brigade was about to turn around the mountain bend and face the Southern Korean military horses who were already on guard.
Standing next to Yinshuke was a Jurchen Mou Ke Ahan, who also couldn't help shaking his head. There are many tribes in these grasslands, and the people are quite prosperous. But this combat power is really enough. No wonder it has been fiercely suppressed by the Khitans for more than 100 years, and they can't resist at all. In the face of the military horses of the Southern Dynasties, they were also killed like chopping melons and vegetables.
"Yinshu, if you don't give an order to let those people and horses under the mountain retreat, how many lives will you have to pay for it?"
Yinshu Ke replied coldly: "How do you know if you don't bump into it?" These raw mouths, how many deaths and what are they straight? β
He turned to look at Ah Han again: "Even if a thousand people come from afar, just with our Jurchen sons, these southern barbarians can't take back Honggu Village!" Just use these raw mouths, and kill a southern barbarian is counted as one. After the destruction of this strong army of the Southern Dynasties, the entire Southern Dynasties will be open in front of our Jurchen sons! (To be continued......)