Chapter Table of Contents Chapter 48 The Price
Because the Jurchens are from a mixed economic form of fishing, hunting and nomadism, the equipment in the army is more heavily armed, and the reason why they are particularly fond of the construction of heavy cavalry is that in addition to the characteristics of their nomads in riding horses, the main reason is that the strength and resources are too small, so they take advantage of the advantages of more leather to develop heavy cavalry with great attack potential, and the heavy cavalry is indeed reinvigorated in their hands, and tactically they also like to be more direct and dead. The main weapon of the Jurchen cavalry was the bow and arrow, "the bow power is no more than seven buckets, the arrow is six or seven inches, the shape is like a chisel, and it cannot be exited", and "the sword does not take its quick advantage". The Jin Dynasty had this fierce cavalry, which outperformed the original Liao and Western Xia cavalry. The Jurchen cavalry was almost invincible and never suffered serious defeats.
At present, Zhao Yong's strength on the battlefield is 3,000 people, including the first brigade of the mercenary regiment and his personal guard battalion, a baggage team and a staff team. According to the establishment, each brigade has four battalions, consisting of two hussar battalions and dragoon battalions, but they are not yet formed, each battalion has only more than 400 people, and the direct team has only one machine gun team, compared with the loyal army, there is a lack of artillery and other heavy weapons, and they are all light cavalry, so in addition to the number of firearms in their hands, they do not have much advantage compared with the Jin army, and he does not want to win a crushing victory in the first battle.
Zhao Yong drove the phalanx to slowly approach, and when he saw that the enemy army had already lined up in formation, he stopped three hundred paces away. He took up his binoculars and looked at the opposite side, and found that his opponents were all cavalry, with fifty men in a line, and twenty men in front, all heavily armoured and armed with clubs and guns; The thirty men behind were all archers, wearing light armor, but they were also heavy armor compared to the leather armor on their bodies, and they bent their bows and arrows for cover. However, the formation of the Jin army was not as neat and strict as its own, but was divided into scattered groups, and the light and heavy cavalry were mixed together, similar to the stacked formations of the Song army.
"The two wings of the dragoon are protected, and the hussar is in the center!" After Zhao Yong saw it, he understood the other party's intentions, first, he wanted to charge the formation with heavy cavalry as the forward, and wait for the opponent's formation to be disrupted and the bow and ride behind to cover and kill; The second is to use archers to harass in turns, and wait for weaknesses to be discovered. Heavy cavalry rushes into battle, in which the changes are all in the opponent's generals to adapt to the situation, but looking at the opponent's momentum, it is to carry the power of the first victory to go down, if the two sides hedge. You will definitely suffer. So he chose a conservative tactic.
Meng An (Thousand Commanders), who led the Jin Army, was worthy of being on the battlefield for a long time, and as soon as Zhao Yong's formation moved, he was immediately aware of it, and the time to change the formation was often the most vulnerable. He seized the moment and immediately attacked. At the forefront of the Jin army were all heavily armoured, called the 'hard army', these people had the lowest status in the army, the worst equipment, and they served as the vanguard. It is no different from the dead army, but the Jin army has clear rewards and punishments, and if they can survive the battle, they can often change their fate, so they do not hesitate to die. Behind the hard army is the main army, these people are better equipped, and when the hard army breaks through the gap, they are responsible for expanding the breakthrough and expanding the results.
The Jin army started with a few thousand people. Accustomed to fighting battles with fewer victories, and having a natural psychological advantage over an enemy with superior numbers, the sound of the trumpet led the horses and rushed over. The two armies were no more than three arrows apart, and the Jin army that charged into battle fought desperately on their horses, and they had to increase the speed of their horses in such a short distance. In this way, the horse's powerful impact can be fully exploited. After a hundred steps, the knights of the golden army took their bows and arrows, but they were not triggered.
Zhao Yong was stunned, the reason why he put out the Glaive Formation was to surround the Jin army with superior forces. On the other side, the Jin army seemed to be dead or alive, and instead of retreating, they launched a counterattack. I actually want to fight them directly. But now is not the time to ponder the psychology of the Jin Army, so close to the other side will rush to their front of the formation in a few breaths, at this time the counterattack has lost the opportunity, if the collision, with static braking is not so easy, the Jin Army soldiers who are wrapped in iron armor and charge on their horses are human shells, and they can also be knocked half to death.
The soldiers who were re-arraying were also terrified, they were all people who had combat experience, and they knew the consequences of the chaos of the Great Formation, and the casualties of the cavalry in close combat who were really face-to-face were not decisive, but when one side did not retreat, they would be slashed and killed by the pursuers behind them. But none of them dared to attack without permission, because the sticks and swords had taught them to 'move without an order, and there was no forgiveness for killing', so although they panicked, they still changed their formation according to the order, and their eyes were focused on the generals under the general's command.
"Stop shooting!" Zhao Yong didn't expect that as soon as the battle began, he forced himself to use a killer move, and he hurriedly ordered the machine gun team to come forward to intercept it.
The cavalry tactics of the 'Da Da' Loyal Warriors were to first disrupt the enemy's formation with artillery bombardment, then use motorwheelers to open the way, and then the cavalry attacked. Zhao Yong wanted to do this just now, but he didn't expect Jin Jun to take the lead, he ordered, and the wheel convoy on standby immediately began to shoot
The fierce gunfire suddenly rang out, which still startled the attacking Jin army, but it was only an instant, they were deeply confident in the iron armor on their bodies, even if they were within a hundred paces, ordinary bows and arrows would be difficult to penetrate, and they would not cause damage to them, as long as they had a few breaths of effort, they could rush to within fifty steps in front of the enemy, that was the distance at which the bows and arrows in their hands could exert the greatest power, and these enemies who only wore this leather armor would definitely not be able to stop the rain of arrows they shot.
And the Jin army soon realized that they were wrong, and the lead pellets that shot out of the smoke and could not be traced at all caused a tragedy that they could not imagine. Understand what happens when a lead pellet shoots through the human body at lightning speed? First of all, it will leave a small hole the thickness of a thumb in the skin at the frontal entry point, and then the lead pellet will form a huge force when it passes through the body, and at the same time, it will continue to roll dishonestly, tearing the muscles and cutting off the blood vessels.
If you hit you in the head, and you happen to be wearing a helmet or not, then congratulations on becoming a Unknown Soldier, no one will be able to recognize who you are from your face, and the wound caused by the bullet is even more terrible, it will overturn your skull and hit you beyond recognition. If it happens to break your arteries, it's not bad, at least people won't feel pain, because under the strong pressure of the heart, a quarter of the blood in the body will be lost in a few seconds, and before you feel pain, the person will be finished, but your comrades within three feet of you will taste the taste of your blood!
If you hit your bare limbs, go into a small hole, and even the bullets and bones and stubble fly out, leaving a big hole, and the muscles and blood vessels are all messed up, under the medical conditions at that time, even if you can save your life, you will be a cripple with missing arms and legs, and there will never be any heroes who draw arrows and look at them, and it will be okay to pull out the arrows!
If you're lucky enough to get a bullet in your armor and the bullet doesn't get through, don't assume you're safe. You will feel as if you have been hit hard by a hammer, you will involuntarily fall backwards, at this point you may break a few ribs, and at the same time, due to the inertia of the head, the weak cervical nerve will be crushed, and the person will faint. It's a pity that you are galloping on a horse, what will happen to an unconscious person, the pig knows it. The helmet is the strongest part of the armor, and the lead pellet is usually difficult to penetrate, and it will clamble into a small round cake on the top, but even then, the deformed helmet will crush your skull or break your neck.
The adjusted dragoons quickly joined the ranks of blocking the shots, and the 'hard army' of the Jin army could not get up, and they rushed left and right in the rain of bullets, unable to get rid of the dense fire net, and even the men and horses were knocked down, and they were trampled into flesh by the hooves of their companions who rushed up from behind. There is simply no way to break through this invisible barrier.
The hard army that led the lead was almost completely wiped out, but it failed to break through to the best range of the bow and arrow, Meng An, who led the Jin army, couldn't help but regret a little at this time, secretly hating himself for underestimating the opponent's strength, and rashly ordered the whole army to press, delusionally trying to defeat the opponent in one fell swoop, but now only regret and deep fear of the weapon in the opponent's hand remained. He ordered the front army to turn back and retreat, intending to reorganize their formation and fight again.
According to the rules of warfare on weekdays, when attacking, a team of people is often left behind to respond, and once the attack fails, when retreating and resting, they are pursued by the enemy, and the people left behind come in handy. Jin Jun soon found that they had paid the price for their pride. The opponent did not give them a chance, and when they scattered in all directions, trying to run out of the battlefield, they did not attack in a scattered formation like themselves, but launched a charge in a neat line, like wave after wave chasing behind!
The attacker has become a chased battle, the murderer has become the killed, and the leading Meng An no longer has the luxury of regrouping and fighting again, he just wants to escape, but at this time, the iron armor that the Jin army is proud of has become a burden for them at the moment. The mobility of the heavy cavalry is not as good as that of the light cavalry, no matter how they whip the horses, it is still difficult to outrun the opponent, some people return to their horses with the determination to die, but they can't stop the rolling iron flow, even if some people can escape from the blade of the first column of pursuers, but they will be immediately dismounted by the second wave that arrives later, and they can't resist at all, and can only watch the opponent's glaive array gradually close.
"Kill" Zhao Yong shouted, the long knife was unsheathed, dangled in the air, and rushed to the Jin army in the encirclement, the usually wolf-like Jurchens became lambs to the slaughter at this moment, whether they dismounted and surrendered, or desperately resisted, they were all cut off their heads without exception. He didn't need prisoners in this battle, but bloodshed, and he wanted to stand up and use their blood as a sacrifice to prove the rise of a strong army, and the lives of these people were the price
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