Chapter 43: Gale Noise (4)
It's just that the steps of the Song army are unusually firm.
From the beginning of the division of the army, Wang Deng took the initiative to demand that the time for "reasoning" in the army imposed by Zheng Yunming be increased from one-quarter hour to three-quarters of an hour.
The so-called "reasoning" activity refers to the recruitment of some wandering literati and storytellers from Beijing and Lake to teach the soldiers culture and the truth of loyalty and patriotism to the soldiers during a fixed period of time after daily drills and training. Naturally, this kind of activity does not take the form of boring truth. Because Zheng Yunming was very disgusted with such a lifeless form of mobilization in his previous life.
In fact, the forms that were more acceptable to these illiterate soldiers were either brilliant storytelling or lively and cheerful Vasher group plays. Naturally, the new plays performed for the soldiers should remove those pornographic elements, and most of them are mainly based on persuasion, promoting the stories of loyal ministers and good generals, and explaining the rules of the army.
Yang Luo maintained an indifferent attitude towards this kind of activity, in his opinion, instead of arranging so many entertainment activities that made the soldiers happy, it was better to directly let them go out of the camp to move freely, and the arrival would be closer to the heart of the army.
But Wang Deng has an unusual understanding of this, the longer an army is active, the stronger the cohesion in the army. These illiterate miners and mountain farmers are just a blank sheet of paper. Whatever you instill in them, they will receive. Managing their spare time together is a trick to managing the army with no more effort. Sometimes he felt that Zheng Yunming was really incredible, this kind of thing had never been considered by the generals of the Song army before, even Yue Wumu only talked to the soldiers from time to time, and did not elevate this kind of activity to an official organized activity.
When Wang Deng realized the beauty of this kind of activity, he firmly grasped this point and tried to completely control the minds of the soldiers in the hands of the main general. The persistence of these months has finally paid off.
Although the soldiers in front kept falling, the rest of the soldiers still encouraged each other to move forward.
"Don't retreat! If you want to be like Yan Zhaogong, if you are hit by an arrow, you will fight with the Hu people for 300 rounds! "Don't be left behind! We are Liu Guanzhang brothers, and we can't leave one behind! ”
Even the soldiers, who had been hit by arrows and lay on the ground, shouted to their comrades not to stop and to move forward.
Wang Deng's eyes suddenly moistened, since he was hired by Zheng Yunming and became a member of the leader of the Tulong Army, he spent countless energy and experienced many life and death moments, just to train a heroic division that can really fight.
And now he did.
The cowardly Xue Jun also seemed to notice that the Song army that pressed up this time seemed to be a little different from the Song army he had encountered before, although the arrow rain was dense and urgent, it could not stop them from advancing for half a minute.
Many people didn't care about the Song army's scattered arrows to fight back, and stood up from behind the cover, trying to shoot the arrows in their hands at a faster speed.
Wang Deng still led the team towards the mountain without saying a word, and saw that he was about to approach the antlers arranged in front of the cart.
The firecrackers suddenly took a few steps from the front of the array and came to the front. The leader of the team shouted a loud order, and a volley of lead bullets shot out, which immediately pierced the bodies of many bald flower soldiers who were standing on the position and shooting at the Song army.
It seems that the heavy iron armor does not have enough protection against these small buckshots. There was a small panic among the bald flowers, no matter how elite the world was, most of them were still young in the battlefield after all, not to mention that no one in the entire Mongolian army had been attacked by these new weapons.
Taking advantage of the slight confusion of the enemy's position, the first row of musketeers retreated, and the second row of musketeers threw down their shields and placed their muskets on wooden stands.
Another crisp burst of gunfire rang out, and after the smoke passed, the Song army crossed the antlers and reached the Mongol position.
Wang Deng raised the knife and shouted: "The Jinghu boy is here!" Fight me up! ”
Thousands of Song soldiers shouted: "Please fight with us!" Rushing through the cart, he collided with the bald soldiers who had already lined up behind the cart.
Wei Zugui stood behind the back army at the forefront, and as soon as the two armies clashed, he immediately saw the flaws of the bald flower soldiers.
Although their individual martial arts were unmatched, the Mongols were not very good at infantry formations. For the Fish Scale Formation, which is stronger than the attack and shorter than the defense, the best way is to contain it in the front with a smaller team that is longer than the defense, and ambush the elite soldiers on both flanks, if the number of the army is small, you can even concentrate the forces on one wing and try to break through its side first, because the life of the Fish Scale Formation is on the two flanks. For this reason, Wang Deng pondered hard, arranged veterans who were skilled in fighting on the flank, and also prepared a rearguard army to reinforce at any time when the flank could not resist.
But the Mongols were ignorant of the weaknesses of this formation, and they understood only one type of foot combat, and rushed forward to fight each other.
If it was the Han army horses in the north, they might still have to fight with Wang Deng, but the bald flower army just went straight to the place where the enemy's army was the thickest, covered up, and fought with the back army and the Baojie soldiers in the central array.
This was a great opportunity for the Song army, and Wei Zugui shouted to his subordinate Sergeant Baojie to rush forward and fight the enemy.
The advantages of the fish scale array in the offense are fully displayed, each squad is facing the single fight of the bald flower warriors, although the bald flower army is wearing heavy armor, hanging treasure knives at the waist, and the skills of close combat are also intimidating, but after all, the strength is lonely, the biggest key to white-bladed fighting is that it is difficult to defeat four hands with two fists, no matter how strong a warrior's martial arts are, it is rare to be able to deal with a few people without falling behind, and it is rare to face dozens of people in close combat alone, even if it is the world's first master, it is not easy to deal with it.
After all, this is not the martial arts world of "killing one person in ten steps" as rumored in the rivers and lakes, this is the real battlefield.
Qi Du also seemed to understand this, and while shouting to the Bald Flower Army to move closer to each other, he led his subordinates to rush towards the people who looked like the main generals of the Song Army.
At this time, Wang Deng did not come forward to face to face with Qi Du, after all, he was not a brave general like Qin Wu, not to mention Qi Du, it is estimated that there are a hundred people in the bald flower who can defeat him. He shouted to the nearby Sergeant Blazer as he slowly retreated.
Of course, he did this because he believed that the Beiwei army would not start to shake their confidence just because the main general retreated slightly, because these soldiers were directly under Zheng Yunming, and they had already cultivated enough pride and self-confidence, except for Zheng Yunming, it would be difficult for any general of the deputy capital to waver and affect them.
And the effect of his slight retreat is to combine the retreat of the forward and the soldiers and the soldiers who are catching up with the rear, because the gap between the fish scale formation is sufficient, and there will be no crowding with each other, and now the convex formation of the Song army is concave inward, wrapping the Qi Du and the bald flower troops who broke into the forward of the Zhenwu army on three sides.
But this also allowed Qi Du and the Bald Flower Army to slash and kill inside the Fish Scale Array without any scruples. Unleash the true power of the ironclad infantry. The amazing fighting spirit that burst out of them in an unfavorable situation made them rush forward desperately, making the attack of the Fish Scale Array feel frustrated.
Wang Deng's little trick is about to become a defeat to turn the tide of the war.
Wei Sheng faced a tall bald flower army and was in a stalemate. The tribesmen of Mobei are usually short in stature, but since the time of the Great Khan of Ogedei, they have gradually begun to absorb the ethnic groups of the conquered lands into the formation of the Balluhua Army, so there is no shortage of burly men in the Balluhua Army.
Wei Sheng encountered the world's first-class elite troops in the first battle after joining the Song army, and he had never encountered such a difficult opponent since he joined the army. The bald flower man on the opposite side waved his iron bones and pressed forward step by step, which made him feel a little overwhelmed.
He suddenly roared, and smashed the Pu knife gun in his hand to the opponent's head, the bald flower was overjoyed, thinking that this Song army was overwhelmed by the blood, and the Pu knife and gun could be used to stab Tie Guduo, and it was not self-defeating to smash it directly? He exerted all his strength, wanting to use the iron bones to break the Song army's gun out of the canopy.
The moment Wei Sheng saw that Pu Dao and Gun were about to hit Tie Guduo, he suddenly let go, and Pu Dao and Gun were smashed by Tie Guduo and flew out of the body more than a foot away. When the bald flower was slightly surprised, he saw that the Song army suddenly rushed forward, and he didn't know when there was an extremely sharp short knife in his hand, and it was too late to change his tricks after being shocked, Wei Sheng rushed to the distance from the door opposite the bald flower face, and stabbed a knife into the ribs that he had not had the protection of the armor leaf.
In the miserable cry of the bald flower, Wei Sheng struggled to pull out the sharp blade from between the other party's ribs, and suddenly heard a vicious wind behind his head.
A bald flower army took advantage of him to lean over and draw his knife, and stabbed him in the back of the heart with an iron chisel spear.
At this moment, it was too late to turn around and dodge, and in desperation, an iron whip swung over from the oblique thorn, swinging away the iron spear of the bald flower, and smashed the bald flower's head quickly and sharply with a whip.
Han Feng held a shield in one hand and an iron whip in the other, came to Wei Sheng to protect him, and shouted loudly: "How do you learn kung fu, don't you know how to protect your back when you are facing the enemy?" ”
Wei Sheng snorted, didn't speak, picked up the iron bones next to the lying corpse and put on a posture, and was about to continue to step forward to kill the enemy. At this time, he heard Wei Zugui, who was standing not far away, shouting: "You two come here!" ”
Wei Sheng and Han Feng each made a false move, forcing the enemy in front of them to retreat, and quickly dodged to Wei Zugui's side.
"It's not in our favor." Wei Zugui said calmly: "The formation of the enemy's generals oppressing us is too powerful. However, he led a small number of men to attack the heaviest part of our army, and this was his own death. Wei Sheng! Took his life with a bow and arrows! ”