It is the fate of the spearmen to use their flesh and blood to block the enemy's fierce cavalry conflicts, and every spearman is taught when he joins the team, they don't need to have the talent of an archer, nor do they need to have the skills of a sword player, and there is only one thing they have to do well, which is to hold on to the array and fight to the death.

As long as the pikemen survive, sooner or later they will also be filled in the missing front, waiting for the next wave of life and death gambles. The spearmen who survived to retire can only be described as rare.

Wang Deng of course understood this, but he also understood the significance of these spears to the Song army, in the years in the north before the southern crossing, the Song army once had no interest in these simple skills that dragged down the army, as long as there were archers who were good at archery and soldiers who were good at hand-to-hand combat, it was enough for the archers to burst forward and release arrows when they were in battle, and the white-edged soldiers broke into hand-to-hand combat, and the cooperation between the two sides was enough to destroy most of the barbarian army. This actually has a little bit of Tang Bing's demeanor.

But then countless times the cavalry of the Khitan, Western Xia and Jin kingdoms gave them enough lessons with facts. Archers who had lost the protection of the basic defensive infantry were as weak as sheep when the cavalry ascended into battle, even if they carried short weapons for self-defense with them and had undergone some training in hand-to-hand combat. There was no power to parry in front of the barbarian cavalry that rushed into the formation.

In order to protect the valuable projection troops, these skills must be needed. All it takes is a flesh shield soldier with iron discipline to fill the formation.

The Naiban cavalry in the distance regrouped in one place, and the deafening roar sounded again.

Ge Huai complained loudly: "The barking cow is like a horse neighing, what's the use!" If you want to kill, kill it! ”

"They're intimidating the enemy!" Wang Deng gritted his teeth and said, "The second wave of assault is coming soon!" Disrupt your morale first, and then disrupt your formation! ”

He roared loudly: "The whole army! Get ready for the second round! ”

The front and rear blocking flags and spiral flags in the Song army's formation waved, and the sergeants hurriedly reorganized their ranks and prepared for a new wave of cavalry assaults.

And on the other side away from the battlefield, Qu Chu lay on the soft sedan chair and couldn't stop being furious, "It's just stupid!" He gasped and roared loudly: "That's how he is, so he sent the brave warriors of the Great Khan to the tip of the spear of the Sinan Si people to die!" Not only did I send it once, but I was also going to send it a second time, this damn barbarian~! ”

Tath's brow furrowed, such a loud curse of other people's people was a very unusual thing in the Mongol Empire, which had many conquered people. At that time, Mongolia expanded its territory for thousands of miles, and the generals and people of Mongolia itself were already an absolute minority. When it comes to discrimination against other ethnic groups, it becomes a very delicate matter. Although the vanquished people probably did not say anything explicitly, after all, the Mongols established a regime with absolute superiority in force. But discontent is a hidden emotion, and it can manifest itself in a variety of ways that the ruler is not aware of, such as keeping the best and handing over the inferior when collecting tribute, such as keeping the most elite in his hands when providing the necessary military horses, and not being so helpful when carrying out the task of fortification.

They could even hide those hostile to the Mongol Empire in their own domains, because the Mongol rule was a way for local princes to sit on the throne, and many things had to be carried out by the conquered people of these foreign peoples.

Many of the most intelligent Mongol nobles already knew that it was more to gain than to lose anything to speak ill of the nobles of the conquered people, and it was better to maintain a cautious cooperative relationship with them than to speak quickly for a while, but it was clear that most of the Mongol army, and even most of the generals, did not care about this, and the Mongols were simple and rude in nature, and had always been outspoken about people, which of course inevitably offended these foreign armies who sacrificed their lives and fought for the Great Khan.

In fact, Tath sometimes speaks at times, but he doesn't have too many discriminatory opinions about the Nabarian soldiers, in his consideration, the Mongols have enough enemies to face, and the bottom line he can tolerate is that the ninety-five Minhan Nayan in the steppe headquarters can work together with the Great Khan, and don't make any disagreements. If only the Qiyan Department fought by itself, how many rivers and mountains could be defeated and how many strong enemies could be annihilated? I'm afraid that even Zamuhe can't solve it.

How can the Naiman Department be regarded as the old department that Genghis Khan was there when he ascended the throne, since even the four Han people Tumian (Turkic language, Mongols used to refer to ten thousand households) they have to be appeased and let them fight the Southern Dynasty with all their might, then there is no reason to speak ill of the old Naiban Department of Mongolia itself.

He bowed to Qu and said, "The barbarian cavalry has their own methods of warfare. When the Great Khan fought with them on the mountain, they also relied on a brute courage to rush to the death, I expected that the original intention of copying Si was to use repeated hard charges to disrupt the deployment of the Sinan Si people's army formation, and then use their strength to break their formation in one fell swoop. ”

Qu Chu snorted: "This tactic is a bit stupid, sacrificing so many Khan's soldiers is not in line with our Mongolian path." ”

"Actually, we didn't lose many people." "Manpower can support it," Tath said. There will also be a limit to horsepower, and the number of people who really lose each impact is a small number after all, and after three rounds of repeated impacts, the war horse needs to rest. At that time, let's change a team to replace Copying Si and continue to attack. ”

Qu Chu gasped and said, "If the Sinan Sijun can really block him for three rounds, it can be regarded as a capable army." Let's continue to fight them, we have to be more careful. ”

As he spoke, the shouting of the Nabarian cavalry in front had stopped, and the second assault was in full swing.

And this time the assault was without suspense, like a wave crashing on an impregnable reef, and was once again stopped by the dense spear array of the Zhenwu Army. The difference was that this time there were more people involved in the assault, and the force of the shock was greater, so the number of people they lost under the spears of the Song army also increased.

Now there is only one time left to copy, and it is also the last opportunity. After all, the physical strength of the war horses is limited, and if the third attack fails, they can only withdraw for a short rest and hand over the Song army to other military horses to deal with, which is undoubtedly a shame for Copyi and his Naiban cavalry.

Tath stood in the distance on horseback, watching his men's cavalry regroup, this time in a different group than the previous two.

This time, the cavalry curtain on the two wings was noticeably thinner, and more cavalry was concentrated in the center, and the ironclad warriors in black heavy Kai stood at the front of the line, holding the battle flag high in their hands, and the roar was clearly audible even from far behind.

Naturally, Tath understood their intentions in such a rally.

Not far behind the Song army's position was a wide moat, and this time the suppression from the front was to force the enemy into the river mercilessly. Naturally, the enemy army would definitely lower the drawbridge and open the city gate to collect the remnants of the defeated army that had been defeated by the assault, but in a short period of time, a large number of infantry crowded in front of the city gate, and Tath did not need to think carefully to know how many people would die because of the trampling of each other, and even this all-out charge could take advantage of the chaos to rush into the city.

No army can underestimate the assault on which the Mongols are proud.

Tarth's only concern was that the Nabarian cavalry ahead would be outnumbered. After last year's battle to conquer Liaodong, the soldiers and horses of Naiman Wanhu could only reach more than 7,000 accounts, and some of them were left in the rear to escort various military supplies and food. The only thing that could be used to deal with these thousands of Sinan Si troops was only 4,000 cavalry.

If it was an ordinary infantry team of the Song Dynasty or the Jin Kingdom, even if there were only two or three thousand cavalry in his hand, Tasi would dare not hesitate to charge at the twenty or thirty thousand enemy infantry. However, the Song army that went out this time was different from the Song army that they usually encountered, and after two rounds of heavy cavalry assaults, not a single deserter was found. Morale is like a wall that holds back a flood, as long as a small piece of it falls down, the whole wall will quickly crumble under the pressure of the flood. But on the other hand, if not even a small piece of the wall has collapsed, it means that the wall still has the strength to withstand the next impact of the flood.

He was less and less optimistic about the final assault this time.

Copying Si gathered about five hundred cavalry on each flank, and it was obvious that such a small number of troops could only be used for harassment at most, a symbolic assault. The real pressure came from the front, where more than 3,000 horses with a look of determination were assembled, and this time they were no longer lined up neatly, but formed a large cavalry group at random. Plagiarism rode a war horse and stood at the forefront of the entire group, behind him was the guards holding battle flags, and the cavalry in heavy armor came up from the rear team to surround him, this is a veteran who has been entangled in the world for many years, and is the elite of the entire Naiban army, they gather more and more, and almost occupy the forefront of the entire cavalry group.

Even Tath, who was far away from the rear, could see his intentions, but he was slightly skeptical that the Nabarian cavalry was going to use such tactics. They were obviously planning to use a small number of elites in the vicinity of the plagiarism as arrows, and then the entire cavalry brigade would spread out into a cone-shaped formation, using the powerful assault force of the arrows to tear apart the opponent's formation, preferably directly to the rear of the enemy's formation, and then turn around and roll up the crushed Song Dynasty infantry. This is an attack formation that maximizes the effect of cavalry impact when the number of people is small, but the cavalry team of Copying is not particularly outnumbered compared to the Song army, can such an assault really work?

Before he could send someone to remind him, there was a sudden burst of enthusiastic cheers in front of him.