Jingkang Chapter A Lonely City and Ten Thousand Mountains Section 33 Rear Formation
The queue of 20,000 people was very long, the front had already walked out of the mountain pass, the Chinese army was trapped in the valley, and Wang Mancang's grain team, and Xuanzan's rear team, had not yet entered the valley. Suddenly, the sound of killing was loud, and the Jin soldiers cut off the mouth of the valley, separating Wang Mancang and the Xuanzan Department from the valley. Fortunately, the outside of the valley was extremely open, and the Jin soldiers could not ambush in the near distance, and for a while they saw a lot of dust in the distance.
Wang Mancang only had more than 1,000 soldiers and 10,000 people, and when these people saw the golden soldiers, they couldn't help but panic. Wang Mancang was accustomed to returning to the Xihe Army, and sometimes encountered attacks from unruly Xixia and grassland barbarians, so he did not panic in dealing with this situation. He commanded loudly: "Teams, camp on the spot!" ”
The Song army of the grain team immediately shouted, held the whip high, shuttled through the queue, and drove the people to camp on the spot. For a moment the carts creaked and the cattle chirped. The shouts of the people and the shouts and curses of the soldiers rang out.
Wang Mancang let the people set up a car camp, and when the march was at night on weekdays, Wang Mancang let the people camp on this, so now although the people are very panicked, but they are not busy, under the supervision of the soldiers, they will soon set up thousands of carts into three square car formations. The three formations of cars are arranged in a zigzag shape at the mouth of the valley. The rear formation of the proclamation streamed in through the small gap in the car formation. The Jin soldiers had reached a distance of one mile and lined up in formation.
Although Song Bing here was in a panic to sort out the vehicles in the inner circle, the big cars in the outer circle had been connected with ropes, and the three car formations were like three small camps. The people received the innermost circle, bowed down, and hid in a place where they could completely avoid the bow and arrow.
The leader of the Jin soldiers, who was in charge of robbing the grain, called Wanyan Bu and called Kuokuo. He was originally the leader of a small tribe under Baishan, and after the Wanyan uprising, he took refuge early, and the Jurchens had no rules at that time, so he got a Wanyan surname and became a side branch of the Wanyan clan, turning his tribe into Hezha Meng'an.
Wanyan Yinshu still chose a relatively narrow section of terrain according to the arrangement when he attacked the central part of the seed division in May, waiting for the opportunity to cut the Song army into three sections, and then pinned back and forth, concentrating on attacking the Chinese army. Now the person who is responsible for containing the Song army in the rear is Wanyan Buhu Kuokuo.
Wanyan Buhu stood up a mile away, observing the Song army's car formation. He was born in a small tribe, and he was in the bitter cold land of the deep mountains and old forests of Changbai Mountain all the year round, and he couldn't leave any goods in his eyes. ”
His original task was to trap the Song army in the rear, and when the brigade broke through the Song army's central army, he could destroy the Song army's rear army. But when Wan Yanbu saw so much grain and grass and brand-new armor staff, his eyes couldn't help but shine, and his blood was up, and he shouted: "Those goods, whoever grabs them belongs to whom, and those who don't grab them think they are bad seeds." He whipped his horse, and was the first to rush out. Immediately afterwards, the pro-soldiers of Buhu Kuokuo's headquarters, the entire Hezha Meng'an, and more than 3,000 golden soldiers under the command of Wanyan Buhu Kuokuo, rushed over with one brain.
When Wanyan Buhu rushed half a mile away, he heard the sound of bowstrings in the Song army's array, and hurriedly waved his mace to dial. He was dressed in heavy armor stripped from the Liao, and two arrows hit the iron armor diagonally and flew to the side. Wanyan Bu Hu Kuokuo continued to rush forward, and suddenly his body sank down. He rode extremely well, and felt that something was wrong, and immediately jumped off his horse. Sure enough, his mount neighed, and the man stood up, and then fell to the ground, which turned out to be an arrow that hit the horse's head.
After Yan Buhu Kuokuo changed the horses of his own soldiers, he was a little behind, and the Jin soldiers who rushed up arrived in front of the car array, but they could not attack it, and countless spears were supported obliquely in the car formation, and the war horses could not reach the front of the car at all. Arrows were constantly shot from the formation, and the golden soldiers who rushed to the front fell off their horses and were trampled by their own people.
Wan Yanbu shouted broadly like waking up from a dream, shouting: "Retreat, retreat, the whole team." It's not a robbery, it's not a robbery. ”
Jin Bing threw down nearly a hundred corpses in front of the battle, but he didn't even touch the side of the cart. After Yan Buhu checked it out, he found that most of the dead were the attached Bohai people, grassland barbarians and soldiers, and he couldn't help but secretly rejoice.
Since Song Bing did not have the consciousness of being robbed, Wanyan Buhu was determined to take it seriously. He asked the steppe barbarians to carry their own bows and arrows, run around the Song army's car formation, and use their seven-pound soft bows to shoot arrows into the formation to see if they could make the Song army's formation scatter.
The Jin soldiers, or the Jurchens, were not like this when they fought the Khitan, and when the Jin soldiers rose up to fight the Khitan, they all rushed towards the Liao formation one after another. Today, Wanyan Buhu Kuokuo changed his tactics, firstly, to see that the Song army was in a strict formation, to preserve the strength of the real Jurchens, and secondly, to consume the strength of the grassland barbarians.
The barbarians of the steppe shouted and swept in front of the Song army, and the short arrows cut into branches flew into the formation like locusts, and these short arrows fell on the car barriers, shields, and armor, and thumped, leaving scratches one after another, and then fell to the ground. They used bone clusters, powerless to penetrate armor. The cavalry of the grassland barbarians is the highest, and although the ability of riding and archery is good, it is useless in front of the Song army with a strict formation.
The Song army also shot arrows from time to time, and each wave of arrows would leave more than a dozen people from the grassland barbarians, and for a while, the formation of the Song army was scattered, and the grassland barbarians had a posture of defeat and retreat.
Wanyan Buhu Kuokuo's heart couldn't help but become anxious, he led the army alone to besiege the rear team and grain team of the Song army, thinking that he had picked up a fat sheep, but he didn't want to lose a large number of subordinates. He was impatient, so angry that he screamed, called his own guard, Mouke, and rushed out again.
Mou Ke on the side used his dark strength to pull Yan Buhu's broad horse's head: "The master doesn't want to go in person, just arrange Hezha Meng into ten teams and take turns to kill, and the southern barbarians will definitely not be able to resist." ”
"Reasonable, you can do it."
The Jin soldiers divided the entire Hezha Meng'an into ten teams, each team centered on a Mouke, mixed all kinds of servants in one place, supervised the formation by the Jurchens, and pounced on the Song army's large array.
"Front row soldiers, shoot!"
"Second platoon soldiers, shoot!"
The Song army's divine arm bow, the sergeant's own bow and arrow, kept firing, but after all, it couldn't stop the impact of the Jurchen iron cavalry, and the third formation of the Jurchens finally broke through the first row of car barriers.
At this time, I saw a horse protruding from the center of the Song army's formation, with five arrows buckled in his hand, but seeing that the general immediately buckled and fired five arrows together, shooting a Mouke at the head of the Jin soldier under the horse.
The morale of the Song army was greatly boosted, and the horses marched together, annihilating the Jin soldiers who broke into the formation. Finally repelled the first wave of attacks by the Jin soldiers.
The Song general who sent the beaded arrows was Xuanzan, he returned to the formation, and Wang Mancang greeted him: "Congratulations to the county horse for his bravery, and the beaded arrows break the enemy." ”
Xuanzan frowned: "We can hold out here for a while, if the Chinese army falls, we will die without a place to be buried." ”
Xuanzan and Wang Mancang looked in the direction of the Chinese army, only to see that there was a lot of smoke and dust, and more than 10,000 Song troops and 10,000 Jin soldiers were fighting.
In the middle of the valley, where the Chinese army is located, fierce battles have been fought on all fronts. On the broad flanks, thousands of Jurchen, Bohai, and steppe barbarian cavalry slapped on the Song army's defensive line.
The advantage of pre-ambush allowed the golden soldiers to attack boldly in turns, arrows and crossbow arrows were intertwined, spears and bones collided, and people kept falling, but the places of those who fell were immediately filled by more people.
In the forefront, dozens of steppe barbarians broke through the Song army's line and went straight into the formation, but before they could break through the Song army's formation, they were surrounded by a command regiment of the second Song army's second formation, spears and bows and arrows fired together, and these barbarians turned into hedgehogs. The screams and groans of these poor people were muffled by the sound of drums, trumpets, and fighting.
The cries of battle stimulated the adrenaline of the people on the battlefield, made them forget their fear, fatigue and pain, and thought themselves invincible and brave until they were pierced, cut down, shot, and blood drained from their wounds, and they fell, trampled and turned into dust by those who rushed up from behind.
But the core of the battlefield was not on the flanks, but on the front of the Song army's central army. The Song army that was cut off in the valley is now from front to back, and it is Xiong Dabai, Yang Kefa, Zhongjun, and Guan Liyuan. The cavalry of the Lulu Guleping shuttled between the various departments, maintaining the connection between the various departments.
By the time it was about four o'clock in the afternoon (about two o'clock in the afternoon), the front lines of the Song and Jin sides had been completely mixed, the Song soldiers were roughly in command, and the Jin soldiers were in a handful, and everywhere in the valley, both sides were fighting, and there were corpses everywhere. Soldiers on both sides attacked each other with broken spears, short knives, scimitars, bones, maces, and even both hands. The soil on the ground was stained with blood, including Song soldiers, Jurchens, Bohai people, and grassland barbarians. Blood mixed together and seeped into the dirt.
A little to the right of the front of the Chinese army, behind the buttocks of more than 80 Song soldiers, more than 30 Tartars dressed in light Kai carried knives and fled backwards like ducks.
"Tiha! …… Chen Tihar! …… Take a break, don't run...... What the hell is going on? Where did all these Tartars come from? "Fu Ci, Fu Sancha, a deserter from the Western Army who is now the deputy head of the capital, saw that his fifty Song soldiers were about to be taken away and fled, and the rout army Chong had an unstable foothold, so he hurriedly stopped the head of the capital who took the lead in escaping.
Hu Yangeng recruited troops in Fenzhou and Huo County, attracting many bandits from the surrounding areas to vote. Wang Jin, Shi Jin, Zhu Wu, Fu Ci, Chen Da, Yang Chun and others also went down the mountain to join the army. Hu Yangeng heard the name of Wang Jin when he was on the road, and was deeply influenced by the Water Margin in his previous life, and when he saw the names of Wang Jin and Shi Jin, he immediately formed a command with more than 100 thieves as the backbone.
According to Wang Jin's order, Fu Ci wanted to take half of his capital to reinforce the one in front. But Fu Sancha's army has not yet been reinforced, and the front has already retreated loosely. Fu Ci, who was very enthusiastic, wanted to end the hatred of seizing wealth with the Jurchen Tartars, and the hatred of killing his father, really couldn't understand why Song Bing didn't fight the Tartars in front of him, and desperately ran away.