Chapter 23: Tactics

Seeing that the two commanders had agreed to start, the flag bearer gave an order, and soon, a group of black-helmeted and black-armored cavalry slowly appeared on the opposite side of the school field, and almost at the same time as they appeared, it immediately caused a commotion in the infantry formation, and Xin Gu, who was standing on the point platform, shouted loudly: "Don't you know how to count to bully us? ”

Yu Yan smiled and didn't answer, and the captain named Ma Chengyan under his command appeared on the general platform at this moment, and immediately replied: "I heard that Captain Xin is from the north, how do you not know the system of one person and three horses in the cavalry, although the number of my black clouds is small, but each cavalry has a war horse, a pack horse and a horse for daily use. Ten horsemen, exactly thirty horses. ”

Xin Gu was a solid person, he knew that most of the Khitan and female direct cavalry had three horses, and some elite cavalry had as many as five or six horses each, so he no longer refuted when he heard this, but just snorted indignantly. Wu Yingying's heart sank, seeing that the cavalry on the opposite side of the school field was far away from the range of the infantry army's bow and arrow, and orderly sorted out the formation of the charge, it seemed that he wanted to kick the spear formation directly. Although only ten of the thirty horses were real war horses, there was also a large group of black pressure in the formation, and the few cavalrymen were hidden in the middle of the horses, whistling in their mouths and whipping their hands, driving the horses on the left and right slowly. Approaching the lethal range of the infantry bows, the cavalry began to urge the horses to speed up while leaning down and hiding behind them.

Even from the stand, the momentum of the horses once they sprinted was quite amazing, and the sand and dust accompanied by the hooves like thunder, like a black storm rolling in, wanted to destroy everything in its way. Wu Yingying's heart was about to suffer, the gun array in front of the horses was already a little loose, and the dozens of arrows sent out by the sparse Lala could not slow down the speed of the horses' impact at all, but made the soldiers with bows in the formation a little hurried.

Seeing that the horses were getting closer and closer to the gun array, Wu Yingying only had a glimmer of hope left in his heart, hoping that the knowledge he had read on the Internet that horses would actively avoid sharp objects was the truth, but when he saw the running horses actually crashing straight into the gun array formed by fifty small soldiers, he was completely desperate.

There was no such tragedy as the expected storm smashing the flesh reef, the spear formation formed by the Fifty Jin Fan Tooth Army collapsed when the horses were still five steps away, and several soldiers in the front row instinctively avoided backwards and caused a chain reaction, the three well-trained first row of the Black Cloud Cavalry took the opportunity to highlight the horses, and rushed in through the gap in the gun array almost without paying casualties, and condescendingly hit the infantry on the head with an iron rod, the Jin Fan Army collapsed almost instantly, most of the soldiers almost did not have any resistance, panicked among the horses around them, and finally were either knocked down, or put down their swords and guns and sat on the ground with their heads in their hands。 In the end, only one of the Jinfan soldiers who were still standing was surrounded by five or six cavalry regiments, this person was very brave, he swept the horse and stabbed people in the leg with a gun, and a group of cavalry actually couldn't get close, after beating the other Jinfan soldiers down, they were waiting for the group to surround and beat this guy who dared to resist, this person actually looked like a good man who did not suffer the loss in front of him, and put the big gun on the ground in a daze, and squatted on the ground honestly with his head in his arms.

Defeated, and so miserable. Wu Yingying's face was pale, and he couldn't say a word for a long time.

Yu Yan laughed unabashedly, patted Wu Yingying's shoulder and said: "Wu Sanqi, your knowledge is good, but use soldiers to fight, let me say more, I will be too angry." ”

Wu Yingying arched his hand helplessly and said, "General Yu won." ”

"It's refreshing enough!" Lu Yan clapped his hands and said with a smile: "Then it will be annoying for General Wu to lead the Jinfan Army to transport the baggage and guard the Shaankou Village." He paused for a moment, and then said: "However, I don't take advantage of it in vain, I heard that the Jinfan Army lacks armor, bows and arrows, in order to facilitate your defense of Shaankou Village, Heiyun can hand over to you 200 sets of iron armor, 300 crossbows, 30,000 arrows, and 10 war horses." ”

Wu Yingying said in his heart that this is a typical slap and then a sweet date, the ancients were also very smart, so they had no choice but to thank him with a wry smile, and ordered Xin Gu to rectify the soldiers who were beaten to the ground to receive ordnance and war horses. The group left in a gloomy and mocking gaze at the black clouds.

On the way back from Heiyundu, seeing that Wu Yingying's face had been dark and gloomy, and the soldiers who were intimidated by the military might of Heiyundu had completely lost the spirit they had when they came, Xin Gu muttered: "If you let someone make a move, you will definitely beat him in the head." ”

Wu Yingying said angrily when he heard this: "Do you want to be an ordinary soldier? You want to be a general, a 10,000-strong enemy who wins a hundred battles, not a puppet who only knows how to wrestle with others!" Although Xin Gu was dissatisfied, he knew that this guy was not in a good mood, so he stopped talking. Wu Yingying himself also felt a little inexplicable to be angry at this straight man, but he felt uncomfortable, stretched out his hand and patted Xin Gu's shoulder and said: "Ten thousand high-rise buildings are rising from the ground, our new army has just been formed, and we still need to train well. ”

He turned to the soldier who had put down his gun last, and said, "What's your name?"

The man raised his head and said, "The surname of a certain family is Cai, and the name is Si." After speaking, he did not lower his head, but stared at Wu Yingying defiantly.

At this time, Wu Yingying took a good look at the soldier with the same name as Da Qin Zai, not only got his name, but also looked very Sven, with a long body and a beardless face, and his temperament was also very calm, no wonder he would choose to put down the big gun when he was surrounded by the Black Cloud Cavalry in the end, rather than fighting bravely and stubbornly, and finally being beaten and bleeding.

This person is a talent, but it is difficult to subdue, Wu Yingying said in his heart, and he didn't care about Chase's somewhat rude gaze, and said with a smile: "Have courage and know current affairs, Chase, you will be my personal guard in the future." With that, he patted him on the shoulder, and galloped forward with a light grip on the horse's belly.

Chase didn't look flattered at all, flashed lightly when Wu Yingying patted him on the shoulder, and finally hugged his fists and said, "Commander Xie appreciates." Then he took the initiative to follow Wu Yingying's horse, as if he had been his personal soldier for a long time.

After arriving at the camp, Xiao Jiu looked at the ten carts and ten war horses loaded with armor and crossbow arrows, greeted them with a dazzled smile, and kept saying: "Heiyun is worthy of being the strongest soldier in Jiangzuo, and he is so generous in his shots. He didn't care about the tiring and dirty work of his army to transport baggage for Heiyundu and guard the camp of Shaankou Village, and it was a matter of course that such a foreign army would resist the elite forbidden army.

This failure of the infantry riding touched Wu Yingying a lot, he realized that he was not commanding cannon fodder in the game, but a real person with flesh and blood, concern and fear, fortunately this time it was just a gambling confrontation drill with Heiyun, if it was really against thousands of elite cavalry of the Song army, his more than 2,000 foot soldiers would be accounted for.

So Wu Yingying increased the training of soldiers, so that 2,500 foot soldiers have the ability to counter-cavalry is obviously impossible, Wu Yingying can only use only ten war horses to increase the battlefield simulation training of anti-cavalry impact on the 500-person tooth military camp, and let people hang the thick wooden stake horizontally, pull it up and smash it to ten spearmen lined up in a row, if they shoot together and no one retreats, it can be able to stop the sweep of the stake, once someone hesitates or moves unevenly, the formation is smashed by the stake, then the whole team will be punished, the punishment is to push the stake together 200 times, or each person to receive 20 military sticks。 Over the course of a month, the spears of the Ya barracks had been replaced countless times because they were broken, and the limbs of the soldiers had become much thicker, and those soldiers who had been defeated in the black clouds gradually felt that the galloping horses facing the oncoming attack were completely free of corporal punishment and the horror of military sticks.

After the Ya military camp reached a state where the locomotive in front of them could also shoot in unison with a lunge when the locomotive was roaring in front of them, Wu Yingying trained them to advance through various obstacles in a phalanx formation.

At the same time, the non-commissioned officers of the former and rear barracks also stepped up their training in the three-stage crossbow shooting technique, sword and shield confrontation, and queue training to match the tooth barracks.

In September of the sixth year of Kaibao, the southwest of Shengzhou in the Great Song Dynasty deployed Cao Bin to lead an army of 100,000 troops to march eastward. After three months of training, the Jinfan Army was already familiar with military orders and tactics, and barely looked like an army. In the early morning of this day, Dechang Palace made Liu Chengxun send a batch of materials to reward the soldiers, and also brought the holy decree of the lord Cai Yu to ask Yu Yan and Wu Yingying to immediately send troops to meet the enemy, according to the previous agreement, Wu Yingying's Jinfan Army, as the vanguard of the army, will set off by boat in advance, trying to reach Shaankou Village before the Song army captures Chizhou, and cooperate with Heiyundu to use this as a base to attack the back road of the Song army.

"General Wu, the military situation is urgent, Your Majesty asks the general to send troops as soon as possible. Seeing that the weather is getting cooler, this is a batch of winter clothes sewn by the mothers and palace maids, and I wish the general success. Liu Chengxun said with a smile, as if Wu Yingying was not an enemy who had beaten him many times in front of Cai Yu, but his good friend.