097 Smoke Everywhere (6)
The broadsword team is a heavy knife unit. This unit was specially conceived by Lin Heng in order to improve the lethality of the infantry army. In the broadsword team, he abandoned the armor and replaced it with leather armor to reduce the weight on the sergeant's body. At the same time, he increased the weight of the weapon in the soldier's hand, that is, the broadsword. The handle of this big knife can be held with both hands, and the blade is thick, weighing more than 33 catties. If you go down with a knife, even if you don't die, you will be seriously injured.
There are not many members of the broadsword team, only more than 3,500 people, but each of them is a carefully selected person with great strength. They, whether defending the city or attacking, have great lethality.
Guo Jing carefully explained to his heralds, and asked him to go down and give orders to the broadsword team, cavalry team, archers, sword and shield soldiers, and stand in front and prepare to meet the Mongols.
On the Mongolian side, it was as Lin Heng thought. After they lost some more cavalry, they immediately realized that the Song army had dug a trap here, so the iron cavalry stopped, and the infantry behind began to move forward.
Soon, under the slow advance of the infantry army, the other two hooks arranged by Lin Heng were destroyed. These two hooks were set by Lin Heng just in case, and like the second one, they just didn't work.
When the two infantry armies confronted each other, the archers took the lead, and a dense rain of arrows shot towards the opponent's array. In this regard, the Mongols have a lot of people and great strength, but they are a little cheap, but they themselves also have a big loss, because Lin Heng deliberately selected many martial arts people to enter the army as archers for this bow and arrow battle.
Everyone knows that the strength of martial arts people is definitely greater than that of ordinary people, even if they are sergeants, it is incomparable. The Mongols did have a lot of advantages among the soldiers, but in the face of martial arts people, they had no advantage, especially the martial arts people who shot arrows at each other in the confrontation between the two armies.
"Rush!" The Mongol generals saw that they did not have much advantage in archery, and immediately waved their horsewhips and shouted.
The dense infantry army began to slowly move forward under his command, and the same was true for the Song army's side. When the two armies were about to come together, the cavalry hidden in the two armies began to charge.
Infantry with cavalry is a very simple tactic, but you have to say that cavalry has an advantage over infantry, if you really let them rush, the queue will be absolutely chaotic. Therefore, even if it is an infantry battle, it must be accompanied by cavalry. There are also cavalry in the Song army, and they are not weak, but in such a big battle, the cavalry of the Song army, which only has about 2,000, will not play much role at all, and if they are allowed to attack the enemy army, it will definitely be impossible to go back, because there are too many enemies, and it is impossible for you to rush in and come out again.
Therefore, their task was to collide with the enemy's cavalry and prevent them from charging into battle.
The cavalry of the two sides became entangled and began to strangle each other, as did the infantry troops. In front, the sword and shield soldiers held their shields and brandished their broadswords and crashed into each other. When the army merged, the broadsword team prepared by Lin Heng began to exert its might. They gathered together, rushed into Mongolia, and killed them with a swing of their swords.
The power of the broadsword team is really amazing, and with a swing of the sword, even the soldiers holding the shield are beaten back, unable to hold the shield in their hands, and then killed. And the broadsword team also took advantage of this to break into the Mongol army and slaughtered in all directions.
After the two sides are strangled together, the command is useless, and at this time it is the strength and morale of both sides to look at. On the Song army's side, the morale is not high, but it is not low, especially when they have just won a small victory over the Mongolian army, their morale is even higher. So in the face of the Mongol army, they fought on par. It's just that after a long time, the defeat of the Song army was revealed.
Compared with the Mongol army, the Song army is still too few, let's say that in this battle, the Song army sent more than 15,000 people, and the Mongols had more than 20,000 people. In this way, the pressure on the Song army was increased. At the beginning, the pressure was not obvious, but when you slashed and killed again and again, and found that you couldn't finish killing again and again, you naturally had the intention of retreating in your heart.
Later, Lin Heng had been paying attention to the morale of the army, and seeing that the Song army was defeated, he immediately signaled Guo Jing. Guo Jing nodded, raised the formation flag again, summoned the heralds, and ordered the second captain spearmen to cooperate with the heavy spearmen to attack.
Immediately, the Song army of 10,000 people walked out of the ranks of the army again and came behind the Song army, and at the same time, the order to retreat sounded, and the Song soldiers who were fighting immediately began to retreat.
The Mongols saw this, and immediately pounced on them, but when they pounced on the pikemen and pikemen, they were neatly stopped.
Needless to say, pikemen, everyone knows the way. Here we have to talk about the heavy pikemen. This is also Lin Heng's invention. The so-called heavy spearmen are actually soldiers holding large tree guns in front, and unlike the previous team, this time they really have spears installed in the trees they are holding high.
The first pair of heavy pikemen was to stop the horses, with or without iron guns, but the second team was different, they were to stop the infantry. If you don't have an iron gun, you won't be able to kill people at all, and then you won't kill a family hugging a tree. Therefore, Lin Heng had the center of the tree hollowed out and an iron gun installed inside to increase the lethality.
The dense trees and iron spears stopped the Mongol army, and they tried to go through the gap, but immediately rows of bright silver spears pierced out of there and blocked them back again.
Seeing this, the Mongolian general immediately ordered the archers to shoot arrows, but Lin Heng had already thought of it, so before he could shoot arrows, a large number of arrows rained over from the Song army's side, and then a group of sword and shield soldiers held large shields to block the front.
"Damn!" After firing a few rounds of arrows, the Mongol generals saw that there was nothing cheap to stand on, so they had to order the retreat.
The two sides engaged twice, and although the Song army was in a weak position, it was the Mongols who suffered. They suffered more than 3,500 casualties in the first battle, and many Song troops were killed and wounded in the second battle, but they also lost more than 4,000 themselves. Such a big loss, even if they advance some distance, it is a failure. It is conceivable that after the Mongolian general under this command returns to the camp, he will definitely usher in Meng Ge's scolding.
Originally, he was unwilling to retreat, and wanted to retreat from the infantry and use the iron cavalry to attack, but the Song army immediately retreated a hundred paces, and then the Mongol army fell into the trap again.
In this regard, he was very helpless and scolded the Song army generals opposite for being despicable and shameless, but what was the use of this?
After the two major battles, it was almost noon, and as soon as the allies retreated, they retreated into the camp, but on the roads they occupied, they left a lot of soldiers in case the Song army came again.
Seeing this, Lin Heng and the others did not have the idea of attacking again, but hurriedly let everyone rest and eat.
In the afternoon, the Mongols did not attack again, but sent a large number of Mongol squads into the woods and mountain roads on both sides. Lin Hengzhi said that the Mongolians were afraid of their own tricks, and this was to see if there was a hook ahead.
In this regard, he smiled and secretly scolded the Mongols for being stupid, and then continued to discuss the next big battle with Guo Jing, Huang Rong, Hong Qigong and others.
In one day, it consumed seven or eight thousand of Mongolia's combat power, and it was almost this loss, which was definitely rare. According to Lin Heng's previous method, they needed to withstand it here for three days, consume the Mongolian army, and then retreat five miles, use the trap behind them to continue to kill and hinder the Mongolian army, and transfer back the wounded soldiers and some veterans, and at the same time transfer some new soldiers from the rear to replenish the combat strength.
Today is the first day, and judging from the results of this day, Lin Heng's method is effective, just in case, they still have to sum up the lessons and strive to do their best.
This night, both armies spent sleepless, and the large battalions of both sides patrolled non-stop, and the guards were unbelievably strict. The Song army was afraid of the Mongolian iron cavalry; The Mongolian army did this, obviously being frightened by Lin Heng's trap.
Early in the morning of the second day, loud singing was heard from the Mongolian military camp opposite. Lin Heng, Guo Jing and others stood on a high platform, looking at the Mongolian camp from a distance. There, they were lining up in formation, and groups of Mongolian soldiers slowly walked out of the camp. Lin Heng saw that at the front, there was a group of sword and shield soldiers, they were holding shields in their left hands and big knives in their right hands, walking forward firmly. Behind them, a group of pikemen, then archers. On either side of the army were two long teams of iron horsemen.
The dense square formations were lined up, surging like an overwhelming wave, and the tragic murderous aura was silent all around.
"The Mongols are coming hard!" Sighing softly, Lin Heng shook his head.
When the two armies fight, they usually start by testing each other, so they don't send too many people. Lin Heng used their form to set a trap and defeat the Mongols twice. But everyone is not stupid, especially the Mongols, who have been fighting all year round, are not stupid. After the first day's faux pas, they knew that it was impossible to defeat the Song army with iron cavalry and a small number of infantry charges, so on this day, they directly sent a large number of infantry troops, ready to go straight to the Song army, and the iron cavalry on both sides was used to impact the two wings of the Song army.
"Brother Guo, are we ready?" Lin Heng asked Guo Jing sideways.
Guo Jing nodded and said, "Brother Lin, don't worry, I have already done it according to your method." Wouldn't it be too cruel to just do that? Guo Jing's face was a little unbearable, but Lin Heng just smiled and didn't answer Guo Jing's question.
Lin Heng doesn't like the battlefield, but since he is here, he has to do his best. Here, there is only a need for victory and defeat, not a conscience.
Taking a deep breath, Lin Heng and Guo Jing got off the high platform, stood at the front of the army, and began to arrange. Compared with the Mongol army, the Song army has one more kind of chariot in its troops, but this chariot is not mounted on a carriage, but a class that operates a catapult.
The stone thrower is an ancient cannon, whether it is to attack or defend a city, it is a very sharp weapon. In Xiangyang and other cities, many stone throwers were installed, and the Mongol army also had this kind of weapon, but this time, they were useless.
"You don't have to be right, this time, I'll let you see what is the Sword Mountain and the Sea of Fire?" With a sneer, Lin Heng waved his hand, and the army moved slowly, crashing towards the Mongolian army surging in front.
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