Chapter 312 The ministers are fighting a bloody battle, why did Your Majesty flee first?
The battle on the shore of the water continues.
The collapse of the forward formation did not lead to the collapse of the whole line......
The Liu brothers finally attacked.
Before, Liu Yanqing really wanted Chen Yu to support him in the front for a period of time, and then use the lives of the forward infantry to consume a wave of mounted cavalry, and then let his two sons use the cavalry to flank the left and right to give the last blow to the sleepy mounted cavalry. In this way, he can exchange the smallest loss for the biggest victory, as for Chen Yu's loss, of course, it is not in his consideration, the life and death of cannon fodder is his business, but unfortunately no matter how good the plan is, it is useless after all, and the infantry in the forward will not give him a chance to win!
Collapse in the wind!
Three thousand mounted cavalry!
Five Riding Walls Charging in Formation!
Those who can control and not flee must have excellent psychological quality, or those who have been on the battlefield for a long time to withstand this kind of impact, but the Southern Song army obviously has nothing to do with either of these two, and some of them have already chosen to flee in their previous tentative attacks.
And now it is three thousand mounted cavalry.
Even the Southern Song Dynasty army in the original history was able to face Tiefutu on the battlefield after Yue Fei and these people really grew up.
Now these ......
If you don't run, that's a miracle!
In this case, it is impossible for Liu Yanqing to sit idly by no matter how much he preserves his strength.
Liu Guangguo and Liu Guangshi's attacks from the left and right flanks forced the mounted cavalry to stop, but there was no fighting, as the hussar brigades on the left and right flanks of the Changsheng Army also attacked.
The mounted cavalry did not move forward because of the rejection of the horse, in fact, they would not pursue if Er Liu did not attack, and there was a rejection of the horse in front of the Southern Song Dynasty forward formation, and the mounted cavalry wanted to pursue the first thing to pull out the rejection of the horse, so it was just the hussar and the second Liu fighting. And the Liu brothers were really desperate in this battle, nearly 20,000 cavalry on both sides fought a real bloody battle on the snowy wasteland, although the result was that the Liu brothers retreated first, but they still held the two wings of the Chinese army formation.
Fighting continues.
It's just that the victorious army that was originally on the west bank of the water has arrived on the east bank.
Next to appear is the Victorious Infantry.
The 40,000-strong infantry of the Southern Song Dynasty Army, under the condition of the Liu brothers guarding the two wings, relied on Chen Yu's heavy reward and the encouragement of the great painter's personal expedition, formed a huge formation to stick to the position, and also protected the front with a rejection of horses, sprinkled with thistles, pulled up the tripping horses, and even dug a trench in front of the formation because of the abundant time, and there should be a large number of hidden horse traps inside.
This is easy to tell on the snow, but being able to distinguish it is not the same thing as being able to pass through it, at least not with the precious equipment cavalry.
This one had to be attacked by infantry.
"Steady, don't retreat, the official family is waiting for us to triumph in Yangzhou, behind you is Jiangnan, and each of the thieves who repels them will be rewarded with a hundred yuan!"
Chen Yu roared.
The old man was dressed in a purple robe, carrying a sword in one hand and a string of silver coins in the other, standing directly behind the battle line in the personal guard, and less than five feet away in front of him was the divine arm archer who was shooting, and there were constantly stray arrows falling in the sky, and there were even three-eyed bullets whistling past.
Chen Yu is still unafraid.
His purple robe is the greatest encouragement to the soldiers.
After all, it is not the same as the Supreme Commander standing behind him and standing out of sight.
The Divine Arm Archers who were loading their arrows looked back at the commander in the rain of arrows, and similarly braved the rain of arrows to load their arrows, and then fired at their targets with the whistling of bullets. In front of them were the same archers, with a constant burst of flames from the three-eyed guns, and in front of them were dense hoplites, standing behind the shield wall, using their bodies to protect the crossbowmen behind them.
Dead bodies kept falling.
But this time no one ran away.
Yang Zaixing, these people are not Wang Yue after all, they don't understand Wang Yue's set, they are pure generals, so they will only use the way of military generals to solve them.
Political propaganda?
They really don't understand this!
So at this moment, all these Southern Song Dynasty soldiers thought about was Chen Yu's generosity to them, Chen Xuanfu gave the military salary happily, and did not deduct the military rations, most of the promised rewards were fulfilled, and even often rewarded with wine and meat, since this is the case, it has to be worthy of others. What's more, the emperor has all taken the imperial expedition in person, and Chen Yu, the commander, is not afraid of death, and it will be a bit uninteresting for them to escape again.
At least for now, such casualties can be sustained.
In fact, there was no contact between the two sides.
The infantry of the Changsheng Army is also under the protection of the shield cart with bows and arrows, three-eyed guns and even big guns, and shoots at this side through the rejection of horses and trenches, and the big guns weigh sixty or seventy pounds, which can be loaded on the car, and then pushed to the front line together with the shield car, and bombard the shield wall of the Southern Song Army with stone bullets, and the powerful stone bullets can easily destroy the shield wall......
Of course, the stone bullets of the Southern Song Dynasty army can also easily shatter the shield carts of the victorious army.
The tactics of both sides are exactly the same.
When the three-eyed gun is within range, use the shield wall or shield cart to defend the front, use the three-eyed gun, bow and arrow, god arm bow and other weapons to fight each other at a distance of 30 meters, and at the same time smash the opponent's shield wall with a large gun.
Just like that, they keep throwing fire at each other to destroy their morale.
That's how battles are in this era.
True hand-to-hand combat only happens when one side can't hold out and retreat, or when one side can't help but launch a surprise attack, but until then, it's constant bleeding with ranged weapons. You must know that in the past, the standard configuration of the infantry of the Song army was sixty percent crossbowmen, two percent archers, and two heavy infantry with long weapons, but the crossbowmen all played cameo roles as short weapon bearers. If you don't shoot a crossbow until the opponent can't hold it, the battle will not enter hand-to-hand combat, and now it's just the addition of firearms such as the big gun and the three-eyed gun.
But the tactics remain the same.
But new weapons are changing the battlefield.
In particular, the stone bullets with big guns are constantly shattering the shield wall here.
In the past, a shield wall was enough to make it immune to attacks on the battlefield, and unless the enemy assaulted in front of the shield wall, a simple bow and crossbow were useless, that is, a bed crossbow would do, and a small trebuchet would do, but that range was short and the accuracy was almost equal to none. But now with these big guns, the role of the shield wall is greatly weakened, after all, the stone bullets of these big guns more than ten zhang away can easily break the shield wall, and the accuracy of such a distance is also very high.
Despite the presence of big guns on both sides, when the protection of the shield wall was lost, only the will of the soldiers remained.
And the Southern Song Dynasty army ......
"Steady, cut those who retreat!"
Chen Yu roared anxiously.
Not far away, as the shield wall was shattered by stone bullets, the soldiers finally could not hold on to the casualties and began to flee.
He rushed to that side without hesitation, and the surrounding soldiers immediately followed, but at the same time, in the formation of the Changsheng army that was facing there, a large number of heavily armored soldiers rushed out, they quickly moved away from the horses, put pieces of wood on the trench, and then rushed through the trench with a significantly weakened attack from this side, and their vanguard also arrived when Chen Yu arrived.
A fierce battle immediately ensued.
Of course, Chen Yu definitely can't go into battle, and he doesn't have the ability to be a civilian official with a white beard, and it is his own soldiers who really plug the gap.
"Go back, go back and kill the enemy, and kill those who escape!"
He drew his sword and drove the routs back.
The latter slowed down significantly, and at this moment, with the whistling of bullets, a three-eyed bullet hit Chen Yu's shoulder, and he shook sharply in the impact of the bullet, but the old man did not fall, with the blood that continued to ooze from his shoulder, he looked at the routed soldiers with a majestic gaze.
"Let's go, go back and kill the enemy!"
One of the routs said through gritted teeth.
Then he turned and rushed towards the gap in the bloody battle behind.
The other defeated soldiers looked at the blood-stained red and purple-robed commander with respect, and they all turned around and followed and rushed to the gap to join the bloody battle.
Chen Yu stood there with his sword, and at this time, the gaps in the shield wall were blasted open by stone bullets, and countless heavy armor soldiers of the victorious army on the opposite side rushed out, but this time those Southern Song infantry did not rout, but picked up their short weapons one by one and joined the ranks of guarding the defense line with flesh and blood. Chen Yu just looked at the bloody battle that was close at hand, then turned his head to look behind him, looking in the direction of the Chinese army, where the flags ordering the left and right flanks to attack were waving.
Liu Yanqing finally chose to fight.
Chen Yu let out a sigh of relief, and turned back to look at the battlefield shrouded in gunsmoke.
The real bloody war is continuing.
And at this very moment......
Jiangyin.
"Official, slow down."
Cai You and Shi Rugang supported the great painter left and right, and cautiously stepped on the dock, behind them, a warship carrying soldiers docked, and the accompanying imperial soldiers were also landing, from here they will go south by land to Hangzhou, the destination of this trip, mainly because of the cold wave this year, not to mention the canal, even the surface of Taihu Lake has been frozen.
Only the Yangtze River did not freeze because of the large flow of water and the daily tide surges.
"I can't imagine the power of this sea tide is so terrifying!"
The great painter turned his head and looked at the waves that were tumbling downstream, they had just arrived to catch the rising tide, and if they were a little later they would have hit the tide.
"Official, this is just ordinary, when you go to Hangzhou to see the tide is really messy rocks through the air, the waves crack the shore, it is really terrifying, every year there are many people who watch the tide are swept into the water, so there is that Qian Wusu King shot the tide."
Cai You said with a smile.
"It's time for Qian Mian to arrive, right?"
The great painter said.
"It's time to calculate that the day has come, but the Emperor Ji of the Great Emperor of Dejingxing is old, and now that it is winter, there may be some delays on the road."
Shi Rugang said.
They are talking about Renzong's daughter, this old Zhao family's miracle-like old birthday star is the aunt and grandmother of the great painter, this year is already seventy, the horse is the descendant of Qian Biao, she died of illness last year, her son Qian Mian took her to Hangzhou to be an official, in fact, it is to win the hearts of the people of Hangzhou. After the Qian family returned to the Song Dynasty, they lived in Kaifeng, but the Qian clan was huge and there were many industries in that area, so the great painter had let their mother and son go over in advance to win the hearts of the local people.
"It's hard for her!"
The great painter said.
As he spoke, he walked to the local officials in Jiangyin who greeted him.
And at this moment, on a civilian merchant ship on the river in the distance, Fang Qifo was looking at him with interest......