Qiming 1158

Chapter 230
Heavy-armored cavalry has always been used for decisive battles. It is a precious strategic force, and it has never been a consumable.

We must seize the opportunity to kill with one blow when the infantry army formation already has loopholes, ruthlessly break into the army formation, and tear the formation apart.

That is the most correct way to use heavy armored cavalry.

Of course, there are also heavy cavalrymen like Xixia Tiejiazi who take the lead in rushing into the formation, but they are relatively few.

With the current military strength and financial level of the Jin Army, it is not enough to support so many heavy armored cavalry in the era of Yan Zongbi and Zonghan.

Back then, in order to deal with Yue Fei, the generals dispatched tens of thousands of heavy armored cavalry.

That was also the era when the Golden Army was the most powerful.

Whether it is equipment or the quality of military personnel, or the will to fight, as well as the pioneering spirit, they are the strongest.

As a result, they met Yue Fei.

In several battles, not only did they not destroy the Southern Song Dynasty, but they were completely destroyed by the Yue family army. In front of the Yue family army's army, the Jin army's heavily armored iron Buddha was completely lost and suffered several disastrous defeats.

In the worst case, Yue Fei made all the Wanyans who had made outstanding achievements in the past to cry.

The damage that that battle brought to the Jin army still has its aftermath - for example, when Wanyanliang decided to go south, a large number of Jin court officials raised objections and resolutely refused to support it, so that Wanyanliang faced stunning isolation.

Right now, without full mobilization, the Jin Army can no longer immediately pull out more than [-] heavy-armored cavalry into battle.

They can't afford so many heavy armored cavalry.

Therefore, Wanyan A-Lin could not use the heavy armored cavalry as the main force and consumables to use as much as his predecessors did. He did not have the capital.

In the beginning, it was still necessary to use traditional tactics, using repeated sprints and cavalry to deal with the army formation of the Shengjie Army, and see how strong their army formation was.

If repeated sprints and mount shots can crash them, that would be great.

Wanyan A-Lin ordered his subordinate generals to lead the cavalry under their respective command to gallop back and forth around the curved formation of the Shengjie Army, cavalry and shoot, and prepare for the initial attack.

So the military action was launched immediately, and the Jin Army launched an active attack.

The Victory Jie army is waiting.

As the foundation of the army formation, the cart should also be protected by shields to fix the formation, so that the cavalry of the Golden Army would not be so easy to break through the formation and rush in.

The Jin army cavalry quickly rushed to the front of the formation, and began to run around the formation, and attacked the formation of the Shengjie army with cavalry shooting.

Su Yonglin realized that this was a tentative act before the official attack, not a sign of a full-scale attack.

In order to get more Jin Jun cavalry closer to the army formation, Su Yonglin ordered the outermost resistance troops to use soft bows and short arrows and a small amount of divine arm bows to fight back against the Jin Jun cavalry.

The strength of riding a bow is not as strong as that of a walking bow, and its range is not as long as that of a walking bow. If you shoot in the opposite direction, generally speaking, riding a bow will suffer more, and you need mobility as a supplement.

And once the quality of the bow and crossbow used by the infantry is not good, the soft bow is short and the range is similar to that of the riding bow, then it is quite passive.

The cavalry's shooting and the infantry's counterattack continued for a while, and the two sides seemed to be evenly matched, but because of the high mobility of the cavalry, the Jin army suffered very little losses.

Similarly, with the protection of carts and shields, the losses of the bowmen of the Shengjie Army were also small, not enough to shake the army.

But Wanyan Alin was very happy when he saw that the Shengjie army's counterattack was very weak, the bow and crossbow didn't seem to be very good, and only a few arrows shot farther.

After a period of shooting at each other, he thinks that the peripheral testing is almost done. The Shengjie Army does not have the ability to kill him a lot before hand-to-hand combat, so he can rest assured to invest more troops to shoot to destroy the Shengjie Army faster. defensive power.

He conveyed the order, which was quickly conveyed to the front-line commander through the unique method of the Jin Army.

The front-line commander will reorganize the army, take the army out of the anti-fire area, organize the formation, and meet the second wave of cavalry that has just joined in, preparing to oppress the infantry with a larger number, with a larger scale of shooting and repeated sprints Overwhelm the infantry line of defense.

If they can shake their will to resist and let them abandon their carts and shields and flee backwards, the cavalry can launch an attack, and they will be unparalleled in the battle.

If this wave of concentrated shooting can open the gap, of course, it is better. If the gap cannot be opened, it can also create opportunities for the heavy riding behind.

The more intensive firing of the front-line cavalry began to unfold.

Although they found that this army formation was very unfavorable for them to shoot in circles, and they had to turn their horses to shoot back and forth, which made them very unaccustomed for a time, but this was not enough to stop their determination to shoot.

They tend to focus on a large cavalry army group to charge, rushing towards the infantry army with an indomitable momentum, bringing great shock to the infantry both visually and psychologically.

If the infantry is trained and very elite, and one time is not enough to break them, then rush to the front, turn the horses, and do it again.

Repeated this many times, people were tired and replaced, and horses were tired, and the cavalry who had the advantage of maneuvering were not afraid of the infantry at all.

However, the infantry cannot change people at will, because changing people will require changing formations, and changing formations requires time and opportunity.

Once the fighter plane was captured by the cavalry, they would rush over like wild wolves smelling blood and bite the sad prey to death.

The physical and mental strength of the infantry will be rapidly exhausted, and in the end, they will no longer be able to cope with the sprinting and temptation of the cavalry, and will collapse.

The army also collapsed.

What followed was a one-sided slaughter.

Cavalry is often not willing to fight with infantry. Except for Polish winged cavalry, even the longest cavalry lance is not longer than infantry lance. In this regard, except for heavy cavalry, cavalry has no advantage.

The more important reason is that the cavalry is too expensive.

As an absolute technical arm, the cavalry can be regarded as a noble in the army, and the consumption after training and training is enough to build an infantry army about five to eight times.

And once the cavalry really rushes into the formation, it is easy to cause a situation of one-to-one exchange with the limit of the infantry.

If the casualty ratio is not more than [-] to [-], even if it is [-] to [-] or [-] to [-], it will be a blood loss for the cavalry.

Therefore, unless absolutely necessary, the cavalry is often reluctant to rush into the formation, not even the heavily armored cavalry, and this is exactly Su Yonglin's purpose.

At any time, as long as it can have an excellent casualty ratio with the cavalry, it can greatly weaken the war potential of the Jin Kingdom.

Even if he lost more on his side, he would still have a pretty good casualty ratio with Jin Jun.

If it can defeat the opponent, it can greatly increase the death rate of the Golden Army cavalry in the pursuit, and it can even make a lot of money.

You must do your best.

To reduce the number of Golden Army cavalry as much as possible here, use the huge firepower of the fan to strike a wave of ruthlessness on the Golden Army Cavalry!
With his order, the god-arm archers and the strong crossbowmen discarded the soft bow and short arrows and picked up the advanced equipment they were good at using again. with the command to launch.

The speed of the cavalry's impact was of course very fast, and in a short while they entered the range of the infantry crossbow.

Not much to say, the archers and crossbowmen began to shoot.

A large number of powerful crossbow arrows crossed out of the army formation, crossed a beautiful arc in the air, and flew towards the golden army cavalry, piercing the sky, and accurately landed at the passage of the golden army cavalry.

At this time, the Jin Army's mounted shot could not be launched, and it had not yet reached the range they needed.

For the first time, the scene of people turning their backs appeared in front of Wanyan Alin's eyes.

A large number of Golden Army cavalry were shot by powerful arrows and fell off their horses. One round of arrow rain caused great losses to the cavalry.

Wanyan's A-lin was stunned for a moment, and then burst into anger. He realized that he was playing tricks.

Su Yonglin deliberately returned fire with a soft bow and short arrow, just to let his cavalry relax their vigilance when they attacked again.

On the premise that there is not enough heavy armor, the divine arm bow and general strong crossbow can penetrate normal armor within a certain range.

A large number of Golden Army cavalry fell off their horses, or the cavalry was not hit, but the warhorse was hit, the warhorse fell to the ground, and the cavalry fell to the ground, either seriously injured or dead.

After a while, the Jin army's advance was hindered to a certain extent.

The people who fell in front more or less hindered the cavalry who were charging behind, and there was another wave of people turning their backs.

(End of this chapter)