Qiming 1158

Chapter 38 Fighting is Training
The rush march is still quite hard work.

Fortunately, it didn't rain that night. The army took a break and arrived in Feixian in the early morning of the second day after departure. The whole army advanced to the barracks of the town defense army in Feixian County.

According to the report of the spies, the defense of the barracks was quite lax. From a distance, they could see several guards at the entrance of the barracks as if they were gambling, not on duty at all.

The guards are still like this, not to mention the golden soldiers inside.

"In that case, Uncle Yuting, why don't you just rush over to solve them?"

"To rush over is to rush over, of course, but it is the cavalry, not the infantry. The infantry must maintain the army formation and stability, and not allow chaos."

Su Yonglin arranged for him and Zhao Yucheng to lead the only [-] cavalry as the vanguard to rush into the camp, snatch the gate of the camp, and form the main force of the infantry.

It is not a good thing for the enemy to be too strong, and it is not a good thing for the enemy to be too weak. This kind of slack defense made the countless tactics Su Yonglin imagined to be in vain.

Then, the battle began.

The infantry was handed over to Su Jue for command. Su Yonglin and Zhao Yucheng mounted their horses and led the [-] cavalry to start slowly. Then they ran faster and faster, and began to charge at a high speed.

Under the terrified gazes of the few guards who were gambling, the rebel cavalry arrived in a flash like a gust of wind.

Xueliang's blade flashed past, several heads rose into the sky, and the headless corpse fell miserably to the ground, twitched a few times, and finally stopped moving.

The attack was officially launched, and the defense barracks was in chaos like a frying pan. Some people were fighting, some people mounted, some people ran away, and some people simply hid and didn't want to be discovered.

The [-] Rebel cavalry rampaged, and the main force of the infantry led by Su Jue quickly arrived, quickly consolidating the cavalry's victory and killing the remaining golden soldiers.

Although the battle was going well, Zhao Yucheng's army quickly disintegrated and became independent.

Their army formation was scattered, and Su Yonglin's army formation was also scattered.

Su Jue was unable to control the army well in the chaos. Fortunately, the battle situation had been decided and the golden soldiers had already been defeated. These golden soldiers were unable to return to the sky and could not counterattack. Several rebels chased and killed one golden soldier.

In about two sticks of incense, the battle was over, the entire army of Jinbing was annihilated, and the few who surrendered were also killed—the rebels did not need any prisoners now.

After the battle, Su Yonglin looked at the chaotic infantry and sighed, feeling that he still had a lot to do, and the rebels still had a long way to go.

Fortunately, after defeating the town defense army, the remaining [-] villages are no longer a problem. Even if you push it all the way, you can practice the foot and riding tactics a few more times. After many battles, you can Familiarize the army with the formation in battle.

Real battlefield training must be better than pure training.

So the army continued to advance, conquering the Jinren villages one by one according to the established route.

The number of the rebels was absolutely dominant, and the Jinren village had no defenses. Su Yonglin and Zhao Yucheng led the cavalry to attack at a high speed. They broke through five villages in one morning.

It is unclear whether Su Yonglin is proficient in infantry formations, but for this reason, he is definitely proficient in the tactics of cavalry assault.

At noon, after a short rest, the army ate some food and regained some stamina, and went on to attack in the afternoon.

Su Yonglin originally thought that every battle that followed would be as smooth as the previous battles, and the army would not get much exercise if it went on smoothly like this.

But he did not expect that when they launched the attack in the afternoon, they encountered a village that had made some preparations.

I don't know where I heard the wind, but the village actually made some defensive preparations. They drove the farmers to block the entrance of the village with debris, set up many traps and refused horses, and surrounded the village, making Su Yonglin Already skilled cavalry shock tactics cannot be used.

This is interesting. It was the first time that he encountered a defensive village. Su Yonglin immediately ordered the entire army to stop advancing and form an array on the spot. The infantry was in the center, and the cavalry lined up on both sides of the infantry. stacked array.

"Uncle Yuting, these guys are ready, what should we do? Attack?"

"Let's attack, this is the first time we have encountered such a village. Wouldn't it be a pity not to fight? It's not good for us to always fight against the wind, and occasionally we should fight some difficult opponents, just to train the infantry. fight."

Su Yonglin clenched the knife in his hand: "Now is the chance to use the army formation! Yucheng, your subordinates have not practiced the army formation, so they spread out in all directions, surrounded this stockade, and gave the main attack to me, the trained one. troops."

Zhao Yucheng hesitated for a moment, nodded, and ordered the army to spread out into four parts, surrounded the village from a distance, and put on a posture of wanting them all to die, exerting psychological pressure on the golden men inside. .

Then Su Yonglin directed his army to form a formation.

The military formation trained by the Su Jiayi Army is the classic Song army stacked formation, the kind of military formation that has been proven to be more effective under the iron hooves of the northern cavalry.

There are generally two types of stacking formations. The stacking formations in the Hebei Plain area are dominated by spearmen and sword players, while in the Guanzhong area, the archers are the main players. The goal is to deal with the cavalry.

Generally speaking, the tall sword players in the front row line up as the first barrier, mainly responsible for withstanding the impact of heavy cavalry.

At the back, the shorter soldiers lined up with long spears.

They use the spear to assist the sword player, and use the spear to stab the heavy cavalry that rushes forward. While killing the cavalry and the warhorse, they can further reduce the impact of the heavy cavalry and make him stop.

Once the speed of the heavy cavalry rushing into the formation is slowed down, then the elite axemen with heavy axe and heavy armor are required to rush out of the army formation without fear of death, and wield a big axe to open unparalleled among the heavy cavalry group.

Once the heavy axe unit performs well, it can often bring huge damage to the heavy cavalry.

At the back are taller soldiers with bows and crossbows. They need to fire as much as possible before the cavalry approaches to reduce the speed of the enemy's impact.

There are a certain number of cavalry on both sides of the army formation.

Once the infantry withstood the impact and caused effective damage to the enemy's heavy cavalry, the entire army turned to the counter-offensive, and the cavalry attacked to make up for the damage that the infantry army could not expand due to its speed.

So in general, when there are a certain number of cavalry, the stacked formation is a kind of army formation that can be attacked and defended. It can be changed at any time according to the terrain and different types of enemy arms, and the degree of freedom is quite high.

Su Yonglin currently has the most pikemen in the formation, followed by sword players, and then crossbowmen—mainly because Su Yonglin doesn't have the time and conditions to train more bowmen, so he can only do it for a while.

Anyway, looking at the golden people in that village, there won't be too many capable soldiers, and what can be defended is not a city wall, but a wooden fence.

At most, there are some high arrow towers that can pose a threat to the rebels, but there are not too many bowmen standing on the arrow towers, and they can't play much defensive role.

According to Su Yonglin's rough estimate, there will not be more than 200 Jinren in the village participating in the battle.

So a small but decent offensive and defensive battle started.

(End of this chapter)