Qiming 1158

Chapter 687 Liu Si is dead
Ma Hongxing issued an order to charge the Ming army surprise troops, and his cavalry roared out.

They rushed straight towards the Song army they encountered, avoided the army formation under the Song army, dispersed, and took advantage of the cavalry to surround the Song army formation from a distance, making it impossible to escape.

Realizing that he was surrounded, Liu Si was shocked.

He did not expect that this Ming army would be so decisive, and that the number of cavalry was so large and its action was so fast that it quickly completed the encirclement of his troops and cut off his retreat.

broken!

Liu Si's heart was beating wildly.

The terrain in this area is flat, and it was originally a prosperous agricultural area. After the flood of the Yellow River, it was gradually abandoned and a lot of weeds grew. However, these weeds are obviously not enough for the infantry to fight against the cavalry. Instead, it will become an excellent place for the cavalry to surround the infantry .

The cavalry of the Ming army was numerous and powerful, one person and two horses, and they were extremely mobile. They formed a circle from afar to surround the Song army. The besieged Song army was suddenly in a dilemma and seemed to have nowhere to go.

However, Liu Si is not a coward, he also has his own military capabilities.

Riding with steps is a compulsory course for every Song army general. No matter how well you learn this class or how many credits you can get, you must learn it. You must master the relevant knowledge. Whether it can be used, at least you need to know.

For example, when facing the cavalry, the infantry must not lose the army formation. This is the premise of using the foot to control the cavalry.

So Liu Si quickly formed the army, and quickly organized the shooting of the bowmen to stop the enemy, trying to use the range advantage of the infantry bow to the cavalry bow to resist the sprint of the Ming army cavalry, opened a safe distance, and then slowly drove the Song army to the front. Move back and gradually retreat to an area suitable for infantry fighting, in order to achieve the purpose of letting the Song army out of the predicament.

To achieve this goal, the infantry needs to be well trained and the generals are good at commanding. Liu Si has both, so he has a certain confidence that he can lead the army out of trouble and leave here.

However, the Ming army's siege tactics were very skilled. The large army hung far away from the outside, and dispatched a small group of cavalry to pretend to attack, but avoided the Song army in time.

After a morning siege, the Ming cavalry suffered a slight loss, and the Song army also suffered a slight loss, but the overall situation remained unchanged.

It is worth noting that Ma Hongxing personally led the troops on the way of the Song army's retreat. Once the Song army tried to retreat slowly to achieve the strategic hope of breaking the shackles, Ma Hongxing led the cavalry to attack, and repeatedly attacked the Song army. Don't let him succeed.

Liu Si organized several retreating operations of the Song army, but was always blocked by the charge of the Ming army's cavalry. He failed to retreat many times. and morale.

Liu Si was in a state of impatience, watching Song Jun try to retreat but could not help, watching the infantry's physical strength was greatly exhausted, but there was nothing to do.

The Ming army had a large number of cavalry, and one person had two horses. One horse was tired and replaced with another. One group of people was tired and replaced with another group of people. They took turns resting and attacking, and always maintained a state of oppression. The physical strength of people and horses was reduced. got saved.

However, the strength and efficiency of this oppressive situation made the soldiers of the Song army have to maintain a high degree of tension, not slack, and even more difficult to relax, rest, and eat. They must maintain formation, fight, and shoot to ensure the safety of the army formation.

This is very physically exhausting for soldiers.

Liu Si originally planned to make a sneak attack. The rations he carried with the army were not large, and the drinking water was very limited. Even if he could keep fighting, the soldiers would not be able to support him for long.

No matter how much he thinks about tactics and executes them, Liu Si cannot lead the Song army to escape successfully.

After all, he is not Yue Fei who can take the army to beat Tiefu Tu, his ability is always limited.

So the balance of victory gradually tilted.

The military formation is like a big hedgehog, but when the Song Army infantry as the prey is exhausted, it is the time when the Ming Army cavalry as the hunter starts hunting.

At about two or three o'clock in the afternoon, the soldiers of the Song army finally couldn't hold it any longer. Their physical strength and spirit collapsed. The southeast corner was repeatedly probed and charged by the Ming army's cavalry.

A Ming army cavalry was overjoyed, and immediately rushed into the army formation of the Song army to rampage.

The time has come!

When Ma Hongxing discovered this gratifying situation, he immediately ordered more cavalry to rush in and tried his best to tear up the Song army.

Taking this as a fulcrum, the Ming army's iron cavalry successfully tore apart the Song army's army formation, and more and more Ming army cavalry entered the Song army's formation. The morale of the soldiers also collapsed.

Song Bing, who had lost the army formation, was as weak and weak as a newborn lamb in the face of the Ming cavalry, unable to resist at all, and could not successfully counter it.

And so the horrific massacre began.

The soldiers of the Song army scattered one after another and scrambled to flee. No matter how Liu Bian beat the drum or tried to gather the defeated soldiers, it was of no avail. The collapse of morale caused by the collapse of the army was irreversible.

A large number of Song soldiers were killed on the spot by Ming army cavalry, with blood all over the floor, and more Song soldiers howled loudly, rushing to flee, ignoring the call and order of the main general.

Once the feudal army collapses, it is basically irreversible. No matter how strict the military order is, at this time, escape is the only way to survive.

Liu Si realized that the defeat was inevitable. Although he was deeply saddened and angry, he was helpless. He could only lead a hundred guards around him to escape on horseback and prepare to leave here. Xu Tu held out.

But now, it is not easy to escape.

The Song army had been surrounded for a long time, especially on their way back, there were Ming army cavalry waiting early, wanting to leave here unscathed, I am afraid it would be a fantasy.

Liu Si also discovered that when he was about to leave with his personal guards, he was strongly blocked by the Ming army and attacked by the routed soldiers who did not distinguish between the enemy and the enemy. As a last resort, Liu Si and his personal guards could only talk to themselves People are fighting, while fighting with the Ming army.

The cavalry of the Ming army was brave, skilled and well-trained, and they attacked the enemy without mercy, and they attacked very hard.

Liu Si's personal soldiers were of course elite, but after all, they were limited in number. After a charge and battle, they failed to advance much. The personal guards had already lost more than half of them, and the situation was in critical condition.

Liu Si led the guard cavalry left and right to rush to the right and could not defeat the Ming army cavalry. Shoot arrows at him.

He was stunned for a moment, and an arrow was inserted into his eye socket like a ghost, piercing his head.

Liu Si's body swayed, and he fell off his horse and died.

Just died on the battlefield.

Seeing the death of the main general, his personal soldiers were extremely grieved and indignant. They shouted and launched a death charge against the Ming army.

After that, it was only two sticks of incense sticks. At sunset, the Song army was completely defeated. The Song soldiers who had tried to escape also gave up their escape, dropped their weapons, knelt on the ground, and surrendered to the Ming army.

It was the service, and the Ming army completely wiped out the Song army of the surprise troops.

In terms of the results of the battle, the Ming army cavalry slaughtered more than [-] Song soldiers, and all the rest were captured.

Through a quick interrogation of the captured Song officers, Ma Hongxing learned that the purpose of this Song army was to surprise the rear of the Ming army, cut off the Ming army's food route, and try to further trap the Ming army in Huainan, and then the entire Song army was encircled, trying to completely wipe out the Ming army. military.

I have to say that they have great courage, great ideas, and correct tactics. If they really let them destroy the Ming army's food supply, destroy the logistics base in Huainan and the pontoon bridge on the Huai River, it will really hit the Ming army on the front line. will be very large.

However, it was a very coincidence. The Ming army planned to cut off the Song army's back road, and the Song army also planned to bring such a guy to the Ming army's back road. When everyone met, they had to compare their heads.

Obviously, the head of the Ming army was even more iron, and the head of the Song army was smashed.

So when Ma Hongxing learned the specific news, he sent someone to report to Zhouzhi, and at the same time decided to immediately lead the troops to continue the detour, outflank the back road of the Song army, and prepared to compress the two Song troops together and eat them in one bite.

(End of this chapter)