Song Dynasty Cannon Fodder Counterattack Record

Chapter 224 Encounter ([-])

Baozhou is only more than 20 kilometers away from the Guangxin Army, and there is not even a big river in the middle. It is a flat river that is most suitable for large cavalry group sports.After Xia Xingmei ordered the troops and horses, she commanded the cavalry to move eastward first, circle around in a big circle and then turn westward.

Although the Liao Army has not fought the Song Army on a large scale for more than 40 years, the characteristics of the Song Army are still fresh in the memory.Everyone knows that once the Song army forms a supervisory formation, even the heavy cavalry Tielin army will not be able to break through, but will suffer serious injuries.In the sixth year of Xianping, during the Battle of Wangdu, Xiao Dalin sent his troops to attack the infantry formation of the Song Army. shoot dead.Although Xia Xingmei did not catch up with that war, she would not make such a mistake.

The Liao army's best ability to fight the Song army is to use the advantage of mobility to cut off the Song army's food road, or surround the Song army and torture it slowly, and wait for the Song army to have obvious loopholes before rushing to tear the Song army's group defense.It was also the battle of Wangdu. Xiao Darin plagiarized the Song army's grain transport team after he failed to defend the Song army hard, and attracted Song general Wang Jizhong to rescue him. He first separated Wang Jizhong from the Song army brigade and destroyed the overall defensive posture of the Song army. defeat.This is all the successful experience of the Liao army, and a senior general like Xia Xingmei naturally knows it well.

For the Liao army with a large number of horses, even if it goes around in a circle, the distance of more than 40 miles is reached in a blink of an eye, not to mention that the two armies are still facing each other.Even though he has been paying attention to saving horsepower, at about the end of the hour, the forwards of the Liao Army saw the Song Army Brigade from a distance.

The Liao army's banzima and the Song army's scouts fought together, covering up the Song army's reconnaissance.The Liao general Yelushu who led the leading cavalry saw that he was in the northwest of the tail of the Song army's marching team. He could clearly see the long line of hundreds of thousands of carts moving slowly, and there were only very thin lines on both sides. cavalry guard them.

For the Liao army cavalry, the unprepared and marching transport team was not only a gift but also fat. The surgeon couldn't help laughing loudly that the Song people had no combat experience.Several officers laughed and echoed the operator's point of view, and the operator sneered, raised his big banner, pointed at the slow-moving convoy and ordered: "Go! Take all Song Dog's luggage from me! Wu Gutu, you take People should restrain the Song People's Brigade and don't let them come to the rescue."

The officers immediately whistled and greeted their subordinates again and again, only Wu Gu seemed unsatisfied.There is no need to deliberately adjust the formation, a large group of cavalry rushed towards the Song Army brigade like arrows off the string.

The scouts of the Zhenwu Army saw a large number of cavalry rushing towards them suddenly. They whistled repeatedly in shock. Someone took out a loud arrow and shot it into the sky.

Guo Kui asked Li Buqi with bright eyes: "The Liao people want to attack the van. I wonder if the car camp can hold it?"

Li Buqi looked at the black cavalry in the distance and smiled: "You just watch it. Fight according to the plan we discussed in advance. This is only ten kilometers away from Baozhou. The Liao people are too impatient. Now I will go to Cheying to command , you command the formation.”

Guo Kui quickly agreed.The faceless Gao Zunyu facing Li Buqi waved his horsewhip: "Let's go, let's show the Liao people some color."

Following Li Buqi's order to blow the trumpet and raise the flag, the Song Army's formation began to change.The vanguard began to retreat gradually, the marching formation began to shrink, and the car battalion at the rear of the team also began to turn around, forming a formation, forming a circle before the Liao cavalry rushed.

The operator grinned with a big mouth, as if seeing that victory was imminent.In his eyes, the Song people reacted quickly, but they probably lost their minds. The carriages formed a huddled group, and they were separated from the infantry phalanx by more than an arrow's distance.Regardless of such a small distance, the cavalry can isolate the two parts of the Song army by virtue of their mobility, allowing the Song infantry to watch the supply team be killed.

Seeing a group of Song cavalry rushing out of the front group in a hurry, and thrusting towards the back of the rushing Liao army cavalry, as if they were going to encircle the Wei rescue Zhao rescue team, they couldn't help standing upright on the saddle.When I saw Wu Gutu leading a cavalry force similar in number to the Song army, I felt relieved and turned to look at the cavalry that was attacking the convoy.

The cavalry of the Liao army rushing to the front had already started throwing feather arrows with their horse bows, but none of the arrows in the circle of vehicles of the Song people shot out.This delighted the practitioner again—couldn't there be any escorting crossbowmen in the supply team of the Song people?That would be a one-sided massacre.

The Liao people who were approaching the convoy obviously also noticed this. Without the slightest hesitation, they continued to run towards the convoy, shooting feather arrows at the vehicle, howling, and more people had already pulled out their steel knives and Gu Duo, as long as the Song people's convoy was in chaos, they would control the horses to gallop through the gaps in the vehicles, harvesting lives with steel knives and Gu Duo.

The cavalry on both wings began to flash to both sides to outflank, but the cavalry who were attacking the convoy had to rein in their horses to slow down or try to turn around, because the Song convoy did not move at all, just lined up end to end , there is not even a gap in the middle, let alone rushing over on horseback, even jumping over on horseback is impossible.Moreover, facing the cold iron nails on the boards of their carriages, they felt that it would be extremely painful to hit them directly.

So the momentum of the impact suddenly slowed down, even a little chaotic.But at this moment, there was only a bang bang sound, and countless crossbow arrows shot out from the back of the carriage, splashing blood in the crowded cavalry.

The frontmost person of the Liao army cavalry was only 30 meters away from the Zhenwu army's vehicle.At this distance, the crossbow can directly penetrate the horse's body, and the javelin fired by the vehicle-mounted ballista can unstoppably split the bodies of a man and a horse. The mud ball fired by the ballista not only smashes the horse's head to pieces, but also More than a dozen stones and mud clods burst out, causing damage to the surrounding people and horses.

The operator stared dumbfounded at the sight of his subordinates turning over as if they had hit a wall, wailing all over the place.

The hundreds of cavalry who turned around from both sides were also unlucky. The crossbow arrows shot from behind the vehicle caught up with them, leaving dead bodies one after another.When they desperately leaned on the saddle and crossed the two "vehicle walls" and then turned their horses' heads to prepare to slash and kill, they found that there was still a "vehicle wall" in front of them, and they couldn't say anything.

At this time, we can see the style of Liao cavalry.Facing the situation where they could not break through, they did not hesitate to steer their horses away from the chariot formation without any delay.

The strong crossbows in the chariot formation rained arrows on the backs of these cavalry, leaving corpses of soldiers and horses on the retreat route of the Liao cavalry.

If there is no absolute certainty or huge benefits, the cavalry of the Liao Kingdom will not attack the solid army formation.This is a basic rule used by the cavalry of the Liao army.At this time, the operator naturally ordered: "Blow the horn! Tell them to withdraw!"

Although some clever Liao army cavalry had already begun to turn and leave, some people were still hesitating. At this moment, they heard the sound of the horn and quickly turned their horses.At this moment, two openings were suddenly opened in the chariot formation facing the direction of the practitioner, and two squadrons of cavalry rushed out from the two openings.

When the cavalry of the Liao army was in chaos, and completely lost their speed, if the opponent rushed to them, they would have almost no power to fight back.The magician who grew up on horseback naturally understood this truth, he couldn't help standing up straight again in shock, and put his hands on the awning to wait and see.

I saw that there were only 200 cavalry in the two squads at most, and they should have been the cavalry guarding both sides of the convoy at the beginning.At first they just started, just trotting, but the tall horses under their crotches quickly accelerated, running faster and faster towards the cavalry of the Liao army who had just started trotting.

Horses have the habit of "loving groups". When they see others of their own kind in front of them, they will desperately chase after them, and crash into the middle of the Liao army in a blink of an eye.Even if the five-meter-long spear of the police cavalry could not break through the iron armor of the Liao people at high speed, this heavy blow would knock the Liao people off their horses, and all the Liao army cavalry were turned on their backs.

This is not a question of who has the greater courage or who is more skillful in killing, it is purely a matter of physics.

In this high-speed running, although the number of Liao cavalry was two or three times larger than that of the two Song troops, they had no chance to turn around and fight under the pressure of the gleaming spears. scope.However, the police cavalry rode all tall horses bought in the Northwest, and their long-distance maneuvers might not be as good as the Mongolian horses ridden by the Liao army, but they were slightly better at short-distance sprints.Therefore, instead of being unable to shake off the Song Army, the cavalry of the Liao Army were chased wildly by the Song Army, and some people were killed by spears one after another.

(End of this chapter)