Song Dynasty Cannon Fodder Counterattack Record

Chapter 227 Triangular Nail

Xia Xingmei, who was watching the battle with squinted eyes, said to herself, "What are the people of Song Dynasty doing? Why is there no response? Is there any fraud in it?"

Before the words were finished, I saw that the momentum of the cavalry attacking from the flanks suddenly stopped, and the troops and horses were crowded together. At this time, the formation of the cavalry attacking from the front suddenly spread to both sides.As an old soldier, he knew immediately that something unexpected must have happened.

Li Buqi watched coldly as the head of the Liao cavalry stepped on the triangular nails and rolled on the snow, which became an obstacle for the following cavalry and tripped more horses.The riders behind did not dare to turn at this time, so they could only bite the bullet and step over, but the horse that was not tripped continued to run for a few steps, but suddenly fell down.

When more and more people and horses rolled on the snow, the Liao people behind realized that the people in front had got their way, rather than being shot down by the crossbow arrows of the Song people.But looking around, the front is flat, and nothing can be seen except the trampled Can Xue.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the cavalry on the two wings ran to both sides, trying to avoid the obstruction of something in front and continue to charge, but without exception, the horse stumbled and fell into the snow.

Unknown dangers are even more frightening.The cavalry on the two wings can change direction, and the riders wrapped in the formation can only rein in their horses.However, even if the cavalry who followed the front team charged saw that the situation ahead was wrong, some of them had no time to stop. Under a series of collisions, the formation of the Liao army was in a mess, and the men and horses were crowded together.

When he discovered that the Liao army had launched a real charge, Li Buqi ordered the retreat to stop.The three rows of crossbowmen shrank their distance and fired arrows like splashing water at the swarming cavalry. The police cavalry on both wings also got off their horses, took off their longbows and shot at infantry, splashing arrows.When the Liao cavalry is crowded together and unable to maneuver, it becomes the best target.The archer doesn't even need to aim, as long as he shoots an arrow, he will definitely hit an unlucky person, whether it is a man or a horse.

The twenty carriages parked behind Li Buqi also started to show their power.Although the power of the light catapults loaded on these carriages is not comparable to that used by the Tamna Island navy, the javelins fired weigh more than one kilogram, and the javelins are extravagantly polished into a streamlined shape to ensure that the javelins can fly farther. Penetrating power is stronger.Coupled with the fine steel tip, these javelins often penetrate a person's body at a distance of three to four hundred meters, and then go deep into a horse's body before stopping their progress.

The cavalry of the Liao Kingdom crowded in front of the triangular nail formation were exposed to the rain of arrows for a full 5 minutes before they evacuated and turned around and ran out of the range of the crossbow arrows.But it was the chaos of just one to two ten minutes that cost them a huge price. A nearly semicircular strip area was full of dead people, dead horses and dying wounded.Li Buqi estimated that the Liao people definitely left no less than a thousand cavalry in the three directions.

Seeing the Liao people running away, Li Buqi ordered to stop shooting.Some cavalry scouts began to jump off their horses and walk into the triangle spikes to harvest heads.Da Song counted military merits by head, and only when the head was brought back, the number of enemies killed would be real.

Li Buqi ordered the crossbowmen to step back.He believed that the Liao people had suffered this loss, and would never dare to try again casually.Of course, if the Liao people come here again so recklessly, he doesn't mind giving the Liao people some color.

He dropped 11 triangular nails at this place, and as long as the Liao people dared to gallop over, they would always step on one.Except for some of the iron triangular nails he brought, most of them are wooden and pottery triangular nails.These wooden triangular nails are painted with white paint, and the ceramic triangular nails are also covered with a thin layer of white glaze. The gray is almost the same color as the residual snow.He did not believe that the Liao people could easily break through this area full of triangular nails.

A Liao army officer who was sweating profusely ran back to his team. Before he could speak, Xia Xingmei asked, "What's going on?"

Liao people are not fools, they have already figured out the key points.The officer's eyes flickered with anger: "It's either a trap or a barbed caltrop. It seems that the Song people took the carriage to cover just now, and dug a trap or laid a barbed caltrop behind."

"Song people are really cunning!" Xia Xingmei was calm and just said something casually.After thinking for a while, he said, "Li Buqi started to retreat, right? Someone cleared the barbed wire and filled up the trap. I'll pass through there later and rush again."

As a veteran, he has seen many victories and defeats. Although he will not be indifferent to the loss of 2000 troops, he will never take it too seriously.The loss is irreparable, and it is useless to get annoyed now. Think about how to eat up the Song people cleanly.

This is a field battle. Even if the people of Song Dynasty dug traps and sprinkled triangular nails, it was impossible to take care of all directions.He now hopes that the cavalry attacking from both sides can infiltrate between the Song people's convoy and the main formation, and separate the two, so that the Song people's broken troops can be killed first, and the morale of the Song people can be broken. It will be much easier to fight the Song Army's main formation.

Li Buqi retreated quickly, because the Liao cavalry came around from the place where the triangular nails were not scattered on the two wings, and were attacking the convoy.He handed over the official cap to the attendant at the side, took the helmet and put it on.Gao Zunyu was so nervous that he couldn't speak fluently: "Brother, you, do you want, dear, to go to battle in person?"

Li Buqi chuckled and said, "I don't need it now. It's just that the sword has no eyes, just in case."

After speaking, he ordered the blowing of the trumpet to attack.I saw the cavalry from Baozhou and Gaoyangguan rushing towards the Liao army in a neat formation.

Now the convoy moving towards the two wings has become a two-way column, with one column on the left and one column on the right. In each vehicle, there are four archers from Baozhou who are constantly shooting arrows at the Liao cavalry rushing up.Some vehicles had ballistas and torsion catapults, and they also threw javelins and mud balls at the Liao army.

The discipline of the crossbowmen in Baozhou is far worse than that of the Zhenwu Army. The Liao people started to shoot arrows when they were far away, and when they were shooting arrows, they panicked and couldn't shoot accurately, which gave the Liao people an opportunity.Many Liao cavalry rushed to the van, but they encountered difficulties-where should they cut?
The high carriage boards block the people behind them tightly, even if the mace is smashed there, it is useless; the horses pulling the carriages also cover their whole bodies with rattan barriers, only their legs are exposed, unless they jump off the horses, the legs of the horses will not be exposed. Can't cut it.This is so hard.

What's even worse is that Song people's cars are connected end to end. I don't know if the car can be knocked away by riding a horse at full speed, but the person on the horse will definitely be killed or injured if he hits it. There was a long carbine waiting for them to hit it.Therefore, the Liao cavalry had to rein in their horses and slow down.But once the speed is lost, such a tall target is the best target for a crossbowman.With just such a pause, many people were shot off their horses.

The Liao army tried to avoid head-on reckless fighting from top to bottom. When the Liao army saw that there was no chance of succeeding in the front, it quickly went around to the rear of the convoy.But when I turned around and looked dumbfounded, there was no opportunity to take advantage of it.Those with a quick mind immediately broke away from the attack and only circled around and shot with bows and arrows in an attempt to disrupt the convoy, while others turned to attack the infantry of the Song army.

In fact, as long as the formation of the Song army is verified, there are enough arrows, there is no shortage of food and grass, and there are no mistakes in command, they will not be afraid to defend the Liao army cavalry head-on.This is proven by decades of war.How could such a shrewd person as Guo Kui not understand?When the cavalry of the Liao army broke into the gap between the back line and the main formation, he ordered the main formation to stop advancing, and the infantry phalanx in the rear row immediately turned back, and a burst of crossbows caused the Liao people to drop many dead bodies and wounded Escape the range of the crossbow.

But when these hundreds of cavalry turned their heads, they saw the convoys on both sides moving forward slowly and firmly. Seeing that they were about to close up with the infantry, the crossbows and crossbows had cut off the follow-up cavalry.From the north, the wave-like cavalry had already leveled their lances and rushed towards them, while the Song army infantry from the south also squeezed their spears - they were surrounded on all sides!
(End of this chapter)