If you want to say that artillery completely changed the rules of war in Song, Jin and Xia, you are exaggerating.

Although the Tiger Crouching Cannon is very powerful, it is a solid bullet.

A solid bullet is just an iron ball.

If a cannon is fired and hits the opposite side, it will not explode.

Therefore, the damage range is extremely limited.

Moreover, due to accuracy issues, the killing range has been further reduced, so low that people in the 21st century want to flip the table when they see it: This is impossible! The author is obviously too good! I am invincible in the Song Dynasty!

Just say that if they faced the bombardment head-on at such a close range, the number of cavalrymen directly killed by the bombardment would not exceed 30.

More importantly, it had a considerable impact on the formation of the cavalry.

You must know that cavalry requires group action on the battlefield to maintain scale effects and cause effective damage.

The most important thing in group actions is order. Once the order is disrupted, let alone attacking the other party, consider protecting yourself first.

This was the case for the Jin Army at this time.

Guaizima originally planned to rely on its high mobility to roam back and forth within fifty meters and harass the Song army with bows, arrows and crossbows.

After all, the hit rate of moving objects is reduced, and the kidnapping horse has iron armor for defense.

As long as the harassment can be continued, the Song army can be exhausted.

But the Jin army did not expect that the Song army directly used such a terrifying weapon.

After dozens of war horses were broken on the spot, the Jin army, which was in chaos, was already panicking.

They came with great force and retreated in disgrace.

Tens of meters away, those Jin soldiers who died tragically were covered in blood and flesh, and their horses fell to the ground and let out weak whines.

There were soldiers lying in a pool of blood, shouting miserably: "Help me..."

No one paid attention to them. Their own people were in a hurry to retreat, and the enemy was even less likely to come to their aid.

The Jin army's harassment tactics failed.

In other words, they were shocked, and the other Jin Army officers also turned pale with surprise.

After the defeated troops in front retreated, they asked in turn: "What's going on?"

But no one answered his question. Many people didn't know what happened in front of them. They just knew that there was a loud noise and the team in front was in chaos.

In the chaos, more people followed those in front and retreated.

That Bali Hai was already dead. After asking for a long time, he found out that the Song Army had developed a new weapon, which was extremely powerful.

This time the conversion was a bit confusing.

He followed Jin Wushu on his expeditions to the north and south, and he had seen the big scenes countless times.

The kidnapper's horse harassing the infantry was an extremely skilled tactic for him.

As long as the opponent has no cavalry, the cavalry can tire the infantry through repeated harassment, causing the enemy's morale to collapse.

But today, it was really the first time that I was beaten back after a face-to-face meeting.

The damage was not serious, but the fear of these people was the most terrifying thing.

Fenghe temporarily stopped the attack on the Song army and immediately called all Meng'an and Mouke together to discuss.

There are two types of opinions at the scene.

One is that although the new weapons of the Song Army are powerful, their damage range is limited. As long as the charging interval of the war horses is enlarged and the formation is paid attention to, the problem will not be particularly big.

Others believe that if the Song Army can come up with new weapons, there must be other new weapons. This is very dangerous. We were sent by Marshal Zuo to test. There is no need to fight with the Song Army here and wait for the large army to arrive.

Then clean them up one by one.

The two sides were unable to reach a consensus of opinion for a while, and were unwilling to withdraw their troops.

After all, there are three thousand cavalry, and the opponent only has two thousand infantry.

After resting for a night, the next day we started the second round of attack.

In this second round of attack, tactics and numbers have been adjusted.

The first is tactics.

The distance between the kidnappers and the kidnappers was as wide as fifteen meters, and even thirty to forty meters in front and back.

As for the number of people, two thousand cavalry were dispatched directly.

And they only lined up in rows, stretched out two long lines, and rushed towards the Song Army's circular formation in front.

In line with the principle of not gathering and talking less, the Jin army began their second attack.

During the second attack, the impact area caused by the Song army's artillery was indeed reduced a lot.

After the Jin Army's two lines approached the Song Army, they slowly began to turn into arcs and began to surround the Song Army's circular formation.

When the distance was reduced to less than fifty meters, both sides began to shoot intensively with bows, arrows and crossbows.

After shooting, the Guaizi horse circled around to avoid the rain of arrows from the Song army.

In this way, the two sides started a confrontation in this area.

The Jin army would also send some cavalry to charge nearby from time to time to intimidate the Song army.

The artillery of the Song Army also fired at the Guaizi Horse Group from time to time. Even if some horses were not shot, it would cause local panic.

The two sides faced off like this, and this confrontation lasted for several days.

In such a situation, the infantry will easily tire.

You can only sleep in the same place, and even when you sleep, you have to change your sleep, for fear of the enemy sneak attack.

Just think about it, a person is already very tired just by standing there for half an hour.

Not to mention standing there with armor on all day, finally taking a break at night and having to stand again the next day.

When a person is tired, it will be difficult to maintain high energy unless he lies down and takes a good rest.

This is the standard tactic used by ancient cavalry against infantry formations.

After the infantry became tired, the cavalry began to make a tentative frontal attack. Once the infantry defense was found to be weakened, the general immediately launched a large-scale cavalry frontal attack.

Don’t these generals like Guo Hao, who have followed Wu Jie through hundreds of battles, not know?

Of course he knows!

Not only did he know that the Song army was tired, he also knew that the Jin army was addicted.

In the process of constantly tiring the Song army, he saw the hope of victory.

Guo Hao collected the information just sent, with a smile on his face.

He looked back at the three thousand cavalry who had assembled and said: "Let's go!"

On July 20, the fifth day of the attack on the Song army's infantry, a detachment of cavalry launched a frontal attack on the Song army.

This frontal attack directly opened a gap. It was the pikemen who restrained the cavalry from behind and saved the day.

Both sides lost a number of people.

"General, do you want to increase the number of troops?" Meng An said with a clear voice, "Now the Song army is exhausted, and we almost broke through their defense just now."

Zhehe smiled and said: "Don't worry, it will take two days at most. After two days, we will launch a fierce attack and the Song army will be defeated!"

On the evening of July 20th, Guo Hao's cavalry marched a hundred miles in one day and completed a difficult detour south of Yinshan Mountain.

But at this time, he was still eighty miles away from the battlefield.

After a short pause, Guo Hao continued on his way through the night.

Early in the morning on July 21st, the cavalry of the Song Army, traveling under starry night, arrived at the rear of the Jin Army without anyone noticing.
Chapter completed!