Chapter 714 The decisive battle
Just as Wanyan Huo's daughter was shot to death by Xiao Yangyoujieyuan with an arrow, almost all the Jin army, who were originally responsible for the vigilance, launched an attack on the long front of fifty miles from Taihang Mountain to the Yellow River.
Wanyanzhe's mother was in charge in the north.
His subordinate Jin Wushu attacked Zongze, Dachang attacked Yao Youzhong, and Chizhanhui attacked Gao Shidan, but the three generals were unable to break through the Song army's defense line.
This line of defense is too thick.
After gathering up his defeated subordinates, Zong Ze still listed the four defense lines with Qinghua as the core. Each defense line was in front of the horse-resisting formation. The last two defense lines were supported by a large number of people who came spontaneously, and even dug a trench. Because as the most important link of the defense line, the task he got was to defend and knew that his troops had the worst combat power, he simply set up a formation that could be said to be blocked and blocked the most important road for the Jin army.
The two armies of Yao Youzhong and Gao Shidan in the south were actually large arrays of brigades.
This is how they fight according to the organization.
Each army has three second lines and two, and five square formations form two defense lines. Moreover, because the defense zone is small, the two armies are actually directly connected into a whole. The first line is six second lines and four. The distance between all square formations just exceeds the effective armor-breaking range of the Divine Arm Bow, which avoids accidental injury, but the attacker must bear the crossbow arrows behind it. On the front of the front line, there are densely resisting horses. The Jin army will have to be assaulted on the front, and the flanking attack will be blocked. Even if it rushes through the pinch with speed, it will still be blocked by the square formation behind. The latter actually acts as a reserve. These square formations are not small. In fact, each square formation has four thousand people, and the three square formations stretch more than one mile, and they can form formations and move at any time. It is difficult for cavalry to have good results in attacking such square formations.
This is actually a modified version of the hollow square array.
However, the long-range attacks were carried out from cannons to bed crossbows and crossbows, while the flintlocks originally turned into divine arm bows, but the characters who mainly fight on the front line, like grey animals fighting hand-to-hand combat are spearmen and halberds with heavy armor similar to the Swiss phalanx.
This is not entirely Yang Feng's invention.
The battle of the Song army itself was roughly the same. In the later period, Wang De defeated the Jin army with ten thousand battle axes in Zhegao. Han Shizhong's troops also used a large number of halberds of similar purposes, and Yue Fei's troops also had dense formations and lengthened short battle axe divine arm bow as the core.
Cold weapons wars often end up with the same fate.
European iron canned food and the Great Song Blade Armor, European steel crossbow and Song army's god-arm bow, European war halberd and Song army's big axe and oar knife, and even war hammers and flails end up with the same destination. The appearance of weapons may be different, but the uses are the same. The peak of cold weapons is nothing more than heavy armor, and then breaking the heavy armor. However, it was much later that the European war evolved to this point, and when the European battlefield evolved to the peak of cold weapons, it had reached the era of gunpowder weapons showing its power.
Yang Feng just made it a little bit ahead of time, and at the same time systematically and systematically, making the accumulation of personal experience of the generals a set of common tactics, and also gave the soldiers a little bit of faith plug-in.
But that's enough.
The brave and tenacious soldiers, dense formations, and coordinated square formations form a quagmire that makes the cavalry desperate. Whether it is frontal attack, flank attack, or even cavalry interspersed, they fall into this quagmire and then become the war of attrition that the cavalry least wants to do, allowing the precious cavalry to even be equipped with cavalry to consume each other with the infantry cannon fodder.
In the end, Wanyan Jiemu could not make any breakthrough in the three ways.
After the death of Wanyan Huo's woman in the middle lane, her morale was depressed and she also lost hope of breaking through Han Shizhong's defense line.
In fact, there was an active attack from the Song army.
Because there is not only Han Shizhong there, but also Zhang Jun.
The death of Wanyan Huo Nu has caused the morale of Zhang Jun's troops to soar. They are old subordinates of the Zong Shizhong. At the beginning, they were defeated by Wanyan Huo Nu. This time they were avenged. And they were actually based on the Qin River to form an array on the south side of Han Shizhong. Because the Qin River has entered the flood season, the skyrocketing river water blocks the flanks. Zhang Jun, who has not encountered the attack of the Jin army, chose to take the initiative to attack, line up along the right bank of the Qin River and threaten the Jin army from the flanks. The Qin River penetrates diagonally. His advance is actually compressing the entire battlefield on the north bank of the Qin River and squeezing the Jin army to the north step by step.
He was not alone.
Behind him is Liu Guangshi, who is actually the North Shore battlefield reserve team.
At this time, the entire battlefield was divided into two parts: north and south.
The separation between the Qin River is the Qin River. The north bank of the Qin River is Zong Ze, Yao Youzhong, Gao Shidan, Han Shizhong, and Zhang Jun. Liu Guangshi led his troops as the reserve team of this battlefield to provide reinforcements everywhere at any time, but in fact he was almost pressured, because he could be sure that the Jin army could not rush out.
So he simply joined in the counterattack.
By the way, his father is the second assistant and the boss of the military general system, and he must make contributions.
The Jin army south of Qin Henan is actually Loso or Wanyan Loushi.
He took 20,000 guards to the east to warn the Song army, but at this time he had been blocked by Liu Qi, Liu Guangguo, Zhang Zhongfen, the son of Zhang Shuye, and the three elite troops of the Imperial Camp. At the same time, Li Yanxian's cavalry on the south bank had also crossed the river by boat, but there was a Huaizhou floating bridge connecting Luosuo and the battlefield on the north bank.
Huaizhou is still controlled by them.
This city was already the core of the battlefield. Loso was lined up with the city behind him to prevent the Song army from heading north through the floating bridge to attack the north shore.
The coalition of Zhang Jun and Liu Guangshi advanced forward. Once it blocked the bridge, Loso would be cut out. The only river crossing channel left was nearly fifty miles from Huaizhou in the upper reaches of Qin River. At this time, Li Yanxian's troops were attacking the tail of the main force of the Jin army. His and Wang Yan's coalition forces recovered Mengzhou yesterday. If he avoided Huaizhou and went directly north from the flank, the river crossing channel in the north would be cut off, and Loso would become a lonely army and be destroyed under the siege of nearly 100,000 Song army.
Wanyan Jiemu, who understood the danger, immediately led nearly 20,000 Jin troops south to fight Zhang Jun and Liu Guangshi.
As for Nianhan, he had already gone to Tianjing Pass to supervise the battle at this time. After all, this is the easiest and most effective way to break the situation.
North bank of Qin River.
The sound of horse hooves like tsunamis and tides surged, and thousands of troops rolled up dust and covered the sky with dust covering the clouds.
"Stay!"
Zhang Jun rode his horse in front of the formation and shouted.
Although he has a bad reputation, it must be understood that his name is not all about water, but is mainly based on dry goods. At this moment, he led a total of 30,000 troops, including Wang Yuan and Miao Fu's troops. He himself commanded the central army, the Tianshizhong of the Left Army, and the Right Army was Miao Fu's younger brother Miao Yi, but in fact he was Miao Fu who made meritorious contributions.
Behind his formation is Liu Guangshi's 20,000 people.
These include the three thousand core cavalry of their Liu family. These three thousand are truly elite soldiers and are all soldiers from their hometown of northern Shaanxi. However, Liu Guangshi is not the real commander. As we all know, this famous general of Zhongxing is truly a handful of water, but he has a real powerful general under his command.
King De and Yasha.
Zhang Jun, who was reading the formation himself, quickly turned his horse and retreated into the formation. Behind him, the Jin army vanguard was equipped with cavalry and rushed towards him, and the target was the first to rush straight to his right army.
"The escapee is killed!"
Miao Fu, who was waiting for his crime to be committed, roared with a ferocious face.
Because he was actively attacking, his formation did not resist horses in front of him, but as Zhao Gou's most confidant general, his subordinates had the largest number of equipment. Just as the torrent of the Jin army's cavalry entered within ten feet, nearly a thousand three-eyed guns in front of his formation were densely spewed out flames. The scene of the volcanic eruption and the horrifying sound made the Jin army's war horses stop, and continued to slide forward with inertia amid the dense attacks of the projectiles, and then hit the Song army's spear and shield.
Miao Fu roared.
Then he held up a knife and walked forward.
A soldier next to him ignited the fuse of the three-eyed gun at the same time, and the flames ejected instantly. Because the distance was too close, it almost sprayed on the face of a Jin cavalry opposite. Before the latter could wake up from the fright, Miao Fu's oar cut off his head.
The general leads the army and has a very strong driving effect on the soldiers.
Although he was a military officer who was a condemned and made meritorious, his 8,000 subordinates had always followed him. In history, he had a mutiny that made Zhao Jiumei unhumane. These people followed them loyally. While he cut off the head of the Jin army, under the cover of the three-eyed gun, Song Jun's swordsman rushed forward, wielding the oar swords and battled the axe and even the bone flails, and fighting with the Jin army cavalry that was rushing to the front.
Miao Fu, who knew his future and his life, even the future of the Miao family, really fought hard.
This generation of generals, great-grandfather resisted Li Yuanhao and died in Linzhou. The ancestor and father two generations of Hehuang who opened the border for the Song Dynasty. However, he became a traitor. He roared wildly and waved the heavy oar knife. He slashed fiercely in a chaotic bloody battle, constantly chopping down one Jin army after another. Behind him, even the three-eyed gunmen joined the battle, swinging this thing as a hammer. Behind them, the divine arm archers and archers even had several bowl-mouth guns, all of which were constantly shooting.
The bloody melee here began like this.
At the same time, another Jin army, led by Han Chang, was also attacking Zhang Jun's left army.
Then……
"God blesses the big gold!"
Han Chang shouted excitedly.
He actually rushed away the Song army, and the commander of the Song army left army, who was responsible for his side, only supported the first wave of the Jin army's attack. When the second wave of attack formation was a little chaotic, he was the first to escape. The commander's escape immediately caused the soldiers to escape.
This scene left Han Chang dumbfounded.
This rare Han general in the Jin army looked at this scene in disbelief. Just when the Jin army was in a tough battle on all fronts, he actually opened the breakthrough. At this moment, he felt like a pie fell from the sky. He ordered the entire army to expand the results of the battle without hesitation.
And Zhang Jun was also stunned at this time.
"I'm going to chop him with my own hands!"
Chapter completed!