Under the night sky, the battlefield looks like a huge grinding wheel.
Horse hooves galloped, circling on the chaotic and vast battlefield. The horse teams were like torrents passing through, dividing the originally dense formation of the Wu Dynasty army. In the dots of fire, blood and corpses spread out, and the fields were covered with blood.
There were broken troops fleeing, but there were also organized teams of various sizes fighting fiercely. When the Jurchen cavalry charged past, they were scattered one by one, and what appeared in front of them was almost a large-scale massacre.
Wu Sheng's army, which originally guarded Daming Mansion, was torn in half under the first charge of the Jurchen cavalry. After the frontal charging Jingcai smashed the army's frontal resistance, each one numbered thousands.
The cavalry launched attacks from all directions, crushing the resistance of this army of up to 60,000 people at an astonishing high speed.
For the soldiers of the Wu Dynasty, everything in front of them can only be called tragic. On the huge battlefield where tens of thousands of people gathered, there were people everywhere, and the Jurchens' attack was forced in. No matter who it was,
, after encountering this scene, they first felt unbelievable, and then felt overwhelming fear, shaken military morale, great panic, panic, hysterical shouts and screams around them, and the Jurchen cavalry charged over, and the people around them stayed away.
, crowded each other, and then were smashed into pieces by the horses rushing in front of them, and their bodies were chopped into pieces. On this battlefield full of people everywhere, no matter where these cavalry went, they would set off a shocking mountain of corpses and bloody waves.
Chen Yanshu, the commander of Wu Sheng's army, was fleeing for his life. Just now, the Jurchen cavalry broke through the guard of his own soldiers and almost handed the blade to his eyes. Two arrows shot at him.
On the armor - this Jurchen team came to kill them in a targeted manner. What they wanted to take was the head of his army commander.
When the Jurchen cavalry appeared in front of the army formation, Chen Yanshu still thought about taking advantage of the sea of ​​people to give it a try. When the serial horses with dozens of riders and dozens of riders crazily attacked the front formation, he did not think about it.
Retreat. However, everything went too fast.
If infantry is fighting against cavalry, a tough battle relies on an airtight, crowded formation. When thousands of people are squeezed into one large mass, the front formation cannot escape. The rear formation moves forward bravely, forming a huge formation, and the cavalry can't escape.
A human wall that cannot be broken through. However, it is the same thing. When the threat of death appears, the front line of the queue will subconsciously want to avoid and retreat. If the entire army is regarded as a whole, bravery is better than cowardice.
The degree of strength determines whether the formation is strong or not.
The Jurchen charging team quickly smashed this sea of ​​​​people. The flying flesh and blood would be shocking even to the generals who have experienced battles. One of the two thousand people's cavalry tore through the sea of ​​​​people and rushed straight to the banner of Wu Shengjun.
There, Chen Yanshu tried to use the elite of the army to block this "powerless" cavalry. However, the sea of ​​​​blood that was set off earlier seemed to only stimulate the fierceness of the Jurchens. They resisted attacks from all directions. At the same time, they moved towards Chen Yanshu's
The soldiers came in frantically from the formation.
In other words, they were killing everything they could touch from all directions while still advancing rapidly.
Chen Yanshu's soldiers resisted for a moment. The huge pressure caused them heavy casualties, and Chen Yanshu was frightened. When someone fired arrows at him in the chaos, he began to retreat quickly, and at the same time mobilized other troops in the army to move forward.
Come here and block his attack.
After such mobilization, the entire army began to fall into chaos. The killings of the Jurchens crushed everything under the night sky, and the control of the entire Wu Sheng army had failed. Gradually, they fought independently, and the teams on the edge began to flee crazily.
The soldiers in the battle formation were either fighting fiercely or moving in under the leadership of mid-level officers, but massacre had become the main theme of the entire battlefield. With so many people, it was too convenient to massacre...
More than ten miles away from here, the Wuwei Army has also been scattered and crushed. On the battlefield nearby is the Jin Kingdom general Sai La. A group of Jurchen cavalry rushed in and out, killing every Wu Dynasty soldier with a distinctive mark.
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On the hills, the large army that could not run was chased by a cavalry of about a thousand people and massacred one after another. Large areas of broken troops rushed into the nearby woods, but the Jurchen cavalry surrounded and circled at the edge of the woods, and then attacked in all directions.
The fire started to be lit. It was late autumn and early winter, and the weather was dry. After a while, a large number of open fires began to burn brightly, lighting up the entire forest. In a nearby river valley, nearly three thousand Wu Dynasty soldiers were slaughtered and forced into the river.
. Soon the Jurchens began to shoot arrows into the river, and the whole river surface was dyed red with blood.
Ten miles south of here, the battlefield of Wu Rui Camp was equally tragic. Its collapse speed was slower than that of Wu Sheng and Wu Wei armies, but the chain of horses also shattered the resistance of the infantry team and had cut the entire battlefield into several pieces.
Big chunk. Both inside and outside the battlefield, the morale of the army was also collapsing, and less than half of the troops had begun to break up and flee.
A Jurchen cavalry team of about a thousand people circled and swept past the disintegrating crowd at the edge of the battlefield.
On this huge battlefield, Ning Yi could no longer find Qin Shaoqian's position. Soon after the battle began, he took the two thousand most precious cavalrymen of Wurui Camp and rushed towards the Jurchens. But no matter how important this team was to Wurui Camp,
How valuable it is. First of all, the war horses of the Wu Dynasty are not as good as the Jurchens' war horses. Secondly, the quality of the Wu Dynasty's cavalry is also much worse than that of the Jurchen cavalry in front of them. This cavalry confrontation was extremely fierce, and the casualties were also quite heavy.
Seeing the battle ahead collapse, and several Jurchen cavalry rushing here from different directions, frankly speaking, Ning Yi wanted to leave. The position he was in at this time was surrounded by fields, and he couldn't find anything he could occupy.
In a high place, and surrounded by various armies, if his convoy tried to make a big move, everyone would start blowing up the camp and fleeing.
While in Qixian County, Ning Yi had communicated with Qin Shaoqian about the use of elm cannons. If there was a large army to support them, they would choose a narrow strip and face the enemy head-on. They should have good damage to the Jurchen cavalry. Even if the terrain is not good,
, if there is a large army to support, the artillery array placed in the front, higher, can also play a lot of roles, but the cooperation of the army is indispensable. But at the moment, even if the artillery array is placed on the flat ground, he does not know what to do.
Facing which way.
Their original plan when they went over this time was to fight the Jurchens near Moutuogang - either Yao Pingzhong succeeded in hijacking the camp, and more than 100,000 troops just happened to outflank the Jurchen army, and captured the enemy in one fell swoop; or Yao Pingzhong failed, and more than 100,000 troops
The army gathered together and set up a battle formation to fight openly with the Jurchens. However, before they arrived, the Jurchens came over, and even the scouts did not have much advance information.
Qin Shaoqian realized this. He also realized that Ning Yi's elm cannon might not be effective, so he let him make his own decisions. If things couldn't be done, run away quickly. However, Ning Yi didn't want to be the first to collapse.
More than 300 people under Yue Fei have gathered. Under the training of this young general, the formation of more than 300 people has been well trained. But they are still nervous and uneasy, and all the soldiers have some fear on their faces. Ning Yi also has some
The lineup of more than 300 people are all the elites of Zhuji. Those who followed Ning Yi to Luliang Mountain are all here. Although they are not in a dense formation with a large number of infantry versus cavalry, the eyes of most of them are,
There is no fear at all.
Of course, some technical staff are still afraid.
Standing on the top of the carriage, Ning Yi was actually scared as he watched the front line of massacre gradually spread towards this side. The Jurchen chain horse, and even the later heavy cavalry iron pagoda. In later legends, Yue Fei used to cut off the horse's legs.
There are many ways to deal with them. However, during this period of time, after Ning Yi got to know them a little bit, he knew that the focus was not on killing the horse's legs at all...
When a war horse rushes over, cut off the horse's legs. It is common knowledge for all people who have experienced battles. Only in legends, it will become a "secret book". Because the focus is not on such a simple matter.
The key point is, when more than a dozen war horses are sweeping in like later tanks, how can the soldiers in the front line calmly, efficiently and accurately deliver their swords and guns to the horses' legs.
Even if they were hit, there was a 90% chance that these soldiers would be killed.
It may take countless simple and boring trainings, a high degree of strict discipline, and the tempering of war before it is possible to train such soldiers. And after having them, what they need to do is to exchange lives with war horses.
, this can really make it possible for the infantry to have the power to fight the cavalry. At present, the more than 300 people trained by the young general not far away are far from such quality. As militiamen,
They were armed, they just didn't break down and run away.
Just now when the Jurchens began to charge into the formation, Ning Yi stood on the roof of the car and watched. Thousands of Jurchens' cavalry rushed into the formation with an astonishing momentum. The front line of Wurui Battalion also acted as a tenacious resistance. However, these thousands of cavalry were really damaged.
I'm afraid there are only more than a hundred or two hundred knights. The three cheers arranged by Qin Shaoqian boosted morale. However, at the front of the team, only morale can only make people swing their swords feverishly, and they even don't know that they are cutting.
What happened was that when the Jurchens' charge broke through the array for the first time, their casualties plummeted.
The battle cry spread, and the wave of Jurchen killings extended everywhere in the field of vision. Orders for nearby troops to advance were also issued quickly - most of the people near Ning Yi were scattered soldiers who came from all directions.
The soldiers, some of whom were still brave, started to fight towards the front under the leadership of the generals around them. Some of them started to escape. The Jurchen cavalry had been coming here to kill. The number seemed to be hundreds or even thousands. There was panic.
The commotion became more obvious around them. Then, more broken troops spread around like a tide, and many people began to flee.
In front, Yue Fei was holding a steel gun and watching all this indifferently.
Zhu Biao, who had returned, came to the back of the carriage and looked around: "Do we want to help enforce military law?"
Among Zhuji's guards, there were many who were watching all this with frowns. Many people who practiced martial arts were brave and brave. When they saw such a battle, they would not hesitate to step forward and fight. They also couldn't bear to see these people fleeing without fighting.
. But Ning Yi still shook his head: "We have to leave later. We were defeated too quickly. There are hundreds of us, so there is no point in stopping them."
Zhu Biao was silent for a moment: "Our artillery array cannot be moved."
In such a crowded and chaotic place, even if they were really open, a volley of fire would only kill their own people.
The night sky was noisy, flames spread dots, the cavalry swept across the battlefield, setting off waves of blood, and large swaths of death and serious injuries appeared in front of them. It was an indescribable scene. Ning Yi stood on the carriage and clenched his hands.
This was the first time he had experienced such a huge war and such a huge defeat after coming to Wu Dynasty. He had experienced many things in his life, but experiencing such a scene was another matter. At this moment, he wanted to lead
When people rushed forward, they wanted to open up the elm artillery formation and give the Jurchens a head-on blow, but in their hearts, even if they mobilized all their brain power to calculate, it was meaningless. In the front, Qin Shaoqian and the others were still fighting, because they had to fight.
, if you don’t fight hard at this time, you will lose even the last chance of escape.
Another cavalry group of about a thousand people came around from the side and arrived near the battlefield.
The Jurchen general who led this cavalry was named Sukna. As the cavalry slowed down slightly, he was also observing the situation on the battlefield...
"It's time to go." Ning Yi said, and then raised his hands towards the nearby Zhuji people, "I know you want to rush up, but while there is still a chance, we have to... escape back to Qixian. First go to the side
Let’s go, don’t go too fast…”
Even if the carriage moved slowly, it still caused crowding. Fortunately, Ning Yi chose not to escape the route at this time, and it did not cause everyone to swarm and collapse. Not far away, the Jurchen general Sukna stretched out his finger: "There, the people of the Wu Dynasty are
The convoy must have all kinds of luggage and equipment. Come with me! It belongs to us!"
"Wow--" A wave of shouts arose among the Jurchen cavalry, and then the cavalry rushed in and rushed into the panicking crowd.
The cavalry entered the battle formation, setting off a wave of blood, followed by another wave of rout and flight. The distance was more than 200 meters, and through the thick crowd, Ning Yi looked over there.
"It's coming towards us." Zhu Biao turned his horse's head and gestured around.
"Trouble..." Ning Yi frowned and murmured, "Continue to move and prepare for war."
Not far away, Yue Fei, who also discovered the situation, began to move his team. Here, the convoy was still moving sideways, and all the good warriors in the Bamboo Chronicles had gathered. A fierce battle was taking place on the battlefield further away, with the Jurchen cavalry fighting fiercely.
The team came like a torrent, and soon after the entire wilderness fell into the Shura Field, Ning Yi and others fell into this vast battle and became a part of it.
Chapter completed!