At the beginning of the Jin Dynasty, Zheng Jurchen was used as an elite armored army. The men and horses were all wearing iron armor, and they were called the Hard Army. In every battle, the Hard Army was used as the vanguard to break out of the formation.
If the enemy's army is weak, the cavalry will break through it with one charge; if the enemy's army is strong, the cavalry will constantly reorganize their formation, continuously attack the enemy's formation, advance and retreat, disperse and regroup, and even attack hundreds of times in a row, finally defeating the strong enemy.
Record.
However, the strength of the Jurchens only lasted twenty years.
As the Jurchens moved to the Central Plains in large numbers, many households indulged in a parasitic life and were idle, and the quality of the Jurchen cavalry declined rapidly. When King Hailing was around, there was a saying among the Song people in the Southern Dynasty: "Enemy soldiers
Yi Yu, ten out of ten are no match for one or two tribes."
The so-called enemy soldiers in the Song Dynasty refer to the Jurchens, while the so-called tribes refer to the increasing number of Khitans, Bohai people, Xi people and even Wanggu cavalry among the Jin army. They are known as the Yi army and the Chi army in the court.
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Are those alien cavalry really fierce? Not necessarily so.
For example, the Khitan cavalry are notorious for being light and unorganized, and are shameless in their defeat. They can only have the patience to charge once on the battlefield. If they fail once, they will be immediately dispersed. The Bohai and Xi people are even more weak than the Khitan people.
In the past few years, the scale of the war between the Jin Kingdom and Mongolia has continued to expand. From the grasslands north of the boundary trench to the Central Plains and inland, fighting between Mongolian cavalry and Jin Army cavalry broke out everywhere. After thousands of fights, the Jin Army cavalry
In the eyes of the Mongols, there are no secrets.
"At this moment, the leader of the enemy army must have thought that he could defeat us with just one or two outflanks. Just like that day at Wushabao, Badger's Mouth, the Mongolian army was moving in and out, but our army would be the first to flee.
, the soldiers followed, completely ignoring the orders of the golden drum. As a result, hundreds of thousands of people were chased and killed by the Mongolian cavalry, just like cutting grass. But..."
Having said this, Guo Ning put up a pergola with his hands and looked from a distance.
The sun was getting more and more dazzling. Directly ahead, the Mongolian cavalry had crossed the shoal.
Because they had to make a bend along the riverbank along the way, bypassing wetlands and reed swamps, the distance between the Mongolian cavalry and the plains in front of Ya'er Village where Guo Ning and others were stationed was still more than two miles.
This is a very suitable distance for cavalry to sprint.
Hundreds of Mongolian knights at the front began to gallop their horses. As the horses galloped faster, the sound of dense iron hoofs on the ground became more and more intensive, turning into a rolling tide without interruption, like roiling water waves along the river.
Sweeping in.
The terrain in the Tangbo area is complex and changeable, and the area available for troop deployment is narrow, which is not suitable for large-scale forward and retreat outflanking by the cavalry. However, because of this, the momentum of the cavalry galloping becomes more and more magnificent.
Before the men and horses arrived, the smoke from the horses' hooves arrived first with the wind, rolling and flying, choking people.
Guo Ning coughed twice and continued the original topic: "However, the Mongolian army in front of us is different from the elite Mongolian troops who chased us and fought to the death. And we are no longer the scattered sand that we were back then."
The enemy cavalry was getting closer and closer, and many soldiers stood up in stirrups on their horses, ready to fight. Several of them shouted sternly: "Please give me the order!"
"Wait a moment."
The Mongols still used the same tactics.
Well-equipped heavy cavalry followed, and light cavalry armed with bows and arrows took the lead.
Looking around, he saw that among the hundreds of knights, many of them had their leather jackets wrapped around their waists, with their dark upper bodies naked, and their hair disheveled like ghosts. As they galloped, they made heart-stopping high-pitched roars. Guo Ning often
I feel that the oncoming force of these light cavalry is like a swarm of furious wasps.
Although wasps are small, they are very poisonous and can sting people to death.
In many battles inside and outside the boundary trenches, the Mongolian light cavalry relied on repeated shooting, feints and penetrations to disrupt the Jin army's strict formation. If it were not a persevering army and only feinted several times, the Mongolian light cavalry would have failed.
Defeated in battle.
And if the Jin army dispatched its own cavalry to drive away the Mongolian light cavalry, the Mongolian heavy cavalry, which was better equipped and better at attacking and fighting, would quickly come out to defeat the Jin army's cavalry.
Fortunately, Guo Ning has seen this scene too many times.
The Mongolian cavalry came and went like the wind, and there was a commander with superior military skills who responded to the situation on the battlefield. To outsiders, it seemed that everything was changing, and our side was completely caught off guard and had no control.
However, no matter how sophisticated the tactics are, they boil down to a few main principles. A veteran like Guo Ning has seen too much and has escaped death too many times. As long as he is not stupid,
The rules can always be extracted slowly.
In previous years, no matter how much such veteran soldiers knew, they would never be promoted to the position of general. In the eyes of the big shots at the top, what do mere soldiers know? It is serious to go to the battlefield to lay down the blade of a knife.
But Guo Ning's army is different. He himself is a veteran soldier who serves as a frontline soldier. The backbones of his army are the last of hundreds of thousands of troops inside and outside the Jiehao Great Wall, and even in the three important border towns of Chang, Huan and Fu.
of retention.
Guo Ning and others understand the Mongolian army's tactics just as the Mongolian army understands the Jin army's habits.
But what the Mongolian army didn't know was that what they were facing was not an ordinary Jin army!
The Jurchens have long since lost the fierceness of their cavalry charge, and have become a laughing stock in the eyes of the Mongols. But with this fierceness, this ferocious energy that can survive hundreds of battles, Guo Ning and his men are full of
!Who doesn’t dare to ride and charge to kill?
"Since there is no frontal ejection, it can be seen that the bows and arrows they are equipped with are of different specifications, and they have to approach the side in order to fire the arrows uniformly. So... do you think the Mongols will go to the left or to the right?" Under the deafening sound of hoofbeats,
Guo Ning asked.
Several people replied at the same time: "It must go to the right and outflank our left wing!"
The light cavalry galloped and fired on the battlefield, and it seemed that their marching routes were ever-changing. In fact, once the cavalry met the enemy, every time they changed directions, they would most likely go to the right.
Because except for a few good hands, most knights hold the bow with their left hand and draw the string with their right hand. On horseback, they can shoot to the left freely, but it is difficult to shoot the arrow to the right.
Especially in the battle between the two armies, the Mongols were covered by the first wave of arrows, and they strived to kill quickly, accurately, ruthlessly, and intensively. Therefore, the cavalry's only option was to move to the right.
Guo Ning nodded.
"Li Erlang's troops stay here and guard the flag of our formation."
"yes!"
"Others..." Guo Ning suddenly raised his spirits and shouted loudly: "Do you dare to fight?"
Behind him, two hundred selected armored knights responded loudly: "Dare!"
Guo Ning reached out and took out the iron gun: "Then follow me!"
Two hundred cavalry rode at the same time with murderous intent.
They followed Guo Ning, not heading straight towards the enemy's cavalry, but straight towards their own left flank.
Guo Ning's control over the changes in the cavalry's movements and the direction of the advance all came from the accumulation of battles. At this time, it seems quite brilliant. It is not simply fast or slow, but precise grasping.
The Mongolian light cavalry slightly adjusted their rhythm and prepared for the moment when they would open their bows and shoot.
At this time, the Mongolian light cavalry was only two hundred steps away from Guo Ning's position. In such a hurry, they had no time to change direction, let alone rein in their horses.
As soon as the armored knights pushed their horses to the extreme speed, the two teams collided. Among the Mongolians, only the more alert ones immediately switched to swords and guns. Many people did not react at all, and even
He also subconsciously fired a round of arrows in the direction of the military formation at the back!
The arrows were still flying crookedly in the air. Guo Ning, with his two hundred iron cavalry, wedged himself deeply into the queue of Mongolian light cavalry. His momentum was like a giant swinging a heavy sword and ax to chop down dead wood.
The Mongolian army had more troops and greater momentum, but at this moment, when its front light cavalry was performing its tactics step by step, it was hit hard by Guo Ning.
This is a decisive blow that has been prepared for a long time and uses the strong to bully the weak!
The next moment, the horses collided and neighed, the knights screamed, and the swords collided with each other, until the sound of chopping flesh and bones was heard one after another. Everyone in the cavalry, every horse, and their entire field of vision were splashed by the wielding swords and guns.
Occupied by the blood of.
The cavalry were trapped in the formation, with momentum like a rainbow, but Guo Ning was still at the forefront, and his heroic posture made the soldiers in the formation shake their spirits.
"Damn, this guy Guo Liulang is really..." Li Ting stared at it for a long time, feeling his mouth was dry.
He smacked his lips, spat two mouthfuls of Obito's saliva, then looked around and said seriously: "Actually, I can do it too!"
Behind the military formation, Wanyan Congjiamu was dumbfounded and only murmured: "This... this is the iron pagoda!"
