After Qiu Huiluo went down to the central army, the speed at which various orders were issued suddenly became much faster. In the gaps between the ranks of the army's march, messengers carrying brightly colored flags passed by one at a time, and another at another time.
There was a whooshing sound in the distance. A soldier next to Zhang Peng stopped subconsciously and reached for the shield hanging on his back. But the others were calm and kept walking. So he was followed behind.
The soldier pushed and staggered to catch up with his comrades in the same row.
Several people burst into laughter. Someone said: "Don't be cowardly. The ringing barrage is at least two miles away. It is probably the second team of Tatar sentries coming. Lao Kong, you raise your shield now, your arms will be tired after a while."
The soldier who was called Lao Kong blushed, and the veins on his forehead popped out, and argued, "Prepare in advance, don't call me a coward... Prepare in advance, just in case... This is battlefield experience, can you call me a coward?"
Cowardly?"
There were words that were difficult to understand one after another, such as "Don't rely on anything that won't come, rely on me to be ready", "Think carefully and be prepared, and be prepared for trouble" and so on. These caused everyone to burst into laughter; for a while, the queue was filled with people in several rows.
Cheerful air.
Lao Kong was a battle-hardened warrior and was certainly not afraid of the enemy. However, he had just passed the basic courses of the military academy before going on this expedition. He had a background in private school when he was young, and he remembered many items on the art of war described in the military academy.
Prison. Even if other soldiers have received the same training, few of them can quote it casually like him.
This habit of Lao Kong is often treated as a joke by the soldiers, but the battle is right in front of us, and it is not good to be too relaxed.
"Stop laughing." Zhang Peng shouted in a deep voice.
The queue immediately fell silent.
The officers who join the Forbidden Army from other ministries are usually demoted one level. Even an ordinary regular soldier will be a senior and meritorious corps commander when he is placed in the other ministries. Therefore, an ordinary officer's casual remarks may not necessarily be able to suppress the toughness of the Forbidden Army.
Death.
When Zhang Peng himself was first transferred to the Forbidden Army, he had to shout at the top of his lungs when giving orders. The attitude of the people under him was quite contemptuous, which could make Zhang Peng half angry to death.
But after all, Zhang Peng had made meritorious service in the army and had been promoted from the lowest level. He had already reached the rank of officer, and later he was transferred to the Forbidden Army and became a general again. He knew the routines in the army and the behavior of the soldiers very well.
mentality, so he quickly established authority in the army.
Zhang Peng slightly raised his voice and said: "The movements of the enemy's cavalry cannot be hidden from our colleagues on the hot air balloon. We just follow the orders. But Lao Kong said, be prepared before anything happens. That's right! None of you are afraid of the Mongols. This is very dangerous."
Okay, but if someone doesn’t take the war to heart, he will definitely suffer a big loss! Team A and Team B, stop laughing and hold the shields in your hands!"
"yes!"
Following his shout, the soldiers of teams A and B all turned their hands to take out their shields.
The officers and soldiers of Long Xiang's army are all well-equipped.
Because everyone is equipped with a horse, they can carry much more equipment when marching than on foot. Therefore, the wooden shields they carry are all covered with a thickened layer of iron. If they are lifted for a long time, their arms will really get tired.
The excellence of the equipment is not only reflected in the proportion and quality of the equipment itself, but also in the daily maintenance of the equipment by the soldiers.
For example, at this moment, almost all the shields held by the soldiers were painted with large black and yellow stripes intertwined. Some soldiers were more careful and painted according to the animal face on the shield surface, creating a clear tiger head.
appearance.
It is said that the war horses on the grassland have not received special training and are naturally very afraid of the black and yellow stripes. Therefore, when going north to fight on the grassland, the soldiers usually paint their shields like this. When they go south to fight with the Song people, the soldiers will paint their shields like this again.
Pay close attention to polishing the metal surface of the shield so that it shines brightly to resist the long-range aim of the Song archers.
Whether these methods are useful or not is hard to say. They were not listed in the textbooks during military training. However, veteran soldiers always have some small tricks that they firmly believe in, and then pass them around privately, and they become successful.
a habit common to all.
Just when the two columns of soldiers on the left and right took their shields, the sound of the firing was replaced by the sound of arrows piercing the sky. It can be seen that the probing of the sentry cavalry on both sides has turned into a fight between the light cavalry of the front team.
Zhang Peng was holding the horse and walking at the right front of his team. At this time, he got on the horse and stood up with his knees against the pommel bridge to watch.
He looked past the layers of flags and spears and saw a large group of Mongolian cavalry in front of them, wearing black or khaki leather robes.
Gao Xin and his subordinates dealt with him leisurely.
Sometimes, he led dozens of cavalry in a ring formation and rained arrows on the approaching Mongols. Sometimes, he gathered his men and suddenly rushed out to one side, catching the loose Mongolians off guard. When the Mongols retreated
When he was trying to open a distance and shoot, Gao Xin relied on the speed of his horse to rush and ravage the retreating cavalry. His guns were everywhere, and blood was everywhere.
A group of Mongolians who originally outflanked the Zhou army's cavalry saw that the middle of their column was attacked, and immediately turned their horses and roared back. They stared at the rear of a group of Zhou army's cavalry, and because they were biting tightly, they did not need to ride their bows.
, and throwing bulu, short knives, etc. cause damage.
The Zhou army's cavalry tactics originated from the Jurchen tradition of combining speed and slowness, and heavy cavalry assault. In recent years, the army has continuously summed up the experience of fighting the Mongols, and combined it with the expertise of the Hu tribe in the grassland.
At this time, the tactics displayed by the two families were very similar. Suddenly, it was like several flying snakes flying fast against the ground, intersecting and biting each other, and suddenly like clouds and mist, gathering and dispersing, constantly penetrating and entangled.
As the number of cavalry participating in the battle continued to increase, the battlefield suddenly spread to a radius of several miles, and people kept screaming and falling from their horses. Because the smoke and dust gradually rose, Zhang Peng was a little further away. Sometimes, just looking at the figures, he could not
Distinguish whether it was the Mongolian cavalry or the Zhou army cavalry that fell from the horse.
This kind of scene made Zhang Peng not know who to cheer for. He felt a little uncomfortable, so he got off the horse again.
"How is it?" The soldier next to him took the shield in his hand and asked while adjusting the leather ribbon.
Zhang Peng thought for a while and felt that his side's armor coverage rate was higher than that of the Mongols, and the armor was stronger, so there must be much fewer casualties.
He laughed twice and said: "At that time, I thought the Mongolian riding skills were like gods and ghosts, and they would make you breathless when you look at them from a distance. But now, it's nothing more than that."
The riding skills of the Mongols have been accumulated little by little on the grasslands since childhood, and they often have the advantage of crushing the knights of the Central Plains. In the early years of the battle between Mongolia and the Jin army, an elite Mongolian cavalry could chase dozens of Jin army cavalry and flee wildly.
This is of course because the Jin army is devastated, but also because the difference in strength of the immediate fight will be reflected in the moment of the confrontation.
Riding, archery, swordsmanship, physical strength, judgment, courage, etc., if any one of them is inferior, you will die immediately. And horses greatly negate the effect of numerical advantage. No matter how many weak people are piled up, they will only become the victims.
Slaughtered livestock.
The Mongols in front of them still maintained their specialties, but the speed at which the Zhou army's cavalry pursued them was beyond imagination.
The Zhou army's cavalry are either the best who have survived many years of brutal fighting, or they are selected from tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of people. They train much longer every day than ordinary infantry, and the training intensity is more intense.
It's terrifyingly high.
Such generous treatment and high status are not for nothing. Just from daily training, the cavalry of the Long Xiang Army will hear news of death almost every few days. And such training can train a Haner to be as good as
Are knights comparable to the Mongols?
The answer is yes!
No matter how powerful your riding skills, shooting skills or even the tricks and methods of responding to rescues on the battlefield are, there is a limit to how high you can reach them. A Mongolian who has been on horseback for more than ten years will never be able to compete with a Han'er who has been training for a year or two.
It is more than ten times better, just because the details are better polished, the technical essentials are more personal, and the movements are even smoother and the reaction is faster.
These can all be made up for by equipment and fighting spirit.
More importantly, to cultivate a Mongolian with excellent riding skills, time accumulation is indispensable. After the main Mongolian army marched westward, the number of warriors on the grassland was obviously at a critical point. However, the Zhou court wanted to cultivate qualified cavalry, but instead
Much easier.
There is no shortage of war horses in the Great Zhou Dynasty, there is no shortage of soldier base, and there is no shortage of investment in training and training. As for the mentality of the soldiers eager to make meritorious deeds, they are even more like wolves and tigers. At this time, fighting begins in the front, and more cavalry are gathering in the rear.
The sound of trumpets and the thundering of horses' hooves continued.
Zhang Peng and his companions heard the continuous roar from behind and turned around to look. They saw the shining armor of countless cavalrymen. The huge cavalry looked like waves rushing on the grassland, and every drop of water reflected the sunlight.
.
"Look, Tie Fu Tu is here too!"
Amidst the cheers of the infantry, the heavily armored Tiefutu lowered their visors one after another.
The messenger cavalry passed by the military formation again and again, shouting loudly: "Every unit does not stop! Press on! Press on!"
Zhang Peng raised his hand to indicate that the drummer following him began to beat according to the rhythm of the drum beat in the direction of the Chinese army. Amidst the drumming sound, roars came one after another from various queues not far away. However, the military formation remained strict.
, advancing slowly, as if the mountains are moving.
From the first moment they appeared on the battlefield, the Zhou army was constantly advancing. They adjusted their formations as they advanced, and prepared for battle as they advanced. They will put increasing pressure on the Mongols. The good actors on this stage
The drama has only just begun.
From the command position of the Chinese army, Qiu Huiluo suddenly said:
"Yesterday, after the meeting of the generals of the Chinese army, Sukhbalu asked to see His Majesty privately and made a suggestion. He said that our army might as well squeeze under the Usha Fort and confront the Mongols for several days. In the meantime, he could
We went out with our companions to win over the Thousand Households in the eastern part of the grassland, instigate reinforcements from the Western Regions, and persuade the spies sent by the other Thousand Households. Those people have no intention of fighting us head-on, and will be in chaos within a few days and will leave. Let's go again
Attacking can lead to the collapse of Belgutai's military force at the lowest cost."
Xiao Mo Le, Zhao Xuan, Zhang Shao, Tian Xiong and other generals exchanged glances with each other.
Tian Xiong frowned, feeling that doing so would be a waste of all the previous hard work in luring the enemy. He coughed lightly, and when he wanted to speak, Qiu Huiluo said: "Your Majesty refuses."
Everyone was refreshed: "What does your Majesty mean?"
"Your Majesty said that the planning techniques that should be used have already been used. We only need to act according to the predetermined battle plan. All ministries will enter the battlefield as soon as possible, launch the most direct attack, and cause the most violent damage! The grassland in front of us is the most violent
A good stage. We will crush Belgutai’s troops at once under the eyes of all parties; let them open their eyes and see clearly what the consequences of going against me, the Great Zhou!"
