Chapter 1650: Bi Zaiyu was raided, a great victory in the first battle
Chapter 1650: Bi Zai encounters a surprise attack, a great victory in the first battle
When they met again, Shen Tang's order was to entangle the opponent's soldiers and horses, so he left two thousand soldiers and horses to guard the camp, and then led three thousand soldiers and horses out of the camp to meet the opponent.
Although he is a young general, he has participated in many battles with Shen Tang in the past two years. In addition, his subordinates are all elites from the Chengdu Prefecture, so he really has no fear when facing the Khitans.
"General, we found the opponent's vanguard battalion of 2,000 people ten miles ahead!"
Bi Zaiyu reined in his horse and asked, "Where is the opponent's central army!"
"It's still twenty or thirty miles away!"
"At the speed of the war horses, I'm afraid their central army can catch up in two-quarters of an hour. However, they need to organize the army and maintain the strength of the war horses, so it is impossible to charge with all their strength. In this way, we will have at least half an hour!"
Bi Zaiyu squinted his eyes and planned for a moment, then suddenly shouted, "The armies will charge with my general, with my general and his bodyguard as the vanguard, and the two armies as the flanks. After piercing the opponent's formation, they will counterattack. After that, regardless of victory or defeat, , everyone returns to the camp!"
"kill!"
"Control the speed, advance!"
As Bi Zaiyu's order was issued, the soldiers under his command first formed a formation and then suppressed the speed of the war horses and moved forward!
Not long after, Bi Zaiyu saw the oncoming Khitan cavalry on the hill in front! And the opponent's scouting horse had obviously discovered the Song army a long time ago, so the lineup was also neat!
Both Bi Zaiyu and the other vanguard generals are veterans of the battlefield, and their soldiers are also elite. Therefore, the two sides are like two dark clouds, slowly approaching! When the distance between the two sides is only about four to five hundred steps, , Bi Zaiyu shouted, "Prepare your bow, speed up!"
The war horse gallops, and the knight presses the arrow on the bowstring and prepares to go!
Almost instantly, both sides had only two or three hundred steps left!
Bi Zaiyu controlled the horse while secretly calculating the charging distance. Not long after, he suddenly shouted, "Shoot!"
Brush! Brush! Brush! Black arrows rise into the sky!
At the same time, the opponent's arrow rain also shrouded in the direction of the Song Dynasty soldiers and horses!
In an instant, arrows rained down, and people on both sides were hit by arrows and fell from their horses. However, this did not disrupt the charging formation, and the charging speed of the horses also became a little faster.
The knight shot two or three arrows at an extremely fast speed, and the distance between the two sides was only dozens of steps!
Bi Zaiyu ordered again, "Change the spear!"
In ancient times, cavalry rarely used swords when fighting. Swords have a short attack range, but long weapons can exert greater power on horses, such as spears and lances.
Of course, Ma Shu is also a very powerful horse weapon! Just like what Bi Zaiyu is holding now, it is Ma Shu!
This horse handle is about ten feet long, with a sharp blade of about five or six feet at the end. This sharp blade can stab and chop, and is extremely lethal! The wooden handle is not a simple bamboo, but a trunk of high-quality tough wood. Peel it into strips of uniform thickness (like a bamboo craftsman!), then repeatedly soak them in tung oil and dry them in the sun. Finally, take out the bamboo strips and dry them in the shade. Then glue the bamboo strips with high-quality glue, wrap the outer layer with hemp rope and tie it up again. After drying in the shade, apply raw lacquer and wrap it in several layers of kudzu cloth.
It is no exaggeration to say that this wooden handle is tougher than ordinary iron tools, and it will not break even if it is chopped with a sword!
Moreover, the wooden handle made in this way is light and convenient for users to move.
It takes several years to make the most sophisticated horse poles, so ordinary soldiers cannot use them at all. Only high-level generals or generals from aristocratic families can use them. Even if ordinary soldiers use horse poles, they only use rough wooden poles instead.
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The weapons of the Khitans are also mainly long weapons, most of them are heavy weapons such as long knives, and there are also some extremely lethal heavy weapons such as sledgehammers and maces!
Seeing the Song army's charging formation, the Khitan general was not stupid. He immediately ordered his troops to divide into two groups, bypassing the Song army's vanguard and directly charging the left and right wings!
"The right wing shrinks and moves closer to the left wing, directly cutting off their right wing!"
While giving the order, Bi Zaiyu slightly adjusted the horse's head and killed directly towards the middle of the opponent's right wing.
The two sides were already close, and the other side had no time to change its formation. Bi Zaiyu cut the Khitan's right wing into two sections in the middle. The subsequent soldiers and horses merged into one and dispersed the opponent's hundreds of soldiers and horses horizontally, leaving only one or two hundred people from the Song Dynasty.
Escaped from the military formation!
Later, Bi Zaiyu led his personal guards as arrows, and directly led the army to swing its tail like a divine dragon and once again charged into the rear of the Khitans!
After the Song army changed their formation, the Khitan left-wing troops and horses came over in unison, but the remaining half of the right-wing troops and horses were in disarray. After the Song army rushed into the enemy like a giant python, it killed hundreds of Khitan soldiers.
Ma, then he did not want to fight anymore and retreated directly while the enemy troops were getting into formation.
This battle lasted less than half an hour in total. However, the Khitan vanguard army lost seven to eight hundred soldiers and horses, while the Song army suffered only one to two hundred casualties. By the time the Song army completely disappeared,
, the Khitan general just came back to his senses.
The Khitan general gritted his teeth, and then ordered, "Close the battlefield, retreat and join the general!"
He only had more than a thousand soldiers left. If the opponent came again, they would all be destroyed here! Moreover, with the opponent's speed, the main camp would not have time to support him, so he had no choice but to retreat first.
Moreover, the combat power of the Song army was obviously much higher than they expected, and he wanted to take this news back to Yeluqi.
After returning to the camp, Bi Zaiyu felt refreshed. After dismounting, he threw the horse directly to the guards and led the camp's lieutenant general towards the Chinese army's tent.
This battle was not large in scale, but it was very satisfying, and it could be regarded as a successful first battle. Although some scattered Xia Liao soldiers and horses had been cleared before, they were obviously not as elite as this army.
"Go and report back to the commander immediately!"
After entering the big tent, Bi Zai met the personal guards from the direction.
A general stood up and said, "General, the commander-in-chief's order was for us to entangle this Khitan army. Now that we have won a great victory, will it ruin the commander-in-chief's plan?"
Bi Zaiyu grinned, "This... the commander-in-chief didn't let us pretend to be defeated. It was just a battle. The Khitan soldiers and horses are not our opponents, so it's no wonder that we are not?"
"Well... let me tell you, Commander-in-Chief, that we encountered the opponent's vanguard troops and fought a battle. Both sides suffered damage! Now the opponent's vanguard camp will retreat for the time being..."
After the soldiers left, the happy expression on Bi Zaiyu's face faded, and he said seriously to the generals in the camp, "Although we won a great victory in today's battle, the other side obviously cannot be underestimated! At least, these Khitan people