Being bitten by the Donglu cavalry, Lin Fu led dozens of cavalry guards to join the fourth battalion led by Zhao Qingshan.
The Wei River, Ji River, and Yellow River in the north of Jinan are all flat, and the fields that deviate from the main road are also frozen solid by the severe cold, and their impact on the march is far less than the snowstorm at this time.
After leaving Jinan, the Jiangdong Left Army marched across the vast wilderness in the order of left wing, right wing, left wing, right wing, and central army. Each army on the left wing, right wing, left wing, and right wing had two posts and more than 400 horses.
The infantry was scattered on the four wings, with the Chinese army as the main force. There were seven sentry horse infantry and more than 1,600 people from the engineering and supply battalion in the center and marched along the avenue.
The armies were filled with elite scouts. In addition to communicating with each other, they also prevented a small number of Donglu outposts from penetrating into the inner lines and discovering the main force of the Jiangdong Left Army hidden in the middle.
For the march north, not only were they fully prepared in terms of materials, Lin Fu, Cao Ziang, Lin Mengde and others studied the marching method for a long time, the route was also carefully selected, and various plans were drawn up for various situations that might be encountered.
The military attaches were trained and the soldiers were fully mobilized.
In the early stage, Lin Fu sent the Jiangdong Left Army to resolutely block the Donglu sentry cavalry outside Jinan Prefecture. In addition to training troops and boosting the morale of the Jinan defenders, the most important thing was to confuse the Donglu. The more determined the Jinan Prefecture showed its will to resist, the more the Donglu were
The less the cavalry dared to deploy on a large scale, which reduced resistance for them to cross diagonally from the east of Pingyuan Prefecture. When Lin Fu fought in Jinan Prefecture, not only did he not raise the flag of the Jiangdong Left Army, break camp and march north, before crossing to Yannan, he also
There is no intention to raise the flag of the Jiangdong Left Army.
Zhao Qingshan led the fourth battalion of two sentinel horse infantry who were already in formation and ready for battle.
Lin Fu dismounted from his horse, his face hurt from the snow particles. He walked to Zhao Qingshan and watched dozens of Donglu Rangers crossing in front of the formation, going forward and back, left and right, shooting arrows and clashing.
Farther away were three hundred Donglu elite cavalry standing like a mountain in the snowstorm. The cold wind as fierce as a knife and the snow particles like falling pebbles did not weaken their spirits at all.
"This cavalry is tougher than the sentry cavalry that entered the outskirts of Jinan Prefecture for reconnaissance before. After testing for a while, they did not make a move. It was unclear whether they were going to attack or waiting for the cavalry behind to join up..." Zhao Qingshan said from the corner of his mouth.
Biting a withered grass stem, he watched Lin Fu come over, spit out the chewed grass roots, gathered up his big cloak to keep out the cold, and said to Lin Fu.
"By retreating, you can lure them into action," Lin Fu said. "I have ordered Ning Zechen to lead the fifth battalion to cover your left wing or attack the enemy cavalry from the left wing. After no more enemy cavalry appears,
The two of you must hold back this enemy cavalry and not allow them to penetrate inside..."
"That's enough..." Zhao Qingshan said.
Nowadays, the Three Prefectures of Yannan have become the inner line for the invading Donglu, but this does not mean that the Donglu have completely controlled the three Yannan Prefectures. There are still many strongholds scattered on the Hebei Plain that have not been fully occupied by the Donglu.
Local powerful men, rural soldiers, and officers and soldiers who were maimed but had no time to escape occupied these barriers and waited for reinforcements.
The rural soldiers guarding the countryside and the rural nobles guarding their homes have a much more determined and tenacious fighting spirit than the town army in the city.
Donglu's invasion this time was aimed at plundering, so naturally he would not use too many casualties to attack these powerful barriers. He would just cut off the connections between these barriers to ensure that they would not become a serious threat to their internal lines.
Similarly, the Donglu troops are not strong enough to block all roads in and out of Yannan. They will not mind a small group of officers and soldiers infiltrating the Yannan area for reconnaissance. However, the Donglu will not allow the main force of organic officers and soldiers to penetrate into Yannan and directly threaten Yannan.
to its inner line.
Lin Fu and the others first wanted to hide their intention to penetrate into Yannan, and the other was to avoid exposing the main force to the eyes of the Donglu outposts as much as possible. This was also the basis for Lin Fu to integrate the seven sentinels, horse infantry and engineering battalions into the central army.
The reason is that it is also necessary to avoid direct exposure of the Chinese army to the enemy cavalry as much as possible.
"If you can't resist, then spread out to the right wing..." Lin Fu pressed Zhao Qingshan's shoulder without putting too much pressure on him.
"There are these two good things," Zhao Qingshan said, placing his hand on the three-bow bed crossbow beside him, "I can hold it."
Lin Fu smiled. The cavalry charged, and the three-bow crossbow had time to fire an arrow. However, he was not worried about not being able to defeat the cavalry in front of him. However, once the fourth battalion could not resist the pressure and retreated to the right wing, he wanted to let
The main force of the Chinese army came out to meet the enemy. They could not completely wipe out the cavalry. As long as one fish slipped through the net and escaped, it would be difficult to conceal their intention to penetrate from Pingyuan Mansion to Yannan. They could only lead the Jiangdong left army to retreat south.
In Pingyuan Mansion, it was too close to the main force of the Donglu cavalry. It was only a hundred or two hundred miles away, and the enemy cavalry could catch up with them in a day. At this time, Lin Fu could not risk the entire army's destruction and forcefully pass through.
In addition to the scouts and auxiliary troops, Zhao Qingshan led two sentinel cavalry infantry on the left, with a total of six teams. The main infantry formed in formation on the left and right, and a small number of cavalry gathered at the side and rear.
Lin Fu got on his horse and sat on the horse to watch Zhao Qingshan directing the battle. Ning Zechen's troops had already approached from the left wing and were not exposed yet.
Zhao Qingshan's horses galloped forward and backward to supervise the battle, causing the infantry of the two capital teams in front to retreat, making a cross-retreating posture to the south, luring the enemy's cavalry to attack.
Lin Fu sat on the horse and squinted at the north. As expected, the enemy cavalry couldn't let the piece of fat around his mouth escape. He walked slowly at first, and then started to lift at four or five hundred paces. The horse's hooves kicked and splashed the snow.
, in a blizzard, it was like a hail of arrows shot in the storm.
When the enemy cavalry reaches 300 steps, the two crossbows with the longest range will shoot first.
Two crossbow arrows as thick as giant spears were shot straight out, hitting two horses head-on. You could almost see the blood splashing from the arrows and the horses' chests. After being hit, the two horses screamed loudly and struggled to fall down.
A cloud of snow splashed up. One person's thigh was nailed to the horse's body by a crossbow arrow, and he was pinned under the horse. The other person jumped up quickly, and then a rider picked him up by the waist, and the two rode together.
The moment the two horses at the front were shot and fell to the ground, the cavalry behind quickly and skillfully divided into two groups to avoid them, and the formation was not scattered.
Lin Fu took a deep breath when he saw the enemy's superb riding skills. This was definitely the most elite fighting force of Donglu. Zhao Qingshan and the fourth battalion might not be able to resist it alone. He hurriedly ordered the guards on his left and right: "Send a message to Ning
Zechen leads his troops to advance from the left wing!"
The two guards rode their horses, turned around and dived into the wind and snow, and ran to the right wing to deliver the order.
"Don't mess up your position. You must shoot the crossbows in sequence. I will go to the right wing to cover you..." Lin Fu ordered Zhao Qingshan. He took off the hand crossbow from under the saddle and rode to the right with dozens of guards to strengthen the fourth battalion.
Right wing.
The three-bow bed crossbow was very slow to load, and it had no time to shoot two arrows. After shooting the first arrow, it had to be dragged to the back to reload. The enemy cavalry assaulted to 200 steps, and at this time, the crossbow was set up between the high shield and the flying contradiction car.
Pulling the string of the machine, I saw the top ten cavalry soldiers pulling their horses sideways when the crossbows hit them. They quickly folded their bodies and hid behind the saddles. The powerful crossbows could only hit the horses.
, occasionally shooting the Eastern captive cavalry in the thigh.
Lin Fu looked grim as he watched the enemy cavalry neutralize the first wave of crossbow arrows at the expense of only a dozen horses. The dozens of horses hit by crossbows scattered to the wings, either fell down or died.
Neighing in pain, most of the cavalrymen on horseback were uninjured. After falling off their horses, they abandoned their bows and drew their swords and charged forward; the charging formation of the enemy cavalry was not greatly affected.
The enemy cavalry sprinted to within a hundred paces, and the crossbows and step bows formed a dense rain of arrows. However, the enemy cavalry in the front could effectively hide their saddles to dodge the arrows, and even fired back the arrows when the horse's head ducked.
His arrows were accurate and powerful. They penetrated through the gaps in the high shield and killed several people.
In the blink of an eye, the armored soldiers of the most advanced Sandu team were fighting against the enemy's cavalry. Zhao Qingshan personally led a group of armored soldiers with shields and spears, and Mo Dao attacked the enemy's cavalry from the left to reduce the impact of the infantry on the front.
Under the pressure, the armored soldiers on the right wing also rushed forward. Lin Fu led his bodyguard, relying on the armored soldiers on the right wing, and used crossbows and arrows to shoot at the enemy cavalry...
Na Yan didn't know which army the Southern Dynasty soldiers in front of him belonged to. He hadn't seen the flag of this Southern Dynasty soldiers until now, but he had long seen that this Southern Dynasty soldiers were very different from the Southern Dynasty soldiers he had come into contact with before.
different.
In the past, when encountering Southern Dynasty soldiers in the wild, especially the Southern Dynasty soldiers who were mainly infantry, they would form an airtight formation for defense, with the leader as the center, or a round formation or a square formation, with shields on the periphery and spears and spears in between.
, behind the bow and crossbow, there may be elites among them.
In this way, even if the defensive formation of the Southern Dynasty soldiers is as tight as a tortoise shell, Na Yan is willing to take a bite. As long as he has the patience to open a small opening, he can pierce it like a sharp knife; even if it cannot pierce, such a dense defensive formation will
The shape is also not conducive to counterattacks, and it poses no threat to the fast-moving peripheral cavalry.
The soldiers of the Southern Dynasty in front of him were divided into sixty-soldier units, each forming a defensive formation. The distance between them was based on the ability to hear shouting orders or see flags to convey orders. In this way, he could not calmly use guerrilla tactics to slowly attack.
They were tearing apart the enemy's formation, not to mention being able to encircle more with less. They charged head-on with all their might, and the formations of the Nanchao Bingdu troops on both wings rushed forward, trying to surround them.
The Southern Dynasty soldiers had five capital formations mainly composed of armor and soldiers, and two capital formations mainly composed of cavalry. The number of soldiers was much larger than them. In addition, the armor-soldier capital formations had more than a dozen vehicles for the outpost rangers.
Outside the strange car, which is called the "Flying Contradiction Car", there are many thorns/weird spears coming out that stretch out for a foot. The dense branches are constantly chopped with a knife, but it is easy to be stabbed on the horse behind the rider.
Even if they avoid the tip of the spear blade, they can easily be hit by the forked branches and be swept off their horses. They don't just use the Flying Contradiction Vehicles to form a defensive formation, they even hide the Flying Contradiction Vehicles behind high shields.
At the moment when the cavalry rushed in, Gao Dun withdrew, and the flying chariot was pushed out by several Southern Dynasty soldiers. While stabbing the horse, it often made the cavalry on the horse unable to dodge, and directly hit the flying chariot.
Arrange the spears on it and nail your whole body to it...
On a cold day with endless wind and snow, Na Yan swung his sword to cut off the spear thrust from the left, reined in the reins, and shouted loudly to Na Tuzhen to gather his men and follow him through. Although he charged a group of Nandu soldiers from the front,
However, this kind of tactics was too strenuous for him. Nayan thought that if he wanted to defeat all the Southern Dynasty soldiers in the Qidu team, most of the Wang Zhang soldiers he led would have to be destroyed. What's more, he had already concluded that
This is not the only group of Nandu soldiers who appeared on the north bank of the Ji River.
King Nayan Gang's tent soldiers broke away from the fourth battalion and crossed to the south side of the road. Ning Zechen led the fifth battalion to arrive in time, emerged from the snowstorm and appeared on the right side of Nayan's Donglu King's tent soldiers.
It was dusk and the sky was dark, but up close you could distinguish the armor on both sides and the bows and crossbows. The formation of the Yanbu Donglu King's tent troops who had just come out was in disarray. Dozens of cavalry on the right side were suddenly unable to dodge.
, were hit by arrows one after another and fell off their horses, and Na Yan was hit by an arrow in the arm. Seeing the Nandu soldiers coming and charging towards them without stopping, he hurriedly got out of the gap with Na Tuzhen and his men, and rushed north to fight.
Inside, he turned around and repulsed the pursuing Southern Dynasty cavalry, and then stopped to treat his arrow wounds. After counting, it turned out that nearly 80 people could not escape, and there were still 20 or 30 people here who were seriously injured.