Sharp screams resounded through the battlefield sky, and red fireworks shot into the air and exploded like rain. The command flags held high in the formation changed, and the formation of the entire Luoyan Army began to change rapidly. The cavalry formation of the Luoyan Army shrank violently, and the infantry in the center of the formation
The formation began to expand. In less than half an hour, the overall formation of the Luoyan Army actually underwent a surprising change. The infantry formation suddenly changed from a tight square formation to a circular formation. To be precise, it was based on two
An infantry formation composed of concentric circles. Nearly 16,000 Luoyan Army infantrymen quickly formed two huge concentric ring formations with their horses and spiked walls.
Following the order of the rapid sound of the horn, the cavalry of the Luoyan Army retreated quickly, retreating into the formation gap left by the infantry at an extremely fast speed. As the gap closed, all the soldiers and horses were hidden in the circular formation.
Hundreds of thousands of Jurchen horse infantry troops were dumbfounded. When the opponent connected the horse-rejecting walls as high as one person to form a circular defense system, it felt like a circular city was built out of thin air in the wilderness. This city
Kuo protected the opponent's tens of thousands of soldiers and horses. Among other things, the sudden change of the opponent's formation was really amazing. Such a huge change of formation, there was no panic, the horse and infantry cooperated tacitly, and there was no feeling of chaos at all.
, it can be seen that the opponent usually puts a lot of effort into practicing the changes of this formation.
At this point, the reason why the 20,000 infantrymen in the Qi-shaped formation were protected has also been revealed. It is not only to support the peripheral cavalry and to annihilate the enemy's intruders, but more importantly, to change the formation at critical moments.
, turning disadvantages into advantages. Lin Jue studied military books. He knew the importance of formations in military operations in the cold weapon era, so he studied this very carefully. The Luoyan Army has been dormant in the mountains for the past few years, training, training, training every day.
So they have practiced almost everything they can. No one knows whether they will need it in the future war. Anyway, idle time is idle. When they are full, they change into different types of training. The training of this formation is also
part of their training.
It was when the situation on the battlefield changed that Lin Jue decided to change his formation. After one hundred thousand infantrymen joined the battlefield, the battlefield was completely out of balance. How could Lin Jue allow the situation to tilt and become uncontrollable. So he immediately gathered his troops and formed a circle.
The defensive formation, which creates terrain advantages out of thin air, is the best choice at this moment.
"Are you scared? Are they going to be cowards? Hahaha." Wanyan Aguda, who had already arrived in front of the formation in person, couldn't help but look up to the sky and laugh when he saw this scene.
"I'm afraid now. But it's too late. Give me the order and attack. Do you really think this is a city? It's just a wooden fence. They are trapping themselves in a cocoon. Aren't they a turtle in a urn? Shoot me an arrow.
Shoot them all in the formation!" Wanyan Agu roared loudly.
The horns roared and the war drums shook the sky. The Jurchen army approached from all directions, densely packed like ants, surrounding the Luoyan Army's circular formation. Tens of thousands of Jurchen archers galloped along the periphery of the circular formation, and at the same time moved toward the smoke in the formation.
The soldiers and horses in the rising shadowy Luoyan Army formation kept firing arrows. Arrows whizzed like rain, falling into the Luoyan Army formation from all directions. Tens of thousands of Luoyan Army horse infantry soldiers gathered in the circular formation. At this moment, it was really like they were trapped in a cocoon, becoming
A living target for the opposing archers.
Wanyan Aguda was laughing wildly. Although he could not clearly see the casualties in the formation, he could predict that the casualties would be heavy. Just shoot all the bows and arrows into the formation, and he would cause huge casualties to the opponent.
The next step was an unstoppable charge to break through the formation. Lin felt that his cleverness was mistaken for him, and he would definitely be destroyed today.
In the circular formation, arrows were indeed falling like rain. Except for the position in the middle of a few hundred steps that was out of range of the opponent's bow and arrow, the attack range of the opponent's strong bow was within a hundred steps of the surrounding area. There were more than 40,000 cavalry gathered in the formation.
, although the formation is very large, there are still people everywhere. Tens of thousands of people in the formation do seem to be sitting back and waiting for death. However, the real situation is not what Wanyan Aguda thought. Although the sky is full of arrows, there are many people on the outside of the formation.
The infantry were unscathed because they had horses as a cover. The cavalry of the Luoyan Army were all equipped with shields. At this moment, dozens of cavalry spliced and hinged their shields to form a huge arc-shaped shield wall. The men and horses were hidden behind the shield wall.
Even if the opponent's arrows rain down like rain, there is no hope of causing huge casualties. These are all countermeasures that have been thought of when training the formation. How could Lin Jue not consider the dangerous situation he will face after the formation changes. If he
With such negligence, he would not be alive today.
Finally, the Jurchens shot the arrow pot dry. Wanyan Agu felt that it was almost done. The Luoyan Army in the formation should have suffered heavy casualties. Now it was time to completely break through their formation and deal with them.
"Give me the order, all soldiers and horses, prepare to charge into the formation." Wanyan Agu gave the order loudly.
The horn of the charge beeped, and more than 200,000 Jurchen horse infantry troops organized themselves into formation to prepare for the charge. Following the order, the Jurchen horse infantry troops from all directions charged towards the circular formation in the center like zombies sieging a city. Then
The circular formation is like a small boat in the vast ocean. At this moment, it is surrounded by black waves, and it seems that it can no longer avoid the fate of overturning.
Countless crossbow arrows were fired from all around the circular formation. The Luoyan Army cavalry galloped along the open space in the ring between the two horse-rejecting walls. The height of their horses was just right enough to shoot the crossbow arrows over the height of the horse-rejecting wall.
Shoot at the oncoming Jurchen enemy formation. The infantrymen held their long bows and fired diagonally upwards, letting the arrows fall into the enemy battlefield in a perfect arc. The Jurchen soldiers and horses outside the circular formation were so densely packed that there was no need to deliberately aim.
Every arrow could hit the enemy. Under the dense rain of arrows, the surrounding Jurchen soldiers and horses fell on their backs, killing countless people.
But none of this could stop the Jurchens' charge. It only took a dozen breaths for the first batch of Jurchen cavalry to rush to the outside of the Juma Wall. Because they had long seen the existence of the Juma Wall, the Jurchen cavalry with superb riding skills
They tried to leap over the horse-rejecting wall on horseback. With their riding skills, if they were well prepared and the horses were capable enough, they could definitely fly their horses over a wall as high as one person. However, just as they arrived at the wall, they
The horse wall was about ten feet away. When the horse was reining up and riding, powerful crossbows were fired from the shooting holes of the horse wall. The continuous crossbows fired from the holes were dense and fierce. The horses in the front row were hit by arrows in their chests and abdomens, and they rolled over and screamed.
Under the huge gravity of the ground, both the man and the horse rolled along the ground, and then hit heavily on the thick-mouthed sharp stakes of the Juma Wall.
The entire Juma Wall trembled with rumbles, and the force of countless Jurchen cavalry and their horses hitting the wall was like countless big hammers hitting the wall. Even though the Juma Wall was firmly fixed by wooden piles
On the ground, even though they were connected with iron cables to form an indestructible whole, under the continuous huge impact, the horse-rejection walls in some places were forcibly shifted. But these resistance walls
The horse wall is all made of short and thick logs embedded together with a mortise and tenon structure, forming a three-dimensional structure.
It has a pyramidal triangular structure, so its structure will not be loosened by these impacts. It will not have any impact on the overall structure of the wall.
On the other hand, those Jurchen cavalry who crashed into the uneven spikes on the outer wall of the Juma Wall met a catastrophic end. Some had their spines broken and vital parts of their bones broken, and died without even making a sound. That was considered lucky.
, most of them suffered broken tendons and broken bones, and many bones on their bodies were broken, lying on the ground wailing. Some of the injuries were not too serious. They tried to roll away and escape, but then through the holes in the Juma wall,
Countless spears came out of the cave like poisonous dragons. The blood-red tassels trembled and thrust out a round of fierce stings. After piercing the bodies of the Jurchen cavalry who were rolling outside the wall and trying to escape, they disappeared and retracted into the formation.
The first round of impact is often the most violent, because in a skirmishing charge formation, those at the front are often the bravest warriors and the strongest horses. The cavalry charge often depends on whether the first round of charge can succeed.
In many cases, the enemy's defense line can be broken through in the first round, and the follow-up is the icing on the cake. But the most ferocious charge in the first round was unexpectedly blocked by the horse wall. The opponent's defense line was not
They were overwhelmed, but their own cavalry suffered thousands of casualties.
"Charge, at all costs." Wanyan Aguda and his generals were all red-eyed, the horns were louder and the war drums were more intensive. The following cavalry rushed toward the ring formation defense line like crazy. Firearms
The roar of people, the scream of arrows and crossbows piercing the air, the loud sound of flesh and blood hitting the Juma wall, the creepy sound of bones breaking, the wails and cries before death are intertwined. The smoke and dust obscure the sunlight.
, blood filled the air, and the battlefield was no longer on earth, like purgatory.
This reckless attack finally paid off. The Luoyan Army's feather arrows could not bring down all the Jurchen cavalry who rushed outside the Juma Wall, nor could the two-foot-long spears. Although the Jurchen cavalry on the outside of the Juma Formation could not
Countless Jurchen soldiers were killed and injured here, but countless Jurchen cavalry leapt into the battle on the gradually accumulated corpses of their comrades. The accumulation of corpses gave them a more convenient platform to leap into the battle, making it more difficult for them to leap into the battle.
Easy. Some people threw men and horses into the formation, causing the defenders in the formation to flee in panic. Someone fell firmly inside, and immediately began to resume their machetes and maces to massacre the infantry on the outer ring of the formation.
As the number of Jurchen cavalry rushing into the formation increased, the tens of thousands of Luoyan horse infantry in the outer ring formation were no longer able to stop them. In addition, the outer horse-rejection formation was destroyed, and the opponent's cavalry had continuously rushed into the outer ring formation.
bingo.
The flame bombs rose into the air again, and tens of thousands of Luoyan Army soldiers in the outer ring formation received the order. The infantry evacuated to the inner ring under the cover of the cavalry. Then the cavalry also quickly retreated into the inner ring. Although some of the soldiers and horses behind were cut off by the female
The real people were annihilated, but most of the soldiers and horses still successfully retreated into the inner ring of horse-rejecting formations. The diameter of the circular formation was reduced by a hundred steps, making it appear more crowded and narrow, but the second horse-rejecting wall quickly closed, and the broken formation
It was reshaped again. The Jurchens spent huge casualties and only broke through the outer formation. What they had to face was the inner ring defense line with a narrower combat space.
The Luoyan Army cavalry in the formation continued to fire arrows outwards, and the opponent's formation also erected dozens of feet-high platforms at some point. The crossbowmen on the platform aimed at the Jurchen cavalry crowded in the outer ring.
Shooting wildly, the Jurchen cavalry once again fell into the embarrassing situation of being hunted at close range.
