Chapter 828: Volley

Along with the falling, there are also a lot of whistling teardrop-shaped iron guys - ambush cannonballs!

It's not that the Song army doesn't have a stock of ambush cannons, but according to the drill code, there are requirements for the terrain used, the density of the enemy, and the objects of use.

Now this dense charge formation is a good time for the ambush artillery to show its might.

Countless Jiaozhi soldiers encountered crossbow arrows falling from the sky on the way to charge, and the shrapnel that touched the ground and exploded was pierced, torn, and torn like a bloody skin, and fell to the ground with a broken belly.

The Glaive Formation is a fairly ancient formation, and whether this formation is a defensive formation or an offensive formation is still being discussed by the soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty.

However, for Guo Kui, the current Glaive Formation, although it is still defending, is undoubtedly an offensive formation.

The entire semicircle surrounded by the crescent moon was the death of the enemy.

To be precise, this is no longer a glaive formation, this is a recurve bow formation.

Because the artillery in the rear is able to fire long-range fire, block the enemy's charge into several sections, and then eat the enemy troops who fall into the encirclement of the crescent moon with fewer victories and more in each section.

Thinking of this, Guo Kui's eyes fell on the high ground on both sides of the valley in front of him.

If those two places were to be taken, and the cavalry wagons and thunderbolts were to be placed on the road between the two mountains, the new army and the ambush artillery would occupy the top of the hills......

Yan Da on the side saw that his commander was still pondering regardless of the enemy troops who had already rushed nearly two hundred paces, so he quickly took over the command and ordered the soldiers to shake the flag.

The crossbowmen stopped firing, and Zhang Shiju and Wang Chu rode out from both wings.

Two hundred steps, the excellent range of the Great Song cavalry's impact, I saw that the two wingtips of the glaive array gradually lengthened, broke away from the large array, and then shortened again, turning into two swimming fish.

The first wave of the Jiaozhi people's infantry team became bait for swimming fish to compete for food.

The artillery fire continued to rage in the rear of the battlefield, blocking the selfless reinforcements of Li Yue's army.

Zhang Shiju and Wang Shu's impact became more and more arrogant each time, and at the beginning, in accordance with the regulations of the training subject, they skilfully brushed against the edge of Li Yuejun, taking away only a thin layer.

However, after discovering Li Yuejun's weakness, the two of them became more and more bold, cutting deeper than the other at a time, and finally directly penetrating the enemy formation twice in a row!

The horse's hooves flew up, the swords flashed, and everywhere they passed, there were flying human heads, broken arms, and blood!

The sharpness and delicate arc of the Zhiping cavalry knife are enough to allow the rider to complete the penetration and cross-cutting of the weakly protected human body with only horsepower under the condition of the same posture.

The most basic tactics of the infantry army against the cavalry army is to defend in a dense formation.

But now the situation has changed, as long as Li Yuejun dares to form a dense formation, it will inevitably attract the earth-shattering thunder greeting of the Western Army.

Serious cavalry charging tactics, if Su You did not cross, it was not until more than 50 years later that it was passed to the southeast peninsula by a Fujian general, and then the Zhenla people became a great power in the southeast with war elephants and cavalry, and established the Angkor Dynasty.

However, today's Jiaozhi people have almost zero experience in fighting against the Western Army, so the Western Army cavalry running on the battlefield now can be called a life harvester.

Zhang Shiju's war horse, in the third charge, found the temporary command of Li Yuejun, after breaking through the battle array, he led dozens of cavalry squads to turn back, and then stood on the horse pedal, leaned forward, rode the knife forward, and rushed towards the commander: "Kill-"

The pro-riders around him soon formed a small formation of three rows of geese in the run: "Kill-"

The commander of Jiaozhi knew that he could not be spared, so he snatched the bamboo bow of the junior colonel next to him and shot an arrow at Zhang Shiju.

Zhang Shiju squatted down, lowered his head again, and the long arrow shot on the steel helmet with a short edge, and with a ding, I don't know where it collapsed.

Then Zhang Shiju bounced back from the saddle as if he had installed a spring, and the war horse just reached its maximum speed at this moment, and swept past the leader.

The bamboo bow was broken in two, and a terrible huge wound rose on the right rib of the cross-toed command.

The leader didn't have time to fall, and was led by the sword light of the two horsemen behind Zhang Shiju to turn half a circle to the left and half a circle to the right.

It was only then that blood spurted out of the leader's body, and all around him was the rumbling of horses' hooves.

Not a single cochin sergeant was still able to stand.

The battlefield that has been broken up and tortured by the cavalry is no less tragic than the valley baptized by artillery fire, and the scene of thousands of horsemen galloping and riding swords like a forest is enough to break any iron will.

This terrifying momentum made many Jiaozhi sergeants forget the warnings given to them by the Taibao and the commanders before they set off, and forgot that they said that the Song people would not surrender.

They threw down their weapons and knelt on the ground begging for mercy, preferring to cry and give up rather than fight against such an army again.

Miraculous things happened, those two terrifying cavalry troops, after they gave up resistance, turned around and looked for other targets!

It turned out that it was possible to surrender!

There were not one or two clever people, and many of them immediately knelt down, and shouted in the local language to their companions to abandon their weapons and kneel.

Guo Kui put down the binoculars: "After this wave of killing, try the three-stage salvo that Wang Jianjun said, the guerrilla cover on both wings of the cavalry, the reorganized and follow-up of the van, and slowly press up!" ”

Then he pointed to the two mountains and heights in front of him: "Order the new army to go there tonight, and then the ambush artillery team, also go up to guard the mountain." ”

"The front of the valley is a chain of vans, crossbowmen are stationed, and cavalry guards both sides of the valley."

"The thunderbolts will move forward tonight, this battle ...... There's nothing left to fight, and in three days, it's over. ”

The Song army moved, and Yi Jinjun quickly put down the front baffle of the van, and in the whistle of Wang Zhongzheng and Li Xian, they lined up in a large horizontal row of three five hundred people.

Zhang Shiju and Wang Shu are on the left and right, riding knives on their sides.

Li Xian and Wang Zhongzheng took the lead, drew their swords and pointed forward, then whistled and stood still.

The ranks in the new army were formulated by Su You, and they were divided into four ranks: envoy, commander, leader, and guard, each of which was a three-level Xiangxie, and there was also a quasi-guard in Wei.

The quasi-guard is equivalent to the chief, the assistant guard is equivalent to the centurion, and the first guard leads the three assistant guards and 300 people, and is responsible for forming three columns.

Therefore, the 1,500 new army here, in addition to Wang Zhongzheng and Li Xian, the highest military rank is only five Xiangwei.

More and more whistles were neatly joined, and the formation of the honor guard of Jin Mingchi, which was born from the Fourth Army, became more and more square, and the footsteps of leather boots even overpowered the sound of scattered horses' hooves.

"Bayonet—on!"

"Bayonet—on!"

Fifteen hundred people, like machines, stood upright, changed their half-kneeling posture, stood on the ground with the handle of the gun, pressed the respring of the mouth of the gun with their right hand, and the 1,500 spears bounced up and pointed upward.

"Stand up! Attention! Stand still – go! ”

The two commanders, one on the left and one on the right, began to advance, followed by five guards, then the assistant guards, the quasi-guards, and finally the entire brigade followed.

"The New Army...... There's a doorway! Guo Kui was amazed by the Chinese army, and pinched the horse's belly: "Keep up!" ”

The cavalry on both sides followed with the rear crossbowmen infantry.

The sound of the cannon stopped, and countless cochin sergeants in front of them got up in despair, and were slapped wildly on the backs of their knives by the commanders before they recovered from their panic.

The sound of shouting sounded, and then they shouted one after another, rushing towards Song Jun like a swarm.

Wang Zhongzheng commanded the sword to slanted and began to stand still, while the rear teams continued to move forward, and when they became standing still, 1,500 people returned to three horizontal formations.

"A team comes forward - ready - release!"

"Bang!" The first battlefield salvo after the Yijin Army was formed finally began.

The figure four hundred paces away was actually quite small, but the cavalry behind the Yijin army could still see it, and the Jiaozhi people in the distance fell a layer down.

"The second team comes forward - prepare - release!"

Another volley was fired, and more than a hundred or so people fell in the distance.

Wang Zhongzheng raised his binoculars, obviously dissatisfied with the result, and with a wave of his commanding knife, he pressed closer to the Jiaozhi army again.

The strong military formation doubled the pressure on the Cochins, and training and instinct made them get closer and closer. In the end, it also became a big array.

The Song army pressed to two hundred steps away from the big array, just outside the range of the bow and arrow, and Wang Zhongzheng raised his sword again: "A team stepped forward - prepare - release!" ”

"Bang!"

This time the battle was remarkable, the dense enemy formation was swept away by the erupting iron rain, and some bullets did not disappear even after passing through the first person, and they bit into the body of the person behind him!