"Not good!" Zhao Junsheng was shocked in his heart, and immediately yelled at Yang Lie next to him and gestured: "Kill the enemy with a bow, and outflank and kill on the left and right wings!" ”

Yang Lie heard Zhao Junsheng's huge roar, turned his head and saw Zhao Junsheng's gesture, and immediately understood, immediately flicked the horse's head and went around to the right, and the flag bearer behind him quickly waved the command flag.

The cavalry of the cadre army, who saw the waving of the flag, put away their weapons one after another and took out their bows and arrows.

Zhao Junsheng's order was still a little late, and when the team was divided into two, there were still more than 200 horsemen in the middle who were under the crossbow arrows of the Song army.

"Whoosh ······" Dense crossbow arrows rained down from the sky, and more than 200 cavalry cavalry soldiers who did not have time to turn around were mercilessly attacked by the crossbow array.

Horses and knights were shot into hedgehogs by crossbow arrows falling from the sky, screaming one after another, falling to the ground and kicking up a lot of dust.

Zhao Junsheng looked back while riding his horse, and when he saw this scene, his heart was cold, his face was even more murderous, and he accelerated his horse and yelled: "Bow-"

The cavalry of the cadre army took out arrows, opened their bows and fired them at the army formation of the Liu and Song armies, and waves of arrows fell on the front of the two sides of the Song army like a torrential downpour.

The Song spearmen had no protection, and the cowhide armor could not withstand the blows of arrows, and they were shot down by the cavalry of the cadre army.

After the cavalry of the dry army was divided into two and turned to outflank, they deliberately distanced themselves from the Song army's formation, and when the crossbowmen in the Song army's formation loaded their crossbow arrows again and fired, the second wave of crossbow arrows all fell on the open ground.

At this time, the cavalry of the Cadre Army was riding their horses while continuously firing arrows at the Song Army Formation, and the distance between the Song Army's crossbow array and the Cadre Army's cavalry in the middle of the entire army formation exceeded the range of the crossbow bow, which made the Song Army's crossbow array launch several waves of arrows in a row without causing any damage to the Cadre Army's cavalry.

"Sword and shield soldiers to the left and right, advance and defend!" Li Shan gave the order.

After receiving the order, the Song saber and shield soldiers immediately approached the two flanks and lined up, holding their shields to block the arrows fired by the cavalry of the Qian.

Compared with the bow and arrow firing speed of the cavalry of the cadre army, the crossbow arrow firing speed of the Song army's crossbow array was too slow.

The crossbow is simple to operate, and the requirements for the technical quality of the soldier are relatively low, and a soldier who is recruited from the army only needs to go through a short period of training to equip and operate the crossbow and form combat effectiveness.

It takes a long time for the infantry archers to train and form an army and form combat effectiveness, which is a relatively high technical class, but it is not easy to train archers, but once trained into an army, the speed of fire of infantry archers is much faster than that of crossbows.

Cavalry archers are more difficult to train and more expensive, but once trained, their attack power and mobility can make enemies fearful, and using a bow on horseback is far faster and more accurate than using a crossbow.

Whether cavalry or infantry, firing arrows with a bow is much faster than using a crossbow, as it takes a lot of time to reload the arrows when using a crossbow.

"Dingding······ Batch after batch of arrows were fired, and a large number of arrows were blocked by the Song soldiers with shields, but people still kept falling from the arrows.

The cavalry of the cadre army kept circling around the Song army formation and released arrows, although they could cause some casualties among the Song soldiers from time to time, the threat to the formation was far from enough, the shields blocked the vast majority of the arrows, only causing small casualties, and the cavalry of the cadre army could not get too close, otherwise they would enter the range of the Song army's crossbow array.

Under the leadership of Zhao Junsheng, the cavalry of the cadre army circled around the Song army formation five times, and kept firing arrows to cause some casualties to the Song army.

Seeing the cavalry of the Qianjun army go away, leaving only a large amount of rising smoke and dust, the Song army breathed a sigh of relief from top to bottom, and everyone felt that the whole person was soaked in sweat at this time.

Looking at the corpses of the comrades lying in the military formation, this battle was not easy, and the casualties were not small.

Not long after, the official in charge of counting the losses reported to Li Dan: "General, the losses of the 2,000 cavalry under the command of the general have exceeded seventy percent, and he himself is seriously wounded!" In addition, our infantry also lost eight or nine hundred men in this battle, but we only inflicted less than two hundred casualties on the cadre army! ”

It's not that Li Shan hasn't fought with the Qianjun, but this time it really made Li Dan feel powerless, in addition to the cavalry, the Song army's infantry didn't even have a head-on contact with the Qianjun cavalry, and the Qianjun cavalry shot eight or nine hundred people with bows and arrows, which was because he ordered a turtle shell formation.

This is also because the cavalry of the cadre army has no more preparations, and there is no way to take the turtle shell army formation deployed by Li Dan for the time being, once the cadre army finds a way to deal with this army formation, I am afraid that the Song army will not be able to resist the attack of the cavalry of the cadre army at all.

Li Shan looked at the soldiers of the Song army who were surviving after the catastrophe, and he decisively gave an order: "Withdraw to Ba County along the same route!" ”

With the current state of the Song army, the cavalry has lost almost half of its losses, and it can no longer play a role, at most it can only do reconnaissance and reporting, and it is unrealistic to expect them to confront the cavalry of the cadre army, and the infantry can only be passively beaten against the cavalry, and there is no power to fight back at all.

Li Dan felt that he could not bring these Song troops to Chengdu City alone, and he would definitely be surrounded and intercepted by the cavalry of the cadres along the way, and if one was not good, it was very likely that the whole army would be annihilated, even if he arrived outside Chengdu, he might not be able to enter the city.

Li Dan gave this order is difficult, but also forced to helpless, he knows that once the matter is investigated, he is afraid that he will not be able to explain to the imperial court, the worst result is that he will be sentenced to death by the imperial court for disobeying the order, but at this moment, he can no longer care so much, once the cadres find the flaws in the military formation he deployed, the fall of the more than 8,000 Song troops will only be in an instant!

Liu Songjun, under the leadership of Li Dan, returned to evacuate along the same route as fast as possible, and they didn't even have time to clean up the battlefield and collect the remains of their comrades.

Half a day later, Zhao Junsheng once again led the cavalry to the edge of the battlefield.

Wounded Song soldiers and war horses were abandoned here, and they were abandoned and left to fend for themselves.

When the cavalry of the Qianjun army arrived again, the wounded soldiers and wounded horses of the Song army tried to struggle to get up, but they had no choice but to give up after some efforts.

Zhao Junsheng swept his gaze, raised his hand and waved: "Give them a good time, give them a ride!" ”

Yang Lie hugged his fists, turned his head to look behind him, and raised his hand and waved forward: "Up!" ”

Some cavalry cadres lined up in three rows to inspect the corpses and wounded soldiers on the battlefield, and the wounded soldiers and wounded horses were found and killed one by one.

Li Bao said next to Zhao Junsheng: "Your Majesty, our army can directly charge the formation, although the losses will be greater, but as long as they break through the gun array of the Song army, they can break their crossbow formation with one face, and then there will be a one-sided slaughter, no need to bother!" ”

Zhao Junsheng said: "How big is the loss?" The Song army's gun array is not vegetarian, our army is now bringing light cavalry, it is not wise to directly impact the dense gun formation with light cavalry, the casualties are too great to be cost-effective! ”

"You see, just our attack just now caused nearly a thousand casualties to the Song army, the Song army is already frightened, otherwise they would not retreat in a hurry, as long as such an attack is carried out a few more times, they will collapse, we don't need to take human lives to pile up a victory!"

Yang Lie hit his horse and came over to report: "Your Majesty, the battlefield has been searched, and all the wounded soldiers and wounded horses of the Song army who did not die were killed, and none of them survived, how should our army act next?" ”

Zhao Junsheng looked at the corpses all over the ground, "Song General Li Dan is too unkind, he didn't even bury the corpses of the fallen soldiers under his command, I am not a person who cares about killing and burying them." Pass the order, clean up the battlefield, and try to recover the available arrows! In addition, bury the fallen soldiers of our army and the fallen soldiers of the Song army! ”

"No!"

The scout cavalry and the guard post were dispatched, the scout cavalry was responsible for reconnoitering the movements of the Song army, the guard post was responsible for the perimeter security, and the other cadres and soldiers began to dismount, some people fed the horses, and some people began to clean up the battlefield.

The soldiers set up a tent next to it, and Zhao Junsheng gathered several major generals to discuss the next course of action.

"It seems that the Song army should have withdrawn along the same route, how do you think our army should fight next?"

In the face of Zhao Junsheng's questioning, several generals pondered, and Yang Lie clenched his fists and said: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that our army should follow the pursuit, keep attacking and harassing, and wait for the opportunity to move!" ”

Li Bao said: "Your Majesty, there are 300 people in the Dragon Guard army accompanying the escort carrying heavy armor, and even the horses are also heavily armoured, and the minister is willing to use these 300 heavy cavalry to storm the enemy formation and defeat them in one fell swoop!" ”

Zhao Junsheng said: "But these three hundred people are still in the camp outside Chengdu, and it will take a day to recruit them, maybe we have already defeated the Song army in a day!" ”

Two hours later, the battlefield was cleaned, all the dead soldiers and horses of both sides were buried, and the usable arrows were recycled and re-equipped for the soldiers.

"Your Majesty, the whole army has been assembled, please give instructions to Your Majesty!" Yang Lie reported loudly to Zhao Junsheng.

Zhao Junsheng ordered loudly: "Spread my will, the army continues to pursue the Song army!" ”

"Yes!"

The military order was issued, and the cadres drove out to pursue the direction of the retreat of the Song army.

On the morning of the next day, Zhao Junsheng led the cavalry of the cadre army to pursue near the high ground where the Song army had stayed in a strong formation, and the spies in front called Ma to report: "Your Majesty, the Song army left 2,000 men on the high ground in front to block our army, and the brigade has continued to retreat in the direction of Longquan Mountain!" ”

Zhao Junsheng couldn't help but say: "I didn't expect this Li Dan to have the determination of a strong man to break his wrist!" Yang Lie, send an envoy over to try to persuade these two thousand people to surrender, I want to see if these two thousand Song troops who were left behind have the same courage to fight to the death with our army! ”