2. The Battle of Xuzhou
At this time, the Chinese army of the Song army had already overtaken, and although the speed was not fast, it still advanced towards the Chinese army of the Jin army.
"Marshal, it seems that the left and right flanks are a little out of support, do you want to send some men and horses to support them?" ”
Su Shi Lie Zhining "snorted" and said: "The Chinese army of the Song army has come up with the scriptures, how can our Chinese army move." Send someone to tell Pu Luxu and Shulie that if they don't go to the Song army, they will die there, and I have no reinforcements here. ”
Immediately afterwards, Su Shi Lie Zhining ordered "the Chinese army to dispatch to meet the Song army." The horn sounded, and Song Jin's Chinese army began to attack.
The central army of the Jin army dispatched 6,000 cavalry in the first row and two phalanxes in the second row, a total of 6,000 infantry troops. This time the Jin army learned wisely, because they were afraid that the Song army would use the tower shield again, so the cavalry of the Chinese army did not spread their horses and galloped like the two wings. Instead, they always maintained the same speed as the infantry army, slowly advancing.
The central army of the Song army dispatched a total of 15,000 soldiers in the front, left and right phalanxes, but this time the Song army did not raise the tower shield. However, at the end of the Song army's column, there were more than twenty strange wooden carts that the Jin soldiers had never seen before.
Su Shi Lie Zhining looked at it, these wooden carts were about two zhang wide, one zhang and two days high, all made of large bowls of thick logs, at the end of the Song early queue, with the Song army slowly advancing.
"What is this? Could it be that the Song army failed to do it? Su Shi Lie Zhining muttered to himself. However, if it's a square horse, it's a little too high. "The height of the horse is usually no more than five feet, but Dan sharpens the front finger of the log and places it at the end of the whole army, and the man goes further and rejects the horse
step, blocking the way for the soldiers to retreat, so that the soldiers could not retreat, but could only fight to the death. The Jin and Song armies often used horses to force their soldiers to fight to the death.
The distance between the two sides had been shortened to less than fifty paces, and then Qingshannu said: "Lord Marshal, it seems that the Song army has not used a tower shield, and can order the sheath soldiers to charge." ”
Although Su Shi Lie Zhining was still thinking about what the wooden cart behind Song Jun was, he couldn't allow him to hesitate now. So he nodded and said, "Blow the trumpet and give the order for the cavalry to charge." ”
"Woo, woo, woo, woo" The horn sounded in the formation of the Jin army.
The cavalry of the Jin army immediately urged the war horses, galloped at high speed, and soon threw off the street infantry and rushed towards the Song army. At this time, the Song army also stopped and waited for it.
At this moment, hundreds of arrows suddenly flew out from the last wooden cart of the Song army, "whoosh, whoosh, whoosh" pierced the air and flew towards the Jin army's array. The cavalry who rushed in front did not rush to defense, and more than 100 soldiers were immediately shot down from their horses.
"So that's the case, Song Jun still has this kind of weapon?" Su Shi Lie Zhining took a breath of cold air, "The Song Army's weapons of various tricks are really endless?" ”
In fact, this kind of wooden car is called a stacked arrow car, which is designed to make up for the shortcomings of "stacking array". The biggest weakness of the "stacked formation" is that because the formation requires the front army to kneel on the ground, giving the archers room to shoot arrows, they can only wait for the enemy to attack without moving. And once engaged with the enemy, the crossbowmen were afraid of accidentally injuring their own people, so they did not dare to release their arrows easily.
Therefore, the Song army set up this kind of stacked arrow car, two feet wide, one foot and two feet long, and one foot five feet high, the car is divided into three layers, each layer can stand six or seven crossbowmen, and there is a wooden fence in front of the Dan crossbowmen, which can block the enemy's bow and arrows. The bottom layer of the stacked arrow cart is also five feet high, so the crossbowmen on it can release arrows without any scruples, and there are wheels under the cart and soldiers behind them, so they can advance and retreat freely with the army, which completely makes up for the lack of "stacking arrays". But the weakness lies in the slow movement, and it is easy to go straight up and down, and it is very difficult to turn, so the protection of the flanks is insufficient, so it does not dare to be used on the two wings, and can only be placed behind the Chinese army.
The Chinese army of the Song army had eight stacked arrow carts in each phalanx, and there were twenty-four stacked arrow carts in battle, with nearly 500 crossbowmen on them. The sudden rain of arrows slightly frustrated the Jin cavalry's breakthrough, allowing the Song infantry to withstand the Jin army's attack, and then the Jin army's infantry also killed in front of the battle, and the two sides immediately fought in one place.
Since the Song army's Chinese army was all infantry troops, the Jin soldiers on horses immediately became the most obvious target, and were used as live targets by the Song army's crossbowmen on the stacking arrow cart. Although there are less than 500 crossbowmen, these crossbowmen are carefully selected archery masters who are accurate and transparent. With the sound of the bowstring, the arrows slashed into the air, and the cavalry of the Jin army continued to fall off their horses. Although at this time, the archers of the Jin army also began to shoot back at the Song army on the stacked arrow carts, but the Song troops on the stacked arrow carts were protected by wooden fences, so the threat to the Song army was not great. Someone was shot dead by the Jin army, but there was also a reserve crossbowman Park who immediately came up.
Among the commanders of the three phalanxes, Wei Yongshou and Wang Jin were both on the stacked arrow carts, shooting the Jin soldiers while directing the Song army to fight.
Only Shi Jun was alone, he was not good at using bows and arrows, using double swords in his hands, and did not ride horses, rushing to the forefront of the Song army. On his side, one on the left and one on the right, and a little later on each side, there was a Song soldier, holding a spear two feet long and following closely. Each pikeman is protected by a shield-bearer. When encountering a golden soldier, the pikemen who fell off the horse were stabbed to death by the pikemen, or the shield hand followed closely by the pikemen to protect the pikemen from damage. This tactic was very effective, at the beginning of the engagement, Shi Jun and the five men had killed more than 20 Jin soldiers in a row, and the knives in Shi Jun's hands were exchanged for two, but the five of them did not suffer any harm at all.
At that time, it was not only Shi Jun and the five people, but all the Song troops were like this, or a group of five or a group of seven people cooperated with each other to fight against the Jin army. This tactic of the Song army was very powerful, and the Jin army retreated again and again. However, the Song army was not in a hurry to catch up, but always maintained its formation, slowly advancing under the cover of bows and arrows, showing that it was well-trained.
At this time, there was the command of the Song army, and Li Xianzhong and Cheng Min were very satisfied with the current situation. Cheng Min said: "Li Zhaofu, now it seems that our army is very advantageous, we will win if we continue like this, I will see if we can send the remaining phalanx to fight back the Jin army in one go." ”
"No, it's a little too early to talk about the winner." Li Xianzhong pointed to the main formation of the Jin army in the distance and said: "Lord Cheng, look, the Jin army still has the Tiefutu and has not been dispatched!" ”
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Yang Yan said loudly: "The Lin camp is on the left, and the Feng camp is on the right, detouring from both flanks to surpass the Jin army and cut off the path of the Jin army's retreat." I led the mountain battalion to attack from the middle. All armies fought hard and there was no mistake. ”
Cao Xun and Gao Zhen immediately stepped out of the ranks, agreed, and led their subordinates to kill them from the left and right. Yang Yan dialed out the "Wind Forest Volcano" and said to Liu Fuwu: "We also rush." Saying that, he took the lead and went out, Liu Fuwu held his gun in both hands and followed closely behind him. The 1,000 armored cavalry of the mountain camp also followed the two of them and rushed towards the Jin army.
The Song army divided into three ways and killed the Jin army. At this time, the Jin army had already lost its fighting spirit and could not form an army, and it was still the opponent of the Song army. And most of the Jin soldiers saw that the situation was not good, and they turned their horses' heads one after another, and they wanted to flee. But at this time, Cao Xun and Gao Zhenji led the Song army to go up from the left and right Bao Chao, intercepted the retreat of the Jin soldiers, and surrounded the Jin army.
At this time, Shi Momo's defeat was certain, and the Jin army had fallen into the encirclement of the Song army, and at that moment he gathered hundreds of Tiefu Tu, and said loudly: "We are now surrounded by the Song army, and the back road has been cut off." Only by fighting to the death with the Song army and rushing away from the Song army in front can you drive out of a way out, and you all rush with me. As he spoke, he raised the spear in his hand and took the lead in rushing towards the mountain camp led by Yang Yan and Liu Fuwu. Hundreds of Tiefutu also understood that this was the only way to survive, and it was the first time that Jin and Song's Jujia cavalry faced each other in this situation.
But this is not a right battle, although Tie Futu is the most elite soldier in the Jin country, but now whether it is morale, fighting spirit, mentality, or spirit, it is far from being comparable to the Song army. On the contrary, the Song army is now full of morale and confidence, and the mountain camp is the strongest cavalry in the whole army. There are also Yang Yan and Liu Fuwu, two fierce generals, who took the lead, and everyone rushed to kill, just like the wind and clouds, killing Tiefutu one after another.
Yang Yan waved the "Wind Forest Fire Wind", even if it was the thick armor of Tiefutu, it was as vulnerable as paper paste under the light of a sword. Blood rain continued to pour out from both sides of Yang Yan, and after Hai Dongqing galloped by, only the dead bodies of Jin Bing were left on both sides.
On the other side, Liu Fuwu was not inferior, this was his first attack against a strong opponent like Tiefutu, which made him very excited. The spear in his hand runs like the wind, stabbing, hitting, picking, blocking, barking, racking, and closing, and the eight-character gun duel is vividly and vividly played, with smart tricks and ingenious changes. Wherever the spear went, the strength penetrated the heavy armor, and the golden soldiers all died.
With a "whew", Liu Fuwu picked up a golden soldier under the horse. "This is the twelfth!" Liu Fuwu was thinking about it, when suddenly a Jin soldier stabbed him with a spear, it was Shi Mo Weiming, the chief general of the Jin army. As soon as Liu Fuwu saw the gun, he raised his front hand, and pressed his back hand to use the "one-word collapse marksmanship" only to hear the sound of "dang", the two gun heads intersected, and the long spear that was not clear was collapsed more than two feet high, and his arm was numb for a while.
Liu Fuwu shook the spear in his hand and shouted, "Golden dog, you also eat my shot." As he spoke, a spear stabbed at Shi Mo Ming.
Shi Mo raised his spear to meet him, and the two spears stabbed out at the same time. Just as the two spears were about to collide, Shi Mo Weiming noticed that his opponent's spear suddenly shrank and retreated half a foot. His spear suddenly stabbed into the air. Pressed the opponent's long qi and spit out, stabbing straight into his lower abdomen. This is Liu Fuwu's stunt "inch pistol". When Yang Yan and Liu Fuwu fought at the beginning, they were also embarrassed by this trick.
Shi Mo Weiming was taken aback, and he dodged his lower abdomen, but was stabbed into the left flank by Liu Fuwu, and finally Liu Fuwu shot for the second time, and the force was not large, only piercing less than two inches deep.
At this time, the two horses were in the stirrup, although the gunshot wound was painful, but Shi Mo Weiming was also a little relieved, because he finally survived this round, and was about to urge the horse to run fast to get out of the encirclement. The spear in Liu Fuwu's hand turned and his wrist flipped. The spear stabbed out from Liu Fuwu's left flank with a backhand.
Anti-pistol.
This move is a backhand stab when the two horses are staggered, taking advantage of the enemy's defense to loosen up a little.
Shi Mo didn't know that he felt a distance pain in his heart, the two horses dodged, and Liu Fuwu pulled out a spear and brought out a pool of blood. Shi Mo Weiming let out a loud cry and fell down from his horse.