In the following days, both Xiao Tang and Wanyan Wushu tentatively deployed troops and sent soldiers and horses to conduct several skirmishes. Although the casualties on both sides were not large, as more and more soldiers and horses were sent to each other, Xiao Tang and Wanyan Wushu seemed to have a very tacit understanding, and they all led the main force of their headquarters out of the camp where they were stationed, and went straight to a vast and empty land between Pu and Jierzhou to assemble, and gathered their soldiers and horses for a battle that would ultimately determine the outcome of the battle.

During the march, when he heard that there were at least 60,000 soldiers and horses under the banner of the Jin Army, who were only fourteen or fifteen miles away from here, Xiao Tang raised his eyebrows, and immediately ordered Tanma to go to check again, and said: "After this Yan Wushu, I am really anxious to get rid of my heart, and first besiege with the intention of breaking through the Shuibo Liangshan Walled City, and pressing the border with heavy troops. ”

At this time, Lu Zhishen, Lu Junyi, Hua Rong, Zhu Wu, Yang Zhi, Yao Pingzhong and other generals all rode horses towards Xiao Tang and surrounded him, among which Hua Rong said: "The enemy rode 20,000 Tiefutu, kidnapping horses, plus 40,000 foot soldiers, and we are not inferior to the Tartars in terms of troops, not to mention that the two ministers of Zong and Zhang have promised to lead the army to temporarily resist the reinforcements of the puppet Qi, and the reinforcements dispatched by Xiao Jiasui's brother and Liu Jingluo have not arrived. ”

Xiao Tang bowed his head slightly, although he led a group of brothers to resist the Jin army and defeated the enemy repeatedly, but now that he is a mountain and nine thousands, he still has to guard against falling short, and he is still not careless at all. Previously, he was able to take the lead by knowing the general direction of the Jin army from historical materials, and won several big victories through the deployment of being able to attack the enemy's weak underbelly at the strategic level, but if the famous generals of the Jin army such as Wanyan Hulu Bu and Yinshuke who had fought before really talked about their personal experience of large and small battles, the experience of the bloody battles of the unified army was only a lot more than his own. If he kills those strong opponents again, if he only competes with real abilities such as commanding the army and the imperial general, and changing the fighter plane, Xiao Tang also knows very well that the other party will not have the opportunity to catch the fighter counter-killing and defeat himself.

Now that we have to face the Jin Army's commander's complete vultures, the pre-war deployment must not only be thorough and secure, but also necessary to use surprising means to win according to the times

According to Huangfuduan and Chang Boda, if the war horses in the Jin army have been infected with the tribal plague, although they will not be killed in large numbers for a few days, they will be infected with white and gray patches all over their bodies, and they will be easily frightened and irritable, and even if the symptoms are not obvious in normal times, if the strong horses bear the weight of hundreds of catties, they will probably collapse immediately.

Now it is up to us to see if Yan Wushu will realize that the heavily armored elite cavalry under his command has been infected with the very rare clan horse plague, and whether the epidemic situation of the horse herd can have a fatal impact on the Jin army. Thinking of this, Xiao Tang immediately shouted an order: "Pass on my military order, the three armies will first find a favorable place to defend themselves, and form a formation in place to wait for Jin Kou!" ”

The leaders around them suddenly received the order, and immediately rushed back to their own positions, and the leaders of the battalion posts gave orders in turn. The armies continued, and they were no more than seven or eight miles away to a stretch of boundless wilderness to assemble on the spot, and the officers and men of all the battalions spread out their formations, and soon formed a formation of red flags and white swords spread over thousands of miles of snow, and the soldiers in front of the army had already noticed that the earth began to tremble slightly. Immediately, someone put up a pergola and looked into the distance, and saw a group of black dots gathered like ants appeared on the other side of the horizon, and the black dots quickly became larger, it seemed that the cavalry had already launched an aggressive formation, urging the horses faster and faster, and galloped towards the army of Xiao Tang, who was only defending themselves now. For a while, the sky was full of dust and smoke, and a large number of Jurchen cavalry came like an angry flood that broke the embankment, accompanied by a roar that resounded through the clouds.

Just as the iron armor of the soldiers of the rebel army was sonorous and lined up in a dense formation faster, the soldiers in front could faintly see a large number of heavy cavalry soldiers among the enemy cavalry who were killed violently, and the war horses under the crotch were draped with curtains, chicken necks, chests, heads, chest climbing, piggybacks and other vest objects, which also made those high-headed horses in the north look at them like a terrifying monster covered with iron barbs.

Hu Yanzhuo, the main general of the Broken Formation Army, who was on the left flank of the large array, was a good general who knew how to do it against the heavy cavalry, and he saw that the heavy armored iron cavalry in the opposite Jin army was wearing a set of well-made armor, only looking at its workmanship and the metallic texture reflected in the sunlight, roughly totaling a weight of several hundred catties, it seemed that it was heavier than the armor and horse armor used by the chain horse heavy cavalry he pulled, and the majestic war horse riding on the opposite side was in color. It is also much taller and more majestic than the mounts selected and cobbled together among the scarce war horses of the official army in the Song Dynasty.

The herd, at least now, looks like a majestic war horse, covered with heavy armor of human and horse harness, and the bowl-sized horses' hooves are densely and violently knocked on the surface, which sounds like a chain of thunderstorms in the sky, roaring endlessly, and even the heroic soldiers who have been in battle for a long time on the scene can't help but change their faces slightly, not to mention how many years the Song army has not experienced much war, and the weak soldiers who have lax military discipline and lax military affairs are afraid that they will be scared immediately, and they can't give birth to the slightest desire to fight!

However, the heavy iron scarves worn by the elite Jurchen heavy cavalry wearing heavy armor only exposed two holes and a pair of tricks full of murderous aura, just looking ahead, and the heavy armor pieces on their bodies do not seem to be ordinary horse army armor made of small armor leaves, but look straight and layered with layers of plate-like armor strips, gradually decreasing upwards to form a large pair of placket armor, at first glance, it really looks like a Futu iron tower standing on top of the iron monster.

Each of the Tiefutu heavy armored warriors was born with broad shoulders and broad backs, and now they rushed in groups, and it seemed to be endless, and the number of people seemed to be much more than the chain of horse soldiers led by Hu Yanzhuo. Peng Xi, who was hit by an arrow in the neck of the war with Taiyuan in Hedong, still had to be recuperated, and when Hu Yanzhuo looked at Han Tao beside him, the two looked at each other, and the expressions on their faces were also very solemn.

At the beginning, he almost suffered a big loss when he was fighting with the elite cavalry of Yinshuke's department, and Peng Xi, who was the same brother and sister as Hu Yanzhuo and Han Tao, was almost killed in the battle formation of the two sides riding back and forth. Hu Yanzhuo couldn't help but clench it hard again, and he couldn't help but secretly say: No wonder the Song army led by Zhang Shuye in Jeju was slaughtered by the Jin army Tiefu and collapsed at the slightest touch

What's more, there are even more elite horses on the left and right sides of Tiefutu.

The knights in the front row of the heavy spear and horse from the two wings are all armed with long weapons such as horse lances and spears, and countless sharp points are revealed from the front formation, and the cavalry in the back rows are armed with heavy blunt weapons such as hammers and maces, and they are also carrying sharp sabers around their waists. Almost all the knights are also elite soldiers who can open a hard bow and control horses and shoot freely. And the Tiefutu and the Kidnapping Horse are also the elite and brave of all the tribes, and then with the Jurchen strength and the seemingly inexhaustible physical strength of the resolute combat power to launch wave after wave of fierce attacks, what enemy will not be completely swept away and annihilated under the crushing of such strong horses?

At least for now, Wanyan Wushu was with the same thoughts, he rode forward on the support of a group of Jin army generals, and his beast-like eyes fell on the opposite side of the enemy army formation that had not been formed long after the formation through the layers of cavalry arrays in front of him, and soon, Wanyan Wushu showed a hideous smile on his face, and the blazing battle intent in a pair of moves was like fire, and it also burned more and more intensely

(Tianjin)