Chapter 716: The Dawn of Victory
After Han Chang was killed by Yang Zaixing, his subordinates did not hold out for long......
After all, they are not Jurchens.
At least 3,000 remnants of Han Chang chose to surrender and were escorted away, because the national teacher had already ordered that except for the Jurchens, no matter whether they surrendered or not, the remaining Khitans and Han people were not allowed to be killed as long as they surrendered, so they were escorted to the rear of the battle line to wait for disposal.
And their surrender led to the opening of the flanks of Wanyan Yanmu.
There was no longer enough troops to block Wang De and Yang Zaixing, the two fierce beasts, so she could only shrink the front and give up the attack on Zhang Jun and Miao Fu, but at the same time, Han Shizhong's troops began to counterattack, and the Jin army that originally attacked him had to retreat, which was actually the contraction of the entire Jin army. Immediately after that, Yao Youzhong and Gao Shidan in the north also began to counterattack, and the six divisions combined together with a total of more than 120,000 troops squeezed forward at the same time, because the battlefield sandwiched between the Qinhe River and the Taihang Mountain was a rough acute angle, and their horizontal squeeze soon made the 120,000 troops unite as a whole......
An army of 120,000!
They stretched nearly twenty miles!
Small infantry formations lined up on the plain at a distance that could support each other, and the high-morale soldiers in the formation were densely approaching, holding various weapons in their hands, and slowly but surely moving forward under the sound of drums, constantly squeezing the range of movement of the Jin cavalry.
The latter could not rush away from them.
Although they had left the protection of the horse belt at this time, they had adapted to the rhythm of the battlefield, especially the soldiers who were inspired by the victory, the original fear of the Jin army and the cavalry had disappeared, and now they knew very well that they had the advantage on the battlefield, and what they needed to do was very simple, so they formed a formation and kept moving forward. Then they will be victorious, the war that has lasted for many years will end, there will be no more burning and looting by the Jin army in the south, and their homeland will be restored to peace and tranquility. Not for the emperor, not for anyone, only for their own homes and relatives, the invasions of the Jin army over the years have already let them know the consequences of escaping, so at this moment they are extremely determined, they are extremely tenacious, and when an infantry forms such a formation and has a firm and tenacious will, the cavalry can hardly break through their defensive line.
The greatest advantage of cavalry over infantry was not the ability to shock from the front, but with the high mobility of flank attacks.
But the Song army did not flank.
To their left is the flooding Qin River.
To their right are the vast mountains that stretch across China.
He had passed tens of thousands of cavalry, but he could only choose the most unfavorable frontal shock for the cavalry, and then face the dense spears, tens of thousands of divine arms and bows, countless battle axes, axes, axes, guns, and even gunpowder weapons, as well as bed crossbows and ballistas.
In addition, there were the cavalry of the Song army and those fierce generals.
Except for Yao Youzhong and Gao Shidan, who had no cavalry, the other divisions had a certain number of cavalry as the core, and the battles in this era were all infantry cannon fodder hand-to-hand combat consumption, and then the elite cavalry of the commander's closest trust made the final blow at the right time. Whether it was Han Shizhong, who obtained the war horses from the Liao State before going south from Hebei, or Zhang Jun and Liu Guangshi of the Western Army system, who were originally equipped with cavalry, all of them had cavalry of one or two thousand, and these cavalry were led by Wang De, Yang Zaixing, Xie Yuan and other fierce generals who originally supported the Southern Song Dynasty in history.
And Yao Youzhong and the two showed off the heaviest weapons in their hands......
Rocket.
It's not the National Teacher version.
It was made by the craftsmen of the Great Song Dynasty, dragging a bamboo pole to stabilize it, without any precision at all, but fortunately they did not need precision either, these strange weapons that flew out of the Song army and exploded in the cavalry of the Jin army, creating chaos with fire and loud noises.
Their infamy is a weapon in itself.
In this way, the army of the Mother of Jamu kept retreating in front of a moving iron wall, and they attacked again and again, but again and again they hit the dead bodies in front of this iron wall.
Although the Song army died more, the Song army was numerous!
Because the Golden Vulture was still holding down Zong Ze, Han Chang's entire army was annihilated, and after the casualties of the Yanmu army, there were less than 30,000 left, and the Song army was four times that of him, and the Song army could not afford to consume it, so he was squeezed through the Danshui little by little, although he desperately attacked, but he still failed to stop the Song army from crossing the Danshui, and then he lost the most important connection channel for Luosuo on the south bank.
Immediately afterwards, Loso also gave up his struggle on the south bank and began to retreat north.
Loso was actually even worse.
He took 20,000 Jin troops and was surrounded and beaten by the remaining three armies of the Imperial Camp Division and 60,000 elites, as well as Wang Yan of Sun Zhao's distant department and 30,000 Song troops under the Zhai brothers, a total of 90,000 Song troops.
Although there is a Liu Qi in this iconic famous general, there are a full 60,000 of the most elite imperial battalion divisions, and there is still Wang Yan, the founder of the eight-character army, he is indeed not famous, but Liu Qi won the battle of Shunchang The basis is his eight-character army, after Wang Yan was relieved of military power, Liu Qi, who was a close confidant of Zhao Gou, parachuted to take over his subordinates, and then relied on this army and excellent command ability, Liu Qi played a miraculous victory in Shunchang.
As for the Zhai brothers are Luoyang Haoqiang, the Wangjia in the Longmen area, the Zhai family has been fighting for the Southern Song Dynasty in the Luoyang area in the original history, and after the brothers were killed in battle, Zhai Xing's son once recovered Luoyang, and then he really couldn't hold on, so he led his subordinates to retreat south to Xiangyang.
He is a real soldier in this part.
This is fighting with its back to its homeland.
The 90,000 army and the army on the north bank are the same, lined up and pushed to the north, Luo Suo rushed several times and was unable to shake the phalanx of the imperial camp army, but made himself suffer heavy losses, originally he and the north bank of the Jiaqin River array, at this time saw that the Yanmu had lost the pontoon bridge in Huaizhou, knowing that there was no good result in staying on the south bank, he immediately retreated to the north, his goal was the upper reaches of the Qin River, where the water is not only shallow but also the road and a bridge.
However, he was still a step too late.
When he was about to see his destination with less than 15,000 gold troops, on the plain not far from his flank, a cavalry had already finished forming and raised its spear.
"It's finally here!"
Li Yanxian let out a sigh and said.
"Kill!"
He raised his spear and looked at the opponent who had fought with him for three years, and then seized the Shaanzhou massacre from him, which made him commit suicide in anger, and then let out a roar.
Three thousand cavalry at the same time urged the horses.
And to their right were tens of thousands of infantry in tattered clothes, with few armor, and few weapons, even bows, and the formation was equally chaotic, and in front of these men, several generals who did not even have horses also raised their weapons in their hands at this moment.
"Kill, it's time for revenge!"
One of them roared, and for the first time began to run, and all the soldiers behind him rushed forward.
Loso immediately stopped his formation.
However, his 15,000 men and horses also dragged a long team, and some of them were even withdrawing from the battlefield around Mengzhou, and the forward who really arrived here with him was only 5,000, and these 5,000 cavalry hurriedly lined up on the Qin River.
But that cavalry actually didn't even have much armor, and the lightly armed horses were very fast, and they arrived before the formation was completed, but fortunately, the mounted cavalry under Loso didn't pay attention to these light cavalry, and the five hundred armored cavalry who were the first to complete the formation crashed head-on, but they slowed down after approaching the line of sight......
A dense forest of spears!
Originally, he had been fighting in the Luoyang area, and at this moment, the Jin army, who was charging on the wall for the first time, subconsciously wanted to avoid the edge of this thing.
It is said that at this time, the cavalry did not use spears for a long time.
In fact, at this time, the cavalry general long weapon is the cone gun, but the cone gun is actually very short, but the gun is very thick, this is the helpless move after the development of armor and cost balance, first of all, the cone gun can break the armor, and secondly, the short and thick gun is not easy to break and can be used continuously, and the Tang Dynasty Ma Zhen did take into account these two, long enough, strong enough to break the armor, and it is also an ancient composite rod that is not afraid of breaking, but the civilian officials who have used the soldiers as cannon fodder are obviously not interested in matching these thieves with this expensive weapon.
How much does a horse cost?
How much is it to have a wooden rod behind a taper gun head?
Eventually, Ma Jin disappeared.
And the conone gun, which is similar to the modern big gun, became the mainstream.
And at this moment, a dense piece of spears longer than the horse, at a relative speed of more than 100 miles, hit head-on, these battle-hardened Jin army cavalry do not need to guess to know the next result, such a dense wall-like formation can not dodge the attack at all, and such a speed spear when the chest impact even if it can't penetrate the armor and fall off the horse is absolute, and the cavalry battle is basically no different from death, the original charging Jin military cavalry did not hesitate to turn on the spot, trying to accelerate to avoid its edge.
Then, just like the result outside Bianliang City, three waves of cavalry wall charges instantly knocked over the chaotic Jin Army cavalry, and continued to crash into Luo Suo like a swept tide.
And in the back are those infantrymen.
These refugees, who didn't even have a few complete clothes, were more refugees than soldiers, and they surged up excitedly, smashing them with knives, guns, axes, hammers, and even flails in their hands, and all the Jin soldiers who were still alive also turned into dead bodies, and then picked up their weapons and even rode on their war horses The infantry followed Li Yanxian again.
At this time, Li Yanxian had already bumped into Luo Suo.
In the first round of impact, the spear had already broken one section, and Li Yanxian, who was holding the hollow wooden pole that was less than two-thirds of the length left, still relied on the impact force to knock off the horse with this wooden pole Jin Jun who was trying to block him with his mace, whose mace was not half as long as his wooden pole.
At the same time, his pole was finally scrapped.
He casually threw this thing away and took off the national teacher's version of the flail, and at the same time that the taper spear in Luo Suo's hand stabbed himself directly with the impact of the war horse, it instantly came to him, although the latter's cone spear pierced his breastplate and pierced his abdomen, but the three-edged nail hammer on Li Yanxian's flail that was connected to the wooden handle with an iron chain still accurately smashed into the top of Luo Suo's head.
The latter barely had time to scream before he fell to his horse......