Chapter 31: Breaking the Formation
Gao Huaiyuan blushed slightly, compared with Meng Hui's calmness, he looked a little more tender, no wonder Meng Heng could become such a famous general in later generations, this psychological quality is really different, and he has a clear understanding of the development of the battlefield, which Gao Huaiyuan is ashamed of, he coughed slightly in embarrassment, and involuntarily touched his nose.
"Huh! Don't worry, brother, it's the first time you've participated in such a battle, so you don't need to be arrogant, when the foolish brother first saw this meeting, I'm afraid it would be as calm as you! Let's see, the good days of the cavalry of the Jin Army are over! Meng Hui saw Gao Huaiyuan's embarrassment, so he smiled and said to him.
Hearing Meng Heng say this, Gao Huaiyuan didn't feel embarrassed anymore, after all, it was the first time he felt like this kind of scene, and it was natural to be a little nervous, compared to Meng Hui, he experienced this kind of scene less after all!
So Gao Huaiyuan cleaned up his mood and continued to look towards the battle situation on both wings, and sure enough, after the Jin army broke through the front of the Song army on both wings, the Song army in the center began to press up under the command of their respective generals, and gradually began to curb the momentum of the Jin army's in-depth assault, and a large number of Song troops pressed up, making the formation in front of the Jin army cavalry more and more dense, and after hitting several Song troops in a row, the cavalry in front gradually lost their impact and began to slow down.
This is the turn of these Jin army cavalry nightmare is coming, once the war horse lost its impact, they were quickly squeezed in the crowd by the Song army around them, although they continued to wave their arms, slashing and killing the Song soldiers around them, but the Song army also began to have the power to fight back, the shield soldiers held their shields to parry their attacks, stabbed or cut the single knives and shuttle guns in their hands, and there were spearmen in the distance who continued to kill those Jin soldiers sitting high on horseback. So after the Jin soldiers achieved a short small victory, the Jin soldiers in front finally ran out and fell into the Song army's formation.
One by one, the golden soldiers howled miserably and were stabbed off the war horse, and they were drowned in the crowd in an instant, and were hacked to death by the surrounding Song army, and the corpses were divided on the spot, and the plasma was splashed in the crowd, and the Song army finally found the object of venting, and the frenzied backlog forward, and even stampede, in this chaotic formation, killing the enemy is secondary, first of all, you have to ensure that you don't be pushed down, otherwise, in such a crowded crowd, once you fall, it will be a big trouble!
Seeing that the cavalry in front was finished, and the cavalry behind had no way to impact, the officer of the Jin cavalry roared, and immediately commanded the remnants of his men to pull their horses away, and under the hard fight, they rushed out of the Song army with the remnants of the formation, and retreated towards their own large array.
After seeing such a situation, Gao Huaiyuan secretly admired Meng Heng's vision, and the initial worry suddenly dissipated at this time, secretly thinking about how Meng Zongzheng should command the attack next.
As the war drums sounded, Gao Huaiyuan immediately heard that this was the order for the Chinese army to rise up and press up, Meng Hui raised the long knife in his hand and shouted to the left army under his command: "Shield!" Open up! ”
So with Meng Heng's order, the entire Chinese army array sounded a hula sound, and the shield soldiers raised the big shield on the ground one after another, raised the spear in their hands, and crossed the spear queue with a single knife in their hands, and arrived in front of the formation, and then maintained the formation step by step forward, pressing towards the Jin army array.
And Gao Huaiyuan's township soldiers were lined up in the back because they belonged to the auxiliary soldiers, and Gao Huaiyuan also returned to the baggage camp according to Meng Heng's instructions, and after shouting, he took the township soldiers of his baggage battalion to follow the rear of the left army and walked forward.
The villagers are both excited and nervous at this time, excited that they can finally go to the battlefield in a dignified manner, nervous is that they have experienced such a battle for the first time, I don't know if this battle can win the Jin Army, but during this time they have begun to gradually adapt to the atmosphere of the battlefield, although they are nervous, but they are not chaotic, they have maintained a neat formation in accordance with the requirements of their respective leaders, and followed the army forward, which finally did not embarrass Gao Huaiyuan, so that Gao Huaiyuan was relieved a lot.
The Chinese army array is like a thick giant wall, in the rumbling footsteps of thousands of people towards the Jin army, producing a chilling sense of coercion, and the handsome flag in the Chinese army also began to move slowly, this Meng Zongzheng, a general from a literati background, is very courageous, as the commander of the Chinese army, he can leave the team in place, command the battle, but he chose to follow the Chinese army to act together, so that the army maintains a strong morale.
After the Song army on both flanks was about to defeat the attack of the Jin army, they also began to immediately reorganize under the command of Hu Zaixing and Chen Xiang.
At this time, the Song army's original pinzig-shaped array began to become an inverted pinzig, and this time it became a pocket-shaped, relying on the numerical advantage, it began to envelop the Jin army's rectangular array, and after Wanyan Sai saw the failure of the cavalry assault on both wings, he immediately ordered to change the formation.
As the war drums of the Jin army sounded, the disabled cavalry returned to the rear, and the various arms began to transform from the inside to the outside into an oval-like circular formation, so as to form a thick defensive formation, and the crossbowmen began to insert the arrows in front of them one by one, so that they could be used at any time, and the crossbowmen opened their strong crossbows.
With the advance of the Song army, the distance between the two armies began to close, and gradually entered the range of the Jin army's crossbowmen, and then the Jin army's crossbowmen began to intercept and fire the Song army under the command of the officer.
Compared with the Song army, the Jin army did not pay enough attention to the crossbow soldier, but as a country established by a nomadic people, after more than a hundred years of evolution, they gradually mastered the production of crossbows, but in terms of the number of equipment, far less than the Song army.
A crossbow arrow rose into the air, making a swishing sound in the air, sprinkled in the Song army, most of the crossbow arrows fell on the dense shield, making a tuk tuk sound, and some fell on people, and then there would be a miserable snort, the person who was hit by the arrow either stiffened, stretched out his hand to break the arrow shaft on the armor, and continued to move forward, and some people were injured to the point, and immediately fell to the ground, making a scream, but no one had time to save them at this time.
This is the cold weapon war, the importance of the array is related to the victory or defeat on the battlefield, the wounded will only be rescued when the battlefield is cleaned up after the war, once the army is defeated, then they are the object of abandonment, waiting for only the slaughter of the enemy, so in the era of cold weapon warfare, you can only ask for more blessings, don't become a wounded, even if you die on the spot, it is a little stronger than lying on the battlefield and wailing.
Although Jin* intercepted, the threat to the Song army was not great, and it was not able to disrupt the Song army's formation, while the three Song army formations still maintained an intact formation and continued to advance.
When the Song army advanced for a while, there was a sound of horns in the Chinese army's formation, and the armies immediately stopped, and the shield soldiers in the front row immediately squatted down and formed a shield wall with their shields.
At this time, a battalion of soldiers and horses was killed in the three formations of the Song army, and after a deep roar, under the cover of the crossbowmen, they rushed towards the Jin army's main array.
Although Gao Huaiyuan is in the rear army, but he is riding on a horse, he can see the changes in the army, silently watching, taking in all kinds of situations, and keeping it firmly in his heart, such a scene is rare for him, if he misses this opportunity, if he wants to watch it again in the future, I am afraid it will be difficult!
Not only did he look at it again, but he also ordered his young men to pay attention to it, this was a rare opportunity for them to practice and learn, and they must not be allowed to miss this great opportunity, a few people with horses got on their horses, and the officers without horses boarded the rear of the cart with their bed crossbows to watch, in short, they could not miss the opportunity.
Gao Huaiyuan knew that the reason why the Song army stopped was not to start a bow and arrow contest with the Jin army, but to let the three armies send an assault force to break through the Jin army's defense line, tear a hole in the Jin army's dense defense line, and then attack.
If the whole army is pressed up like this, it will be a big melee, only a stupid commander will do that, the Jin army's circular array defense is very strong, fighting is not a group fight, more people will be, a collective attack will only make the Song army pay heavy casualties, but it may not be able to defeat the Jin army, so Meng Zongzheng's choice is correct, which Gao Huaiyuan agrees with.
There is nothing for them to do at this time, and their gang has completely become spectators watching the battle from behind, just using this time, one is to absorb what they learned in the first battle just now, and by the way, accumulate some strength, I don't know if they will be used, so everyone stretched their necks and watched the battle.
The three commandos of the Song army roared and ran wildly under the leadership of the officers, forming three arrow-shaped arrays, rushing towards the Jin army's large array, trying to carve three holes in this huge egg, tearing holes for the army behind and crushing the Jin army.
And the Jin army was not in vain, in the drumbeat of the commander flag of the Chinese army, the archers were mobilized to start intensive firing, intercepting their assault, a large number of Song troops fell to the ground with arrows on the way to the charge, but the living people simply ignored the dead and wounded robes, and continued to charge with shields, since they were selected to carry out the assault, it means that they are the elite of the army, under the military order, each bravely forward, which they did.
The archers of the Song army also fired crossbows one after another, providing support for the three assault battalions, suppressing the archers of the Jin army, trying to clear the passage for them, both sides paid a great price in a short time, and hundreds of people fell to this land forever in such an instant, turning into dead souls and dissipating between heaven and earth.
After a short period of time, the three assault battalions were all pasted with the Jin Army's large array, the infantry assault was not as powerful as the cavalry, but hundreds of people crashed into one place at the same time, and the power was not small, they were like three torrents, and suddenly crashed into the Jin Army's formation, and suddenly stirred up a red wave, and blood immediately splashed out.
When the spearmen on the outside of the Jin army array rushed over, they roared at the same time, and quickly stabbed out the spear, and the Song army that rushed up suddenly fell down with blood splashing, and only a few people swept away the Jin army's spurs, broke into the Jin army, and slashed a few Jin soldiers with knives, but they were immediately killed by more Jin soldiers with knives and guns.
These Song soldiers continued to carry out fearless impact on the Jin army front, the soldiers on both sides launched a fight, a large number of fell in a pool of blood, although these Song soldiers are also very brave, but the Jin army array is very tight, under the continuous impact, although they also killed a lot of Jin soldiers, but they paid a greater price, after many charges, but failed to tear through the Jin army's defense line, but under the counterattack of the Jin soldiers, the casualties were very heavy, and they had to pay a huge price after finally retreating.
This time the Song army also failed to tear apart the Jin army's front, the two sides shot at each other like this, Gao Huaiyuan secretly said that it was a pity, if the Song army had a sufficiently elite cavalry at this time, it would make the Song army's assault force more effective, presumably there should be no problem in tearing the Jin army's array! But this can only be a YY idea, the Southern Song Dynasty is simply unable to form such a cavalry team, and the lack of horses has made the Southern Song Dynasty equip an elite cavalry, which has become an unrealizable dream.
While watching, suddenly a herald ran over and shouted to Gao Huaiyuan on the horse: "General Meng has an order, so you can immediately unload a few bed crossbows from the car and transport them to the front!" ”
Gao Huaiyuan immediately hugged his fist and gave the order, and his heart jumped suddenly, this is a good way, the bed crossbow is really powerful, it's a pity not to use it at this time! No wonder this time he sent troops, Meng Hui asked him to carry a few such guys, it turned out that he was going to use them here, a handful of Yin Jin soldiers! Terrible!
So he immediately turned his horse and shouted to these people behind him: "Immediately lift the bed crossbow forward, move faster!" ”
So the strong men who were in charge of the operation of the bed crossbow immediately unloaded the bed crossbow, shouted the trumpet and raised it and walked forward, and the soldiers in front immediately gave way for them to pass.
When they lifted the bed crossbow to the front, they did not immediately separate the array to expose them, but the shield men immediately organized a shield wall for them, one was to block the sight of the Jin soldiers, and the other was also for them to block the loss of the gold soldiers, those villagers immediately put down the bed crossbow, struggled to start winding, and placed the giant arrows on the crossbow bed, as they finished loading, the Song army that was blocking them in front of them immediately separated under an order, revealing them.
The Jin army on the opposite side was immediately shocked, this is simply a bayonet on a cannon! At such a close distance, they didn't expect Song Jun to actually get a few bed crossbows and put them on their noses, if they took a beating, it would be really bearable!
So there are Jin soldiers immediately lost their voices and exclaimed, so frightened that they almost cried, they have the courage to fight against manpower, but once it is beyond the range they can fight, it is unacceptable, after seeing the Song army put out this kind of thing, the defenders of the Jin army in this section panicked, and the front line was unstable, and some Jin soldiers and archers immediately turned their bows and arrows, trying to shoot these Song soldiers who operated the bed crossbow.
But they were obviously a little late, at this time the person in charge of the launch had already smashed the mallet on the machine, several bed crossbows immediately made a jaw-wrenching sound, several huge arrows immediately flew out, without waiting for the Jin army to dodge, they rushed into the Jin army, under such a blow, the Jin army only relied on the shield in their hands, to block the giant arrows of these bed crossbows, it was simply a dream.
In front of these giant arrows, everyone is equal, and the giant arrows have absolute priority to pass, several giant arrows immediately broke a few deep ditches in the crowd of golden soldiers, all the golden soldiers along the way were ploughed open by the arrows of the flat shovel, many golden soldiers were even broken in half on the spot, and the death was miserable, even if it was the arrow shaft that finally lost its momentum, it still swept a few unlucky golden soldiers away, until they completely lost their power, and fell in the thick crowd of golden soldiers.
Under such a blow, the Jin soldiers in this section immediately collapsed, and in the face of the terrifying power of the bed crossbow, they could not continue to hold it any longer, so the formation immediately began to be chaotic.
Seeing that Song Jun suddenly made this hand out, Wan Yan Saibu was also startled, and said in his heart, damn it, this is going to be bad! So he hurriedly ordered to close the gap, but at this time, Meng Hui didn't give him this opportunity, and immediately led the army to rush towards this chaotic place after the bed crossbow was launched.
The shield hand of the Song army opened the way, and the shuttle spears were thrown into the Jin army in rows, quickly taking advantage of the chaos, causing huge damage to the Jin army, and then the pikemen cooperated with the shield soldiers, and they attacked the Jin army's large array like a flood.
The two armies immediately fought together, and in front of the bed crossbow, the Jin army's impregnable defense line was finally torn open by Meng Heng's army, and under the desperate efforts of many Song troops, this gap was rapidly expanded.
Gao Huaiyuan saw that Meng Heng had torn apart the Golden Soldier Array, so he raised the newly acquired Glaive Sword in his hand high, and smiled at Huang Yan and the others behind him: "Brothers, come with me to kill the Golden Dog!" Then he immediately rushed out first.
Behind him, the three hundred soldiers of the baggage battalion immediately followed, roaring and rushing towards the Jin army array, at this time no one was afraid, today is the time for them to ask the Jin country to repay the blood debt, everyone rushed first, lest they fall behind, and each rushed out like a tiger.
The other Song troops saw that Meng Hui's soldiers and horses had torn apart the Jin army's array, so they all pressed up, and the two sides finally started a scuffle......