Chapter 259: Forced Crossing
Don't look at Huang Yan's usual hippie smiling face in the army, and even a little hanging, but when he went into battle, he looked very fierce and abnormal, after a beast-faced steel mask was pulled down, together with the entire hood, the head was wrapped tightly, only two eyes flashing with fierce light were exposed, and it seemed that the whole body exuded a fierce atmosphere, a steel gun, leading the officers and soldiers of his trap battalion, roared and rushed down the embankment, stepping on the uneven passage towards the other side of the river. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
After seeing the Song army brazenly launched an attack, Yu Tan hurriedly ordered his soldiers to meet him, and ordered the crossbowmen in the army to release arrows to prevent the Song army from crossing the river, the two armies met together on the river beach on the north bank of the river, the Song army's trap soldiers on this side of the battle were originally quite good in iron armor, plus the cover of a large round shield, not afraid of the threat of arrows shot down like rain on the embankment, although a few unlucky arrows, but the casualties were not large, seeing that the enemy was about to hit them, Huang Yan immediately stopped and shouted: Throw!
The nearly 200 soldiers who rushed in front suddenly exerted their strength together, and the arm suddenly threw the shuttle gun in his hand towards the oncoming Northern Army, and after the shuttle gun left his hand, he immediately pulled out another shuttle gun from behind without stopping, held it in his hand and continued to rush forward.
After nearly two hundred shuttle guns flew out together, they immediately fell into the northern army dozens of steps away, this time the northern army tasted the power of the Song army, each shuttle gun weighed three or four pounds, and the strong arm strength of the people fought hard in the run, and the distance thrown could reach up to sixty or seventy steps away, although the range was not as far as the bow and crossbow, but under the weight acceleration, the power was far more than ten times that of ordinary bows and arrows, even if people were wearing heavy armor, it was difficult to block the penetration of sharp shuttle guns, not to mention that the equipment level of the northern army was not high, How could such an attack be resisted?
The soldiers of the northern army rushing to the front will be under this rain of shuttle guns, when even if the blood is splashed, they were immediately shot and killed, and the people who were hit by the shuttle guns rushed out of a distance with momentum, and fell to the ground, and even some people were stabbed head-on by the shuttle guns, and were carried upside down by the huge force to fly out, in short, before they made contact, the northern army paid heavy casualties, and there was no reason for the middle to be spared, either killed on the spot or seriously injured.
Yu Tan immediately stood on the north bank, after watching the performance of the Song army, his scalp immediately felt a little numb, such a shuttle attack, he saw it for the first time, he didn't expect the power to be so huge, even if he was not small, in the face of such a shuttle gun rain, he would still be pierced out of the transparent hole, and died on the spot, so the momentum of the northern army folded, followed by the soldiers who were not shot, and the generals who were not shot behind were a little hesitant, and the speed of the attack on the Song army slowed down.
Huang Yan led these trapping soldiers to rush to the north bank of the river and cast another round of pike guns under the cover of the shuttle guns and the rear crossbowmen, and the number of people throwing the shuttle guns this time was much larger, and the group of northern troops who met them were killed.
Huang Yan didn't care about the bows and arrows that came at him, the steel gun wheel in his hand was like a wheel, impervious to wind and rain, and crashed into the enemy group of the Northern Army, a big gun was like a poisonous dragon, the guide hit the north, out of nowhere, the gun pierced a line, swept a large area, the gun was hung with the sound of the wind, every time he shot, there would be at least one Northern Army soldier who would spray blood and pounce on the ground, there were few people who could make a few moves under him, under his leadership, those trapped soldiers around him were also not afraid of death, forming a formation, Defended with a shield, the spear in the right hand kept stabbing out, and the northern army was cut to the ground like cutting rice under their onslaught, that is, the time of a cup of tea, Huang Yan led the trappers to kill on the embankment with blood, and dispersed the archers arranged by Yu Tan on the embankment, and began to tear the defense line arranged by Yu Tan towards the north bank.
A large number of loyal soldiers of the loyal shun army who followed saw that Huang Yan personally led the trappers to tear apart the defense line of the northern army, and immediately rushed into the river, like a mountain torrent of a broken mouth, and killed the northern army on the north bank.
Yu Tan never thought that the Song army would be so fierce, the Song army, who had not much ability in his eyes before, was like taking the wrong medicine today, regardless of life and death, rushing towards his side, and suddenly he remembered that someone in the army had told him that this Song army was not trivial, this Song army was not the Zhutun army of Zhenjiang Mansion and Jiankang Mansion, but a battle-hardened army stationed in the area of Zaoyang on Jingxi Road, and they should not be underestimated, and now he understood the meaning of this sentence, this army is really extraordinary, The combat effectiveness is amazing, and he still made the big mistake of underestimating the enemy.
Knowing that it would not work like this, Yu Tan immediately closed the defensive line, and immediately concentrated the soldiers and horses stationed on both wings here, trying to block the Song army, attack Yu Bandu, and save the decline.
The two armies soon strangled together on the north bank of the river beach, but Yu Tan obviously understood that it was a little late, the Song army had a large number of soldiers and horses successfully crossed the river at this time, and gradually gained a firm foothold on the north bank, and established a solid bridgehead, Huang Yan broke through the defense line of the northern army, immediately commanded in the center, transferred a team of Song troops to the front, replaced the fallen soldiers, stabilized the front, and like a wheel, rotated the large array, and constantly pressed the newly crossed Song army to the front line, launching assaults again and again, encroaching on the territory of the Northern Army, every time it rotates, the Northern Army will be swept in, and they will soon be eaten by them, making Yu Tan at a loss, and can only fill it with people.
This kind of formation is a mandarin duck formation that Huang Yan learned from the war book, that is, the use of frequent staggered changes in the array, to produce a sense of rotation for the other party, every time the big array changes, as long as the other party tries to attack, there will be a group of people involuntarily fall into their big array, and then they are quickly surrounded, each of them is broken, very powerful, very suitable for facing evenly matched opponents, but the biggest problem of this mandarin duck array is that the drill is not easy, a little chaos, it may make the entire large array invalid, Only after a long period of training can the large array play a good role, and under normal circumstances, an army with insufficient training will not dare to use this kind of large array lightly.
However, Huang Yan dared to try it, as early as a year ago, Huang Yan began to drill this kind of mandarin duck formation in the army, and before this time to send troops, this kind of large array was extremely proficient, this is also the first time he used this kind of large array to meet the enemy, and it was really powerful under one use, and the northern army on the north bank was defeated and retreated.
Yu Tan actually led the army to resist until the afternoon, he knew that this battle was likely to be lost, and he had the heart to lead the army to withdraw from the battlefield, but looking at the battlefield, at this time, the Song army had already dragged the soldiers and horses under his command to death, and the two armies were in a state of glue, not at all he wanted to withdraw and withdraw, as long as he withdrew his troops now, the Song army would immediately cover up the whole army, and then the retreat would become a rout, and the reserves in his hands have basically been put into the battlefield, and there is no strength to enter the battlefield again, Dragged the Song army and made his main force retreat.
Yu Tanqi screamed, in order to repel the Song army, he had to go into battle in person, leading the Chinese army's pro-military battalion towards the Song army's assault, his pro-military battalion is naturally the strongest combat effectiveness in the army, all of which are composed of selected some elite soldiers, as soon as they are put into the battlefield, it immediately caused a lot of pressure on the Song army, and the transformation of the Mandarin Duck Formation began to become a little difficult.
In this way, Yu Tan had a kind of hope, feeling that there was still a chance to defeat the Song army, so he jumped on his horse and crossed the sword, led his soldiers to kill the rise, and the big knife in his hand flew up and down, constantly slashing the Song army in front of him, but it also looked majestic, which boosted the morale of the northern army that was originally at a disadvantage, and squeezed the Song army back a distance towards the river bank.
The Southern Army is now fighting a battle against the water, and the brothers will kill me! Drive the southern army back to the river for me, let them see how powerful we are, kill a soldier and reward ten times, kill one general and reward fifty times, big guy! Yu Tan was even more overjoyed when he saw that the Song army had been repelled by them, and then brandished his broadsword, shouting while continuing to attack the Song army.
Huang Yan's expression was grim, and now he didn't look like a hanger at all, calmly commanding the soldiers and horses under his command, constantly coping with the counterattacks of the northern army again and again, changing the formation, making their own array thicker, and putting the new crossbowmen who crossed the river into the battlefield, the most powerful of the Zhongshun Army is his crossbowmen, which is related to the foundation of the Song Army's construction, because the Song Army lacks horses, so the armies attach great importance to the training of crossbowmen, and it is the crossbowmen who occupy the most troops in the army, and the Zhongshun Army is naturally no exception, It can even be said that more attention is paid to the fact that when the crossbowmen under the command of Huang Yan crossed the river, they had long-distance killing means, and after a large number of crossbowmen crossed the river, they immediately lined up in the rear of the Song army, and with Huang Yan's order, the officers in the army loudly ordered to release arrows.
So the crossbowmen have put the bows and crossbows in their hands into the air, with the order to immediately release the arrows, a rain of arrows immediately rose into the air, towards the Song army is attacking the northern army overwhelmingly splashed over, the result is that the northern army has not much defense, under such a dense rain of arrows, the offensive was immediately frustrated, the arrows are numerous, greatly hit the strength of the northern army to fight back, so that Yu Tan had to adjust the formation, slowed down the attack on the Song army across the river.
At this time, the entire Northern Army was attracted to this area and entangled with the Song Army, and the Song Army, after successive assaults, also gained a firm foothold on the North Bank, repelled the Northern Army's counteroffensive again and again, and completely contained the momentum of the Northern Army so that it could not continue to compress the Song Army towards the river beach.
At this time, the corners of Huang Yan's mouth showed a sly sneer, and he immediately ordered the soldiers around him: Sound the arrow! The whole army is on the offensive!