Chapter 303: Breaking the Enemy with Horses
"Ah Shu is also old!" After the Jin army finished arraying, Wushu looked at the opposite side, and a veteran of the fluttering handsome banner immediately stabbed a horizontal sword, his beard was white, and his face was full of traces of history.
"He is getting more and more energetic, and he can still ride a horse and hold a knife at eighty, it won't be a wooden knife!" Wan Yan Nie Er laughed, causing the people around him to laugh.
"Is it Ah Shu on the other side?" Wushu ignored Nie Er, and asked in a loud voice.
"Hehe, grandpa exactly, who are you?" Ah Shu Da Lu shouted with a smile, his voice was loud and went straight to the front of the formation, if he only listened to the voice, he really didn't know that he was already an old man.
"I am the Taishi of the Great Jin Kingdom, and the internal and external armies have completed the Yan Wushu!" Wushu replied in a deep voice, his eyes swept over the enemy army on the opposite side, and he saw that the army of the Five Kingdoms was in strict shape, the infantry army was in the center, the cavalry was arranged on both wings, the men and horses were all wearing iron armor, and the swords and guns in their hands were shining.
"The fourth child of the Akuda family, they have grown so big, and now you are in power!" Ah Shu urged him to step forward, standing still twenty paces away, he looked Wushu up and down and said.
"Don't dare, I am trusted by the emperor to assist the saint in handling some small things!" For Ah Shu's contempt, Wushu really has no temper, and the two families often come and go before they get along, and there are not so many rules now, visiting the door is like going to the toilet, and Ah Shu and Ah Gu are on the same level, and he really can't stand up from his father.
"The son of the rope fruit is still a child, don't they all have to listen to you?" Ah Shu said with a smile.
"Hehe, it's a joke!" Wushu Zhidao said that this old man asked knowingly. That words squeezed him, but now that the situation is limited, he doesn't want to turn his face with him immediately, so he said with a dry smile. "You are past the prime, why should you be our enemy again, it is better to return to Shun and spend your old age as soon as possible, I can ask the emperor to pardon your whole clan, and the past is not to blame!"
"Ha Luha, I've been fighting with you for most of my life, and I don't want to lose my life. I can't close my eyes if I don't finish my face! Ah Shu touched his snow-white beard and smiled.
"Don't you want to return to your homeland and seek a wealth for your children and grandchildren?" Wushu's face twitched unnaturally twice, and he forcibly suppressed his anger and persuaded again, and his words became hard.
"Haven't I come back? It is the old land of the five kingdoms of my Jurchens. Just in time the leaves have fallen back to their roots! As for my descendants, they have already been slaughtered by your complete face! Ah Shu squinted his eyes and teased.
"Then we must meet each other today!" Ah Shu's cold gaze was full of murderous aura, which made the battle-hardened Wushu can't help but be clever, he realized that this old man's resentment against Wanyan is too deep, and the hatred between the two has already penetrated deep into the bone marrow.
"Huh. As long as you have one person left in the Yan Ministry. The knife in my Ah Shu's hand will not be put down! Ah Shu said with a smile, but this laughter made people's hearts chill.
"It's okay, then let me see if your Five Nations Department can stop the iron hooves of my army!" Realizing that the hatred between the two was an endless situation, and it could not be resolved in a few words, he replied coldly.
"Child, just let the horses come!" Ah Shu said with a smile still on his face, maintaining the demeanor of an elder......
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Words are not speculative, Wushu and Ah Shu returned to their respective positions. Wushu had already seen the deployment of the armies of the five countries, and their total strength was about 20,000, and the other side had the advantage in terms of troops. The whole army was divided into three divisions. The Chinese army formed a defensive formation and waited for work. Resist the full onslaught of the enemy; The left and right armies were responsible for quickly outflanking the enemy's flanks in a roundabout way, and finally encircling and annihilating the enemy forces at the last time. It is precisely the traditional tactic of 'holding the center, outflanking the two flanks, and encircling and annihilating the enemy'.
"Wanyan Mengshi, you lead two thousand Tiefutu to attack the enemy's Chinese army with me, develop in depth after breaking through, and capture and kill Ah Shu!" Wushu ordered, "After the enemy's army has broken through, you lead the army to meet the enemy's left flank cavalry, and be sure to defeat it so that it cannot encircle me. ”
Wushu knew very well that he was facing the danger of being short of soldiers and food, and being blocked by the enemy, and the Song army would not be deceived for long, if he could not quickly defeat the Five Kingdoms Department blocking the road in front of him, and was caught up by the Song army, he would be dragged to death in Goryeo sooner or later. Therefore, he hopes to have a decisive battle with the troops of the Five Kingdoms, so as to change the passive defense, and at the same time open the way for the arrival of the follow-up troops, weakening the strength of the troops of the Five Nations in the Lazy Dian area, so that it will not be able to gain a foothold here!
From the point of view of the Wushu, the formation of the Five Nations Department seems to be full of murderous opportunities, but the key to their implementation of this tactic is that the central formation must not be broken, so that the troops on both flanks can have time to complete the encirclement. However, the army of the Five Kingdoms also followed the traditional route of the Jurchens, who were good at riding and shooting, and was an army dominated by cavalry and supplemented by infantry troops. And the cavalry is just not good at defense, so letting the cavalry line up to defend against the impact is definitely to use the shortcomings to deal with the strengths.
Although Zhao Er's army was also dominated by cavalry, he had artillery to provide firepower as a backing to make up for his shortcomings, but Ah Shu did not have these sharp weapons in their hands, so that the battle-hardened Wushu immediately seized their weakness. At the same time, Ah Shu's handsome flag also made Wushu see the possibility of crushing the enemy's command center, fighting more with less, and turning the tide.
The offensive soon began, and under the cover of the light cavalry, Wushu commanded Tiefutu to rush to the cavalry deployed on the first line of the Five Nations Division. Wushu is worthy of being a fierce general, he once again exerted his might, holding a shield in one hand and an axe in the other, leading the cavalry to charge, killing the cavalry responsible for covering in front of the army formation of the Five Kingdoms, and breaking down the thin infantry defense line. Just when Wushu thought that he would repel the troops of the Five Nations in one fell swoop, as he did before, the real trouble came.
In front of his eyes, a formation that he had never seen before appeared, the war horses were connected by iron cables, and the entire battle array was interlocked, like a strong wall. But this is different from their Tiefutu, which is only a defensive formation, not for offense. The Jin army's Tiefutu rushed up, although it shot down some of the troops of the Five Kingdoms on horseback and cut a few iron cables, but the formation was still not scattered, and the Tiefutu trapped in the formation was constantly shot under the horse, and the impact force gradually weakened under the obstruction of the iron cable.
"Kill, capture and kill Ah Shu, get rid of this national thief!" Wushu shouted, urging the horse to rush forward, he understood very well, opened the bow and did not turn back, knowing that he had fallen into a desperate situation, he could only advance without retreating, and waved his army desperately to kill the army, hoping to capture Ah Shu and turn the tide of the battle.
And everyone also understands that if they retreat at this time, the troops of the five countries with superior forces will immediately cover up and kill, and the losses will be even heavier. Under the influence of the example of the vultures, the Tiefutu braved the rain of arrows shot by the troops of the five countries and completely played with their lives, desperately attacking the horse formation. For a time, the battle entered a climax, the soldiers of the two armies fought together, and the battlefield was full of blood......
Although the battle on the battlefield was still intractable, the Jin Army's Tiefutu, which attacked the chain of horse formations, was repeatedly frustrated, and anyone with a discerning eye could see that the defeat of the Jin Army had been revealed. Ah Shu breathed a sigh of relief, he was a Jurchen, of course he knew the power of Tiefutu very well, although his army could also be called well-trained, but he understood that it was difficult to parry Tiefutu, so at first he was mainly harassing and did not dare to engage the Jin army. However, the Jin army was bent on returning north and did not want to entangle with them, and a decisive battle was inevitable.
Fortunately, at this time, some of his subordinates offered a clever plan, in order to enhance the stability of the cavalry defense formation of the five national armies, it was recommended to select 5,000 knights who were good at archery, connect them with iron cables, and also form a chain of horse formations to fight against the Jin army's greatest threat Tiefutu. Of course, everyone knows that the Wushu of the Dao is not an idle person, and the name of the 'God of War' is not in vain, if he sees the horse formation directly, he will judge the intentions of the troops of the Five Kingdoms.
In order to lure the vultures to take the bait, in addition to setting up more door flags to block the sight of the enemy on the opposite side, Ah Shu also deployed a small number of cavalry in front of the chain of horse formations, which could be used as bait and cover the formation. At the same time, in order to increase the temptation, Ah Shu erected a handsome flag in the Chinese army, and also personally talked to Wushu to lure the enemy, using his eagerness to capture the thief and capture the king's war-seeking psychology to lure him to attack the Chinese army, and now it seems that they are very successful, and they have firmly grasped the initiative on the battlefield.
"Sule, your plan really worked, otherwise you really wouldn't be able to stop their Tiefutu!" Seeing that Jin Jun was blocked by a chain of horses, Ah Shu said excitedly to a middle-aged man beside him.
"General, my subordinates just read a few more books, when Emperor Ran Wei Ran Min bravely built the world, he was forced by Murong Ke to connect with horses, I just relied on the gourd to draw a scoop, the main thing is that the general did not hesitate to risk his life to lead the Jin army to be fooled!" Su Le modestly said that he was one of the first Han people to return to China with Ah Shu to oppose Jin, and was often praised by everyone because of his resourcefulness, and Su Le in the Jurchen language means smart, and after a long time, he took this as his name, and later married a woman in the Sushi Lie clan, and was more trusted and relied on by Ah Shu, becoming the first think tank under him, and faintly becoming the patriarch heir of the next generation.
"It's still that you have a good arrangement, and our intentions have not been discovered by the vultures to succeed, and you should be the first to take the lead in this battle!" Ah Shu said with a smile
"General, the enemy army has been entangled by us, and the two wings should also step forward!" Souler looked at the situation on the battlefield and suggested.
"Okay, order the two wings to come forward and surround the Jin Army Brigade!" Ah Shu nodded and ordered.
The dull horn sounded again, and the cavalry on both wings of the army of the Five Kingdoms outflanked the Jin army. Wan Yan Yu Lie, who was ordered to watch the house, saw the two wings of the Five Kingdoms moving in unison, pounced on them, and also led the remaining men and horses to meet them from the left flank according to Wushu's instructions in advance, intending to defeat them and ensure that Tiefutu broke through the enemy's Chinese army. (To be continued......)