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Thirty-eight battles are training

It is still quite hard to march quickly.

Fortunately, it did not rain this night, so the army walked for a while and arrived in Fei County in the early morning of the next day after departure. The entire army advanced near the barracks of the Fei County Town Defense Army.

According to the spies' reports, the defense of the military camp was quite lax. From a distance, they could see the guards at the gate of the military camp as if they were gambling, not on duty at all.

Even the guards are like this, let alone the Jin soldiers inside.

"Since that's the case, Uncle Yuting, why not just rush over and solve them?"

"Of course, you have to rush over, but you are rushing over the cavalry, not infantry. The infantry must maintain the army formation and stability and be free from chaos."

Su Yonglin arranged for a while, and he and Zhao Yucheng led the only three hundred cavalry to rush into the camp as vanguards, snatched the gate of the camp, and formed a formation by the main infantry forces, followed, advanced step by step, and cleaned up the endgame left by the cavalry.

It is not a good thing to be too strong, and it is not a good thing to be too weak. This lax defense has made countless tactics that Su Yonglin imagined, and the most efficient one is the simplest impact tactics.

Then, the battle began.

The infantry was handed over to Su Jue to command. Su Yonglin and Zhao Yucheng got on the horse and led the three hundred cavalry to start slowly. Then they ran faster and faster, and started a high-speed impact.

Under the terrified gamblers, the rebel cavalry came to their eyes like a storm like a storm.

The sharp blade flashed by, and several heads soared into the sky. The headless corpse fell to the ground miserably, twitched a few times, and finally there was no movement.

The attack officially unfolded, and the town defense barracks became chaotic like a blow-off, shouting, screaming, crying, and roaring. Some people fought, some got on horseback, some fled, and some just hid and didn't want to be discovered.

The three hundred cavalrymen of the Rebel Army rushed around, and the main force of the infantry led by Su Jue arrived quickly, quickly consolidating the results of the cavalry and killing the remaining Jin soldiers.

Although the battle was very smooth, the military formations of Zhao Yucheng's troops soon became scattered and became each other to fight.

Their military formation was scattered, and the military formations under Su Yonglin's troops also became scattered.

Su Jue was unable to control the army well in the chaos. Fortunately, the situation of the battle was settled and the Jin soldiers were defeated. These Jin soldiers were unable to make a comeback and could not counterattack. Several rebels chased a Jin soldier and killed them, killing them sobbing.

After almost two incense sticks, the battle was over, the Jin soldiers were wiped out, and a few surrendered were killed - the rebels do not need to be captured at all now.

After the battle, Su Yonglin looked at the chaotic infantry and sighed, feeling that he still had a lot to do and the rebels had a long way to go.

Fortunately, after defeating this town defense force, the remaining fourteen villages were no longer a problem. Even if you push them all the way, you can practice the infantry and cavalry tactics a few more times, and through multiple battles, you can familiarize the army with the army formation during the battle.

Real battlefield training must be better than simple training.

So the army continued to advance and conquered the Jin people's villages one by one according to the established route.

The number of rebel soldiers was absolutely superior, and the Jin people's villages were not prepared for it. They were led by Su Yonglin and Zhao Yucheng to attack at high speed. They broke through five villages in one morning. In the end, infantry chased them from behind and cavalry ran in front.

Su Yonglin is not sure whether the infantry army formation is proficient, but to this extent, he is definitely much more proficient in cavalry impact tactics.

At noon, we took a short break, and the army ate some food, recovered some energy, and then continued to attack in the afternoon.

Su Yonglin thought that every battle next would be as unchanged as the previous ones. If it continues smoothly, the army will not get much training.

But he didn't expect that when they launched the attack in the afternoon, they encountered a village that had made some preparations.

I don’t know where I heard the wind, but the village made some defense preparations. They drove the farmers to block the entrance of the village with debris, set up many traps and horse-resisting horses, and surrounded the villages, making Su Yonglin’s already skilled cavalry impact tactics unusable.

This was interesting. It was the first time I encountered a village with defense. Su Yonglin immediately ordered the entire army to stop advancing and line up on the spot, the infantry was in the middle, and the cavalry were arranged on both sides of the infantry, setting up a very classic Song army stacked formation.

"Uncle Yuting, these guys are ready. What should we do? Strong attack?"

"Attack, it's the first time I've encountered such a village. Wouldn't it be a pity if I don't fight? Always fighting a tailwind war is not good for us. Occasionally, we should fight a battle with some difficult opponents, which will train the infantry's battle."

Su Yonglin tightly held the knife in his hand: "Now is the opportunity to use the military formation! Yucheng, your subordinates have never practiced the military formation, so they will spread out from all directions and surround the village. The main attacker will be handed over to me, the trained army."

Zhao Yucheng hesitated for a moment, nodded, ordered the army to spread out in four parts, surrounded the village from afar, and put a posture of wanting them all to die, putting psychological pressure on the Jin people inside.

Then Su Yonglin commanded his army to form a formation.

The military formation trained by the Su family rebel army is the classic Song army stacked formation, the kind of military formation that has been tempered under the iron hooves of the northern cavalry and has been proven to be more effective.

There are generally two ways to spread the stacking formations. In the Hebei Plain area, the stacking formations are mainly spearmen and knife players, while in the Guanzhong area, the crossbow players are mainly layered, with layers of the target, and the goal is to deal with cavalry.

Generally speaking, the tall sword and card players in the front row line up as the first barrier, mainly responsible for withstanding the impact of heavy cavalry.

The shorter soldiers behind them lined up with long spears.

They used long spears to assist the card players, and used long spears to hit the heavy cavalry that rushed to the front. While killing the cavalry and war horses, they could further reduce the impact of the heavy cavalry and let him stop.

Once the speed of heavy cavalry rushing down, the elite axe driver who holds a heavy axe and wears heavy armor will need to rush out of the military formation without fear of death, and swing a big axe to unparalleled among the heavy cavalry group.

Once the heavy axe troops perform well, they can often bring huge damage to the heavy cavalry, and it is unknown whether the heavy cavalry troops will be destroyed in one battle.

At the end, tall soldiers lined up with bows and crossbows. They needed to launch fire as much as possible before the cavalry approached to reduce the speed of the enemy's impact.

There are a certain number of cavalry on both sides of the military formation.

Once the infantry withstands the impact and causes effective damage to the enemy's heavy cavalry, the entire army will turn to counterattack and the cavalry will attack to make up for the killing that the infantry formation cannot be expanded due to speed.

So overall, when there are a certain number of cavalry, the stacked formation is a kind of attacking and defense-based army formation. It can be replaced at any time according to the terrain and enemy troops, and the degree of freedom is also quite high.

Su Yonglin now has the most stacked arrays, followed by the sword player, and the second is the crossbow player - mainly because Su Yonglin has no time and conditions to train more crossbow players, so he can only just put it in one go.

Anyway, looking at the Jin people in that village, there wouldn't be too many soldiers who could fight, and what they could defend was not the city wall, but just a wooden fence.

At most, there are some high-level arrow towers on it that can pose a threat to the rebels, but there are not too many crossbowmen standing on the arrow tower and cannot play much defensive role.

Su Yonglin roughly estimated that there would be no more than 200 Jin people participating in the battle in the village.
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