Chapter three hundred and sixty first step
The gentle Dongyang in the sky was emitting his own light without hesitation, and it still made him unable to open his eyes when he was pricked on Zhao Bushi's eyes looking up at the sky.
With his eyes flat, Zhao Bushi saw that the endless flat and fertile fields were quickly obscured by a black ray. He could clearly hear the sound of horse hooves. Tens of thousands of horsemen galloped, and the earth was trembling gently.
There was a suffocating slaughtering around, with no sound of insects chirping or the sound of birds and beasts disturbing.
There were only a lot of breathing sounds, low and powerful, as if everyone was covered with a thick mask and had to breathe hard.
Until a shrill trumpet sound broke through the world.
Zhao Bushi suddenly burst into his eyes, and looked directly in front of the sound. It was the Jurchens, who were shouting wildly. His eyes suddenly became warm.
It’s better to have more people. The cavalry is not as fast as infantry, but it’s still easy to cook.
Zhao Bushi, who had a strong self-confidence in the Shenji Camp, looked at the dust like a yellow dragon that was rising from tens of thousands of elite cavalry in the Jin army, and shouted loudly: "Tell me, please work harder and follow me!"
He had already received an order at this time and advanced into the Song army's formation and stood on standby. Zhao Gou did not think that the front army was likely to be unable to stop the attack of the Jin cavalry, but that when the war happened, the front army and the central army would inevitably be cut and separated by the Jin army later. Even if he had replaced many of the archers in the army with spearmen and hand-to-hand combat soldiers.
Therefore, it is unnecessary for Zhao Bushi to advance to the front army in the current situation.
"Hurry, hurry up, keep up!"
"My boys, work harder!"
"All push is steadily, don't panic!"
The rumbling crushing of the Song army kept spreading, and Zhao Bushi no longer bothered to see the war ahead, and only thoughtfully urged the team to push the stone cannons to their destination.
This stone cannon is equipped with two ammunition trucks, and there are ten guards holding swords and guns. One of them is escorted (twenty-five). One of them has four cannon trucks, and the other battalion is twenty. But Zhao Bushi's Shenji Battalion has 2,500 people, not just five hundred people. This is said to be a battalion, but in fact it is an army.
The four cannon battalions and one baggage battalion were all drawn Xiangzhou troops.
These people are different from those who don’t know how powerful they are. They are full of confidence in the thunder and believe that as long as they show their power at the beginning, they will immediately cause the golden man on the opposite side to be scattered and destroyed.
Therefore, even though there were fierce fighting and shouts from the formation ahead, they were still alive. Step by step, they moved the cannon cart towards the center of the Hedong Song Army, which is where Zhao Gou's flag is located.
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The sound of bowstrings like countless cotton-pinning sounds in the Song army's formation, and like a huge swarm of bees shaking their wings, a wave of arrows rose into the sky and then fell to the earth.
The Eight-Number Crossbow, the Divine Arm Bow, and the Empty Crossbow shot in rows, causing the Jurchen Iron Cavalry to rush towards him to hit an invisible wall and die in rows.
But they charged forward, and the distance between the two sides was quickly getting closer.
The Jurchens put on arrows on their bows, and no one would just be beaten and not fight back.
However, the Song army's shooting was not over yet, and "release--" the crossbowmen in the Song army's formation continued to show their power.
From the Divine Arm Bow, the Empty Crossbow and the Eight Niu Crossbow, even though the Jin army was wearing heavy armor, they were also fragile melon skins in front of the powerful crossbow.
After two rounds of shooting, the Jurchen cavalry in heavy armor also fell down, and the frontier of the charge array seemed a little sparse - pure armor was difficult to resist the powerful crossbow of the Song army, unless they were wearing double armor or even three layers of armor. But such people were in the minority after all.
However, these Jurchen cavalry still covered their heads and moved forward without stopping at all.
At the same time, they also began to shoot feather arrows!
However, compared with the Mongols who exerted the power of riding and shooting to the extreme a hundred years later, the Jurchens' iron cavalry tended to fight in hand and hand. Moreover, their armor-breaking and heavy arrows were difficult to penetrate the Fiery armor worn by the soldiers in the front of the Song army.
Not to mention that the front rows of soldiers were carrying large shields at the same time.
A crisp sound of jingling sound, the rain of arrows falling from the sky fell on the front row of Song army heavy armored infantry or the large shield they held in their hands, and did not cause much damage at all.
The sound of the golden drum shook the sky and the earth, and with the trembling earth, it seemed that the world was about to collapse.
The Jin soldiers had already rushed in front of them, and the real battle and the real cruelty were about to take place.
When the Jurchen cavalry advanced less than fifty steps in front of the Song army, the last crossbows shot out together. The Song army armored soldiers, who were in the forefront, instantly set up a long spear.
Behind each column of shield wall were three rows of spearmen. A forest-like spear was placed on the head of the shield wall. Every soldier blushed at this moment, waiting for the upcoming impact.
"My boys! Forge ahead!"
Behind the three shield walls, a Song army general shouted at the top of his lungs, waved the sword in his hand, and drove a group of heavy armored infantrymen who had dropped swords and heavy axes to form a horizontal formation and strode forward.
If you stand on a high place and look down, you will find that on the battlefield, with the arrival of the Jin cavalry charge, the military blocks in front of the Song army were crowding in front of the Song army.
The front formation, which had originally had a depth of more than 500 steps, had to be compressed by half in an instant.
It is a contest between a turbulent torrent and a solid dam.
There are soldiers wearing armor on both sides. They meet and encounter on the "Single-Pearl Bridge". They have no way to hide or dodge.
The two sides collided fiercely! The long spear of the Song army stabbed into the chest of the Jurchen cavalry, and the mace of the Jurchen cavalry broke the Song army's sky cover...
Zhao Gou looked at the scene in front of him with bright eyes.
Flesh and blood fly, and human life is like mustard.
This was definitely the first time he saw a tragic scene in his life. It was completely different from the situation of killing guns and cannons. In the late Ming Dynasty, the appearance of firearms made it difficult for such a scene on the battlefield.
——Confrontation between infantry and cavalry, battle between courage and fighting spirit.
The powerful impact of the Jurchen cavalry completely destroyed the first and second shield walls, but although the third shield wall was broken through several gaps of different sizes, the remaining shield walls and gun forests still stood up to indicate the end of the Jin cavalry's strength.
The former general Zhe Yanzhi commanded the army to form a formation and kill, which naturally blocked the Jin army's sharpness.
After all, he is from the Zhe family. "Zhe Zhonggu is still a little capable!"
Zhao Gou nodded with satisfaction when he saw it. Compared to Zhao Ye and Fan Ne’s commander, he brought Zhe Yanzhi, who was guilty, to his current position. It was indeed correct.
Although Zhe Yanzhi fought with Zhong Shizhong, Yao Gu and others seemed to have never won the battle since leading the Western Army to the east to fight for the king. I won’t talk about the battle in Taiyuan. I had previously led 120,000 troops to guard the Yellow River defense line with Li Hui, but because of the drums of the Jin army, more than 100,000 Song troops were defeated without fighting. As a result, the natural danger of the Yellow River that the Jin people easily crossed, Zhao Huan wanted to kill him with one knife.
He was demoted to the deputy envoy of the Haizhou Tuanjian and sent to Yongzhou for resettlement, which was a disadvantage.
When Zhao Gou entered Yingtian Prefecture, he accidentally found Zhe Yanzhi in the crowd. What this man did on the bank of the Yellow River was indeed embarrassing, but he was a child of the Zhe family. He has been in the army for more than 20 years and has rich experience, but he has also fought many tough battles.
It was in the battle of Taiyuan where the Song army was defeated and the Song army rescued Taiyuan for the first time. He followed the deputy envoy Xie Qian to send troops from the Weisheng army and fought with the Jin soldiers for four days. In the end, because the Jin people failed to increase their troops. However, his ability was also recognized by the court and he was promoted to the deputy envoy of Hedong Xuanfu in Hebei.
Zhao Gouxiang pulled him under the tent without thinking.
Zhe Yanzhi is Zai Shui. Compared with the large group of generals in the Yingtian Mansion Army that he had never heard of, he would have the advantage.
Chapter completed!