Chapter 52: Eight Thousand Swords and Salvation Continuous Car Camp (2)

But on the other hand, when the Song people took the initiative to fight out of the city, his knowledge was not as clever as Tasi.

When he stood up, the first sentence was: "Call Hu and Zhuan Silai!" After the army withdrew, the command in front was carried out by two thousand households separately. Zhuan Si was responsible for monitoring the defenders in the besieged city, while Huan Si concentrated his troops to clear the outer castle. When facing the enemy's attack, Jiaohe Chongshan should have rushed to the front line and join forces to resist the attack of the Song people. But his words had to make the two commanders at the critical moment leave the command post and obey the commander far behind. This was a confused command that was unknown.

Fortunately, all the households in the Mongolian army could be regarded as a talented person for a while. When they were finished with the cloak of Zhongshan and walked out of the tent, the Mongolian cavalry of each battalion had already set up their horses and rushed to the front line. Zhongshan was waiting in front of the dome of the central army for a while, and two quiver soldiers responsible for passing the orders returned.

"Zhao Situ Mian is organizing the troops out of the city to attack the southerners on the front line, and he requested the marshal to give reinforcements!"

"Hu Tumian Hu said that attacking the Lingnan Castle is a time to make a concerted effort. You must not disperse your troops at this time. He asked the marshal to send additional reinforcements to him while resisting the attacking Sinansi troops!"

Jiaotong Chongshan slapped the handrail hard: "Reinforcements, where do I have reinforcements? Zhihui Chaosi asked him to organize his own troops to launch an attack. Zhihui Huduhu, and asked him to return from the Tuo Ridge immediately to participate in the battle to encircle and annihilate the Song people out of the city!"

Only then did he truly feel that ten thousand cavalry could not be covered in everything when facing the army of Xiangyang City. Who can I blame this? Originally, he had a new force that was enough to deal with various emergencies, that is, thousands of people from the Jurchens who retreated and repaired from the south gate. These were the Jurchens headquarters and his compatriots, who had a good command and could fight hard. However, in order to take care of these compatriots, he sent them to Junzhou to get food first, and it was too late to regret it at this time.

At this moment, the tiger in the capital had not returned, so he could only fight against the huge number of Xiangyang Song Army with the little force at hand.

But from the scene alone, we can never see that the Song people took the initiative in the battlefield because of their numerical advantage. On the west side of Xiangyang, the vanguard of Zhenwu Army, which was continuously driven out from the city gate, was facing the continuous harassment of arrow rain from two thousand Mongolian cavalry. Although their vanguard archers quickly occupied both wings to fight back against the cavalry of the enemy cavalry, the lack of training and the disadvantage of the maneuverability of the insurgent bows made them always suppressed. As the first echelon of the entire Jingchu army, the Zhenwu Army relied entirely on its harsh discipline and officers regardless of morale to arouse morale and set up formations under the rangers' arrow rain.

On the one hand, the light cavalry came and went and fired arrows to harass the Song army who had left the city, while on the other hand, they were also commanding the Naiman cavalry to line up in the distance. The rangers' bows and arrows could not kill many enemies. Chapter 52: Eight Thousand Swords and Salvation Battalion (2)

To kill and injure the enemy, they must shoot arrows at a distance of dozens of steps close to the enemy, but the light cavalry who was bragging Si refused to get too close to the Song army's formation no matter what. Both sides have seen this truth very clearly. They were afraid of the Song people's muskets.

It was not long since its birth in this world, but thanks to some "foresight" by its inventors, the musket was able to appear on the battlefield in a more mature form than usual and had an impact on the form of war.

If the Jurchens, Khitans or Mongolian cavalry were used to fight against the infantry in the Central Plains, they would usually send light cavalry without protective equipment to harasse the infantry formation with extremely accurate cavalry and shooting at a distance of dozens of steps. If this kind of cavalry and shooting that travels back and forth without a fight from a group of well-trained archers, it would cause serious damage to the infantry formation. For those who were hunting on the grassland, shooting prey and flying birds on the back of the Mercedes-Benz horses was a skill to make a living.

Yes, shooting a person is not a problem. Infantry archers are far less shooting than riders growing on horseback. They are even less accustomed to shooting objects that run around the infantry formation, so the nomadic cavalry is obviously the one who has the advantage. In many battles, they have not even launched an attack on enemy infantry. They just use fast and accurate close-range archery alone to destroy the will of the infantry, and then they are left with one-sided pursuit.

However, in the first confrontation of Xiangyang, the Naiman nomadic cavalry was attacked by an unprecedented new weapon. The Song people's musket team fired at a distance of dozens of steps, using barrage to kill the Naiman light cavalry who dared to approach. No matter what the principle of shooting people first, they shot horses, and a row of lead bullets passed, and both men and horses fell. With huge smoke, gunshots and flames, they had never had a shocking experience of the light cavalry. Since that day, the light cavalry both chose to leave the muskets and avoid shooting arrows far away. Such a musket with insufficient accuracy could only fly around indiscriminately and could not find the target, but the feather arrows shot by the riders also dropped very well. Not to mention that they had a strong force, they even shot an arrow from afar before they approached the periphery of the Song army.

Chaosi was very dissatisfied with this, and he called several Qianhu, the light cavalry, and cursed. As the commander, he knew very well that the Song people's muskets were not as terrifying as they looked. There were very few people who could really hit the cavalry if they were either led bullets flying over the cavalry's heads or hit the ground. If it weren't for these damn smoke and sounds to help, the actual killing effect of the muskets was not as good as the infantry's bows and arrows.

But the feeling of watching later is completely different from the feeling of launching a charge in person. The fear of firearms by the front-line cavalry is difficult to eliminate no matter how severely the officers supervise them. What's more, just like some thousand households complain: "Even if a person is not afraid, horses will be afraid. What's the use of forcing them to force them?"

That's true. To adapt to the momentum of newly emerging firearms, the rider needs to train for a period of time to achieve results. Could it be that the eyes of each war horse are covered with deaf ears, and the ears are deaf. Chapter 52: Eight Thousand Swords and Swords and Salvation Car Camp (2)

Can it be done once and for all? Moreover, after the test of the initial battle in Xiangyang, the actual combat effectiveness of these blind horses and foals was not satisfactory. They lost their hearing and even lost the call of the rider. They would occasionally show irritability and irritability on the battlefield, which is one of the most dangerous things for the cavalry in fierce battles.

The only right way to fight the sound of firearms is to regard the war horses as ordinary soldiers, and slowly train them to adapt to these strange smells, huge sounds and sudden firelights. This takes time. Zhao Si can only watch his light cavalry, led by ten households and hundreds of households, rushing to a distance of dozens of steps away from the Song army, and then being driven far away by the Song army with a musket.

This hide-and-seek-style war was a trick played by a group of three-year-old children. Zhuan Si looked at the Song people's square formation and kept pressing forward, as if he was attacking the west camp. He was a little surprised. When facing the threat of cavalry, the best strategy for infantry was to remain unmoved, because once the enemy cavalry launched a charge at this time, the moving infantry was the easiest to be dispersed. But the infantry of the Song army was just pushing the formation forward. He also saw that behind the Song army's square formation, there were still soldiers and horses coming out of the city. It was a formation composed of infantry, mules and carts. He immediately understood the intention of the Song army to continue to advance.

Using the infantry brigade as the vanguard, he spread it as a barrier, and calmly set up a chariot formation in front of our army. This is the wishful thinking of the Song general Zheng Yunming. He has not witnessed the side van formation with his own eyes, but according to the various traces left by the Song people in the Jiuchong Post, it is obvious that today is not the first time they have used this weapon.

This kind of weapon is not unfamiliar with Chaosi. During the battle in Hebei, local wealthy families also pushed and pulled large chariots into formations to meet the enemy. But to be honest, these dilapidated large chariots are useless. If the users are disciplined lax, the circular defense line composed of these large chariots will not be able to withstand the impact of the Mongolian cavalry. What's more, if they don't have time to form a circular defense line, they will only become a burden to the infantry.

For Baosi, these bulky big guys have now become a burden for the Song army infantry on the vanguard line. In order to cover the advancement of these large convoys, the vanguard of the Song army had to spread their wings to protect the flanks that were easily attacked by the large convoy. At the same time, their vanguards had to continue to march until the cover convoy occupied the existing position.

Since they took the initiative to expose themselves to danger, Zhuan Si was embarrassed not to take advantage of this opportunity.

He urged the horse to move forward, and was about to arrive at the front of the cavalry array to make an order to attack, but he watched Jianhe Chongshan and the cavalry guards rushing up from the rear. He snorted a low voice, and his teeth began to hurt again. The most taboo thing the commander in front has always been to restrain himself from the rear, especially when the commander personally went to the front line to make trouble. If the commander was really as wise as the Khan of the previous generation or as smart as King Muhuali, it would be fine, but this Tu Mianyan from the Han area was not the master of the military. Chapter 52: Eight Thousand Swords and Salvation Continuous Car Camp (2)

Sure enough, as soon as Jiaoshan arrived at Hu Duhu, he shouted loudly: "Why don't you attack it all the time? The enemy's formation is moving, this is the best time!"

Hu Duhu didn't say a word, rushed to the front of the team, raised his right hand, and waved it forward.

A Huduhu's follower raised his horn bow and shot a flying dyke in the direction of the Song army's formation.

The Naiman knights screamed and held their spears to start attacking the Song people.
Chapter completed!