Outlaws of the Marsh

Chapter 418 Great Victory (please subscribe!)

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In the age of cold weapons, cavalry had a natural advantage over infantry.

This advantage is mainly reflected in mobility and impact.

To put it more simply, if the infantry beats the cavalry, it won't catch up, and if it loses, it can't run away, but when the cavalry attacks the infantry, it can use the combined weight of the man and the horse to form a greater impact on the infantry square in front of it. .

Some big horses can even weigh more than one ton, and the average good horse can also weigh more than a thousand catties, and the speed of movement is very fast, so the impact force is extremely terrifying.

More importantly, mobility can, to some extent, reverse the quantitative balance between armies.

In other words, a party with good mobility can concentrate its superior forces to attack a certain area of ​​the other party, forming a local military advantage.

Although on the whole, the defensive side may have more troops, but the defensive side needs to defend many places. In a local area, the offensive side can form a numerical advantage and wipe out the local defenders before the defensive side's reinforcements arrive. Lose.

This is where mobility comes into play.

An army with good mobility can quickly transfer its own army, which can always form a military advantage on the local battlefield, thereby gradually annihilating the side that lacks mobility.

Therefore, nomads always have an innate military advantage over farming peoples.

It is precisely because of this that there is the Great Wall.

So how should farming peoples respond?
One method is to use the terrain, that is, to use the mountains to block the cavalry from running, and to attack condescendingly. The Great Wall is just such a defensive method.

Another way is to use cavalry against cavalry, and form a powerful cavalry army to fight against nomadic peoples. This strategy was followed by the Han Dynasty against the Xiongnu and the Tang Dynasty against the Turks.

Now, Yue Fei wants to use his infantry to fight the cavalry decisively, but it is still on the plains without any dangerous terrain.

It can be said that before the war, Yelu Foding was already invincible.

Coupled with the hatred of Song people.

These Liao people, who had been extremely aggrieved by the Shangjin people before, rushed forward shouting!
Although it was the first battle in his life, Yue Fei showed a calmness that was different from ordinary people, which made Shi Wengong not only nodded secretly: "No wonder the commander-in-chief supports him so much."

When the Liao army reached three hundred paces, Yue Fei ordered: "Attack with crossbows on the bed!"

Seeing the semaphore issued by the flag commander, Niu Gao ordered: "Bed crossbow, let go!"

In an instant, the triggers of the five hundred bed crossbows were all pulled together!
The bed crossbows of the Liangshan Army are all three-bow bed crossbows, also known as "eight cow crossbows". It is magnificent. The arrows are like javelins. When fired at close range, they can be directly nailed into the city wall. When firing in volley, rows of steppe arrows are firmly nailed into the city wall, so that the siege soldiers can climb up. Shooting people and horses, even wearing the best heavy armor, will definitely kill them, and even nail them to the ground.

Moreover, these bed crossbows are all four arrows in one crossbow.

In other words, more than 2000 javelin-like iron spears were shot out at once.

"Shhhhhhhhhh..."

Six or seven hundred Liao army officers and soldiers fell off their horses in response!
Yelu Foding, who was the first to bear the brunt, managed to save his life by virtue of his strength and strength, but he was so frightened that his spine shivered!

After so many years of confrontation with the Song Army, how could Yelu Foding not recognize the Song Army's sharp weapon, the bed crossbow?

But Yelufoding never thought that this Song army had so many bed crossbows, which is too rich-you know, a bed crossbow needs more than a dozen good tendons, and it also needs Only skilled craftsmen can make them. Therefore, an army with one hundred and eighty bed crossbows is already very rich, but Yue Fei's army has five hundred bed crossbows!
In fact, this is also one of Li Yan's confidence.

Over the years, Li Yan has accumulated a wealth of wealth through clever plundering and painstaking efforts, otherwise he might not have dared to go north.

After the first round of bed crossbow salvos, the bed crossbow soldiers and civilian men did not attempt the second round of shooting at all, because the cavalry would not give them this time at all, and they were well-trained to directly turn the bed crossbows over to act as horse repelling posts to get them out of the way. Block the gap that came out to prevent the enemy from rushing in through this gap-although this is a bit extravagant, but this is what the officer taught, and the officer conveyed the original words of the governor: "Don't feel bad about weapons and supplies, winning is the most important thing. "

When they were within the range of the bows and arrows, the soldiers of the Liao army immediately fought back with bows and arrows, but most of the bows and arrows of the Liao army were blocked by Liangshan's shield soldiers and wooden curtains-this is the benefit of the formation.

Of course, even though Liangshan's army was well-trained and Yue Fei's formation was well-organized, there were still two or three hundred unlucky Liangshan soldiers who died or were injured under the rain of arrows.

Soon, the Liao army rushed to the range of the unconscionable cannon.

Yue Fei's order was also answered in time.

Seeing this, Niu Gao ordered: "Fire!"

"Shhhhhhhhhh..."

"Boom boom boom boom..."

The Liao army was blown upside down, and some of the horses were so frightened that they became hairy all of a sudden, and then ran around, so that the Liao army's attack formation was messed up.

In fact, at this time, if the kidnapper Ma Youying was sent to fight, most likely he would win.

But Yue Fei did not give this order - he wanted to achieve greater results.

Even if the horse army is defeated against the infantry, it will be difficult for the infantry to cause large-scale damage to the horse army, especially on this plain. Then the main general will gather together and they will be able to fight again.

Therefore, Yue Fei wanted to let this horse army come over, and then wipe out this large number of horse army.

On the other side, Yelu Foding and other Liao army officers and soldiers were blinded by the unconscionable bombardment, and it took a lot of effort to stabilize their horses and continue to attack.

Although the unconscionable artillery did not kill too many Liao army soldiers, and the casualties caused by the previous bed crossbow were not as great, but the momentum of the unconscionable artillery was too scary, and the Liao army was shocked, and even retreated a little. , "This Song army is too fucking evil, or withdraw!"

However, thinking that his own trump card hadn't been used yet, and that he could still run if he couldn't win, Yelufo gritted his teeth and said, "Hold on! Go in! We can win as long as we go in!"

When they were less than ten feet away from Yue Fei's front army, thousands of crossbow arrows were shot out overwhelmingly—God Arm Crossbow!

Another large area of ​​Liao soldiers fell, and even the top of Yelu Buddha was hit by an arrow!
If it weren't for the fact that the distance to this Song army was less than ten feet away, if there wasn't a surprise soldier as a trump card, and if the Song people who took advantage of the danger were not too hateful, the Liao army might have been defeated.

But at this time, Yelu Foding pulled out the crossbow arrows on his body, the pain aroused his wildness, he raised the big knife in his hand, and said: "Follow me to kill, kill the despicable Song people!"

Wearing heavy armor and holding a seven-foot-long saber, Wang Gui shouted loudly: "There is no enemy but no me, and I am invincible! The shield soldiers erect their shields, and the heavy armored infantry raise their swords, ready to fight!"

This is the worst scene!
If a single shield soldier is hit by a cavalry running at high speed, all of them will be knocked into the air. After being hit by a cavalry, few will not die. What's more, the cavalry still has spears and sabers in their hands. It can be said that as long as it is hit by a cavalry, Shieldmen rarely escaped with their lives.

Just as Wang Gui said, there is an enemy but no self, and there is no enemy without me.

Good luck!

Yue Fei deployed some horse refusal posts, bed crossbows, and unconscionable cannons, which could fend off the Liao army and reduce the casualties of the shield soldiers.

But it's just a block, a little less.

Yue Feijun, who had only [-] reserves (serving as civilian husbands), could not carry too many refusal horses at all. Even the bed crossbows and heartless cannons combined were only [-].

Furthermore, the horse army is highly mobile and can completely bypass or jump over horse rejection posts, bed crossbows, and heartless cannons.

Therefore, in the end, the shield soldiers had to use their lives to slow down the horse army...

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(End of this chapter)