Became a feudal lord in the late Northern Song Dynasty

Chapter 195 The battle situation is too unfavorable for our soldiers

The 30,000 Han troops on the opposite side were definitely the Yanyun elite brought by the King of Han. Even though they had just experienced a battle of a thousand people, the front army formation still did not make a commotion when facing the approaching enemy army. Form a formation on the ground to buy time for the rear troops to mobilize.

It is a pity that such an army and the King of Han cannot be used by Da Jin.

Wanyan Loushi had some regrets in his eyes. He was not the kind of killer who liked to bathe in the blood of his enemies. On the contrary, in history, after he captured Puzhou, the Song army scrambled to cross the bridge and fled. The bridge was burned and countless Song soldiers fell directly into the water.

Then Wanyan Loushi didn't care that the two sides were fighting each other with swords before, but ordered the rescue of the Song soldiers who fell into the water.

But to say that he was benevolent was definitely not the case. After the Jin people captured Shaanzhou, Song general Li Yanxian led his army to regain Shaanzhou. The Jin people's first attempt to recapture Shaanxi Province failed, and Wanyan Loushi sent troops for the second time. The recapture failed again. For the third time, he gathered all the local troops of the Jin people and the surrendered troops of the Song Dynasty, totaling more than 100,000 people to besiege Shaanzhou.

At the same time, before the siege, he ordered the massacre of the city after the capture of Shaanzhou, killing chickens as a warning to monkeys and intimidating the Song people.

In the three kingdoms of Liao, Song and Xixia, more than one million people died indirectly at his hands.

Looking at the battlefield where a fight was about to break out, Wanyan Loushi showed a smile in his eyes.

The King of Han probably thought that his Wanyan Lou family came here to seek revenge and cause trouble, but that was just the work of a common man.

He is the coach of this army, so he has only one goal.

On the hillside, a deputy general asked doubtfully: "Commander, why don't you use those fire dragon chariots?"

Of course, Wanyan Loushi would never make such a joke with his own cavalry, but that didn't stop him from having fun with the cavalry of his dear allies.

The sound of countless bowstrings falling back sounded, and black clouds rose up in the night sky. Then arrows rained down, and gaps suddenly appeared in the queue of prairie cavalry. Horses fell down and cavalry with broken legs began to make bursts of noise. Howl.

Defeat the Han army!

Break the foundation of the Han army and completely crush Yan Yun's courage to resist!

In his sight, the prairie people who had to use large cavalry to rush into battle at the beginning of the war due to his own orders had already begun to attack.

"Fire arrows!"

However, it has just the right effect when used to deal with the enemy who dares to confront the Han army's formation head-on.

Wanyan Loushi studied this very clearly. These grassland people were not his army anyway, so they were just a good way to test the Han army.

However, Wanyan Loushi breathed a sigh of relief. In his sight, there were still more than two thousand cavalry charging forward, with only 80 steps left from the Han army's formation.

It has always been the usual method of the Han army to start the battle with a firing array of archers and crossbowmen, and then to suppress it with cannons, lathes and crossbows.

One hundred and twenty huge crossbow bolts shot out of the sky in the night, creating streaks of blood in the ranks of the prairie cavalry. The latter's array began to be on the verge of chaos amid the constant long-range strikes, and many tribesmen's heads People couldn't stand the ridiculous speed of sending troops, and they had already begun to organize their own tribe's soldiers to retreat spontaneously.

The cavalrymen wearing miscellaneous armor or even no armor shouted and charged, and what greeted them was a Han army formation piled full of shield walls and spears.

The front army and the flanks of the military formation have successively launched more than 120 light crossbows. After the transformation by Yanyun craftsmen, the crossbows can be pulled by only a small number of soldiers. The time for rewinding and reloading is shortened, but the range is also reduced. cut by at least 30%.

Immediately, just as he expected, after the Han army stopped suppressing arrows and crossbows, a large number of shield soldiers formed a formation with spear soldiers, seemingly preparing to resist the coming cavalry attack.

As long as he can engage in battle, he can always cause some damage to the Han army, and then delay the Han army and consume their strength until the Jurchen army under his command, which has been recharged, attacks, and can directly defeat the entire Han army.

Han Shizhong slapped him on the forehead and cursed: "The soldiers and horses of the Jin people have obviously not come out yet. We don't know how many of those golden dogs have come. Shouldn't we save things like the fire dragon chariot until the end?"

The King of Han went south and brought back a large number of technologies and craftsmen from the Song Dynasty, and then began to mass-produce some things. Han Shizhong also brought a batch of them with him during the Northern Expedition, but he never put them to use.

Besides, it's not necessary at all. The prairie people rushed towards the tightly defended military formation as if they had lost their minds. Now they were no longer one man acting as five barbarians. The battle loss ratio between the two sides had already exceeded 1:20. Those unarmored prairie cavalry They couldn't break through the military formation at all, and they died in rows in front of spears and shields.

This disgusting scene made Wanyan Loushi feel a little distressed. He looked at the angry-looking leaders next to him, chuckled, and said, "Continue."

A large number of infantry began to take the initiative to attack. Their armor coverage rate was obviously higher than that of the cavalry, but the armor on most of the soldiers was still very thin.

They struggled to advance amidst three consecutive rounds of arrow rain from the Han army, and soon suffered heavy casualties. Although many tribal soldiers were lucky enough to survive, some people were frightened crazy when they saw the corpses of their fellow tribesmen strewn all over the fields. He desperately wanted to run back.

Under the dark night, many prairie people with religious beliefs thought they were in the Shura Hell. They only knew that there were no wealth, slaves, and little ladies in the clouds that the leader had promised them. There were only countless people wearing armor, even bows and arrows, and shooting swords. The Han army cannot be killed even if he attacks!

Can't wait any longer.

Wanyan Loushi stood up, and several Jin soldiers beside him immediately began to help him put on his armor.

Seeing these useless friendly troops disintegrating faster and faster, the tribal soldiers who were pulled to the battlefield to prepare for the charge actually followed the same example and fled directly after taking two steps on the battlefield, as if they were just going through the motions.

Wanyan Loushi, who had put on his armor, laughed angrily, but he still did not let his own Jin army attack, but ordered:

"Keep making noise and don't let the Han army rest. Even if it is defeated, the soldiers and horses of your tribe must be scattered on the battlefield. If anyone in the camp retreats on his own, I will lead the Dajin soldiers and horses to destroy their tribe!"

The Jin people were even more domineering than the King of Han. In fact, if the grassland people really united, although their pure military strength would not defeat the King of Han or the Jin people, they would at least be able to retain their dignity and avoid being reduced to what they are today. It is the object of two behemoths to ravage at the same time.

Under the orders of Wanyan Loushi, groups of prairie soldiers were pushed out. The drums kept beating on the battlefield, and large bonfires were lit everywhere to illuminate the battlefield. However, starting from late at night, the prairie soldiers could no longer approach the Han soldiers. One step at a time.

It's not that they were suppressed by arrows and crossbows and couldn't move forward, but when the prairie people stepped onto the battlefield, the first thing they saw was the "mountain of corpses" built by their own tribe.

"Collapse again"

A Meng'an took a breath of air and saw that the tribal soldiers disintegrated without even daring to step into the Han army's firing range.

His eyes slowly moved away from the countless fresh corpses on the battlefield. Next to him, Wanyan Loushi was taking a nap.

When Meng'an couldn't help but look at his coach again, he found that the latter had opened his eyes at some point, looking past him and looking at the miserable battlefield ahead.

"It's daybreak," he said to himself.

On the horizon, dawn has arrived. Because of the bright light, everyone can clearly see the battlefield last night. Even Wanyan Loushi couldn't help but squint his eyes.

From south to north, the endless grassland is covered with heavy snow every winter. However, there is no saying that auspicious snow heralds a good year on the grassland. Snow covers the entire grassland, and livestock will starve to death on a large scale without food.

Therefore, heavy snow is also called white disaster on the grassland.

Not long after winter passed, the grassland was once again densely covered, but this time, what covered the grassland and land was not snow, but the corpses of countless grassland people.

"Come on, let Dajin's soldiers come out of the camp."

Wanyan Loushi stood up. He had regained a lot of energy from last night's nap. The soldiers next to him brought the war horse. After he got on the horse, his aura changed suddenly.

"The Han army has been fighting all night, and it is impossible for them to have any strength now."

"Send the order, I will personally lead the troops to build formations for this battle!"

"Soldiers of Daijin, follow my command and smash the tortoise shells of these Han troops!"

(End of this chapter)