The struggle of the reborn prince

When the Naiman heard the sound of the horns in the enemy's formation, they prepared to take a nap for a while and immediately prepared for the battle with all their strength, but after waiting for a long time, the other side became quiet again, and the formation did not change at all, just eating and guarding People changed shifts.Everyone thought it was the first time that the two sides met because of a language barrier. Of course, the communication signals in the military were also very different. This was the sound of the dinner bugle, and we had a misunderstanding.

The Naiman figured it out and got off his horse again and spread out the stall to replenish his energy. This time he ate two mouthfuls. The enemy's trumpets and drums sounded again. Everyone heard something wrong and hurriedly dropped the food and climbed on the horse. The Song army still showed no signs of attacking, but began to unload vehicles and build camps, which meant that if they were not going to leave, they would camp surrounded by a group of enemies.

"Attack, flatten the enemy's formation, and rob the Han people of all their belongings!" Although Taiyang Khan didn't know that the Han people had the saying of "going all out, then declining, and exhausting three times", it always felt like being played twice by others. Unhappy, I also knew that after tossing twice, my morale was completely lost, so I ordered an attack.

Although the Naimans have stepped into the threshold of civilization with one foot, their tactics are still at the primitive stage. They still rely on large-scale cavalry shock tactics to break the formation, and then defeat the enemy by hand-to-hand combat, and annihilate the enemy when they flee.This combat mode is naturally related to the region and way they live, but it is mainly restricted by weapons and equipment, and it is also a last resort.

The Western Regions are located in the remote and desolate Northwest, and their level of civilization is far lower than that of the Central Plains and the Jurchens and Party members who have absorbed the Central Plains culture, which makes their weapons-making technology backward.Since cavalry is different from infantry, it is impossible to carry powerful but cumbersome cavalry.However, the bow-making technology of the Naiman people is backward, so they can only wear some small bows.As a result, the cavalry's cavalry shooting not only has a short range, but also has little lethality.It can't give effective kills to some heavy armor or even infantry with only moderate protection ability.

Therefore, the cavalry of the nomadic peoples in the Western Regions was mainly equipped with bows and arrows for defense at that time. When sentry cavalry were found by the enemy and needed to escape, they usually used bows and arrows to keep the enemy at a certain distance from them to facilitate escape.Or when dealing with infantry and other light cavalry, give the enemy a certain amount of damage before approaching the close-fitting melee, so as to disturb the enemy, thinking that it is convenient for melee combat when sprinting to the enemy!

In addition, there is another fatal shortcoming that the cavalry's cavalry shooting usually has a low hit rate.This is because it is indeed very difficult to balance the body, grasp the direction of the horse, and grasp the hit rate on the horse.Therefore, the difficulty of training a cavalry with a high hit rate is no less than modern training for special forces.Coupled with the problems of range and lethality of cavalry shooting mentioned above, many tribes and nomads are unwilling or feel that it is not worth spending so much time and energy on training qualified cavalry archers.

And the change of this situation has to wait for the Song army to go out. The grandson of the grandson of the Mughal leader Hebul who is now preparing for battle on the left wing, the genius military strategist Temujin changed the tactics of bow and arrow and cavalry before the earth-shaking happened. The changes made it possible to sweep half the world.Of course the current Naiman people have no chance to know about it, let alone use it in war...

Facing the Naiman cavalry who came on horseback, the Song army did not line up to hedge as in the past.Instead, they turned to defense in an all-round way, and even the cavalry on both wings retreated into the formation.Gao Chong did this because the road to the west was far away, so the hussars who charged as cavalry were not included in the army, and even if they charged against the enemy with dragon cavalry, they would not lose the wind.But it will inevitably cause greater losses; second, the best move of these nomadic cavalry is to run away if they can't fight. Once the battle cannot be severely damaged, let them run away.It will be difficult to find them again.Furthermore, it is familiar with the terrain, breaking it into pieces.Harassment everywhere is also a very troublesome thing.

Considering that our side can't stay here for a long time, we don't want to leave future troubles.Therefore, Gao Chong knew that he must take advantage of the opportunity of concentrating most of his troops to fight his own decisive battle to give him a devastating blow, laying the foundation for future operations.Therefore, Gao Chong decided to use the most commonly used tactic in the early days of the Xiangyi Army-defensive counterattack. In the defense, he relied on his own advantages in firearms to consume the enemy's strength, while preserving his own strength, and launched a counterattack after he paid huge casualties. Encircle and annihilate.

"Fire!" The lookout post on the watch car saw that the enemy had entered the range, and immediately notified the commander, and Gao Chong ordered to intercept it with artillery fire.

"Rapid fire gun, solid bullet, five hundred paces, shoot!"

"Rapid fire gun, solid bullet, four hundred paces, shoot!"

"Mortars, explosive shells, three hundred paces, shoot!"

"Rapid fire, shotgun, two hundred paces, shoot!"

The artillery fired four salvos one after another, and the cavalry of the Naimans also approached the front of the formation, but they were at the end of their strength.In fact, under the first round of artillery fire, the huge sound and flames had already terrified the war horses who had never seen this new thing. They wanted to run away quickly, but when they turned around and went retrograde, they immediately couldn't stop behind them. The collision of the same kind, more because of being scared out of ideas, only knowing that the companions who were running forward continued to run forward even more crazily.

And another round of solid bullet shooting by the Song army smashed bloody alleys among the enemy troops. Now even the horsemen were frightened by the power of the artillery, but this time the horses could not stop. carry them forward.And the flowering bombs that fell in the third round exploded in the enemy group, and the surrounding people and horses were blown away in pieces. At this moment, the people and horses had lost the courage to charge and began to flee in all directions.But the ensuing round of shotguns blew past like a hurricane, and few of the troops in front survived.The charging Naiman no longer had the courage to run the remaining distance, and they turned their horses around and fled back to the main formation, but only two or three out of ten were able to go back, and most of them were left on the battlefield.

"Big man, the Han people know how to use demons, you can break it!" Subir, who was watching the battle, was frightened by the blood in front of him. More than 2000 cavalry who participated in the first round of attack were screaming before they touched the edge of the Song army formation. Lost in the loud noise, this is not what the magic is.

Subir’s statement is also well-founded. The Naiman people are located at the junction of Chinese and Western cultures, so they will inevitably come into contact with Western religions. Now the Nestorian Christianity has been widely spread in Naiman, but Shamanism is still among the Naiman people. Occupying the main position, in the legend, the Naiman kings are proficient in shamanism, can rule mortals and elves at the same time, and have the supernatural power of "making gods and witches, offering sacrifices to wind and snow", so the people of the tribe are in awe of them, thinking that Their leaders have great supernatural powers.Since their Khan is not a mortal, he is also a god, and now the opponent wins with a demon method, then there can only be a showdown between the gods first!

No matter the so-called immortals and spells are a kind of deception to achieve a certain purpose, the fall of Bianjing City has long proved how unreliable fairy arts are.But now Taiyang Khan is forced to the corner, his army is stunned by the "magic" of the Han people and dare not go forward, even the war horses under his crotch are trembling with fear, seeing the danger of collapse, the ruling let He used the magic technique to stabilize the morale of the army, improve morale, and fight again.Fortunately, the "sacred art" was passed down from generation to generation within the Naiman monarch's family, and only his family knew what was going on and how effective it was. Anyway, it didn't prevent people from the outside world from believing that their sweat was a god.

Then a miraculous scene appeared on the battlefield. The Naiman army set up altars and slaughtered livestock as sacrifices on the spot. The flames, together with the scattered gunpowder smoke on the battlefield and the dead bodies all over the place, just created a weird atmosphere, which made people fall into it involuntarily, especially for devout believers, and soon resonated in the ceremony , I was brainwashed again without realizing it!

Of course, it was the soldiers of the Song Army who fought against them the most, because what they encountered again was a group, no, an attack of tens of thousands of lunatics.They are not afraid of life and death, they are not afraid of guns, they turn a blind eye to their comrades who are blown to pieces and beat them like a hornet's nest, they don't hear the screams and cries for help of fallen comrades, and they ride their horses over them without blinking. Facing the fierce artillery fire and the rain of bullets, he dealt with the horses that refused to come forward with knives. He stabbed his butt fiercely, and he really did his life and death.

"Wei Feng, your second battalion immediately fills in the gaps in the second brigade's defense line, deploys a defense line based on machine gun positions, and lets in an enemy who chops off your head!" A large number of enemy troops appeared on the two wings and the rear, and the First Desert Brigade, which was in charge of defending the left wing, was also facing great pressure.

"Controlling, our first brigade has always been on the charge, why are we also sent there!" Wei Feng asked in puzzlement, the first brigade is the reserve team of the desert army, and it has always been reserved for tough battles, but today it is just The enemy's second attack sent them up.

"What are you talking about? I don't see that the Naiman people are all bloody and charging like crazy. Can you organize a second attack like this? I didn't see that the dragon riders all dismounted and moved forward. As long as they hold the enemy This round of charge by the army, the Naimans will collapse, and you must be prepared to counterattack while defending!" Han Li kicked Wei Feng and said, he also saw that the Naimans' attacks seemed ferocious, but This kind of reckless attack cannot break through the firepower network woven by their firearms, and will only cause great casualties. When they realize that the casualties are unbearable for them, fanaticism will turn into panic, and collapse will inevitably occur , so as long as you persevere, victory will belong to them... (to be continued...)