Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 939 What a battle on foot and cavalry

Originally, Dang Jin didn't want to break through the White Tiger Army's long spear phalanx head-on, which would inevitably cause great losses, but at this time, it was obvious that there was no other way but to break through the formation head-on.Fortunately, their Song army has superior strength, and their physical strength is much stronger than the infantry of the White Tiger Legion who have been fighting for a long time and running for a long time. Even if they lose more, they can always break through the front.

Therefore, Dang Jin did not stop the second wave of [-] cavalry, but only changed the order to let them charge the White Tiger Army's spear phalanx head-on.

However, Tuoba Gelu considered that his army strength was at 8000 at this time, and the disadvantage of the number made him not want to face it head-on, because he knew that although head-on confrontation with a head-on spear was powerful, but with the physical strength of today's infantrymen, he could do it with a single soldier. The death of the infantry and the death of the two cavalry of the Song Army has reached the extreme, but the strength of the Song Army is three or four times that of the White Tiger Army.At a higher level, for example, at the national level, Song State, which has a population of tens of millions, and the forbidden army, frontier army, Xiang army, and Fan army combined have a million troops, even if 2 people died in this battle People, destroying the 8000 people of the White Tiger Army is also a big victory for the Song State.

Dang Jin absolutely believes that if this is the final result, both the two governments and His Majesty will only consider it a great victory, because since Ye Chen rebelled against the Song State, the Song State was defeated by Ye Chen and his Xiangfu State twice. Hand, this made Xiangfu Kingdom put too much pressure on Song Guojun and ministers, especially the Song Dynasty emperor.Dang Jin even heard rumors that His Majesty the current emperor was already afraid of Ye Chen to the bone, so Song Guo needed such a victory too much. Even if it was a tragic victory, the significance it represented was extremely important.

However, although Dangjin had already prepared for a tragic two-for-one victory, Tuoba Gelu never wanted such a result.

With the arrival of 20 Song cavalry, after the White Wolf Army shot four to five hundred Song cavalry with two rounds of quick crossbows, when the Song Army cavalry rushed to the [-]th pace of the White Wolf Army infantry phalanx, Tuoba Gelu gave several orders to exit, The banner was ordered to change again, and the drums sounded again and again. The infantry of the White Wolf Army immediately changed from a dense stabbing formation to a sparse formation. The dense formation immediately retreated to the middle of the open space. The shield hand, short sword hand, and spearman cooperated with each other. Most of the cavalry horses of the White Wolf Army instinctively avoided the spears and rushed in along the gap. This was like a heavy punch hitting the empty space, which made Song Jun feel extremely uncomfortable. .The most important thing is that in such a formation, the cavalry of the Song Dynasty who had broken into the White Wolf Army lost their advantage in speed, and would instead become targets for slaughter by the White Wolf Army's infantry.In fact, this is exactly the case. The small infantry formations of the White Wolf Army began to fight back against Song Qi who had never experienced such a situation and was a little bit stunned. In an instant, four or five hundred Song Qi were caught off guard. Kill the horse.

Dang Jin looked at this scene from a distance, but his face changed, his expression was gloomy, and he said in disbelief: "How is this possible? Why did they change so quickly."

As long as it is used properly, there is no unit that is invincible, and any unit can give full play to its own advantages and severely injure powerful enemies.But being able to change from a whole spear formation to a small spear formation in a very short period of time when the cavalry sprinted twenty steps, apart from the infantry of the Xiangfu Kingdom who have undergone strict formation training and have developed a sense of order and prohibition in today's world Besides, no army could do that.

For a long time, both the Song State Privy Council and the top and bottom of the Song State Army have believed that the strength of the Xiangfu State Army is due to the gunpowder packs, mines, giant crossbows, guns, and quick crossbows, which are far superior to their battlefield killing weapons.But at this moment, Dang Jin discovered that weapons and sharp weapons are only one aspect, and some things reflected in the scene just now are the basis for the strength of the Xiangfu country's army, especially the infantry.

Although Dang Jin was shocked and even a little shaken, he quickly reacted. He sent out orders one after another. The cavalry who had just fallen into the infantry camp of the White Wolf Army and had not penetrated into it suddenly pulled their horses back and paid more than 1000 cavalry losses. After that, they merged into the dense torrent, and then changed their tactics, continuing to rely on the superiority of numbers to keep up the Song army's formation, and began to use a big ax and a long knife like peeling and deboning, in an attempt to peel off the white wolf layer by layer. The outer skin of the Legion.

However, Tuoba Gelu's reaction was also very fast. When he gave an order, the soldiers next to him waved their flags, and the drums sounded like thunder. The White Wolf Army's formation immediately changed again, and they regrouped into a dense formation. The first two rows of spears stabbed people. , The last two rows squatted down and chopped off the horse's legs with short weapons.

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Because of Ye Chen's request, in several battles with the Song Army and the Liao Army last year, Yang Jiye taught Tuoba Gelu and Li Guangshun, who were originally only proficient in cavalry tactics, the art of changing infantry battle formations. After the two of them learned it, they had already brought their own infantry during the non-combat period to train all kinds of infantry battle formations and mutual transformations with great proficiency.

In fact, what Dang Jin didn't know was that apart from Yang Jiye, Tuoba Gelu and Li Guangshun, who were born in the Dangxiang Eighth Clan, were the most proficient in infantry battle formation alone, and the soldiers under their command were also the most proficient. The most skilled and solid training.

This is the first official confrontation between Dang Jin and Tuoba Gelu. The current situation only depends on the skills, mentality, awareness, equipment, and the quality of the soldiers of the two when they face the battle. He already planned not to care about his own casualties, otherwise, if he used the same number of troops to deal with the White Wolf Army in front of him, it would be almost impossible to win, but he was all cavalry who wanted to get away, and the White Wolf Army Also unable to catch up.

The so-called famous generals are capable of both offense and defense, capable of defending and attacking, capable of retreating and chasing. Dang Jin was originally one of the best famous generals in the Song Dynasty, but facing Tuoba Gelu, a young general of the Tuoba tribe who was originally unknown to the people, in terms of military strength In the dominant situation, it was difficult to completely gain the upper hand for a while.It has to be said that after this battle, Tuoba Gelu already has the demeanor of a famous general.

This battle lasted for more than an hour, until a strong wind suddenly blew up, bringing sand and dust, and the vision of both sides was greatly affected.In this battle, the White Wolf Army has 8000 people and 5000 people left.The Song Army's 3 people have almost all invested, and nearly [-] people died.Dang Jin gave an order with reluctance, Ming Jin withdrew his troops, and Tuoba Gelu's side had no time to rest, braved the strong wind and dust, quickly retreated, reorganized the army, and hurried northward to Huangwan Pass.

Dang Jin was unwilling to reconcile, and after a while, he followed behind, just thinking that when the White Wolf Army showed its flaws during the march, the more than 2 cavalry would attack again.In this way, the army was long. Along the way, Dang Jin led the Song Army to linger. The two armies fought and left, and experienced two small battles. The White Wolf Army lost nearly a thousand people, while the Song Army lost more than 3000 people. , Until the evening, ten miles away from Huangwan Pass, Dangjin led the army back to Dakouzhai with deep unwillingness.

At this point, the battle between the Northwest Frontier Army of the Song Army and the White Wolf Army has temporarily come to an end. The 1 people brought by the White Wolf Army from Yanzhou plus the original 5000 people at Huangwan Pass, now there are only more than 5000 people left (Tuobage Lu brought back more than 4000 people, plus the 1000 people left behind at Huangwan Pass), and Zhang Shouyi, the brigade commander stationed at Huangwan Pass who was valued by Tuoba Gelu, died for his country. A senior military officer above a brigade commander.

In addition, the 2000 cavalry led by Sun Feiyu, commander of the Second Cavalry Brigade of the White Wolf Army, has not yet been seen.A spy from the Ministry of Security reported to Tuoba Gelu that at that time, Sun Feiyu saw the strength of the Song army, and secretly ordered his confidants to kill seven military judges and more than 100 soldiers who had objections to Sun Feiyu out of [-] people at the first time. Evacuate without a fight.

Tuoba Gelu knew that Sun Feiyu knew that he had made a fatal mistake, so he would not dare to come back, and he might kidnap nearly 2000 people to do some stupid things.Without further ado, Tuoba Gelu reported the battles with the Song Army and Sun Feiyu's affairs to Xia Jing as quickly as possible, and at the same time asked Zhe Yuxuan, the deputy head of the army, to lead 500 people to pursue Sun Feiyu. 500 people is naturally a little less, but Tuoba Gelu really can't draw any more troops at this time.

On the Song side, first Li Shouyuan's 5000 men were ambushed and killed by Tuoba Gelu with the main force of the White Wolf Army, and 4000 people were ambushed and killed. Later, more than 2000 people were lost in the pursuit of the White Wolf Army. More than 6000 people.

The Song army invaded Huangwan Pass on a large scale, and the White Wolf Army was almost wiped out. They repelled the Song army at a cost of more than half of the loss. The situation shown by the matter is that Song State is likely to start a full-scale war against Xiangfu State.No matter how many times the Song Army was defeated by Xiangfu Kingdom, the deterrence and pressure that Song's national power and military power brought to Xiangfu Kingdom's court was far beyond the comparison of the small Tubo Kingdom.The most important thing is that His Majesty Ye Chen is in a critical period of healing, and no one should disturb him for six days.

After Han Xizai, Ma Wentao, Zeng Shangfei, Hu Sanguang, Li Junhao, Jia Xian, Zhang Bo and others held an emergency court meeting, they notified the whole army of the matter as quickly as possible, especially Yang Jiye, who was leading [-] cavalry back to aid, and Yang Jiye, who was supporting Deng Chongxuan, Zhang Dawei and Bai Canghai from Lanzhou.

At the same time, Zeng Shangfei, in the name of the military hub, issued urgent combat readiness orders and the highest alert orders to the four major armies of the Black Wolf, Xuanwu, Zhelan, and White Wolf stationed in the direction of Song and Liao, as well as the Tianwei Army stationed in Xiajing. .

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At the same time when Tuoba Gelu led the White Wolf Army and the Song Army to fight the mantis catching the cicada and the oriole behind the scenes, the battle between the Suzaku Army led by Deng Chongxuan and Kou Zhun in Jingtai County and the Tibetans was imminent.

(End of this chapter)