Chapter 921 The decisive battle between Song and Liao (2)
Nearly tens of Liao army cavalry attacked at full speed, but the Western army had to fill the four corners of support, which made the front middle road slightly empty. No matter how they looked, they were all in danger.
But the two elders of his family went up to the ground, and every Western army soldier showed no fear. What made people even more strange was that the several rows of shield soldiers at the front of the army had automatically dispersed and retreated without waiting for the enemy to arrive, completely exposing the team behind to the Liao army cavalry.
This scene suddenly appeared, which surprised and vaguely uneasy for many Liao cavalry generals who were rushing to the front line. They could see that the Song army was far from collapse, so they must have a deep meaning in doing so, but what medicine is sold in this gourd?
The answer to this question was naturally impossible to see for a moment, and the impact of the Liao army's iron cavalry was too fast to keep up with the rotation of their minds. In just a short moment, they had already reached the Song army formation.
At the same time, the Zhongshi, who was in the central army, was already roaring: "Ground sword formation, kill!"
"Boom-huh!" At this time, the swordsmen who were already at the forefront of the battle formation were almost at the same time, leaping out quickly like toads walking against the ground, killing the iron cavalry in reverse. At this moment, the steel knives in their hands also burst into dazzling cold light, more than half a foot away from the ground, and slashing straight forward. Their figures and steps all had a strong rhythm, and the angle of advance was chosen to be extremely tricky. In addition, the sudden incident made the Liao army's iron cavalry completely unable to pose any threat to them.
But the swords in their hands caused unexpected heavy damage to the Liao army. When the swords arrived, blood was shining, and the sounds of neighing were constantly spraying out from the mouths of the horses that were also covered with armor and seemed to be unable to hurt. Although these horses had armor all over their bodies, their limbs below were still exposed, and the Western Army's swords and weapons were slashing this flaw.
The sharpest steel knife cut the legs of the horses that were exerting force forward, just like an axe chopping firewood, with almost no delay, and it was cut off on the spot. As long as a horse's leg was broken, the entire war horse and the cavalry above would lose balance in an instant and fall to the ground.
These thousands of sword hands have already memorized this set of tactics in their hearts. When the sword walks with them, there is no drag on them at all. They just face the enemy's cavalry, constantly using swords and cutting horse legs. In just a short while, no less than two or three thousand cavalry fell to the ground.
As mentioned before, the impact of these heavy riders is extremely powerful, but there are many hidden dangers. The most serious thing is that it is difficult to get up as soon as possible after being dismissed. Dozens of kilograms of armor were on their body, but they were suddenly thrown to the ground. Even with the strong physiques of these Liao people, they were a little confused for a short time.
At this time, the Song army in the rear had already surrounded and killed, and countless swords and guns were raised at the same time, slashing with all their strength. Even though they were wearing thick iron armor, they had a gap to take advantage of and were quickly killed on the spot.
This change instantly shocked countless Liao troops, causing the Liao army infantry who had followed closely to subconsciously slow down the rushing force of the Liao army infantry that had not yet been cut off the horse's legs to dodge one after another, and did not dare to face the swords and weapons that came in one go. In the rear camp, Yelu Xiongge was even more stunned when he saw all this, and only felt that his heart was bleeding. The ups and downs of this battle were too sudden, too fast, so why would such a change occur?
He didn't know that he had underestimated the Western Army, which was the best warfare and most experienced in the Song Dynasty. He had shown his good combat before, and the experience came from their years of fighting against the Western Xia, so the Western Army really had considerable experience in dealing with the cavalry.
Although Xixia cannot produce an elite heavy cavalry that can be compared with the Xuan Armor Iron Cavalry due to national strength and other reasons, their Iron Cavalry is actually a weakened version of the Xuan Armor Iron Cavalry, or the two sides have the intention of learning from each other. It is precisely because they had suffered a great loss on the Iron Cavalry that the Western Army has specially trained such a land sword formation that specifically restrains the heavy armor cavalry. Although this formation is not so good, it just aims at the biggest weakness of the heavy cavalry. As long as a four-legged horse is broken into one leg, a cavalry will completely lose its combat power.
It is precisely because of the mastery of such a means of defeating the enemy that the generals of the Western Army were not at all panicked when they saw this fierce black-armored iron cavalry.
The Iron Cavalry failed to break the formation, but instead suffered heavy casualties, which made the main general Ge Motan even more annoyed. Being able to escape by General Song before made him feel faceless. Now this situation is the case, which naturally makes him even more angry. Although he turned to dodge like others, his eyes are still paying attention to the movements of the swords and weapons.
After running for a while, he had already adjusted his direction decisively. This time he no longer attacked the Song army's battle formation, but instead rushed from the slanting stalkers to the soldiers who had separated and continued to pursue the iron cavalry. When he came closer, with a loud shout, the sledgehammer swept down and hit a person's chest.
The soldier was beaten to the ground before he could dodge. When the blood squirted wildly and landed again, he had no sound. Ge Motan's momentum increased instead of reducing, and he screamed strangely, waving the hammer in his hand, and began to strangle these swords and weapons.
There were other iron cavalry who also changed their tricks. After all, they were all elites from a thousand. Even if they were frustrated in the first battle, they were not timid, but quickly came up with countermeasures. As one of them began to hang on the side of the horse and rush towards the Song army, the others began to follow suit and launched crazy revenge on these swords and weapons.
The cavalrymen who were unable to hurt the sword formation just now attacked because they sat upright. But now, with their bodies extremely pressing down, the swords in their hands could almost collide with the ground, and their attacks could finally pose a great threat to the swords.
Suddenly, the battle situation turned upside down again. The thousands of swords and soldiers who had taken out of the formation had been killed hundreds of them, and it was no longer possible for others to pose any threat to the Liao army. Seeing this, Zhong Shizhong could only sigh: "Call the troops and ask them to come back!" I really didn't expect that the Liao army's reaction was so fast that they had broken their own sword formation without taking much advantage.
With the sound of horns, the swords and weapons that still wanted to support them quickly walked back. At the same time, tens of thousands of spear soldiers in the Song army formation also decisively came forward and rushed straight to the Liao army cavalry who still wanted to pursue. Facing the spear formation pressing like a forest, even the iron cavalry did not dare to take risks to attack, so they could only turn to the sides and run to the sides again.
However, the dangerous alarm for the Western Army has not been lifted, because at this moment, the Liao army infantry had already arrived. With the sound of the horn, the Liao army with the same force also pressed forward and attacked head-on.
For a moment, the two armies started a duel again, but this time there was almost no trick at all. The Western Army could only rely on its years of combat experience and unyielding fighting spirit to fight the Liao army, which was more elite and good at fighting than itself.
The sound of killing shook the sky, people kept falling down, and blood kept flowing. Even the heavy rain could not disperse the blood gathered, and it could only accumulate more and more. Long spears, short knives, shields, sledgehammers... all kinds of weapons were greeted directly at the enemy in an orderly or chaotic manner...
On the surface, the Western Army really blocked the frontal attack of the Liao army, but in fact, their situation became dangerous as the battle progressed. Because the Liao cavalry had turned around at this time, a new round of attacks on the empty areas in the corner of their rear began again. At the same time, the Xuan Armored Iron Cavalry who ran to both sides and turned around and rushed towards them, their rushing momentum was even twice as fast as the light cavalry.
Being attacked from three sides, even from all sides, immediately put the Western Army in an unprecedented crisis situation. Looking straight at the Song generals in the rear camp, all the faces turned pale. Many people unconsciously pinched the hilt of their swords at their waists, thinking that if they were in it, they would have been desperate.
Sun Tu almost crushed the handle of the sword. He could see that this battle had reached the last moment of life and death. If there was no change, the Western Army would really be defeated by the Liao army. By then, the entire Northern Expedition would end in failure.
Even though he knew the direction of the wheel of history, even if he knew the little thing Tong Guan thought, Sun Tu resolutely strides towards this former benefactor. He wants to give it a try, not only for the two elders of the Zhong family to him that day, but also for the countless Han soldiers and civilians in the rear, and for the inheritance of this Chinese!
"Ship Tong, if we don't send troops to rescue us at this time, our army will definitely be defeated!" Sun Tu stood in front of Tong Guan, and a loud roar was like this spring thunder, which shocked the generals around him. Everyone took their eyes back from the battlefield ahead and stared at him with a look that looked like they saw a ghost. Is this guy crazy?
Who doesn’t know what Tong Shuai was planning? Who doesn’t know that the army is actually shocked now. At this time, he actually urged Tong Shuai to order an advance. Isn’t this arson on Tai Sui’s head?
Even Tong Guan looked surprised with a hint of surprise in his expression, and then he narrowed his eyes and looked at Sun Tu: "Sun Qianli, what do you mean?"
"If you want to win and win Youzhou, you have to send troops to fight!" Sun Tu looked straight at the other party and replied loudly: "Are you afraid of Tong Shuai, you dare not fight with the Liao army again?"
"Grandpa, let me lead the cavalry to attack again, I'll stop them!" Seeing that the Liao cavalry was already raging in the rear, the Central Military Office of the Western Army was also eager to fight.
However, Zhong Shizhong did not look at him, but looked at his brother who was standing beside him. After seeing the battle situation of the two armies that were still strangling in front of him, Zhong Shidaoze suddenly spoke: "Zhong Jing obeys the orders-!"
Chapter completed!