In the Southern Song Dynasty, I competed with Mongolia for the world

Chapter 217 The Three-stage Strike of the Cold Weapon

Zha Tuo ran unhurriedly, and he was very skilled in riding. He always kept about fifty paces with the Xixia Army and Meng Ying behind him.

It can be deduced from this distance that his bow strength is at least one stone.

When he noticed that Meng Ying was speeding up to chase him, whoosh, Zatuo turned his head with an arrow.

Zha Tuo shot quickly and quickly, in Meng Ying's eyes, he almost didn't aim, and shot blindly based on feeling.

Meng Ying kept her eyes on him, and when she saw Zha Tuo raised her bow, Meng Ying slammed her body on the horse, and at the same time hooked the horse's belly with both feet.

Whoosh, the arrow flew past his back and the horse's back.

"En" Zha Tuo missed the arrow, his eyes brightened, and he glanced at Meng Ying unexpectedly.

"Drive" Meng Ying roared wildly, and the horse accelerated again.

But he was originally chasing Zha Tuo, so he suddenly rushed half a step to the right, and at the same time raised his bow and set an arrow.

Zha Tuo saw in disbelief that this Han man could also ride and shoot, and was about to raise his bow again, when he suddenly felt the sound of the wind. He was frightened and leaned to the right, hiding his whole body on the right side of the horse's belly.

Puchi puchi, two arrows from the Xixia army behind him shot on the back of his war horse.

Zhatuo let out a strange cry, and from the corner of his eye, Meng Ying shot an arrow at another Mongolian army. The Mongolian army did not expect someone on the left to rush out and shoot him. He was shot in the neck and fell off the horse.

"Wow!" The Song army and Xixia army roared all around to boost morale.

"It's really treacherous." Zatuo was shocked and angry.

Before he got up, fluttering, two more arrows hit his horse behind him, one of which hit the right rear thigh of his horse.

"Woo!" His war horse let out a tragic cry.

Zatuo hurriedly pulled the horse's head and looked around at the same time. He accidentally saw a horse left by the Xixia army standing in the field not far away. The Xixia army had been shot to death on the spot.

"Drive" Zatuo still wanted to exert strength, but his horse was already weak, and when his footsteps softened, his horse also fell to the ground with a loud crash.

Zatuo took advantage of the momentum and rolled on the ground. After rolling a few times, he got behind the Xixia army horse.

Just as he was about to go up, there was a flutter, and two more arrows hit his left back.

"Hiss" he snorted, but his movements couldn't be slow, and he flew onto the horse.

He was wearing an extremely thick willow-leaf armor unique to Mongolia. These two arrows did not shoot deep, did not cause heavy damage, and did not have a great impact.

Whoosh, whoosh, at this time you are chasing each other on the field, and the Mongolian army is running and shooting.

The Xixia Army and the Song Army followed behind, and the two sides circled behind the cattle.

This Mongolian army is the sentry cavalry in the Mongolian army. When they were in Khitan, they called it "far-reaching barrier horse". ).

These people had scouted for one or two hundred miles before the war, and they were all extremely powerful.

After a few rounds, the Xixia Army suffered heavy losses.

Four or five men from the Mongolian army were shot down, and nearly a quarter of the Xixia army was killed or wounded. On Meng Ying's side, one was shot and one lost his horse.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Zha Tuo waved his hand and whistled: "Let's go."

There was a loud sound of horseshoes at the scene, and the Mongolian army turned their horses around one after another and galloped away.

His task is to find the enemy, and he is not willing to fight to the death with the Xia and Song armies here.

The Xixia army still wanted to chase, but the opponent turned his head at the same time, swish, swish, a wave of arrows rained, and several Xixia soldiers and horses hit arrows again.

"Stop—don't chase after him," Meng Ying yelled quickly.

The Xixia Army and the Song Army stopped one after another, watching helplessly as the remaining nine-riding Mongolian Army ran further and further away arrogantly.

Among them, a Mongolian soldier was shot with seven or eight arrows, and he staggered away.

"Wow..." Gao Zhiyao quickly came up, he came to Meng Ying's side, and the two looked at each other.

Just now, hundreds of people from the Song and Xia allied forces besieged the Mongolian army with more than a dozen cavalry, but they were actually at a disadvantage.

"The Mongolian sentry has arrived, and the army will arrive in a while." Meng Ying said solemnly: "Gao Zhi Mansion, the task of stopping the Mongolian army is entrusted to our Song army, but I want to know how many people there are in the Mongolian army?"

"Shader." Gao Zhiyao said loudly immediately.

"The last general is here." A Xixia officer stepped forward. This man was quite brave, with three arrows stuck in his body. The injuries did not seem to be serious, but his face was not good-looking, a little pale.

"The Song army wants to stop the Mongolian army, and our party members can't lag behind. If you choose someone with excellent riding skills to follow, you must see how many people there are in the Mongolian army."

"No." Shader glanced at Meng Ying.

Originally, he looked down on Meng Ying and the Song people, but just now Meng Ying also shot down a Mongolian soldier. After Shader rushed over, he cut the Mongolian soldier with a knife, so now he feels that Meng Ying and Song Jun are more pleasing to the eye.

The Xixia army quickly selected ten more powerful riders, and slowly searched in the direction where the Mongolian army retreated just now.

"Gao Zhi Mansion, let's go." Meng Ying said at this moment.

Gao Zhiyao thought for a while, and said in a deep voice, "I have already run from Xiliang Mansion once, and I don't want to abandon my allies again." After speaking, he looked at Meng Ying resolutely.

This Xixia person can.

Meng Ying was very moved at the time.

Gao Zhiyao is only 19 years old at this meeting, and is about the same age as Meng Ying. The two young people, at this time, are enemies with Kai, and live and die together, which also lays the foundation for a deep friendship in the future.

The two knew that the Mongolian sentry had arrived, and the army must not be far away, so it would be better to study and block it there now.

Gao Zhiyao is also relatively capable in history. After the surrender of Xixia, he and Wu Zhazhen mainly provided horses and food for the Mongolian expedition. His strengths are horses, cattle, sheep and internal affairs management, which is not good for the military.

Meng Ying is not as good as her fourth brother Meng Gong, but she is still a little level. After all, she has been honing and learning from her father Meng Zongzheng for several years.

"Go south to the Hulu River. If the Mongolian army comes, line up with your back against the Hulu River to guard against the rear."

Originally they planned to cross the river to the east and enter Longzhou, but there was a large plain after crossing the river. If the Mongolian army caught up, they would have to form an formation on all sides, and they would be easily besieged by the Mongolian army from all sides.

What Meng Ying meant was not to go east now, but to go directly south along the Hulu River. When the Mongolian army came, they would form an formation with their backs to the river, so that they only needed to defend against the front.

Gao Zhiyao felt reasonable when he heard it.

"I don't care about the cattle?" Gao Zhiyao asked if he wanted to divide his troops into two groups and drive a wave of cattle and sheep to the south to attract the attention of the Mongolian army. After all, the Mongolian army came for the cattle and sheep.

Meng Ying thought for a while, and thought that Chen Xiaodao's troops were about to come up behind him. After the Mongolian army came, they would definitely destroy their troops first.

And they encountered a battle just now, and the Mongolian army must come to revenge.

Immediately, the two of them took the remaining hundreds of Xixia troops and Xu Daniu and other Song troops, turned to the south, walked slowly along the Hulu River, and drove hundreds of sheep for food.

About half an hour later, Xixia cavalry appeared in the west and north at the same time.

Then, "woo hoo" horns sounded simultaneously to their west and north.

The Mongolian army from the west appeared first, and a large number of fine cavalry appeared on the horizon not far away in black. The speed was fast and anxious, but soon stopped at a high slope and looked towards this side.

This group of cavalry came fast and stopped quickly. It seemed that all of them were skilled in riding, and they were quite skilled in manipulating war horses.

On the other hand, the Song army in the east appeared first in twos and threes, and then in waves. Many people were bending over and riding on horses, and they seemed to be tired or unwell.

There is no way, most of the Song army are infantry with horses, and their riding skills are really not good.

It was also after Zhao Yurui and Xixia reached an alliance that Xixia continued to provide war horses, and Fengxiang was able to match a large number of war horses.

These people rushed here quickly, many of them ran up and down, and many of them fell off their horses on the road.

The Xixia cavalry running in front were sentry cavalry, one wave was to investigate the main force of the Mongolian army, and the other wave was to contact the Song army behind.

The two groups ran towards Meng Ying and the others together.

"Come here, the main force of the Mongolian army is about a thousand cavalry." The Xixia cavalry from the west ran to Gao Zhiyao's side in a panic.

Gao Zhiyao has a black line on his face, the Mongolian army is in front of him, you just came back?
But he didn't say anything, just now Sha Deer sent ten riders out to investigate the news, now only three riders came back.

The people on the other side came back and said to Meng Ying that the Song army had a total of 3000 people in the rear, [-] cavalry, and [-] chariot soldiers (actually artillery).

After they received the order to quickly support this side, two thousand cavalry came, and five hundred cavalry escorted five hundred horse-drawn chariot soldiers on their way behind, about twenty miles away from here.

There are nearly a hundred Xixia cavalry on Meng Ying's side, and with the Song army, there are more than 2000 to [-].

Should be able to fight?
Meng Ying immediately led people to meet them, and the two sides joined together quickly. The opposite was the lieutenant general Zhang Neng, who brought two thousand cavalry, most of them were infantry and horses, and the real cavalry was only 500, which was exactly one battalion.

Zhang Neng is from the Sichuan Army, and Zhang Xuan, who guards Dasan Pass, is a tribe.

The Fengxiang garrison, or the Sichuan garrison now consists of three parts.

Because when the Wu Jie brothers were there, the Sichuan army was known as the Wu family army, and they were all soldiers of the Wu family. If it weren't for the fact that the Jin country was strong and powerful, they repeatedly attacked the Song Dynasty.

After Zhao Yurui came to power, they successively dispatched Meng Ying's Zhongshun Army, as well as the soldiers and horses they trained in Jeju.

Some grassroots officers and all the artillery officers were brought by Chen Xiaodao.

Then the Zhongshun Army and the Sichuan Army mixed together to form the current Sichuan Capital Army.

Moreover, the original Sichuan Army was actually divided into two parts, the Loyalty Army and the Imperial Army. The Loyalty Army was organized locally and later served the imperial court.

So many systems seem a bit chaotic, but after more than a year of training and deployment by Zhao and Rui, they have now been integrated into one.

After the two sides met, Meng Ying was the lieutenant general, and Zhang Neng was also the lieutenant general, but Meng Ying felt young and asked Zhang Neng to take command out of politeness.

Zhang Neng was not polite either. He looked at the Mongolian army in front of him and said, "We have to fight with our backs. Form an formation by the river, with cavalry protecting the wings and infantry in the middle."

The way the Sichuan Army fought was still left by Wu Lin, which was called "stacked formation" in history.

That is to say, the soldiers and horses are divided into four layers, let the pikemen defend in the front, squatting still, the second layer is the infantry strong bow formation, the third layer is the strong crossbow, and the god arm bow is on the fourth layer.

When the enemy soldiers approached to a distance of [-] paces, the divine arm bow was fired first, when the distance was [-] paces, the crossbow was fired, and when the distance was [-] paces, the step bow was used. (Later, Zhao Yurui believed that the style of play in the Southern Song Dynasty was a three-stage strike with cold weapons, which was actually quite advanced.)
If the enemy's position is confused, the cavalry hidden on the two wings will fight out together.

To be on the safe side, the stacked formation has a main formation and a secondary formation. Even if the main formation is breached, there is still an identical line of defense behind it.

In Wu Lin's words, this formation is specifically aimed at the Jin people's "two chieftains (the two chief commanders Wushu and Sa Liyue)", "Although the enemy is sharp, it cannot be done!"

When Wu Jie and Wu Lin brothers were in Sichuan, this formation was tried and tested repeatedly, and other troops of the Song Army also used it, and they often won the battle against Xixia and Jin.

There are two keys to this formation. One is that the spearmen in front must be able to block and not collapse. The other is that the requirements for crossbowmen are high. Nearly [-]% of the formation is crossbowmen.

(End of this chapter)