Dying on the battlefield is a hundred times better than going back and having your head chopped off!
At least his family will be treated well, and his son will inherit the title.
Richard had a total of two thousand Iron Falcons, and all two thousand Iron Falcons had already assembled on the open ground.
The fire in the center of the city grew bigger and bigger, and the Xia army was about to lose the city, so they decided to go all the way and set the city on fire.
They burned the Song soldiers and civilians in the city to death.
Meanwhile, Richard's Iron Falcon was going to attack the elite Shenwu Army of the Song Dynasty's Imperial Guards. He was determined to annihilate the entire Shenwu Army before he would stop.
Because of the narrow terrain, it was impossible for the two thousand iron hawks to attack together.
The Iron Falcons were divided into ten groups, each attacking from different street corners, moving back and forth within the city, and could cross paths to compensate for the weakened combat effectiveness caused by the dispersed forces.
Half an hour later, Bohan, the commander of the Fourth Battalion of the First Army, received an urgent military order from the front: the Third Division of the Fourth Battalion of the First Army had encountered Iron Falcons!
This is a very important piece of information.
The Iron Falcons of the Xia army were the most feared type of soldier by the Song army. Since their creation, the Iron Falcons had caused the Song army a great deal of trouble.
In any large-scale war between the Song and Xia dynasties, there were the tough and mysterious figures of the Iron Falcons. Wearing iron masks, they were like iron-cast ghosts, flying over the vast grasslands.
Once they charge, the Song army will be unable to withstand them. Even the elite infantry will suffer heavy losses, and it will take the elite of the elite infantry to inflict damage on the Iron Falcons.
Wu Jie's defeat of Richard's right flank army is the best example. The Song army lost six times its own strength before it could wipe out the Iron Falcons that attacked from both flanks.
In other words, even Wu Jie's army, with six infantrymen, only managed to defeat one Iron Falcon.
Of course, that was on an open plain, where the iron hawk's lethality reached its maximum.
The appearance of the Iron Falcon was also within Yue Fei's expectations.
Furthermore, Yue Fei had specifically considered ways to deal with the Iron Falcons.
In orthodox history, Jin Wuzhu's Iron Pagoda, which was adapted from the Iron Falcons and the infantry of the Song Dynasty, was completely wiped out by Yue Fei.
Given Yue Fei's keen sense of warfare, the best way to deal with the Iron Falcons was by using their horses, but even so, an army with a will as strong as steel was needed.
Ordinary armies crumble at the first charge of the Iron Falcons, but the Divine Might Army must confront them head-on!
Upon learning of the Iron Falcon's appearance, all the command battalions of the Divine Martial Army began to change formation.
Each of the individual troops immediately began to converge, forming a command battalion of five hundred men. They erected shields in front and behind them on the street, forming a solid defensive formation.
The Divine Martial Army forces in various locations began to converge, taking up positions in the center of different streets, like blocks of steel rooted in the streets.
In contrast, the former guards, being scattered, skillfully entered the narrow alleys, waiting for the Iron Falcons to attack.
The clatter of hooves came from ahead, striking the ground as if trying to shatter it.
Suddenly, a black shadow appeared in the distant firelight.
They were clad in black iron armor, even more robust than the armor worn by the infantry of the Song Dynasty, with their wrists covered by armor, leaving only their eyes exposed.
The horses below were also clad in heavy armor, with only their eyes and calves showing.
They wielded maces, weapons that are easy to handle even when the weight is almost at its limit.
The firelight made the armor appear exceptionally bright.
They rushed towards this direction quickly and in great force, like a torrent of steel bursting forth.
Every member of the Divine Martial Army had a solemn expression. They gripped their shields tightly with one hand and took a specially made, sharp sickle from behind their backs with the other. The handle of the sickle was three feet long.
The entire army of the Second Command Battalion of the First Army shouted, crouched down slightly, raised their shields with their left hands and pressed them against their bodies, and lowered their sickles with their other hands.
The first row of four iron hawks charged towards the Song army together.
They charged forward, and the cavalrymen on top skillfully swung their iron maces, smashing them at the Song army.
However, before it could strike, the warhorse had already collided with the first rank of Song soldiers.
With a bang, the warhorse crashed into the shield, and the hand bones of the Song soldiers broke with a "crack".
But in that instant, the Song soldiers at the front swiftly extended their sickles and pulled them back. Two Song soldiers hooked the horses' front hooves, but at the same time, their bodies were also thrown into the air, and much of the force was instantly dissipated.
The sickle sliced across the horses' hooves, but did not break them off; however, it did cut them. Both warhorses, in pain, reared up on their forelegs and then fell to the ground.
However, due to the force of inertia, after the horse's hooves fell, it continued to slam forward, hitting the shields of two Song soldiers and crushing them on the spot, breaking more than half of their bones.
At that very moment, the Iron Falcons rushed in from behind.
The Song army's front line of defense showed signs of collapsing in an instant.
The iron hawk is like a sharp iron plow, carving holes in the field.
Clang...
With the sound of metal clashing, the iron hawk charged with tremendous force, crashing into the third rank of Song soldiers and the spear formation.
The sharp spear pierced the horse's belly, but failed to penetrate its armor.
The Song soldiers in the fourth rank used their shoulders to push the soldiers in the third rank, and the Song soldiers in the fifth rank used their shoulders to push the soldiers in the fourth rank.
They were pushed up in rows like this.
The man in the third row braced the butt of his spear against the ground with his right hand, the tip of the spear against the horse's belly, and held his shield in his left hand. Although his shield had been twisted and deformed by the impact, he still used his right hand to support his spear.
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