Chapter 242 Falling Carving
A quarter of an hour after the dragon flag was raised, the entire army led by Wang Yan, the central army of the imperial camp, collapsed, and the life and death of the commander Jiao Wentong was unknown.
This army was rotated from the Dongpo Plateau by the Song Army. As the fierce fighting on the plateau lasted longer and longer, both sides began to get tired. In addition, the front line had already stabilized. Therefore, long before the Loushi formation, when there was a large-scale chaos on the south side of the battlefield, the war on the plateau had already been tacitly understood.
Correspondingly, Wang Yan had already given up supervising the battle and instead tried to let the front-line troops withdraw to the plateau in turns to rest.
Jiao Wentong's troops had withdrawn before the dragon flag was raised. Originally, because Balisu on the plateau suddenly intensified his offensive again, he was ready to go back to the plateau to replace Li Qiong's troops who suffered the most casualties. But when the Jin army lined up on the south side of the plateau and the dragon flag was raised from the center, the Song army was greatly encouraged. After communicating with Wang Yan, Jiao Wentong chose to stay where he was and turned his army to target Loushi's five-color sun-holding flag... His original intention was to take advantage of Loushi's battle with the Qinfeng Road troops with heavy forces to press forward from the flank to achieve a miracle.
But Wanyan Loushi would never give him this opportunity. What was the use of the cavalry's mobility advantage on the local battlefield?
Therefore, Jiao Wentong's troops were immediately crushed by the strongest cavalry of the Jin Army, which was also probably the most powerful heavy armored cavalry in the entire East Asia at that time.
Of the two Heza Meng'an armies that had been carefully selected since the time of Aguda, only one participated in the attack on Jiao Wentong's army. Pucha Huzhan led a full force of 1,000 cavalrymen that had been neatly armed and equipped for a long time at the foot of Jinsulu Mountain. Both the men and the horses were armored, like a thousand iron pagodas. They stuck to the bottom of the plateau and forcibly "shoveled" the Song army, which numbered in the thousands, off the plateau!
Apart from a very small number of divine arm bows and long axe heavy infantry, the Song army did not have, and could not have, any weapons that could cause the slightest damage to this unit.
However, like other troops, Jiao Wentong handed over most of his few Shenbi bows and longaxe heavy infantry to the government in advance. Even if there were a few left, they did not have any effect at this time and did not cause any casualties. Because at the same time that Pucha Huzhan launched the attack, Loushi's favorite general Wanyan Poshu also used Loushi and the five-color sun-holding flag as the axis and led a large group of cavalry to launch a textbook-like Jurchen cavalry raid on the Song army.
First there was intensive circular shooting. Thousands of Jurchen cavalry, under the cover of the two iron pagodas on the left and right, advanced in a circular manner around Loushi... The intensive Jurchen heavy arrows caused huge casualties to the Song army. Jiao Wentong's troops were on the verge of collapse. According to this trend, the Jin army would not have needed to engage in close combat.
But it was obvious that Lou Shi's attack was extremely swift and fierce. He and his flag advanced like the wind, and the Jurchen cavalry with him as the axis soon rushed directly into the Song army. The Jurchen cavalry did not panic at all. They replaced their bows with spears, and swept through the Song army layer by layer in a way of scraping fish scales, rolling up countless flesh and blood each time.
This formation, in a more rustic way, is called the wheel tactics; in a more scientific way, it is called circular volley plus close-range side charge; and in a more vulgar way, it can be called something like the whirlwind cavalry formation... It is a conventional tactic of small units of the Jin army, and they often launch similar advancing attacks in the form of Mouke.
But there is no doubt that when this extremely clichéd tactic was performed together by the strongest cavalry general of the era, in cooperation with the strongest cavalry unit of the era, and with the addition of 7,000 cavalrymen, a force that could not be underestimated on any battlefield in the world... it could simply be called a typhoon formation.
In the Guanxi area, it had not rained for many days, but suddenly, a typhoon of iron cavalry consisting of golden weapons and iron horses appeared out of nowhere.
Jiao Wentong's troops were the first victims of this cavalry typhoon. The entire army fled in all directions, and the life and death of the commander was unknown... The Song army on all sides was instantly annihilated by the momentum of the dragon banner! The Qinfeng Road army in front of them was horrified for a moment, and the troops on the plateau were even more terrified. Even Wu Jie, who was still leaving the camp, and Zhao Jiu in the central army camp in the distance were also horrified.
It's not that no one thought there would be sacrifices. In fact, the Song army, from top to bottom, saw the battle array of Loushi and the two Jurchen cavalry units that were almost armored cavalry, and they all realized that they would suffer large-scale casualties. But why was it so fast? Why was it so quick and easy?
And the most important thing is, where is the Song army's counterattack?
The Jin army did suffer casualties, there were visible casualties, but the vast majority of them were caused by the natural consumption of large-scale heavily armored cavalry by the terrain... On the plateau and on the high ground in the camp, everyone could see clearly that on the undulating terrain below the plateau, many Jin soldiers often stumbled and fell off their horses, and then died silently, becoming the inevitable consumables of war.
However, these casualties were mathematically probabilistic after the number of Jin cavalry reached this level, not man-made casualties. No one saw which counterattack of the Song army caused effective damage to the Jin army, because Jiao Wentong's troops almost collapsed directly with the advancement of Wanyan Loushi... This made the Song army present feel genuinely panicked.
And after the fear comes a kind of admiration from the heart...just admiration!
I'm amazed that cavalry can be used like this?!
I was amazed that heavy armor and heavy bow cavalry were so strong? !
However, this admiration soon disappeared, and was replaced by various choices made deep and shallow in people's hearts.
The first person to react was of course Wang Yan, who was closest to Lou Shi. He witnessed everything from the closest distance to the battle and the best perspective, and felt the power of the typhoon most intuitively.
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