At the beginning of the Jin Dynasty, Zheng Jurchen was used as an elite armored army. The men and horses were all wearing iron armor, and they were called the Hard Army. In every battle, hard troops are used as the vanguard to break out of the formation.
If the enemy's army is weak, the cavalry will break through it with one charge; if the enemy's army is strong, the cavalry will constantly reorganize their formation, continuously attack the enemy's formation, advance and retreat, disperse and regroup, and even attack hundreds of times in a row, finally defeating the strong enemy. Record.
However, the strength of the Jurchens only lasted twenty years.
As the Jurchens moved to the Central Plains in large numbers, many households indulged in a parasitic life and became idle, and the quality of the Jurchen cavalry plummeted. When King Hailing was there, a general of the Song Dynasty in the Southern Dynasty said: "The enemy's troops are easy to fight, and ten of them are not as good as one or two of the tribes."
The so-called enemy soldiers in the Song Dynasty refer to the Jurchens, while the so-called tribes refer to the increasing number of Khitan, Bohai, Xi and even Wanggu cavalry among the Jin army. They are known as the Yi army and the Chi army in the court. .
Are those alien cavalry really fierce? Not really.
For example, the Khitan cavalry was notoriously light and unorganized, and retreated shamelessly. They only have the patience to charge once on the battlefield. If they fail once, they will be dispersed immediately. The Bohai people and the Xi people are even more weak than the Khitan people.
In the past few years, the scale of the war between the Jin Kingdom and Mongolia has continued to expand. From the grasslands north of the boundary trench to the Central Plains and the interior, fighting between Mongolian cavalry and Jin Army cavalry broke out everywhere. After thousands of fights, the Jin cavalry had no secrets in the eyes of the Mongols.
"At this moment, the enemy leader must have thought that he could defeat us with just one or two outflanks. Just like that day at Wushapu and Badger's Mouth, the Mongolian army was moving in and out, but our army would be the first to escape. , the soldiers followed, completely ignoring the orders of the golden drum. As a result, hundreds of thousands of people were chased and killed by the Mongolian cavalry, just like cutting grass. But..."
Having said this, Guo Ning put up a pergola with his hands and looked from a distance.
The sun is getting more and more dazzling. Directly ahead, the Mongolian cavalry has crossed the shoal.
Because they had to make a bend along the riverbank and bypass the wetlands and reed swamps on the way, the distance between the Mongolian cavalry and the plains in front of Ya'er Village where Guo Ning and others stopped was still more than two miles.
This is a very suitable distance for a cavalry charge.
Hundreds of Mongolian knights at the front began to gallop their horses. As the horses galloped faster, the sound of dense iron hoofs on the ground became more and more intensive, turning into a rolling tide without interruption, like roiling water waves along the river. swept across.
The terrain in the Tangbo area is complex and changeable, and the area available for troop dispatch is narrow, which is not suitable for the cavalry to advance and retreat on a large scale. However, because of this, the momentum of the cavalry galloping becomes more and more magnificent.
Before the men and horses arrived, the smoke from the horses' hooves arrived first with the wind, rolling and flying, choking people.
Guo Ning coughed twice and continued the original topic: "However, the Mongolian army in front of us is different from the elite Mongolian troops who chased us and fought to the death. And we are no longer the scattered sand that we were back then."
The enemy cavalry was getting closer and closer, and many soldiers stood up in stirrups on their horses, ready to fight. Several people shouted sternly: "Please give me the order, Mr. Lang!"
"Wait a moment."
The Mongols still used the same tactics.
Well-equipped heavy cavalry followed, and light cavalry armed with bows and arrows took the lead.
Looking around, I saw that among the hundreds of knights, many of them had their leather jackets wrapped around their waists, with their dark upper bodies naked and their hair disheveled like ghosts. As they galloped forward, they let out a heart-stopping high-pitched roar. Guo Ning often felt that the coming of these light cavalry was like a swarm of furious wasps.
Although wasps are small, they are very poisonous and can sting people to death.
In many battles inside and outside the boundary trench, the Mongolian light cavalry relied on repeated shooting, feint attacks and insertions to disrupt the Jin army's strict formation. If the army is not strong and patient, it will collapse without a fight if it only feints a few times with light cavalry.
And if the Jin army dispatched its own cavalry to drive away the Mongolian light cavalry, the Mongolian heavy cavalry, which was better equipped and better at attacking and fighting, would quickly come out to beat the Jin army's cavalry.
Fortunately, Guo Ning has seen this scene too many times.
The Mongolian cavalry came and went like the wind, and there was a commander with superior military strategy who was adapting to the situation on the battlefield. To outsiders, it seemed that everything was changing, and we were completely caught off guard and had no control.
However, no matter how sophisticated the tactics are, they boil down to a few main principles. Veterans like Guo Ning, who have experienced many battles, have seen too much and escaped death too many times. As long as people are not stupid, they can always slowly extract the laws.
In previous years, no matter how much such veterans knew, they would never be promoted to the position of general. In the eyes of the big shots above, what do mere mediocre people know? It is serious to go to the battlefield to lay down the knife tip.
But Guo Ning's department is different. He himself is a veteran soldier in the field, and the backbones of his army are the last remnants of hundreds of thousands of troops inside and outside the Jiehao Great Wall, and even in the three important border towns of Chang, Huan, and Fu.
Guo Ning and others understand the Mongolian army's tactics just as the Mongolian army understands the Jin army's habits.
But what the Mongolian army didn't know was that they were not facing an ordinary Jin army!
The Jurchens have long lost the ferocious energy they used to have in their iron cavalry charge, and have become a laughing stock in the eyes of the Mongols. But Guo Ning and his men have plenty of this kind of ruthless energy, this kind of ferocious energy that can survive a hundred battles! Who dares to ride and charge to kill?
"Since there is no frontal ejection, it can be seen that the bows and arrows they are equipped with are of different specifications, and they have to approach the side in order to fire the arrows uniformly. So... do you think the Mongols will go to the left or to the right?" Under the deafening sound of hoofbeats, Guo Ning asked.
Several people replied at the same time: "It must go to the right and outflank our left wing!"
The light cavalry were running and shooting on the battlefield, and it seemed that their marching routes were ever-changing. In fact, once the cavalry met the enemy, every time they changed direction, nine out of ten times they would go to the right.
Because except for a few good players, most knights hold the bow with their left hand and draw the string with their right hand. On horseback, they could shoot to the left freely, but it was difficult for them to shoot to the right.
Especially in the battle between the two armies, the Mongols were covered by the first wave of arrows, striving to kill quickly, accurately, ruthlessly and intensively. Therefore, riding to the right was the only option.
Guo Ning nodded.
"Li Erlang's troops stay here and guard the flag of our formation."
"yes!"
"Others..." Guo Ning suddenly raised his breath and shouted loudly: "Do you dare to fight?"
Behind him, two hundred selected armored knights responded loudly: "Dare!"
Guo Ning reached out and took out the iron gun: "Then follow me!"
Two hundred cavalry rode at the same time, with murderous intent.
They followed Guo Ning, not heading straight for the enemy's cavalry, but straight for their own left flank.
Guo Ning's control over the changes in cavalry movements and the direction of the advance all came from the accumulation of repeated battles. At this time, it seems quite wonderful. It is not simply fast or slow, but it accurately captures the time point when the Mongolian Qingqi slightly adjusts its rhythm and prepares to open the bow and shoot.
At this time, the Mongolian light cavalry was only two hundred steps away from Guo Ning's position. In such a hurry, they had no time to change direction, let alone rein in their horses.
As soon as the armored knights pushed their horses to the maximum speed, the two teams collided. Among the Mongolians, only the more alert ones immediately switched to using swords and guns. Many people did not react at all, and even subconsciously fired a round of arrows in the direction of the military formation behind them!
The arrows were still flying crookedly in the air. Guo Ning, with his two hundred iron cavalry, wedged himself deeply into the Mongolian light cavalry formation. His momentum was like a giant swinging a heavy sword and giant ax to chop down dead wood.
The Mongolian army had more troops and greater momentum, but at this moment, when its front light cavalry was performing its tactics step by step, it was hit hard by Guo Ning.
This is a decisive blow that has been prepared for a long time and uses the strong to bully the weak!
The next moment, the horses collided and neighed, the knights screamed, and the sounds of weapons clashing and chopping flesh and bones came one after another. Every person and horse in the cavalry, their entire field of vision was occupied by waving swords and guns and splashing blood.
The cavalry was trapped in the formation, with momentum like a rainbow, but Guo Ning was still at the forefront, and his heroic posture made the soldiers in the formation shake their spirits.
"Damn, this guy Guo Liulang is really..." Li Ting stared at him for a long time, feeling his mouth was dry.
He smacked his lips, spat two mouthfuls of Obito's saliva, then looked around and said seriously: "Actually, I can do it too!"
Behind the military formation, Wanyan Congjiamu was dumbfounded and only murmured: "This... this is the iron pagoda!"
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