Liu Ran and others, who were watching from a high place in the walled city, gasped almost simultaneously.
The originally terrifying black wave instantly turned into a chaotic ant colony. Some of them subconsciously ran to the right, some scattered to the left, and some stopped their horses and shouted to try to gather the chaotic people again. There were also a few who were proficient in martial arts and brave. While running, they used their riding bows to shoot at the archers of Ding Haijun, and then they were quickly shot into hedgehogs with both men and horses.
In the eyes of an outsider, this situation would only seem like the Black Army was not worthy of its name. They were using cavalry against infantry and were making such a mess.
But Liu Ran and others are veterans, who doesn't understand the key?
An officer trembled: "Twenty steps!"
In order to pursue the lethality of bows and crossbows, the Dinghai navy deployed a small number of swordsmen, shieldmen and spearmen on the periphery. There were only one horizontal row of swordsmen and spearmen in several directions, and the spearmen and spearmen could not move forward or backward. Stacked.
When the two sides were closest, the black cavalry rushed to a place twenty steps away from the Dinghai naval formation. This distance only needs to be tramped on the ground two or three times by the horse's hooves. If the black army's cavalry charges fiercely, it will have a good chance of breaking through this slightly weak defense line, which will definitely cause huge casualties to the given navy.
On the battlefield, every sheep attack by the cavalry is a test of the fighting spirit of the defenders. With the cavalry approaching to this extent, the competition was to see who could persevere unwaveringly.
At that time, the Mongolian light cavalry disrupted the Jin army's formation by repeatedly running, attacking and intersecting with sheep. Sometimes the Qingqi sheep charged several times, and the defenders would collapse without a fight. This situation occurred many times, and many soldiers concluded the reason. This does not mean that the Mongols are much more brave than the Jin army. The key is that in such a competition, the attacker has a natural advantage.
As long as half of the attacker's large cavalry charge bravely, they will definitely be trapped. Those who waver are just riding slower and cannot affect the overall situation. As long as one or two people in the defending army retreat timidly, it is likely to cause a chain reaction, causing the entire army to flee and suffer a disastrous defeat.
As the number of sheep attacks accumulates, the defender's timidity and wavering will also accumulate. It's like using a dike to block rising floods. There will always be holes in the dikes, and the holes will always be washed away by the floods.
In this way, failure is inevitable. After a failure, the seeds of failure were sown in the hearts of all soldiers. Those who fled last time will continue to flee next time; those who persisted last time will also flee next time because they saw their companions flee.
Fear, wavering, frustration, pessimism, all kinds of emotions are like viruses, spreading wantonly with failure, eventually eroding the body of the entire army and destroying everyone's confidence.
That's how the tens of thousands of troops who were recruiting troops on Dajin Northeast Road and Linhuangfu Road were defeated again and again, and finally fell apart and lost their divisions and territory.
However, the Dinghai navy that appeared outside Zhigu Village was completely different from an ordinary army.
Just now, the charge of the black cavalry was very fierce. They were pressed to a distance of twenty steps from Ding Haijun. But among Ding Haijun's three horizontal formations and a thousand people, there was no one who was timid or wavering. From beginning to end, the entire military formation was like a rock or a cliff, without any chaos at all.
Even the frequency of movements of all of them did not change as the enemy approached.
Liu Ran himself was an extremely good archer with excellent eyesight. So he saw in the horizontal formation at the rear, a soldier who put down his spear and used a rifle to shoot a bow. Every time he took out an arrow and missed it, he would lift the arrow cluster and rub it against his chest and stomach, and then shoot it out.
He was like this for the first three shots. But when the black cavalry rushed closer, as if a huge wave was about to wash away and engulf everyone, he was still like this. He first took out the arrow and missed it, then wiped the arrow cluster, and then he and his companions opened their bows and fired.
In the eyes of experts like Liu Ran, his archery skills have not yet been perfected and the bow he uses is weak. But the scary thing is that everyone in the Dinghai Navy is so uniform in their actions and emotions, it's like...
Liu Ran didn't know how to describe it for a while.
In his impression, such an army must be accompanied by harsh military laws. To show this kind of performance, it must be that the law enforcement team has cut down
Several heads threatened. But Ding Haijun is obviously not like this.
Of course Liu Ran would not think that Ding Haijun was not bound by military law. This only shows that the pressure from the black cavalry on Ding Haijun was too weak. Such a battle was just a small scene. Ding Haijun gained the upper hand so easily that their generals did not even need to use military law!
He looked at his companions around him. Many of the defeated soldiers swallowed, and then subconsciously held the weapons in their hands with both hands, or pulled at their robes. Their faces showed dull expressions.
The more someone usually relies on his outstanding skills, the more sluggish he becomes. Because what they saw was not a group of warriors with outstanding martial arts, but a real army, an army with a unified will and a steel-like whole!
"It's really different."
Zhang Pingliang murmured to the side: "Brother Ran, you are right, they are different from us. They cannot fight this kind of war just by taking advantage of the large number of people and the small number of people!"
While everyone watching the battle was shocked, Yang Jiezhi, who was riding behind and planning to wait for an opportunity to expand the victory, had a solemn expression on his face.
He himself was a member of the army of Dajin. This time he attacked Zhongdu and fought against the Jurchens several times. He knew that their power was useless and only superficial. Only a small number of elite troops can achieve decent results with the bravery of their generals.
But at this moment, he felt that he was hit by a big mouth, and his face was swollen.
At this moment, the more than a hundred corpses and seriously injured people left in front of the battle, as well as the moment when both the enemy and ourselves were shaken, clearly told Brother Yang Jiezhi that the success of the navy did not rely on the courage of ordinary men, and they were definitely not the best in the Jin Army. A brave army, but a new and real army!
"You can't fight hard! There's no need to fight hard!"
Brother Yang Jiezhi immediately made a decision. He shouted to Ni Cong: "Let the cavalry go north and go around the Lugou River to the enemy's rear! I'm here... to watch them!"
After receiving the order, he rode away.
Only a few of his close associates noticed that Brother Yang Jie had originally wanted to say "hang them", but before he left his mouth, he abruptly changed his words.
Why? Because experienced generals judge strength and weakness, there is no need to fight for a long time. With just this touch, Brother Yang Jie knew how elite this thousand-man army was. If they wanted to advance, they would advance, and if they wanted to retreat, they would retreat. With the power of the black army currently deployed, don't even think about entangling them!
To defend this group of infantry, they relied on the strong and high-altitude Zhigu Village; to attack, more than a thousand people could advance and retreat freely, but even our own elite cavalry could not suppress their momentum.
In this case, what's the point of the cavalry's detour?
If the leader here is an ordinary general, he might find a way to fight again. But now, firstly, brother Yang Jiezhi has enough battlefield experience; secondly, all the soldiers under his command have their own wealth that he has painstakingly accumulated. A meaningless battle should not continue. Brother Yang Jiezhi had no hesitation about this.
Sure enough, not far after Na Cong ran out, he was called back by the general: "Go to the rear formation and tell Shi Tianying the situation here."
Xi Cong did not dare to neglect, so he rushed to the mouth of the Sancha River to the west of Zhigu Village and reported to Shi Tian.
Shi Tianying pondered for a moment, and then asked the other two sentry riders: "Is this really true? How can the Ding Navy do this?"
"This is indeed the case."
Shi Tianying remained silent for a long time.
A general nearby was still confident: "We have 20,000 people. If we press on them, we will crush them all to death!"
Shi Tianying ignored it and said instead: "It's still beneficial to come and see it. Everyone, give the order to withdraw the troops."
"What? Withdraw your troops? This..." Some of the generals were surprised, and some were angry.
"Go and call Lao Yang." Shi Tianying pointed to Brother Yang Jiezhi's subordinates, and then said to his two sentries: "When General Yang comes, you two will follow. Let's go Meet Dahan."
