A World War I-level army fighting against ancient cavalry is like a World War II-era cavalryman attacking German armored forces. They were just there to deliver food.
Yelu Longxu led the troops to launch a fearless charge. In his opinion, the Song army did not even have armor. If the cavalry charged up, it would be a great victory. Moreover, Zhao Heng was also there. As long as this army was destroyed, the Song Dynasty would be defeated. There was no leader, but they immediately went south to seize the Han people's thousands of miles of territory.
He thought beautifully and acted resolutely. He took the lead and rushed towards the Song Army's position. He was surrounded by the newly formed Tielin Army and behind him were hundreds of thousands of cavalry. They rushed towards the Song Army without hesitation.
There are so many people in Yelu Longxu, because despite the fact that the two sides fought a fierce battle within a few months, the actual losses were not large. Under normal circumstances, once the casualty rate of ordinary armies in the cold weapon era exceeds 30%, it will Completely scrapped, but this is the limit that the Central Plains Dynasty can bear.
The reason is not only the training and command of the army, but the most important thing is the composition of the army. Due to logistics needs, the proportion of soldiers in an army who can actually face the enemy will basically not exceed 1/3, and the remaining 2/3 is not so much They are soldiers, rather than coolies. They have no combat effectiveness at all, and officers will not let these people stand in front to fight against the enemy. Therefore, a 30% loss to the Central Plains Dynasty means that the soldiers are almost dead.
It's different in the grassland. When they go on an expedition, all the people are soldiers, because their logistics are the cattle and horses accompanying the army, so the army in the grassland can withstand a higher battle loss ratio, but in fact once they exceed 10%, they There will be chaos in the troops. If the number exceeds 30%, they will flee in large numbers. In their view, if I have a horse, I can run away. The worst is that I will come back later.
But this time is different. Almost all of the more than 200,000 Song Army soldiers are combat soldiers, and there are not many auxiliary soldiers, and even those auxiliary soldiers have combat effectiveness. The Liao Kingdom is now full of red eyes, and needs The tribes on the grassland should have created an opponent to vent their anger on, but those tribes saw that the situation was not going well and fled long ago, leaving only their food, millions of cattle and sheep.
On one side was Yelu Longxu, who was leading the charge, and his hundreds of thousands of red-blooded cavalry, and on the other side was the Song Army equipped with a large number of artillery and machine guns. Both sides started a decisive battle with the determination to completely kill the other side.
The charge of hundreds of thousands of cavalry was quite impressive. The battlefield observation team (documentary team) sent by Zhuo Qun drove several helicopters and filmed the battle in detail, preparing to use it as video material, or for a certain film In the editing of the movie, during the previous civil war in the Liao Kingdom, Ma He and the others came here every day to shoot, so Zhao Heng arrived at such a precise time, and he showed up right after the war.
A massacre began like this. Zhao Heng and the others had already arranged their positions. A large number of barbed wire fences were placed in front of the positions. A crossfire net was also arranged on the positions. Each soldier was equipped with dozens or hundreds of Type 63 weapons. With wooden handle grenades and thousands of artillery pieces behind it, it was completely armed to the teeth.
In just one charge, nearly half of Liao's hundreds of thousands of cavalry were lost. They all huddled together during the charge. It wasn't that they didn't want to be scattered and surrounded, but the location chosen by the Song army was too good, on the bank of a river. On the other side, the Liao army could not disperse and surround them, and the Song army did not wear armor. This is the most critical thing. The troops without armor are like lambs to be slaughtered in front of the cavalry. All they have to do is charge forward. Whether the opponent has horses or not is a matter of If you can't win and you can't escape, why are you so polite? Just charge with the whole army.
Hundreds of thousands of troops gathered together, and they first stepped forward in small steps. This was to save the physical strength of the war horses. After all, they had just gone through a fight, and they could still resist, because the actual people fighting on both sides were not There are many, but the physical loss of the war horses is great. The Tielin Army has already replaced its war horses twice.
The whole army also changed their war horses. After all, they all have two horses per person or three horses per person. These horses are not only war horses but also their military rations. The grassland people have many horses. When they go to war, they bring cattle, sheep and war horses, which is logistics. .
Now the Liao army just wants to rush over, kill the Song army, and then have a full meal.
When they arrived about three thousand meters away from the Song Army's position, they had already started walking quickly on their war horses. When they were within a thousand meters, the war horses began to trot. When they reached five hundred meters, they began to charge to the extreme. After this charge, they The war horse will be dead. If it is not dead, it will be useless and will not be able to go to the battlefield.
But now they can't control so much. They just want to rush over and tear the enemy in front of them into pieces and turn them into flesh under their feet.
If the Song Army was still an ancient army, riots would have begun now, and some people had even started to run away. But now they will not run away at all. Fighting all the way has made them thoroughly understand that cavalry is a gun. target.
In front of the machine guns and artillery are the military services that are about to be eliminated. The reason why they did not shoot is simply to let the enemy charge. As long as they charge, they can't escape and can only rush to death.
They endured the machine gun fire at a distance of one thousand meters, and they also endured the distance of 500 meters. Now there are less than 50,000 people deployed on the frontal position, while more than 30,000 people are deployed on the flanking positions. The total number of troops on the artillery position on the other side of the river was less than 20,000, and the remaining nearly 100,000 troops had already driven to the rear of the Liao army.
Zhao Heng was in the front position of Huang Luo Umbrella, drinking wine and watching the singing and dancing, as if he were playing. These actions made the Liao army lose their last sanity, and they started charging regardless.
Yelu Longxu led the Tielin Army around him and shouted, no matter who he was or what his status was, whoever killed Zhao Heng would be crowned king.
The eyes of the Liao army were red with excitement from the promise. The Liao army, which was charging in a dense formation, all rushed into the front position three hundred meters away. When the Song army opened fire, more than 30,000 Liao soldiers were caught in the crossfire net. The cavalry died immediately, but the Liao army continued to attack and no one retreated.
At a distance of two hundred meters, the front army of the Liao army was blocked by a barbed wire fence. The rear army did not know what was happening in front and desperately drove the front army forward. By the time the barbed wire fence was broken through, the Liao army had already killed and wounded nearly ten people. An army of ten thousand.
At this time, the artillery position also opened fire, not at the front of the position but at the rear of the Liao army. Seeing them driving towards the Song army's position, the Liao's war horses had experienced such a loud noise. The entire Liao army's war horses were stunned. Frightened, they began to run around. Many Liao soldiers were overturned by their horses and were trampled to pulp by the horses.
The Liao army is now in complete chaos, with horses squeezing horses and horses squeezing people. The Liao army is now unable to retreat or advance. They have become targets for the Song army, and the Song army's outflanking troops have also arrived in Liao. The attack began from behind the military capital.
This time the Liao army was completely fooled.
The war horses were afraid of the sound of guns, which was also a major weapon of the Song army. This battle lasted for more than ten hours, and the barrels of the artillery were red. Zhao Heng gave the order to stop the attack. By then, there were no more people on the battlefield. How many people were alive? In the end, only less than 5,000 people survived out of an army of hundreds of thousands. Of these 5,000 people, everyone was injured, and most of them were scared crazy.
Zhao Heng looked at the scene in front of him and said that he could not bear to see such a cruel thing, so he should send those five thousand people away.
In this way, the last five thousand people were executed.
At this point, the Liao Kingdom was completely destroyed, and all that was left was to wipe out the tribes on the grasslands.
