"Brother, the golden thief has left the city! The golden thief has left the east gate of Yuguan! There are over ten thousand people!"
Yue Fei, who was looking down at a map in a hall-like room, heard the report from his brother Yue Fan. He straightened up suddenly, with a fierce look in his "big and small eyes" and sneered twice: "Come out." If you do, you will die... Send the order, the red scarf cavalry must gather, and I will personally lead them to kill the thieves and perform meritorious service!"
"Here!"
Yue Fan, who looked 70% to 80% similar to Yue Fei, but was a little younger and didn't have "big eyes", cupped his hands to his brother, turned around and strode out of the house.
After a while, the sound of drums and drums rang out from outside the house!
...
North of Yuguan, about seven or eight miles away, there is a manor that once belonged to an unknown nobleman. At this time, it has been occupied by a large number of red scarf Song army infantry.
A moon-white flag was erected outside the manor's courtyard, fluttering in the wind. Juxtaposed with the general's tooth flag, there is also a recognition flag with black characters on a red background. On the red flag, three very strong and thin gold characters are tattooed with black lines: Yue Wudi!
This is Yue Fei's former enemy command post!
Between this manor, which Yue Fei used as a former enemy command post, and Yuguan City, there is a forest of medium size that can be used to block the view, so standing at the top of Yuguan City, you cannot see this forest. The one at the back is from Zhuangzi.
Around Zhuangzi, 3,000 red scarf cavalry from the Second, Fifth and Ninth Army directly affiliated to the Song Dynasty Army had gathered.
The so-called Red Scarf Cavalry is an armored spear cavalry derived from Zhao Kai's Yulin Cavalry. It made its debut in the "Battle of the Great Wall of Henan" in the early years of Hongwu and showed its prowess. But in the following years, the glory of the Red Turban Cavalry was overshadowed by black technology weapons such as explosive pots, hot pot cannons, and long-barreled cannons that could really change the course of history, so that the enemies of the Song Dynasty ignored their exist.
However, Zhao Kai has never forgotten the Red Turban Cavalry - in the foreseeable future, the cavalry will still be as important as the artillery!
The emergence of artillery and its "premature maturity" (which was accelerated by Zhao Kai's golden finger) only caused the situation of "two kings to dominate" on the land battlefield in this era. In other words, artillery and cavalry together dominate the battlefield!
The reason why Zhao Kai's Red Turban Song Army has been able to overwhelm the Jin Army in recent years is that in addition to the success in building military troops, they can use only four camps to make roads (actually only three and a half) to raise 500,000 to 600,000 military soldiers. Outside the house, it lies in the "double strength of artillery and cavalry".
The "cavalry strength" in the "double strength of cavalry and artillery" does not lie in the light cavalry. There are still some gaps between the light cavalry of the Red Army and the Song Army compared to the Jin soldiers' Guaizima.
Because the light cavalry is a unit that does miscellaneous work, the higher the quality of the individual soldiers, the better they can do the light cavalry's work. The quality of the Red Scarf Song Army cavalry, including personal martial arts, riding skills, survival in the wild, burning, killing, looting, etc., was not as good as that of the girls born in the white mountains and black waters.
However, the Red Turban Song Army's Red Turban Cavalry, which is the benchmark of Tiefutu, has not only become more and more powerful in recent years, but also has become more and more numerous.
The reason for this is that the training difficulty of the red scarf cavalry, which uses lancer group charge as its main combat method, is actually not as high as that of the light cavalry who do chores...it is nothing more than practicing "line up charge"!
There is no need to train all the red scarf cavalry into all-round warriors. As long as they can launch a rapid attack in the densest possible formation, it will be enough to defeat the enemy.
Of course, although the red scarf cavalry is not difficult to train, it is not easy to raise... This is because the red scarf cavalry must be equipped with good horses and armor.
A good horse can run fast! The impact is strong and the retreat speed is also fast. If you are attacked by light cavalry, the speed of the lancers is even more critical. If the lancers can outrun the lancers, the "kite flying tactics" are not worth mentioning at all.
The good horses Zhao Kai provides for the Red Turban Cavalry are Qinghai Cong or mixed-breed Qinghai Cong. The first-generation Qinghai Cong and mixed-breed Qinghai Cong bred by Shangyanggong Racecourse are now ready to enter the battlefield.
However, the number is limited, and only the best red scarf cavalry battalions (an army has two cavalry battalions) can be equipped with such good horses.
However, those red scarf cavalry warriors who have not yet obtained Qinghai Cong have obtained relatively high-quality war horses through various channels.
The light weight of good armor can reduce the weight of the war horse and provide better defense.
The good armor that Zhao Kai chose for his red scarf cavalry is the Luoyang cold forged armor... After six or seven years of accumulation and study, the blacksmith masters gathered in Luoyang are now very proficient in fighting. Yu Qingtang's Luoyang cold forged armor!
Moreover, the production scale of cold-forged armor in Luoyang is also growing - after all, there are hundreds of thousands of soldiers in need of cold-forged armor, and the profits from producing cold-forged armor are also very lucrative, so naturally there are more and more people doing this.
So in the seventh year of Hongwu, all the red scarf cavalry can equip themselves with cold-forged full armor specially designed for leading cavalry!
Now two red scarf cavalry battalions equipped with Qinghai Cong or hybrid Qinghai Cong, and four other red scarf cavalry battalions without Qinghai Cong, but equipped with high-quality Hexi horses, have already lined up their teams in front of Yue Fei's Yaqi and Weiqi. .
The red scarf cavalry are all composed of one main soldier and one deputy. The deputy soldiers are all found by the main soldier himself, and are usually the main soldier's beloved relatives and friends.
Because they have to raise one more auxiliary soldier, and also several war horses, auxiliary horses, and stallions (whether their war horses are bought by themselves or "gifted" from above, they have to serve and feed them), so the Red Army The cavalry is a "noble soldier". If selected, you will be awarded the rank of sergeant, and you will be awarded 300 acres of land immediately!
However, although the starting point of the Red Scarf Iron Cavalry is high, it is not easy to upgrade, because they have to accumulate three advanced skills before they can be promoted from sergeant to doctor.
Moreover, there are not many opportunities for the Red Scarf Cavalry to go into battle. They cannot be used in ordinary small-scale battles, and it is impossible to use them in sieges. Only large-scale majestic formations will use them at critical moments.
Now, the critical moment has arrived!
Yue Fei was already neatly dressed and appeared under the moon-white general's tooth flag!
Seeing that the three thousand red scarf cavalry were ready to go, Yue Fei didn't say anything nonsense. He just waved his arms and opened his throat and shouted: "Red scarf cavalry, mount your horse... go out and kill the gold thief!"
"Kill the gold thief!"
The red scarf cavalry cheered loudly.
...
"Bang bang bang bang..."
A burst of harsh bangs pierced the thunderous sound of horse hooves and the shouts one after another, passing in front of the grenadiers of the Red Turban Song Army's First Army. This was the order to explode the thunder and ignite the fire!
At this time, the Jurchens' Iron Pagoda had roared to the front less than a hundred steps away from the group of grenadiers!
This is a mass charge of two thousand Iron Buddha heavy cavalry! Without the golden finger project of cannon salvo, the cluster charge launched by the golden thief Iron Buddha would probably be the peak of human military power in this era.
Being able to remain calm in front of two thousand flying iron pagodas, continue to follow the regulations in the "Thunder Manual", first bite open the paper shell of the mine fuse, then take out the fuse inside, and finally use the match rope wrapped around the barrel of the spear to light it. With the lead...of course he is also an incredible elite soldier!
When all the grenadiers lit the fuses, they did not release the bomb immediately. They just raised the wooden-handled bomb over their heads with their right hands, leaned back slightly, and spread their legs forward and back, making a bomb-dropping posture.
"Bang!"
With the sound of a gong, all the grenadiers used all their strength to throw out the explosives in their hands.
After throwing the mines, the grenadiers standing in the first three rows of the array immediately pulled out the long guns that were inserted into the mud with their tail picks, and then lowered the gun barrels without laying them flat. Instead, they made the gun barrels and the ground form about forty-five feet. Angle, and then forcefully insert the tail of the spear into the mud. After finishing, he leaned forward, held the gun barrel with one hand, and raised the shield (the shield hanging on the arm) with the other hand to cover his head and face.
The grenadiers standing in the back row took out their horn bows and heavy arrows, stretched their bows and nocked arrows, and prepared to shoot.
At this time, Wanyanqi was leading a group of soldiers to advance behind his own infantry. His ears were filled with the deafening sound of drums (a few more cavalrymen playing drums were behind him), and in front of him was smoke and dust flying, shouting The infantry and cavalry charge.
As for what was going on in front of the Song Army's formation, Wanyanqi couldn't see clearly, and he didn't want to see it... because he was just fighting in a wave, and just rushed forward regardless. If he could disrupt Song The army's formation will make a lot of money. If that doesn't work, it's better to fight in a crowded formation.
It’s better than being bombarded one after another!
Just as I thought about the bombardment, a burst of fire suddenly appeared in front of me, followed by a rumbling explosion and a large cloud of smoke!
Are the Confederate artillery coming?
Wanyanqi was startled and felt his horse stop. He straightened up on the stirrups and looked forward. He saw that the formation of the Tiefutu cavalry in front was in chaos, and it looked much sparser!
Some of the Iron Buddha cavalry are still charging forward, others are trying to control their horses because their horses are frightened, and some are probably injured and are screaming... and some have fallen off their horses (horses It was blown over), I don’t know if it was broken?
"Bang the drum, beat the drum, keep moving forward!" Of course Wanyanqi was unwilling to give up. Now the iron pagoda, which was at the forefront, was about to hit the southern phalanx... no matter what , we can finally start a fight!
As long as there is a fight with open swords and guns, who will the Dajin Heavenly Soldiers be afraid of?
"Dong dong dong..."
The urging drums were beating louder and louder. Under the urging of waves of drums, the Jin soldiers and iron pagodas, whose formation had been disrupted by thunder and whose speed had also been greatly slowed down, also inspired the greatest courage and fought with all their strength. Beating their horses, waving their spears, they pounced towards the Song army's formation, which was lined with spears and was as solid as a city wall... A head-on fight seemed to be about to begin!
But at this moment, flying dust suddenly appeared three or four thousand steps away to Wanyanqi's left!
