Marching in a hurry is quite hard.
Fortunately, it didn't rain that night. The army walked and rested for a while. They arrived in Feixian County in the early morning of the next day after setting off. The whole army advanced to the barracks of the Feixian Town Defense Army.
According to the spies' report, the defense of the military camp was quite lax. From a distance, they could see several guards at the entrance of the military camp who looked like they were gambling and were not on duty at all.
If the guards are like this, let alone the golden soldiers inside.
"In that case, Uncle Yuting, why don't you just rush over and deal with them?"
"Of course you have to charge over, but the cavalry is charging, not the infantry. The infantry must maintain military formation and stability, and no chaos is allowed."
Su Yonglin made some arrangements. He and Zhao Yucheng led the only 300 cavalrymen as the vanguard to rush into the camp and seize the camp gate. The main force of the infantry formed a formation and then followed up, advancing step by step to clean up the mess left by the cavalry.
It is not a good thing if the enemy is too strong, nor is it a good thing if the enemy is too weak. This kind of lax defense made countless tactics envisioned by Su Yonglin come to nothing. The most efficient one is the simplest impact tactic.
Then the battle began.
The infantry was handed over to Su Jue to take command. Su Yonglin and Zhao Yucheng mounted their horses and led the three hundred cavalry to start slowly, then ran faster and faster, starting a high-speed impact.
Under the horrified gaze of the guards who were gambling, the rebel cavalry arrived in front of them in an instant like a gust of wind.
The bright blade flashed past, and several heads rose into the sky. The headless corpse fell to the ground miserably, twitched a few times, and finally became silent.
The attack officially started, and the defense barracks became chaotic like a pot exploding. There were shouts, shouts, howls, and roars. Some people fought, some mounted their horses, some ran away, and some simply hid to avoid being discovered.
Three hundred rebel cavalry rampaged, and the main infantry force led by Su Jue quickly arrived behind them, quickly consolidating the cavalry's victory and killing the remaining golden soldiers.
Although the battle went smoothly, Zhao Yucheng's army quickly became scattered and began to fight independently.
Their military formation was scattered, and Su Yonglin's military formation was also scattered.
Su Jue was unable to control the army well in the chaos. Fortunately, the battle situation was decided and the golden soldiers were defeated. These golden soldiers had no way to recover and could not counterattack. Several rebels chased and killed one golden soldier, killing them until they howled like ghosts.
In almost two sticks of incense, the battle was over. All the Jin soldiers were wiped out, and the few who surrendered were also killed - the rebels didn't need prisoners at all now.
After the battle, Su Yonglin looked at the chaotic infantry and sighed, feeling that he still had a lot to do and that the rebels still had a long way to go.
But fortunately, after defeating the defense force, the remaining fourteen villages are no longer a problem. You can just push them all the way. Practice the infantry and cavalry tactics a few more times, and through many battles, you can Let the troops become familiar with military formations during battle.
Real battlefield training must be better than mere training.
So the army continued to advance and conquered the Jin villages one by one according to the established route.
The rebels were absolutely dominant in numbers, and the Jinren villages were unprepared. They were attacked by cavalry led by Su Yonglin and Zhao Yucheng at high speed. They broke through five villages in one morning. In the end, the infantry chased them behind and the cavalry ran in front.
It was unclear whether Su Yonglin was proficient in infantry formations, but at this level, he was definitely quite proficient in cavalry assault tactics.
After taking a short rest at noon, the army ate something and regained some strength, then continued the attack in the afternoon.
Su Yonglin thought that every subsequent battle would be as uneventful as the previous battle. If the battle continued smoothly, the army would not get much training.
But he didn't expect that when they launched the attack in the afternoon, they encountered a village that had made some preparations.
I don't know where they heard the news, but the village actually made some defensive preparations. They drove the farmers to block the entrance of the village with debris, set up many traps and blocked horses, and surrounded the village, making Su Yonglin The already skilled cavalry shock tactics cannot be used.
This was interesting. It was the first time he encountered a defensive village. Su Yonglin immediately ordered the entire army to stop advancing and form an array on the spot. The infantry was in the middle and the cavalry arrayed on both sides of the infantry. It formed a very classic Song Army stacked formation.
"Uncle Yuting, these guys are ready, what should we do? Attack?"
"Let's attack. This is the first time we encounter such a village. Wouldn't it be a pity not to attack it? It's not good for us to always fight against the wind. Occasionally, we should fight against some difficult opponents, just to train the infantry. Fight."
Su Yonglin clenched the knife in his hand: "Now is the opportunity to use military formations! Yucheng, your subordinates have never practiced military formations, so they spread out in all directions and surrounded the village. The main attack is left to me, a trained soldier. troops."
Zhao Yucheng hesitated for a moment, nodded, and ordered the army to divide into four parts and disperse, surrounding the village from a distance, assuming a posture of wanting them all to die, and exerting psychological pressure on the Jin people inside. .
Then Su Yonglin commanded his army to form a formation.
The military formation trained by the Su Jiayi Army was the classic Song Army formation, the kind of military formation that had been tempered under the iron hooves of the northern cavalry and proved to be more effective.
There are generally two ways to set up stacked formations. In the Hebei Plain area, the stacked formations are mainly spearmen and sword players, while in the Guanzhong area, archers and crossbowmen are the main ones. The goal is to deal with cavalry in stacked formations.
Generally speaking, the tall swordsmen in the front row line up as the first barrier, mainly responsible for withstanding the impact of heavy cavalry.
The shorter soldiers at the back lined up with long guns.
They use their spears to assist the sword players, and use their spears to stab the heavy cavalry that rushes forward. While killing the cavalry and war horses, they can further reduce the impact of the heavy cavalry and make it stop.
Once the speed of the heavy cavalry charging into the formation is slowed down, elite axemen with heavy axes and heavy armor will need to rush out of the formation without fear of death and wield their big axes unparalleled among the heavy cavalry groups.
Once the heavy ax troops perform well, they can often cause huge damage to the heavy cavalry. It is impossible to defeat the heavy cavalry in a battle.
At the end are taller soldiers lined up with bows and crossbows. They need to fire as much as possible before the cavalry approaches to reduce the speed of the enemy's impact.
There are a certain number of cavalry on both sides of the military formation.
Once the infantry withstands the impact and causes effective damage to the enemy's heavy cavalry, the entire army will turn to counterattack and the cavalry will attack to make up for the damage that the infantry formation cannot expand due to its speed.
So in general, when there is a certain number of cavalry, the stacked formation is a military formation that can be attacked and defended. It can be changed at any time according to the terrain and enemy types, and the degree of freedom is quite high.
Su Yonglin's current formation has the most spearmen, followed by sword players, and then crossbowmen - mainly because Su Yonglin does not have the time or conditions to train more crossbowmen, so he can only make do with it.
Anyway, it seems that the Jin people in that village don't have many capable soldiers, and the thing that can be defended is not a city wall, but a wooden fence.
At most, there are some high-altitude arrow towers that can pose a threat to the rebels, but there are not too many crossbowmen standing on the arrow towers, and they cannot play much defensive role.
Su Yonglin made a rough estimate that there would be no more than 200 Jin people participating in the battle in the village.
So a small but decent offensive and defensive battle began.
