Heavy armored cavalry has always been used for decisive battles. It is a precious strategic force and has never been a consumable.
We must seize the opportunity to kill with one strike when the infantry formation has holes, break into the formation fiercely, and tear the formation apart.
That is the most correct way to use heavy armored cavalry.
Of course, heavy cavalry like the Xixia Iron Kites who took the lead in charging into battle also existed, but they were relatively rare.
The current military force and financial level of the Jin Army are not enough to support as many heavy armored cavalry as in the era of Wanyan Zongbi and Zong Han.
In order to deal with Yue Fei, the generals dispatched tens of thousands of heavy armored cavalry, hoping to completely wipe out the Yue Family Army and, by the way, wipe out the Southern Song Dynasty in one fell swoop.
That was also the era when the Jin Army was at its strongest.
Whether it is equipment, the quality of military personnel, the will to fight, or the spirit of pioneering and enterprising, they are the strongest.
As a result, they met Yue Fei.
After several battles, not only did the Southern Song Dynasty fail to be wiped out, but they were completely defeated by the Yuejia Army. In front of the Yuejia Army's military formation, the Jin Army's heavily armored Iron Pagoda was completely lost and suffered several disastrous defeats.
The worst time was when Yue Fei beat Wanyan, who had made great achievements in battle, to tears.
The damage caused to the Jin army by that battle still has its aftermath - for example, when Wan Yanliang decided to march south, a large number of Jin court officials raised objections and resolutely refused to support it, so that Wan Yanliang faced Stunning isolation.
At present, without full mobilization, the Jin Army can no longer immediately pull out more than 3,000 heavy armored cavalry into battle.
They can no longer afford so many heavy armored cavalry.
Therefore, Wanyan Alin could not use heavy armored cavalry as the main force and consumables like his predecessors. He did not have the capital.
At the beginning, we still need to use traditional tactics, using repeated sprinting and mounted shooting to deal with the victory army's military formation, and see how strong their military formation is.
It would be best if repeated sprinting and mounted shooting could break them.
Wanyan Alin ordered his generals to lead the cavalry under their command to gallop back and forth around the arc-shaped military formation of the Victory Army, riding and shooting in preparation for the initial attack.
So the military operation was launched immediately, and the Jin Army launched an active attack.
The victorious army was ready.
As the basis of the military formation, the cart must be protected by shields to fix the military formation, making it difficult for the Jin cavalry to break through the military formation and rush in.
The Jin Army's cavalry quickly rushed to the front of the formation, began to gallop back and forth around the formation, and attacked the Shengjie Army's formation with cavalry fire. For a time, arrows rained down from the front of the Shengjie Army's formation.
Su Yonglin realized that this was a tentative behavior before the official attack, not a sign of launching a full-scale attack.
In order to bring more Jin cavalry closer to the military formation, Su Yonglin ordered the outermost resistance troops to use soft bows, short arrows and a small number of divine arm bows to fight back against the Jin cavalry.
The strength of the riding bow is not as good as the walking bow, and the range is not as far as the walking bow. Generally speaking, the riding bow will suffer more in cross-shooting, and it needs to be supplemented by mobility.
Once the quality of the crossbows used by the infantry is not good, the range of soft bows and short arrows is about the same as that of the cavalry bows, then they will be quite passive.
The cavalry's shooting and the infantry's counterattack continued for a while. Both sides seemed to be evenly matched, but because of the high mobility of the cavalry, the Jin army's losses were very small.
Similarly, with the protection of carts and shields, the loss of the victorious army's crossbowmen was very small, and it was not enough to shake the military formation.
But Wanyan Alin was very happy when he saw that the Shengjie army's counterattack was very weak, and the bows and crossbows didn't seem to be very good, and only a few arrows could shoot far.
After a period of shooting at each other, he believed that the peripheral probing was almost done. The Shengjie Army did not have the ability to inflict a large number of casualties on him before hand-to-hand combat. He could safely invest more troops in shooting to destroy the Shengjie Army faster. defense force.
He conveyed the order and it was quickly conveyed to the frontline commander through the unique method of passing orders of the Jin Army.
The frontline commander will reorganize the army, lead the army out of the shooting area, organize the formation, and the second wave of cavalry that has just joined, prepare to use larger numbers to suppress the infantry, use larger-scale shooting and repeated sprints Bring down the infantry's defense line.
If they can shake their will to resist and make them abandon their carts and shields and flee backwards, the cavalry can launch an attack and enter the formation to become unparalleled.
It would be better if this wave of concentrated shooting can open a gap. If it cannot open a gap, it can also create opportunities for the heavy cavalry behind.
More intense firing from the frontline cavalry began.
Although they found that this military formation was very unfavorable for them to shoot in a circle. They had to turn their horses' heads to shoot back and forth, which they were very unaccustomed to, but this was not enough to stop their determination to shoot.
They often gather a large cavalry formation group to charge, rushing towards the infantry formation with indomitable momentum, bringing great shock to the infantry visually and psychologically.
If the infantry has been trained and is very elite, and one attack is not enough to break them, then rush to the front of the formation, turn around, and try again.
This was repeated many times. When the men were tired, the men were replaced, and when the horses were tired, the horses were replaced. The cavalry with the advantage of mobility were not afraid of the infantry at all.
However, the infantry cannot substitute people at will, because changing people requires changing formations, and changing formations requires time and opportunity.
Once the cavalry captures the fighter plane, they will rush over quickly like wild wolves smelling blood and bite the miserable prey to death.
The physical and mental strength of the infantry will be quickly depleted, and eventually they will no longer be able to cope with the cavalry's charge and probing, and will collapse.
The military formation collapsed.
What followed was a one-sided massacre.
Cavalry is often unwilling to engage in hand-to-hand combat with infantry. With the exception of the Polish Hussars, even the longest cavalry lance is no longer than the infantry lance. In this regard, except for heavy armored cavalry, the cavalry does not have an advantage.
The more important reason is that cavalry is too expensive.
As an absolute technical arm, cavalry can be called the aristocracy in the army. The cost of training and training is enough to create about five to eight times the size of the infantry.
Once the cavalry actually rushes into battle, it will easily lead to a situation where the maximum limit of the cavalry is exchanged with the infantry.
If a casualty ratio of more than 1 to 10 cannot be achieved, even if it is 1 to 5 or 1 to 6, it will be a loss of blood for the cavalry, and it will make the imperial financial personnel cry with their hands when calculating the economic accounts.
Therefore, cavalry are often unwilling to charge into battle unless absolutely necessary, even heavy armored cavalry, and this is exactly Su Yonglin's purpose.
No matter when, as long as it can achieve an excellent casualty ratio with the cavalry, it can greatly weaken the war potential of the Jin Kingdom.
Even if his side suffers more losses, he still has to achieve a good casualty ratio with the Jin Army.
If you can defeat the opponent, you can greatly increase the mortality rate of the Jin Army cavalry during the pursuit phase, and you can make a lot of money.
You must try your best.
We must reduce the number of Jin Army cavalry as much as possible here, and use the huge firepower advantage of the fan to hit the Jin Army cavalry hard first!
He gave an order, and the divine arm archers and strong crossbowmen abandoned their soft bows and short arrows, and picked up the high-end equipment they were good at using again. The shooting teams composed of the crossbowmen and the crossbowmen were in place, waiting. Follow the launch command.
The cavalry's attack was of course very fast, and soon they were within the range of the infantry's crossbows.
With nothing to say, the godarm archers and crossbowmen started shooting.
A large number of powerful crossbow arrows jumped out of the military formation, drew a beautiful arc in the air, flew towards the Jin Army cavalry, cut through the sky, and landed accurately where the Jin Army cavalry was passing.
At this time, the Jin Army's cavalry and archery could not be launched, and it had not yet reached the range they needed.
The scene of people falling on their backs appeared for the first time in front of Wanyan Alin.
A large number of Jin Army cavalry were shot by powerful arrows and fell off their horses. A single rain of arrows caused heavy losses to the cavalry.
Wanyan Alin was stunned for a moment, and then he became furious. He realized that he had been tricked.
Su Yonglin deliberately used soft bows and short arrows to fight back, just to make his cavalry relax their vigilance when they attacked again.
Without enough heavy armor, the Divine Arm Bow and ordinary crossbows can penetrate normal armor within a certain range.
A large number of Jin Army cavalry turned over and fell off their horses, or the cavalry was not hit, but the war horses were hit, and the war horses fell to the ground, and the cavalry were thrown to the ground. They were either seriously injured or died.
After a while, the Jin army's advance was hindered to a certain extent.
The fallen people in front more or less hindered the cavalry attacking from behind, and another group of people fell on their backs.
