Facing the sudden and strong counterattack of Shengjie Army, the Jin Army was in a panic for a while.
Fortunately, the cavalry officers were of high quality and adjusted their tactics in time, taking advantage of the cavalry's high mobility to take a detour, continue to approach the military formation, and prepare to shoot.
But they didn't expect that the victorious army's crossbowmen fired quite frequently, one after another.
Four bursts of arrows were fired at a high rate of fire. The Jin Army cavalry were unable to raise their heads and had to bend down and hug their horses' necks to reduce the possibility of being hit.
Although the cavalry was very fast and could reach the target in a blink of an eye, the distance and short time it took for the crossbowmen of the Shengjie Army to hit their faces with four rounds of arrows.
Wanyan Alin felt that he had been fooled, and his anger grew stronger. If his subordinates had not dissuaded him, he would have wanted to directly throw himself into the heavy armored cavalry to teach the Shengjie Army a lesson.
But this is far from the decisive moment.
Although the Shengjie Army tried its best to expand the strike surface by using the existence of the river, so that it only faced the enemy on one side, the entire military formation was opened like a fan, which allowed the bow and crossbow to obtain more launch angles, covering almost the entire Jin Army cavalry. Impact angle.
The Jin Army needs to face greater arrow deterrence, while the Shengjie Army can relatively reduce its losses.
This is very detrimental to the Jin Army cavalry.
However, there is an upper limit to the shooting frequency and shooting density of crossbows. Just like human beings have limits, crossbows that require more physical strength and more time to prepare for firing are not enough to create more miracles.
Many of the Jin Army cavalry rushed to a position where they could counterattack, using mounted archery and galloping back and forth to fight against the powerful crossbows and divine arm bows of the Victory Army.
The defending soldiers of the Shengjie Army used chariots and shields as cover and worked hard to maintain their formation. As long as the front row melee troops protected themselves during the bow and crossbow shooting stage, the Shengjie Army would not suffer any loss.
On the contrary, it can rely on its huge strike surface to cause greater damage to the Jin Army.
During this stage, a large number of Jin Army cavalry were hit, fell off their horses, and lost their lives quickly. The effect of psychological tactics such as the charge momentum of the cavalry to deter the infantry was greatly reduced in front of the trained and educated Victory Army soldiers.
The soldiers of the Shengjie Army knew that their commander was behind them and with them. They made an agreement to live and die together, never to retreat, and their mental defense was fully charged.
Coupled with the physical defense effects of carts and shields, the Jin Army's psychological deterrence tactics had little effect.
Just rush forward and get killed by the crossbowmen of the Shengjie Army, then go back and regroup, and try again.
However, it still cannot destroy or even shake the physical and mental defense lines of the Shengjie Army.
Although some people in the victorious army continued to fall down after being shot by arrows, they were infantry, not cavalry. Even if they exchanged one for one, or even one for two, they would still make a lot of money.
According to Su Yonglin's current estimates, the Jin Army's losses would not be less than his.
And he still has a stronger killing move that he hasn't used yet.
In addition to the powerful crossbows and divine arm bows, Su Yonglin also carried a batch of bed crossbows with longer range and stronger kinetic energy.
When the Jin army started the fourth wave of charge, he ordered the infantry to be cut off with long spears, and the spear heads were used as big arrows and placed on the crossbows. Several people started working together, and finally a strong soldier held the hammer. Hammer firing bed crossbow.
The bed crossbow, whose shooting power far exceeded that of the powerful crossbow and the divine arm bow, was immediately launched, directly hitting the oncoming Jin Army cavalry.
The effect is very good.
A big arrow can even pierce three or five cavalrymen, knocking them all off their horses, and skewering them like skewers and nailing them to the ground, unable to move.
Thirty bed crossbows were fired at different angles. Facing a fan, they could shoot at the Jin Army cavalry from almost all angles. Mixed in the ordinary rain of arrows, they were just like the death sickle, harvesting the Jin Army cavalry. life.
The closer the cavalry charges, the more ferocious shots they will receive, causing greater casualties, which makes the cavalry responsible for the charge a little unable to hold on.
The frontline officers of the Jin Army finally realized that this military formation was really not easy to mess with. It was really wrong for the Jin Army to use the tactics used against ordinary military formations to deal with this military formation.
Because there is the same surface everywhere, equipped with a similar number of infantry, and the firing frequency of crossbows is similar, no one is stronger or weaker.
After several repeated charges, the Jin Army's cavalry suffered heavy losses, and even two cavalry generals were killed by arrows. The frontline officers had to report to Wanyan Alin, saying that it was difficult for them to shake the Shengjie Army's formation in a short period of time. .
If a gap must be made, more troops must be sent to support it, and a larger cavalry force should be used to pressure the victorious army, causing it to make strategic mistakes. Otherwise, it will be difficult to make a gap.
When Wanyan Ah Lin received the report, he also observed the battle situation on the hill and found that this formation was really a bit evil.
In an arc-shaped formation, it feels like you are facing the same defensive force wherever you go. There is no particularly weak point. No matter what, you can't find that fatal weakness.
Is this the so-called Queyue Formation?
Did Emperor Liu Yu of the Song Dynasty, who had been dead for hundreds of years, really use such a military formation to defeat dozens of cavalry?
Wanyan Alin thought about it again and again, and had to admit that even if this military formation was not that magical, the formation and the navy behind them made the cavalry only charge head-on, and their tactics were strictly restricted, and they could not deploy or encircle them.
Insufficient deterrence and insufficient offensive intensity have greatly restricted the cavalry and amplified the advantages of the infantry.
Can we fight like this?
Wanyan Alin suddenly felt a little regretful, feeling that he should not have ordered an attack in a moment of anger, resulting in the loss of troops and generals, and a great loss of morale.
Seeing his own men falling off their horses and hearing the increasing number of casualties, Wanyan Alin felt that he could not continue fighting like this.
We are all cavalry on our side, and we will feel distressed for a long time if one of them dies. On the other hand, we are all infantry on the Shengjie Army. It doesn't matter if one of them dies. We can just recruit them.
There is no shortage of refugees these days.
What are refugees?
Isn’t it just a source of troops?
In this case, how can we exchange precious cavalry and war horses for infantry?
After regretting it, the anger in his heart became even stronger.
He really wanted to see the complete defeat of Shengjie's army, and then he would tie Su Yonglin with a rope and drag him away on the back of his horse. He would torture him until he was half dead and then use a grinding stone to grind him into ashes.
This way you can relieve your anger.
Otherwise, there is really no way to relieve his anger and make him feel comfortable.
But can the current situation really continue?
Wanyan Alin gritted her teeth and engaged in a fierce mental battle.
Eventually, he felt that he couldn't go on like this.
Cavalry is far more valuable than infantry, and war horses are even more precious. Su Yonglin must not be led by the nose. The loss must be stopped in time before the army's losses continue to expand.
If the battle losses continue to increase, even if they win the battle, it will be a miserable victory. It is difficult to say whether there will be enough energy left to continue the subsequent battles.
Although this battle will continue to be fought, Su Yonglin cannot continue to let Su Yonglin fight him in this terrain. They must be allowed to leave the river, lose the protection of the navy, and face enemies on all sides.
If you don't come with me, I won't fight you!
You cannot have the final say on the battlefield!
Wanyan Alin took a deep breath, suppressed his anger with reason in time, and made the decision to retreat.
Then he ordered the entire army to stop attacking, form a complete cavalry formation, slowly retreat away from the river, and at the same time prepare for a possible cavalry surprise attack by the victorious army.
They must use their mobility advantage to slowly leave this battlefield and cannot continue to fight against the Shengjie Army.
Su Yonglin discovered that the Jin army did not launch another attack after several consecutive attacks, and knew that the huge number of casualties awakened Wanyan Alin's rationality and made him realize that the battle could not continue like this.
So Su Yonglin judged that Wanyan Alin would retreat.
After a while, the situation turned out to be as Su Yonglin had judged. The Jin army did not continue to charge, but gathered their troops and retreated slowly, leaving only corpses on the ground in front of the Shengjie army and a mess.
Xin Qiji, who was standing next to Su Yonglin, became anxious.
Why did Jin Jun leave?
We had just made some progress and had just seen the dawn of victory. Why did these guys leave?
How can we still fight this?
So he looked at Su Yonglin anxiously.
