Chapter 61 The Oriole Is Behind (Part 2)
The cavalry and archery of the Later Jin army were actually different from those of the Mongols. The cavalry of the Mongols was riding on horseback to shoot archery, just like the horses in Chinese chess. After the cavalry approached the enemy's formation, they did not rush up directly, but shot arrows several dozen steps away, chasing the enemy's formation, and then rode back, accumulated horsepower and rushed up to ride and shoot archery again, until the opponent's formation was chaotic, and then charged with cavalry.
The Jin army's cavalry and shooting were actually riding horses, dismounting and shooting archers. When riding a horse and rushing to the opponent's vicinity, dismounting and shooting archers from afar with a strong bow. In addition, the Jin soldiers also had a group of heavy armored infantry, who were also horse-riding infantry. After rushing to the opponent's formation, they immediately dismounted. Under the cover of the archers behind, the heavy infantry charged on foot. After the archers and heavy infantry cooperated to disrupt the opponent's formation, they would then get on the horse and break through the opponent's formation.
This is also Yangguli's tactic. As a veteran who has been on the battlefield for a long time, he could predict that his opponent might be ambushed when he saw the terrain. So he used the Mongols as cannon fodder and went to the front to die. The Jurchen soldiers were behind. When the opponent was exposed, the Jurchen soldiers then used archers to cover the heavy armored infantry charge.
Moreover, as a veteran on the battlefield, Yangguli naturally considered that the team of cavalry that his opponent used to cheat would kill a resurgent, so he arranged more than a dozen Jurchen soldiers to dismount as spearmen.
"The mountain road is so narrow that only more than ten carriage-rejecting guns and more than ten spearmen can block the road! Although the thief's ambush location was chosen well, he did not consider the issue of cavalry returning to the carriage-returning guns." Yangguli laughed.
Therefore, the Jurchen soldiers who used tiger guns gathered all the tiger guns and handed them to fifteen Jurchen soldiers who were good at using tiger guns. A total of forty tiger guns were inserted obliquely on the ground and treated as horse-resisting rifles. The remaining fifteen tiger guns were held in the hands of fifteen Jurchen soldiers and used as spearmen to prevent horse thieves from returning to their horses. In addition, the Jurchen soldiers also scattered caltrops on the road ahead to defend against the opponent's war horses.
It’s a pity that Yang Guli has made great calculations and failed to calculate the amazingly powerful magic weapon in Li Lao Er’s hand - the horse spear.
As expected, Li Laoer did not do as Yangguli expected, and led three hundred cavalrymen to kill a reblade. Three hundred cavalry galloped over, and Li Laoer took the lead, with the horse spear in his hand slightly hanging to the ground. He had already seen the caltrops scattered by the Jin soldiers on the ground, and planned to use the horse spear to sweep the ground, clear the caltrops and the horse-repellent rifle.
Yangguli heard a rumbling sound of horse hooves on the road ahead and sneered: "Working cavalry in such a narrow valley, it seems that this opponent is not as powerful as Mr. Belle said! It is just a rat with a false reputation!"
Before he finished speaking, he saw a team of iron-armored cavalry appearing on the road in the middle of the valley ahead, rushing towards the Jin army. The leader was a young general with white helmet and white armor holding a snake spear in his hand, and riding a white horse with white body without a single hair under his crotch. Yangguli recognized this horse, and his horse was named Zhaoye Yu Lion.
Li Lao Er's illuminated jade lion has a very long mane around his neck, just like a majestic army, and is the best among the Qinghai River Qu horses in the Western Regions. This horse is very human and finds the caltrops on the ground in front of him. This horse will know how to move and avoid it. But Li Lao Er is not just to charge alone, but to open a passage for the cavalry behind him. When his war horse was about to rush to the caltrops arranged by the Jin soldiers, the war horse slowed down slightly. With his superb riding skills for many years, Li Lao Er tried his best to sweep the ground in his hand, and swept the caltrops arranged by the Jin soldiers into the air.
Cao Lei and Wu Ming, who were following closely behind, swept across the ground with a whip of one foot in hand, and the soil, sand and stones mixed with the knocked caltrops, flew towards both sides of the avenue.
When the war horse was about to hit the horse-receiver, Li Laoer swept the horse-receiver on the ground in his hand, and more than ten tiger spears inserted diagonally on the ground were swept up and flew backwards. Then Li Laoer clamped his legs and the horse speeded up again. The eight-year-old spear in his hand pierced towards a Jin soldier holding a tiger-receiver.
The horse spear was much longer than the tiger spear of the Jin soldiers. Before the Jin soldiers stabbed Li Laoer, the Jin soldiers and spearmen were stabbed in the abdomen by the horse spear and were picked up.
"Die!" Li Laoer picked up the corpse of the famous tall Jin soldiers and threw them into the formation of the Jin soldiers' spearmen. The body flew several feet away and knocked over a row of spearmen behind.
Immediately afterwards, the cavalry behind Li Laoer lit the three-eyed guns. Accompanied by a deafening roar, blood flowers splashed out from the bodies of the fifteen Jin army spearmen in the array, and they fell backwards one after another.
The three-eyed gun shot at a close range of about five steps was still very accurate and armor-breaking. The projectile hit the heavy armored soldiers, which was enough to penetrate the heavy armor of the Jin soldiers. Then, the cavalry who had killed the three-eyed gun waved the three-eyed gun and used the horsepower to hit the Jin soldiers with the three-eyed gun. The Jin soldiers hit by the three-eyed gun flew backwards. The appearance seemed to be unharmed and the thick armor was not penetrated. However, the heavy armored soldiers who were hit were also greatly injured and their ribs were broken. Many people fell to the ground and did not move, and some Jurchen soldiers were lying on the ground and struggled.
"Break the formation!" Li Laoer shouted loudly, and he had already rushed into the formation of Jin soldiers and archers.
The Jin army infantry archers who had lost the protection of the spearmen were like a group of lambs to be slaughtered in front of the heavy cavalry, and had no ability to fight back at all.
The situation reversed in a blink of an eye, and the elite Jin army archers who were just arrogant just now have turned into fish on the chopping board under the impact of the iron cavalry.
Several Jin soldiers and archers shot out several arrows, and the arrows were stabbed on the cavalry in thick armor, which could not be penetrated at all. Li Laoer was also hit by a few arrows, which were only stabbed on his cotton armor and could not be penetrated at all.
The cavalry crashed into the crowd of Jin army archers. The cavalry in heavy armor directly knocked over the Jin army archers. The four hooves of the war horses stepped on the Jin army, cut off the arms of the Jin army, stomped their stomachs, and skulls.
Li Laoer took the lead and galloped past the Jin soldiers. He swung back and forth in his hand. The Jin soldiers within a distance of 18 feet were swept one after another. The spear rod hit a person and then bent into an arc with a very large arc and drove the hit Jin soldiers out. Then the spear rod returned to a straight line under the elastic action and then rushed the next Jin soldiers out.
The three hundred cavalry behind him, dozens of cavalry rushing in front, had drawn out heavy weapons such as axes, heavy swords, hammers, maces, etc. With the help of horsepower, the heavy weapons hit the Jin soldiers. The Jin soldiers who were hit by the body and head all had their brains and ribs broken. Some cavalry's heavy weapons hit the Jin soldiers' shoulders, and only the sound of bones shattered. The Jin soldiers' shoulder blades were immediately shattered, and the seriously injured Jin soldiers fell to the ground with a scream.
Chapter completed!