Chapter 59
"If the Liao army's iron barrel cannons were divided into several teams and were hit back and forth, the cavalry would not be so easy to get close to." Zhao Xingde said in a deep voice, "What's more, the Liao army's cavalry is not impossible to fight, and they are disrupted with iron barrel cannons." He paused, without saying "Jin Army", and said in ambiguously, "The tight stacking formation seems to just restrain the Jurchen cavalry director."
As soon as this statement came out, the Jin generals next to him nodded frequently. The losses in today's battle were not great for the entire Jin army, but the generals always thought about what if I led the army and faced the roar of artillery head-on? But there were great concerns in my heart. Zhao Xingde was a bystander, and he hit the point with one sentence. Although the Jin soldiers and the Liao army were both known for cavalry, they were actually very different. The Khitans were mostly nomadic and used to galloping and fighting. The Jurchens rose between the white mountains and black waters, and the terrain was not as vast as the northern grasslands, so they developed the habit of forming a strong formation to fight hard battles. When the enemy formed a strong formation to fight hard battles, most of the Khitan cavalry wandered around and rode and shot, and did not easily launch an attack without waiting for the enemy's chaos, while the Jurchen cavalry would dismount and fight in the field.
The Khitan cavalry and cavalry are not worse than the Jurchen cavalry, but when the two sides form formations and fight, the Khitan cavalry is often not as tough and durable as the Jurchen cavalry, and they will be defeated every time they are defeated. The Jurchen cavalry is defeated and does not disintegrate, and the rear formation rushes forward to defend the enemy. The cavalry of the front formation retreats back to reorganize the formation. The original rear formation becomes the front formation, and the reorganized formation becomes the back formation. This repeatedly fights until the enemy is defeated. Since the rise of Ningjiang Prefecture, the Jurchen cavalry often has an advantage over the Khitan cavalry in the decisive battle. However, the Liao army used iron barrel cannons on the front to bombard the Jurchen cavalry, which greatly reduced the advantage of the Jurchen cavalry and even turned it into a disadvantage.
"If the charger's cavalry is dispersed a little, they will fall into the trap of Liao Gou," Wanyan Agu has been fighting for the whole life and is very familiar with the power of it. He touched his gray beard and glanced at the generals present, and said in a deep voice, "General Zhao has learned the Liao Gou trick. Who can break it? I'll reward his two fierce soldiers."
Some of the generals had a burning look, and some looked envious, but more of them looked at each other. Wanyan Zonghan patted his thighs and said, "Since that's the case, we still need to follow the old methods. We don't force him to force him to do it, but we only get rid of the crutches from both wings and kick his camp." This is also a useful trick for the Jurchen army to fight a tough village. In fact, several generals including Wanyan Zongbi thought about it, but Zonghan called it out first, and these people were secretly regretful.
"The two-wing crutch horse can only work when it can withstand the enemy's front. Otherwise, if it is divided by the enemy on the battlefield, the Liao army can choose which side to eat first. Anyway, there is a blockade of artillery in the middle, and the left and right wings of the Jin army are difficult to echo." Zhao Xingde thought secretly, feeling a look from the side, and when he turned around, he saw that it was Han Ningshuang, and nodded slightly to her.
"Mr. Zhao probably doesn't agree. He must have a way to deal with iron barrel cannons, but this is his skill, and he is unwilling to teach the Jurchens easily." Han Ningshuang thought to himself, and she nodded to Zhao Xingde. She did not want to see the Liao army completely defeat the Jin soldiers, nor did she want the Jin Kingdom to dominate the Liaodong family. This is a war between the Liao and Jin, and she is mostly thinking about how the Han army can survive.
Zong Han screamed, and Wanyan Aguda frowned even more tightly. The young generals in the tent were all full of blood and had fought with the wind since they took the battle. They only saw the pleasure of the kidnapping horses kicking the enemy camp, but did not pay attention to the fact that the ancestors formed the Fali Central Army round formation to stop the enemy's front, which echoed the extreme importance of the left and right. Now the Liao army has used artillery weapons. If they break the round formation of the central army, if they don't solve it on this, they just blindly made a kidnapping horse, it would be like seeking death. What's more, the kidnapping horse is the nickname of the two-wing cavalry, and the Khitan Army's kidnapping horse is not much weaker than the Jurchens.
Sure enough, Wanyan Ci was not lost, and Wanyan Loushi and other veterans thought of the inappropriate one after another. Wanyan Loushi took the face of Quan Zonghan, and did not directly refute him. He only said in a deep voice: "Why do you want to use two-winged crutches? If you want to say it, just use one side of crutches, it will be inconvenient to turn the direction, so you can kill him directly from one side." Wanyan Ci thought that although Loushi was a brave general, he was not a close relative of my Wanyan tribe. He didn't dare to offend him, even Zonghan, the kid, but the method he thought was good. The juniors of Wanyan tribe, Zonghan, Zongbi and others
Although he is a hero, he is also very ambitious. Moreover, Zong Bi believed in the strange words of the father of the Han Dynasty and opposed the tradition of the brothers of Wanyan tribe, Zong Han and others followed him. However, most of the elder generals who were of the same generation as Wanyan Aguda supported Wanyan Wu Qimai, who had a deeper foundation, inherited the position of emperor. Now that he had the method to restrain the Khitan artillery, Wanyan still snorted contemptuously, and was about to hit the younger generation a few more words, suddenly a hurried sound of horse hooves came from outside. Wanyan Aguda's face changed, and all the generals stopped talking.
Zhao Xingde and Han Ningshuang looked at each other and according to the rules, they were not allowed to rush around the tent, unless there was an urgent military situation. While thinking, the rushing sound of horse hooves came to an abrupt end in front of the tent. With the heavy sound of falling off the horse, someone outside was shouting loudly that there was an urgent military situation to report to Your Majesty. After checking the token, the guards at the door of the tent did not dare to obstruct them. The messenger stepped in and the generals were shocked again.
I saw that he was covered in dust and covered in blood. The armor on his left had been torn off and was wrapped in blood-soaked cloth strips. There were several arrow shafts in the gaps between the other armors, and they were simply broken with their hands.
This was the case, Wanyan Aguda recognized him at a glance, his face slightly darkened, and asked, "Ali seized, but did the Liao soldiers attack Shenzhou? Aliduo was originally the patriarch of a Jurchen tribe. He surrendered to the Wanyan tribe. Because he was extremely brave, he was the official Meng'an. Seeing his embarrassed look, all the generals in the tent felt uneasy. Could it be that the Liao army was very anxious to attack the city and Shenzhou was about to lose food and could he ask the Liaoyang army to return to the rescue immediately?
Ali Duo looked up and said hoarsely: "Your Majesty, Shenzhou is lost!"
Wanyan Aguda's pupils shrank slightly, and his heart felt a violent pain again, almost feeling dizzy. The Jin generals in the tent were shocked, and Wanyan Zonghan even shouted out, "What did you say?" Wanyan Ci looked at this panic scene and wanted to kill Ali for the crime of "disturbing the morale of the army."
Zhao Xingde felt that his palms were tightened, but Han Ningshuang subconsciously held his palm tightly. Her palms were cold and she was sweating slightly. Shenzhou and Liaoyang were hundreds of miles apart, which was the most important stronghold behind the Jin army. Moreover, hundreds of miles north of Shenzhou had been robbed by the Liao cavalry, which meant that if the Jin army had retreated north, the retreat route had been cut off. If the Liao army could not defeat the Liao army in front, and more than 100,000 troops were abandoned in Liaoyang, Yelu Dashi could take advantage of the situation to take all Liaodong. The battle between the two tigers ended so early that the Han army had not yet grown, and the gap in survival was squeezed to a very small size.
"Tell me again, what's going on in Shenzhou?" Wanyan Aguda stared at Ali Duo, as if he wanted to swallow him alive. Shenzhou had 30,000 defenders. When the Wanyan tribe raised its army, its strength was only 3,000. Wanyan Pu's slaves were ten times the strength of their original forces. They defended a strong city like Shenzhou, but they even threw Shenzhou away without even saying hello. Thinking of this, Wanyan Aguda's chest was hurt again, and he wanted to dismember the five horses of Wanyan Pu's slaves.
"Your Majesty, it's Liao Dog extremely cunning," Ali Duo was full of resentment and remorse. "They had been doing something in Shenzhou City. We didn't know what happened. With a loud bang, the east city wall suddenly collapsed, and then thousands of Liao Dogs came out of the city, working inside and outside, and tens of thousands of Liao Dogs rushed into Shenzhou City on horseback and killed people when they saw it. Our warriors had not had time to gather together to form a formation, and they were beaten to pieces. The Third Bo Ji Li led the warriors to resist step by step in the city and sent me out to report to His Majesty..."
"That's to say," Wanyan Cibushi asked hurriedly as if he had caught a life-saving straw, "When you came out, there was still war in Chenzhou City, and Chenzhou had not been lost yet, right?" Because of his nervousness, his expression seemed very ferocious and terrifying.
"Bo Ji Lie," Ali Duo hesitated, "Although this is the case, but... but," although he hesitated, all the generals in the tent heard what he didn't say. Han Ningshuang sighed. The Liao people had spent so much effort in Shenzhou City. After Ali Duo's description, they built a secret passage that was enough to pass through thousands of ambush soldiers and ambush gunpowder, and they were determined to win. The Jin army was caught off guard, how could this city be lost?
Wanyan Aguda stared at Ali's deceased closely. He was always resourceful. At this time, he suddenly realized that he had fallen into a trap and did not speak for a long time. The Liao army seized Chenzhou, not only cutting off the Jin army's retreat. Because Liaoyang was settled, most of the food and grass of the southern expedition army were stored in the city of Chenzhou a hundred miles away, and had not had time to transport it to Liaoyang.
He stared at Ali Duo closely, his eyes as cold as a dead man. The army was about to fight to stabilize the morale of the army, Wanyan Agu had the idea of lying about military affairs and killing him immediately. He shook his head, and at this moment, he gave up this ridiculous idea. The defeated soldiers would come one after another. The news of the fall of Chenzhou cannot be hidden.
After taking a deep breath, his nose wings slightly opened and reunited. Wanyan Aguda's eyes turned from cold to sharp. All the Jin generals in the tent were staring at him. After a while, he raised his head, slowly looked around the generals, and placed his hand on the hilt of the knife around his waist. Zhao Xingde felt a little cold on his body, and he thought to himself, a heavy murderous aura. In this moment, he seemed to be in a battlefield with thousands of troops.
Wanyan Aguda's eyes contacted the generals of the Jin Kingdom, and his expression became calm. He said to Ali Duo: "You have made contributions to reporting the military situation in time, and go down and rest first." After watching Ali Duo leave, a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth, looking at Zhao Xingde: "This is what you Han people say to fight back. Yelu Dashi set up a big formation. This time I want to see if he took away my old bone, or if I took his dog's life!"
Chapter completed!