Destroy Jin and conquer Song, and carry the Northern Expedition through to the end

Chapter 213: Where are the soldiers?

After a round of arrow rain, the soldiers became even more confused.

The crossbowmen of the Loyal Army did not participate in the shooting. This round of rain of arrows came only from the projection of hundreds of soft bows.

But it was these light arrows that hit the heavy armor like mosquito bites, but they caused chaos among the unarmored soldiers.

Dozens of soldiers fell to the ground. A few of them were shot in the vitals and died immediately, while the vast majority began to wail and scream, rolling on the ground.

The casualties of these dozens of people directly led to the hasty escape of hundreds of soldiers. They threw the soil and baskets aside and ran away.

The Jin army in the rear naturally would not show mercy. They stabbed with spears, trampled with horses, and slashed with swords, and soon a rain of blood was set off among the crowd of signed soldiers.

"Anyone who dares to retreat will be killed!"

The sixth general of the Wuxing Army, Hui Te Mi Le, brandished his broadsword, severing a middle-aged man who had rushed in panic in front of him. He grinned and roared at the Qian army, "Advance or die!"

After saying this, Hui Te Mi Le pointed to the middle of the group of soldiers and said, "Kill those thieves who threw away the baskets!"

The personal guards rode forward and, before the men could escape, cut off their heads and impaled them on spears.

Under the threat of the Wuxing Army, these soldiers who were civilians yesterday were organized again, crying and moving forward again, filling the trenches outside the Zhongyi Army camp with earth and rocks.

Lu You couldn't bear to look directly at it, but he knew that Liu Huai's approach was absolutely correct. However, the sage writings he had been studying made it impossible for him to remain indifferent when the people suffered, so Lu You simply covered his eyes and wanted to turn away.

Liu Huai grabbed Lu You's arm and said, "Mr. Lu, you have to watch these things, get used to them, and then find a way to solve them. There will definitely be more tragedies like this in the future. Do you think you have to cover your eyes to avoid them this time?"

After hearing this, Lu You trembled all over. He forced himself to stand still, opened his eyes wide, and looked towards the north while holding the railing of the watchtower.

Then he saw another round of rain of arrows, another round of rout, another round of massacre, and another round of charge amid cries and shouts.

After several such incidents, four to five hundred of the two thousand signed troops had been killed or wounded. According to common sense, they should have been defeated long ago, but they were trapped between the Wuxing Army and the Zhongyi Army camps, with the Yi River to the west and Tushan to the east. They were unable to live or die. They wanted to continue filling the trenches but did not dare to, and they wanted to retreat but the supervisory team had the sword to hold them back.

In the end, these more than a thousand soldiers simply stayed between the Wuxing Army and the Zhongyi Army, neither advancing nor retreating.

Upon seeing this, Hui Te Mile was so angry that he laughed instead, and directly led the five cavalrymen of his own Mouke to attack and continue to drive the Qian army forward.

At this time, several sections of the first trench had been filled, and several wide roads about seventy or eighty steps wide had appeared. When the soldiers saw the armored cavalry pressing forward from behind, some of them panicked and went directly through this passage to the second trench.

Originally, these soldiers were still afraid that they would be hit by another round of arrow rain, but when they saw that the archers on the arrow tower just held the bowstrings but did not shoot, they could not help but be overjoyed.

Soon most of the signed troops followed the passage and arrived in front of the second trench.

Hui Te Mile laughed out loud.

As a veteran on the battlefield, he has seen this kind of scene too many times. People are all made of flesh and blood. How could the local bandits who rebelled there kill the local people?

Who can guarantee that these people filling the ditches are not old acquaintances? Are they not my uncle, aunt, or neighbor?
If the enemy is unwilling to take action, let these newly trained soldiers attack the enemy formation; if the enemy is cruel, then the morale of their ordinary soldiers will be low.

As for what the Wuxing Army paid, it was nothing more than a few men.

Who cares about them?

As I said, the North lacks everything except men who are as worthless as grass, and they have as many as they want!
And the best thing is, if the bandits are ruthless at the beginning, but become soft-hearted in the middle and are unwilling to kill the soldiers, it means that there is resentment among the bandits, the morale of the army is shaken, and even the military orders are not smooth!
This is a fighter plane!
Hui Te Mi Le shouted to the military envoy, "Tell the commander-in-chief that the enemy army is in chaos. I will try to break into the camp today. Let Zhuo Tuo An hold my waist!
Men, listen to my orders. With the infantry in the center and the cavalry on the wings, we will deploy our most formal Jurchen formation and continue to drive out the Qian army from attacking the camp. If we succeed, we will march forward with honor!"

"Here!"

Several marching officers bowed in agreement and rode away on horseback.

Soon, the regular infantry of the five Moukes came forward in formation, of which only a hundred were armored, and the rest of the four Moukes were light soldiers.

Hui Te Mile was the sixth general of the Wuxing Army, and his combat power was almost in the middle of the entire army. Among his five Mouke cavalrymen, two were armored cavalry, and the remaining three were light cavalry.

Under the command of Hui Te Mi Le, these 1,000 men formed the Crooked Horse Formation, a formation the Jin army excelled at. To explain this formation in detail, it consisted of light cavalry at the front, followed by armored cavalry and infantry in a line.

At the beginning of the battle, the light cavalry would advance to harass the enemy. Once the enemy began to become confused, the armored cavalry and infantry would begin to charge repeatedly until the enemy was defeated.

Apart from the armored cavalry's forced breakthrough, this was the most commonly used tactic by the Jin army when it founded the country.

The so-called Iron Pagoda and Crooked Horse are exactly like this.

When Hui Te Mile deployed the Crooked Horse Formation, it was naturally not because he wanted to use a formation that was meant to win a decisive battle in the field to attack the camp, but because he was on guard against a possible life-and-death struggle.

After all, the enemy actually wiped out Tu Danzhang and his six men, and until now these comrades have not been found, alive or dead, which even makes the Wuxing Army feel unreal.

Therefore, even if Hui Temile was arrogant, he could not rely on luck for the lives of the entire army.

"go ahead!"

Hui Te Mi Le first looked behind him cautiously, and when he saw Zhuo Tuo An's banner had already caught up, he gave the order with confidence: "Light cavalry, cross this section of the trench! Don't form a battle line, just drive the soldiers to fill the trench, push the camp fence, and see how the loyal thieves will react!

Don’t they want to be good people? Then put down your butcher knives and become Buddhas right here! I’ll send them to paradise!”

Liu Huai was on the watchtower, watching hundreds of light cavalry crossing the first trench, while the Meng'an flag remained north of the trench, and he couldn't help feeling a little disappointed.

"Are you so cowardly?" Liu Huai sighed. "Pass on my military orders. Order Wang Shilong to lead his troops from the eastern stronghold as planned and clear the trenches. Order Luo Shenyan to prepare at the main gate. Order Wei Chang to lead the divine arm crossbow team to block the enemy's reinforcements. Also, shout loudly, tell those soldiers to flee to the eastern ravine!"

The military order was conveyed quickly, and the first to take action were the four hundred crossbowmen behind the wooden fence. Led by Wei Chang, they rushed to their designated positions and replaced the archers.

The six hundred soldiers with spears who were sitting cross-legged at the main gate were a little agitated when they saw the military envoys coming and going, but they quickly calmed down when they saw that the large Luo-shaped flag in front of them was still lying on the ground. They just tightened their grip on the eight-foot-long spears on their shoulders.

A moment later, the military order finally reached Wang Shilong. He wiped his face with a grim smile, wiping off the powder on his face and the big red flower on his ear. He lowered his head to put on his helmet, put down his collar, then stood up and raised the battle axe high.

"Arrange yourselves in formation, fifty men to a team, and follow me! Long live!"

Behind Wang Shilong, four hundred armored soldiers holding long axes stood up at the same time and shouted at the same time: "Long live! Long live! Long live!"

Shouting this slogan, which originated from the Han and Tang Dynasties but was considered usurpation during the Liao and Song Dynasties, the laborers pushed down the entire wooden fence and covered the trench with it, forming a series of small bridges.

The long-axe-wielding soldiers lined up in neat rows, and under the leadership of the large banner with the word "king", they swarmed out along the designated route.

At this time, many Jin soldiers had crossed the second trench. They almost used their lives to fill several narrow passages in the second trench. What they faced next was the wider third trench.

Just when these soldiers were in despair, they suddenly heard voices with Shandong accents shouting almost simultaneously from the arrow towers, earthen hills, and wooden fences of the Loyal Army.

"Run to the mountains! Run to the east mountains!"

Many people were at a loss, but most of them reflexively looked to the east and saw a flash of silver light between the hills.

Heavy armored infantry poured out from the mountains, formed a large formation, and advanced rapidly between the first and second trenches.

The Jin army's light cavalry seemed to want to retreat, but the first trench was just a path filled by the Qian army, and it was not a flat road. It was difficult for the horses to turn around, and some confusion occurred in a hurry.

At the same time, the crossbowmen of the Loyal Army suddenly fired a large number of crossbow arrows into the light cavalry formation. Although it did not cause heavy casualties to the Jin Army's light cavalry, it made the light cavalry even more chaotic.

For a moment, the cries for help of the fallen light cavalry, the neighing of the horses as they galloped in pain, and the voices of the officers shouting orders mixed together, making the command of these hundreds of light cavalry increasingly difficult.

The soldiers suddenly discovered that the Zhongyi Army and the Wuxing Army had started fighting and no one cared about them.

It was not known who took the lead, or perhaps the western end of the team was hit by a hail of arrows, and the soldiers who had already suffered heavy casualties began to swarm towards the east.

Although the hills are also a deadly place, it is better than Yishui in the west, right?

(End of this chapter)