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

Chapter 53: Willing to be the Wind Wrapping the Battle Flag (Part )
After three horn sounds, Liu Huai stuffed the horn into the saddlebag, lowered his neck, protected his neck and face, leaving only a pair of murderous eyes exposed.

Then he raised his iron spike spear and pointed it forward. Fifty armored cavalrymen behind him formed a cone shape, each holding a long spear. With Liu Huai as the spearhead of the cone formation, they slowly and firmly launched a charge.

The target was directly at the location of the Jin army's tall flag and the place where the Jin army's armored cavalry gathered.

Under the banner with the word "Gao", Gao Anren was almost terrified to death.

He never imagined that there were Song troops lying in ambush in the reed marshes. For a moment, he regretted not investigating carefully and hated that the Song army came too quickly. Then, he inexplicably thought of Luo Guzi. That guy had lived in Shuhe for a long time. Could it be that he really didn't hear any relevant news?
Gao Anren was horrified and stood there, his face turning pale and blue.

To use the terminology in the game, he was attacked and fell into a state of chaos.

However, Gao Anren was the bravest man in the army. He stood there in a daze. The Jin soldiers around him were also looking at him in panic for their backbone. Seeing his behavior, they became even more panicked.

Wu Ye was the first to react. He pointed at the Song cavalry and shouted, "There are only a few dozen Song dogs, and we have 200. What are we afraid of?! Major General, I will lead our men to meet them head-on, and you will lead your men to flank them. There are only a few dozen Song dogs. We will kill them all!"

Gao Anren also came back to his senses after hearing this: "Wu Ye is right, these dozens of Song Gou's cavalry are the last of the elite. Killing them will surely terrify Song Gou!"

After saying this, he hurriedly ordered: "Wu Ye, you and I will each lead a Mouke to crush the Song army!"

Wu Ye didn't waste any words. He snatched the Wuque flag representing Mouke from the hands of his personal guards, let out a strange cry, and blocked the Song army's armored cavalry.

Nearly a hundred Jin army cavalry followed closely behind.

Gao Anren raised another black magpie pennant and led another Mouke to go around from the north to behind the Song cavalry, trying to encircle the Song cavalry.

"Quick! Quick! Follow me!"

Gao Anren couldn't help but be anxious. When he just started, he suddenly realized something.

That is, Gao Anren himself was stunned and frightened for a moment when facing the sudden attack, so it is a huge question whether ordinary soldiers can hold on.

In fact, this was true. The left wing of the Jin army, which was the nearly 200 people closest to the reed marsh, was thrown into chaos by the movement behind them before they even engaged in battle with Zhang Qing. The supervising team killed several people but could not stop them. Instead, they were swept away by the defeated army and fled in all directions.

Zhang Qing was stunned for a moment, then immediately overjoyed. He ordered his men to abandon their large shields and form a square formation, with the first two rows holding long spears and the last two rows holding short weapons. They imitated Wei Sheng's fighting style and pressed forward.

In Zhang Qing's field of vision, the large flag embroidered with a winged tiger flew quickly from west to east, from far to near.

A distance of one mile may sound long, but in fact, if a warhorse gallops at full speed, it can be reached in a moment.

After just a short delay, the distance between the Song and Jin armored cavalry was only a hundred steps.

At this moment, the nearly one hundred golden cavalry led by Wu Ye had not even deployed their formation, and they had not even increased their speed.

According to common cavalry tactics, this small mistake was nothing. They should have engaged in a passionate exchange of fire with their horn bows, then engaged in a probing battle, waiting for one side to show weakness before charging forward.

But Liu Huai didn't care about all this. He launched a charge directly and attacked the Jin cavalry fiercely.

The Song army's desperate attitude of fighting for their lives scared the Jin army.

The face beneath Karasuno's helmet had turned ashen.

Because this kind of cavalry's fearless and life-threatening tactics of breaking through the hard barriers was originally what the Jin army was good at, Wu Ye certainly knew the pros and cons of it.

When the Jurchens rose up against the Liao and captured Huanglongfu, Wanyan Loushi and Wanyan Yinshuke led the cavalry to attack the Liao army's right wing formation. They attacked nine times in one day and broke through the Liao army's formation.

Later, during the war between Song and Jin, the Jin people boasted: If we can't charge back and forth ten times, how can we be considered cavalry?!

It can be said that the Jin Dynasty carved out its territory through repeated attacks by its cavalry.

But as I said, times have changed. This is no longer the era when the Jurchens crawled out of the snowy dens of the White Mountains and Black Waters, risking their lives through mountains of swords and seas of fire.

After decades of prosperity, even though these Jin cavalrymen were not afraid of death, when the choice between life and death was suddenly placed before them, most of them were still a little afraid, a little hesitant, and a little retreating.

However, everything in the world is just a little bit off!
The first one to react was still Wu Ye. He saw a particularly strong Song army soldier rushing towards him, and his intuition told him that this man was the commander of the Song cavalry.

Wu Ye wanted to call for his guards, but it was too late. He could only grit his teeth and clamp his legs around the horse's belly. The horse's speed did not slow down but increased instead. He held the Wu Que flag tightly in both hands, using it as a flagpole and thrusting it forward fiercely.

Wu Ye's decisiveness also resulted in a gap of nearly twenty steps between him and the Jin army behind him.

However, Liu Huai keenly felt that although the opposing cavalry general was aggressive, he was weak inside.

Without time to think, Liu Huai gently swung the iron spike spear in his hand, first pushing the flag spear in Wu Ye's hand aside. Then, as the two horses crossed, he stretched out his left hand, grasped Wu Ye's chest and abdomen, and with a sound of "Hey", pulled him off the warhorse.

Seeing their commander so brave, the Song army was greatly encouraged. Amidst their shouts and cries of killing, there were even a few cheers.

The momentum of the Jin army stagnated again.

Wu Ye's hands were first numb from the power transmitted from the flagpole. Before he could even react with shock, he felt a huge force coming from his chest and abdomen, and he began to fly up as if riding on clouds.

"This...what's going on..."

Karasuno looked up at the blue sky and white clouds, feeling as if time had stopped at that moment. He was still not horrified at this moment, but just a little confused.

You have to know that he weighs more than 200 pounds including his armor. How could he be captured like a child?

The severe pain in his back finally brought Wu Ye back to his senses. Before he could even groan, he saw horse hooves coming at him from both sides like a running jungle. His instinct for survival made him curl up into a ball to avoid being trampled by the warhorse.

Liu Huai threw Wu Ye to the ground, and the iron spike spear in his right hand moved like a poisonous snake's tongue, piercing into the eye socket of the next Jin soldier. After pulling it out gently, he used his free left hand to hold the spear with both hands. His military moves were no longer as agile as before, and he treated the iron spike spear as a blunt weapon, swinging it in a circle and swinging it forward fiercely.

The two armored cavalrymen of the Jin army who came after them were unable to withstand it!
The iron spike spear easily knocked the Jin soldier on the left off his horse. The Jin cavalry on the right reacted, but in a hurry they could only raise their spears to block them at their sides. However, they did not expect that the iron spike spear actually broke the spear shaft and knocked them away with the remaining force.

In a moment, the four Jin army armored cavalrymen who served as the tip of the cone formation were either dead or injured.

The Jin army's actions suddenly became even slower.

This does not mean that Liu Huai's killing of four people can determine the outcome of the situation, but that the sharp spear tips used by nearly a hundred Jin soldiers for attack were broken.

When cavalrymen collide head-on, it is like two eggs colliding with each other. The one that breaks will often shatter completely, and it will be clear who is stronger and who is weaker.

And after that, naturally the strong will survive and the weak will die.

The Song army swarmed in along the road opened by Liu Huai, broke through the formation in just a moment, and actually defeated the Jin army.

Shi Qilang originally wanted to protect himself, so he pretended to be not good at horse riding and fell behind. Before he could figure out what was happening in front of him, he saw the Song army's armored cavalry whizzing past the Jin army's formation, with spears like a forest, constantly stabbing out. The Jin soldiers who had no time to dodge fell off their horses one after another. Many armored cavalry even had ox horn bows in their hands and had no time to change to long weapons.

This is the advantage of a surprise attack. The Jin army's armored cavalry were supposed to be elite, but because the incident happened suddenly, they could not use even 10% of their full strength, and were actually beaten to death by a random punch.

In a state of confusion, the Jin army reacted instinctively, relying on the mobility of their cavalry to disperse first and then deal with other matters.

In Shi Qilang's eyes, there was still order as long as there were officers shouting and giving orders, forcing him to stay away from the Song army.

But when Gao Anren's troops circled half a mile to the north and tried to encircle the Song army, it seemed that the Song army rushed into Wuye's formation with an indomitable momentum, and split the hundred-man Jin cavalry into two halves like a sharp knife cutting tofu.

The Song army that broke through the enemy lines suffered few casualties, and their formation remained intact. Meanwhile, at least thirty of Wu Ye's cavalry were thrown off their horses in a matter of moments, and the remaining armored cavalry, like tumbleweed struck by a stick, exploded and fled in all directions.

This...this is even a fart!
(End of this chapter)