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"Soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty, kill me—" Dao Tan raised his spear and roared, and rushed towards the cavalry of the Gan army.

Zhao Junsheng waved the spear in his hand, "I am invincible!"

"I am invincible - kill!" The soldiers of the Qian army rushed to the Song army cavalry behind Zhao Junsheng, urging their horses with spears in their hands.

Going forward, the formation of the cavalry of the Song Army ran away at a speed visible to the naked eye, while the cavalry of the Qian Army still maintained this tight formation under the high-speed sprint.

As the distance between the two sides got closer, the panic on the faces of the Song Army cavalry became more and more obvious. The more fearful they were, the more hesitant they were to attack. The courage of the Song Army cavalry was a little bit small until it was exhausted!

Without the courage to die, the Song Army cavalry's battle was greatly reduced, and even the horses with them began to be afraid.

The cavalry of the dry army held weapons, each with a ferocious face, overflowing with murderous aura, which greatly frightened the cavalry of the Song army in front.

"Boom bang bang..." The cavalry of the two sides finally collided, and the Song Army cavalry in loose formation were knocked down one by one. The screams before the moment.

Many Song Army cavalry were strung together with spears by the Gan Army cavalry until they couldn't hold them anymore and threw them away. They drew out their swords and continued to chop and fight.

The dense formation of the Qianjun cavalry made the Song Army cavalry in loose formation unavoidable during the charge. For example, the wall moved forward quickly, and all the Song Army cavalry who hit it were knocked down, waiting for the Qianjun cavalry to pass through , there was no Song Army cavalry behind them who were still riding on horseback. They were lying densely on the ground. Most of them died on the spot. They were either killed or trampled by horseshoes. They were also somewhat injured.

Some remnants of the Liu Song cavalry on the edge of the battlefield had already been terrified by the terrifying attack power of the army and the corpses all over their bodies. They completely lost their courage and turned around and ran away one after another. Even if someone put a knife on their necks, I'm afraid it won't stop.

"Don't stop, keep charging, let me break down their infantry formation, kill—" Zhao Junsheng, who was almost drenched in blood, raised his spear and shouted. This is the time when the morale is at its peak. The killing spirit of the cavalry has just been mobilized and aroused. If Liu Song's infantry has not yet fully completed the deployment of the defensive formation and overwhelmed them, once their formation is completed, it will cost a lot to overwhelm them the price.

Li Dan saw the cavalry of the Song army being crushed by the cavalry of the Qian army without even blocking a round. He was shocked and shouted to the infantry behind him: "Speed ​​up and line up, hurry up... ··”

When Zhao Junsheng led the cavalry to a distance of one mile from the front of the infantry formation of the Song Army, a huge momentum and pressure had already spread over his face. Li Dan even felt his heart trembling and frightened. He had already noticed the faces of the soldiers. There is already a look of panic on the face.

"Hold on, hold on to me, anyone who dares to run away will be killed without mercy!"

Li Dan raised his spear and shouted, and continued to order: "Like the spearmen ahead, line up—"

Three thousand spearmen formed a horizontal rectangular formation. After receiving the order, they quickly squatted down and thrust their spears obliquely forward on the ground. The vision of the three thousand crossbowmen in the middle behind them suddenly widened.

Zhao Junsheng, who was leading the team in a high-speed sprint, looked up and saw a dense array of spears in front of the Song army. What was behind the array of spears?Is it an archer?

Unlike, when Zhao Junsheng rode his horse and ran a little closer, he suddenly felt that the outlines of the weapons held by the infantry soldiers of the Song Army were somewhat familiar. They were crossbow arrays!

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Chapter 987

"Not good!" Zhao Junsheng was startled, and immediately shouted at Yang Lie beside him and gestured: "Kill the enemy with a bow, surround and kill the enemy with left and right wings!"

Hearing Zhao Junsheng's loud roar, Yang Lie turned his head and saw Zhao Junsheng's hand gestures. He immediately understood. He swung his horse's head and went around to the right. The flag bearer behind him quickly waved the command flag.

The dry army cavalry who saw the flag waving put away their weapons and took out their bows and arrows.

Zhao Junsheng's order was still a little late. When the team was divided into two, more than two hundred cavalry were still under the crossbow arrows of the Song Army's crossbowmen.

"Swish..." The dense raindrops of crossbow arrows fell from the sky, and the more than two hundred cavalry cavalry who had not had time to turn were mercilessly hit by the crossbow array.

Horses and knights were shot into hedgehogs by the arrows that fell from the sky. They screamed one after another and fell to the ground with a plop, kicking up a lot of dust.

Zhao Junsheng looked back while riding his horse, and seeing this scene, his heart was chilled, his face became even more murderous, he accelerated his horse and shouted: "Bow——"

The cavalry of the Gan army took out their arrows, opened their bows and fired at the Liu Song army formation, and an arrow fell on the front of both sides of the Song army formation like a torrential rain.

The gunmen of the Song army did not have any protection, and the cowhide armor could not withstand the blows of the arrows, and they were shot down by the cavalry in pieces.

After the cavalry of the Qian army divided into two and turned to outflank, they deliberately distanced themselves from the Song army formation. When the crossbowmen of the Song army formation loaded their crossbow arrows again and fired them, the second wave of crossbow arrows all fell on the open space.

At this time, the Qianjun cavalry were riding their horses while firing arrows at the Song Army formation continuously, and the distance between the Song Army crossbow formation and the Qianjun cavalry in the entire army formation exceeded the range of the crossbow, which made the Song Army crossbow formation After firing several waves of arrow rain in a row, it did not cause any damage to the dry army cavalry.

"Sword and shield soldiers go left and right, advance and defend!" Li Dan gave the order.

After receiving the order, the sword and shield soldiers of the Song Dynasty immediately moved closer to the two wings and lined up. They held up their shields to block the arrows fired by the cavalry of the Qian army.

Compared with the firing speed of the bows and arrows of the cavalry of the Qian army, the firing speed of the crossbow arrows of the Song Army's crossbow array is too slow.

The crossbow is easy to operate and requires relatively low technical quality for soldiers. A soldier who is recruited into the army only needs a short period of training to be able to equip and operate a crossbow and form combat effectiveness.

It takes a long time for infantry archers to train and form an army and form combat effectiveness. This is a relatively high-tech unit, but it is not easy to train archers. However, once trained into an army, infantry archers can shoot faster than crossbows. many.

The training of cavalry archers is more difficult and cost more, but once trained into an army, its attack power and maneuverability can make the enemy fearful. Using a bow on horseback is far faster than using a crossbow Faster and more accurate.

Whether it is cavalry or infantry, it is much faster to shoot arrows with a bow than with a crossbow, because it takes a lot of time to reload the arrows when using a crossbow.

"Ding ding ding..." Batch after batch of arrows shot over, and a large number of arrows were blocked by soldiers of the Song army with shields, but people still kept falling.

The cavalrymen of the Gan army kept circling around the Song army formation and fired arrows. Although they could cause some casualties to the soldiers of the Song army from time to time, it was far from enough to pose a threat. The shields blocked most of the arrows, causing only minor casualties. And the cavalry of the dry army can't get too close, otherwise they will enter the range of the Song army's crossbow array.

Under the leadership of Zhao Junsheng, the Qianjun cavalry circled around the Song Army's formation five times, firing arrows non-stop, causing some casualties to the Song Army. Turn the horse's head and lead the cavalry to leave quickly.

Seeing the cavalry of the dry army go away, leaving only a large amount of rising smoke and dust, Song Jun breathed a sigh of relief from top to bottom, and everyone felt that the whole body was soaked in sweat.

Looking at the corpses of the comrades lying in the army, the battle was not easy, and the casualties were not small.

Not long after, the official responsible for counting the losses reported to Li Dan: "General, the loss of the two thousand cavalry under the general's command exceeded [-]%, and he himself was seriously injured! In addition, our infantry also lost in this battle. Hundreds of people, but we only caused less than two hundred casualties to the Gan army!"

It's not that Li Dan has never fought against the Gan army, but this time it really made Li Dan feel powerless. Except for the cavalry, the infantry of the Song army were shot and killed by the Qian army cavalry without even having direct contact with the Qian army cavalry This is because he ordered a tortoise shell formation.

This is also because the Qianjun cavalry has no more preparations. There is no way to take the tortoise shell army array deployed by Li Dan for the time being. Once the Qianjun finds a way to deal with this army formation, I am afraid that the Song Army will not be able to resist the Qianjun at all. Cavalry attack.

Li Dan looked at the soldiers of the Song Army who had survived the catastrophe, and he decisively issued an order: "Return to Berkshire along the original road!"

In the current state of the Song Army, the cavalry has lost more than half of it, and it is no longer effective. At most, it can only do reconnaissance and reporting. It is unrealistic to expect them to fight against the cavalry of the dry army. Passively beaten, there is no way to fight back.

At this time, Tan Tan was seriously injured and could not help Li Dan for the time being. Li Dan felt that he could not take these Song soldiers to Chengdu City by himself. It is possible that the entire army will be wiped out. Even if they reach the outside of Chengdu, they may not be able to enter the city.

It was difficult for Li Dan to issue this order, and he was forced to do so. He knew that if he pursued the matter afterwards, he might not be able to explain to the court. He can't take care of that much anymore, once the Qian army finds the flaws in the army formation he deployed, the overthrow of the thousands of Song troops will only happen in an instant!

Under the leadership of Li Dan, Liu Songjun returned and evacuated along the original road as quickly as possible, and they didn't even have time to clean up the battlefield and collect the remains of their comrades.

Half a day later, Zhao Junsheng led the cavalry to the edge of the battlefield again.

The wounded soldiers and horses of the Song Army were abandoned here. They were abandoned and could only fend for themselves.

When the cavalry of the Gan army came again, the wounded soldiers and horses of the Song army wanted to struggle to get up, but after a lot of hard work, they had no choice but to give up.

Zhao Junsheng glanced over, raised his hand and waved: "Give them a good time, send them a ride!"

Yang Lie clasped his fists, turned his head to look behind him, raised his hand and waved forward: "Go!"

Some dry army cavalry lined up in three rows and pulled the net forward to check the corpses and wounded soldiers on the battlefield. The wounded soldiers and wounded horses were found and killed one by one.

Li Bao said next to Zhao Junsheng: "Your Majesty, our army is completely able to charge directly. Although the losses will be greater, as long as we break through the Song army's gun array, their crossbow array can be smashed with one face-to-face encounter. There is no need to waste a lot of effort on the face-to-face tu shā!"

Zhao Junsheng said: "How big is the loss? The Song army's gun formation is not vegetarian. Our army is bringing light cavalry now. It is not wise to directly attack the dense gun formation with light cavalry. The casualties are too large and it is not worthwhile!" "