choke element

Chapter 551

The arrows landed on the helmets or leather caps of the Mongols, and the clusters of arrows passed through the eyebrows almost unhindered and pierced hard into the skull.The sound of the skull being crushed was dull, like chopping cork with an axe, with a "dumb" sound.

The body of the knight hit by the arrow immediately stiffened.Some corpses prostrated on the horses and continued to charge, while others fell to the ground and were dragged by the horses for a few steps before being stepped over by the following horses.

More arrows continued to fly down, hitting the Mongolian cavalry.

In the past few years, the Mongols have looted a huge amount of supplies from the Kingdom of Jin, which has greatly improved the level of equipment for everyone.Especially the soldiers of the cowardly Xue army, almost all of them wear armor.But under the dense rain of arrows, the knights could be hit by arrows in almost any position, and even the horses in the same armor were screaming while running.

Huo'erchi's return shots also caused huge damage.

When they were a little far away from the Dinghai army formation, they did not aim at the enemy and shoot arrows, but bowed their heads and rode their horses, pulling round bows and arrows with both hands and throwing them at will.It wasn't until the horses approached the gap at the outer edge of the Dinghai army formation, when the horses soared to a high point, that they suddenly got up, condescendingly aiming and shooting.

In this short moment, anyone who can shoot an arrow in the face of a Dinghai soldier through the shield and armor can be said to be one in a million.Among them, several people took out several arrows from the quiver beside them and fired them one after another, as if the arrows were chasing head to tail in the air.

Zhang Xin, who was commanding at the front of the queue, gesticulated and commanded non-stop, and finally caught the attention of a certain Huo Erchi, who shot two arrows at him.The one aimed at the front door was bounced off by the brim of his helmet, and the one aimed at the waist hit him. He pulled out the arrow with a roar, only feeling a sharp pain.

His armor was extra thick, and he bled a lot, but his injuries were not serious.Among the Dinghai soldiers around him, not many were directly shot to death by arrows.In comparison, this shot must have killed more Mongols.

But the Mongolian cavalry came surging, and few people noticed the dead among them. On the contrary, it was this miraculous and precise shooting that inevitably horrified the soldiers.At this moment, the sword and shield players and spearmen who were at the forefront almost subconsciously bent down to avoid them.

This kind of evasion caused the line of defense to shake only for a moment, but for the Qixue cavalry, this moment was enough for them to charge into battle.

A few loose gaps are as conspicuous as a burning torch in their eyes.Without the orders of the Yanmen, Qi Xuejun galloped through the formation and immediately tore open several gaps.

Blood rained one after another, and many high-pitched cries were instantly replaced by wailing.The soldiers of the Ding Navy in front of the array suffered an unbearable violent blow.

They haven't felt this kind of experience for a long time. Since Dinghai established itself in Shandong, any force, any enemy can only bow their heads before Dinghai's solid formation and powerful cavalry.But at this time, what they were facing was the most powerful force ever on the grassland!
Blood spewed, heads flew, weapons and armor collided intensively, and the piercing metallic sound erupted. The soldiers of the Ding Navy waved their knives and guns frantically, but their gains were limited.

The Mongols rode their horses and galloped between the gaps in the army formation, narrowly avoiding a lot of slashing and killing.They moved and dodged, continuously charged into the depths of the army formation, and only fought back, reaping their lives with the speed of the galloping horses.

As a result, more queues fell into chaos, and the increasingly large-scale fixed navy queues were like boiling water.More Mongolian cavalrymen continued to rush forward, stirring up the boiling water even more turbid.

Outside the army formation, Shi Ji, who was in charge of commanding these cowardly Xue troops, laughed suddenly.

"This is the navy, that's all."

Shiji Hutuhu is Genghis Khan's adopted son and confidant Na Ke'er. When he was 15 years old, he used to track the elk alone in the severe cold weather and heavy snow. He did not return for a day and a night, so that Genghis Khan thought he was frozen to death. Yan.Unexpectedly, Shiji Hutu returned to the camp the next day and told everyone that he had killed 27 of the [-] deer.

Shiji Hutuhu's bravery and courage were praised by everyone, but because he was born in the Tatar tribe, he always served as an entourage of Genghis Khan and could not directly lead the troops to fight.

This time today, it was the first time that he was in charge of the battlefield command, and he was still under the watchful eye of Genghis Khan.Shiji Hutuhu believes that he will have a good record. He has been by Genghis Khan's side for more than 20 years. He knows everything he should know about tactics.He was determined to fight a beautiful battle, to bring out the might of the Mongols to the extreme.

"Two more teams of thousands, outflanking directly from the two wings!" He shouted loudly.

The frontal assault Mongolian cavalry does not need to be superimposed.The purpose of those who have already fallen into the battle is to rely on the speed advantage of the cavalry to pass between the various departments of the Ding Navy.

The tactics of the Mongolian cavalry have always been like this, and the Qixue army is a collection of the best among them.They can drive vertically and horizontally within hundreds of miles, and they can also dance horses among the army formations like forests of swords and guns.Every cavalry squad is like a sharp edge at this moment, cutting the enemy apart.

No matter how brave and skilled their opponents are, once they are cut and dispersed, there is no possibility of confrontation.The Mongols come and go at will, and can concentrate their absolute superiority in strength in any direction and at any point.

What Shiji Hutuhu had to do was to continue to draw the attention of the Ding Navy, so that their formation had to be dispersed and they could not concentrate their forces on the front.

Wait for the cavalry pierced in the front to come out through the formation, and join the soldiers and horses on the two wings, and the strength will be stronger.It is easy for each department to turn around and attack, or turn to intersperse to create more gaps!
The outflanking movement of the Mongolian cavalry was immediately noticed by the officers and men of the Ding navy.

Wang Shixian was lying on a large cart, staring at the situation, as if he saw his death fight in Haicang Town that day.

These Mongolian cavalry are much stronger than the six thousand households under Tuolei's command in Haicang Town.Wang Shixian felt that any one of these cavalrymen could be regarded as one of the best Batuer in the ordinary Wangu tribe, and his status was equal to that of Nayan.

If Wang Shixian were to fight this battle, he would at least line up the carts and deploy them outside to block the cavalry, and then concentrate the archers to interrupt the front of the Mongols one by one.

But Guo Ning's arrangement has Guo Ning's intention to achieve it.Wang Shixian could only try his best to dispatch his troops to keep the formation in place.

It's hard.

As the Mongols continued to run deeper and deeper, Wang Shixian's position gradually became the front line.A Mongolian cavalryman noticed his figure dressed as a general, and flew towards him from afar.

Wang Shixian only felt a black shadow passing by his eyes, he was startled suddenly, his cheeks felt warm, and then his neck was also hot.He touched it, cursed, and then shouted: "There are at least 1000 Mongols... Maybe [-] horsemen rushed into the formation! How long will we have to wait? Where are the people from Qiu Huiluo?"

Pointing to the inside of the army formation, an officer shouted repeatedly: "Here we come! We come!"

When they were talking, the Mongolian army had already rushed through four or five passages in Dinghai's queue.If you look down from a high altitude, every channel is like a thick blood line, and the blood line has been running through the front of Dinghai, extending to the middle of the army.

Most of the vehicles that accompanied the Ding Navy to the north were concentrated here.

This kind of vehicle is the best support for setting up a line of defense when pawns line up in field battles.If the car formation is placed on the outside, the Mongols will not be able to break in easily anyway.They could only harass the outside world again and again, and they did not hesitate to spend ten days and half a month to wait for omissions in Dinghai's vehicle formation.

This is common sense in the art of war, why doesn't the Dinghai Navy do it?
The Mongols who were caught in the fierce fighting had no time to think about this question.They only felt that the line of defense formed by the chain of carts suddenly hindered their own cavalry from galloping, and they were furious.

Some cavalry were red-eyed and rushed towards the gap between the carts. As a result, both men and horses were stopped by the iron chain between the carts and fell to the ground.Some cavalrymen jumped off their horses, trying to tear off the chains, move the carts, and clear the passage, but how can this be done in a short time in the fighting field?What's more, on the roof of the big car, there are still soldiers of the Ding Navy shooting arrows and hacking down!

There were also cavalrymen who immediately steered their horses to the sides, intending to continue their own cutting and penetration along the edge of the chariot formation.But the scale of this car array is really not small, and the front is very wide.The Mongols who were exploring on both sides did not run far, and the Mongolian cavalry behind them continued to move forward, and in an instant they crowded together with the cavalry in front.

When the Mongolian cavalry formed a formation to fight, the formation was always wide and wide, which is the so-called "formation like a sea".The queue is wide, so it is conducive to maneuvering and changing, and gathering and dispersing can surprise the enemy.This is a habit engraved in the bones of the Mongols. They are like this in any battle, and they will instinctively avoid situations that are too concentrated.

But at this time, because Dinghai's front line was penetrated, a large number of infantry were left behind by the Mongols, and the Chinese army was unable to break through for a while.There were thousands of cavalry, and perhaps more Mongolian cavalry were suddenly blocked when they were fighting and fell into battle, and they gathered in one place densely.

A large number of cavalry were crowded and crowded into a thick layer.Many horses couldn't even circle.Some knights with outstanding skills simply walked around on the backs of war horses, and then tried to jump on top of the carts to fight.

The Mongols were indeed fierce and abnormal. One person took the lead, and immediately ten or hundreds of people followed.In a blink of an eye, the Mongolian knights gathered closer together along the car formation.They used the densely thrown arrows as a cover, holding up their knives and guns, like a colony of black ants trying to overturn the formation of vehicles.

Wang Shixian couldn't stay on the roof of the big car anymore, and rolled down in some embarrassment.

"Throw it! Throw it quickly!"

Standing behind the chariot formation was Qiu Huiluo, and behind him was a row of soldiers.They were all big and round, holding something the size of a wine jar in their hands, which seemed to be made of iron and was very heavy.

This is Iron Cannon.

Generally speaking, this kind of weapon is not easy to manufacture, nor is it easy to preserve. It is only used to defend the city.Throw three or five at a time, and you can hear the sound, intimidating the enemy.When Guo Zhongyuan was in Zhongdu City, he killed He Shilie Hu Shahu with an iron cannon. He was lucky enough to explode.

Right now, what Ding Hai needs is an explosion.

Three or five iron cannons can only scare people, how about thirty or fifty?
Or, at this moment, a full hundred iron cannons were thrown out at the same time, and the targets were the Mongols who lost the speed of their horses and gathered in front of the car formation?

The soldiers lit the fire wire on the top of the iron cannon.While the flames were shining, they threw the iron cannons forcefully.

Things weighing more than ten or twenty catties could not be thrown very far, barely passed the top of the cart, and fell immediately.

When the Mongols looked up and saw a hundred iron cannons falling, they regarded it as stones to hit people, and they were not particularly alarmed.

The brave Mongolian warriors had never seen any danger before. In an instant, many people even thought contemptuously, so what if they were hit by a stone?These stones are not falling from a very high place, so they may not have much force, as long as they don't hit the head, they may not necessarily kill us!

The stone fell to the ground, and the thin line of fire continued to burn.Because of the small amount of gunpowder powder wrapped in the fire wire, it smoked and made a soft "hissing" sound when burning.

Except for a few unlucky ones who were hit squarely, most Mongolians simply ignored them.The most daring Mongolian warrior in the front row was jumping from his horseback, rushing mightily towards the top of the cart like a flying man.

Then there was a loud bang.

An iron cannon exploded, and the flames shone within several feet.Then came the second, third, fourth, until 1.Flames, smoke, loud noises, and fragments of iron cannons flew all over the sky.The huge impact of the explosion caused hundreds of Mongolian cavalry to fly up.

(End of this chapter)