Archery of Gongshou Rivers and Mountains

Although the matter was simple to say, a day almost passed like this.

In terms of position, Wanyan Kang had eaten up the Mongols' central army formation, and probably even killed several important figures. However, the Mongol soldiers were only slightly confused for a short time, and quickly regained their footing.Except that the two sides exchanged positions, it seemed that there was not much difference from when they set up their battles this morning.That is to say, now the two sides have once again entered into a confrontational state - Wanyankang's side formed a circle, and the Mongolian side seemed to be scattered but actually had its own rules on the opposite side.

In the first round of the confrontation, even if Wan Yankang took the lead, it didn't mean that he could maintain the advantage in the future.At this moment, even though Wanyan Kang did not go into battle in person, the lining of his armor has been soaked with sweat several times, and has been blown dry by the cold wind several times. He is eating the dry food and drinking the cold water he brought with him.

Moreover, although the heavy cavalry had an advantage in fighting, it was not good for them when they lined up to confront each other. The weight of the armor was a burden for soldiers and horses.

"Don't move, don't rush." ​​Wan Yankang said in a low voice, warning and comforting himself, not just thinking about the loss of physical strength on his side, thinking about winning the first round, and rushing the army to overwhelm him.In fact, the battle has only just begun...

Because he knows that even if the Mongols are famous for "not bringing luggage", and they have supplemented a certain amount of food and grass in the territory of the Song Dynasty, their food and grass are not much. During the breeding season, they are still a nomadic people—the staple food is their own cattle and horses, and the aggression is for plunder; instead of a blood-sucking people—a large number of slaves produce food and other necessities for them, and the aggression is for occupation.

They could not miss this opportunity to grow their herds, or decline and starvation awaited them.What's more, although the grassland was unified by the Mongols, other ethnic groups were either annexed or driven to barren land, but it does not mean that there are no Mongolian enemies on the grassland.If the time away from home is too long, it is very likely that by the time they return, the cattle and sheep at home have become the property of others, their wives and daughters have become other people's wives, and their sons will either be killed or become slaves.

Therefore, for the Mongols, the confrontation with Wanyan Kang here has come to an end.After all, even if it's just a plunder all the way from then on, it will take time to get from this place to the final return home.

Ouyang Ke, who had been watching here all the time, also thought that the battle was probably over, that he would return to Wanyan Kang's side soon, and that the Mongols would slowly retreat.

After all, it was almost dark.In terms of the current strength of the two parties, if a night battle is provoked, the result will only be a large-scale melee, followed by a horse with a broken leg and a soldier with a broken neck at night. There may also be more accidental injuries than the number of enemies killed. After all, in the dark night, it is difficult for you to know whether your knife is slashing your own people or the enemy.

Therefore, when Ouyang Feng invited him to eat at the leeward place, he immediately went there in a relaxed mood.As a result, as soon as he ate half of the bowl, he heard the sound was wrong. When he ran out to look again, the two armies below had already collided with each other!At this moment, it is dusk...

Although Wan Yankang realized that this was the beginning, he never expected that the Mongols would suddenly "play hard" with him!He thought that they would spread out a small group of troops as they did in the past, take advantage of the flexibility given to him, and intend to eat him one bite at a time.But, suddenly, the opponent bumped into him!

Wanyan Kang couldn't help being stunned for a moment, the first thing in his mind was "what's going on", but he immediately put the question behind him, after all, the results of the future and himself on the battlefield are more important than the reasons of the enemies in the past much.

At this time, the Mongols hadn't rushed over yet, but because Wan Yankang had many generals who had the same idea, he didn't know whether to retreat or charge for a while, and the front line was suddenly chaotic.Fortunately, Wan Yankang reacted much faster than them. Not long after, he saw the military flag pointing forward, which obviously made them charge.Some people unconsciously turned back to look for Wan Yankang's Shuaiqi. At first glance, he was startled because the Shuaiqi was no longer where he was just now, but at the second glance, he was immediately full of fighting spirit, because the Zhongjun Shuaiqi moved forward. Almost immediately behind the striker.

Standing up and waving, the forward rushed straight out, while the infantry behind them had already set up a ring formation: when confronting the Mongols at Chuchu, the infantry's carriage was attacked by surprise, but the carriage was impenetrable, so the infantry with crossbows Instead, the pawn beat the opponent up.This is the WISCO chariot formation that Wan Yankang learned from the ancients—the famous general Wei Qing of the Han Dynasty used it to deal with the Huns, and another Li Jing of the Tang Dynasty improved it to deal with the Turks—the chariot carriages were paved with iron plates, which were difficult for ordinary arrows to penetrate. The car guards are connected by a simple city wall.

At this moment, Wan Yankang is using this formation, with infantry standing behind the chariot, using step bows for long range, crossbow arrows for medium range, and crossbow arrows for long spears if the distance is further advanced.The infantry relied on this ring formation to kill the enemy while providing support for the cavalry, and the cavalry also circled the ring formation, retreating or approaching, entangled with the Mongols, and at the same time would not let the Mongols concentrate their forces to attack the ring formation.

Wan Yankang has dismounted now, and is standing on the observation cart erected high in the formation. The height of this cart allows him to see most of the battlefield.

The sky was getting darker and darker, and whether they wanted it or not, the fighting between the two sides began to subside gradually-the incident of their own people beating their own people did not appear.The Mongolian side used the Mongolian language to call out the names of the commanders they belonged to each other as the identification standard, and the Jin people used the Shaanxi dialect to call out the name of their own Meng'an (actually also the commander-in-chief) as the identification standard.

Gradually, the fighting has almost completely subsided, and the Jinren set up a camp relying on the ring array. In the Wu Gang chariots of the infantry, in addition to weapons and blades, there are also wound medicine and food. The wounded soldiers can wrap their wounds. Drinking a sip of hot soup after a fierce battle is already the best enjoyment.

However, both sides did not want the other side to be idle, Wanyan Kang sent a team to touch it and also attacked at night. Coincidentally, the Mongols also sent a team to attack at night.In the end, they didn't touch the other side's camp, but the night raiding teams from both sides happened to bump into each other. After a good fight, both sides retreated in despair. No one knew who would win and who would lose in this encounter. .

Wan Yankang, who had already got off the lookout car, discussed with his generals for a long time, and finally came up with a bad idea.A team of 5000 people was sent out, and the rest of the troops, except for the routine sentry, were all asked to go to bed immediately, but they had to stay in their saddles and vests.

When all the soldiers were in the deepest sleep, they suddenly heard a shout of killing not far away, and immediately countless people turned over and jumped up, only to find that the place where the fight started was far away, so they were kicked away by the generals one by one Go back to sleep.

Before dawn the next day, everyone was kicked awake again to realize that Dutong had sent people out to dig a hole. A palm-sized pit was half-arm deep diagonally. It is specially equipped with a small shovel, but if a running horse steps into it, its leg will be broken. Even if it is a human being, if it is stepped in in the middle of the night, it will sprain its foot.It is conceivable what happened to the Mongols who just ran into the "minefield".That's why, in the second half of the night, the Mongols never came to disturb people's dreams...

In the morning, most people just stuffed a mouthful of dry food into their mouths—most of the bread is dry and hard, biting it down can cause people to break their teeth. When eating this, you have to wait for the saliva to soften it before chewing—— Before they could soak the bread, the Mongols had already attacked, so the war started again!

If you need to say it, this is boring repetitive work, one day, two days, three days... You kill me, I kill me.However, in fact, every minute and every moment, the blood spilled is different, and the people who fall on the ground are also different.The corpses of people and horses piled up next to each other, and the blood soaked the ground that had just sprouted grass...

Whether it is Wanyan Kang or the generals on the Mongol side, they still use all the strategies they can think of-Wanyan Kang also suffers at times-but because of the caution of both parties, the effect that the strategy can achieve is not decisive. , the comparison between the two sides is still the resilience of knowledge soldiers, whoever persists to the end will win!

"Du Tong! Du Tong!" Wan Yankang just leaned on the wheel for a while, and immediately someone came to push him.

"how?"

"The Mongols are going to run away." Shi Mobu said excitedly, but because his voice was hoarse than a crow, so although he was excited, his voice was still not loud.

Wanyan Kang stood up with a groan: "Chase!"

"Dutong... What if the other party uses it? It's not like they haven't used it before." Shi Mobu, who was still excited just now, immediately lost his excitement.He was so excited to report last time, but it turned out that Wanyankang told him not to be impatient. Sure enough...the Mongols came back after running away. Even the pot is served.

"Then chase!" Wan Yankang was so sure this time, because he calculated that the Mongolian side was almost the same.