Back to the Song Dynasty as a tyrant

But right now, the Dali army has entered the distance where the second strongest crossbow can penetrate armor, that is, within 90 meters.

Batches of Dali soldiers fell to the ground, like rice in a rice field blown to the ground by a strong wind, falling backward one by one.

On the Song army's side, because of the massive iron armor defense, bows and arrows couldn't penetrate at this distance.

This scene directly overturned the cognition of Dali people.

The combat effectiveness of Dali soldiers is actually not weak. They have traveled long distances to fight with neighboring countries.

But I have to admit that with the same courage, the role of armaments in war cannot be ignored.

For example, the Western Army of the Song Dynasty, the previous ratio of crossbow arrows to infantry was about seven to three, which was for mountain warfare with the Xixia people.

Because the armor rate of the Xixia people is not high.

Later, when encountering a high-mobility kidnapper, the ordinary crossbow suddenly lost its effect, and the Xijun who beat Xixia crying for his father and mother was suddenly stunned.

Similarly, at this time the Dali Army was a little at a loss.

You must know that the Dali army did not intend to fight the Song army immediately with crossbowmen, and then the two-winged cavalry quickly assaulted the Song army.

No one thought that as soon as the striker came up, so many people died without a hand-to-hand combat, and they were still elites in armor.

Even so, the Dali Army still did not withdraw its troops.

They move forward quickly.

Song Jun's fourth wave of crossbow arrows came.

Another group of people fell.

The Dali army has already suffered as many as [-] casualties.

When the distance was within 50 meters, the archers of the Song Army began to go into battle.

Not only that, rows of infantry armed with spears came to the front in an orderly manner, forming a dense array of spears.

When Dali Jun saw this, he was immediately stunned.

This stacking method is simply to replace defense with offense, so as to prevent solid defense.

No wonder the Golden Army was also afraid in history.

The scouts rushed away and reported the battle situation ahead to Gao Liangcheng truthfully.

Gao Liangcheng's face was livid, and he said unwillingly: "Mingjin withdraws!"

Before the Dali army rushed to the Song army, they began to call for money to withdraw their troops.

When withdrawing, some people also stopped by to rescue comrades who fell on the ground.

However, the Song Army's arrow rain did not stop, and batch after batch fell.

Gao Liangcheng's heart was bleeding when he saw it.

"Cavalry! Cavalry attack from both wings. I don't believe the Song army has so many powerful crossbows!" Gao Liangcheng roared angrily.

The cavalry of the Dali Kingdom received the order and began to advance steadily towards the two wings of the Song Army.

There are two thousand cavalry on one side, which adds up to four thousand.

You know, the Song army only had 5000 people in total, and the cavalry from Dali came to [-].

"Report! Wu Shuai, the enemy has launched cavalry."

"It's just in time." Wu Lin looked at the army array on the two wings and said with a smile, "This commander really wants to see the cavalry of Dali Kingdom."

The Dali cavalry also wore armor, the same armor as the forward infantry.

Like the cavalry of the Jin people, they also brought bows and arrows.

They are like two torrents rushing towards Song Jun.

As soon as the cavalry came out, the atmosphere on the battlefield changed.

Now Gao Liangcheng can only use cavalry to defeat the Song army formation, and then the main infantry will charge forward.

However, the defense of the left and right wings of the Song army was also very rogue.

The heavy infantry is at the front, armed with spears, and the crossbow and sub-bow are superimposed on the back.

Chapter 823 Being crushed and beaten! (first update)

The Dali Kingdom didn't know that during the confrontation between the Central Plains Dynasty and the Liaodong forces in the past ten years, no matter whether it was the army, armaments, or tactics, they were no longer what they used to be.

After the Dali right-wing cavalry narrowed the distance, they quickly cut towards the left wing of the Song army.

The spearmen of the Song army squatted on the ground, and the strong crossbowmen behind them started shooting, and the arrows rained down.

Although the high mobility of the Dali cavalry reduced the hit rate of the crossbow arrows, some horses were still shot, wailed miserably, and fell to the ground, and the cavalry on them also fell off their horses.

Some shot directly at the cavalry, piercing the leather armor.

The Dali cavalry quickly made a detour, preparing to go around behind the Song army, and found that the same defense was also deployed behind the Song army.

Moreover, as the distance narrowed, the relative power of the Song Army's crossbow arrows became greater.

The sharp arrows even nailed into the horse's belly, shredding the horse's internal organs.

Amidst the wailing of war horses, more and more cavalrymen fell off their horses.

There are about 800 people on the left wing of the Song Army, and they can shoot more than 100 arrows at a time.

Accuracy increases with distance.

From the time when the Dali cavalry entered the range to when the distance between the two sides was only 30 meters, the Song army had already shot four waves, about [-] arrows.

The average hit rate has increased from one-tenth at the beginning to nearly one-half by this time.

About a hundred Dali cavalrymen were killed in this charge.

When the impact reached a distance of 30 meters, the Dali cavalry seemed to have been suppressed for a long time, and they bent their bows and shot arrows one after another.

It can be seen from their skillful movements that they are usually excellent archers.

Immediately, a rain of arrows flew towards Song Jun like a cloud, and landed on Song Jun's iron armor, making the sound of metal impact, and fell powerlessly.

This is an unequal war.

The bows and arrows of Dali soldiers could not cause effective damage to the Song army at all.

However, the crossbow arrows of the Song army harvested the lives of the Dali army like a sickle harvesting wheat.

This picture is hopeless.

Soon, anxiety and anxiety began to spread in the Dali army.

Some cavalry gave up riding and shooting, and rushed towards the Song Army formation angrily.

Where there is the first there is the second, the third, the fourth...

They come in groups.

Indeed, when the long-range weapons of the two sides are not equal, frontal impact is better than continuing to ride and shoot, unless you choose to withdraw your troops.

The Dali cavalry did not withdraw their troops. They quickly followed the front and planned to assault the Song army's formation head-on with their numerical advantage.

The distance was getting closer and closer, and it was only ten meters in a blink of an eye.

The Song Army's crossbowman stopped shooting, and the pikemen in front immediately stood up, bowed slightly, and put their focus on the front.

Those dense and sharp gun tips flowed a dazzling cold light in the sunshine after the rain.

When the horses came overwhelmingly, the momentum began to drop sharply.

A creature like a war horse is different from a tank in that it is also a carbon-based creature.

It is also emotional.

It is the same as human beings, when it sees bright and sharp things, it will have instinctive fear.

Some people can overcome this fear through intensive training, but war horses are very difficult.

Unless the cavalry forces them to charge forward.

For example, the kidnapper horse failed to harass and harass the Song army many times, and the battle situation forced him to charge hard.

That kind of hard charge is that the cavalry uses special means to force the horse to charge.

As for how to do it, the principle is not difficult. Fear is an emotion. Use another emotion to overcome fear.

For example, constantly beating the horse, so that painful emotions can overcome fear.

After the cavalry of the Dali Kingdom approached the Song Army's formation, many horses fell under the impact.

Some war horses were forced to charge forward, and finally hit the spears of the Song army. The horse's belly was pierced, and blood gushed out like a gush.

The horses further back seemed to hear the wailing of the horses in front, and they also wailed.

Cavalrymen fell down from above one by one, screaming in pain, and the scene was in chaos.

Some war horses began to weave and avoid uncontrollably.

Obviously, the attack of the cavalry on the flank of the Song army was a failure.

Not only is there no way to harass, but the hard charge is also a mess.

The cavalry on the left wing of Dali was not much better.

In this way, the Dali right-wing cavalry lost nearly [-], and the battle loss rate reached a quarter, and the morale of the entire cavalry was close to collapse.

The left cavalry also lost nearly [-].

This result was sent back to Gao Quancheng, and Gao Quancheng realized the seriousness of the problem.

This Song army is completely different from the 37 troops he fought in eastern Yunnan.

Whether it is a frontal attack or a side attack, the opponent's defense ability is as solid as gold.

He did not hesitate to let all the cavalry on the two wings withdraw.

The first battle was unfavorable, and the high-volume success was not reckless.

The Dali army began to withdraw.

On the open space in front of the Song army, there were dead war horses and dead Dali people, and the ground was stained red with blood.

The scouts observed several times in front, and after confirming the result, they reported the news of Dali's withdrawal to Wu Lin.

Wu Lin can actually see it standing on the top of the city.

"Wu Shuai, the people of Dali have withdrawn their troops." Yan Pei ran over.

"I saw."

Yan Pei said: "Will the Dali people be beaten away by us? If they run away, we will be in trouble if we cannot effectively defeat their main force."

What he meant was that once the Dali people did not fight head-on, but fought a protracted war, the situation facing the Song army would be very painful.

Wu Lin said: "It's impossible for them to give up so easily. We occupy an important food road from the capital to the front line. If they dare to withdraw, I can guarantee that they will never get food from the capital in the future."

"Wu Shuai, we captured two hundred war horses." Yan Pei said, "There were originally more, but unfortunately the other war horses were either seriously injured or died."

"Bring back the dead war horses, let us know, and after we win the battle today, cook the horse meat and eat it!"

"What now?"

Wu Lin looked over, looked at the Dali cavalry who were returning to the team, and said: "The Dali army has just suffered a setback, and the morale of the army must have been affected to a certain extent. The commander gave you a striker of 2000 men. How about you go to play the striker?"

"Okay!" Yan Pei immediately cheered up, "It's been a long time since I played forward, and my hammer is already hungry!"

"You go to the middle army of the Dali Army. The commander-in-chief led people to bypass the side to block the back of the Dali Army." Wu Lin pointed to the woods on the left, which meant that he went around from there, "Our goal is Destroy the main force of Dali."

Just do it.

Yan Pei ran to put on his armor.

As a senior general, his armor weighed more than sixty kilograms, and he was also wearing crossbow arrows, hammers and knives.

For generals who have been on the battlefield all year round, these configurations are quite normal.

"Boys, after killing tonight, come back to eat horse meat and drink good wine!" Yan Pei ran to the front of the army and shouted loudly.

Immediately the crowd became excited.

For them, having meat to eat is indeed something to be happy about.

Chapter 824 Dali Kingdom’s Miscalculation (Second Change)