Liu Ran and others, who were watching from a high place in the walled city, gasped almost simultaneously.
The originally frightening black wave turned into a chaotic ant colony in an instant. Some of them subconsciously ran to the right, some scattered to the left, and some stopped their horses, shouting and trying to control the chaotic manpower again.
They gathered together. There were still a few who were skilled in martial arts and brave. While running, they used their cavalry bows to shoot at the archers of Ding Haijun. Then they were quickly shot into hedgehogs, both men and horses.
To an outsider, this situation would only seem like the Black Army's name does not live up to its name. They used cavalry against infantry and were in such a mess.
But Liu Ran and others are veterans, who doesn’t understand the key?
An officer trembled: "Twenty steps!"
In order to pursue the lethality of bows and crossbows, the Dinghai navy deployed swordsmen, shieldmen and spearmen on the periphery. The number was not huge. There were only one horizontal row of swordsmen and spearmen in several directions, and the spearmen and spearmen could not move forward or backward.
Stacked.
When the two sides were closest, the black cavalry rushed to a place twenty steps away from the Dinghai navy formation. This distance only needed two or three times of horse hooves to tramp on the ground. If the black cavalry charged hard, they would have a good chance of breaking through this distance.
A slightly weak defense line will definitely cause huge casualties to a given navy.
On the battlefield, every feint attack by the cavalry is a test of the fighting spirit of the defenders. When the cavalry approaches this level, the competition is to see who can persevere unwaveringly.
At that time, the Mongolian light cavalry disrupted the Jin army's formation by repeatedly running, feinting and intersecting. Sometimes the light cavalry would feign charging several times, and the defenders would collapse without a fight. This situation occurred many times, and many soldiers concluded
This makes sense. This does not mean that the Mongols are much more brave than the Jin army. The key is that in such a competition, the attacking side has a natural advantage.
As long as half of the large cavalry on the attacking side charges bravely, they will be trapped in the formation. Those who waver can only ride at a slower speed and cannot affect the overall situation. In the defender's military formation, as long as there are
If one or two people retreat timidly, it is likely to cause a chain reaction, causing the entire army to flee and suffer a disastrous defeat.
As the number of feints accumulates, the defender's timidity and wavering will also accumulate. It is like using a dike to block the rising flood. There will always be holes in the dike, and the holes will always be washed away by the flood.
In this way, failure is inevitable. After a failure, the seeds of failure are sown in the hearts of all soldiers. Those who fled last time will continue to flee next time; those who persisted last time, because they saw
If your companions flee, they will flee next time.
Fear, wavering, frustration, pessimism, all kinds of emotions are like viruses, spreading wantonly with failure, eventually eroding the body of the entire army and destroying everyone's confidence.
At that time, the tens of thousands of troops on the Dajin Northeast Road and the Linhuangfu Road were defeated again and again, and finally fell apart and lost their divisions and territory.
However, the Dinghai navy that appeared outside Zhigu Stronghold was completely different from an ordinary army.
Just now, the charge of the black cavalry was very fierce. They were pressed to a distance of twenty steps from Ding Haijun. However, among the three horizontal formations of Ding Haijun, among a thousand people, there was no one who was timid or wavering.
From beginning to end, the military formation was just like a rock or a cliff, not messy at all.
Even the frequency of movement of all of them did not change as the enemy approached.
Liu Ran himself was an extremely good archer with excellent eyesight. So he saw in the horizontal formation at the rear, a soldier who put down his spear and switched to using a rifle to shoot a bow. Every time he drew out an arrow, he would raise the arrow cluster and shoot at it.
Wipe your chest armor and then shoot out.
He was like this for the first three shots. But when the black cavalry rushed closer, as if the huge wave was about to wash away and engulf everyone, he was still like this. He first drew out the arrow, then wiped the arrow cluster, and then joined his companions
Let's draw the bow together and shoot.
In the eyes of experts like Liu Ran, his archery skills have not yet been perfected, and the bow he uses is weak. But the scary thing is that everyone in the Ding Navy is so uniform in their movements and emotions.
It's just like……
Liu Ran didn't know how to describe it for a moment.
In his impression, such an army must be accompanied by strict military law. To be able to behave like this, it must be that the law enforcement team has cut off several heads to intimidate. But this is obviously not the case with the Ding Navy.
Of course, Liu Ran would not think that Ding Haijun was not bound by military law. This only shows that the pressure from the black cavalry on Ding Haijun was too weak. Such a battle was just a small scene. Ding Haijun easily gained the upper hand, so much so that their generals were unable to do so.
It is necessary to bring out military law!
He looked at his companions around him. Many of the defeated soldiers swallowed, and then subconsciously held the weapons in their hands with both hands, or tugged at their robes. Their faces showed dull expressions.
The more they usually rely on their outstanding skills, the more sluggish they become. Because what they see is not a group of warriors with outstanding martial arts, but a real army, an army with a unified will and a steel-like whole.
!
"It's really different."
Zhang Pingliang murmured to the side: "Brother Ran, you are right, they are different from us. They can't fight this kind of war just by relying on more people and fewer people to take advantage!"
While everyone watching the battle was shocked, Brother Yang Jie, who was riding behind and planning to wait for an opportunity to expand the victory, had a solemn expression on his face.
He himself was a member of the army of Dajin. During his attack on Zhongdu, he fought against the Jurchens several times. He knew that they were too powerful to do anything but their appearance. Only a small number of elite troops could fight a decent battle with the bravery of their generals.
Achievements.
But at this moment, he felt that he was hit by a big mouth, and his face was swollen.
At this moment, the more than a hundred corpses and seriously injured people left in front of the battle, as well as the moment when both the enemy and ourselves were shaken, clearly told Brother Yang Jiezhi that the success of the navy did not rely on the bravery of ordinary men, and they were definitely not members of the Jin Army.
A brave army, but a brand new, real army!
"You can't fight hard! There's no need to fight hard!"
Brother Yang Jiezhi immediately made a decision. He shouted to Ni Cong: "Let the cavalry go north and go around the Lugou River to the enemy's rear! I am here... to watch them!"
After receiving the order, he rode away.
Only a few of his close associates noticed that Brother Yang Jie had originally wanted to say "haunt them," but before he left his mouth, he abruptly changed his words.
Why is this? Because experienced generals judge the strength of the weak, there is no need to fight for a long time. With just one touch, Brother Yang Jie knows how elite this thousand-man army is. If they want to advance, they will advance, and if they want to retreat, they will retreat. Don’t even think about entangling them with the force that the army is deploying right now!
To defend this group of infantry, they relied on the strong and high-altitude Zhigu Village; to attack, more than a thousand people could advance and retreat freely, but even our own elite cavalry could not suppress their momentum.
In this case, what's the point of the cavalry's detour?
If the people leading the troops here were ordinary generals, they might think of ways to fight again. But for now, Brother Yang Jiezhi has enough battlefield experience; secondly, every one of the soldiers under his command is the result of his own painstaking efforts. The wealth accumulated and the meaningless battle should not be continued. Brother Yang Jie did not hesitate about this.
Sure enough, not far after the concubine ran out, he was called back by the general: "Go to the rear formation and tell Shi Tianying the situation here."
Xi Cong did not dare to neglect, so he rushed to the mouth of the Sancha River to the west of Zhigu Village and reported to Shi Tian.
Shi Tianying pondered for a moment, and then asked the other two sentry riders: "Is this really so? How can the Ding Navy do this?"
"This is indeed the case."
Shi Tianying remained silent for a long time.
A general nearby was still confident: "We have 20,000 people. If we press on them, we will crush them all to death!"
Shi Tianying ignored it, but said: "It is still beneficial to come and see it. Everyone, give the order to withdraw the troops."
"What? Withdraw the troops? This..." Some of the generals were surprised, and some were angry.
"Go and call Lao Yang." Shi Tianying pointed to Brother Yang Jiezhi's subordinates, and then said to the two sentries under his command: "After General Yang comes, you two will follow, and we will Go and see the Great Khan."