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In the age of cold weapons, cavalry had a natural advantage over infantry.

This advantage is mainly reflected in mobility and impact.

To put it simply, infantry can't catch up if they win or lose, and can't escape if they lose. When cavalry attacks infantry, they can use the total weight of people and horses to form a greater impact on the infantry phalanx on the front.

Some large horses can weigh even one ton and two, and they move at a fast speed, so the impact is extremely terrible.

More importantly, mobility can reverse the number comparison between armies to a certain extent.

In other words, a party with good mobility can concentrate its superior forces to attack a certain area of ​​the opponent, forming a local force advantage.

Although overall, the defense may have more troops, the defense needs to defend many places. In one area, the offensive party can form a numerical advantage and eliminate the local defenders before the reinforcements from the defensive party arrive.

This is the role of mobility.

An army with good mobility can quickly transfer its own army and always form a force advantage on the local battlefield, thereby gradually annihilating the party that lacks mobility.

Therefore, nomadic peoples always have innate military advantages for farming peoples.

It is precisely because of this that the Great Wall has been found.

So how should the farming nations deal with it?

One way is to use the terrain, that is, to use mountains to block the cavalry's running and attack condescendingly. This is the way the Great Wall defends.

Another way is to use cavalry against cavalry and form a powerful cavalry legion to fight against nomadic peoples. The Han Dynasty followed the strategy against the Huns and the Tang Dynasty against the Turks.

Now, Yue Fei wants to use infantry to fight the cavalry, but he is still on a plain without any dangerous terrain.

It can be said that before the battle was fought, Yelu Buddha Ding was invincible.

Plus the hatred for the Song people.

These Liao people, who had been extremely frustrated against the Jin people before, rushed up with a shout!

Although it was the first battle in his life, Yue Fei showed a calmness that was different from ordinary people, which made Shi Wengong not only nodded secretly: "No wonder the Grand Governor promoted him like this."

When the Liao army reached 300 steps, Yue Fei ordered: "Bed crossbow attack!"

Seeing the flag whispers made by the flag commander, Niu Gao ordered: "Bed crossbow, release it!"

In an instant, five hundred crossbows pulled the trigger together!

The Liangshan Army's bed crossbows are all three-bow bed crossbows, also known as "Eight Ox Crossbows". The arrows are made of hard wood as arrow shafts and iron sheets as feathers. They are known as "one gun and three sword arrows" in the world. When they are fired, the arrows are like javelins. They can be directly nailed into the city wall at close range. When they are fired, rows of pedal arrows are firmly nailed into the city wall. Siege soldiers can climb up, shoot people and horses, even wearing the best heavy armor, they will surely die, and they can even nail the people and horses to the ground.

Moreover, these crossbows are all one crossbow and four arrows.

In other words, more than two thousand javelin-like iron spears were shot out at once.

"Swish swish swish swish swish swish swish..."

Six or seven hundred Liao army soldiers were dismissed!

Yelu Foding, who was the first to bear the brunt of his strength, managed to save his life by chance, but he was so scared that his spine became cold!

After fighting with the Song army for so many years, how could Yelu Foding not recognize the Song army's sharp weapon bed crossbow?

But Yelu Foding never expected that this Song army would have so many crossbows, which is too rich. You know, a crossbow requires more than a dozen good cow tendons, and it also requires skilled craftsmen to make it. Therefore, if an army can have 180 crossbows, it is already very rich, and there are 500 crossbows in Yue Fei's army!

In fact, this is also one of Li Yan's confidence.

Over the years, Li Yan has taken advantage of the situation and worked hard to manage it, and has accumulated a wealth of wealth. Otherwise, he might not have dared to go north.

After the crossbows, the crossbow soldiers and civilians did not try the second round of shooting, because the cavalry would not give them this time. The well-trained they directly used the crossbows as a horse-rejecting stake to block the gap they made to prevent the enemy from rushing in through the gap. Although this is a bit extravagant, the commander taught that the commander conveyed the original words of the commander: "Don't worry about weapons and supplies, victory is the first priority."

When the Liao army reached the range of the bow and arrow, the Liao army soldiers immediately fought back with the bow and arrow, but most of the Liao army's bow and arrow were blocked by Liangshan's shield soldiers and wooden mantle. This is the benefit of arraying.

Of course, although the Liangshan Army was well-trained and Yue Fei's formation was placed tightly, there were still two or three hundred unlucky Liangshan soldiers killed and injured under the rain of arrows.

Soon, the Liao army rushed to the range of the unconscience-free cannon.

Yue Fei's order was also answered in time.

Seeing this, Niu Gao ordered: "Fire!"

"Swish swish swish swish swish swish swish..."

"Boom boom boom boom boom boom..."

The Liao army was bombed and overturned!

In fact, if you let the Guaizima Youjian fight at this time, you will probably win.

But Yue Fei did not give this order to achieve greater results.

Even if the horse army is defeated, it will be difficult for the infantry to cause large-scale damage to the horse army, especially on this plain, and then the chief general can hold it back and fight again.

Therefore, Yue Fei wanted to let this horse army come over and then wipe out this large number of horse army.

On the other side, the Liao army soldiers such as Yelu Foding were blinded by the unconscience-free cannon!

Although the conscience-free cannon did not actually kill too many Liao army soldiers, and they did not have as much casualties as the previous bed crossbow. However, the conscience-free cannon was too scary, which made the Liao army soldiers a little relieved, "This Song army is so damn evil, otherwise let's retreat!"

However, thinking that his killer move had not been used yet, and he could run away if he couldn't win, Yelu Fo gritted his teeth and said, "Roar in! As long as you rush in, we can win!"

When Yue Fei's front army was less than ten feet away, thousands of crossbow arrows and god arm crossbows were shot out overwhelmingly!

Another large number of Liao soldiers fell down, and even Yelu Buddha was shot in the top!

If it weren't for the distance between this group of Song troops at this time, if there was not a surprise soldier as a trump card, if it weren't for the Song people who took advantage of others' danger, the Liao army might have been defeated.

At this time, Yelu Buddha pulled out the crossbow arrow on his body, and the pain aroused his wildness. He raised the big knife in his hand and said, "Cald with me, kill the despicable Song people!"

Wang Gui, wearing heavy armor, held a seven-foot long sabre, shouted at the top of his throat: "There is no enemy, but I am invincible! The shield soldiers are erected, and the heavy armor infantry are erecting their swords, ready to fight!"

This is the most tragic scene!

A single shield soldier was hit by a cavalry running at high speed, and all of them were knocked away. Few people were immortal after being hit, not to mention that the cavalry also had long spears and sabers on their hands. It can be said that as long as they were hit by a cavalry, few shield soldiers could escape their lives.

Just in response to Wang Gui's words, there is no enemy, no one, and no one can defeat me.

Fortunately!

Yue Fei set up some horse-resisting stakes, bed crossbows, and conscience-free cannons, which could block the Liao army and make the shield soldiers less casualties.

But it's just a block, a little less.

Yue Fei's army, who only brought 10,000 reserves, could not carry too many horse-rejected stakes. Even if the bed crossbows and conscience-free cannons were combined, there were only one thousand.

Furthermore, the horse army has strong mobility and can completely bypass or skip horse-rejecting piles, bed crossbows, and conscientious cannons.

So, in the end, the shield soldiers had to use their lives to slow down the horse army...
Chapter completed!