Ma Hongxing issued an order to charge against the Ming army's surprise attack troops, and his cavalry roared out.

They rushed straight towards the Song army they encountered, avoided the formations under the Song army, scattered, and used the advantages of the cavalry to surround the Song army's formations so that they could not escape.

Realizing that he was surrounded, Liu Si was shocked.

He did not expect that this Ming army would be so resolute, and the number of cavalry was so large and the action was so fast that he could quickly complete the encirclement of his troops and cut off his retreat.

broken!

Liu Si's heart was beating wildly.

This area is flat and is a prosperous agricultural area. After the Yellow River floods, it gradually becomes deserted and a lot of weeds grow. However, these weeds are obviously not enough to become a support for infantry to fight against cavalry, but instead become an excellent place for cavalry to surround infantry.

The Ming army had many cavalrymen, one man and two horses, and were extremely mobile. They formed a circle from afar to surround the Song army formation. The besieged Song army was immediately in a dilemma and seemed to have no way out.

However, Liu Si is not a coward, he also has his own military capabilities.

Using foot to control cavalry is a compulsory course for every Song army general. No matter whether the lesson is well or not or how many credits can be obtained, they must learn it, and the relevant knowledge must be mastered. Whether the experience they have obtained with their blood and tears, they must at least know whether they can use it.

For example, when facing cavalry, the infantry must not lose its military formation. This is the premise of using infantry to control cavalry.

So Liu Si quickly formed a formation in the army and quickly organized the crossbowman to shoot and block the enemy, trying to use the range advantage of the infantry bow to the cavalry to resist the sprint of the Ming cavalry, set a safe distance, and then slowly drove the Song army formation to move backwards and gradually retreated to an area suitable for infantry combat, so as to achieve the goal of getting the Song army out of predicament.

To achieve this goal, it is necessary to train infantry proficiently and command the generals. Liu Si has both of these points, so he has a certain degree of confidence to lead the army out of trouble and leave here.

However, the Ming army was very skillful in siege tactics. The large army was hanging from afar, dispatching small groups of cavalry to pretend to attack, but avoiding the Song army formation in time, not playing head-on, and using cavalry to shoot the Song army in the formation with hand crossbows.

After one morning of siege, the Ming cavalry suffered a slight loss, while the Song army also suffered a slight loss, and the overall situation remained unchanged.

It is worth noting that Ma Hongxing personally led his troops to the retreat of the Song army. Once the Song army tried to slowly retreat to achieve strategic hope of breaking through the constraints, Ma Hongxing led the cavalry to launch an attack, repeatedly attacking the Song army formation, which was to prevent him from succeeding.

Liu Si organized many withdrawal operations of the Song army formation, but was always blocked by the charge of the Ming cavalry. He failed to retreat many times. The target of the transfer position was lost. Not only did he fail to escape, but he also greatly consumed the physical strength and morale of the Song army.

Liu Shi was anxious and watched the Song army try to retreat but fail, and watched the infantry's physical strength be consumed greatly, but there was no way.

The Ming army had a large number of cavalry, and one person had two horses. One horse was tired and another changed to another. One group of people had tired and replaced another group of people. They took turns to rest and impact, and always maintained an oppressive state, which saved the physical strength of the war horses.

However, the strength and efficiency of this oppressive situation made the Song army soldiers have to remain highly nervous and not slackened, and it is even more difficult to relax, rest, and eat. They must maintain formation, maintain combat and shooting to ensure the safety of the army.

This consumes a lot of physical strength for soldiers.

Liu Si originally planned to attack, but the amount of food and water brought by the army was not large, so even if the battle could be maintained, the soldiers would not last long.

No matter how he thought about tactics and implemented tactics, Liu Si was unable to command the Song army to successfully escape.

After all, he was not Yue Fei who could lead the army to beat Tiefutu, his ability was always limited.

So the balance of victory gradually tilted.

The military formation is indeed like a big hedgehog, but when the Song army infantry, as prey, is exhausted, it is when the Ming cavalry, as hunters, start hunting.

At about two or three o'clock in the afternoon, the Song army soldiers finally couldn't hold on, their physical strength and mental breakdown, and the southeast corner was repeatedly tentatively charged by the Ming cavalry.

A Ming cavalry was overjoyed and immediately rushed into the Song army's formation and rushed around. The Song army was killed and the flesh and blood flew everywhere, causing a bloody storm.

The time has come!

Ma Hongxing discovered this gratifying situation and immediately ordered more cavalry to rush in and do his best to tear down the Song army's formation.

Using this as a fulcrum, the Ming army's iron cavalry successfully tore open the Song army's formation, and more and more Ming cavalrymen entered the Song army's formation. The seemingly unbreakable iron wall of the Song army collapsed instantly, and the morale of the soldiers who lost the army also collapsed.

The Song Bing, who had lost his military formation, faced the Ming cavalry as fragile and powerless as a newborn lamb, could not resist at all, nor could he successfully counterattack.

So the tragic massacre began.

The soldiers of the Song army dispersed and rushed to flee. No matter how Liu Si beat the drum or tried to gather the defeated soldiers, it would be useless. The morale collapse caused by the collapse of the military formation was irreversible.

A large number of Song soldiers were killed by Ming cavalry on the spot, and blood was flowing all over the ground. More Song soldiers howled loudly and rushed to flee, regardless of the call and order of the commander.

Once the feudal army collapses, it will be basically irreversible. No matter how strict the military order is, at this time, escape is the only way to survive.

Liu Si realized that defeat was inevitable. Although he was very sad and angry, he was powerless. He could only lead more than a hundred personal guards around him to escape on horseback and prepare to leave here. Xu Tu raised his back.

But now, it is not easy to escape.

The Song army formation had long been surrounded, especially on their retreat, the Ming cavalry was waiting early. It was probably a fantasy to leave here without any damage.

Liu Si also discovered that when he was preparing to leave with his personal guards, he was strongly blocked by the Ming army and the attacks of the defeated soldiers who did not distinguish between the enemy and us. As a last resort, Liu Si and his personal guards could only fight with their own people while fighting with the Ming army.

The Ming army cavalry was brave, skilled in tactics, well-trained, and was not ruthless in charge to kill the enemy in battle formations, and was very ruthless in attacking.

Although Liu Si's personal soldiers were also elite, they were limited after all. After a charge, they failed to advance much. The personal guards were already lost more than half, and the situation was critical.

Liu Si led the cavalry of the personal guards to rush left and right and could not escape the encirclement of the Ming cavalry. Seeing that the personal guards around him were completely lost, Liu Si was in grief and was about to launch another charge, several Ming cavalrymen raised their crossbows to shoot arrows at him.

He was stunned and an arrow penetrated his eyes like a devil and penetrated his head.

Liu Si's body shook, then fell off his horse and died.

Just died on the battlefield.

Seeing the commander's death in battle, his personal soldiers were extremely sad and angry, and shouted and launched a death charge towards the Ming army. Of course, they all died in battle and none survived.

After only two incense sticks, the Song army was completely defeated at sunset. The Song army, who had been trying to escape, gave up the escape, threw down his weapons and fell to the ground, surrendering to the Ming army.

In this service, the Ming army wiped out the Song army, which was the surprise attacking force.

In terms of the results of the battle, the Ming cavalry formed a formation to kill more than 900 Song soldiers, and all the rest were captured. The chief general Liu Si was killed in battle, and most of the officers followed him were killed in battle. The number of lucky survivors was limited.

Through a quick interrogation of the captured Song officers, Ma Hongxing learned that the purpose of this Song army was to attack the rear of the Ming army, cut off the Ming army's food supply route, and try to further trap the Ming army in Huainan. Then the entire Song army encircled and tried to wipe out the Ming army.

I have to say that they are very brave, have great ideas, and have correct tactics. If they really destroy the Ming army's food route, destroy the logistics base in Huainan and the floating bridge on the Huaihe River, it would indeed be a huge blow to the Ming army on the front line.

However, it was a very coincidental that the Ming army planned to cut off the Song army's retreat, and the Song army also planned to come to the Ming army's retreat. When everyone met, they had to compare who was more strong.

Obviously, the Ming army's head was even iron, which made the Song army's head bloody.

So after learning the specific news, Ma Hongxing sent someone to repay Zhou Zhi, and decided to immediately lead troops to continue to detour, and surrounded the retreat of the Song army to aid the Song army, preparing to compress the two Song troops together and eat them in one bite.
Chapter completed!