No one wants to die if he can live, so although Yuxi Timur had the determination to defeat the enemy in the back, it was difficult to achieve it. He organized an attack again after dawn, and still tried to defeat the enemy in the front and open the way to the south. Other generals believed that there were heavy troops in front and large rivers to block it. Even if they could defeat the enemy in the front, their side also suffered heavy losses and were unable to continue to move south. Now, we should take advantage of the unstable defense line in the rear to break through and return to the north and south in a timely manner. Although we returned in vain, it would be better than leaving all the troops in Jiangdong.

Faced with the objections of the generals, Yuxi Timuer still insisted on his opinion. He thought that all the troops in the Southern Dynasty in Jiangdong had been concentrated in person. As long as the enemy could be defeated, the front was unobstructed and went straight to the south of the Yangtze River. In fact, since the southward transition, their actions were passive and frequently frustrated. His arguments were no longer convincing to the generals. He could only use his authority again, suppress the generals, and personally went forward to supervise the battle, and then conquer the Song army again.

However, in today's battle, it was difficult to see the glory of yesterday. Not only was the camp built by the Song army strengthened, but he found that the Song army formation was arranged in response to the strong impact of its own cavalry, and what he defended was the linear impact force of the cavalry. The defense line was arranged in front and in depth, and each line of defense was divided into several arrays, using guns and cannons to consume their living power layer by layer until it was invisible.

What made Yuxi Timuer even more depressed was that whenever the cavalry launched an attack, the cavalry arranged on the left and right wings of the Song army would detour to their side, and then the infantry followed immediately established a new line of defense, constantly squeezing their activity space. And when the frontal attack weakened slightly, the retreating Song army returned and regained the lost defense line. In this repeated battle, one day's bloody battle not only failed to break through the frontal line of the Song army, but its own activity space was squeezed.

The heavy casualties and successive failures made the generals even more resentful, and the shortage of food and grass and the inability to advance and retreat also made morale greatly. Yuxi Timur knew that if he could still not break the deadlock, his authority would be gradually weakened and he would be unable to control the army. And just as he was thinking about the strategy of defeating the enemy, Wanyan, a thousand-household chief under him, asked for a plan.

Wanyan Qi was a Jurchen person, and his ancestors were once glorious. He was born in the imperial family of the Jin Dynasty. Later, he was defeated and surrendered in the Battle of Mongolia and Jin, and was assigned to the subordinates of the Wanhu Boer Shu of Yuxi Timuer. Later, he fought everywhere and became a Qianhu chief of Yuxi Timuer's right-handed Wanhu, who was directly under the Wanhu of Yuxi Timuer. He was born in the generals and naturally heard his predecessors talk about ancient times and talked about his proud works, one of which was to break the "folding formation" of the Song army.

The overlapping formation was the experience summarized from practice by the Song Dynasty after the Song Dynasty crossed south, facing the powerful attack of the Jin cavalry group, which was mainly infantry, and gradually explored many new tactics of "using infantry to control cavalry". Among them, the overlapping formation was the most famous by Wu Lin, a famous general in Sichuan and Shaanxi, and was specially designed to restrain the Jin cavalry in the plains and wilderness.

The essence of the stacked formation is to determine the order of each army in the queue based on the distance of the attack of the weapons. It arranges horses, spears, and crossbows in a staging arrangement, and relies on fortifications to exert the power of different armies and troops under the premise of effectively protecting oneself, and maximize the effectiveness of killing the enemy. The formation is mainly infantry, and the cavalry is in an auxiliary position. When infantry is replaced, it has no combat capability. Not only does the cavalry on the side need to cover the front, but also the horses need to cover the enemy. Therefore, the use of horses plays a decisive role in the entire battle formation.

The horse-receiver is a movable obstacle equipment that is set at key points to prevent and delay the movement of the enemy's horses. Therefore, it is also called a horse-receiver rifle, which is easy to carry and move. Its structure is made of bamboo like wood, three branches and six heads, and the rods are intersected. The heads all have blades, and the ground is planted. The penetration is made of iron as a rope, which is connected to each other. That is, the horse-receiver is placed between the left and right cavalry and the main formation infantry, and the horse-receiver placed in front of the formation, so the entire infantry main formation is basically surrounded by the horse-receiver. It is a fully encircled, or at least mostly surrounded structure, which looks like a camp covering the entire battle formation.

In addition, another function of refusing horses is to prevent the collapse of the formation. Because in combat, the Song army mainly relies on long-range shooting weapons to kill the enemy. Whether the crossbowmen can "main full" during wartime is directly related to the effect of killing the enemy. However, the Song army soldiers are not as persevering as the Jurchens in combat, and their organizational discipline is relatively weak. If the war is slightly unfavorable, the team will easily shake and flee, and the morale of the army is obviously uncertain. If you want to change this situation, in addition to strengthening training and ideological education in daily life, you can only think of ways to arrange the battle formation.

In the field of fighting on the ground, the mobility of infantry is not as good as that of cavalry, and the more mobile and flexible the tactics are, the higher the requirements for the discipline of soldiers' organization. Since this is the case, we simply give up the mobility completely and use static to control the movement. Wu Lin used the horse-resisting lock formation to completely limit the soldiers' actions. The soldiers knew that they had no choice but to retreat, so they could only fight to kill the enemy and persevere until the end. Yu Yunwen also commented that this practice could "make the soldiers unable to collapse", which objectively played the role of "restraining the military order" in ancient military law.

In addition, facing the Jin army, which was good at continuous attacks and long-term combat, in addition to using the more passive countermeasures of the horse-resisting formation to stabilize the morale of the army, Wu Lin also organized the army into several echelons, fought in turn, and rested in turn, so as to wait for work and calmly to control the movement. This is the so-called "controlling perseverance will lead to a more rest and restful battle." However, such a disadvantage is also very obvious. The horse-resisting formation was originally used to limit the enemy's mobility, but Wu Lin's locking formation by resisting the horse-resisting means that the soldiers in the formation also lost their ability to move and it is difficult to carry out effective counterattacks.

Yuxi Timuer was not a fool either. After a moment of thinking, he understood what Wanyan Qi meant when talking about this. He also knew that the general principle of the stacked formation was to place the horse-rejected horses on the outermost layer, and then arrange a spearman, and then cooperate with the crossbowman. In addition to protecting the crossbowman, the spearman also had to protect the horse-rejected horses to prevent the cavalry from breaking through and prevent his soldiers from escaping in the event of failure, causing the entire formation to collapse.

The current combat method of sending the army is officially similar to that of the stacked formation. The arrangement of horses in front of the horses prevents the rapid maneuvers of their cavalry, forcing them to slow down and dismantle the horses in the attack. The Song army was now able to use firearms to kill and injure them. In addition, it can also explain why the Song army still fought to the death after they broke through their defense line, because although there was no horses in the rear, the river played the same role, leaving them unable to retreat.

Yuxi Timuer understood the key, so he naturally knew that Wanyan Qi would not talk to him for no reason, so he asked him for advice on breaking the formation. Wanyan Qi naturally would not give up this opportunity to show his merits, and said that the key to breaking the formation was to "she horse and scholastic battle". In other words, first dismount the horse and scholastic battle, drive away the Song army's cavalry, then break through the Song army's resisting horses and intercepting, and then use a strong bow to expand the results of the battle.

Wanyan Qi heard from his predecessors that the Jin army used this method to break the Song army's overlapping formations, which were repeatedly tried and tested. The specific operation was to select a brave army, called the "hard army", wearing heavy armor in front of the formation, and some cavalry were used to fight with some cavalry to fight. The rest of them dismounted and defeated the enemy soldiers who protected the horses through close contact, and then suppressed the enemy troops in the rear with strong bows and crossbows to expand the results. When the enemy was in chaos and counterattacked, they destroyed the horses, opened the attack path, and then rushed with cavalry to completely defeat the Song army's defense line that had lost the horses' protection.

It is said that "I am in a hurry to seek medical treatment." Yuxi Timuer struggled for several days and was unable to make progress. Their food and grass industry was in a hurry, and some troops had already begun to kill horses to satisfy their hunger. He also knew that if this continued, the morale of the army would definitely be unstable, so he was also eager to break the confrontation. After hearing Wanyan Qi's method of breaking the formation, he felt that it was not unreasonable, so he began to mobilize troops and generals to prepare to launch an attack again.

Because Yuxi Timur had realized the critical situation and was determined to break the deadlock in one battle, he no longer kept it and bet his old capital. He selected 5,000 elite soldiers from his direct right hand Wanhu as the main force of the attack, and ordered Shandong Duwanhu Sesanna to lead the troops of the headquarters as the front army. His troops were reorganized by Daluhuachi who were stationed in Shandong and Hebei. They were quite combat-effective, allowing them to wait for the front army to open the road and follow up and expand the results of the battle.

Although Wanhu Mansion in Huaibei, Henan was not strong in combat, it was the main force of the southern invasion. It suffered a lot of hard battles along the way, with low morale and greatest resentment. Therefore, Yuxi Timuer ordered Hatusun to take charge of the rear army and lead his troops to protect the safety of the two wings. He was in charge of the Central Army and supervised the battle, and the time was set to be at dawn tomorrow. He took advantage of the light of the sky to launch an attack, breaking through the Song army's defense line and forcibly crossing the Songjiang River.

At dawn the next day, the selected "hard army" led by Wanyan Qi suddenly launched an attack on the Song army's positions. After several confrontations, he realized that the enemy's artillery that killed the most was the enemy's artillery. Only by rushing through the artillery blockade line at the fastest speed can he enter the frontier of the enemy, exerting the power of the bow and crossbow to suppress the enemy after the horse, and win the opportunity to fight the enemy in close combat for the infantry army to destroy the horse.

Therefore, the vanguard army hid behind the sand belt before the war. As soon as the attack order was issued, they immediately rushed forward from the hidden place. Taking advantage of the slight light of the sky, the enemy's artillery reaction time was slow, and they rushed through the artillery blockade zone and entered the frontier position of the Song army. The crossbowmen immediately deployed and fired arrows at the fastest speed. The hard soldiers in front destroyed the horse with big axes and opened the attack path.

The Song army also reacted very quickly. When they discovered the enemy, they immediately launched a stop shooting. At first, the sparse gunshots were also dense. The soldiers who destroyed the horses in front kept falling down, but the soldiers behind rushed forward and pushed the horses away, rushing into the fortifications of the Song army...
Chapter completed!