No one wants to die if he can live, so although Yuxi Timur is determined to die, it is difficult to achieve it.x23 He organized an attack again after dawn, and still tried to defeat the frontal enemy and open the way to the south. Other generals believed that there were heavy troops in front of him and large rivers to block it. Even if he could defeat the frontal enemy, his side also suffered heavy losses and was unable to continue to move south. Now, he should take advantage of the unstable defense line that the enemy had just established in the rear, and break through to the north and back to the south in time. Although he 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 conquered 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 struggle, 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 thousand-house chief of Yuxi Timuer's right-handed Wanhu Wanhu. 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 created by Wu, a famous general in Sichuan and Shaanxi, and was the most famous for tactics 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, arrange the long spear and crossbow of the horse, and rely on fortifications to exert the power of different armies and troops under the premise of effectively protecting oneself, and to kill the enemy with the greatest effect. The formation is mainly infantry, and the cavalry is in the 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 horse guard. Therefore, the use of horse guard 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 mobility as that of cavalry, and the more mobile and flexible the tactics, 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 stop the movement. Wu Yong resisted the horse and locked the formation completely restricted the soldiers' movements. The soldiers knew that they had no choice but to retreat, so they could only fight to kill the enemy and persevered 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 refusal formation to stabilize the morale of the army, the Wu system 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, this disadvantage is also very obvious. Refusal to restrict the enemy's mobility, but Wu's refusal to lock the formation means that the soldiers in the formation have also lost their ability to move and are 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.
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