coobybook Chapter 1381 Breaking the Formation with Backwards
Chapter 1381 Breaking the Formation with Backwards
Eight thousand cavalrymen from the Pucha tribe, led by Puchasi, are galloping south across the grasslands!
Each of them was equipped with a saber, a powerful bow, and leather armor, clearly indicating they were skilled fighters!
"General, should we set the place on fire during this surprise attack?"
A Mouke asked Puchas.
"Why set fire? It's daytime. If we find the enemy camp, we can just charge in!"
Puchasi did not consider setting fire to the place. In his opinion, the reason why those people were able to set fire to the place last time was because it was dark. If it had been even a little brighter, their fire attack would not have succeeded!
Well, although this idea is rather rough, the underlying principle is indeed correct. Yue Fei's fire attack last time really couldn't be carried out during the day.
"So, are we just going to plunder, or...?"
"Rob them! Just like they robbed us last time, we'll rob them back the same way!"
Although Puchasi's name contains the character for "thought," he himself never considered this idea; he just did whatever was most brutal!
"I've seen the Yi Kingdom's cavalry before, they're not much to look at. With so many of us, as long as we run, they can't catch up!"
"Yes!"
With the chief saying so, what could the subordinates say? In addition, the Pucha tribe really needed a great victory to restore the tribe's prestige, so Puchas's order was quickly passed down, and all the soldiers roared with excitement!
"Rob them!"
"Kill them all!"
Hearing the shouts of the soldiers behind him, Puchas felt much more confident. Good, if he kept this momentum, he would definitely be able to avenge the Pucha tribe this time!
Meanwhile, Yue Fei's four thousand cavalry were also charging forward at breakneck speed, employing a strategy of attacking with speed!
"Those who want to make a name for themselves, perk up! The enemy is nothing to be afraid of!"
"That's right, last time we had 300 men and we utterly defeated them! Now we have a full 4,000 men! Shouldn't we just wipe them out?"
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Similarly, the Beiwei Army was constantly boosting morale. Although the previous raid of 300 cavalry against a 10,000-strong camp was indeed miraculous, only about 100 of the 4,000 cavalry had experienced the previous battle, and the others were still somewhat uncertain.
But after Yue Fei’s constant encouragement, these feelings of uncertainty disappeared. Now, all they had in their hearts was the urge to find the enemy as soon as possible and have a fight!
Perhaps it was fate that brought them together. With such a vast grassland and so many roads, they happened to meet each other at opposite ends of a valley-like terrain stretching for several miles after they turned around at the foot of a mountain.
"It's the enemy!"
Both sides' frontline troops made the right judgment immediately!
"Warriors of Pucha! Kill!!"
When Puchasi saw that the number of people on the other side seemed to be less than his own, he immediately became even more excited and commanded the eight thousand cavalry behind him to accelerate forward!
"My comrades! The enemy has delivered themselves to our doorstep! Now is the time to kill them and achieve glory!"
Yue Fei raised his spear high, signaling the charge. The Beiwei Army behind him also picked up their weapons and began to charge at full speed! Their formation, with Yue Fei as the arrowhead, changed into a wedge formation!
These few miles are both long and short, especially when two groups of people are charging head-on, the distance becomes even shorter!
Soon, the distance between the two sides began to enter firing range!
“Shoot!!”
Yue Fei gave the order to fire the arrows first, mainly because the Dayi army was better equipped and their crossbows had a longer range than the Jin army's!
"Whoosh whoosh..."
Hundreds of arrows soared into the air, like a swarm of locusts passing through, carrying the aura of death, and swarmed towards the Jurchens in a fan shape!
"Raise your shield! Dodge!"
Puchasi naturally saw the rain of arrows flying towards his army, but he was not flustered at all. In his mind, his horsemanship and archery skills were unmatched!
Not only did he think so, but all the Jin soldiers seemed to think so as well. So even though the orders to raise shields and the flag signals were given, more Jin soldiers chose to show off their horsemanship at this moment!
Hiding in the stirrups, crossing the iron bridge, or performing a large loop on horseback... In short, the Jin army's front formation suddenly dispersed at this moment, giving many Jin soldiers room to perform their tricks!
Of course, they did check the arrows from Dayi first. Dayi's arrows were more penetrating and faster, so although many people did manage to dodge them, some were hit by arrows and fell from their horses while trying to perform tricks!
If you fall off your horse in such a stampede of horses, there's only one outcome: you'll be trampled into the mud!
"Idiot! I told you to raise your shields! Raise your shields!"
Puchas naturally saw the fallen soldiers behind him, and he was furious. What were his men doing? Underestimating the enemy? Now look what happened, they're all dead!
After this incident, the soldiers of the Pucha tribe naturally dared not underestimate their enemy anymore. They all took out their shields and put them on their heads. Of course, this had an effect, but the arrows of the Dayi army were too powerful. Some of them hit the bullseye and could directly penetrate the shields!
"Fight back! Fight back!"
Puchasi also realized that the enemy's arrows had a longer range, so he had no choice but to urge his soldiers forward. Once they were within range of the Jin army's arrows, he quickly signaled his men to counterattack!
The Jin soldiers also used bows and arrows, and the two waves of arrows collided fiercely in mid-air!
"Heads down! Charge!"
The Beiwei cavalry mostly used long spears. It wasn't that they didn't have shields, but because their armor was quite sturdy, they sometimes didn't need shields at all and could just take the hits head-on!
Unless you're extremely unlucky and get hit in a vital spot, or get hit by multiple arrows, it's not a big problem!
"Beneficial! On horseback, this is the realm of our Great Jin!"
Puchasi raised his saber high and charged at Yue Fei. Compared to the Dayi army's wedge formation, Puchasi chose to spread out his troops' formation as wide as possible to the valley floor. It seemed that there were also two flanks.
"How dare he play like this on this kind of terrain? Does he even have a brain?"
Yue Fei didn't understand. This formation wasn't a vast plain. Although the two sides weren't cliffs, they were still small hills. What were these left and right flanks?
Oh... no, there are more people on the other side...
Before, it wasn't very clear, but as the distance drew closer, judging from the sheer number of the golden figures, they were more numerous than themselves.
No wonder they dared to use both flanks!
"Big brother! Shall we change tactics?"
Yang Zaixing and Niu Gao came up, and he asked Yue Fei whether to change formation.
"Is it okay here?"
"Although the terrain isn't the most suitable, it's fine!"
"Alright! Raise the flag, change formation to the wedge! Trident!"
Just before the two armies were about to clash, the Beiwei Army changed its formation, with Yue Fei, Yang Zaixing, and Niu Gao as the spearheads. They changed from a wedge formation to the so-called trident formation!
If viewed from above at this moment, the Jurchen formation looked like a cloth wrapped around the left and right sides, while the Beiwei Army was like a fork! Piercing fiercely into the center of this cloth!
"clang!!"
“Bang bang bang!!!”
The purest clash between steel and flesh—in just one encounter, many fell from grace!
However! The trident of the Dayi army, because the three men at the tip of the trident were particularly fierce, managed to lead the cavalry behind them deep into the heart of the Jin army's territory!
"To kill the enemy and achieve glory! Today is the day!"
"Beiwei Army! Follow me and break through their formation!!"