Chapter 166: Border Pass Blocking Battle (3) *

At this time, the Wuding army reached the battlefield, and saw that the headless corpses of the leather room army were all over the ground, and they were all beheaded.

At this time, Yang Wenguang had already lined up the phalanx, and the 3,000 infantry had already set up a horse rejection array in front, and in the rear of the horse rejection formation, according to the terrain from high to low, three defensive walls about two meters wide were built with sand bags; Each wall rises nearly a meter from the outside to the inside, and the spacing of each wall is about four meters; With 800 soldiers stationed on each wall, this layout can effectively form a three-stage firing formation without causing mutual injury to your own soldiers.

Twenty artillery pieces were placed on a hill behind the infantry phalanx, a dense forest on the hill, and six hundred infantry were stationed to guard the artillery positions.

Another 1,000 lancers were deployed on both flanks of the position, as a mobile tour, ready to fight the Liao army.

At this time, Liu Zhengyi was also observing the position deployment of the Song army, although he felt that the position of the Song army was deployed like a hedgehog, but it was relatively conservative, more than enough defense, and insufficient attack.

He ordered a thousand cavalry to dismount and fight, and saw that he had thirty bed crossbows carried out, but this kind of bed crossbow was much smaller than the bed crossbow of the Great Song Dynasty, but it was stolen from the bed crossbow of the Great Song Dynasty, and the structure was the same as the bed crossbow of the Great Song Dynasty.

Let's talk about the bed crossbow of the Great Song Dynasty, the bed crossbow of the Great Song Dynasty is also called the three-bow bed crossbow, its arrows are called one shot and three arrows, the shape is similar to the javelin shaft, the three iron feathers are like three swords, it looks very scary, its aiming and firing must be carried out by a special person, operated by a strong and powerful Hercules, and the launch mechanism is smashed with a giant axe; These people are known as bed crossbowmen.

The Great Song Dynasty's three-bed bow crossbow has seven arrows on its arms, and the middle one fires spear-like giant arrows, and three slightly smaller arrows are placed on the left and right, aiming at the enemy and launching them, and its range can reach 1,500 meters.

According to historical records, in 1004 A.D., in the battle of Liaoyuan in the Liao Song Dynasty, the bed crossbow of the Great Song Dynasty shot the Liao army's chief general Xiao Tzu Rin with an arrow, and the soldiers of the Liao State once had large-scale chaos.

At this time, although the bed crossbow of the Liao State was only two bows and only five arrows, it was also quite powerful, with a range of one and a half miles away, far exceeding the range of the muskets of the new army.

I saw that the thirty bed crossbows began to be fired, and I saw the bed crossbowmen of the Liao army, slightly lifting the crossbow arrows, and then installing the arrows, and then began to swing the axes neatly to hit the launch mechanism, and then heard the "bang" loud sound, and then heard the giant arrows make a piercing "whoosh" sound, as if to pierce the sky, a rain of arrows scattered towards the position of the Song army, this indiscriminate shooting, suddenly hit many new army soldiers, many people were nailed to the ground, and several people were pierced by the same arrow at the same time, and then were strung into a human-shaped meat gourd, A flurry ensued.

At this time, some of the recruits were frightened and stupid, and they were suddenly scattered like birds and beasts, and they were about to bomb the camp and disperse, and then the commander of each regiment began to bomb and suppress, and casually killed a few recruits who fled in a panic, so as to stabilize the situation.

Yang Wenguang saw that the situation was unfavorable, and he had to knock out the Liao army's bed crossbow position; So he hurriedly went to the artillery position, preparing for the artillery to launch an attack on the bed crossbow position of the Liao army.

At this time, he called Lu Changli, the commander of the artillery battalion, and ordered: "Battalion Commander Lu, you see that the bed crossbow of the Liao army is very sharp, which has caused panic among the soldiers of our new army, and caused the morale of our army to plummet. You can have the artillery now, bombard the bed crossbow positions of the Liao army, and destroy these bed crossbows. ”

At this time, Lu Changli hurriedly saluted and said: "Please rest assured, division commander, my artillery battalion will definitely complete its mission and live up to its mission." ”

Seeing that Lu Changli hurriedly began to command the artillery to prepare for firing, they hurriedly calculated the shooting yuan, and confirmed the distance and direction of the shelling.

At this time, I heard Lu Changli shouting: "Directly in front of the target, ruler 90, 010 to the left, charge No. 1 to No. 3, twelve rapid shots are loaded, and the rest of the gun positions are independently calibrated to shoot at the opposite position, and ready..."

At this time, I saw that the gunners hurriedly corrected the direction of the muzzle, and then quickly loaded the ammunition, and the loaded ammunition was a flowering shell.

After the artillery was aimed and loaded, Lu Changli and the artillery commanders were heard shouting in unison: "Ready... Put. ”

I heard a thunderous and deafening sound from twenty artillery pieces, and at the same time spewed out long tongues of fire, and I saw cannonballs whistling towards the Liao army's bed crossbow position...

Immediately I heard "Boom, boom...!" ”

With a loud bang, I saw that the Liao army's bed crossbow position suddenly rushed out of a burst of blazing sounds, accompanied by an earth-shattering loud sound, the billowing smoke suddenly rose into the air, and then spread out rapidly and overwhelmingly, and the scene was a sandstorm flying, accompanied by the scarlet flame snake, devouring everything that shrouded it, making the lives miserable.

At this time, the bed crossbows of the Liao army were blown up into the sky, and the sky was full of scattered broken wood chips, and the bed crossbowmen were suddenly torn into pieces, and the bones were gone, and the red blood light splashed everywhere, forming a blood mist, and there were fragmented pieces of flesh and limbs everywhere, staining the earth red; The position had been shattered, and the flames had broken through the sky.

At this time, Yang Wenguang hurriedly asked the artillery to shoot at the cavalry cluster of the Liao army, and at this time, there were already many cavalry in the Liao army, and some were overturned by the air wave and died on the spot; Some of them were deaf to their ears, and blood flowed from their ears.

And Liu Zhengyi, who commanded the Wuding Army and the Horse Army in front, had already been shocked and bleeding at this time, and died on the spot; And the lieutenants under his command were so frightened that they forgot to escape.

At this time, the second round of artillery bombardment began, and the artillery fire continued to explode in the clusters of these Liao cavalry, and the explosion shock wave after the loud bang tore the surrounding Liao soldiers to pieces, like cutting leeks, and the surroundings were suddenly empty.

At this time, Yang Wenguang suddenly gave the order to attack, and heard the rapid attack horn sounding violently, at this time, the infantry and cavalry suddenly rushed towards the Liao army like a tide, and the sound of gunfire suddenly became loud, and the beeping sound was non-stop, and from time to time the three thousand cavalry were defeated, and less than 100 people and horses escaped, and it can be said that the Wuding army that came to the army was completely annihilated.

The only thing that Yang Wenguang was dissatisfied with was that due to the shelling, many Liao soldiers lost their bones and lost many heads, and they could not calculate their military merits.

After this real battle and the baptism of war, the new army has become more and more mentally tenacious, and its psychological endurance has become more and more powerful. ”

Let's say that the 1,000 leather room soldiers were also frightened by the tragic shelling scene in front of them, and they felt that the god of death had come from heaven to harvest the lives of the Daliao soldiers; At this time, their minds were blank, and they felt that Song Jun was like a divine help, and Lei Gong and Mother all helped each other and stood up for Song Jun; Their will suddenly collapsed, and they hurriedly beat their horses and fled.

But at this time, Meng Ming had already outflanked them and cut off their retreat, and Yang Wenguang also came with the army, forming a flanking attack on this leather room army, and soon formed a siege, becoming a turtle in an urn, and it was difficult to escape and ascend to heaven.

Soon the general offensive began, and the frightened Liao army had long lost the will to resist, and became a group of lambs to be slaughtered.

At this time, Da Liao's Tanma had already found out the news of the defeat of Liu Zhengyi's army and the leather room army, and hurriedly sent the military information back to the camp of the leather room army, Yelu Honggu and Neligu were shocked when they heard the news, they had already learned that the Song army that participated in the war this time was a new army that had never been on the battlefield, and they already felt that the military strength of Song Liao would soon be reversed.

The two did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly gave the military situation of the Song-Liao War to the Liao Emperor Yelu Longxu, at this time, Yelu Longxu's camp stayed in Nanjing for a short time, and began to continue to move south, heading towards the border, followed by the Liao army's most elite army, the palace army, with a total of 30,000 people.

At this time, Yelu Longxu was discussing matters in the big tent, Zhang Jian, Pingzhang Shi, Linhuang Shaoyin Zheng Hongjie, Liu Shenxing, and Xiao Pidi, who were all on the side to obey the order, and then saw the emergency military situation on the front line, Yelu Longxu hurriedly took it to check, he looked at it for a moment, and suddenly frowned, his face changed greatly, and then angrily slammed the report on the ground.