A rare sunny day in winter.

Shi Zhuang sat in his saddle, squinting his eyes and enjoying the touch of the sun, around him, three hundred cavalry sat on the ground in the same way, this is the only cavalry he has now, and at the same time, it is also his personal guard, as a general of the first guard, three hundred guards is the upper limit, no matter where he goes, he can take these three hundred people.

Everything is ready, the trap has been dug deep enough, and there is no fear that the enemy will not jump in.

The information he just received made Shi Zhuang a little surprised, Ding Sheng of Yiyang actually took half of his men back to Changsha to help, originally, Shi Zhuang thought that this guy would give up Yiyang on all fronts.

Leave half and go half, this is undoubtedly the worst option.

This is reluctant, and it can't be left behind, how can it be a big thing.

Of course, compared to Datang, Ding Sheng's choice was an unexpected surprise, which would make him break each one more calmly.

The Hunan soldiers are still very fierce, don't look at the height of each one is not tall, but they are not afraid of life and death when they fight, in the Yiyang front, small-scale troops will break out from time to time, Liang Han, who is on the front line, is still full of praise for the quality of the other party's soldiers.

But one general is incompetent and exhausts the three armies.

Now on Jigong Ridge and Duck Beak Ridge, thirty artillery pieces are arranged each. As far as fighting a war is concerned, getting these sixty artillery pieces up the mountain really made the Tang army think hard. Luckily, the mountain is not tall and not too steep. But there is also a downside, once the battle starts, the enemy will definitely desperately charge the mountains on both sides, and Shi Zhuang must leave enough men to protect these cannons. The hands of the people who intercept in front of them are not so thick.

This time, Shi Zhuang's black tiger dug out his heart, counting Zheng Wenchang's 2,000 sailors, it was only a little over 10,000, leaving 3,000 people outside Changsha to threaten, and Shi Zhuang brought here this time, only 8,000 people. After leaving 2,000 men to guard the mountains on the left and right, there were less than 4,000 men at the forefront. And the gap between the two mountains they were to guard was three miles long.

Therefore, Shi Zhuang also needs Chen Changping to arrive in time, otherwise it will be a lot of fun to let the opponent's cavalry go around behind him.

The ground trembled slightly, and the three hundred cavalry on Shi Zhuang's side all stood up in an instant, and began to put the saddle on the horse's back, Shi Zhuang stood up slowly, raised the monocular in his hand, and looked at the end of the road.

Lots of cavalry!

The black press can't see the end at a glance.

Lu Yuan's banner, Ding Hao's banner, hey, there is actually the banner of the Jiangxi cavalry, it seems that the Southern Alliance is really united now.

Even the death was sent together.

No less than 20,000 cavalry, this battle is big enough. The Southern Alliance, it is really rare to gather so many cavalry at one time! Shi Zhuang has seen such a large battle of more than 20,000 cavalry at one time, that is, in the battle where Li Ze was famous and shocked the world, on the bank of the Yishui River, which laid the foundation for Li Ze's fortune in one fell swoop. Defeated the onslaught of Zhang Zhongwu's 20,000 iron horsemen.

That scene, Shi Zhuang still remembers.

That time was also the closest thing Shi Zhuang had to death.

Victory or defeat is actually a line between life and death.

Today, he saw such a magnificent scene again.

Compared with his opponents, his current strength is really a little pitiful, but in his heart, he is much more determined than then, and even wins the roll.

Back then, on the banks of the Yishui River, including Li Ze, he actually had no bottom in his heart, but he was forced to do that, and this battle couldn't be fought without fighting.

That battle completely made Zhang Zhongwu fall from the peak, and since then, he has been forced into a dead end by Li Ze step by step, struggling for many years, and finally he still did not escape being caught by the Tang army, and he was stabbed on the execution ground.

After today's battle, the Southern Alliance will also be cut off, and for the Southern Alliance, with the loss of 20,000 cavalry, there is no longer any possibility of organizing cavalry of this scale.

One of the gunners beside him had a red face, and he didn't know whether he was blown by the cold wind or excited, and he looked a little trembling. Shi Zhuang patted him on the shoulder, which startled him.

"How? Can you get it right? Shi Zhuang asked with a grin.

"Yes, General!" The gunner subconsciously puffed out his chest and said loudly. After saying this, he said a little embarrassedly: "This black press, you don't need to aim at all!" Anyway, if you go down with one shot, you can blow it up a lot. ”

Shi Changchang smiled, looked at several members of the artillery team around this cannon and said, "Then fight faster, this place is a bit flat, and the war horses can rush up." The more we kill, the smaller the impact we will suffer. ”

The valley is long enough and wide enough that, judging from past combat experience, this is not a good place for ambushes. Therefore, the Southern Army Alliance broke into this area without the slightest scruples.

Finally, all 20,000 cavalry entered this long valley.

"Fire!" A Don Army officer stood up, and the red flag in his hand pressed down hard.

On Jigong Ridge, thirty artillery pieces were ignited at the same time, tongues of fire erupted from the muzzles, and thirty flowering bullets shot a wonderful parabola from the mountain and fell into the valley.

At the same time, on the ridge inside the duck's beak, another thirty artillery pieces rang out at the same time.

Ding Hao looked at the sky in shock.

Lu Yuan suddenly reined in and looked at the sky.

Sixty black cannonballs, like life-killing scythes flying from the Nine Hells, fell with a whistling sound.

Explosions rang out one after another.

In the valley, it was chaotic in an instant.

Every time a cannonball fell, it could turn the radius into an open space, the dead fell to the ground, the wounded wailed and screamed, the life of the war horse was much harder than the life of a man, and many wounded war horses neighed wildly, running wildly in the valley uncontrollably, until they fell.

Seeing that the following had turned into a pot of porridge, Shi Zhuang rode his horse and sneered: "Let's go down." ”

The detour reached the far end of the valley, where there was a line of skirmishers, and four thousand soldiers formed a horizontal formation, blocking the way out of the valley.

"Rush over, rush over!"

Unlike Ding Hao, who was a little dizzy for a moment, Lu Yuan reacted immediately, seeing that Ding Hao beside him was still fluting, he slammed a whip on Ding Hao's horse stock, and yelled: "Rush, don't stop." ”

Ding Hao's war horse took this blow and rushed forward.

"Lu Wei, lead your troops to charge towards Jigongling."

"The rest of the cavalry, follow me and charge towards Duckbeak Ridge!"

After two orders in a row, Lu Yuan struck the horse with a backhand whip and rushed towards the duck beak ridge. Behind him, about a thousand cavalrymen, with a shout, rushed upwards after him.

On the other side, his subordinate Lu Wei led another cavalry and launched a charge towards Jigongling.

On the mountain, the artillerymen didn't care about the cavalry that rushed up quickly, but just cleaned up the shells, charged, loaded, and fired them, and in front of them, rows of Tang troops stood solemnly.

"Grenade!" The officer shouted.

Tang Jun, who was in the last row, lit the grenade fuse in his hand, counted three times, rounded his arm, and threw the grenade down the mountain.

In the front row, they are armed with crossbows, staring closely at those opponents who are likely to stand out.

Grenades attack from afar, and crossbow arrows are close defense. Finally, there were spears and thorns, and they had only one task, to protect the artillery.

Ding Hao beat the horse and galloped.

He saw the flag of the Don army fluttering at the end of the [5200] gorge and the line of infantry.

Then he heard a deafening explosion.

In front of the infantry defense line, Shi Zhuang planted a considerable number of explosives, calculated the time, ignited the fuse, and then sent the hundreds of cavalry rushing to the sky.

Here, too, includes Ding Hao who ran in front.

Poor Ding Hao, who had just been in high spirits for not many days, gave his life so inexplicably, fell to the ground, and even fell into the big pit with people and horses, and in the sky, earth and rocks fell, burying him and people and horses.

Not only in front, but at this moment, in the rear where they were running, there was also a violent explosion.

The front road and the back road are all closed.

The cannon fire was unhurried, and the explosion of the grenade rang out.

Lu Yuan could see the muzzles of those guns that spewed fire, but if he wanted to destroy them, he had to kill the Tang troops who were in front of him.

But how easy is that?

The black bumps that flew on their heads, and the sharp iron sheets that flew around at the same time as they exploded, made people unable to defend at all, or the infantry could rely on shields, but their cavalry was only wearing a suit of leather armor, and they were powerless to resist under the attack of these iron pieces.

"War, is this what it looks like now?" Lu Yuanlema stood on the hillside, looking at the chaotic cavalry in confusion, the three-mile-wide valley was not narrow for the cavalry, but at this moment, it was all shrouded in the cover of the opponent's artillery fire.

"It's not fair!" Lu Yuan hissed.

In the distance, the sound of hooves rumbled, the battle flag fluttered, and a cavalry brigade, like a long dragon, was rapidly approaching the battlefield, and the fluttering Chen Zi banner made Lu Yuan's eyes tingle for a while.

It was Chen Changping, and they clashed many times on the Yiyang front.

It's over!

Lu Yuan shouted hysterically, slapped his war horse, and rushed up.

Then he flew up.

Several grenades exploded in front of him, and his horse was blown upside down, and he flew into the sky, spreading his limbs and falling like a stone.

"It's not fair!" He thought to himself.

It's really unfair. It was a battle between armies in two eras. When gunpowder was strengthened to the point that it could be used as a weapon in this era, cold weapon warfare had begun to develop in the direction of hot weapons, although it was still only in its infancy, although it could only play its huge role in some specific occasions, but it was enough to change the direction of the entire war.