Under the hazy sky, the advance of the cavalry was like a surging tide. The cavalry formation with a total of nearly 6,000 troops, looking down from the sky, was densely packed, and the ironclad heavy cavalry at the front end was like waves of the tide surging in the entire momentum, charging on the plain, and there was really the power of bulldozing the hills, crushing everything.

When the ironclad heavy cavalry roared forward, the half of the side and rear gradually separated, and began to go around the side and protrude, which was the half of the light cavalry separated from the ironclad cavalry - although the iron harrier was a heavy horse, it was often used as the main force in the Western Xia battle, and it was longer than the rush battle, and the maneuver was fast. During long-distance raids, they will follow pack horses of equal or double size, carrying heavy armor. Although these pack horses were not as elite as the war horses, when the heavy armor was removed, the accompanying lieutenants could still use them as mounts to form light cavalry battles.

Xixia is a tribal system, strict hierarchy, Iron Harrier as the elite of the elite, one person is often equipped with three deputy soldiers, these deputy soldiers are the slaves and personal guards of the Iron Harrier Knight's family, both courage and loyalty are quite passable, can be called one in a hundred. Even if the war horse under the crotch is not good enough, it is still quite an elite force.

In order to quickly bite the bandit troops that came out of the rear, Meile led 2,700 iron harriers to rush quickly, followed by more than 2,700 pack horses and light horses. From the time he was preparing for the start of the war, Chang Da, the leader of the deputy army, received an order to interfere from the side and act at the opportunity. He led nearly 3,000 light cavalry to the side and began to circle the side, the opposite array was orderly, and it seemed quite fierce, but according to the experience of previous battles, this fierce army that did not know the height of the sky would still be replaced by the heavy cavalry forward, and it would be quickly smashed apart. And what you need to pay attention to is the one or two thousand light cavalry that has been lined up behind the opponent's array.

The opponent rode a horse specially raised for battle, and his own mount was slightly inferior, but the bravery of the knights under his command. But it will never be inferior to anyone in the world, and Changda has great confidence in this. Once the other party shows any bad clues, the cavalry led by himself will not hesitate to rush towards the other party.

He stared at the battle situation in front of him, exhaling and inhaling. Heavy cavalry with churning iron hooves increased their speed to the peak. You have to step into the land of a stone's throw away. As a rule of thumb, arrows will fly, but for the Iron Harrier, it doesn't mean much - even if you understand this, there will still be arrows, and sometimes a few unlucky heavy riders will fall off their horses.

However, there were no arrows.

The next moment, the attacks came like a sea of attacks!

Without much warning, as the first explosive flame rose, countless explosions set off huge waves on the front line in front of the Iron Rider wave. A deafening sound swept out, and the wave rose silently and rose as if it were rushing head-on, and swooped down with the iron harrier tide for a moment, and then both sides slapped each other into it.

"Wow-"

Bang!

Boom -

Boom Boom

The squad leader, Nagu, shouted and rushed into the huge tide of smoke and dust, and smashed it out from the other side. The fallen ironclad warhorse crushed his body, and raised his head in a feeling of pain and numbness. On this side of the waves, countless flowers are rising!

The gray-black barrier, the smoke, the surging shockwave, the choking, dry smell, everything was rising and expanding, and the objects that were launched from the front blasted into the barrier. Yellow light exploded in the black smoke and dust, followed by dark red flames, and all kinds of small objects splashed. The air waves are rolling and raging.

In Nagu's vision, the explosion in the near distance shook like a mountain, and for individuals, the heavily armored iron harriers galloped like a mountain, and they rushed to break through this barrier. Toppling and tumbling is like a landslide. The impact on the enemy array narrowed the front of the cavalry ranks, making the spacing between the horses denser than usual, and the rising black smoke and dust obscured the view of the cavalry, and many of the cavalry remained intact, but under the high-speed sprint, they either tripped over the corpses of the horses, or crashed into their companions who began to thrust in front of them, and crashed to the ground with a loud bang.

On the ground of the high slope of the loess, the vegetation was already scarce, and although it was not as barren as in later generations, it was stirred by the power of the explosion, and the dust rolled up.

In such a huge chaos, some of the war horses were still shocked.

The vision was shaking, the ominous air currents were chaotic, and the companions rushed out of the black barrier, either rushing or collapsing, or a small number of them were still speeding forward. Nagu saw a heavy horse rushing out of the smoke and dust, and the knight was still intact, and the next moment, the object shot from that side slammed into the galloping knight, and the horse was still rushing out, and half of the horse's armored body exploded to pieces.

This is a demon law! He felt great fear in his heart, and he wanted to crawl out from under the horse, but as he was exerting himself, an iron harrier rushed out from behind, and the horse stumbled and drowned out his vision like a hill......

"- Second round reload of the elm cannon!"

"Hurry up, hurry up, hurry up—"

"Don't let them gasp—"

On the position of the Black Flag Army, the officers of the special regiment were shouting hysterically, and in the rear, two thousand cavalry began to pull out, and the atmosphere in the infantry array was solemn, and Hou Wu, Mao Yishan and others were waiting for the moment of the charge. Around them, the soldiers of the special regiment were quickly assembling portable repulsors. These horses are fixed with cast iron long rods as the central axis, and the iron spears are inserted crosswise, and the six spears and one cast iron are in a group, and it is almost impossible to move them when they are fixed on the ground, even if they roll over one side, they are still the same shape, and after being assembled, they are quickly pushed forward.

The battle on Dong Zhiyuan has just begun, but this head-on blow is like a dream, a scene that has almost never appeared in this era.

The first round of shelling directly paralyzed or shocked more than 100 ironclad heavy riders, but the real spectacular thing was the rising smoke and dust barrier. It obscured the view of the Iron Harrier's charge, and the fallen cavalry became a rejection at the same time, and the number of fallen cavalry continued to rise. The nearly 1,000 cavalry that had been covered in the entire front line had been more or less affected, and some of the horses were frightened, and they galloped wildly in the wrong direction -- in those years, the cavalry had been trained to set off firecrackers or make noise to make the horses adapt to the sounds of the battlefield, but never to this extent.

Some cavalrymen were shocked on horseback with their eardrums, and the flying smoke and dust blinded their eyes, and the balance of the war horses was also affected, for a while. Rushing heavy horsemen tripped over their companions, broke their necks, or crashed into other horsemen while running, and immediately the knights pulled their horses desperately, running faster and faster and then crashing to the ground. The rest of the cavalry continued to run after a slight adjustment, and it was on this side. The shells were still firing continuously.

A lot of cavalry was constantly filtered out.

In the artillery array, the soldiers quickly cleaned the chamber of the cannon, and loaded the elm cannon with hollow or solid shells, the proportion of iron cannons was more than 20 pieces, and most of them were hollow shells, these iron cannons were of different specifications and calibers, some were integrated, and some had been divided into two sections, just like the Franc cannon of later generations. The barrel and the charge of the subcannon are separated, and as soon as they are fired, the subcannon is removed and the other subcannon is quickly loaded.

Lin Jingwei, the person in charge of the craftsman skill section in Xiaocanghe, and Gongsun Sheng stood near the iron cannon cluster, looking at the front of the battle line wandering in confusion or struggling to get up from the ground, and frowned slightly. At this time, the surroundings were full of loud noises, shouts, and cannons. Lin Jingwei looked at it and shouted to the side: "Come on weekdays." Come on weekdays, over there. What are you doing! Watch out for the cannonballs in your hand, blow you up bastard-"

In the sound of thudding, there were explosive packets flying into the sky, some falling on the horses and exploding, and some bursting after a while. Gongsun Sheng carefully watched the power of the explosion.

Nearly nine years have passed since Ning Yi came to the Wu Dynasty. As for gunpowder, Ning Yi has been subconsciously improving it almost from the beginning. In a sense, ancient Chinese black powder and modern yellow powder are two different concepts, and the improvement space of black powder is not unlimited, but to develop to modern explosives. Trinitrotoluene, (Shixiao)ylated glycerin, requires a large amount of chemical base.

Bottlenecks exist, but some things are not without trade-offs. The three basic compounds of glycerin, sulfuric acid, have long been discovered by alchemists in ancient times, nitric acid is not available temporarily, but its raw materials are not lacking in the Wu Dynasty, in this year, the role of saltpeter is mainly used by large families to make ice in summer, saltpeter dry distillation, or reaction with sulfuric acid, hydrolysis can obtain nitric acid. As for glycerin, it can be separated by heating sulfuric acid with animal and vegetable oils, and then reacting with soda or lime, and even made into soap by the way.

For Ning Yi, these principles are not unfamiliar, but it is naturally extremely difficult to find the right ratio and production method in this era. Fortunately, although his specialty is not chemistry, it is the employment and operation. After popularizing basic chemical knowledge to his craftsmen, these things can be done by others, and since Gongsun Sheng and these people joined in, the number of craftsmen under his command has been increasing, and his initial chemical knowledge has actually been unable to keep up with the progress of research in the workshop.

In the later promotion of the explosives workshop, the practical results were much higher than the theoretical knowledge, and the craftsmen with basic chemical knowledge could not become Mendeleev, but under the modern research system of pursuing efficiency, paying attention to recording and comparison, the gunpowder produced by it has become more and more refined. After sulfuric acid and nitric acid can be prepared, such as nitrocellulose and other substances have appeared in the workshop, and all kinds of messy things have been mixed by Gongsun Sheng and others, the explosive power of gunpowder has also been considerable, enough to be used decisively on the battlefield.

(Shi Xiao) glycerin also had a certain preparation basis at this time, but Ning Yi did not rashly develop this. First, because after the rebellion, the materials were indeed lacking, and the later generations raised pigs, a fat body, and the pigs were all lean meat in these years, and glycerin was made from animal and plant fats, which was too luxurious and not cost-effective. Second, (Shi Xiao) glycerin has a long way to go from invention to relatively safe use, and Ning Yi does not dare to mess around before the craftsmen in the workshop understand diatomaceous earth. And this time with the troops, all the things that can be used in Xiaocanghe have basically been used.

Several delayed fuzes made from the workshop, handmade hollow bombs, including the large-yield explosive package that Ning Yi had requested from the beginning, and the extremely extravagant iron launch canister -- the cylinders of these extremely large caliber projectile explosive packets were called flying thunder in later generations.

During the War of Liberation, the explosive package forced by oil drums was much more powerful than the ordinary cannon when it fell, and the power of the explosion of the modern explosives packaged in it could sweep across a radius of more than 20 meters at a time, and people and animals were wiped out, because they were shocked to death by the shock wave, and they could not even find the wound when they died, so it was also called "no conscience cannon".

At this time, the explosive package launched naturally did not have such power, but after falling on the ground and exploding, the shock wave expanded to a range of three or four meters around, and the momentum and air wave were amazing, and in the billowing smoke and dust, the war horse would be thrown out because of the huge momentum in the vicinity, and slammed into the companion next to him.

"The world is about to change......

The dark clouds in the sky dispersed, Gongsun Sheng looked at the small number of heavy horses rushing over, said a word, and then reached out to pick up the big hammer on the ground. He was dressed in a Taoist robe, looking like a fairy wind and bones, in fact, he could occupy a place in the Liangshan bandits, but he was quite powerful, at this time dragging a hammer forward, a heavy horse was rushing towards him, the two touched each other in a blink of an eye, the Taoist priest took advantage of the momentum to swing the heavy hammer, from the bottom to the top of the terrifying loud bang, smashed on the head of the war horse, the whole war horse snorted, four hooves flew and smashed to the ground on the side, blood and dust rolled.

He took the hammer and walked towards another cavalryman who rushed towards him, and there were also infantry rushing over next to him, and when the cavalry was smashed to the ground, Gongsun Sheng shouted to the rear: "Hurry up—"

The heavy cavalry that galloped from the opposite side, survived after rushing through the blast area, and managed to reach the front of this side was only a third of them at this time, and some of the heavy cavalry were still changing in the smoke and dust in confusion because of the damage of knights or horses. More than twenty iron horses were carried by soldiers and waited in front of them, followed by swords, spears, and hammers. The ears of the soldiers waiting here were also greatly shocked, and there was almost no sound in their ears. The horsemen lost some speed due to the surging bombardment, but they still came in a sea of mountains, and the heavy horsemen of the iron armor crashed into the horse, breaking the horse, or pushing it to the ground, and more heavy horses came, and they swung their swords and spears to meet them, and the hammermen swung their hammers and smashed them the iron armor of the horse or knight, and blood poured out of the cracks in the iron armor.

At this time, the middle formation of the Iron Harrier had also rushed over the huge wall of smoke and dust, they were relatively cautious, and their speed slowed down slightly, and they went around more on both sides of the smoke and dust, and due to the weakening of the shelling, the rising black smoke was coming from the empty field of vision, and the sister in the rear also roughly saw the situation ahead.

In these years, the average army will collapse as soon as it is lost in battle, and the Iron Harriers are not such a weak chicken army, they are the elite of the elite. In many cases, they also did not hesitate to sacrifice in exchange for victory, but the important thing is that sacrifice can be exchanged for victory.

At this time, the battle had just begun, a charge, the front rushed over, the middle of the formation hesitated slightly, at this time also stepped into the range of the battle, they still wanted to rush forward, but in the front, the army was like a giant beast, devouring a third of the Iron Harrier troops. Before this, there had been no long-range confrontation that could threaten the Iron Harrier like this.

The middle formation was still charging, things happened too fast, they didn't have time to collapse, the soldiers in the array just felt confused, and the slightly sane officer looked back at the huge handsome flag. Meile was also leading the crowd to rush - he originally wanted to rescue or support the front line caught in the explosion, but at this time, even the battle-hardened man was blank in his heart.

The entire front was almost completely incapacitated - it was over.

But the morale was not lost, and it seemed that he could still fight when he rushed over. To continue to rush, or not to rush, this is the question.

This moment...... He remembered his numbness......

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Not many people noticed that the entire artillery array had fallen silent at this time...... (To be continued.) )

PS: I don't know if I can code it out tomorrow, so I wish you all a happy ^_^ New Year