The soldiers of the Fire Gun Battalion rushed forward like a tide, and Zhao Xingde could only act with the soldiers, and his heart was suddenly full of ominous premonitions. Not long after rushing into the front line of the Liao army, the ground shook slightly.

Behind the tall artillery fortress of the Liao army, in the leather tent that was originally observed at the head of the city and thought it was the heavy baggage of the Liao army, thousands of iron horsemen suddenly killed them, ignoring the defeated soldiers who trampled on their side, like a flood, and rushed towards the Song army. The Liao and Song dynasties have been at war for a hundred years, and they know each other very clearly. The Song army fought bravely on foot, but when the charge successfully broke through into the Liao formation, archers, spearmen, and sword and shield men were often in chaos because they were scrambling. Taking advantage of the moment when the Song army's formation was the most loose, the Liao cavalry struck a fierce blow, often able to surprise and kill a corpse all over the field, turning defeat into victory.

Wang Yan, who was watching the battle at the head of the city, was shocked, in this situation, even if the Song army could withstand the impact of the iron cavalry, the vanguard of the already scattered front line would inevitably suffer huge losses, and Zhao Xingde happened to be in the front at this time.

"Drumming! The Chinese army is pressing up! Wang Yan said in a deep voice, and the flag officer quickly pulled the ochre flag representing the Chinese army's big array, stood below waving the white flag, and gave the order to go out of the formation.

When Bai Anmin, the commander of the Loyal Army, heard the rapid sound of drums on the city tower, he immediately issued a military order, and nearly 10,000 foot soldiers, with a battalion of 500 people as a unit, and nearly 20 small phalanxes began to move forward slowly. Although out of the formation, but the speed compared with the opposite side of the Liao army, is extremely slow, at this time, no one dared to force the large array to speed up, Wan Tong made the formation loose, by the Liao army iron cavalry rush to break through, then even the formation into the formation.

Wang Yan saw the Chinese army's large array pressing forward in accordance with the order at the head of the city, but compared with the coming momentum of the Liao army's cavalry, it was as slow as a snail, his face became more and more gloomy, and he said secretly: "I'm sorry for Yuan Zhi this time." "The Khitan army was not good at holding on, and fought against the Song army, often retreating first, and then charging the Song army with cavalry, which was an old skill. But every time there was a battle, the Song army could not stop charging because of the tricks of the Liao army. At the risk of several commands rushing to the front, they usually had to risk heavy losses from the cavalry counter-onslaught. Zhao Xingde had no experience in fighting with the Liao army, and Wang Yan was worried that he would be afraid and delay the opportunity to break through the Liao army's iron wall camp, so he deliberately did not tell him. In his view, as long as the Liao people's infantry formation was defeated to protect the artillery fortress, then even if the Liao cavalry rushed and killed several times, with the tenacity and courage of the Song army's infantry formation, it would not be a problem to destroy the Liao cannon.

"The Khitan dog is rushing up again!"

"Liao cavalry!"

Before Zhao Xingde issued a military order, the commanders of the battalions and the heads of the capitals all shouted, "Formation!" "Formation!" The non-commissioned officers of the Musket Battalion, who had almost disbanded the formation, approached the officers around them one after another, forming a circle with their backs facing inwards and their heads and spears facing outwards to protect themselves. Because this array is simple, almost in just a few breaths, I saw a messy battlefield, as if plum blossoms came out of six, dozens of large and small round formations appeared, more than 200 people, less than dozens of people. The officers shouted "Face outward, take the battle—wait for the enemy—" and the soldiers unanimously pointed their spears outside.

After the circle formation was formed, the soldiers of the fire gun battalion were still under the command of the officer, according to the flag in the center of the circle array, the head of the command circle slowly approached the circle array commanded by the battalion, and the battalion commander moved closer to where Zhao Xingde was, of course, compared with the speed of the assembly array, the speed of the circle formation movement at this time was extremely slow, and it was almost not a few steps, the cavalry of the Liao people seemed to be washed between the various circle formations as if a rushing flood, and the fierce horse hooves trampled on the corpses on the ground without scruples, and the Khitan cavalry kept opening their bows and arrows around the circle formation of the Song army.

Zhao Xingde's banner of the Chinese army was taken special care of by the Liao army, and he was hit by more than a dozen arrows in almost a moment, he stood motionless under the banner, Su Wenyu and several flag officers carried the shields discarded by the Liao people to cover the arrows for him, and he could only see the situation outside through the gaps in the shields.

"General! The last will protect you and rush out! The Liao's arrows smashed on the shield, and Su Wenyu was a little breathless.

"Nope! Stick to the formation! Don't be careless! Zhao Xingde's face was pale, he didn't expect that it would be such an embarrassing situation to be surrounded by superior cavalry, the seven-foot spear of the firearm battalion was barely able to stop the Liao army from trampling and approaching unscrupulously, but the firearm battalion, which had lost its firepower advantage, was now completely passively beaten. Just now, a chief who was about to set up a fire fell to the ground with a scream. The Liao cavalry was very rampant, firing the bow and arrows within a dozen steps, and the arrows were almost missed, and Zhao Xingde believed that in a few minutes, the fire battalion might collapse because it could not stand the killing of the cavalry arrows.

Although it seemed that he was surrounded by the Liao cavalry and shot unscrupulously, the Liao general Guo Baoyi was also very depressed, and scolded while releasing arrows: "His grandmother's, turtle eggs!" "The Song army that broke into the Liao array suddenly shrank into a hedgehog formation, but how could it be as refreshing as usual to rush into the chaotic army array to slaughter the foot soldiers, so far, he has only shot two or three Song soldiers.

Guo Baoyi was hesitating, whether to give up these hedgehogs, and directly rushed to the opposite Song army's large array, but the strict formation was daunting, do not hit the Song army's strong formation, this is almost engraved to the bones of the Liao cavalry general's principle of using troops, just when Guo Baoyi was still hesitating, the Song army camp that was slowly marching on the opposite side began to throw dense and powerful arrow feathers, and there were already some Khitan cavalry arrows.

From a distance, the hedgehog arrays of the fire battalion were slowly leaning against each other, and the gap between the circle formations was getting narrower and narrower, and the Khitan cavalry really seemed to be circling around the hedgehog, but they couldn't find the fox at the bottom of the mouth. "This surnamed Zhao also has some ability, and he deserves so much attention from the ruler." Bai Anmin turned his head sideways and said to Jiao Zhongyi, Marquis Yu, the loyal and brave army, "Press up in front and expel the Khitan cavalry!" ”

Seeing that the loyal and brave army finally rushed up, more than 3,000 Song army infantry soldiers raised their guns and knives at the same time, and fought with the Liao cavalry, and there were countless strong bows and crossbows behind to shoot and kill the Liao cavalry trapped in the infantry army. At this time, the cavalry of the Liao army on the left and right flanks was also defeated, and the cavalry of the left and right vanguard formations of the Song army appeared on the flanks, and the Huogun battalion temporarily survived the danger of being cut off by the enemy and surrounded and killed.

In front of the offensive Song army is the artillery base of the Liao army's giant artillery, and it is vaguely seen that some Liao troops are shooting arrows, but the low rammed earth camp can not stop the advance of the Song army at all, and the defeated soldiers of the Liao army in the front not only infect the atmosphere of defeat to the rear formation, but also disrupt the queue of the Han army's firearms battalion, which was not good at close combat.

"I finally survived." Zhao Xingde breathed a sigh of relief, he held a fire gun in his hand, and instructed Su Wenyu: "Order the commanders of each battalion to collect the soldiers, and everyone should not run away." ”

The Liao army's artillery fortification was built between two tributaries of the Yellow River to the west of Hejian City, and the Song and Liao armies fought in a narrow strip, and the sound of gold and iron resounded. The Khitan cavalry could not gallop, and almost all the cavalry who were put into the battlefield had to constantly turn their horses' heads to deal with the Song army's foot soldiers in front and behind. The Liao generals Xiao Dabu and Yelu Dashi, who were commanding in the rear, both frowned. The Khitans were unwilling to be foot soldiers, and the Han and northern barbarians could not be trusted, resulting in a lack of truly reliable elite infantry troops in the Liao State. He had to drive thousands of slave troops from the Iron Wall Camp to protect the forts, but he was defeated by the strange fire gun pikemen of the Song people. The Khitan cavalry's defense could not be tight, they always held the intention of retreating if they couldn't beat it, and then looking for an opportunity to fight, even if they dismounted to fight, and they would rather die than retreat like the Han people.

"It seems that after our dynasty put down the Hanchang rebellion, the Han army was reduced, and even the Han people in the firearms battalion did not let them practice bows and crossbows, which is a national policy with mixed pros and cons." Yelu Dashi groaned secretly, but he heard a sudden rumble in front of him, but it was a Song army foot soldier who attacked a fort in front of the most protruding one, ignited the gunpowder, and exploded earth-shattering, shaking the surrounding war horses running and jumping around, and several Khitan cavalry were turned upside down. Immediately afterwards, the Song army blew up another giant cannon.

The battle lasted until the night was exhausted, and every inch of the narrow battlefield was soaked in blood. The morale of the soldiers and civilians of Hejian City was greatly boosted.

After the war, Zhao Xingde inspected the fire battalion, killed 337 people, wounded 760 people, and most of the casualties were caused when they were surrounded by Liao cavalry and shooting arrows.

Zhao Xingde is not a disciple of the general, the arrangement in advance to receive the formation, treat the enemy, formulate the fire gun military order, and deal with the hedgehog formation methods when the cavalry charge the formation, are quite predictable, almost like a person born to know, to the point that people are surprised, I don't know where this person learned the ability to fight between the two armies. In this world, there is no knowledge of the afterlife that is readily available, and a little bit of insight will be hidden for pride. After this battle, the generals of the Command Mansion, and the whole Huogang Battalion secretly admired Zhao Xingde.

At the same time, in order to resist the offensive of the Song army, the Liao army continued to draw the cavalry responsible for guarding the Song reinforcements into the battlefield.

He Xuan, who joined the army in the Hedong camp, was dressed in ordinary cloth clothes, but his expression was a little arrogant, and he had checked the tokens such as the confession, and said in a deep voice: "General Yang Yanqing has led 10,000 fine horsemen and 20,000 horsemen to enter the Zhending Mansion, so that I can see if the armies in the river are still worthy of a battle. ”

Wang Yan muttered: "Mr. He doesn't know that since the Hebei camp was attacked by the Liao army, there are less than 40,000 soldiers in Hejian City. Although the Liao army besieging the city was only tens of thousands, there were at least more than 100,000 Liao troops in Hebei, most of whom were cavalry. Once I make an appointment with General Yang to fight, these Liao cavalry troops gathered around Hebei will be able to rush to the battlefield in no uncertain future. If the battle is indistinguishable for a while, it will become a difficult situation to ride a tiger. ”

He Xuan smiled and said, "There is no need to worry about the king's rule. He stood up and pointed to the frozen Yellow River outside the city, "The Liao people have reinforcements, and we also have a reinforcement army." When General Yang came, he had sent a horse to observe the water potential of the big river, it was the sky that destroyed the Liao thief, the river ice in the downstream has not yet melted, but the ice and snow in the upper reaches of the river have melted, and now the river water in the upper reaches of the river has risen very high, as long as more than a dozen openings are dug in the crumbling embankment, the Liao cavalry still says that it comes and goes like the wind! It's just a fish swimming in a kettle, a turtle in the mud. ”

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