"The cavalry of the Liao army stopped our army, intending to delay our march, how do you think we should deal with it?"

Zhao Xingde looked around at the generals and asked. His robes and armor were covered with mud and stains. For more than a month, like the soldiers of the Northern Expedition, he did not eat much, could not relieve his armor, and when the roads were rough and muddy, he personally carried military rations and pushed artillery carts. Under the example of leading by example, although the march of the Northern Expedition was arduous, there were very few deserters along the way, and Zhao Xingde's prestige in the army was increasing day by day.

"Do you still need to ask? The enemy stopped in front of him, and he raised his troops to kill him. Yang Zaixing said with a grin, "I am willing to be a striker!" Lu Mingyu and Luo Xianshi frowned at the same time, and suddenly couldn't hold back. Lu Mingyu hugged his fists and said: "The last general is only the order of the marshal, and the left military camp is willing to be the striker!" Luo Xianshi also came out and said: "The right military camp is also willing to be the striker!" But the tone was far less resolute than Yang Zaixing and Lu Mingyu. They hesitated a little just now, because they were worried that although there were 50,000 people in their headquarters, most of them were foot soldiers, and there were only more than 3,000 cavalry. In the plains, even if the infantry army is defeated, the infantry army will not be able to catch up with the cavalry, but if it is defeated, it is likely that the entire army will be annihilated, and even if it is defeated, it will swallow up the Cao Di army that followed behind. However, in any case, letting the cavalry of the Zhenguo Army play the vanguard greatly swept the face of the Baoyi Army. Even if there is a mountain of swords and a sea of fire in front of them, Lu Mingyu and Luo Xianshi can't let Yang Zaixing specialize in beauty.

"What a guts!" Zhao Xingde nodded, "Now the Liao army only cares about delaying my march because it wants to drag the war until the cold weather." The Khitan people grew up in a bitter cold land, and the people and horses are getting colder and stronger, while the Duonan people in our army are neither tolerant to cold nor have winter clothes. And we stayed here for one more day, and the thieves calmly slaughtered and plundered for another day, and thousands of people in our homeland suffered because of this......"

"Husband fights, courage too! Today's trend, like two rats meeting in a tunnel 'hole', the brave wins, and the cowardly loses! The officers and men of the battalions were all draped, loaded with ammunition and 'medicine', and the whole army was ready to move forward with a deer antler formation! His eyes were like lightning, swept over the generals, and said awe-inspiringly, "The artillery battalion opened fire first to bombard the enemy cavalry, and General Yang immediately led his troops to charge into battle." ”

"Obey!!" The generals agreed loudly, the military orders were passed down, and the battalions were ready one after another.

"All the guns are aimed at the Liao dogs, and they will be destroyed!" Tong Yunjie said coldly. "Hurry, hurry! With a double 'medicine'! ”

After a large number of Xia artillerymen left the Northern Expeditionary Army with Liu Zhijian, Gao Su and others and marched westward, Zhao Xingde asked for a group of 'fine' artillery officers from the Han army, and Tong Yunjie temporarily took over the position of the artillery battalion commander. "Hi-one, two, three!" "'Medicine' pack!" "Double 'medicine'!" "Double 'medicine'!" With the shouting of the artillery commander, the artillery battalion in the center of the camp was busy, and the artillery men were busy putting their horses on the gun carriages, and were busy changing the position of the iron barrel guns. The tarpaulin on the cannon body was pulled apart, and the cannon body exuded a 'mysterious' metallic luster in the morning light, and they were the only items in the army that were polished every day, and some gunners methodically piled the black shells and 'medicine' bags behind the artillery positions in accordance with the order.

Yang Zaixing took five hundred 'fine' horsemen to the side of the camp early. Under the pacification of the cavalry, the horses that were eager to try lay on their sides obediently. The five hundred cavalry easily hid in the antlers and muskets erected by the infantry camp. The open area of the front is reserved for the artillery to wreak havoc, and Yang Zaixing does not want to die on the shells behind him. The cavalry in the first battle was not much more expensive, just to hit the morale of the enemy, and to really defeat the Liao army, it was still necessary to rely on the whole army to press the 'hand-to-hand' fight. The cavalry of the White Battalion led by Yang Zaixing was originally the 'elite' of the Zhenguo Army, and these 500 soldiers were even more experienced on the battlefield for a long time and were not afraid of death. The war is imminent, and no one is 'exposed' timid, but their faces are excited.

"Lord Commander, let's charge into battle!"

"Wait for them!" Yang Zaixing glanced back at the artillery battalion that was busy with 'chaos', and spat out a mouthful of thick phlegm.

"Don't forget to put your antlers on your back!" The centurion in the foot camp also shouted, "Check the triangular pile!" "Check the wrap 'legs'!" "Check the musket!" When the 'engagement' was fought, the infantry had the most fragments on their bodies, and the most pre-battle inspections. "Those Zhenguo troops are really leisurely, and they ride four 'legs' when they march." In the 12th battalion of the left army, which had just vacated a camp for the cavalry, hearing that his subordinates were envious of the cavalry, the army made Lu Zhijie spit out a piece of saliva and scolded in a low voice: "This gang kills a thousand knives." He suppressed the jealousy of the cavalrymen who usually flaunted their might, forced his face to change from apprehension and gloom to excitement and agitation, pulled out his waist knife, pulled out his voice like a broken gong, and shouted: "It's time! On the battlefield! The eldest husband threw himself out like a dice! The gold plate is a good win! Gamble! The dog's head that beheaded Yelu Dashi returned to his hometown! ”

"Ha, hahaha!" There was a burst of laughter in the battalion, and the soldiers took up the guns and stood in the ranks in turn.

"Dad, mother! Wife! My son is not filial," Murong Xi held the handle of the knife tightly, closed his eyes and said, "I am finally fortunate to invest in General Zhao, today is pitiful, let me slaughter a few more Liao dogs, and avenge you!" The camp guards wrapped the strips of cloth tightly around their hands. Unlike other soldiers, their eyes were full of hatred, and as soon as the Liao cavalry appeared in the field of vision, many people gritted their teeth and asked for battle. Many of the northern volunteers were destroyed in the southern invasion of Liao, and Zhao Xingde selected the tall and strong among them, organized them into a trap camp, and specialized in competing with the Liao cavalry when they were in contact with the short soldiers, and the "dirty work" when cleaning up the battlefield was generally 'handed over' to the trapped camp to do.

Several miles away, Yelu Tiege observed Song Jun's movements with a clairvoyant mirror, and there was no joy or anger on his face.

Behind Yelu Tiege were the generals of the Khitan, Xi, 'Nu' Zhen and Murwei tribes who wore helmets and armor. Several generals used clairvoyance mirrors to observe the Song army opposite. The generals chased the Song army all the way from the southeast to the Central Plains, and the original worry had already turned into anger. A few days ago, people were clamoring to teach the Nanban army a lesson. The Song army formed a formation under the nose of the Liao army to protect itself, and if it launched an attack, it would inevitably be beyond its strength. For this decisive battle, the preparations made by the North Courtyard are also sufficient. Because he was worried that the Xia State would suddenly attack from Guanzhong, and the army of Beigui would suffer from the enemy, the Liao Emperor Yelu Dashi led the army to retreat to Yingchang Mansion first. After the 70,000 horses under the command of Yelu Tiege, the privy envoy of the Northern Court, surveyed the terrain one step earlier, waited for the Song army to pursue into the plain, and used the advantage of the cavalry Doma to delay the Song army's marching speed.

"No matter how stupid Zhao Xingde is, he won't attack the cavalry with infantry on flat ground, right?" Wanyan Zongbi thought secretly, "If according to Yelu's words, the Xia Kingdom occupies Luoyang, and Henan has become a 'chicken' rib, and Your Majesty even has the intention of surrendering Hebei." As long as Zhao Xingde slowly marched after us, he could regain the reputation of a large territory, so why should he take the risk? ”

He looked back behind him, under the hill where Yelu Tiege was stationed, the Khitan riders were desperately 'pumping' mules and horses, hundreds of horses spraying white foam, and the horses' hooves stepped out of the soft soil one by one, and dragged dozens of 'doors' of iron bucket cannons up little by little. Yelu Tiege set a trap for the Song people, and when they broke through the 30,000 Khitan cavalry, they would find that the artillery and infantry were in front of them. In order to prevent the Song people from detecting, these iron barrel cannons are lightweight, and are not arranged on the hills in advance, but are dragged by the horses and the cavalry to act together, only before the decisive battle, after the horses drove away the Song army scout cavalry, they were temporarily hurriedly arranged on the hills, which can condescendingly bombard the Song army's strong formation. In addition, there were more than 30,000 'Nu' Zhen battalion and Xi army camp foot soldiers arranged around the hill to prevent the Song cavalry from rushing over and destroying the iron barrel cannon.

The 'female' real soldiers were all hastily and numb, holding their blades around the iron barrel cannon position. Wanyan Zongbi couldn't help but feel a humiliation in his heart, nearly 70,000 'female' true warriors who followed the Liao army south, more than 30,000 people died under the city of Ezhou, more than 10,000 people were taken away by Yelu Dashi, and more than 10,000 people were left here. In order to prevent them from rebelling and escaping, the Khitan cavalry had three or even four horses, while the 'female' real soldiers rode donkeys, mules and other mounts plundered from the Song Dynasty, and they could only come down to fight on the battlefield.

"The Song people seem to be weak, but they are very tenacious...... What kind of character is Zhao Xingde...... If you knew this was the case, why bother in the first place? Wanyan Zongbi was feeling a trace of remorse in his heart, and his thoughts were in chaos, "Boom-" "Boom-" He was awakened by the sound of a huge cannon. "Damn it!" He heard Yelu Tiege scold in a low voice, "'Bastard' account! Damn it! "Wan Yan Zongbi hurriedly put his eyes on the clairvoyant mirror, only to see that in the roar of the cannonballs, one after another 'shot' into the cavalry group from the opposite side, the heavy cannonballs carried a huge might, and a piece of blood 'flower' flew up where it passed.

"What's going on?" Wanyan Zongbi controlled himself and didn't exclaim, "It's obviously out of the range of the iron bucket cannon!" ”

He looked at it in disbelief, and then moved the clairvoyant vision to the opposite side, puffs of green smoke rose from the Song army's large array, and cannonballs flew from there. "The Song people are too cunning," someone next to him scolded indignantly, "In the first few 'engagements', why didn't I see that their artillery could hit so far?" Wan Yan Zongbi shook his head, according to the current 'firing' range of the Song army's artillery, the death zone to be passed through by the attack on the infantry formation has been greatly extended.

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