Coming to the far city, Cui Xianxi tried his best to restrain the infantry cavalry formation, and asked how the strange soldiers in the distance were doing. The cavalry of the Goryeo army was weak, and even the officers who watched the battle were incompetent. Laiyuan City is located on the west bank of the Yalu River, and the artillery of the Xia Kingdom is erected around Xili Xu. The cavalry of the two armies exchanged troops hundreds of paces northwest of the Xia State Camp, and only men and horses were seen fighting together at the head of the city. It was clear that the Xia cavalry lion fought the rabbit with all their strength and scattered the Goryeo cavalry with the strongest impact of the arrow, but the head of the city shouted loudly: "The enemy army has few horses and is surrounded by our legion." ”

The two cavalry armies clashed, raising dust and covering the sky, and the Goryeo army under the city could only see the shadow of the shadow, Cui Xianxi did not have it, and said with great joy: "General Huang is really a brave general." He thought that the cavalry had broken through into the enemy's flank, so he immediately ordered: "Press up and flank the enemy with General Huang." In the midst of the roar of the artillery, the order was particularly inspiring, and the officers shouted loudly to urge the soldiers to move forward in formation. Coming to the far city, the artillery camp was still a mile away, and the artillery fire was neither fierce nor accurate. The Goryeo army also gradually overcame its fear, so under the urging of the officers, the forward sword and shield hands were in front, the bows and crossbows were in the back, and there were 200 horsemen in the rear to support the soldiers and horses to make Choi Xianxi, and the army formed a tight formation and slowly pressed up.

There was a touch of fish belly white in the eastern sky, where the sea and the sky met, the warships of the fourth battalion of Chengying set sail again, traced the river, and only anchored between Baozhou and Laiyuan County, and the twenty four-inch guns on the left and right sides blocked the river for several miles, cutting off the connection between the Baozhou Goryeo Army and Laiyuan County.

At the head of Baozhou City, which is separated by a river, Dutong Jin Xianrong's face sank like water, and he watched the battle with a clairvoyant mirror. Choi Hyun-hee led the army to battle under the city for a long time, and the big array finally moved forward. Jin Xianrong raised the clairvoyant mirror slightly, and crossed the vast battlefield, he saw clouds of black smoke rising from time to time on the enemy barracks, and he could almost see round iron bullets cutting through the air in arcs, which seemed to be much less powerful than the shells fired by the sea ships. In addition to artillery, there was no other weapon on the enemy camp that could hit Lixu, and Jin Xianrong's face slowed down slightly. The elite of the three armies and six guards led by Cui Xianxi were twice as many as the enemy, occupying the advantage of the base. And the enemy's greatest reliance, which can be counted, is only ten cannons.

On the battlefield, Cui Xianxi's feeling was completely different, with the rhythm of the war drums at the head of the city, more than 1,300 cavalry formed a tight formation and slowly advanced. According to the Tang art of war, the two armies clashed, firing a strong crossbow at one hundred and fifty paces, archers shooting arrows at sixty paces, and beginning to engage in short combat when entering twenty paces. However, just three hundred paces away, the enemy's artillery fire began to rage, and the cast-iron shells weighing five or six pounds did not fly very fast, but with great might. And if the cannonball hits the soldiers in the front, the remaining strength is not much exhausted, and the wooden shield is useless at all. The shells had to penetrate at least two or three non-commissioned men. The army commanded by Cui Xianxi was elite, and the foot soldiers were mostly dressed in leather armor covered with nail bubbles, and only the more than 200 cavalry gathered around Cui Xianxi were wearing iron armor. An oncoming arrow can only kill one person. The most of the shells that were fired into the front line could penetrate the rear of ten people before stopping.

Under the black smoke, the enemy camp was silent, and it became more and more difficult to see. Only the sound of artillery rang out from time to time, and the fire flickered in the black smoke, accompanied by the hissing of shells across the air. Every time a cannon sounded, Cui Xianxi's heart jumped suddenly, he was wearing a sturdy fish scale armor, surrounded by more than 200 cavalry in the rear, it was the safest place in the whole army, and it was still so. The other Goryeo soldiers were even more terrified. If it weren't for the fact that this army had also fought against the Jurchen tribes in the northeast and fought real bloody battles, I am afraid that they would have scattered and fled in all directions due to fear. "General Huang's cavalry detour from the flank should also be killed, why haven't you solved the enemy artillery fortress?" A cloud hung over Choi Hyun-hee's heart.

The formation became more and more chaotic, and the various captains and deputy lieutenants were all shouting, trying their best to control their subordinates not to flee in panic. Everywhere the enemy's shells passed, the surrounding soldiers were desperately crowding to the side, and no more than a dozen people were knocked down at any time, but in order to put in order to put the hundreds of soldiers in disarray, the speed of the entire large array was delayed. As usual, hold down the formation and march slowly at a distance of one hundred and fifty paces, neither letting the warriors advance nor the weaker falling behind, so as to keep the formation tight. However, under the pressure of artillery fire, the front of the front team hesitated, and the officers behind wanted to quickly pass this damn distance, and they couldn't bear it anymore and shouted: "Hurry up!" "Hurry up!" "Let's go, let's go!" They even started to push and shove.

The chaotic scene made Choi Xianxi's mood sink to the extreme. As a hereditary martial artist, he also wanted to make a career on the battlefield, however, this place was not at all as he imagined, the enemy position was shrouded in thicker and thicker black smoke, and artillery shells were constantly being fired. On his own side, flesh and blood splattered, and brains burst. In these shocking scenes, the soldiers with severed limbs and hands were screaming and moaning loudly, and the faces of the officers and soldiers were pale as if they had encountered evil spirits in hell.

Marching in chaos and patience, finally getting closer and closer to the enemy position, Choi Xianxi could even see the enemy's face behind the trench, "It's fast, it's fast." Although the artillery bombardment caused a lot of confusion, as long as the hand-to-hand combat is concerned, the superiority of our own forces will be brought into play, "Even if there is no cavalry attacking from behind, we can win!" ”

The battle front team was already less than one hundred and twenty steps away from the enemy formation, and Cui Xianxi's right hand was raised upward, which was the military order for the archers to shoot arrows while advancing, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. At this moment, I suddenly heard Park Sung-gui shouting: "Be careful, adults! Before Cui Xianxi could react, a cannonball rushed into the stab with a low whistling stab, and with a bang, it hit the personal guard cavalry beside him, the cavalry was caught off guard, and with a muffled snort, the whole person was actually hit by the cannonball and flew up, which startled Cui Xianxi's war horse and neighed, almost knocking him down. The frightened war horse kept stumbling, and Cui Xianxi desperately grabbed its neck, barely having time to look left and right.

When the Goryeo army entered the range of 100 paces in front of the formation, the two wings of the Xia Kingdom began to fire with all their might. The gunners fired as fast as they could, and Gao Su even ordered two round iron shells to be fired at a time, and at the same time, the crossbowmen arranged on the two flanks of the artillery barracks also shot into the sky together, and the archers of the Chengying battalion were the elite of the whole army, and the speed of the arrows was extremely amazing without aiming, and the arrows flew out in a parabola almost one after another, and fell into the formation of the Goryeo army.

The sudden flank attack threw the Goryeo army into chaos, and the elite trained archers were killed before they could even draw an arrow. The Chinese army flinched, the front of the front almost collapsed, the rear was directly bombarded by artillery, the horses were kicked and scurried everywhere, and many cavalry were stripped off their horses.

In the chaos, Cui Xianxi controlled his war horse, drew his saber, and shouted loudly: "Rush and kill!" His eyes were bloodshot, the back of his knife slashed and smashed the confused officers around him, and he pointed to the Xia army camp a hundred steps away and shouted: "Kill it!" "Kill it!" At this time, the helpless generals finally came to their senses. The battle has reached this point, and within a hundred paces, the brave of the two armies wins. The bravery of the main general Cui Xianxi moved the cavalry generals from the martial arts class, and they drew their swords one after another, bypassing the chaotic foot soldiers in front, intending to cross the trench and thin the enemy formation. The other lieutenants and lieutenants saw that the soldiers and horses were rushing up with the cavalry, and they also did their best to reorganize their subordinates, and drove the soldiers to charge the enemy line after the cavalry.

This scene made Jin Xianrong, the commander of Baozhou City, also sigh with emotion: "General Cui is really brave!" ”

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The face of the trapped beast was hideous and terrifying, Zhao Xingde put down the clairvoyant mirror and said in a low voice: "This army is considered an elite in the Goryeo army. However, if the artillery fire had been a little more intense, I am afraid they would not have been able to get so close. He stood behind the main artillery position, ordering his own soldiers to surround him, and the subordinate officers guarding the four sides glanced over from time to time, but Zhao Xingde felt that these people had smiles in their eyes, and they were a little ashamed of their idleness. I don't know why, after he finally checked the sentry post last night, he slept dead in the military tent, and he slept so calmly and sweetly, when the sergeant reported that the Koreans went out of the city to attack at night, he found that there was no movement in the Chinese military tent except for snoring, and finally Ma Rui, Jian Cheng, and Du Chuijiao came in together to wake him up.

"It's strange, I don't usually sleep so dead," Zhao Xingde shook his head self-deprecatingly, "Is it really not exciting to this point about the battlefield?" ”

After finally being called to wake up, Zhao Xingde heard clearly that the Goryeo army was out of the city and lined up, and the first thing he said was: "What are you waiting for, the cannon fires, fires!" The centurion then led his own party according to the plan he had arranged. The frontal artillery fire did not stop from the beginning, and the gun commander only aimed at the enemy as much as possible, without too much interference. The artillery forts on both flanks were commanded by Gao Su and Liu Zhijian, and he only gave the order to open fire and no longer cared about it. Ma Rui and Jian Cheng in the rear had already solved the enemy's roundabout cavalry, Du Fujiao's sword and shield hand hundred-man team was on standby, and the trench defense line was Tang Qiyong watching.

When there was no alcohol before the war, the captain who led the troops could not wake up, which is not common in the army. This incident became a strange story among the sergeants, and some people swore that Ma Rui poured a whole jar of cold water on the captain's head to wake him up. Some say that a few centurions lifted the lieutenant up and threw him to the ground, while others say that the lieutenant did not wake up until the cannon was fired. All in all, this extraordinary general demeanor played a great role in encouraging the sergeants below the centurion to face the enemy with composure. Until now, the battle has been going very smoothly on all fronts. Except for those on standby, no centurion had sent back to ask the lieutenant what to do.