"Zhao Xingde's tooth soldiers are still capable of fighting." Yue Fei put down the clairvoyant mirror and turned around, "Let each battalion select the elite and practice the thunder thrower." ”

"Yes!" Zhang Xian said in a deep voice, he had always been arrogant, and an unnatural look flashed on his face.

Although in the military report submitted by the Baoyi Army, the thunder throwers of the Ya Barracks made many exploits, Yue Fei also witnessed the thunder throwers of the Zhenguo Army for the first time. The generals of the Song Dynasty mostly rode on foot, and for this reason, they studied various formations. However, Yue Fei has always advocated learning from the Han and Tang dynasties, and only by establishing a strong cavalry and attacking the northern captives can he expel the Liao army from the Central Plains. Although the head of the infantry camp of the Zhenguo Army could also endure hard fighting, it still could not satisfy Yue Fei. Therefore, the elite of the Zhenguo Army, the Beiwei Battalion and the Tabai Battalion are all cavalry.

Volunteer battalions from various states and counties gathered in Shuzhou to prepare for a decisive battle with the Liao army. Both the Zhenguo Army and the Baoyi Army recruited heroes from among the volunteers to expand themselves, and the headquarters of the army each expanded to more than 10,000 people. Since the northern captives entered the Kou, the southeast has been full of rumors, and it can be said that hundreds of industries have withered, and the people are not happy. All states and counties can quickly recruit Dao Ding Zhuang to form a volunteer battalion. Compared with the state and county volunteer barracks, the military salaries recruited by the Zhenguo Army and the Baoyi Army are generous, and the rewards for military achievements are also fast, and the dependents of the soldiers can move into the walled city to live, which is much more stable than outside. Therefore, for the people, joining the army has become a good way out. It's just that in this way, there are more soldiers and fewer people, and the burden on the ordinary people in Jingxiang and Jiangnan is heavier. There are even some people who have made a statement to the Prime Minister's Mansion that they have reached the edge of official coercion and civil rebellion.

"Please allow the battalion to go into battle." Zhang Xian suddenly asked Zhandao.

Yue Fei groaned slightly, looked at the Liao cavalry like a dark cloud in the distance, and nodded: "The Beiwei battalion will go out to drive the cavalry first, and the former military camp is ready to capture the Liao army camp," he turned his head and said to the herald, "Inform General Zhao that once the enemy camp is captured, please keep up with the artillery battalion quickly and not delay." The herald rushed down the camp almost at the same time as Zhang Xian.

Nearly 2,000 cavalry troops from the cavalry camp have slowly come out of battle. Some of these cavalrymen were born in the forbidden army, and some were Hebei heroes who fled here. These people are all skilled in horsemanship, and in addition to riding and shooting, they are especially good at horse spearmanship. And Zhang Xian personally commanded the first capital of more than 300 horsemen, all of whom are left and right to open the bow, do not need to turn their bodies more, open the bow and shoot arrows very fast, known as the left shooting capital.

The cavalry of the Beiwei battalion slowly came out of the formation, and formed a long snake formation in front of the Chinese military camp, Zhang Xian raised the horse pistol high in his right hand, signaled his subordinates to form a little team, and then put down the mask. Compared with the northern captives, the Song Dynasty lacked horses, and it was difficult for the Song army to be cavalry-based, but because of this, the Song army has always been stingy with the equipment of elite cavalry. The cavalrymen of Beiweidu wear iron armor and horse hangers, which is just the standard of the Hebei battalion, except that the war horses are better raised, and the armor and knives and guns are more polished, which is not much different from other heavy armor Song cavalry. However, in ordinary training, the Beiwei battalion has always been heavily armoured, rushing steep slopes, jumping over trenches, and the slightest mistake will be punished with whipping. As the cavalry followed Zhang Xian's movements, they lowered the iron curtain connected to their helmets, and the formation stood still, with an awe-inspiring aura in their lives.

The back battalion is Yue Fei's personal soldiers, every soldier, Yue Fei can call out the name, he looked from left to right along the formation, when he saw the back of a soldier with a military flag hanging on a horse pistol in the middle, his eyes were slightly condensed for a moment, even if it was the back, he could recognize that this cavalry was Yue Yun. Although Yue Yun is Yue Fei's eldest son, he fights in the most dangerous place, and his treatment is no different from that of ordinary soldiers, which is also one of the reasons why Yue Fei governs the army strictly, but the soldiers do not complain.

The iron armor sounded slightly, Zhang Xian held the spear in one arm, pointed diagonally forward, and the war horse ran in small steps. Yue Yun held high the military flag and followed behind him, starting from Yue Fei, the general will be the vanguard in battle, and the retreat will be broken, which is also the tradition of the Zhenguo Army. The cavalry urged the war horses and followed behind Zhang Xian one after another. More than 2,000 horsemen slowly rode their horses, evolving from a long snake formation to a geese marching formation, and the two wings continued to drag back, becoming a conical formation that was most suitable for chiseling through the enemy camp.

Zhang Xian has been riding his horse at the forefront, his eyes are firmly fixed on the Liao cavalry in front of him like a dark cloud, he didn't look back at his formation at all, only by the rhythmic sound of horses' hooves and the sonorous sound of iron armor in his ears, he always knew that his subordinates calmly completed the transformation of the battle formation in the advance. If it was an ordinary cavalry army, such a change of formation would inevitably cause chaos, but when the Beiwei battalion made it, it was extremely familiar, and even the legendary horse dance performance was general.

The cavalry of the Liao army was faintly in a commotion, and Brother Temu squinted at the Song cavalry coming out of the battle, and a trace of dark clouds shrouded his face.

The Liao cavalry numbered tens of thousands, most of whom were waiting for an opportunity behind the forward camps. However, since June, the weather in the south of the Yangtze River has gradually become very hot and humid, and the Liao soldiers, who are accustomed to the cool climate, are very unadaptable, and both people and war horses have begun to give birth to some inexplicable epidemics. Some of the clansmen have secretly said that they want to return to the grassland to spend the summer. Since the Baoyi Army and the Henghai Navy arrived in Shuzhou successively, the pressure felt by this part of the Liao Army has doubled. The Liao soldiers who went south suffered one less dead or wounded. With the delay of time, more and more Song troops gathered in Shuzhou, although most of them were some unwarlike state and county volunteers, but these volunteers were like streams flowing into the river, providing soldiers and reserve battalions for the elite army of the Song State.

Brother Temu repeatedly urged Yelu Bijie, the capital of the Eastern Route Army of the Southern Expedition, to increase troops in Baozhou, but Hangzhou delayed sending troops on the grounds that Jiangnan was undecided and the Jingdong thieves were about to move. Jiangnan East Road was the richest place in the Song Kingdom, and the Khitan generals plundered in Jiangning and Hangzhou, filling their pockets, as if horses had broken into the forage field, and no one was willing to leave. Later, Jerod Biljie took the holy decree of Jerod Dashi and sent Temuge. Brother Temu wanted to abandon the signing army and led the cavalry of his headquarters to retreat to Jiangning, but was strictly forbidden by Yelu Bijie, so that he must firmly attract the main force of the Song army in Shuzhou. "The life of the Khitan people is fate, but the lives of my tribe are not fate?" It's not that no one complained at the bottom, and they were all suppressed by Brother Temu.

Unexpectedly, the Song people also had such a strong cavalry, Brother Temu's eyes were slightly cold, his right hand raised the horsewhip, shook it left and right, and then pointed forward, with this action, more than 6,000 horsemen of the entire front army urged the horses to step forward. Since the southern invasion, the cavalry from various tribes has long been changed into distinctive armor, but out of habit, they are not fully armored like the cavalry of the Song army. With the dispatch of the Liao army, the artillery of the Song army's forward fort accelerated its fire, and round iron shells roared into the cavalry, swinging pieces of blood, forcing the Liao cavalry to disperse, and could not maintain a dense charging formation like the Beiwei battalion.

"Damn Nanban!" A hint of fierceness flashed in Brother Temu's eyes.

The Song army moved its artillery forward overnight, and although the temporary artillery forts were short, the shells fired were able to cover the entire battlefield. In the case of weak artillery, the cavalry of the Liao army could only stand outside the artillery fire of the Song army, and this start of the charge entered the range of the Song army's artillery. This was the first frontal battle between the cavalry of the two armies since the Liao army's southern invasion. Prior to this, although the Song army had repeatedly relied on harassment, sailors, and trickery to win, Temuge was still confident in the strength of his cavalry. As long as the two armies were mixed together and a melee situation was formed, the artillery fire of the Song army would not be able to play a role. After so many days of fighting, Brother Temu also knew that the general of the Southern Barbarians was a very pedantic person. The Song army even informed the Liao army that they could temporarily cease fighting and collect the corpses, but Tiemu Ge saw at a glance that this was a delaying tactic and sternly refused. It is impossible for such a pedantic general of the Southern Dynasty to indiscriminately bombard his own soldiers in battle.

The two cavalry were like two surging torrents, the speed of the two sides was getting faster and faster, and there was no intention of giving in, until they finally collided together, Yue Fei saw in the clairvoyant mirror that the back of the camp wearing red military robes cut deep into the loose formation of the Liao army, and the corners of his mouth were slightly upturned. With Zhang Xian and Yue Yun as the pioneers, the result of a tough encounter, there was no one who was in harmony. Both sides have pushed the speed of the war horse to the extreme, the balance of victory is rapidly tilted towards the back of the camp, their formation is tighter, the armor is thicker, the spear is more superb, in the moment of the wrong horse, the horse gun is just right to pick the opposite Liao cavalry off the horse, but they have little damage, the red robe of the back cavalry is like a sharp blade, where it rolls over and opens a wave of blood, after a dozen breaths, it chiseled through the enemy formation. Under the command of Zhang Xian, the Beiwei battalion circled half a circle with a very small radius, and almost without a whole team, it rushed again to the already scattered cavalry group of the Liao army like a hungry tiger pounceing on a sheep.

"I didn't expect that." Lu Mingyu frowned. "I didn't expect that." Luo Xian sighed with empathy. The generals of the Baoyi Army, who have always been competitive and competitive, also had to obey at this time. Even Zhao Xingde didn't expect that the Beiwei Battalion was so capable of fighting, he turned around and asked, "How is it?" ”

Ma Rui sighed: "I thought that the Song Dynasty was only good with bows and crossbows, and this cavalry was also elite in Guanxi." ”

Zhao Xingde nodded and said in a low voice: "The Liao thief will not give up, is Brother Ma willing to go into battle and try?" ”

"Compete with the heroes of the world for a short time," Ma Rui said with a smile: "Ma can't ask for it." Zhao Xingde immediately gave the order to go down, and the cavalry battalions put on their horses one after another, and slowly moved to the side and rear of the fort. Ma Rui sat on his horse, carrying a big gun and waiting for the military order to attack.

At this time, the situation on the battlefield has changed, seeing that the Beiwei battalion is powerful, the Liao army changed its tactics, no longer rushing head-on with it, but divided into cavalry groups of different sizes to roam in all directions, relying on the advantage of cavalry archery, constantly firing arrows at the Beiwei battalion. Whenever the Beiwei battalion rushed over, the Liao cavalry scattered like flies.

Although the Liao army is good at cavalry archery, it does not make a separate battalion of warriors who can shoot the bow left and right, and for the cavalry who can only use the right hand to open the bow, the right side is the blind spot of archery. And under the protection of other cavalry, the left shot of the Beiwei battalion was shot again and again, when the two armies staggered, the arrows broke through the air, the Liao army fell off the horse, taking advantage of the Liao army's panic, the Beiwei battalion caught up again, the gun picked the arrow, the Liao army fell off the horse, and later, it was only in all sides of the fight, and did not dare to approach the Beiwei camp, the arrows shot far away, were also weak and weak, and even landed in front of the Song army's war horse.

"The Northern Capture Army is already depressed." The flag officer rushed down, "Chuan Yue Jie Marshal order, the king commands the front army to seize the enemy's camp, and must not delay or delay, otherwise military law will be engaged." ”