The Liao and Song armies had been facing each other in Shuzhou for several months, and both sides knew the enemy's reality well.

"Out of the camp! Array—" With shouts and shouts, the gunners wore armor and formed a neat little phalanx with the command as a unit. Both the officers and the standard-bearers stood in front of the left side of the phalanx. Unlike the Liao army, which was accustomed to signing the army as the front formation, Yue Fei's formation was based on most of the Zhenguo Army as the front formation, and the Baoyi Army and part of the Zhenguo Army as the middle army. The battalions of the Zhou and County Righteous Army, which had weak combat effectiveness, were protected in the rear to avoid being impulsively attacked by the Liao army.

The Zhenguo Army and the Baoyi Army are mainly gunners, and the formations and training methods are similar. However, the color of the military robe is very different, the military robe of the Zhenguo Army is red, wearing two iron armor inside, and the ordinary soldiers wear helmets decorated with red tassels, which looks like a sea of fire from a distance. The robes of the Baoyi Army are black, with paper armor unique to the southeast inside, wearing an iron helmet, and looking from a distance, there is a cold light shining in the dark color. Behind the two armies of Zhenguo and Baoyi, there is a state and county volunteer battalion with mixed uniforms, and the Baoyi army has spent a lot of effort to make the archers of the state and county volunteers form a line of defense in the rear. But in fact, Yue Fei and Zhao Xingde did not have much hope for the combat effectiveness of these volunteers, and if they really wanted to defeat the Liao army, they had to rely on well-trained elites.

There was a light rain, and the river breeze carried a damp breath, but there was a hint of scorching smell in the air. Dozens of iron barrel cannons of the Baoyi Army artillery battalion began to roar, and heavy solid round iron bullets flew towards the Liao army camp one after another. Before launching the attack, Gao Su had already determined the position of the Liao army camp by firing cold artillery. Although the Liao army has more than 20,000 elite cavalry, it is at an absolute disadvantage in terms of firearms. In the face of the artillery bombardment of the Song army, the counterattack of the Liao army's artillery appeared to be sparse. Temuge tentatively sent thousands of cavalry, trying to pass through the flat area by the river and quickly rush to the Song army's artillery fortification.

The sailors of the Henghai Navy lined up and cruised on the river, and all the guns of the black hole were aimed at the river bank. Han Shizhong used a clairvoyant mirror to observe the progress of the battle on the shore. The sound of killing from the shore shook the sky, most of them were barbarians, and the cavalry under Tiemuge's command was more fierce and barbaric than the ordinary Liao army, and the killings caused in various places were also heavier.

"Fire!" Han Shizhong sank down. The flag officer passed down the military order. The flag on the ship is shaking.

"Great!" The guns of the various gun emplacements shouted the order "Fire!" The gunners lit the fuse with solemn faces. Boom" "Boom" With the violent shaking of the hull, one after another shells rushed from the river to the riverbank. The Liao cavalry, which was charging, was attacked by both frontal and flank artillery fire at the same time, and was hit in one piece. Some cavalry subconsciously bowed their bodies, as if facing the arrows of the infantry army, but whenever the cannonball hit, they mercilessly penetrated the horses and people together, and some of the horses were frightened and jumped and ran around, and the cavalry could not control them, and the formation began to scatter. Approaching the Song army's artillery fort, the cavalry desperately urged the war horses and began to straighten up, and the scimitars reflected patches of cold light in the clairvoyant mirror.

The artillery fortifications of the Baoyi army were actually equivalent to low cities, and the cavalry of the Liao army seemed to be able to leap over them. But in reality, the closer they got to the fort, the more intense the side-fire they encountered. At the same time, the sound of "bang" and "bang" fire rang out from the fort. In front of the fort was a position of the musketeers slightly below the fort. When the Liao cavalry rushed into a range of dozens of paces, in addition to the artillery, the gunners on the fort also began to fire guns intensively. In the firearms battalion of the Liao army, the fire gun is also regarded as a type of artillery, called a hand cannon or small cannon. Compared with the bow and arrow, the accuracy of the firearm is very low, therefore, the Baoyi army did not spend too much time to train aiming, facing the enemy to shoot the gun, just seeking a fast word, the firearm firing is far more complex than the crossbow shooting, can be subdivided into more than a dozen actions, but under the repeated training of many months, now the speed of the Baoyi army's firecracker has caught up with the fast crossbowman.

"Change the shotgun! Change the shotguns" shouted from the fort. The gunners scrambled to push the cylinders full of shotguns into the chambers. "Boom" "Boom" The cannon roared again, scattering hundreds of shotguns on the cavalry approaching the fort. Almost instantly, a bloody death zone was formed in front of the Song army's fortification, and the approaching horses fell one after another, and few of the cavalry survived. Just as the gunners were about to change their spears, the Liao cavalry behind saw that the situation was not good, turned their horses' heads, and tried to bypass the front of the Song army's densely distributed artillery positions, and rushed up the artillery fortress from the flank and rear.

"General Zhao, Beiyu wants to copy the back road." The officer who gave the order said loudly.

Zhao Xingde shook his head and continued to observe the Liao army's main formation in front of him with a clairvoyant mirror. Although the Liao army that raided the fort was frustrated, there was no endless cavalry behind it, and it seemed that the Liao army was just a test in this round. On the flanks and rear of the fort, because of the limited number of artillery, the Baoyi army did not arrange many gun emplacements, but the tooth barracks, which were mainly mine-throwers, were guarded there.

Du Fujiao looked at the cavalry who were getting closer and closer, and raised his right hand.

"Ready—" shouted the officer of the Tooth Barracks. The thunder throwers stood on the fort, holding the earth-shattering thunder in one hand and the fire breaker in the other. Seeing the cavalry of the Liao army getting closer and closer, many people's breathing couldn't help but become heavy. This row of thunder throwers is a head taller than ordinary soldiers, and the body is not covered with a simple two-gear armor, but a well-protected trap armor, just for the convenience of throwing, the trap armor is removed. In addition to the earth-shattering thunder, the blades of the melee are inserted into the side of the thunder thrower, and the left and right military tooth barracks use variegated long soldiers, such as long-handled heavy axes, spears, long-handled maces, Mo knives, etc., and the Chinese army tooth barracks are one-color spears. Throwing a Megatron Thunder requires more guts, not as complex as a firebolt or as difficult to train as a crossbowman.

The enemy cavalry was only a hundred and ten paces away, and without Du Fujiao's order, the archers of the tooth battalion had already begun to bend their bows and arrows to suppress the rush of the enemy cavalry from a distance. Because the earth-shattering thunder could not reach far, Zhao Xingde put the few archers of the Baoyi Army in the Ya barracks. The Liao army under Tiemuge came from the grassland tribes, and the cavalry was its strength. The artillery fire on the flanks and rear of the fort was not as dense as the front, giving the charging cavalry a chance to breathe, only to see the cavalry of the Liao army controlling the horse with two legs, almost standing on the stirrups, bending the bow and arrows on the back of the horse like waves, the sound of "whooshing" was endless, and the arrow feathers were speeding through the air.

"My dear, do these brutes grow up with horses?"

Ma Yuanyi, Xu Qiqi and others looked at the cavalry of the Liao army in amazement, and more of the volunteers turned as white as paper, and the cavalry of the Liao army did not impact the Raozhou camp behind the fort. But they trembled terribly, and some of them trembled unconsciously with spears in their hands. Compared with the pale soldiers, the battalion commander Zhang Jiurong's cheeks showed a sickly red, he was wearing thick leather armor, looking at the Liao cavalry not far away through the gap in the wooden fence, and muttered: "Kill yourself and become a benevolent, it will be today." ”

"These people are like evil spirits," the deputy commander would whisper, "can we stop them?" ”

Zhang Jiurong's face froze, he looked back at his subordinates who had shown timidity, and a feeling of shame suddenly surged into his head, "This is my fault!" Zhang Jiurong said in his heart.

"If you can't stop it, you have to block it," After yelling out in a gaffe, Zhang Jiurong forcibly suppressed the anger in his heart, slowed down his tone, but said louder, "No matter how fierce the Beiyu is, this battle can't be retreated." If this battle is lost, the entire southeast will be over, and Raozhou will also be finished, you, you, you-" He looked at the subordinates who were still in doubt one by one, and said word by word, "If you lose this battle, your family, your relatives, will suffer." ”

Thinking of Youyan under the rule of the Liao army, and thinking of the tragic situation that happened in Henan and Hebei, Zhang Jiurong's eyes became red, and he said loudly: "The coward who turned around and fled today will definitely regret it in the future!" I, Zhang Jiurong, have to fight with Beiyu to the last breath today, even if I die here, I will not give up! Zhang Jiurong rarely spoke so loudly, after speaking, he only felt that there seemed to be cold air in the cracks of his bones, as if in order to hide his feelings, he took out the long sword on his waist, held it in his hand, and faced the Liao cavalry in the distance. Although the way he held his sword seemed to be very layman, no one in the camp laughed at him. The momentum of seeing death as if it were home can always be a little intimidating. Zhang Jiurong usually doesn't care much about the affairs in the camp, but the distribution of military salaries and the food and clothing of the soldiers are quite thoughtful. Although the soldiers in the battalion looked down on him, they still obeyed the battalion in appearance. At this moment, in front of the menacing cavalry of the Liao Army, when everyone was weak in their hearts, this scholar system, who was usually despised by everyone, actually burst out with a courage that was usually unknown to everyone. The eyes of the hundreds of soldiers in the battalion looking at Zhang Jiurong seemed to have some unusual meaning.

"Zhang Tong's system is like this, and we have no other way out," Ma Yuanyi sighed, "Let's fight." ”

"Let's fight." Xu Qiqi also nodded. The soldiers of the Raozhou battalion clenched the blades in their hands, and the military heart just now floated like a bubble. People's hearts are always like this, when they give up the last bit of luck, they give birth to a wave of courage in despair.

At this time, the roundabout Liao cavalry rushed into the area about thirty or forty paces behind the side of the artillery base, and the battle here also entered a fierce hand-to-hand encounter.

"Ready-" "Ignition-" With the officer's command, one by one the earth-shattering thunderbolts ignited, and the fuses burned with zilazila, and many people's faces were solemn, if they couldn't throw this thing out in time, they would definitely blow themselves to the ground. The Liao cavalry gradually rushed to the front, but the speed had to slow down, and the Song army arranged a lot of horse traps, antlers and thistles near the fort, and the Liao army had to carefully bypass these things.