"Damn Nanban!" Captain Jeruzaban scolded.

The casualties caused by the Song army's charge just now were not large, but they made him lose face, especially after rushing into the camp, he 'exposed' the position of the iron barrel artillery barracks. Although His Majesty had not yet issued a decree to rebuke, Jerezaban himself was already full of anger and humiliation. After the Song army took advantage, it did not relent, and the large array of infantry troops was slowly pressed. The imperial account has not yet been ordered, and many Liao cavalry have already taken out their bows and arrows. Jerusaban also 'drawn' his scimitar, and kept looking back at the big account of the royal camp, and kept muttering curses in his mouth.

On the camp in the center of the imperial account, the generals of the Liao State also scolded one after another, some scolded Yelu Saban for being incompetent, and some scolded Nanban for cunning. Blocked by the Liao army, Cao Di's 100,000 army did not move forward, deep ditch barriers, and did not dare to challenge at all, so that the Liao army contempt for the Song army, and the top and bottom were also a little slack, just waiting for the north to eat Zhao Xingde's troops, and then work together to besiege and kill Cao Di's Song army. However, only half a day after another Song army arrived on the battlefield, it suddenly raised troops to invite them to fight, which surprised many Liao generals. The Khitan people have always been proud of the cavalry, and they were so humiliated by the cavalry of the Song army that the palace tent army was the commander of Yelu Yanshan, the right army was the commander of Urgon, and the infantry army was the commander of Xiao Hulira, etc., all of whom couldn't help but ask Yelu Dashi for battle.

"When the Song army is 'approaching', first use artillery to disperse its formation, and then Yanshan will lead the palace tent cavalry out of the battle, crush them, and defeat them."

Yelu Dashi looked expressionlessly at the banner with the word "Yue" fluttering in front of the Song army's big array. The cavalry of the Song State stepped on the camp and violently 'exposed' the position of the artillery, and the hidden artillery in the camp had lost its meaning. With the military order handed down, after the Liao army of various departments removed the tents, a straight earthen rampart line was 'exposed'. The Xi army, armed with bows, crossbows, swords and shields, stood on the earthen ramparts and waited for the battle. In the center of this defensive line, the Liao army secretly built a rammed earth platform seven feet high, three zhang wide, and thirty zhang long. Most of the barrel guns of the Liao army were arranged on this platform. The palace tent cavalry were clad in iron armor, and the detachments moved back and forth behind the central line of defense.

On the frontal battlefield, the autumn wind howled, the flags were blown and hunting, and the drums were beating non-stop. The large array of the Zhenguo army slowly moved forward, and Zhang Xian restrained the pace of the war horse, so that the speed of the cavalry was about the same as that of the foot soldiers. It was about a mile away from the Liao army's fortification, and the opposite side was still quiet, and more than 15,000 soldiers of the Zhenguo Army seemed to be marching in a silent wilderness. Zhang Xian couldn't help frowning: "The Liaoguo artillery team can endure close range before firing together, and the casualties of our army will be even heavier." "Many experienced veterans of the Zhenguo Army had a 'cloud' on their hearts, and some people cast worried eyes on each other.

"Hold on!" Zhang Xian shouted: "Calm down! Get ready to charge! Yue Yun nodded, he took a long breath, and held down the war horse that was leaping and 'wanting' to try. Nearly 5,000 cavalry from the Beiwei battalion followed the large formation of infantry and slowly marched forward, waiting for the enemy's barrel artillery to open fire. When he was three hundred steps away from the Liao army camp, "Boom! A loud bang broke the silence of the battlefield, and the barrel cannon threw a huge stone projectile with a huge whistling sound, "Bang! A sound fell between the phalanxes of the two Zhenguo military camps, and the inertia of the boulder plowed the loess out of a deep ditch, the ground shook, and some of the Zhenguo soldiers next to him staggered, lagging behind his comrades, and hurriedly grabbed half a step to continue to move forward.

The first 'door' fired the giant cannon named "'shooting' dragon", it was the largest 'door' on the Liao artillery fort, as it fired first, the other Khitan and Han gunners immediately lit the lead, and after an instant, the sound of "boom-" "boom-" "boom-" was endless. In order to achieve great power, in addition to stone bullets and iron bullets, gunpowder almost filled the entire barrel, and dozens of "bucket" barrels produced smoke when they fired together, which almost immediately enveloped the entire central battery. Countless round stone bullets whistled out of the smoke with a huge wind sound, some fell in front and back of the Song military formation, smashing the ground into huge pits and 'holes', and some fell on the Song military formation. Shoot 'the iron bullet, the projectile every time the crazy galloping horse into the dense phalanx, then fall a large number of soldiers, the round iron bullet with a huge momentum, often penetrate several soldiers in succession, after a bloody storm, the soldiers who were hit are either dead or wounded, the wounded screamed loudly, which is unbearable. The dense barrel shells caused huge casualties, and if it were an ordinary forbidden army, this round of shelling might have collapsed and fled.

"Good!" Captain Jerusaban couldn't hold back and shouted. The heavy iron guys are really powerful, and it is not in vain to 'spend' a lot of manpower and animal power to drag them from Yingchang Mansion to here, and His Majesty and the noble Khitans and the lowly signing army worked together, and under the cover of tents, secretly built a fort overnight.

"The knife is out of the sheath!" Jeruzaban shouted.

With this order, nearly 10,000 Khitan cavalry almost simultaneously 'drawn' their scimitars, their eyes burned forward, and someone leaned down and patted the mount's neck. The horses were afraid of the sound of cannons, and their hooves were uneasy to dig into the ground. The beasts are like this, and those southern barbarians on the other side should also be dispersed. The Khitan cavalry had the rule of not fighting in columns, but as long as the Song army broke up in formation, it was time to harvest the heads.

The smoke gradually dissipated, revealing the formation of the Song army's formation. All the fallen pawn positions were replenished, leaving hardly a single gap in the front row. The soldiers in the front row held the muskets in both hands, and the spears were pointed upwards and forward, while the soldiers in the back row held the guns with their hands flat. Covered in dust, they walked slowly shoulder to shoulder, and it would have been almost unrecognizable that they had just endured the heaviest round of shelling had they had just endured, had it not been for the deep, long craters left on the ground.

"How so?" Jerusaban's eyes widened in surprise and he muttered, "How so? ”

The rest of the Liao generals also changed their eyes in disbelief, even in the battle of Liaodong's crusade against the 'Nu' Zhen, the Sheng' Nu' Zhen cavalry would also be 'chaotic' and 'chaotic' in the face of the bombardment of iron barrels, and the Nanban was known as weak, greedy for life and afraid of death, but these Song soldiers were like emotionless puppets, after suffering such a fierce shelling, they still walked forward shoulder to shoulder. "Quick!" "Quick!" Seeing that the tenacity of the Song army was much beyond expectations, the Khitan officers urged loudly, and the gunners were sweating profusely to reload the ammunition 'medicine', and the speed of the Song army's advance was not slow, and the distance between them and the Liao army's defense line was shortened to 300 or 200 steps...... Some arrows flew up and landed far in front of the Song army's formation, and some Xi army archers couldn't help but release their arrows first, and the Liao army camp immediately sounded loudly scolding their subordinates.

Jeruzaban clenched his scimitar, beads of sweat on his forehead. Although the Liao army has always despised the Southern Dynasty, it still admits that the Southern Dynasty won with infantry and defeated the Xi army of this dynasty, and only by giving full play to the strength of the Khitan cavalry can it be restrained. However, "forming a column without fighting" is also the ancestral training of the Khitan cavalry. In the face of the Song army, which was tightly formed and subjected to the bombardment of dozens of 'doors' of iron barrels, Yelu Saban had to weigh it carefully. At this moment, the trumpet of the army's royal account sounded loudly. Jelu Saban sighed as if he had been amnestied, raised his scimitar in his hand, and shouted: "Charge into battle, kill all the southern barbarians!" "The double 'legs' clamped the horse's belly, and the war horse jumped into the air and rushed out first!

"Charge!"

"Let's rush together!"

"Pacify the Nanban and kill them all!"

When the Song army's large array emerged from the smoke of gunpowder, some cavalry could not bear the pressure, put away their scimitars and took out their bows and arrows. As soon as the order to attack was issued, groups of Khitan cavalry rushed out on horseback, some holding spears and some wielding scimitars. Nearly 10,000 cavalry were divided into two groups to bypass the frontal fort, the war horses rose up with four hooves to jump over the low rammed earth rammed earth ram, and the Xi army infantry could only crouch and hide, cursing loudly while looking at the back of the Khitan cavalry expectantly. If the Khitans could defeat the Song army in front of the battle, they would not have to fight these Song troops who were not afraid of death in hand-to-hand combat. The highest status of the Liao State is the Khitans, but the Xi people are quite special, and all the treatment status is almost the same as that of the Khitans, they are more suitable for settled life than the Khitans, and they live a prosperous life, so they do not want to die in vain.

Compared with the infantry of the Song army, the battlefield space occupied by more than 10,000 Khitan cavalry was much larger. From a distance, the front of the battlefield seemed to be overwhelmed by these cavalry, and the infantry of the Zhenguo army was just like dozens of small boats jolting in the huge 'waves', and there were Khitan cavalry shuttling back and forth around each phalanx, some trying to use riding spears and scimitars to test out the weak links of the infantry formation, and some were placing arrows one or twenty steps away from the infantry formation. There are generals in the Xijing camp whose faces are afraid of 'color', and Ma Duzhong said loudly: "Marshal, let the last general lead the troops to counterattack Liaogou!" ”

"I don't need to!" Cao Di said coldly, he pressed the reins, and said slowly, "The Khitans all say 'do not fight in columns', how can the infantry of my Great Song Forbidden Army be so easy to break through." This is just the temptation of the first 'wave' cavalry. He looked ahead, but the faces of the generals were all in full view, and he sighed secretly. The armor of the Xijing camp is not disadvantageous, and the war horse is not bad, but in the past ten years of preserving strength, all the generals have lost the momentum of fighting to the death, so that the enemy is far under the generals of the Zhenguo army.

"Get on the gun!" "Keep moving!"

"Go forward!"

"Don't stop!"

"Get on the gun!"

With the appearance of the Khitan cavalry, in the phalanx of the battalions of the Zhenguo Army, the vast majority of the silent commanders and centurions began to loudly reprimand the soldiers. Around each battalion phalanx, there were Khitan cavalry constantly shuttling back and forth, however, the junior officers who had fought many fierce battles with the Liao soldiers in Shuzhou knew that the iron barrel cannon in front was the biggest threat to the phalanx. Most of the veterans of the Zhenguo Army also understand this. The soldiers on the periphery of the phalanx struggled to hold the iron guns with their spears and pointed outward, and some tall and strong soldiers wielded long-handled axes, desperately slashing and killing those Khitan cavalry who dared to rush in by taking advantage of the gap, and there were still a few crossbowmen in the phalanx, using well-wounded hand crossbows to counter those cavalry who were 'shooting'. Most of the musketeers put their muskets on their guns, and while maintaining their formation, they marched as fast as possible towards the platform where the Liao army had arranged the barrel guns.

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