When the smoke fell, countless dead war horses and the corpses of golden soldiers appeared in front of the imperial army's defense line, and Wan Yan Zongwang looked at all this in front of him, and there was also hesitation and struggle in his heart.

The fastest ones were the most brave and combative soldiers in this army, but unfortunately they didn't even touch the enemy, so they died like this, and Wan Yan Zongwang was still thinking about another question when he was heartbroken.

How many more explosions can the Imperial Army trigger?

As a general commanding the army, there are many factors that need to be considered, Wanyan Zongwang closed his eyes and thought for half an hour, and finally suppressed other negative emotions and saw through the current situation.

It is not a secret that the Chinese Empire is far away in Tiannan, and that China and the Song Dynasty have repeatedly fought each other, and there are many deep enmities, but it is something known to the whole world.

Although Wanyan Zongwang couldn't understand why the imperial army came to aid the Song State this time, but thinking about it, he was very sure that the Song State would be very jealous of this imperial army that penetrated deep into the territory from top to bottom, from the army to the people.

Therefore, Wanyan Zongwang believed that the number of lone troops in this empire would be limited by the Song State, and they would definitely not have sufficient supplies and provisions, and perhaps the Song people were still making plans to annihilate this army.

Now that he has thought through all the problems, then Wanyan Zongwang can judge that even if this imperial army can still cause a few explosions, the number of times is definitely not much, and his own strength is twice that of the other party, this battle can be fought!

As an army commander with superior troops and most of them cavalry, Wanyan Zongwang, an experienced general, naturally would not foolishly order the cavalry under his command to rush, but would try his best to give full play to the mobility of the cavalry to achieve victory.

Didn't your Imperial Army secretly plant gunpowder? Well, I don't believe you're prepared for this on other lines!

In addition to leaving 10,000 cavalry from the headquarters, this time Wanyan Zongwang sent the remaining 50,000 Jin Guo Iron Cavalry and Guo Yaoshi's more than 20,000 Changsheng troops to besiege the imperial army's position from all directions.

Seeing the Jin cavalry quickly circling behind his position on the dirt slope, Li Nan couldn't help but sigh.

The Jin people were able to defeat the huge Liao State in ten years, which was really worthy of its reputation, but he didn't expect that Wanyan Zongwang only lost less than 10,000 people, and he saw through his own reality and flaws.

Musketeers who are good at long-range shooting are most afraid of melee attacks, so as long as the Jin Iron Cavalry breaks through the defense line of the Imperial Army, there will be huge casualties and great chaos.

At that time, as long as a small number of soldiers have panicked and fearful emotions, it will affect the people around them, and finally lead to a great rout

In the current situation, the Imperial Expeditionary Force, which had 20,000 infantry and 10,000 cavalry, could not evacuate this place under the pursuit of 60,000 Jin State Iron Cavalry, so Li Nan ordered the whole army to line up and defend it.

The cavalry of the Jin people rushed over like the waves, and the imperial army was like an island in the sea, smashing the waves that surged up, and the soldiers of the two armies were testing each other's will to fight with their lives.

Li Nan, who was paying attention to the battle situation on all sides, still had some luck at this time.

Although the Jin State defeated the Liao State and became the first power, after all, it was founded late, and a large number of resources in the Liao State had not yet been integrated, so the main cavalry in the army were light cavalry equipped with leather armor, and there was no heavy armor iron floating Tu that shocked the world a few decades later.

If the Jin now had heavy cavalry, it would tip the scales of war in favor of the Jin, as the heavy cavalry could weaken the Imperial muskets. In that case, a large number of iron-clad horses will rush into the Imperial defenses.

The soldiers of this Imperial Expeditionary Force are all veterans carefully selected from several major legions, and they have all participated in many battles, and their combat experience and will to fight are very strong.

The muskets fired constantly, and when there were too many Jin cavalry in front of them, the soldiers in the back would throw grenades that they carried with them.

At present, the grenades mass-produced by the Qiyuan Prefecture Arsenal, although the power is not as strong as those high-explosive grenades in later generations, there are also shrapnel flying shots that have injured war horses and knights.

And as long as the grenade explodes, the powerful shock wave can also push the golden soldiers off the warhorse, and at this time, falling from the warhorse, what awaits them is a dead end.

While the 50,000 soldiers of the Jin Kingdom were charging, they were also constantly firing bows and arrows, which made the Empire's musketeers continue to attrition, and in this area around the hillside, it can be said that people die every minute and every second.

Whether it is in the East or the West, since the emergence of cavalry, how to defeat cavalry is a problem that every general must face.

In the face of the enemy's strong cavalry troops, some countries with weak or no horse sources invariably choose to use infantry phalanxes against cavalry.

In the past, the main weapons against cavalry were spears and dense formations, such phalanxes or circles as hedgehogs could not be swallowed, so that the cavalry units could not be charged.

In the history of the world, the conquest of agrarian peoples by nomads did not only occur in ancient China, but was widespread all over the world. For example, the conquest of Mesopotamia by the Semitic people, the occupation of ancient India by the Caucasus, the invasion of the Roman Empire by the Huns, the sweep of Rome by the northern barbarians, the expansion of the Arab nation in the world, and so on.

Before the Great Song Dynasty was decayed and lonely, the number of archers in the army accounted for seventy percent, and at the same time, mixed tactics were used against the enemy's cavalry units. On the periphery were pikemen, who hindered the cavalry charge, in the middle were waist sword and shield men, and on the inside were archers.

After the founding of the Western Xia Dynasty, the Song army was equipped with a large number of the strongest weapons in the bow and crossbow, the divine arm bow, and with well-trained soldiers, it could deal a heavy blow to the enemy cavalry, which was the perfect phalanx of cold weapon infantry against cavalry in the history of world warfare.

Since the Imperial Expeditionary Force only had 5,000 hoplites, Li Nan and the others did not use this kind of peripheral pikemen, and the inner side was a defensive battle formation for long-range archers. Instead, it adopts a circular attack formation with the main formation of the earth slope as the center point, and the periphery is all musketeers with long-range attack capabilities.

Countless Jin cavalry still rushed forward one after another, and countless bullets and grenades continued to pour out from the Imperial Army's defense line like a torrential rain.

I don't know how long the battle lasted, Li Nan found that the front in several directions was a little unstable, and hurriedly ordered An Yuyun, a beautiful woman from the Han Kingdom beside him: "Go and support them!" ”

An Yuyun and her five hundred snipers did not use the ordinary 'Southern Fire Serpent II', but a special rifle handmade by craftsmen.

The biggest difference between this special rifle, named "Stinger", compared to the 'Southern Fire Serpent II' rifle, is that the barrel is made by craftsmen and the rifling is removed.

The rifling can be said to be the soul of the barrel, and the role of rifling is to give the warhead the ability to rotate, so that the warhead can still maintain a given direction after being discharged.

This 'Stinger' rifle, which can only be manufactured in small batches, has been greatly strengthened in terms of the power of shooting, as well as the accuracy and distance of shooting, and has the ability to snipe at specific enemy targets.

With An Yuyun and five hundred snipers equipped with special rifles joining, the Jin soldiers and colonels on various fronts were unlucky and were hit by the vital points one after another.

After the Jin soldiers lost a large number of grassroots commanders, there was naturally chaos in the army, and the front of the imperial army became stable again.