Chapter 0744 - Gambling War!

"This ......"

Yang San, Yang Wu and others, 'this, this' for a long time, couldn't say a word.

A hundred fire-breathing steel beasts disturbed the 100,000 soldiers and horses of the Liao State at once.

This completely turned their perception on its head.

After fighting a lifetime, I have never encountered this kind of war weapon comparable to the magic weapon of immortals.

This thing is hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses in the Liao Kingdom.

What if there are 100,000 statues?

Isn't that invincible?

"It's horrible......"

Shocked, Jiao Zan roared in a trembling voice.

He clearly felt that just his 100 catties of meat, if he was bombarded, it could be turned into dumpling filling in an instant.

Everyone nodded in unison, and then looked at Yang Qi.

Yang Qi stared at the chaotic Liao army's soldiers and horses, seemed to feel everyone's gaze, and said lightly, "Artillery, the king of war......"

There is no superfluous explanation.

It only told them what this venerable steel beast was.

Even so, Yang San, Yang Wu and others recognized their status as the king of artillery warfare in an instant.

Of course, Yang Qi didn't know that they wanted 100,000 artillery pieces in their hearts.

Otherwise, it would not be so calm.

From the beginning of the secret development of artillery, to now it can be used on the battlefield normally, it has taken several years and consumed tens of thousands of manpower.

The most important is the copper and iron consumption, which are innumerable.

Because of this, Cao Bin almost fought with Yang Qi.

If he really wants to get 100,000 artillery, Yang Qi estimates that he will have to search all the bronze objects of the Great Song Dynasty, Daliao, Nanguo, and Dali, and even learn from Cao Cao and become the ancestor of a group of tomb robbers.

The war continues.

The artillery fired three times in a row, which completely disrupted the Liao army's charge.

Yang Qi ordered in a cold voice, "The Shenji Battalion and the Heaven-Shaking Battalion are pressing, and the Iron Cavalry and Dragon Rangers are charging." ”

"Huh?"

The crowd was still immersed in the terrifying power of the artillery.

Hearing Yang Qi's order, he was obviously stunned for a moment.

Yang Qi's face darkened, and he repeated angrily: "Charge!" ”

Yang San and Yang Wu immediately reacted.

Immediately raised the spear, Gao Han said, "Kill!" ”

The artillery was still neighing.

The arrows of the archers of the Shenji Battalion fell like a curtain of arrows.

The steel jungle of the heavy cavalry roared and rushed out.

The Liao army had long since lost its fighting spirit in the chaos.

In the face of the strong heavy cavalry, they can only be slaughtered one-sidedly.

In the camp of the Liao army.

Jeruxiugo was still stunned.

Empress Dowager Xiao was speechless in shock.

"Goo~"

Yelu Hugh swallowed a mouthful of saliva, his eyes were red, he stared at the front of the Tongtai Pass, and roared, "Why? Why? ”

Why does Yang Qi always come up with something new?

Why can Yang Qi always come up with such an unbelievable thing, but can change the direction of the war at will.

Whether it is gunpowder or the steel behemoth that has appeared now, it is beyond the comprehension of Jeruxiugo.

Especially artillery.

Jerehugo had never seen this in a book.

just appeared on the battlefield in a grand manner.

The direction and situation of the battlefield, with the advent of artillery, have changed beyond recognition.

It has completely surpassed Jerexiugo's understanding of war.

Even though he had a thousand plans in his heart, it seemed that he was no match for the earth-shattering sound of Yang Qi's men.

He was not reconciled.

He felt that Yang Qi was the old enemy that God had sent down to him.

He felt that God was biased towards Yang Qi, and gave Yang Qi all the good things.

"Woo......"

Jeruxiu snorted, his face flushed.

Empress Dowager Xiao trembled, and asked Yelu Xiu in a deep voice, "Is this...... What to do, big brother? ”

Obviously, Empress Dowager Xiao was not lightly frightened.

"Poof~"

Yelu Hugo couldn't hold back any longer, and a mouthful of reverse blood spurted out from the corner of his mouth.

"Big brother!"

Empress Dowager Xiao rushed to Yelu Huge in a panic.

Brother Yelu swallowed the blood in his mouth, quickly wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, and said with a cold face: "Don't get in the way......"

After a brief collapse, Jelu Hugo regained the majesty of his Liao kingdom greater than Yue.

After all, he has been on the battlefield for a long time, has a lot of experience on the battlefield, and knows how to regulate his mood.

In fact, not only are his soldiers and horses arrogant, but he himself has been in a state of crushing because he has been fighting with the Great Song Dynasty for a long time, and he is somewhat arrogant.

Now that he has encountered this unprecedented crushing situation, he naturally can't accept it in his heart.

"Mingjin retreats!"

After Yelu Hugo stabilized his mind, he immediately gave the order to withdraw his troops.

In fact, without him giving the order to withdraw the troops, the Liao soldiers who were slashed and killed by one side outside the Tongtai Pass also began to flee backwards.

There were 100,000 Liao soldiers and horses who went to attack Tongtai Pass, and less than 50,000 escaped.

Whether it was artillery, the crossbows of the Shenji battalion, or the heavy cavalry, they almost did not have the conditions to accept prisoners.

The leather armor of the Liao army can easily pass through in front of their armor.

Of course, the lethality of the soldiers and horses under Yang Qi's command is still limited.

After all, the war did not last long.

More Liao troops were trampled to death by horses.

Jerushuge gathered his troops and horses, and stood in the camp.

In his barracks, there were hundreds of thousands of horses.

Yelu Xiuge felt that Yang Qi showed that with the help of divine soldiers, it was impossible to start a war with hundreds of thousands of troops at the same time.

In front of the copper platform.

After killing a few heavy armored cavalry back and forth, he returned to the front of Tongtai Pass, panting and spreading his arms.

The reservists and servants quickly rushed forward, helped them remove their armor, handed them water, rubbed their shoulders, beat their legs, and massaged them.

Heavy cavalry is certainly fierce on the battlefield.

But they are also flawed.

Because they were carrying white pounds of armor on their backs, the horses were running on the battlefield with nearly three hundred pounds, and after half an hour of charging and fighting, they would lose their strength and need to rest.

This defect is almost irreversible.

If you still barely fight after losing your strength, the biggest possibility in the end is to be exhausted to death.

Yang San and Yang Wu took off their heavy armor, wrapped themselves in blankets, and came to Yang Qi's body.

"Seventh brother, the Liao people have been defeated, and they don't retreat, Brother Yelu Xiu is expected that we will not dare to rush into their camp of hundreds of thousands of people!"

The reason why Yang San and Yang Wu were wrapped in blankets was also Yang Qi's strict order.

After a fierce battle, sweating all over, I suddenly took off my armor, and when the cold wind blows, it is cool, but there is a high chance that it will cause the 'armor removal wind'.

Armor removal wind, as the name suggests, is that after a fierce battle, the armor is removed, blown by the wind, and he gets sick.

As the saying goes, it's a 'stroke'.

There are many famous generals who died under the unloading wind in history, the most famous are Li Cunxiao of the Five Dynasties and Chang Yuchun of the Ming Dynasty.

It was precisely because Yang Qi knew about this that he strictly ordered that after removing his armor, he must be wrapped in a blanket.

Yang San nodded and said, "Looking at what Brother Yelu Xiu meant, before he thinks of a way to deal with artillery, he will definitely only defend and not attack." Seventh brother, what should we do next? ”

Yang Qiwan smiled and said, "He thinks we don't dare to attack, so let's attack him." ”

"The order goes down, and the whole army rests. Half an hour later, the whole army marched. ”

In the camp of the Liao army.

Yelu Xiuge didn't know that Yang Qi was not afraid of his army of hundreds of thousands at all, and had already decided to attack the Liao camp.

Just when Yang Qi ordered the whole army to rest, he was hurriedly dispatching troops and stationing them in the camp.

Time is like flowing water, and half an hour is fleeting.

The heavily armored cavalry under Yang Qi re-put on their armor and went into battle.

"Fierce!"

"Fierce!"

“……”

Yang Qi commanded more than 100,000 troops, and marched towards the Liao army camp in unison.

They have trumpets in their mouths and are scrappy.

Yelu Huge, who heard the voice, rushed out of the tent and saw Yang Qi's soldiers and horses who were pressed by the black pressure, and his face was pale.

"How dare he ......"

Jeruxiu clenched his fists and shouted angrily: "All arms for war!" ”

Yelu Xiu Ge rode his horse and galloped to the front of the two armies, staring at Yang Qi and roaring, "Yang Yansi, do you really want to break the net with my big Liaoyu?" ”

Yang Qi said calmly: "I only need the sixteen states of Yanyun, give me the sixteen states of Yanyun, and I will let you go." ”

"Arrogance!"

Yelu Hugo roared angrily: "There are hundreds of thousands of horses under the command of this king, which is several times the number of soldiers and horses under your command, even if you have evil things to help, if this king does not care about casualties, he can still defeat you." ”

Yang Qi didn't pay attention to Brother Yelu Xiu, but reflexively asked the soldiers behind him, "The king of the Southern Court of Liao State said that they have hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses, which are several times that of us, and if they fight hard, they can defeat us, what do you mean?" ”

"Fight!"

"Fight!"

"Fight!"

“……”

Yang Qilang laughed loudly: "I will not be afraid of death, and the soldiers will not hesitate to die." Why should I, Yang Yanhe, be afraid? ”

"Brother Jerryhu, if you have the guts, then let the horse come, and there is no need to threaten."

Yelu Hugo roared with a gloomy face, "You madman......"

Yelu Xiuge turned to the Liao soldiers behind him and shouted: "Soldiers, I, the Liao people, have never been afraid of battle, and it is impossible for me to bow my head in front of the enemy. ”

"Fight!"

"Put!"

"Bang!"

"Bang ......"

"Whoosh!"

“……”

The war has started again.

The artillery exploded again, setting off waves of earth in the camp of the Liao army.

Although the Liao people did not have such sharp weapons as artillery, they still had bows and crossbows.

All kinds of crossbow arrows were projected at Yang Qi's soldiers and horses.

"Brush~"

The soldiers of the heavily armored cavalry took off their face armor and stormed into the military camp of the Liao State.

The Iron Cavalry Reserve, the Longyou Army Servant Army, and the Yanmen Army also joined the battle.

The war is really as Yang Qi said.

His generals are not afraid of death, and their soldiers will not hesitate to die.

The soldiers and horses under Yang Qi's command, who rushed out, were completely desperate with the Liao.

The soldiers of the Iron Cavalry are all carefully selected, and each of them has a hundred and ten lives in their hands, and none of them are good.

The soldiers of the Dragon Rangers are either avengers or naturalized savages in the mountains, and there is also no good class.

Saving your life?

Saving their lives is a luxury for them.

If they had spared their lives, they would have been dead for no known number of years.

The reason why they have survived until now is because they have survived adventures again and again.

"Kill!"

The shouts of killing resounded throughout the world.

Artillery on this battlefield is the unsolvable harvester of life.

Every time a cannon falls, it will always take the lives of dozens of Liao soldiers.

The heavy cavalry was like a bunch of rampaging iron lumps, and their way of killing the enemy was simple and brutal.

In addition to rushing, it is rushing.

Some of the Liao soldiers who stood in front of them didn't need them to wield their knives at all, and the armored war horses under their crotches could kill them if they hit them.

Of course, the soldiers and horses under Yang Qi's command are not all invincible.

For example, the Iron Cavalry Reserve, the servants of the Longyou Army, and the Yanmen Army, the three soldiers and horses participating in the battle, are shrinking at a speed visible to the naked eye in this meat grinder-like battle.

The forces on both sides are being drastically reduced.

Due to the original artillery and the rampage of the heavily armored cavalry, it was difficult for Jeruxiugo to organize an effective formation against the enemy.

As soon as a large military formation was formed, it was hit by artillery.

This also led to a sharp reduction in the Liao army under Yelu Huge, far faster than the soldiers and horses under Yang Qi.

Often, when a hundred soldiers and horses under Yang Qi's command died, the Liao people had to pay the price of thousands of lives.

The proportion of battle losses is too large.

The beating Jeruxiugo was terrified.

Yelu Xiuge looked at the fallen Liao army in pieces, and roared in a deep voice, "Pass the order down and withdraw the army!" ”

He had to withdraw.

It's not because he can't consume the soldiers and horses under Yang Qi's command.

As long as he is willing to keep consuming, he will definitely consume the soldiers and horses under Yang Qi's command.

There is no doubt about it.

After all, where is the advantage in numbers.

Artillery is certainly sharp, but hundreds of artillery pieces cannot truly dominate the war of hundreds of thousands of people.

Once Yang Qi's men and horses lost too much, it would be impossible to organize a powerful formation to attack the Liao army, and the Liao army could take advantage of the situation to counterattack, so as to turn defeat into victory.

However, Jeruxiu did not dare to consume it.

The hundreds of thousands of Liao troops here, but the elite of the Liao army, not those Han people in Liao.

Once hundreds of thousands of Liao troops were consumed too much here.

It is very likely that the Liao State will follow in the footsteps of the Great Song Dynasty and become meat to be slaughtered.

And the person who slaughtered them is very likely to be Yang Qi.

Yang Qi attacked the Liao State this time and dispatched more than 400,000 troops.

There were only more than 100,000 troops here, and 300,000 soldiers and horses were scattered.

And if Yelu Hugo pays the price of more than half of the losses and consumes the hundreds of thousands of horses under Yang Qi, he will certainly be able to win for a while, but in the war after that, I am afraid that he will be pressed and beaten by Yang Qi.

Brother Yelu Xiu could be sure that once he decided to go with Yang Qi.

Then Yang Qi will definitely lead some people to retreat after the battle, and then gather the rest of the 300,000 soldiers and horses to chase after them.

At that time, not only will the sixteen states of Yanyun not be protected, but I am afraid that Shangjing will also be in danger.

Yang Qi probably expected this, so he dared to bet with Yelu Xiuge so desperately.

"Woo woo woo ......"

The horn of the withdrawal sounded.

The Liao army, which was in a fierce battle, breathed a sigh of relief at the same time.

They mounted their horses and, without saying a word, withdrew with the group.

The heavy cavalry chased after them for a while, and only stopped when they were exhausted.

When it comes to charge, ten light cavalry is no match for one heavy cavalry; In terms of speed, ten heavy armored cavalry were no match for one light cavalry.

The Liao army was all light cavalry, and Yang Qi currently only had heavy cavalry and foot soldiers under his command, and he couldn't catch up with the fleeing Liao army at all.

Yang Qi sat on horseback, raised his eyes and looked around, and saw that the Liao army had run away, so he breathed a sigh of relief.

In fact, he was also gambling just now, betting that Yelu Hugo would not dare to fight with him, and he would definitely withdraw his troops, so he would attack without hesitation.

If Yelu Hugo gritted his teeth and his brain was hot, he had to fight hard with him.

Yang Qi would definitely not say a word, and led his soldiers and horses to withdraw to Tongtai Pass.

With the shield of the Tongtai Pass city wall and the artillery, Yelu Hugo will definitely not be able to take the Tongtai Pass.

From beginning to end, Yang Qi's tough hard work and hard consumption were just pretended.

He wasn't going to really spend time with Jeruxiu.

The heavy cavalry and gunners under his command were all smashed out by him at a great price.

He won't be stupid enough to really fight hard with Yelu Hugo.

What a loss!

If one solution fails, another method can be used.

To fight a war is to be flexible.

Absolutely not.

Fortunately, Yang Qi made the right bet, and there was no need to think of another way.