After the Western Jin Dynasty, the military equipment of the previous dynasties entered a new peak, which was the large-scale appearance of heavy cavalry. Speaking of heavy cavalry, the most famous is Tiefutu, which is the heavy cavalry of the Jin Dynasty, the soldiers are covered with heavy armor, leaving only two eyes, and the horse is also wearing heavy armor, leaving four hooves out, like an iron tower. Their armor is heavy and they are so strong that they can be equivalent to tanks in ancient times!

Although the Iron Float can even attach steel to men and horses, it can be armed all the way to the teeth of men and horses. But the horse has to walk and run, so the horse's legs cannot be armed, otherwise the horse's running will be restricted, so the clever Yuejia army is equipped with a horse chopping knife to cut the horse's legs.

Most of these historical materials are found in the written records of the Southern Song Dynasty, and once the books of the Southern Song Dynasty involve the materials that record the Tiefutu, they are indestructible and invulnerable. The Yue family army cut off his horse's leg with a horse chopping knife, which broke the enemy's formation.

Although Wang Jian's ironclad army was not as domineering as the Tiefutu in later generations, it was still a heavy armored army, and it was difficult to be injured by arrows and swords in close combat.

But if you really use a horse chopping knife to deal with this kind of heavy armored cavalry according to the records of the Song Dynasty, then you have to wait to admit defeat. The records of the Song Book of the Iron Floating Massacre of the Broken Formation are mostly exaggerated, which does not conform to historical facts at all.

What can really break this kind of heavy armored cavalry, the divine arm crossbow plays an important role. In the Battle of Xianren Pass, the famous general Wu Jue once used a bow and crossbow to fight Tiefutu and achieved good results.

The Divine Arm Crossbow, a heavy and powerful crossbow. The power of the individual crossbow has been exerted to the extreme, but Datang does not have this kind of divine arm crossbow, and Li Ji has not let the ordnance supervisor make it. Because there are no drawings, Li Ji cannot be restored.

But the forbidden army also has another powerful crossbow, the Tension Crossbow. That is, stepping on the crossbow, the Western Han Dynasty has equipment. Of course, this crossbow is far less powerful than the Divine Arm Crossbow, and it can be used against heavy cavalry.

And the crossbows are not cavalrymen, their target is the legs of horses. Use a platoon crossbow to attack weak links such as the horse's legs, and then use a saber to get closer, and the saber hand and the axe hammer hand cooperate with each other. As long as the formation of the heavy cavalry is disrupted, the one who really defeats the enemy in the end is just like in the historical records, using heavy weapons such as giant axes or copper hammers against the ironclad soldiers.

Swords and spears are difficult to injure the enemy on iron armor, and if giant axes and copper hammers are hit on heavy armor, they can break people's tendons and bones. No matter how thick the armor is, it is only a meat shield in front of heavy weapons, and the internal injuries it causes are fatal.

The biggest weakness of the ironclad soldiers is their poor mobility, they wear thick armor and move clumsily, if you add the gunpowder pack of the firearms battalion, it is easy to break Wang Jian's ironclad soldiers.

After reading Professor Li Ji's arrangement on the edict, Xiao Nuoyan couldn't help but be amazed at the tactics of the various arms cooperating with each other: "Awesome, awesome!" If this method is used, even if there are no firearms, we can break his ironclad soldiers! ”

"Platoon crossbow, General Xiao, why didn't we think of this method before?" Ling Hu Yunlong was also secretly ashamed.

Platoon crossbows, with crossbowmen side by side, in a row of three. After the first row is shot, it retreats to the third row, and the second row is on top, and so on, the arrows do not stop, and the gods are difficult to beat.

The large formation of six teams was divided into three rows, one in a row of two people, one standing with a crossbow in his hand, and one kneeling to shoot. Up and down, regardless of whether you are enemy cavalry or infantry, there is almost no dead end in the range of the fire.

The Northern Song Dynasty's "Wujing General Essentials" said when discussing the disadvantages of crossbow shooting: "However, Zhang Chi was difficult to respond to the battle, and the enemy was only three or four shots, and the short soldiers had already received it, so he thought that it was not convenient to use crossbows in battle." This means that when the enemy is in effective range, a crossbowman fires a maximum of three or four arrows, and then he has to engage the enemy in close combat. In order to overcome this disadvantage, the crossbowmen were equipped with three horizontal rows of crossbowmen who took turns firing: when the first row of crossbowmen fired, the back row of crossbowmen was ready to fire, and the third row of soldiers pulled the strings and arrows. The first row of crossbowmen immediately retreated to the third row after firing, and from there they took turns firing to ensure the ferocious "fire" coverage.

In the twenty-first year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty and March 1388 AD, the general Mu Ying was in the southwest border to conquer Tusi Silunfa. In one confrontation, Silun sent out hundreds of elephants to charge the army. At that time, the main weapon equipped with the infantry in Mu Ying's hands was the primitive firearm, the fire door gun, which had a slow loading speed and poor accuracy. At the critical moment, Mu Ying divided the firecrackers into three groups: reloading, waiting, and shooting. The "three-stage strike" tactic caused the elephant to turn around and flee, but Silunfa's army collapsed. The crossbowmen disappear, but the crossbow shots endure.

Li Ji's crossbow is the method of three-stage strike, which allows the forbidden army's crossbowmen to continue to attack within the effective range coverage.

The crossbowmen are followed by a firearms battalion and a gunpowder bag is thrown at it, and once this thunderous and lightning thing bursts, the iron armor will also blow you up.

After two months of waiting, the firearms battalion has arrived one after another, so let's start fighting!

Life in Chengdu Mansion is not easy, and the Xichuan army understands that they are at the end of their rope. But they lied to themselves to believe that they could defeat the court.

In fact, when they were discussing the military situation, they were also talking about how to drive the forbidden army out of Xichuan and return it to Shu. They deceived themselves into pinning their hopes on the ironclad soldiers, but in fact, everyone knew in their hearts that the ironclad soldiers might not be able to stop the attacking forbidden army.

The Xichuan army of Chengdu Prefecture has been like ants on a hot pot for the past two months, they are drunk and dreaming of death, trying to forget the fate of destruction. Every day, deserters tried all kinds of ways to escape from Chengdu Prefecture, although Wang Jian ordered that those caught by the deserters would be killed, but with little success.

The thunder rumbled, and Wang Jian was startled: "Thunder? ”

"King Shu, King Shu is not good, the forbidden army is coming!" The subordinates ran into the house in a panic, looking panicked.

The time to come finally came, Wang Jian put on the battle, took the long sword and led the diehards to the city wall.

From a distance, Xiao Xiao, the chariot and horse of the forbidden army, were rushing this way.

It would be stupid to use the same tactic twice, but what can Wang Jian do. The Iron Armor Army is his trump card, the last killer weapon, although he knows that he may not be able to win this time, he still gives an order: "Xia Chao, Ma Chun, take your soldiers out of the city to fight!" ”

The two generals got the order, ordered the soldiers and horses to open the city gate, and as last time, the iron armor was slamming, and rushed towards the opposing forbidden army.

The firearms battalion came, and Xiao Nuoyan and Linghu Yunlong learned to be obedient this time. Be cautious and never lose.

A light stone-throwing cart with four wooden wheels pulled and pushed by the soldiers. In front were the crossbowmen, behind the crossbowmen were heavy weapons such as axes and brass hammers, and behind the spearmen were used for siege.

"Stop!" Ma Chun and Xia Chao joined forces this time, with the heavy infantry in front and the heavy cavalry on both sides, so this arrangement is also reasonable.

The two of them knew very well that each pair of heavy armor amounted to forty or fifty catties, and it was not suitable for soldiers to run on their bodies. Therefore, they chose to stand by and wait for the forbidden army to rush forward before launching an attack to save their physical strength.

Xiao Nuoyan and Linghu Yunlong are also in the same place, and it seems that both sides have changed their tactics this time.

The forbidden army was not fast, but it was not slow, they lined up in a phalanx, and they marched forward without hurrying or slow.

When the two sides were less than 300 meters apart, they stopped one after another.

Wang Jian's city wall can be seen clearly, his palms are full of sweat, whether he can hit the forbidden army this time depends on the strength of this heavy armor soldier.

"Beat the drums!" Wang Jianyi waved his hand, and the Xichuan army on the city wall beat the war drums, and the drums shook the sky, but it was also quite powerful.

"Knock knock...!" The sound of drums was deafening, like thousands of horses rushing.

The forbidden army used a rhinoceros horn on its side, and the horn whined softly, more like a pack of silent wolves.

Both sides were the signal to attack, and together with the order, they rushed forward desperately regardless of their lives.

"Kill!" Xichuan Iron Armor Army, iron armor is loud, and the sound of metal rubbing between iron pieces is terrifying.

However, the hot-blooded men of the forbidden army were not afraid, and they also roared: "Kill!" ”

Rushing in front were the crossbowmen, and when they were less than a hundred meters away from the opponent, the crossbowmen divided into three rows and shot at the rushing heavy cavalry.

Unlike the previous crossbowmen who shot at each other, this time, the crossbowmen of the forbidden army all shot on their knees, at a lower angle, and their target was not the horse, nor the man on the horse, but the horse's legs.

No matter how well the iron armor is, you can't protect the weak link of the horse's legs, so the weakness of this heavy armored cavalry has become the weakness of the main attack of the crossbowmen of the forbidden army.

Platoon crossbows, three teams in a row, non-stop shooting. The horses under the crotches of the heavily armored cavalry who rushed to the front fell to the ground, and the riders were forced to fall off their horses.

Wang Jian, who was on the city wall, patted his head fiercely, and watched the heavy armored cavalry he had worked so hard to manage being shot down one by one, and his heart ached like a knife.

Fortunately, although Xia Chao, the general of the heavy armored cavalry, was not panicked, he ordered his riders to dismount, change from cavalry to infantry, and form a human wall with Ma Chun's troops to block the wall and advance.

Blocking the wall and marching, this tactic is vicious enough, unlike war horses, the heavy infantry is wrapped in iron armor all over the body, and there are almost no flaws.

The Forbidden Army's crossbowmen shot at the heavily armored infantry in the same way, but when the arrows hit the enemy, they were often bounced off by the enemy's iron armor. Even if it hits, it is less than half an inch, and the enemy is only wounded by flesh and skin, and the combat effectiveness is still there.

The Praetorian crossbowmen began to retreat, but they did not panic as they retreated, but retreated slowly and methodically. Immediately afterward, the swordmen and the brass hammermen of the heavy axes rushed up behind the crossbowmen, and they were about to engage the ironclad soldiers in close combat.

At this time, the light rock-throwing truck behind also stopped, and they began to calibrate.

Ma Chun and Xia Chao were overjoyed, seeing that the forbidden army rushing up from the other party had no armor, didn't they come to send them to death.

Who knew that when these slashers approached, they threw the copper pimple grenades on their waists one after another.

The Xichuan army was shocked, although they were heavily armoured, and the lethality of these copper grenades was limited, but the human wall they formed was broken.

Then the slasher approached and began hand-to-hand combat with them.

As soon as the ironclad soldiers fought with the forbidden army, they knew that they had been fooled. The swordsmen didn't want to hurt the enemy at all, their purpose was to disrupt their own human wall tactics. What is terrifying is the heavy axe and brass hammer that works with the slasher.

These men armed with heavy axes and brass hammers are extremely powerful, and they move nimblely, and with one axe, your iron armor will be broken to pieces.

And the brass hammer, which struck him in the chest, and when he landed, his internal organs were ruptured and he died. And these heavy armor soldiers were entangled in the swordsmen, and they were inflexible, and they were killed and wounded.

This is not terrible, but even more terrifying is the sparkling thing on the rock-throwing cart behind it.

They had heard of it, and the walls were blown to pieces, so the ironclads were timid.

'Whoosh...! ’

Hell, you're watching this thing get thrown into the sky and land on your ground.

"Boom!" With a bang, wherever you passed, you didn't care what ironclad soldiers and heavy armored war horses were, all of them were torn to pieces.

For the first time, the Nishikawa army saw the power of gunpowder, and now they really encountered this nightmare-like thing.

Rush forward, stick to each other, and you'll encounter their great axes and hammers. Step back, and the gunpowder pack will blow you up in minutes.

The ironclad soldiers were in disarray, and they were defeated. Wang Jian on the city wall knelt down in despair, what kind of army is this, they have this sharp weapon, and who will be the opponent in the whole world.

Three thousand ironclad soldiers, where Wang Jian's hard work lies. At this moment, he was cut off outside the city, and Wang Jian's heart was dripping blood. The ironclad soldiers have advanced and retreated, until they die in battle. Their own weakness doomed them to not retreat, because they were too mobile to run fast.

The forbidden army is so shameful, and it is not their tactics and firearms that are shameful, but their policy of surrender.

Soon, the remaining ironclad army was circled by the forbidden army and made dumplings. Outside the team, there was a group of soldiers from the Xichuan Army, all of whom were dressed in the clothes of the forbidden army, but what could not be changed was their Sichuan sound.

"Turtle son, stop fighting, we're all a family. Lay down your arms, and the court will treat you favorably. We are very comfortable in the Forbidden Army, surrender! ”

This was effective, and the ironclad army found that surrendering would not only not punish the crime, but also continue to serve as a soldier. And after joining the forbidden army, life is more comfortable, good food and drink and land are divided.

When it was over, most of the remaining ironclad soldiers took off their helmets, threw away their weapons, and captured them.

Only a few diehards around Xia Chao and Ma Chun remained, and they gathered together in horror for a few days, not knowing whether to come forward to fight or disarm and surrender.

Xiao Nuoyan and Linghu Yunlong surrounded him, and Xiao Nuoyan said: "Surrender, we are all people of the Tang Dynasty, and there is only one son of heaven in the Tang Dynasty." ”

Ma Chun threw away his weapon, he slowly took off his helmet, and was about to kneel and surrender. Suddenly, a knife came from the side and cut off Ma Chun's head. I saw Xia Chao like a mad tiger: "You dog thief, you are worthy of the King of Shu!" Fight with them! ”

Xia Chao took the last few diehards to make a final charge, and the result was obvious, they became the meat of the knife and axe men.

The army ate these ironclad troops, redeployed the phalanx, and marched to the city of Chengdu. Rows of stone-throwing trucks, carrying gunpowder bags, the forbidden army wants to set foot on Xichuan! Reintegrate Nishikawa into the imperial court's sphere of influence.