Chapter 3283 Confrontation between Infantry and Cavalry

How big do you want to make a fuss---- the situation has developed so far, and even Zhao Xing, who is in the game, can't control it.

Therefore, no one could answer Zhang Dunli's words.

The soldiers on the north shore fought and retreated, as if they wanted to retreat to the landing point. The gunfire was loud and the smoke was filled; The Liao soldiers galloped on horseback, the hooves were chaotic, and the roar was like wild beasts. Inside the landing site, the Song army was still nervously arranging and did not go out to respond.

After a pause, Cao Yu's color changed suddenly, and he woke up: "Bad thing, the Liao people can't see the silver in vain, Zhao Liren spread the tribute on the shore, and clearly let the Liao people see those ivory mahogany pearl treasures...... At this moment, it is difficult for the nearby Liao soldiers not to attract them. ”

As he was talking, the Suzaku Army on the north bank, wearing the uniform of the Fire Red Army, was clearly visible, and I saw groups of Vermilion Bird soldiers lined up in a skirmish line, trotting back a few steps, and then turned around and squatted down, and began to rush behind him and raise his gun. As the officer shouted an order, behind them, the second team rushed behind the Suzaku army in formation, and squatted down again to raise their guns. In addition, some of the Suzaku army fired their guns at the cavalry in turn. After the shooting, they didn't care about the design effect, they carried empty guns, passed through the gap left by the original Suzaku Army, exceeded the distance of five paces of the team and stopped, crouched down to load the muskets.

In this way, the Suzaku army came in like a wave, and the back wave exceeded the distance of the front wave by five steps, and immediately stopped, turned around, and pointed the muzzle of the gun behind him.

The sound of trumpets sounded on the north and south banks, and the soldiers in the landing site on the north bank kept urging the withdrawn Suzaku army with the sound of horns. Seeing that the Vermilion Bird Army was still orderly and unhurried in the case of retreat, Cao Yu couldn't help but pat his thigh and sighed: "Strong army!" The strongest army in the world! In the case of the pursuit of the Liao, I can do it so unhurriedly---- if my Great Song army is like this, how can there be a defeat of Haoshuichuan and Yongle City. ”

After a while, the Chinese military flag of the Vermilion Bird Army arrived, Shuai Fan hugged the military flag of the Chinese army and fought and retreated, and the cavalry of the Liao army galloped around the military flag. Those Liao soldiers circled back and forth, and from time to time someone was shot and fell.

Shuai Fan and these people not only blindly retreated, if the enemy chased too close, there were always two groups of men and horses fiercely rushing forward with scimitars to drive away those Liao soldiers. The Liao soldiers were also well-behaved, and when they saw someone coming out of battle. One group of men and horses served as bait, while the other two teams of cavalry detoured to their left and right flanks, attacking back and forth...... This skillful fighter skill, the shock of the soldiers did not dare to break too far from the main formation, can only rush at the Liao soldiers in vain to shoot the bullets in the handcuffs, and then, under the cover of the formation, retreat.

The Suzaku Army retreated in echelons, and the vanguard had entered the temporary camp on the north bank, and several small cannons were immediately launched in the landing site on the north bank. The trot was like a two-wheeled carriage, with wheels that were so tall that they were much larger than the barrel of the gun. They spun the wheels quickly, but stopped and went. It seems to be similar to the beat of Zhao Xing's horn on Wangdou. With a long, mournful sound from the bucket, the gun carriage came to an abrupt halt. The artillery began to load gunpowder and shells nervously, and at the same time, the retreating Suzaku Army apparently practiced the coordination with the sports car, and the flow of people bypassed the sports car like two diverging rivers and entered the village in turn.

The flow of people running in these places also happened to block the eyes of the Liao soldiers. The Liao soldiers who chased the land obviously did not know that the killing god was coming. They are still chasing after each other arrogantly. Slashed and killed the Suzaku soldiers who were behind.

What is the Mercedes-Benz like? After the appearance of the Liao army. The people of the North Shore were stunned by the unstoppable momentum. Tens of thousands of horses' hooves trampled on the ground. Moment. Heaven and earth trembled. The sound of gunfire was like a thunderbolt. But it looks thin. It's like a drowning man struggling. Platoon of guns fired. At most, there are a single digit number of people who fall off the horse. Reload without waiting for the discharger. Another wave of horses roared. Shuai Fan had no choice but to support left and right. Tried to keep the cavalry from approaching with uninterrupted fire.

In the crowd. The artillerymen raised small red flags in turn. Indicates that the reload is complete. A soldier at the temporary landing site immediately raised his horn. Blow out a long, long note. Hear the trumpet. After the break, Shuai Fan whistled. Without looking back, he ran towards the main formation. Meanwhile. Several spears and crossbows protrude from the fence of the makeshift landing site. The soldiers who ran close to the landing site heard a broken shout: "Get down!" ”

With this command. The Vermilion Bird Army rushed back to the ground like wheat seedlings blown down by the wind. Qi Qi fell to the ground. Meanwhile. Hope on the bucket. Zhao Xingjun's flag was waved. The artillery outside the village also waved their command flags in turn. The small steel cannons roared loudly one after another. A thick smoke of gunpowder enveloped the land. The flames flew out and flowed red, clearly visible in the white smoke. The sky was full of projectiles flying and whining. A moment later. The shell hit the ground and exploded loudly. The sound of shaking erupted suddenly. Then. Gunsmoke and dust once again enveloped the heavens and the earth.

The natives of the South Shore nervously held up their binoculars. I hope to see the results through a telescope. They could not detect the thousands of black dots flying out of the muzzles. They flew towards the Liao cavalry at a speed that was invisible to the eye. The range is far beyond the imagination of the Liao soldiers. A Liao cavalryman was unfortunately hit by a black projectile. I saw that the cavalryman who was bombarded on the ground seemed to have been hit hard by a 10,000-pound iron fist. Even men and horses were blasted into the air. It flew a short distance. The ground half of the person's body has been separated from the lower half of the body in the air. And the horse he rode was broken from his waist. Crashed to the ground.

One shot. That's it.

After this round of artillery fire, the Liao cavalry was stunned. They desperately reined in their horses and looked here in shock. When the Liao soldiers stopped, the dust and smoke brought up by their horses' hooves suddenly colored the high slope of the north bank, and even the sky was dark.

The cold wind was fierce, and the thick dust and smoke were wafting, and many horses' heads appeared and disappeared from the smoke and dust, one two, three, one thousand, two thousand, three thousand, one thousand two thousand, three thousand...... Everyone on the south bank gasped, and Cao Yu blurted out: "There are more than eight thousand, and they have encountered eight thousand cavalry...... It is no wonder that with such a strong army, they also have to suffer losses and retreat. ”

Another trumpet sounded on the north shore. This is the horn of the Khitans. Immediately afterward, the galloping of 10,000 horses stopped abruptly, the dust raised by the running horses gradually subsided, and a cavalry team of more than 8,000 people quietly stopped on the high slope. From the earth-shattering noise to the calm at the moment, it gave people an extremely unreal feeling, so much so that even the explosive snorting of the war horse and the sound of hooves cutting the ground seemed deafening.

At this moment, the Suzaku Army, who had retreated to the fence, was rolling and crawling to the ground and lowering their bodies, entering the camp from under the muzzle, and only saw the ground wriggling like insects on the south bank, and the soldiers in red uniforms scurrying in like rats. The Song officers immediately appeared at the gap reserved in the fence, hoarsely exhausted. They were brought to the designated wall, and soon five winding lines of skirmishers appeared behind the fence. These five skirmishers surrounded the five successive tiers of the horses. Subsequently, the Song officers returned to the queue, and the noise of the landing site gradually calmed down, leaving only the snorting of Liao soldiers and war horses in the wind.

People on the south bank were frequently pumping cold air. Zhang Dunli asked in surprise: "Is this ...... Is this still the same army that has been defeated in disarray? Why, all of a sudden, it became murderous?! ”

According to the principle of cold weapons engagement, a cavalryman needs at least four to five infantry to deal with it. In other words, since the cavalry exceeded the speed of the infantry by more than ten times, five hundred cavalry were enough to slaughter Zhao Xing's two thousand five hundred soldiers---- and now about eight thousand cavalry came from the north bank.

Cao Yu replied in a slight inhalation: "The art of war...... Forget it, don't say anything about the art of war, my grandfather said: When an army is advancing, there is no difference between a strong army and a weak army, the key is to look at retreat. When retreating. It is the time to truly show the ability of the general to control the army, and the advance and retreat are like an arm, indicating that the soldier is full of confidence in the general...... Organization! That's right. There is an organizational science in Guangnan Demon Studies, and Zeng Yun of the Guangnan Wubei Hall: War, but it is a slightly more complicated organizational problem. I understand! ”

When Cao Yu said this, Chen's face was a little ugly. He has been saying that Guangnan culture is demon science, but Cao Yu is saying that this demon science is "practical" in response to the war in front of him---- isn't this a slap in the face of the great Confucian?

At this time, Shuai Fan, who was on the north bank, panted and climbed up to Wangdou and reported: "My lord, we have lost about a hundred soldiers, and I have collected the corpses of soldiers as much as possible. But there were still more than 60 corpses, and more than 70 muskets were lost on the battlefield---- my lordship, we underestimated the enemy. ”

Zhao Xing looked at the north and said inexplicably: "The timing is really wrong, I'm too anxious." ”

Zhao Xing meant that at this time, the elite soldiers of the Liao State had not been exhausted in the battle with the Jurchens, and the national strength of the Liao State had not yet been destroyed to the scene twenty years later. And twenty years is the time for a generation to grow up. The current generation of Liao soldiers is still alive in their past glory. So they dare to fight, and the tactical awareness is excellent. If you wait another twenty years, it will be different, the new generation that grew up in the great famine of Liao will be full of disappointment with the Liao government, they are not strong in fighting for the Liao nobles, and it is easy to give up when they encounter a slight setback...... And these ills cannot be seen in this generation of Liao people.

In fact, Zhao Xing had been honing his musket team in the past. After all, they have a new weapon in their hands. The previous methods of cold weapon warfare did not have the slightest reference for them. They had to create a new style of play adapted to firearms in real combat.

Are the Song people weak in creativity? There is no era of Zhao Xing. The Song people discovered firearms and used them on the battlefield. Meanwhile. The nomads also grew up fighting the Song army, inventing the most advanced light cavalry tactics of the era, which they used to wreak havoc on the entire earth. Zhao Xing believed that as long as this was raised as a problem and adjusted by him, a person who had crossed the era, the Song army could create more advanced firearms tactics.

In the past, Zhao Xing only vaguely heard that Spain's spear musket phalanx had dominated the world for hundreds of years, but he didn't know the specific arrangement of this phalanx. However, he believes that the creativity of the Song people in this era far exceeded that of the Spaniards. What Spain can do, the Song people can do. As a result, he continued to experiment every time he practiced.

However, the reality is that the strength of the Nanyang countries is really weak, and the landed countries have only a few thousand troops, and they have not seen this kind of fire-breathing weapon with a loud noise, plus their culture is still polytheistic and fetishistic, and they like to attribute unknowable phenomena to ghosts and gods, so they succumb quickly. So much so that although Zhao Xing destroyed several countries in a row, he did not hone his musketeers in continuous battles, but made the musketeers too superstitious about their own weapons, and suffered a small loss when fighting against the cavalry.

Shuai Fan was still annoyed that the soldiers had discarded the muskets, and Zhao Xing comforted: "It doesn't matter, dozens of muskets are discarded, it's nothing." One is the special formula of our gunpowder, and it is impossible for the Liao people to find a suitable gunpowder formula now, so they will not be able to exert their power if they take away the musket.

In addition, the musket currently used by the Suzaku Army is the fourth generation musket, and we will soon be replacing it with the seventh generation musket. This kind of musket is doped with steel mother (manganese), and the firing range is longer, if the Liao people imitate the musket of the Suzaku Army. We're going to suffer a big loss because we have a faster rate of fire and a longer range...... Hehe, I'm kind of looking forward to the battle between the muskets. ”

Shuai Fan softened his face, half admiring, half complimenting, and said: "Lord Zhao said before: maintain the advantage of weapons. It's not about making others can't get it, it's about constantly innovating and researching new products. I used to think that our muskets were already powerful enough, why should we keep investing in new muskets, but now it seems that the adults are really prescient. ”

Zhao Xing grinned bitterly: "I'm not prescient, I'm worried that there are too many people like Lu Huiqing---- as long as they have money, they dare to sell anything!" This weapon is not a collector's item. It is impossible to hide in the arsenal and not allow soldiers to practice. And when the gun is in the hands of the soldiers, it is inevitable that there will be one or two corrupt officials, or greedy soldiers who cannot resist the temptation. Stealing guns or absconding with guns can be a difficult task for us to keep secrets.

So I thought, only by raising the technical threshold of our muskets, can people not exert their power even if they get this kind of musket, such as mixing it with steel mother, it is difficult for others to get this thing...... It's a pity that the number of manganese steel guns I brought back this time was insufficient. There are only three hundred, all in boxes, you go quickly, select the three hundred musketeers with the best marksmanship from the musket team, and change their guns. ”

Shuai Fan saluted, and said with a happy face: "Great, the range of the musket we use now is set to be more than 100 meters, and there is a new gun, which is enough to make the Liao people suffer a big loss." ”

No one on the South Shore could hear the conversation. They could only observe through the telescope that Zhao Xing was moving troops frequently. After a while, dozens of large wooden boxes that had just been brought ashore were pried open, and some soldiers took out some long guns from the wooden boxes and began to regroup.

Zhang Dunli's face changed, and he hurriedly urged Cao Yu: "It's a bad thing, the Yellow River is shallow this year, and even the warships are stuck in the river; It is now early winter, and if the river is frozen, won't the Liao soldiers step on the river and cross ---- fast. Quickly urge the forbidden army to deploy along the river. ”

Zhang Dunli meant: If the Liao army takes Zhao Xing, there is nothing to do. If you don't get it, you will take advantage of the freezing of the Yellow River to attack Shunbao Village. In order to copy Zhao Xing's back road. Cao Yu came to his senses, and urged his family to urge the Daimyo Mansion to send reinforcements again, while saying helplessly: "I hope that Zhao Liren's news about the Liao people is true---- if the king of the Southern Courtyard of the Liao Kingdom is really dead, this conflict will only be controlled at the level of a captain." ”

Chen sighed worriedly: "After the alliance of the Yuanyuan, the Song-Liao border has been pacified for decades, and now the Taiwei has landed on the north bank, in case the Liao people know about it and the war resumes, won't we have to fortify everywhere in the future?" Once the Yellow River is frozen, there will be a flat river here, how to keep it? ”

Cao Yu and Zhang Dunli didn't dare to say anything, Xu Shixi raised his throat and hypnotized himself as if he was comforting: "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, it was the Liao people who robbed our tribute envoys first, and it stands to reason that the Liao people can't stand, they ...... Won't tear the face handle. ”

Xu Shixi is stupid. In the war, who still talks about "reasonableness", but Xu Shixi's wishful thinking statement of counting on the enemy in the war to scruple about "reasonableness" and evolve the war in the direction he hopes for has attracted the nods of people on the south bank.

The Liao cavalry on the north bank moved, two squads of cavalry rushed to the wall, in the gallop, the figure of the cavalry floated on the horse, flickering left and right, flying on horseback like a butterfly, this is the traditional Khitan dodge archery, it is said that there was a Khitan poem praising the horse athlete to correct the posture, but unfortunately Zhao Xing and Shuai Fan are not elegant people, they do not know how to appreciate.

"Fire!" Shuai Fan ordered with a straight face.

"Fire!" Zhao Xing did not hesitate.

Following the orders of these two men, the first row of soldiers leaned against the wall and fired rows of guns neatly.

The volley of bullets was not something that the archery technique could handle, and it moved forward like a metal wall at a rapid pace, breaking the blood flow of the Liao soldier's head when it hit the wall.

After this row of guns was released, the soldiers in the first row ran to the end of the queue with their guns, and the soldiers in the second row leaned against the wall, and with the order of the officer, they fired this row of bullets neatly.

The penetrating power of bullets is not comparable to that of bows and arrows, at this distance, even if the Liao soldiers are hit by more than a dozen arrows and are pierced like hedgehogs, they can still continue to charge---- but they encounter an era of gunpowder. Even if some Liao soldiers did not stand in the first row, they were injured by the dense metal storm, and every Liao soldier who was hit by a bullet was like being hit by a sledgehammer, no matter how much momentum they used to rush forward, they immediately stopped on the spot as if they had hit a wall, and then followed. They fell to the ground like dumplings.

Three rounds of guns, the Suzaku army, which had recovered the ranks, showed great combat effectiveness, and they only exported three rounds of firepower, and none of the cavalry of a hundred men in the charge were spared, and they were knocked down at a distance of one hundred and fifty steps from the wall.

Everyone doesn't know the feelings of the Liao soldiers on the other side, on the south bank. Cao Yu and Zhang Dunli, who knew a little military common sense, were stunned, and after a long time, Cao Yu stomped his feet and said: "No wonder Master Fan took away five hundred musketeers, and he wanted to run away without looking back, this musketeer formation is so powerful." ”

Zhang Dunli had heard his cousin Zhang Yong say before, he gasped and exclaimed: "My brother Zhang Yong once said that this musket is neat. He said that if the musketeers shot in unison. It's simply unstoppable...... In the past, I saw the Mizhou Pear Flower Gun Team performing, and the pear flower gun was a beautiful fireworks, but I didn't expect this thing to be in the hands of Zhao Liren. With such great power, it is no wonder that he fought all over the South Seas. ”

When Cao Yu said this, he immediately turned to Zhang Dunli: "Tong Dage (Tong Guan) received five hundred musketeers from Zhao Liren by secret order---- is it?" Don't you think that the eunuch needs our help? ”

Zhang Dunli shook his head: "Tong Dage did borrow people from Zhao Liren to escort the tributes into Beijing...... But on the other side is Zhao Laohu, this person has a strange temper, he treats you as his own, even if you go to his house to pick up things at will. He also felt kind, and felt that you didn't see him as an outsider. But this army Zhao Laohu regarded as a treasure, and even Master Fan finally pulled out five hundred people from between his teeth......

This matter involves the official family again, I think, you should still urge, just say that the Khitans are besieging the north bank, and it is not safe to put the court tribute on the south bank, so please Zhao Liren immediately send someone to escort the tribute to Beijing. ”

Cao Yu immediately responded, turned around and shouted at Shun Baozhai Zhaiding: "Is there anyone who dares to climb the north shore?" There are those who dare to go to the north shore to deliver letters, whether they are chambers or ordinary people. I will reward him with ten times, and if he comes back alive, I will hire him as a general. ”

Under the heavy reward, there will be brave men.

Several strongmen in Shunbaozhai stood up and volunteered to go to the north bank to deliver a letter to Zhao Xing.

At this moment, on the north bank, Zhao Xing and Shuai Fan frowned, watching the Liao cavalry charge with all kinds of tricks.

"There are capable people in Liao!" Zhao Xing sighed: "I didn't expect that the Liao State had been corrupted for so long, and it could still produce many people." The Liao people are testing our range. Test our tactics, Commander. Don't invest in the 300 new muskets, we also have to hide some killer features. ”

Shuai Fan looked at the river and looked worried: "My lord, seeing that the weather is getting colder day by day, when the Yellow River freezes, won't the Liao people be able to cross the river, and our supplies will be cut off." ”

Zhao Xing smiled: "Zilian, you are pedantic, can the war horse gallop on the ice?" Once the Yellow River freezes, it will be beneficial to us, because we are musketeers, and there is no such thing as freezing our hands and feet, not being able to pull the bowstring and release arrows---- this is the conquest power of creation! Cold weather will only have an effect on backward civilizations, but it will not affect our range. The Yellow River is really going to freeze, but it is an opportunity for us to get out. ”

Shuai Fan nodded: "That's right, I didn't expect this...... But the Suzaku Army has been training in Guangdong for a while, and I don't know if they can adapt to the cold climate in the north. ”

Zhao Xing hesitated for a moment and admitted frankly: "I was wrong!" I thought that the continuous famine would make the Liao people weak...... I heard that there were several rebellions on the Nanjing Road last year, but I didn't expect the tiger to die and the Liao people still maintain their combat effectiveness, it seems that this temptation has allowed us to further understand the situation in Liao, which shows that the economic plundering in Mizhou is not enough, and we still need to endure it for a few more years. ”

Shuai Fan echoed and said: "I also checked the intelligence of the Liao State, there were still 1.31 million war horses in the Liao State last year, and my Great Song Dynasty has been searching for several years, and it is not bad to be able to make up 100,000 war horses...... We do need to endure for a few more years.

When a war horse is born, it can not be ridden until it is about three years old, and it can be trained until it is seven years old before it can go to the battlefield...... My lord, now that the purpose of the temptation has been achieved, it is better for us to find an opportunity to withdraw. ”

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