Chapter 3288 No One Can Stop Us

Zhao Xing said, beckoned Pan Dalin, and the two walked towards the handsome tent while chatting.

A few days later, that is, on the third day of the "49th", the Song army on the north bank demolished the camp, began to guard the two wings with small cars, and slowly advanced towards the territory of Liao.

The kind of car that protects the flanks on both sides of Zhao Xing is the "Wugang car", originally this kind of vehicle was Li Gangming's, when the Jin soldiers were under the city of Bianliang, Li Gang used this kind of car to resist the cavalry of the Jin army, so it was called "Wugang car". However, Zhao Xing also used this kind of car to form a formation in Huanqing a few years ago, and lined up on both wings to prevent the enemy cavalry from attacking, so the light of this kind of car fell on Zhao Xing's head...... It is now known as the "Wuxing car".

Zhao Xing rode on a captured war horse, and watched with satisfaction the gradual unfolding of the military formation, the unique red uniforms of the Great Song soldiers on the snowy land, like a beating flame, and after forming a phalanx, his three thousand soldiers were like moving thunderbolts, irresistibly pressing forward.

Irresistible - Zhao Xing shook his head and threw the word behind him. The Khitan people have not yet figured out the secret of the musket, after the musket is fired 30 times in a row, the barrel will be hot and cannot be loaded with ammunition, so the real power of the musket array is 30 ammunition. If the Khitans dare to sacrifice casualties and continuously invest troops, it is estimated that Zhao Xing should now consider fleeing south.

Fortunately, the Khitans were reluctant!

Jiang Zhiqi followed the army in a sedan chair. Several soldiers sent from Shunbaozhai carried his sedan chair and followed behind Zhao Xing. Under the training of Zhao Xing, the Vermilion Bird Army paid attention to the coordination of the formation and the neat queue, so the whole army did not advance fast, and from time to time it had to pause a little and organize the formation with the help of drums. In this way, Jiang Zhiqi's slow sedan chair completely kept up with the pace of the march.

The formation of 3,000 men unfolded while marching. The process of complete unfolding took more than an hour, and when the straggler lines were arranged, the Song army, which had always paid attention to formation, had displayed the complete formation on the north bank of the Yellow River: in front was a row of 300 musketeers, lined up in five horizontal columns; On the two wings were the spearmen and Tang swordsmen led by the Yuan Yeping and Xiao brothers, and the Chinese army was the remaining musketeers and artillerymen......

When the whole army was unfurled, the flag bearer shouted. The whole army was decided, and with a wave of Zhao Xing's hand, the drummers in each column first kicked off the march with a rapid drum, and then the flag officer shouted: "The gun is on the shoulder!" ”

The procession of 3,000 people followed the beat of the drums, neatly completing the movement of the guns on the shoulders, and the whole army only heard three sharp clatters, and suddenly, a shining spear spike stood up on the fiery red clothes.

The flag bearer lit a thunderbolt. Thrown into the air. With the explosion of the artillery field. The snare drum pounded three times. The sound of the drum seemed to beat in the hearts of the people. It makes people's hearts beat to this rhythm.

The flag bearer waved the flag a few times as if in a performance. The flag rolls over. Hold on steadily. The flag bearer raised his voice. Singing loudly: "Within." The Emperor's Land. Wading in quicksand in the west. South and North ......"

The drums rumbled. The rhythm is clear and slow. One step at a time. The armies marched to the beat of the drums. Singing in unison: "Within." Emperor's Land...... Wisdom and righteousness. Plain the truth. Universally. It's not the king's land. The shore of the land. It was not a royal minister. ”

In song. Jiang Zhiqi shook his head and sighed: "I know the power of the army today......

Nobody paid any attention to him. The Great Song Land flag is guided in front. The armies marched in order. Singing war songs. calmly walked into the depths of the Liao Kingdom. Jiang Zhiqi sighed for a long time. He also said: "The ministers of the court all say that Lord Zhao cannot be a traitor. I just found out today. Really. Lord Zhao's military songs are praising our emperor Shengming. Universally. It's not the king's land. Such people. How can it be a traitor? Lord Zhao wants to rebel. Several of the armies followed. ”

There was a pause. Jiang Zhiqi bowed his hand to Zhao Xing in the sedan chair: "Lord Zhao." Offended. ”

Zhao Xing nodded lightly: "Speaking of which, I also have something wrong, I have called Lord Jiang by name and surname several times, which is disrespectful, please don't worry about Lord Jiang." ”

Jiang Zhiqi nodded and replied: "When the official came, the official family once said that he hoped that Lord Zhao could take this opportunity to let the Liao people sign an agreement to restrain their behavior in fighting the grass valley...... Well, the heyday is really coming. ”

Jiang Zhiqi looked yearning, Zhao Xing didn't answer, he restrained the ** war horse, and slowly moved forward with the drumbeat.

This war horse is not a war horse he trained, but a captured war horse of the Liao Kingdom. Most of the captured horses in this battle were pulling cannons, and they finally squeezed out a few horses for the scouts to pick first, and the remaining horses were two, one for Zhao Xing and one for Xiao Feng.

Because the war horse was not trained in the sound of drums, Zhao Xing tried his best to restrain the war horse as he walked, so as not to let the war horse disrupt the queue. In the case of no second use, he didn't care what Jiang Zhiqi thought, and replied perfunctorily, muttering in his heart: "Shengshi, is it really Shengshi?" ”

Several scouts rushed over and reported loudly: "The Liao soldiers are out of the camp, two thousand cavalry, six thousand foot soldiers, and they are also lined up in front. ”

Zhao Xingyi waved his hand: "The musket team spread out to both sides, give up the position of the Chinese army, and let my artillery come forward - pay attention, pay attention to the execution of the drill code, tell the musketeers that there is no commander this time, please seize the opportunity to open fire by themselves." ”

The application of a new weapon requires repeated running-in, and only through continuous actual combat testing can we find out the best results of the weapon, and this is a normal historical phenomenon.

It took three million years for humans to grope for the use of spears; It took another thirteen,000 years to explore the use of bows and arrows. As for the technology of using muskets, in normal history, human beings need to grope for 300 years to find their way, and it took more than 100 years to wield the power of muskets to the extreme.

Zhao Xing is not a military scientist, he has only watched a lot of war blockbusters in modern times, and has been bombarded by the explosion of modern information, so he knows a little bit about what the "right path" is.

He knew that the muskets had to be arranged in a skirmish line and concentrate on the firepower to ensure maximum damage, so his formation was a square and large phalanx.

He knew that in this era due to the technical conditions, the musket ground was not fired frequently, and the distance of the fire was not satisfactory. For example, the effective firing range of front-loading smoothbore guns in this era was only two or three hundred meters. At this distance, the cavalry charge only takes about a minute, and in this minute, a skilled musketeer can take his turn to shoot at most three rounds.

The musket is like this, and the frequency of cannon ground fire is even slower, and you can basically achieve one shot a minute to be a skilled gunner. This firing frequency does not take into account the coolness of the breech.

However, the power of the musket is not comparable to that of the bow and arrow, and the person who is shot by the bow and arrow, as long as the protection is slightly increased, can insert dozens of arrows into the body, but it still does not affect the action, which is the common warrior in the movie who is shot like a hedgehog, but still fights and kills.

In the real world, there is no such thing as shooting a person through with an arrow.

So. Bows and arrows basically can't stop the cavalry from charging, which is why the iron harriers of Western Xia tied their bodies to war horses, as long as they still have the ability to control war horses. He will be able to rush into the infantry formation. Completely destroy the resistance of the infantry.

In the era of cold weapons, cavalry is like a tank in modern warfare, almost invincible. Although due to the short size of Mongolian horses, the Liao soldiers were at most comparable to the "bean tanks" of Japan during World War II. But the "bean tank" is still a tank, bullying the army without artillery, and bullying one is accurate.

The most effective means of dealing with cavalry was cavalry, and only then came the turn of cannons, muskets, catapults and bed crossbows, but in the era of cold weapons. The latter two weapons are bulky and difficult to move. Although the Song soldiers also relied on these two weapons to resist the southern crossing of Huma in the north, on the whole, the defense was more than enough, and the attack was insufficient.

Different from the traditional Song soldiers, Zhao Xing led an army that crossed the ages - the musketeers carried a musket with a portable musket, and the shooting power was equivalent to a bed crossbow, and the "stopping effect" on the cavalry charge was very good, and the firing frequency was higher than that of the bed crossbow. The accuracy is also far from the bed crossbow.

The only regret was that the soldiers did not cooperate well with each other and were extremely unsuitable for musket warfare.

Due to the characteristics of the musket, Zhao Xing asked the soldiers to form a horizontal line when shooting, because all the cavalry and war horses hit by the musket will lose their charge, but this requires the soldiers to have great courage to face the war horses that rush over, the volume and weight are more than ten times their own, and calmly complete each operation step specified in the code. Full output firepower......

During the American Civil War. The soldiers of both armies were veteran hunters, and those men had many years of experience in fiddling with muskets. There are also countless experiences of hunting wild beasts, and many people have even participated in many major battles, but such an army still cannot guarantee that it will perfectly complete the tactical actions that have been done for more than ten years in the face of the enemy's charge. Many people loaded more than one bullet into the musket, and some people forgot to load the bullet when they were only loaded with gunpowder, and some even forgot to take off the pass when they finished loading the gunpowder, and when they fired, they shot the pass together, resulting in the musket exploding, or there was no pass available, and it was impossible to continue to load the gunpowder and bullets - that war, hundreds of years after the musket was clear.

Now, the history of the birth of the musket is very short, if the Western Xia "Demon Transformation" is the world's first musket, then the history of the musket is only twelve years in total. Although Zhao Xing, with the knowledge of the Yue era, led the Song army to enter the mature musket era first, it would take some time for this new weapon to form combat effectiveness.

Zhao Xing was thinking wildly, and the Liao soldiers on the opposite side began to charge.

First, the infantry charged head-on, and the cavalry spread out to the two wings, ready to assault Zhao Xing's flank at any time.

Zhao Xing held the binoculars on the horse, and said to himself very puzzled: "I wonder how it is that in this era, a random person is found and things are considered very organized, but why is our national elite stupid after Yashan." ”

Zhao Xing muttered this, but no one heard it. He is talking about the invasion of China by the Eight-Nation Alliance, which was born in an era when machine guns were not clear, and Monk Lingqin commanded tens of thousands of Mongolian iron cavalry plus tens of thousands of infantry, but he could only stupidly attack head-on, defend head-on, and completely forget the most classic style of cavalry - outflanking, detouring, and seizing the gap between battles.

Monk Greenqin also encountered more than 3,000 musketeers, and the cannons carried by the musketeers were also front-loading artillery, and the number of artillery doors was not as much as what Zhao Xing was carrying now, however, Monk Greenqin buried more than 200,000 troops in one fell swoop, so that China's last mobile forces were all lost, which led to the next Eight-Nation Coalition army whistle and break into the Old Summer Palace.

Why didn't Zhao Xing have such luck to meet a Khitan monk Grinqin?!

He casually met a Liao general. This general was very proficient in cavalry strategy, and cunningly constantly tested him with his troops, trying to find out the disadvantages of this new weapon so that he could take advantage of it.

Zhao Xing forgot, this is the Song Dynasty,

The Song Dynasty was an era when light cavalry tactics flourished. In this era, China's light cavalry stood at the pinnacle of the world. Only then did the Mongols use light cavalry to ravage Europe 6. However, since the victory of the Mongols, the world's civilization has begun to regress. Chinese civilization has been set back by at least a thousand years. Moreover, since then, China's various technologies have rushed to ignorance like a thirsty horse, and even the tactical thinking of the light cavalry has begun to ossify, and they only know how to use the degree of cavalry to charge head-on......

"Tenacious, tenacious!" Zhao Xing couldn't help but praise. I don't know if he praised it as the Song army or the Liao army on the other side.

The guns rang out, and hundreds of soldiers jumped into the vans on both sides, condescendingly firing at the Liao cavalry. Rely on the carriage as cover. The soldiers calmed down a lot, and most of them shot the bullets perfectly, of course. About 7 per cent of the soldiers also knocked out the strips, and their guns were scrapped.

As for the soldiers who completed the firing action, how many bullets were in their guns, or whether there were bullets at all, it is impossible to count.

"More than ninety percent of the guns have been fired, it's good, it's just perfect", Zhao Xing held the binoculars and observed, and added with a little regret: "It's a pity." They were so anxious that the enemy opened fire before they could get into range, and the shooting effect was not very satisfactory. ”

Actually, this effect is already very good.

When the musket first entered the Song army, it entered the army as a large firecracker. Until the Ming Dynasty, soldiers used muskets as firecrackers, and as soon as they saw the figure of the enemy, they desperately released their guns, not hoping that the guns could hit the enemy, but hoping that the sound of guns could give them courage. Can intimidate enemies. As a result, when the Manchu army began to charge, all the soldiers had hot guns and could not be used.

Zhao Xing's army was better than the Ming army, at least when they saw the enemy charge, they didn't think that the musket in their hands was a large firecracker, and they tried their best to use this musket to kill and injure the enemy, rather than trying to make a noise to give themselves courage.

This round of shooting frightened the horses, and the Liao soldiers retreated a little and began a second round of attacks. This. The musketeers on both flanks of the Song army had adjusted their strategy. When the enemy cavalry charged the ground, both flanks were filled with the hoarse shouts of officers: "Steady." Steady, hear the command to fire again, steady. ”

The battlefield is not static, the Liao cavalry is charging towards Zhao Xing's camp, but Zhao Xing's army is not standing there to be beaten, the side car is still stubborn, insisting on moving forward, steady, like Mount Tai silently pressing towards the frontal infantry of the Liao army.

The infantry is cannon fodder, an outcast.

In the face of the musketeers, the slow-moving infantry was like chickens waiting to be slaughtered, powerless to resist.

When Zhao Xing's front advanced to the range of artillery, the bows and arrows of the infantry could not reach Song

To tell the truth, the Liao soldiers on the opposite side had good courage, in the face of the unknown weapon of artillery, and in the face of the Song army that was high in momentum and sang military songs, they still did not disperse, and they also pressed up violently......

However, that is the end of it.

It wasn't until Zhao Xing entered the range of the bow and arrow that he gave the order full of fun: "Fire!" ”

Suddenly, as if a monster suddenly woke up, he continued to roar, spit out a cloud of white smoke at the same time, spewing out a scorching metal rain, the first row of twenty marching guns with shotguns to give the Liao army a bath, where the metal flow went, there was no complete body, all stumps and broken arms, plus a faint green smoke.

The first platoon of artillery finished marching and firing, and immediately stopped in place, and the gunner shouted: "Clear the chamber, hurry up and clear the chamber, charge, hurry up with your hands and feet." ”

The artillery after the fire had to stop and reload in place.

The shooting of the smoothbore cannon on the march is actually a reload, led by someone, and advanced with the line of infantry - this technique is a technique that Zhao Xing learned from a Napoleonic war film - the loader uses several ropes to lead the artillery forward, and once ready to shoot, they immediately nail the rope on their shoulders to the ground, and then the gun fires. At this time, the rope fixed to the ground actually acts as a gun stopper, allowing the gun to quickly reset and then quickly reload.

However. Such a shooting on the march, do not count on its accuracy. Fortunately, Zhao Xing was facing the infantry, and after his artillery was loaded, the Liao infantry on the opposite side were in shock, and they suddenly stopped and looked at the tragic scene around them speechlessly.

The Liao soldiers who were shot seemed to have been hit by a boulder. Blood was seeping out of the bullet, and unlike bows and arrows, there was no residue outside the wound, but the blood kept bubbling out.

The situation of several Liao soldiers facing the artillery was even worse, and the artillery shot out, opening a bloody alley several people wide in the dense Liao soldier phalanx, and the Liao soldiers in the first row were beaten into a sieve, and blood could not stop oozing out from top to bottom. However, he was lucky. Because he immediately swallowed his breath, the other person next to him was not so lucky, he was shot through the lung by a stray bullet. Blood continued to leak out of his chest, and a small puddle of blood had formed under his body, the Liao soldier opened his mouth wide and breathed desperately, but the leaky lungs did not transport oxygen to his blood vessels, he was like a fish jumping ashore, breathing hoarsely, his body was straight, but with the sound of his breathing. It was a sound similar to the explosion of a balloon.

After a while, the soldier who had been shot in the lungs arched his body, his face was blue, and he stopped squirming with a few meaningless grunts in his throat.

The Liao soldiers in the front row were shot in the chest due to the slightly higher trajectory of the artillery, and the soldiers in the back row were subjected to shotguns that were missed from the cracks in the human slits. The leg bones were broken, and he could only lie on the ground and howl miserably; Someone was shot in the weird face, and the power of this bullet shattered the entire facial features, and they were lying on the ground, their eyes covered with blood, and they shouted hoarsely: "Damn, it hurts, I can't see?" ”

The shock of the Liao soldiers had not yet recovered, and the second artillery group had already dragged the cannon past the first artillery group. They are under the gaze of the Liao army. The artillery positions were arranged in an orderly manner, and the Liao soldiers on the opposite side were like logs. Unresponsive, he watched Song Bing prepare to shoot.

"Fire!" The gun commander gave the order.

Several staff officers of the accompanying soldiers quickly drew the shape of the artillery position on the paper, and muttered in their mouths: "Inverted V-shape, this is the inverted V-shape, the adults say that this shape represents victory, no wonder!" …… This formation, known as crane wings and geese in the Art of War, is the most suitable way for archers to deploy troops. Archers, isn't that what the adults call long-range strike forces, which is the same as our muskets! ”

Jiang Zhiqi calmed down from the initial shock, he listened attentively to the artillerymen firing the projectiles in the chamber one by one, and asked like a curious baby: "Lord Zhao, why don't you let the artillery fire together, but instead use the power of the entire cannon one after another, and use the power of the entire cannon one by one, don't you live up to this kind of artifact, I think that all the cannons are together, and the earth shakes the mountains, so as to give the Liao soldiers enough deterrence." ”

Zhao Xing patiently explained: "Lord Jiang, this artillery firing in turn, as well as the inverted V formation, is the formation method that we have summed up many times before we have figured it out. If you want the artillery to shoot together, one is that I can't, and the other is that I don't dare. ”

Before Zhao Xing could explain, Jiang Zhiqi had already teased in an affectionate tone and a relaxed tone: "Is there anything else you Zhao Laohu dare not do?" ”

At this moment, the guns on both wings also rang out, and in front, after a few rounds of artillery firing, the musketeers began to come out of the formation, marching in a neat pace, advancing in a straggler line, Zhao Xing waved his hand, signaling to transfer a commanding musketeer to the rear of the camp, and after arranging all this, in the rumbling gunfire, he explained loudly to Jiang Zhiqi: "Lord Jiang, you don't have a cannon every time you shoot, do you have to tremble here."

That's right, the cannon pushes the shell out, and its body has to fall back, and this backlash is called recoil. When a cannon is fired, the ground will tremble, and when all the cannons are together, the earth will tremble very much, and it may even shake the muzzle of the cannon. And once the muzzle of the gun is displaced, it can be directed in any direction, even towards ourselves, that is, bombarding ourselves with our own cannon - what can we do about this?

Moreover, the continuous bombardment of artillery can give the enemy continuous pressure - our staff officers have calculated, the current soldiers are on the battlefield, their spirits are highly concentrated, and they can hold on to the string in their hearts for a moment at most, which is still a rough calculation. My staff believed that as long as the pressure on the battlefield was maintained for this time, the enemy army would collapse on its own......"

At this time, the sound of the officer's order came from the left and right flanks, and it seemed that the Liao cavalry turned around, ready to attack again. At this moment, there was a sudden cheer from the frontal position, the sound of artillery stopped abruptly, and the sound of gunfire also seemed to be sparse.

Zhao Xing nodded with satisfaction, followed by a staff officer's report: "My lord, we have won, the Liao soldiers on the front have collapsed, they are fleeing in all directions, and the cavalry on both wings are also retreating - we have won!" ”

Zhao Xing pointed behind him: "That Han general of the Liao Kingdom has been holding me on the river bank for so long, what I showed him was a defensive battle, and he was testing the attack method. Now, I'm showing him the means of attacking forward, he's showing me decoys, combos, and flanks.

I guess: he must have caught my attention with the cannon fodder infantry in the front, and then intended to attack my flanks with cavalry, however, the number of cavalry attacking the flanks was too small to be effective.

In the past few days, I think the general Han has already known, I guess his real killer weapon is in our rear flank, he should still have a large army in the distance, intending to attack our rear flank. ”

The staff officer grinned: "My lord, it doesn't matter what he does now, the infantry on the front didn't resist us for long, didn't stick us, the musketeers on both flanks got more and more of the trick of defensive warfare, and their attacks were fruitless—and besides, the tigers in our side cars were running together, and they didn't use a swarm...... The Liao soldiers on the front collapsed too quickly, and the Liao people who copied the back road definitely didn't expect it, so even if he arrived now, it would be useless. Our whole army turned just in time to meet his rear army.

The students believe that the Liao army's rear road army will not come, and the biggest possibility is that he will attack our temporary camp and try to cut off our rear road. ”

Jiang Zhiqi listened attentively, with a nervous look on his face, Zhao Xing shook his head: "After all, General Han of the Liao State doesn't know much about this gunpowder era, you must know that once the firearms force moves, unless this army runs out of ammunition, no army can stop its advance." ”

The staff officer straightened his chest, smacked his chest with his fist, and said loudly: "Teacher, you are right, even if there is a mountain in front, we will blow it up with artillery for you, teacher - no one can stop me, no one!" ”

Jiang Zhiqi coughed and reminded Zhao Xing: "Lord Zhao, you said that the Liao soldiers might attack our temporary camp, so how should we deal with it?" ”

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