Xing nodded: "When I went to the sea back then, it was worse than this water."

Putting down the water bowl, Zhao Xing looked around and said curiously, "How do the Xixia people eat this breakfast?" In addition to the loess, there is wet grass on this grassland...... I understood that the grass in the morning had dew and could not be cooked, so the Tangut people had to travel for an hour before they could bury the pot for cooking...... Luckily we brought a kerosene stove. (*__*Chinese Net*Overspeed Update Latest Chapter*)"

A soldier handed over the hot soup and said with a sneer: "Captain, this kerosene is not worth a few dollars, but the asphalt used to pave the road is worth it. ”

Chaolu was right, the Western Xia people rushed to Zhao Xing in the afternoon, and far away, the Xia army opened the flag, and it was really the military division of Baima Qiangzhen, but Zhao Xing did not play the corresponding general flag, only the Qinglong military flag to which the Qinglong Legion belonged was fluttering.

The Western Xia soldiers stopped two miles away, and at this moment, the Suzaku army that was marching in a hurry also arrived, the Song army on the hillside let go of the camp, and the Suzaku soldiers rushed into the formation, and the Western Xia army on the opposite side seemed to be busy resting their horsepower and did not try to stop it.

The camp built by Zhao Xing is very strange, he used soil bags to pile up a breast wall in the shape of a figure-eight, and the mouth of the eight-character is open, there are only a few giant horses, and the eight-figure position on all sides makes Zhao Xing's army look like a four-pointed starfish, and the center of the position is a small slope, and the slope is piled up with soil bags to form a slightly higher earthen platform, the chair that Zhao Xing is sitting on is placed on the earthen platform, and there are several heralds holding signal flags squatting at the four corners of the earthen platform.

After the Vermilion Bird Army entered the battle, he quickly began to cloth the workshop, on the soil platform, Zhao Xing began to summon several columns of soldiers with military flags, the flags on his four corners waved slightly, and the signal flags were pointed to the team to which they belonged, and the team on the front line also immediately waved the flag in response, and the soldiers shouted at the same time, indicating that they knew the roll call on the platform.

The shouts came and went, and the Xia soldiers on the opposite side also seemed to have rested their horsepower, a group of cavalry turned around and ran into the distance, they seemed to go to inform the follow-up soldiers, and from the far end of the horizon, there was still a steady stream of cavalry coming here, all cavalry, the military division of Baima Qiangzhen was a pure cavalry team, Zhao Xing's feet were good at calculating cavalry, she nodded roughly, and replied: "There are about 30,000." ”

The banner of the Chinese army of Western Xia also arrived, and in the face of the position built by Zhao Xing, he seemed to be a little overwhelmed, and walked around the formation, and the commander of Western Xia decided to continue to move the army forward in order to shorten the charging distance.

At this time, the Tangut people seemed to have understood the belonging of this army, with fiery military uniforms, shiny spears, and muskets, the Tangut soldiers had encountered a small number of such soldiers in Huanqing. At this moment, although they wondered in their hearts how this army had miraculously come here, they already understood that there was an enemy in front of them.

The cavalry line of the summer soldiers pressed the horses. Slowly approaching the position of the Song army. Stopped about a mile away. This is Songli. That is, 500 meters below the ground distance. at this distance. The opposing soldiers could see each other's eyebrows and mustaches.

Zhao Xing smiled. Cold Weapons War. The front line was arranged at a distance of 400 meters. That's safe enough. Because even a bed crossbow could not shoot to this distance. Occasionally, there is a miracle of a bed crossbow explosion. Shooting at this distance is also harmless, but Xia Bing is obviously not suitable for a firearms war.

"Artillery bombardment. Drive them away! Zhao Xing coldly ordered.

Several small cannons were pushed to the opening of the figure eight skirmisher line. The range of these five-pounder and eight-pounder guns was also about one kilometer. The place where the summer soldiers lined up their positions. It is right within their strike range.

Zhao Xing called the artillery commander. Step by step: "I've heard that the artillery once discussed an artillery strategy. Divide the target area into meshes. Have shell hits scattered across each grid. Cover the entire area. And an artillery strike. Strive for maximum lethality. Have this strategy? ”

The artillery officer nodded: "My lord said that the ground is covered shooting." I've learned this technique. But there was never a chance to experiment. ”

Zhao Xing waved his hand: "Then go and try, the opposite side is the best target." ”

The artillery officer ran out in response, he whispered a few words, twenty small cannons readjusted the gun position, at this time, the Western Xia soldiers were constantly transferring troops, and the straggler line composed of the frontal cavalry had far exceeded the width of the Song army's position, Chao Lu pointed to the cavalry line and explained: "This is an assault formation, the cavalry on the opposite side urged the horses to run half a mile, just ran warmed up, the front one will directly impact our position, and the side will detour to the left and right flanks, and even behind us, to carry out an assault ......"

Zhao Xing slapped his thigh: "I've seen it, this is the classic cavalry fight, multi-point infiltration, multi-way assault, and a full-scale attack on a wide front!" ”

On the stage, the command flag was waved, and the continuous artillery bombardment interrupted Zhao Xing's emotion.

When the first cannon was fired, the Xia cavalry on the opposite side reflexively lowered their heads, and the cannonballs flew over the heads of the first row of Xia people with a sharp whistling, and fell to the ground heavily, and then there was a huge explosion, and a mushroom cloud rose from the middle, because of the cover of the first row of cavalry, Zhao Xing could not see the specific explosion scene, and could only see the stump and broken arm that rose with the flames.

The Vermilion Bird Army is an old army, each gunner has at least a thousand shells, they cannons are very fast, in the blink of an eye, more than ten cannons were fired in one breath, in the interval of the explosion of the cannon, the Xia army blew the horn of the charge, at this time, disturbed by the continuous explosions, the cavalry of Western Xia has not been able to complete the charge action, their crotch horses are jumping around, the original neatly arranged cavalry battle line has begun to disperse

Hearing the trumpet of the charge, the Western Xia soldiers, who could still control the war horses, tried their best to run towards the position of the Song army, but they didn't run a few steps, and the gong of the Xia army sounded, and those who controlled the horses

The soldiers retreated like a tide, retreating two miles away, and barely stopped.

Yuan Yeping didn't know when he came out, he looked at the retreating Xixia soldiers, and muttered in a low voice: "Advance and retreat freely, worthy of the Lord of Baima Qiang Town, the artillery opened artillery bombardment, although they repelled them, but it also exposed the range of our artillery, and when the Xixia people attack again, I am afraid it will be difficult to deal with." ”

Zhao Xing said lightly: "Time, what I need is to delay time, and when my fleet passes Hue, the military division of Baima Qiang Town will not be able to punish the prestige, they will withdraw, and then the whole team, there is not much time to attack today." ”

Sure enough, after the Xia army finished forming two miles away, it held down its position and slowly retreated, until it was five miles away, and then re-encamped, it seems that the Western Xia people have lost the courage to attack at night.

On the Great Plains, Wuli Road is not far, there are no buildings to block this year, the Xixia camp five miles away is clearly visible in the night, the entire Xixia camp is brightly lit, at the same time, in order to prevent the night attack of the Xixia people, the Song army also lit the lights, not far away, the two camps are like two cities that never sleep, are busy.

"What are the Tangut people busy with?" Zhao Xing looked at the camp in Western Xia and asked unconsciously.

Wen Xixing squinted and looked at it for a while, and replied: "I can't think of what they are busy with, the Xia people's best weapon is the whirlwind cannon, but today our cannon told them that this whirlwind cannon is not used, it can't reach the firing range, the Xia people are so busy all night, I guess it's not for the whirlwind cannon." ”

Yuan Yeping thought for a while and replied: "When we were in the Weifu Military Division of Montenegro, we also encountered a small amount of gunpowder weapons, but I think that the Xia people may be able to get nitrate, but they can't get a lot of sulfur, even if they have gunpowder, it won't be too much. ”

Chao Lu was eager to try: "Maybe there is also a shield car Xia Jun's Yuren team is very powerful, and it shouldn't be a problem to make a hundred and ten shield cars this night." ”

Wen Xixing nodded: "The small cannons we use in Huanqing can't help the shield car of the Xia people, the Xia people spread an asbestos quilt on the shield car and splash water, and the small cannon cannonballs cannonballs can't penetrate the shield car at all, Taishi, will the shells you use explode?" If all of them are such shells, the shield carts of the Xia people are useless. ”

Yuan Yeping nodded, like a few treasures: "The Qinglong Army itself is equipped with forty cannons, and the Vermilion Bird Army also has forty guns, and it is not a problem for these cannons to be arranged into an artillery regiment, I think today's artillery officer is very good, it is better to hand over all the artillery to him for command."

In addition to the accompanying cannons, we also brought a hundred thousand grenades, each soldier with a hundred bullets, which should be able to withstand for a while. ”

Zhao Xing turned around to look in the direction of Hue Crossing, the water of the Yellow River roared about a mile behind him, Zhao Xing asked worriedly: "I don't know if the fleet has crossed the river, didn't the dragoons say that they could rest at noon, why hasn't it arrived at night?" ”

Yuan Yeping suggested: "Send someone to inform them? It would not be good if they came at night and couldn't figure out the direction and arrived at the camp of the Tanguts.

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Zhao Xing pointed to his Jiangtai: "I have already raised the identification light in Jiangtai, these people have been on the boat for so long, they should also know our identification signal." At night, we are not familiar with the road, and the Tangut people are familiar with this place, so they blatantly send them out, I am afraid that they will be hunted by the Tangut people. ”

Time passed minute by minute, waiting was exhausting, and the night spent in waiting seemed extraordinarily long.

Finally, it was dawn, the Song army was still preparing breakfast, the Western Xia army on the opposite side had already come out, the aroma from the camp of the Song army made them surprised and jealous, but they couldn't help it, they couldn't find firewood around to make a fire, they could only hope to fight first, wait until the dew dried, and then collect dry grass and horse manure the next day as fuel.

"It's an iron harrier, it's a luxury!" Zhao Xing saw the formation of the Xixia people from the telescope, and opened his mouth in shock: "How many iron harriers can there be in the whole Western Xia, and the military division of Baima Qiang Town actually shot three thousand at a time, which is too extravagant." ”

Wen Xixing sighed: "Yongle was defeated, the Xia people captured about 30,000 foot armor, they modified these 30,000 step armor, cut off the hem of the armor, and made about 50,000 pairs of iron harriers, the previous wars were slightly damaged, and now, the entire Xia country is about 30,000 pairs of iron harriers." ”

Zhao Xing shook his head: "As soon as you come up, you will charge with an iron harrier...... Although I don't know how to command cavalry, I know that the Iron Harriers don't charge for a long distance, and at least they need to enter my artillery fire zone and order the artillery to prepare. ”

Zhao Xing just ordered here, the Xia army position launched hundreds of shield cars, there are several fire ballista cars in the gap between the shield cars, these combat vehicles lined up in a line, slowly advancing forward, close to yesterday's shelling area, the fire ballista lit the fire ballista, a shape like the Song Dynasty fireworks "Sky Monkey" like something rushed out, it has no direction, no accuracy at all, only flew out of the fire ballista not far away, has been in any direction to move, making the sky full of white smoke.

"It seems that Xia Jun's gunpowder formula still doesn't work......" Zhao Xing talked softly, Xia Jun's horn was heard in the smoke, and the fire ballista car that shot the fire crossbow was used as a shield car and continued to move forward, and after a while, one by one, the vehicles were pushed out of the gunsmoke.

"Fire!" The Song artillery officer gave the order to shoot.

This time, because it was a protracted battle, the artillery officer did not ask for a quick shot, and the Song army's ground artillery shells were rhythmically fired, and the shells flew and fell heavily on the impact point, and near the explosion range, countless shield cars turned into fragments, and the wreckage began to burn, but the remnants of the ground shield cars were still stubbornly advancing.

After advancing another hundred meters, the shield car could no longer form a coherent front, at this time, Xia Jun's horn sounded, and the iron harrier wrapped in iron armor rushed out of the smoke behind the shield car, and the speed of their running was not fast, only this distance

Already tired and panting.

The earth is shaking, as if a heavy steamroller pressed the road, not only the front of the Song army appeared iron harriers, far away on both wings also appeared a large group of cavalry, these cavalry with the difference in running speed, naturally formed a crane wing shape, directly in front of the iron harrier, slow, unhurried rushing towards the position, on both sides of the rangers, part of the cavalry on horseback with whirlwind cannons, while running while shooting stone bullets. The flying stone bullets were like locusts on the ground, and the black pressure pounced on the Song army's position, and many stone bullets were still emitting black smoke in the air, which was a thunderbolt fireball.

The Song army's position was like a disturbed monster, and suddenly there was a huge roar, which is difficult to describe in human language, it was the sound of six thousand muskets firing together, and this was the first time in human history that such a large scale of muskets was fired.

Zhao Xing used a telescope to observe the rushing iron harrier, a series of sparks came out of an iron harrier, which was the effect of the bullet hitting him, but it seemed that the bullet did not penetrate the iron piece, the iron harrier that was shot was shot by the powerful impact of the bullet and leaned back, but he was still sitting on the horse, letting the horse charge forward.

"Legend has it that the Iron Harriers are tied to horses, and sure enough!" Zhao Xing put down the binoculars and exclaimed.

Yuan Yeping didn't put away the binoculars, he replied while observing: "It's useless, our muskets can't penetrate them at this distance, but a little closer, a little closer...... Alright, knocked down. ”

The musket shot very quickly, after one shot, the soldiers quickly pushed the rifle and reloaded, and fired a second shot, a row of guns fired over, the iron harriers kept falling from their horses, many iron harriers were knocked to the ground with people and horses, but there were still nearly 1,000 iron harriers braving the artillery fire, braving the rain of bullets and rushing into the trench.

The armor on the iron harrier is too heavy, although the trench is shallow, but quickly, the war horse can't jump, can only slow down and jump into the ditch, and then slowly climb, such a pause, the Song army's firepower advantage is revealed, and countless war horses are knocked to the ground as soon as they probe......

Zhao Xing turned his head to look at the left and right wings and asked, "How are the two wings?" ”

The soldier who gave the order looked at the banners on both wings and replied in a low voice: "The left flank has been broken through, and the Blue Dragon Army is fighting hand-to-hand with the cavalry that has broken through; The right flank was still holding out, and a small number of cavalry infiltrated it, but the right flank reported that they could hold on. ”

Yuan Yeping jumped up: "Hand-to-hand combat, this is what our guards are best at, my lord, please let me go." ”

Zhao Xing thought about it for a while, and immediately waved his hand: "You take four hundred people, and bring the organ as well...... Be sure to hold the left flank. ”

Yuan Yeping asked worriedly: "My lord, there are only a hundred people here, can it be done?" ”

Zhao Xing waved his hand, Yuan Yeping didn't say a word, drew his knife and pounced on the left flank with four hundred attendants. Near Jiangtai, the hundred attendants left behind began to arrange their muskets, and Wen Xixing saw this, and also took a musket from the weapon Chao Lu held and began to load it.

The left flank is actually very dangerous, there are three or two Western Xia cavalry has rushed to the vicinity of the platform, Zhao Xing sat still, the guards knocked these rushing soldiers to the ground with a burst of guns, and soon, a person who looked like a Western Xia general brandished a mace, leading more than a dozen attendants to run up the soil slope, he saw Zhao Xing standing on the soil slope, and a girl squatting next to him, so he let out a strange scream, brandishing a mace and rushing to the platform.

The guards fired one after another, and the general swayed left and right on his horse, showing superb horsemanship, and the guards behind him were knocked down again and again, but even if he was left alone, he still struggled to advance.

"Without that Song dog, you have the courage to fight with your grandfather for three hundred rounds...... the general of the Xia army danced the mace like a windmill, the iron nails on the mace were full of minced meat, his horse was fast, and he had rushed into the earth platform in the blink of an eye.

"Boom!" Zhao Xing opened the bow left and right, and fired two shots with a handcuff, the first shot hit near the horse's head, and the person who was hurting the horse stood up, taking advantage of the moment when the Western Xia general was in the air, Zhao Xing's second handcuff fired, and at the same time, the guards also seized the opportunity, and a rain of bullets poured over, and countless blood holes appeared in the general's body.

"You...... It's not a good man......", the Xixia general fell heavily to the ground, he looked at Zhao Xing angrily with wide eyes, and shouted with his last strength.

Zhao Xing blew the green smoke from the muzzle of the gun lightly, and replied: "When I destroy your country, who will say that I am not a hero?" ”

On the left flank there was a dense burst of gunfire, the sound of an organ, and in this era, Zhao Xing could not make a machine gun, so he took out the home-made machine gun platoon that the members of the Paris Commune liked to use.

Many of the barrels were made in the shape of Katyusha rocket launchers, and then fired immediately, which also played a machine-gun-like role.

This kind of platoon gun is as large as a pipe organ, difficult to load, but its power is unimaginable, as soon as the organ is played, the shouting and killing of the left wing immediately weakened, and the whole world is full of gunfire, and when the gunfire subsides, the left wing is dead silent.

After a pause, Yuan Yeping rushed back to Jiangtai with the remaining guards, he saw the corpse on the side of Jiangtai, and hurriedly dropped the blood-stained war knife, and kowtowed again and again: "Capital crime, capital crime, the lower official actually made the enemy rush to the adult, capital crime!" ”

Zhao Xing pointed to the right wing: "Go and see the right wing, they seem to be still fighting hard." ”

There was no battle in front of them, the Iron Harriers rushed through the gun forest, most of them fell in front of the last trench, and the artillery fire of the Song army suppressed the follow-up troops, and the Iron Harriers were weak in follow-up, and after one impact, all of them were killed.

The gunfire on the right flank kept rang out, and Yuan Yeping turned around and greeted him, and then led the guards to pounce on the right flank...... (To be continued, if you want to know what will happen next, 8.) *More chapters, support*.. *Chinese Net*! )