On the 18th, the Shuangxiong Army and the Mo Army marched towards Beining with their own intentions, and the team of more than 20,000 people stretched for 20 miles, and there was no edge in sight. The Navy will only set off tomorrow as a surprise aid. This time it was very close to the enemy, and the two heroic armies did not collect a total of more than 200 cavalry at night. The Mo army also sent scouts and cavalry, but now they are doing their own things, and the two sides do not interact with each other. Fang Lie led twenty horsemen to the front at night, along the way the village markets were destroyed, there was no one to live, twenty miles away from Beining, and the enemy army did not collect thirty horsemen at night!

"Brothers, we haven't closed the knife at night, do the enemy troops in front dare to take it?"

"Dare!"

"Okay, let's go!"

Twenty men lined up in two rows and urged their horses to meet the enemy.

The enemy was also undaunted, forming their ranks in the shape of arrows and preparing to break through in the middle. However, the two heroes accelerated earlier, and this time they had the advantage of speed. Only fifty meters away did the enemy form a team and urge the war horse. At this time, Fang Lie shouted and fired from fifty meters away, and then scattered and threw grenades at the enemy's flanks, and the enemy was in the rear.

Fifty meters, the speed of the enemy's horse team could not be raised, and the head of the army wanted to say something, but the ten muskets in the first row of the Shuangxiong Army had already fired: "Bah! Bang......! "The leader of the army fell to the ground with two shots. Another five horsemen were shot, and after two of the horses were shot, they neighed and danced wildly, causing some confusion to the whole team!

The first platoon fired and immediately turned from both sides, and at the same time pulled out the grenades and set them on fire, while the enemy fired scattered bows and arrows at them, and the two men did not collect the arrows from their shoulders at night. The second platoon caught up, put the guns again, and the enemy fell seven more horsemen! Then ten grenades flew into the enemy ranks! Due to the two rounds of firing, and the return fire of the enemy cavalry had stopped at this time, seeing the smoking grenades, the enemies exclaimed: "Ten thousand enemies! Spread out, spread out! But at this time, it is not easy to disperse the war horses, and as soon as the horse is pulled, ten grenades explode one after another: "Boom! Rumble! ……。 "The bomb exploded with shattered shells, iron dings, and iron balls! The horses were beaten to the ground with blood and flesh on their legs and abdomen, and the seriously injured fell to the ground, and the lightly injured and the loud explosion were so frightened that the cavalry on their backs were jumped and trampled on the ground, and the domain was kicked down by the other horses! Immediately after the second round of grenades exploded, the enemy horses completely lost control, collided and squeezed each other, and the enemy who could still ride on horseback was crushed or kicked, and some were mixed by the horse and dragged by the horses. On the ground, the internal organs of the limbs of horses and human limbs were scattered, and the blood of horses and men stained the ground red, and the smell of blood was strong. The two heroic armies did not close at night, and turned around and lined up 200 meters away. Looking back, apart from seven or eight horses running around, there was not a single person riding or standing. When I looked closer, there were still two enemy soldiers wriggling in the pile of flesh, and Ma Lie ordered someone to drag them out.

"How are they hurting?"

"Master Ma, those two people have multiple fractures and abrasions, and they are not life-threatening!"

"It's not appropriate to stay here for a long time, help them bandage them and go back for interrogation!"

"Yes!"

Then Ma Lie visited the two wounded soldiers! "How are you two injured?"

"My lord, don't get in the way, the arrow doesn't shoot deep, it only hurts the flesh. Now that you have simply bandaged it to stop the bleeding, go back and pull out the arrow! ”

"It's good if it's not heavy, it's not good to stay here for a long time, we have to leave as soon as possible!"

"Yes!"

After a while, Ma Lie took the people back!

An army of 20,000 men is making a fire by the river at this time!

When Ma Lie returned, he happily took the two captives to Chen and the others.

Chen Feng, on the other hand, did not interrogate the two prisoners of war directly, but asked them to bring tables, chairs, wine and food for them to sit down, and the two of them looked at each other and then dragged their bodies full of pain to sit down, anyway, the worst is death.

Chen Feng also walked to the table and sat down and poured wine for them. Then he said: "Two, this official is Chen Feng, the commander of the Qinzhou Guard!" Today, the two armies clashed, although you were captured by our army, but this officer has always admired Er and other brave soldiers, and does not want to embarrass you. I just want to get some news! ”

"If you want us to say something, even if it's death, please don't waste your time!"

"This officer said, I don't want to embarrass you, in this case, there is still good tea and dinner, when the two armies face each other, this officer will put on your official uniform, let you appear in front of our phalanx and tell your army. Let's just say that you can't stand the torture and join our army for your life. The two of them may be alive and well by then, but the old and young in the family may ......! ”

"You, you're so vicious!"

"Choose your own path!" After speaking, Chen Feng left.

After a while, the two Chen Feng brothers were having lunch, and Ma Lie came to report: "Two adults, those two prisoners of war have bitten their tongues and committed suicide while we were unprepared. If your subordinates don't take good care of you, please punish them! ”

"Ma Lie, you don't have to be so confident that the official is too confident, no wonder you, come, let's have dinner together, we're about to leave!"

……。

Five miles outside the city of Bac Ninh, an army of 20,000 men camped in the dry rice fields, which had long since passed the harvest season, leaving only the harvested crops. The battle flag in Bac Ninh was unfurled, and the iron gates were closed. Outside the moat, the Mocan army also set up camp, and the size of the camp was no less than 30,000 people.

Chen Feng and the generals discussed with Mo Jingkuan in the tent at this time!

Mo Jingkuan sighed and said: "Two, looking at the scale of the enemy army, there are 50,000 people inside and outside the city, and we are barely 20,000, plus the enemy city is strong, I am afraid it will be difficult to succeed, what kind of seconds do you have, you might as well say it!" ”

"Hey! I didn't expect them to be able to assemble so quickly, and now it is really difficult. Yes, King Mo, you often fight with enemy troops, do you still talk about their combat strength and tactics?! ”

"Let's talk about it, the Li Dynasty army has many famous generals, well-trained, and has experienced many major wars, although our dynasty has many chances of victory, but the Li Dynasty has a vast territory and a strong treasury, and now, our army has long been unable to match it. Its tactics are roughly the same as those of our army, and they all follow the former Song Dynasty battle formation. However, Zheng Jie, the prime minister of the Li Dynasty, was resourceful and very difficult to deal with. ”

"King Mo, according to your opinion, how to set up the formation tomorrow, my Shuangxiong army is not good at breaking the formation and approaching, although there have been many victories, but most of them are waiting for merit."

"Okay, I said that tomorrow our army will set up a formation, and you will arrange your men and horses according to the formation. First of all, our 5,000 pikemen and 2,000 swords and shields were arranged in two phalanxes. It is used to break through the enemy pikemen's formation, followed by 2,000 musketeers, and to shoot at the enemy after the breakthrough. The left flank is the elite camp of our army. Three thousand longbowmen on the right flank. On the other side, 3,000 cavalry of our army are arranged to protect the wings or to use them as surprise soldiers! ”

After thinking for a while, Chen Feng gestured and said: "In this way, one hundred and thirty artillery pieces of my two male armies are placed on the left and right sides of your department, so as to provide artillery support for your pikemen when they advance, and I put one hundred tiger squat cannons in your spear phalanx, and when they are two hundred away from the enemy, they will carry out a round of bullet rain and artillery bombardment on the enemy, and after weakening the enemy formation, the spear phalanx will break through, and when our artillery fires, the front army will squat down first." Leave empty spaces on both flanks of your spear phalanx, and my 5,000 musketeers will provide cover for the march on both sides, what do you think? ”

"Well, this can give full play to the strengths of your firearms, so it's decided, don't save shells tomorrow!"

"Don't worry, my twin firearms aren't your burning sticks."

……。 The sun showed the white of the fish's belly, and the gates of the barracks of the two armies were wide open, and columns of troops drove out of the camp to form a formation. Soon, tens of thousands of troops on both sides formed a pair. The two sides are three miles apart. In front of the enemy camp, six red-clothed general's cannons were lined up, shooting nearly two miles, but the lethality and accuracy were poor. At the same time, twenty Furlong cannons were in the rear, the range of this cannon was less than one mile, but the rate of fire was fast, and the fifty tiger squat cannons at the back were melee weapons, and the rear was a two-mile-thick phalanx of soldiers, with 5,000 musketeers in front and 6,000 cavalry on both wings.

Chen Feng, Mo Jingkuan and others held monoculars to observe the enemy formation. After about ten minutes, Chen Feng said to Mo Jingkuan: "It seems that our army can only carry out a melee assault after firing a round of muskets at the enemy, otherwise you will take a few thousand soldiers and half of them will die without touching the enemy formation." ”

"Firearms, your two heroes are the best at it, so it's up to you to do it!"

"Okay, the legions of the Shuangxiong Army listened to the order, and the long-range artillery immediately advanced, and launched a long-range artillery attack on the enemy two miles away from the enemy, first attacking the six red-clothed generals. The 1st and 2nd Army Corps and the Tiger Squat Artillery attacked at the same time to protect the long-range artillery, and when the enemy artillery was annihilated into the enemy's army, the 5th Army Corps served as a reserve. ”

"Yes!"

"King Mo, the two wings of our army have been handed over to your cavalry, and when the gap is opened, your pikemen will assault!"

"Don't worry! My subordinates are determined to impress you, brother. ”

The army advanced slowly, and after a while, the artillery of the two armies was two miles apart, and the enemy's six red-clothed general guns opened fire one after another, but the shells with a slightly less charge landed 200 meters away from the Shuangxiong Army, smashing out small craters, and because of the small power, they did not form a decent ricochet. The cannon is bulky and slow to reload, and it takes a long time to reload after a round of shelling.

Taking advantage of this gap, the 60 8-pounder long-range guns of the two armies were quickly deployed, while the 4-pounder and 6-pounder were waiting in the rear. Due to the two-wheeled gun mount of the gun, the mobile steering was very flexible. Three minutes later, the second round of artillery was basically in position. In this round of shelling, the enemy army did not achieve any results, except for two shells that fell into the artillery array and caused a puff of dust, the rest of the shells landed a hundred meters away from the artillery array!

Chen Chun accompanied the commander of the artillery team, and shouted loudly at this time: "Hurry up!" ”

In five minutes, sixty guns were lined up in three rows, each row twenty meters apart, and each gun was ten meters apart. The guns adjusted the angle to the farthest angle of forty-five degrees and began to reload.

"Boom! Rumble! ……！ "The enemy artillery fired a third round of shelling, and after six loud bangs, the shells pierced the air and came at the artillery array with a whistling sound. "Phew! Bang! Three shells fell from 20 meters away from the first artillery column, and formed a small force ricochet to bounce twice on the ground and rolled towards the artillery. ”

"Smack!" A shell rolled under the No. 7 gun and hit the gun mount, and the gun snapped.

"Check the damage to the artillery!"

"Yes"

A soldier went up to inspect and reported that the gun was not injured. "Gun commander, the shell just hit, the artillery is intact!"

"Okay, hurry up and reload!"

One cannon after another, I saw the gun commander open the rear cannon door. One gunner loads the round iron bullets, the other quickly loads the cylindrical powder rolled in cardboard, and the gunner closes the door and locks the bolt. The gunner then pierces the inside of the pouch with a special drill through the ignition hole. Pour the primer cannon and the gun is reloaded. The whole journey takes only twenty seconds. After loading, the commanders of the first artillery reported loudly, "No. 1 is complete, No. 2 is complete, No. 5 is ......!" ”

The artillery was all loaded within thirty seconds, and the gun captain reported to Chen Chun: "My lord, all the artillery pieces are on standby!" ”

"Okay, a salvo from the first platoon."

"First row, one salvo! Preparation...... Ignition! "Twenty cannons, tongues of fire erupted as the gun commander lit the nozzles. Shells whizzed into enemy artillery formations. "Phew!" A shell hit a furlong cannon in the back, and the huge impact knocked the barrel to the ground, and the gunner, who was loaded in front of the barrel, was blown several meters away by the heavy blow of the cannon. Several missed shells formed a ricochet, which flew into the phalanx of soldiers behind, breaking the calves of several soldiers. And a shell was impartial, falling from a high altitude and hitting the barrel of the red-coated general's cannon, and with a loud "dang" bang, the barrel was smashed and cracked several cracks. The red-hot shells shattered into countless fragments in the sparks of impact. The six gunners were hit by countless fragments, and their whole bodies were like hedgehogs, which was very terrifying. A large splinter sliced half of a gunner's head, splashing red and white everywhere.

In the artillery formation of the Shuangxiong Army, the observer reported to Chen Chun: "Report to your lord, the first round of test firing, the trajectory is a little farther, hit one enemy red-coated cannon, three Furlong machine guns, and the firing angle needs to be reduced by three degrees!" ”

"Okay, lower the three-degree angle of fire, and all artillery will fire five shots in a row!"

"All of them, lower the three-degree firing angle, and fire five guns in a row!" In two minutes, all the artillery was adjusted. The commander yelled, "Fire." ”

Sixty cannons fired a salvo, and the earth shook with a loud noise, and the horses were disturbed by the loud noise, and they were restless and neighing in place. The entire artillery array was suddenly enveloped in a puff of smoke. Sixty shells fell into the enemy line with a low whirl. "Bang! Bang! Bang! ......" shells fell like hailstones, forming ricochet. Some directly hit the artillery, and some hit people, cutting off the whole person at the waist and flying around! A single shell struck the powder keg of the redcoat cannon, creating a chain of explosions, lifting the cannon several meters high and then smashing into the side artillery. The blazing air wave ignited the exposed gunpowder, creating a larger explosion.

Thirty seconds later, the second round of shelling began, Chen Chun and his observers could no longer see the situation on the other side, and the sound of the artillery shook everyone's ears. After five rounds of shooting, the smoke shrouded the position, and the strong nitrate extinguished made everyone's eyes red and tearful, and the sharp smell made it difficult to breathe, and they kept coughing!

When the smoke cleared, the enemy artillery array was still uninvited. I saw puffs of black smoke in the thick smoke rushing straight into the clouds. From time to time, the smoke exploded like thunder and flashed with bursts of red light!