The murderous aura in the sky made people shiver fiercely in their hearts, and they faintly sensed a cold chill approaching from a long distance.

"It's coming!" After a long wait, the figures shivering in the cold wind finally waited for their enemies.

The mixed formation of cavalry and infantry, and the thousands of bomb-throwing carts, a huge phalanx appeared in front of them.

After seeing the enemy phalanx in front of him, Wei Chi Jingde was stunned and said in surprise: "How can this be fought?" ”

A few people, you stare at me, I stare at you, there is no solution at all.

……

20,000 infantry fought in the front, 20,000 infantry on the left and right, 10,000 infantry in the rear, and then 20,000 cavalry waiting to attack at any time, surrounded in the middle, Li Yuanji's Chinese army and artillery.

The bomb trucks have all been deployed in place, with 500 units in front, 250 on each side, 100 rocket artillery units in the front, 10 rocket launchers on the left and right, and the remaining 80 units in the rear to take care of the rear.

Such an impenetrable battle formation completely made Wei Chi Jingde dumbfounded.

"Hmph, little sample, do you really think you dare to come out and show off after learning some tricks? See how you cope! Looking at the Tang army waiting in front of him, Li Yuanji sneered and couldn't help muttering.

This large array of 70,000 people is huge, the main direction of attack is directly in front, where it is also the place where the most troops are deployed and the firepower is the most intensive, and the two sides are relatively weak, but in fact it is not weak, although the infantry and artillery are not as many as the front, but there are still 20,000 cavalry waiting behind them, spread out some, which is equivalent to no matter where the Tang army chooses to attack from, it can be replenished to more than 20,000 people in the first time.

Bomb trucks and rocket launchers only need a short time to prepare and can be supported.

Such a shameless battle formation is not much different from the hedgehog formation back then, and even surpasses it.

However, Li Yuanji is planning to push all the way to Chang'an, how can he do it if he doesn't use any good ideas?

Today's Li Yuanji has a heavy army, and all kinds of advanced equipment emerge in an endless stream, not to mention that the Tang Army is inferior to his own strength, or the Tang Army, which is several times larger, and he has absolute confidence to defeat it, and he can't even think that there will be any trouble in this battle.

"Attacking ......"

"King! Scout! ”

Before Li Yuanji's attack could be uttered, the lookout soldiers on the lookout tower shouted urgently at Li Yuanji.

"The Scout is covered in blood!" The lookout added.

Li Yuanji was stunned for a moment, quickly withdrew the order, and looked in the direction pointed by the lookout.

A scout, covered in blood and riding on horseback with difficulty, was hurrying towards the direction of the big formation, and he couldn't help but feel a bad feeling in his heart.

"King! The enemy troops, about fifty miles from the rear, found at least three regiments of the Tang Army, there were a large number of bomb trucks, and the devices were not too much different from ours, the small ones were discovered by them, and a small group of people fled back by themselves! ”

"At least three legions? The bomb truck is about the same as ours? Li Yuanji was stunned, could it be that he still had their internal response on his side? Or is there a correlation in the Academy of Sciences?

Thinking of this, Li Yuanji was instantly shocked into a cold sweat, if so, did they also get the corresponding technology for rocket artillery?

What about gunpowder?

The manufacturing technology of rocket artillery and gunpowder is not difficult, as long as you know the ratio, you can get it out after a few tests, if the other side really has these, then you will go south this time?

It's still too careless.

"Did you see the rocket artillery?" Li Yuanji hurriedly asked.

"It doesn't seem to be!"

'Whew! ’

Li Yuanji breathed a heavy sigh of relief, but he only breathed a sigh of relief, he didn't see it, it doesn't mean that he really didn't, maybe he was hiding behind the bomb truck? Behind a pile of bomb bodies, it's hard to see these relatively small things.

To fight or not to fight? Deterrence or lethality?

These two issues have become the top priority that plagues Li Yuanji.

"Isn't the king worried that the other party also has rocket artillery?" Su Dingfang saw Li Yuanji's worry, and he was also worried in his heart.

Li Yuanji nodded heavily, he was indeed very worried about the opponent's rocket artillery, rocket artillery is a devastating weapon for this kind of cluster battle array, and it can kill most of the legions in one round, if the other party also has it......

I looked at the military formation in front of me again, it was still the general formation of the Tang Army, and there was no evacuation of the battle formation, such a formation did not have any advantage in the face of bomb throwers or rocket artillery, and would even be easily wiped out.

But they still arranged it like this, Li Jing had already returned to Chang'an, it was impossible for him not to tell Li Shimin about these situations, and it was impossible for Wei Chi Jingde not to know.

Suddenly, Li Yuanji found that his suspicions seemed to be getting heavier and heavier.

"This matter is simple, the king can order them to carry out a tentative attack, and at the same time send some rocket artillery to support, if the enemy really has, in the face of such casualties, it is impossible not to take out, if they only use bomb trucks to counterattack, then it proves that they do not, the king can completely let the bombers contain them, the rocket artillery is completely suppressed, and they can't get through, I believe that with the support of rocket artillery, they should be able to hold out until we solve here." Su Dingfang suggested solemnly.

On the contrary, it is very simple, either retreat, or temporarily fill the rocket artillery with gunpowder to increase the range of the rocket artillery, and suppress the opponent at a long distance, if the range of the opponent's rocket artillery is higher than its own, then there is no choice but to retreat, hold it first after going back, and then counterattack with rocket artillery with a longer range.

Li Yuanji found that he seemed to be a little unsuitable to be a commander, and such a simple question made him so surprised.

Li Yuanji, who calmed down, thought carefully about Su Dingfang's suggestion and found that there were indeed a lot of feasible points.

"You personally led 20,000 cavalry, 5,000 infantry and 80 rocket artillery to go, if you can do something, take the opportunity to integrate them, if you can't do it......" Speaking of this, Li Yuanji paused slightly, and continued with some confusion: "Destroy them, if they have rocket artillery, and they are better than us, retreat!" ”

"No!"

"In addition......" Li Yuanji stopped Su Dingfang and advised: "Don't hurt Cheng Zhijie, if you can't catch him alive, let him go back!" ”

"No!" The corners of Su Dingfang's mouth twitched slightly, but he still resolutely agreed.

……

With 25,000 troops and 80 bomb throwing vehicles, they broke away from the battle formation under the nose of Wei Chi Jingde.

Although it is infantry, the Qi army is not short of horses, and the 5,000 infantry also have their own war horses, but the battle is still dominated by foot combat.

Each rocket launcher is drawn by four horses, which is no slower than that of cavalry.

It was difficult for the Tang army to dispatch so many cavalry to encircle and intercept, so they could only watch them go away, and at the same time send someone to inform Cheng Zhijie behind to be careful, Li Yuanji's people went with a big killing weapon.

Although there were 25,000 troops missing, Li Yuanji still had 45,000 troops in his hands, and he did not have an advantage in troops, but he still had a certain advantage in momentum and equipment.

Li Yuanji, who had regained his composure, was very clear in his mind at the moment, although the threat was coming, but now, it was they who should really feel threatened.

Ma Li pulled out the sword symbolizing the commander at his waist, and the blade of the sword pointed diagonally ahead: "Advance to a thousand paces, the bomb thrower will fire three volleys, and the rocket artillery will conduct one salvo to deter the enemy, if you don't surrender, you won't be left with a piece of armor!" ”

"Advance to a Thousand Steps......

"Advance to a Thousand Steps......

Successive shouts rang out one after another, from near to far, and gradually spread to the entire military formation, each military formation was based on a team, and after each team heard it, it would repeat the order, one was to pass the order to each soldier under him, and the other was to pass it on to the next team, so that they could continue to pass it on.

'Knock~~~'

On the other side, the war drums distributed in the army were already rumbling.

Drummers are specially trained, and in order to achieve unity and uniformity of the entire military formation, it is not possible to rely on a single snare drum.

Three snare drums were followed by three more rhythmic drums, and then a response was heard from all over the place.

'Knock~~~'

The snare drums sounded again, and in the entire army formation of 45,000 people, a hundred snare drums were scattered, and a hundred snare drums sounded almost at the same time.

'Cross~~~'

'Knock~~~'

'Cross~~~'

The sound of drums and footsteps came one after another, and with each sound, the entire army moved one step forward, neatly aligned, not only the action, but even the sound was only one, and the movement of 45,000 people shocked Li Yuanji, who was in the middle army, but now was not the time to be shocked.

Obviously, the specially trained war drums and soldiers have long been accustomed to this way of moving one by one, and the frequency of the drum means the speed at which they move, and now this frequency only needs to move forward slowly, although there is no special rule on the distance of one step, but it is also very different.

It is not allowed to turn heads and ears, but you can look twice with the corner of your eyes, look ahead, and adjust your steps.

Besides, they are all old comrades-in-arms who have been training together for several months, and they all know how big a step they should take.

And this scene shocked the Tang army on the opposite side, Rao is military formation quality is also not weak, it is difficult for them to do this, neatly like a person.

Faintly, many Tang troops were even the slightest nervous, even if the bomb truck behind them was ready to drop bombs, they still couldn't release their nervousness.

A huge black flag was raised on the lookout, and the drumming almost simultaneously stopped, as did the entire battle formation.

The soldiers quickly removed their bows and arrows and mounted an arrow, the artillerymen quickly loaded, and the rocket launchers hurriedly led the horses away, fixed the wheels, and loaded the leads.

One of the teams in each phalanx was turning to look at the command platform in front of him, and when he saw the black flag light up again, he immediately half-turned around and shouted, "Bow and arrow ready!" Put ......"

"Artillery ready! Put ......"