Chapter 1179: The Rise of the Republic XXV
The spear formation of the ninth general of the Republican Army has actually been broken through in many places!
Although they are well-trained, although they are condescending, although their morale is high, although they hold the spear of great lethality.
However, the Liao people had too many armored horses, more than 5,000 hundreds, and it was a decisive battle against the sea, with no advance or retreat. The huge impact force is simply not something that can be stopped by just a thousand spears.
However, it was fortunate that the armored cavalry of the Liao people had not yet learned the skills of the cavalry of the Republican Army and the cavalry of the Hexi Army. Their impact is a one-shot deal, and they will not launch a second or third wave of charges. Rather, hand-to-hand combat is carried out after the impact.
But hand-to-hand combat is precisely the weakness of the steppe cavalry. Don't think that the men on the grassland are good at hand-to-hand combat, but that's not the case at all. They didn't live by wrestling, but by riding horses and archery. With the exception of a few periods, the warriors of the steppe relied on bows and arrows, rather than hand-to-hand combat.
And the Khitan warriors are precisely not good at hand-to-hand combat.
Therefore, in Xue Ding, he invested sword and shield soldiers to support the pikemen, and ordered the crossbowmen and scout cavalry to attack in the form of skirmishers, constantly firing with Tianjin crossbows and buffalo horn bows to support the battle of the front-line pikemen and sword and shield soldiers.
The battlefield of Huangjiagou fell into a stalemate.
"Rush up!"
"It's a pity that ...... was blocked"
"It doesn't matter, it won't last long! Now it's all about our flanks! ”
On the beach under the slope of Huangjiagou Mountain, Xiao Fengxian and Xiao Wuna finally stepped on the solid ground.
But the odds weren't in their favor. Although the armored cavalry on the front line was quite strong and rushed up the slopes of Huangjiagou, the danger of annihilation did not far away from them. Their flanks are still weak, exposed to the powerful Republican shock cavalry and artillery!
Now is the time for their lives to be handed over, and the potential of Xiao Fengxian and Xiao Wuna has also been stimulated to the extreme. They discussed it for a while and decided to split up to resist the flank attack of the Youzhou army. Xiao Wuna personally blocked the left side, Xiao Feng first blocked the right side, and Xiao Agu was responsible for the front with the Flying Tiger Army, and attacked Huangjiagou.
Just when Xiao Fengxian and Xiao Wuna mustered up their remaining courage and engaged in the battle of trapped beasts. The ironclad cavalry under Wu Tian's command had already lined up the assault team. This time they were arranged along the slopes of Daniu Mountain, although they were condescending and had a bonus in impact kinetic energy, but the terrain was not open after all. All the Wu Tian adopted the tactic of assaulting in turn by gang-level squads. With 40 horsemen as a team, more than 100 teams were laid out, and teams were arranged along the slopes and mountain roads. Almost the entire eastern slope of Daniu Mountain is crowded.
With the drums of war beating of the charge. A group of armored cavalry led by Wu Jue, who avenged his father, was the first to attack. More than forty armored horsemen, along the gentle eastern slope of Daniu Mountain, swept down with a bang, the spears in the front row had been flattened, and the war horses had put down their face covers, just sprinting forward desperately with their heads covered.
The speed of the war horses gradually increased, the hooves of the horses roared, the earth trembled, and the knights shouted the slogan of "Preserve the principles of heaven and defend the republic", and with an unstoppable trend, they flocked to the enemy in front!
At the foot of the Huangjiagou hillside, the infantry of the Liao army had barely lined up in formation. However, because the earlier situation was too chaotic, Xiao Fengxian and Xiao Wuna were eager to put the troops into a decisive attack, so they did not seriously organize the formation. Spearmen and sword and shield bearers, regular soldiers and shop auxiliaries were all mixed together. Moreover, most of the pikemen of the Liao army were armed with horse pistols - they were originally cavalry, and of course they would not be equipped with the Zhangba spears of the republican pikemen. In addition, the cavalry of the Liao army was divided into light and heavy, only the armored cavalry as a heavy cavalry would be equipped with an elongated carbine or horse, and the ordinary light cavalry only had a truncated carbine. The length of this carbine was not comparable to that of the horseback or elongated pistol used by the Republican knights, so it was extremely disadvantageous in resisting the onslaught of the Republican cavalry.
However, Wu Jue, who had just died of his father and charged with red eyes, failed to break through the formation of the Liao army. Even if the condescending heavy cavalry relied on the huge impact kinetic energy to rush straight into the depths of the Liao people's chaotic formation, and also knocked away many Liao soldiers, it was not enough to knock the Liao army's large array with great strength density.
Now there are more than 20,000 infantry crammed together, even if there are not many rules, the formation is always thick enough, and it is impossible to count how many platoons there are. It is simply impossible to be pierced by the assault of dozens of horsemen!
Wu Jue still kept a clear head, and did not fight desperately because of his father's death. After the collision was over, taking advantage of the confusion of the Liao people, he used the horse in his hand to whip it, forcing the Liao people to dodge one after another, and then turned the horse's head and left with his subordinates like a whirlwind. Instead of retreating up the hillside, he ran to the frozen sea, went around through the ice to the other side of Daniu Mountain, and from there went uphill, waiting for the next round of impact.
In the process of rushing to the sea, he took out his bow and arrows, and shot more than 20 sharp arrows into the dense crowd of Liao soldiers. Of course, he is not alone in being able to shoot on horseback, those students of knight elementary school and knight academy are not bad at riding and shooting. More than 40 horsemen each shot out more than ten or twenty arrows, plus one piece is seven or eight hundred arrows, and in front of the Liao army, there were heavy casualties.
Of course, the Liao people also had bows and arrows, but they were not equipped with crossbows, just ordinary bows. The regular soldiers usually had a stubborn sheep's horn bow, and the auxiliaries generally only had the horse bow used by the steppe herders. Neither of these bows had enough penetrating power to kill Republican knights in full armor.
The knights led by Wu Jue were only the first wave, and behind him, more than a hundred teams of cavalry came one after another, impacting the chaotic Liao army in waves.
However, the Liao people, who were cornered, also broke out with rare tenacity. Under the impact of the armored horse, he actually carried it to the death! At the same time, on the slopes of Huangjiagou Mountain, the ninth general of the republican army fell into a bitter battle, and was oppressed by the heavy cavalry of thousands of Liao people and retreated.
It turned out that the armored cavalry was the core of the Liaoren Palace Division, and the members were all strong men in the palace division, but now it was a desperate situation, and all the potential was stimulated to the extreme, and an amazing battle broke out, which made it a little difficult for the soldiers of the Republican Army to parry.
The lives of both sides were constantly consumed on the slopes of Huangjiagou Mountain, and in the fiercest place of the fierce fighting, the corpses were piled up layer after layer, and blood flowed sideways, staining the snow-covered slopes red.
Seeing that the republican army in the direction of Huangjiagou was about to be exhausted, 5,000 armored cavalry of the first cavalry general of the republican army escorted an artillery battalion to the front of the left flank of the Liao army.
The preparation of this artillery battalion will be named Liu Xun, who is a side descendant of the Liu family in Youzhou in the Yan Si family, as early as the first few years of the opening of the Jiehe Commercial Market, he moved to the commercial market with his family, and then entered the Nankai Academy (now Nankai Primary School) and the Knight Academy. He became the first generation of artillery commanders of the Youzhou Army. When he bombarded the Jurchens of the Shunguo Department with "iron sand bombs" just now, Luo Gang and he could be regarded as witnessing the power of artillery melee combat.
Therefore, after Luo Gang entered a stalemate in the battle of Huangjiagou, he ordered Liu Xun to lead his artillery battalion, under the cover of cavalry, to push it to more than 200 steps away from the Liao army's battle line, where he set up artillery and bombarded the dismounted cavalry on the left flank of the Liao people at close range.
Before the cannon moved, a "sand bullet" with a cowhide shell had been filled into the chamber. So after the 9 doors were placed, there was a roar immediately. 9 shells filled with a large number of small iron pillars, small iron blocks and iron sand were sprayed out of the chamber by gunpowder!
That's a close-range bombardment! And it's still a shotgun, and no one can stand it!
The left flank of the Liao army was suddenly in chaos. The Liao soldiers, who were still carrying their lives, suddenly came to the verge of collapse, and they were about to flee, and they didn't know who shouted, "Are the men of the Great Khitan still afraid of demon laws?" Rushed up and snatched their magic weapons! ”
This shout finally stimulated the last bit of residual courage in the hearts of these Liao soldiers, and they rushed forward with a burst of shouting.
Liu Xun's artillery movements were really fast, and before the Liao soldiers rushed up, they completed another round of reloading. Without waiting for Liu Xun's order, the artillerymen even saved aiming, and directly ignited the medicine lead.
Nine "iron sand bullets" sprayed out of the muzzle, randomly turning into countless iron bullets, iron blocks, and iron sand, knocking down all the Liao people who rushed to the front! The scene was extremely bloody and tragic to the extreme.
But the Liao soldiers in a desperate situation did not retreat, and went forward one after another!
This time it was Liu Xun's turn and his artillery to run away, and they didn't destroy the artillery, nor did they ignite the gunpowder, they just ran away.
Nine artillery pieces actually fell into the hands of the Liao.
This can make these Khitan people in a desperate situation very happy, and they cheered around the cannon: We finally have a "magic weapon", and we are no longer afraid of the demon magic of the Youzhou army!
But how is this artifact used? Do you want to recite a mantra? No one teaches you?
Just when the Khitan people just thought that they couldn't use the "magic weapon", they didn't know who it was, and howled again: "Iron Rider!" Iron Rider ......"
The armored cavalry of the Youzhou Army launched an assault!
Just now, when the Liao army rushed to grab the artillery, the armored cavalry of the artillery battalion escorting Liu Xun did not meet the battle, but flashed back more than 200 steps, opening up a distance of impact.
After Liu Xun's artillery ran down, the cavalry of this battalion immediately launched a counterattack, not divided into small teams, but dispatched one department at a time, more than 1,500 cavalry rushed up, taking advantage of the opportunity of the Liao people cheering around the cannon to rush up, the Liao soldiers who were only half happy rushed to pieces, crashed to death, trampled to death, stabbed to death with horses, and the rest rushed back.
As soon as they ran, Liu Xun ran back with his artillery, and when he ran back, he saw that the cannons were all intact, so continue to load and fire iron sand bullets!
Under the bombardment of iron sand shells fired at close range by these 9 cannons, the left flank of the Liao army finally could no longer support it and fell into a complete collapse!
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