With the general contraction of the Republican scout cavalry, the 30 miles of frozen sea east of Daniu Mountain and Bohai Fort (a stone fort on the shore of the Bohai Sea) on the Great Wall of Lushun Pass were all ceded to the Liao army who had come from afar.

However, the Liao soldiers, who had walked on the ice for a few hours, did not immediately enter the battle. Instead, on the ice two or three miles away from the coastline, a long snake formation gradually unfolded. The Liao army, which was brought to the battlefield by Xiao Fengxian, was full of soldiers and auxiliaries, with a total of 56,700 people! Although in the history books, you can often see hundreds of thousands of people fighting against each other. But on the real ancient battlefield, tens of thousands of troops are arranged, and it already has an overwhelming effect. And it is not easy to command and dispatch.

In those years, there were no telegraphs, no mobile phones, no satellite communications, and orders could only be transmitted by the golden drum and horn and the voice of the herald.

It's better to dispatch with fewer people, but if you really have to have hundreds of thousands of troops, how high is the command art to be able to dispatch freely?

As for the favorite of the officials of the Great Song Dynasty, they will draw a formation map in the palace thousands of miles away to direct the battle, which is no longer art, but magic......

And Xiao Fengxian's command level can only be said to be mediocre, even if he is assisted by a bunch of staff and retainers, he is already in a hurry to control the army of tens of thousands of people, and he really wants to give him hundreds of thousands of people, but I am afraid that if he does not need Ma Zheng to send troops, he will be in chaos.

In all fairness, Yelu Yanxi's use of the opportunity of a large area of ice on the surface of the Liaohai Sea to make a roundabout deployment is a good move! And the day chosen is also good, it is the Chinese New Year's Eve of the second year of Zhenghe. Although Ma Zheng had already expected it, he only deployed a few hundred cavalry on the ice to guard it.

If Xiao Fengxian is really a famous general, such as Yelu Dashi, Xiao Gan, and Xiao Heda, maybe he will personally lead the 600 cavalry and 7,000 armored cavalry of the Shunguo Jurchen to go first, bypass the Great Wall of Lushun Pass at the fastest speed, and take Ma Zheng off guard.

Although it may not be able to win, the loss of the Ma Zheng Department must not be small!

However, Xiao Fengxian didn't have such courage, and he just acted in a decent manner, and 56,700 people marched south. The momentum is not small, but it also gives the opponent time to adapt.

And when Xiao Fengxian's army bypassed the Great Wall of Lushun Pass and encountered harassment and obstruction by the assembled Republican cavalry, he did not resolutely put his troops into battle immediately and fight a melee. Instead, he began to set up a battle in all directions, and seemed to be preparing for a dignified battle with the Republican Army.

An army of 56,700 troops arrayed on the ice is not something that can be completed by dividing five by two. Wu Tian was afraid that his cavalry would crush the ice, and Xiao Fengxian was also worried. The weather in Arthur Province is not cold enough to turn ice into steel.

Therefore, Xiao Fengxian had to carefully pull out a long snake formation with a front width of twenty miles. Twenty miles of formation is already quite time-consuming, and it is still walking on thick ice - although it is thick, there are tens of thousands of people stepping on it, and there are more than 8,000 horses, can you be careful?

Therefore, until the eighth general of the Republican Army led by Wu Yan drove to the beach east of Daniu Mountain and north of Huangjiagou, Xiao Fengxian's army was still deployed in chaos.

Looking at the countless Liao soldiers on the ice, Wu Yan was also a little dumbfounded. He only went into battle with more than 5,000 soldiers, but the opponent launched a large array of at least twenty miles, how could he defend Lao Wu? More than 5,000 people have to spread out for 20 miles, and there are only more than 200 people in an average of one mile, so it is not enough to put up a horizontal formation!

And why didn't those Liao people attack before their army arrived? Although Wutian's cavalry was relatively numerous, and the main soldiers and auxiliaries were added to tens of thousands, they were not armed, but only formed three attack clusters.

In addition, there are no defense facilities along the Liaohai coast. There are only a few fortresses and walls, such as Bohai Fort used to cover the flank of the Great Wall of Lushun Pass, Daniushan Fort used to look out over the sea, Huangjiagou Cottage on the east side of Daniu Mountain, and Jiutou Mountain Fort in the southwest of Daniu Mountain. Between Huangjiagou Cottage and Bohai Fort, more than 20 miles along the coast are all farmland. Only on the other side of the peninsula, along the coast of the East China Sea (Yellow Sea), is there the wall of Lushun Commercial Market. On the inner side of the Great Wall of Lushun Pass, there is also a series of barracks.

In other words, if Xiao Fengxian can be decisive and take advantage of the fact that the Republican Army has not arrived on the battlefield, he will directly put the troops on the march into battle, and now he can at least set up a formation on the farmland, and maybe he can grab a few farms.

But Xiao Fengxian wasted too much time on the formation!

"Save the principles of heaven, kill Hulu, divide the land, and be a citizen ......"

"Republic, Wan Sheng! Republic, Wan Sheng! ”

Just as Wu Yan pondered how to arrange the defense, the thousands of republican fighters under his command suddenly exploded, cheering and boiling.

It was about the middle and lower-level officers who led the team that felt that there were many enemies and that their subordinates might be afraid, so they took the lead in shouting slogans. This shout did not matter, and it immediately aroused the morale of the Republican infantry to its peak, and thousands of people cheered in bursts, and the shouts swept across the sea, and even suppressed the roar of the rolling waves.

The nearby knights were also infected, cheering along with the infantry.

The three generals under Wu Yan's command, seeing that their subordinates were full of morale, also sent their cavalry to ask for battle.

Wu Yan saw that the morale was high, and he also felt that he could give his opponent a dismount. So he sent the 8th and 108th Divisions out of the battle, and he led the generals, the engineer battalion, the cavalry battalion and the 208th Division to set up a formation in Huangjiagou, waiting for the follow-up main force to arrive.

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"Save the principles of heaven, kill Hulu, divide the land, and be a citizen ......"

Du Guoliang, who dreamed of being admitted to the Yuntai Academy with extra points for military merits, formed a horizontal formation with his "accomplices" at this time, shouting slogans and advancing with bursts of drums. He was dressed in full armor, carrying a Tianjin crossbow, a long sword hanging from his belt, and a small round shield on his left armguard. It's really fully armed!

After Du Guoliang's crossbow team crossed the formation, less than ten cloth away, there was the spear team of Monk Zhu Da and Monk Zhu Er. Two monks are in a gang, which is equivalent to a platoon, and when they form a horizontal formation, they usually form a horizontal formation. The gang of the two monks is now in the first row of the formation! This is one of the most dangerous and easy places to make a difference.

Behind the pikes were the sword and shield men. Most of them are strong men with great strength and outstanding martial arts. Once the pikemen have successfully broken through, it's time for them to come out and reap their lives.

In addition, the cannons that are now subordinate to the two artillery divisions (regiments) have not yet been pulled up. So now they can only rely on the crossbow arrows in their hands to shoot the Liao soldiers.

Xiao Fengxian, who was sweating profusely and was busy arranging the formation, also discovered the offensive of the Youzhou army!

More than 3,000 infantry actually took the initiative to attack the mixed infantry and cavalry corps of more than 50,000 people! The brains of these Youzhou troops are really abnormal!

"Privy," Xiao Wuna, the unique commander of the imperial camp with Xiao Fengxian, took the initiative to come out to ask for battle, "Give the old man 3,000 iron horses, and the old man will go and kill for a while!" ”

Xiao Fengxian looked at his right flank from a distance and shook his head, "No, there are iron cavalry of the Youzhou Army on Daniu Mountain, if they rush up condescendingly, it will be bad for us." ”

The combat effectiveness of the Youzhou Iron Cavalry is really a bit terrifying!

"And our cavalry should keep the artillery to charge them," Xiao Feng said first, "let's meet them with infantry." Their artillery didn't come, and our warriors of Daliao were still afraid of their infantry? Turner, you go and command the infantry on the right flank. ”

"Whoa!"

Old man Xiao received the order, and with his personal guards, he rode his horse and galloped towards the right flank. At the same time, the Flying Tiger Army on the right flank of the Liao army did not wait for Old Man Xiao to arrive, but first divided 4,000 people (half of them were unarmored auxiliary soldiers) to meet them.

Now the Liao army on the ice of the Liaohai Sea is all dismounted cavalry, so there is no distinction between spears, swords and shields, bows and arrows. The Khitan cavalry was equipped for three battles, with horse pistols, bows and arrows, swords and shields.

However, it is impossible for so many guys to take them to the battlefield at the same time, after all, they dismount and become infantry, and there are too many things to take.

So these 4,000 people, half of them carried bows and arrows, swords and shields, and half only carried horse pistols to defend against the iron cavalry of the Youzhou army.

It was the dismounted cavalry of the Khitans who shot feather arrows first, and they used stubborn horn bows, which had a longer range than ordinary horse bows, and could penetrate relatively thin leather armor and paper armor at a distance of seventy or eighty paces. But for the Qizi nail produced in Tianjin, it has no effect. That is, a clanging sound!

"Don't be afraid, keep your head down and keep going!"

"I'm afraid of a bird, blessed by heaven!"

"Our scarlet armor can't penetrate ......"

When the rain of arrows of the Liao people fell, the grassroots officers of the eighth general began to cheer up their subordinates. At the same time, they are also keeping an eye on their subordinates! These officers, including the team and the escort team, have all changed into Mo knives made of Tianjin Steel, which are weapons used to deal with cavalry and supervise wars! The Mo knife looks very scary, and the assassination and slashing are very powerful.

At this time, whoever dares to escape from the battle, needless to say, is to be killed with a knife!

But now the officers and soldiers of the Republican Army are at their peak in morale, and they all want to kill Hu Lu, and when they are citizens, who would think of running away?

Seeing that the "iron man" on the opposite side was just advancing with his head covered, it was useless for the arrow cluster to hit them, and the dismounted cavalry of the Liao people was also a little anxious, but there was no other way except to throw waves of arrows.

Just when the distance between the two sides was reduced to less than thirty paces, and the crossbowmen of the Republican Army were about to start the terrible "Thousand Crossbow Volley", the Liao people were in the rear, and the sound of horns sounded again and again. The soldiers who had released the arrows suddenly stopped firing, turned around and handed the bows and arrows to the soldiers behind them, and took the spears from them!

In an instant, the archer turned into pikemen!

This tactic of changing clothes before the battle was originally a common trick used by the elite soldiers of the Sui and Tang dynasties, but now it is actually used by the Liao people to deal with the republican army.

The pikemen's assault is about to collide with the salvo of the crossbowmen!