"Is this the ancient city of Xuchang, it's really magnificent and abnormal......"

I stood in front of the towering city wall, surrounded by a great river, and I was very swordsman-like, and I raised my whip and pointed at it from afar.

As the capital of Xuzhou, Henan, it was the former capital of Cao Wei during the Three Kingdoms in history, and Cao Pi, Emperor Wen of Wei, changed Xu County to "Xuchang" with "Wei Jichang in Xu", and has been followed since then.

Because it is located in the hinterland of Wangguanchong, the ancient city of Xuchang has always been a place where heroes compete and soldiers must fight, and it has changed hands and been burned many times in history, and this time it is my turn to fight.

Since you want to play a tactical detour, you have to first complete the feint of attacking the enemy in the east and attacking the west, so that the other party is confused and does not dare to act rashly, including convincing the ordinary soldiers under my command that we are trying to take Xuchang City and further coerce Luodu.

Therefore, as has been done countless times, the siege camp and various equipment were built and prepared in a decent manner.

The artillery regiment also pushed the prepared wooden "cannons" to the front of the formation in a decent manner, and built a nearby artillery fortress according to the rules that had been practiced countless times.

"The general is vain......

A voice beside me said.

"The general defeated Henan, Hedong, and Duxian three soldiers and horses...... Fight in several states without a single enemy"

"It's already famous......"

"The meager learning of my generation is also famous for coming to the future......"

I smiled undeniably,

For them, we are also the invaders who destroy their homeland and the well-being of their hometowns, and the outsiders who destroy the daily life of the people, and there are still local famous scholars who come to defect, this is because they have eaten too much lard and have been blinded.

Then I learned that under the rule of the Northern Dynasties, the policy of pouring all resources into the army first, and the pursuit of strong soldiers and strong horses is fundamental, even the local scholars did not necessarily have a good time, but some envied the literary style of the Southern Dynasty.

And these people who came to defect, they are strictly said to be the former scholars, that is, in the local disputes, the whole family has been under the command of the Northern Dynasty, to the gray bitter and bitter people, so after the southern army "recovered" Fugou, they couldn't wait to come out and sacrifice all kinds of Wang Shi.

I thought about it, and let people send them to the Frontier Military Division, I believe that for the adults of the Shuai Division, it is still somewhat symbolic.

After all, such a group of old and young characters who don't know which ones came out of the middle of nowhere, put them here are chicken ribs and hot potatoes, gathering people to look forward to it or something, it's not something that I can afford at my level, maybe it's mixed with the dead of the Northern Dynasty or something.

Only the one in front of me was left by me, on the one hand, because he was young enough, and it was not easy for him to hide the city and details in his daily life compared to those who were older.

On the other hand, it is because of his name, his name is Zhao Ding, a son of the Zhao family from a famous family in Yingchuan, and he once served as the chief bookkeeper of the transfer judge in western Henan.

And I remember that in another time and space, a person with the same name and background was born as a Jinshi in the Northern Song Dynasty, and then became the prime minister of the Southern Song Dynasty, the leader of the Graceful Words School, and the representative of the main battle faction who was killed by Zhao Goujunchen after Yue Wumu.

And in this time and space, his family was involved in the Luodu Change, first slaughtered by various chaotic soldiers, and then by the soldiers and horses sent by the Northern Dynasty to suppress it, plundered, and finally only he was left with such a dead remnant to escape, only to find that the last bit of origin in his hometown was also uprooted.

Just like the common law of the weak and the strong in the Northern Dynasties, the news of the complete loss of power and the extinction of the Zhao clan spread, and the ancestral property of the Grange Mansion was all colluded with the local Haoqiang to garrison and carved up.

So

As a native and a leader who is familiar with the place, his expression is still appropriate, which is very much in line with the image of an avenger who is full of grief and resentment, and will not hesitate to make those generals and powers of the Northern Dynasty pay the price.

Of course, this does not rule out all kinds of huge sacrifices and sacrifices just to win the trust of people and bigger goals and schemes. Therefore, I simply took him with me, not only to facilitate monitoring and control, but also to facilitate the transmission of some erroneous information and movements.

Suddenly, there was a drum and trumpet in the city, and the defenders actually took the initiative to go out of the city to meet the battle?

These troops who went out of the city in formation, brown robes and short shirts, black heads, and the weapons they held were also full of certain characteristics, the slender ones were guns, the stubby ones were nozzle cannons, and the red and black flags were painted with a long-eared head.

The familiar equipment and outfits immediately aroused some memories in me, and I had seen similar cunzai in the Luodu Rebellion, and I had used a few of them, and the blood of my companions who died of injuries in their hands because they were unable to treat them left a deep impression on me.

Shen Biao Army? , is it actually a firearms unit of the Northern Dynasties? ，

This special army is said to have been built by Emperor Chengguang with the captured Southern Dynasty military craftsmen and engineers, plus the foreign aid of the Western Great Xia, and following the example of the Southern Dynasty's Shenji Army, the old army established by one hand can not only kill the enemy from afar, but also throw fire to break the formation.

Could it be that after suffering too much from my gun, I plan to try to use firearms against firearms?

This force, still without any changes, with guns of varying lengths and throwers carrying rattan boxes on their backs, was the main component of this centaur, and after completing the basic formation under the cover of the city walls, the two wings began to extend forward, turning into a crane wing formation surrounded outward.

Immediately, I also gave the order, and a moment later, the Wind Roll Banner on horseback led the formation of the first battalion to meet the battle.

As a result, two firearms units with different banners and uniforms formed in a decent formation, and then slowly approached each other with firearms, and from a high vantage point, it was obvious that the thickness of the enemy's formation was several times that of our army in the same face facing the enemy.

But this did not seem to affect the morale and determination of the 1st Battalion, or rather, all they could rely on was the enemy in their frontal view.

Within a distance of about 100 paces, it was the horizontal team of the 1st Battalion that took the lead in stopping, and sent a thick cloud of smoke and dust, and the opponent's formation was surprised, and they couldn't help but stop, and even the formation of the front and back marching was a little chaotic.

Then, under the scolding and encouragement of the officer's leader, he laughed almost loudly, according to the vague meaning of the shouts sent by the wind,

It seems to be laughing at the intimidity and cowardice of us Southern Barbarians, laughing at our frightened premature shots, and not believing in what we can do to them at this distance.

Then, like some kind of slow-motion delay, the general, who was on his horse, suddenly fell headlong. In the high-powered mirror, you can see that several balls of blood seem to have burst out on his body at the same time.

Immediately after that, the opponent's queue overturned every now and then as if it had been mowed, as if it was our army's firearms, directly in terms of range and accuracy, teaching them what it means to have the upper hand and advantage.

The other party also seemed to be shocked by this result, and they all raised their guns one after another, and couldn't wait to fire them, and suddenly all kinds of smoke of different shades rose up in front of the two sides, covering their respective formations for a while.

However, soon the gap was reflected, and the loading efficiency of the other party was inevitably a little cumbersome and slow, and most of them were incense sticks and arquebuses, so this kind of counter-shooting soon became a kind of comprehensive suppression of the late firing pistol against the early arquebus, a kind of cross-time difference.

In the open space in front of the first battalion, all kinds of dirt and gravel were splashed and flying, and the flying projectiles that were fed back were like rain, so that the enemy positions that kept falling in the front row were like onions that were constantly being peeled off, and they were exposed little by little.

Many of them were almost clutching the unloaded guns, with expressions of grief and inexplicability or disbelief, and were hit in the body, leaning crookedly on their companions, and falling limply.

This kind of continuous killing and wounding penetrated the three or four platoons of people in front of the enemy's formation, almost crushing the horizontal team on the left flank and fled, only to be caught up from the rear of the Shenbiao army, the army armed with a broad sword and a big shield, to block in front of him.

Then, under the cover of these sword and shield soldiers, these Shen Biao army's gunners reorganized their formation, and with the sword and shield hands as cover, Xu Ran forced over like our army's formation.

Although the front row with thick wooden shields was repeatedly knocked down, they were quite resolute and unhesitating, and following them, the banner of the Shenbiao Army also slowly approached

This is the countermeasures and tactics of the northern soldiers, using these swords and shields to cover the Shenbiao army, approaching and then firing to achieve a better lethal ratio. I couldn't help but feel a little disappointed.

If the shield array of the turtle stream could be so easy to achieve an overwhelming advantage, then the Romans would not have to be beaten by various oriental peoples, and they would have learned from the pain and started military reform.

Sure enough, the first battalion ordered by the wind scroll began to slow down the frequency and density of firing, and the three teams took turns to retreat slightly, and the enemy troops also accelerated their marching speed when they saw the situation, almost turning into a sprint at a trot pace

Then they stumbled almost unanimously, and many of them almost fell headlong to the ground, but they encountered the small pit left by the formation of the first battalion.

The pit, not very deep, is the kind of Cheng dù that just sinks into the ankle when stepping in, and only needs a few quick digs of the auxiliaries with special tools, but it is enough to make these sword and shield soldiers with heavy objects lose their balance or sprain their ankles, and by the way disrupt the front row of shields they are trying to maintain.

Then there are the earth mines piled up in a mess, and when they explode in the dense crowd, the scene of sand and gravel and human limbs flying together is spectacular. Although there were only a dozen rounds, these dense clusters of sword and shield soldiers involuntarily dispersed

However, the scattered front of the sword and shield soldiers still had the application to continue to advance, so that their prominent front seemed to catch up with the tail of the first battalion.

At this time, the spearmen, who had never had a sense of zài, raised their spears one after another as if reflexively when the soldiers retreated past them.

With ten steps as a starting point, roar and exhale, concentrate and exert all your strength to perform a short thrust of reverse impact.

There was a crackling sound of crackling, and some spearheads were directly embedded and broken on the thick wooden shield, but more spears were directly pierced or overturned, and the shield and the people behind it,

Even the spear shafts with broken tips did not stop, but castrated again with fresh stubble, sliding directly into the gap between the lower plates of the sword and shield soldiers, and continuing to poke at the calves and feet that lacked protection. Tripping or stabbing them and incapacitating them further.

When the spearmen let go of the spears in their hands and used their self-defense swords to complete a wave of close-quarters assassination,

The white soldiers, who were ready to attack behind them, also crossed the gap between the spearmen and the sideways sideways, and threw themselves into the enemy's line, followed with axes and swords, and slashed wildly.

They were like three waves higher than one wave, stirring up the arc formed by those sword and shield hands, faintly revealing the hands that followed behind.

At this time, there was another trumpet, and they almost fell down in unison, lowered their bodies with their swords as a benchmark, and then listened to the sound of firecrackers behind them.

In the whistling sound that passed over their heads, dense and scorching projectiles swept through the remaining sword and shield hands again, and then descended on the bodies of those Northern Dynasty guns, and the sound was the first to hit into pieces.

The opponent's rear team finally launched a counterattack, but because of nervousness, hasty supply aiming, or different systems, even within twenty or thirty paces, the casualties caused by the enemy were only a few dozen, and a considerable part of them were spearmen or white soldiers affected by stray bullets.

Like a sudden storm, the dense barrage at close range almost swept through the ranks of these Divine Biao Army Commanders, driving them apart.

After that, the rhythm of the battlefield was controlled by our side. The approaching Gun Team continued to drive the enemy on the opposite side and retreated.

When the enemy forces try to cover each other and stop and reload and shoot back, the white soldiers and spearmen will come out from both flanks and flank these Shenbiao troops who lack melee cover.

On the contrary, it is the hand cannon team that is more lethal and threatening, but this thing is too slow to load, and after one shot, it basically falls into a situation of being slaughtered by others.

Therefore, even if these Northern Dynasty gunners were in deep difficulties and disadvantages, they still showed the bravery and tenacity of a certain veteran army that was accustomed to drowning and fighting, but it was also difficult to escape the fate of defeat and destruction.

Because they are lagging behind not only in terms of concept and training, but also in the face of new concepts of equipment and tactical thinking, which are far superior to a number of options.

Of the thousands of men who finally went into battle, only a few hundred remnants were left on the battlefield with the help of a cavalry sent by the city, protected by a bed crossbow fired from the city walls.

Soon after, the splendid banner of the Shenbiao Army, which had been beaten with many holes, was presented in front of me, and the victory in the first battle was really a good start, and I thought of it with some self-satisfaction.