Volume 3: A Generation of Tianjiao - Chapter 28: Gao Ping! Gao Ping! (5)

When the Second Chamber Army drew its bow for the second time, most of the Zhan Shi believed that Zhan would be the last arrow shot in this battle. Some experienced warriors even put the broad-faced flat knife used in white-knuckle combat in their mouths, and after collecting their bows, they rubbed their blades and pounced on them, taking advantage of the fact that the enemy troops in front of them had no time to react to cross those barricades and rejection horses, as long as they could kill the enemy behind the rejection of the horses, even if the gap was opened for the surprise attack of the army, as long as the enemy was entangled so that he could not counterattack the passage left by them at any time, the outcome of the battle would have been decided.

Just as these leather room warriors were waiting for the shooting order of the leading officer with their bows and arrows, they faintly heard a heavy object flying high in the air and rubbing the air into the air

The voice seemed very sluggish. Obviously, the degree attenuation caused by the air resistance to the object itself is so great that the flow of the air flow above is obviously confused.

The Leather Chamber warriors looked up at the sky in confusion, just in time to see the black cloud that was covering their ranks.

No one moved, not for the sake of strict discipline, but for the sake of strict discipline, but that no one in the army had made a correct judgment on this black cloud in this short moment, and no one knew what it was, let alone what the consequences of that thing were about to look like.

The crackling sound and the dull crash sounded almost simultaneously, as if a strong man with a large body and heavy flesh rushed headlong into a dense bush, and in an instant he broke the branches of countless trees, and struck the walls of the earth like a heavy sledgehammer.

Followed by screams one after another.

A leather soldier looked in horror at the headless corpse that was shaking in front of him, and an iron ball easily smashed the poor comrade's head, and then continued along the diagonal line with a heavy load of blood and flesh, burrowing under his crotch and landing behind him. With a shrill scream, he turned around. Seeing that the muscles of his comrades behind him had been distorted, his gaze slid down. Seeing the bloody iron ball, the iron ball had stopped moving, but under the iron ball he saw the upper of a cowhide boot, which was the style of fast boots often worn by the warriors of the leather room, and he himself wore a pair of such boots, but the difference was that the boot under the iron ball had obviously been materially reduced, and the cracked boot was full of blood that flew in all directions, and a round thing was scattered on Zhou Na's big toe.

Fifty iron balls swooped into the Liao army column from mid-air, like a fist penetrating the isolation layer composed of countless layers of lantern paper in an instant. The middle of the Khitan queue was in shambles, and within a radius of a hundred paces, there were crippled leather soldiers screaming and moaning and the corpses of Liao soldiers who wanted to scream and groan but couldn't.

I don't know how many people died, and I don't know how many people were injured.

The sudden blow stunned the officers of the leather room, who clearly hesitated slightly, but only hesitated.

Far behind, there was the sound of a horn.

Jeruson reacted extremely quickly at this moment.

Only by rushing over and quickly twisting with the enemy can this terrible weapon of the enemy army not be able to continue to wield its might.

The Liao army did not know what exactly this weapon was, nor how many of these weapons the enemy had. It is not even known how far this weapon can hit.

All fear stems from ignorance.

If the Liao army understood the reality of the current artillery of the Eighth Route Army, they would immediately get rid of their fear, and to put it bluntly, this weapon was only a slight increase in the range compared with the previous catapults, and the projection was not stone bullets but iron bullets.

No one had ever used trebuchets to attack infantry, which was a heavy weapon that was needed in siege warfare.

So the infantry was never attacked by trebuchets either, and today is the first time.

This was due to the fact that the enemy's three-sided and four-sided positions limited the space for infantry to deploy.

The horn sounded, and the Liao officers who were still in a daze suddenly came to their senses, they shouted the password, drew their swords and rushed towards the enemy army sixty paces away, and behind them, the frightened soldiers also reacted, threw away the bows and arrows in their hands, drew their swords and shields, and rushed towards the enemy troops in front.

Behind them, hooves rolled, and the Liao cavalry brigade began to move, and these cavalrymen pulled the reins of their horses and controlled the horses in small steps, gradually shortening the distance between them and the front army.

As long as the front army can break the front of the enemy, the cavalry brigade of the Liao army will rush in and directly tear the enemy's small army from the center.

On the battlefield. A new weapon may surprise people, but it is a fantasy to decide the outcome of a war with just one or two new weapons, after all, this is the end of the Tang Dynasty, an era far from "high technology".

At this moment, the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army, who were trembling with guns under the knives of the supervising team, finally heard the order to retreat with relief, and several recruits who had already been frightened by the bow and arrow offensive of the Liao army threw away the wooden guns in their hands and turned around and ran, and before he could run a few steps, he was tripped by an officer who was overseeing the battle and tripped over the edge of the trench boat.

The recruit hadn't raised his head yet. The Overseer's sword was already pressed against his neck, and he shouted, "Go and get your weapon back!" ”

A few of the recruits who had lost their weapons were also stopped by the other Overseers at this moment, and everyone realized that the overseer who tripped over the man was actually the Eighteenth Supervisor of the Fushi Regiment.

Under the guidance of the Warlords. According to the recruits guarding the front line of the rejection of the horse, they slowly retreated along the trench Buchuan and Lidao, and the recruits crawled back with rolling belts to retrieve their own wedges, "and slowly retreated to the rear with a disgraced face.

Immediately after, with the command of a young commander, a row of veterans of the Eighth Route Army wearing fine scale armor appeared behind the rejection of the horse with crossbow arrows.

They entered the battle positions in rows along the slope on the outside of the trench.

The Liao soldiers who were attacking had already hit the distance of twenty paces in front of the formation at this moment.

The leather room warriors watched the enemy soldiers behind the rejection retreat one after another, the people behind the rejection gradually thinned out, and the enemy in front became fewer and fewer, and the morale of the fifty large iron balls that had just been smashed down suddenly rose again. The enemy did not have the courage to engage in a face-to-face fight, and there was nothing more courageous than this psychological suggestion to give the soldiers a hundred times more courage, as long as they rushed into the enemy village, all that was left was a one-sided slaughter.

They strode towards the position of the Eighth Route Army like crazy, almost without breathing, they wanted to catch their breath, and there was a chance after breaking through the enemy's defensive line.

Then, forty enemy soldiers in iron armor appeared before them like a trick, and twenty of them were holding a fully wounded net crossbow in their hands.

"Free Fire"

With a command. The veterans, who had already chosen their own targets, pulled the reeds out of their hands

The attack arrows of the Liao army's front army were suddenly stunned.

More than a dozen leather room warriors fell to the ground with arrows, making the Liao army's attack formation slightly chaotic, and the leather room officer was stunned for a moment, and was about to order the team to be reorganized, when he heard the sound of the crossbow arrow machine spring being pulled in his ears, and then he felt a burning heat under his right ribs, and turned over and fell.

On the enemy formations on both sides, two rounds of crossbow arrows were fired.

In such a short moment, as many as fifty leather chamber soldiers fell under the enemy's crossbow arrows.

Front and left wings. There were as many as sixty enemy soldiers shooting with crossbow machines.

After the crossbowmen shot the crossbow arrows in their hands, they didn't look at the Liao soldiers in front of them who were still rushing forward with crazy inertia despite the crossbow arrows. They turned around and threw the crossbow machine in their hands on the outer slope of the trench, and the soldiers waiting in the trench trembled and trembled and took the crossbow machine that had been wound up and walked up the slope for two steps, and handed the crossbow machine to the crossbowmen. At the same time, some of the other soldiers bent down to check the crossbow machine that had been dropped by the crossbowmen. With the help of a companion, insert the bolt into the arrow slot, and shake the handle to open quickly. In the blink of an eye, the crossbowmen who rejected the horse turned around, and another wave of arrows rained out.

Two waves of arrows rained down. The front army of the Liao army lost a large chunk, and at this time, the front-line leather room warriors had already rushed to the front of the rejection of the horse.

Seeing that the men with the crossbow machines turned to show their backs to themselves, the leather chamber warriors leaped hard, grabbed the simple wooden rejection and were about to turn over.

At this moment, a wooden spear stabbed at the leather chamber soldier who had nowhere to hide on the repulsive horse.

Screams rang out again and again. The leather room soldiers who tried to climb over the rejected horse came to the rejection of the horse one after another under the stabbing of twenty veterans of the Eighth Route Army armed with wooden guns.

At this moment, the crossbowmen have turned back again,

The leather room soldier turned around,

The Liao army, which had surged up like a tide, retreated like a tide, and only a few people who still had some sanity still held weapons and shields in their hands, blocking the constantly flying crossbow arrows.

Almost instantaneously. The cavalry that rushed up mingled with the frantically fleeing infantry.

In a panic. Almost no one still remembers the safe path carefully explored when rushing up, in order to be able to avoid the crossbow arrows, the retreating leather room soldiers scattered one after another, and some people kept stepping on the pit or being pierced by the thistle, the cavalry forwards rushing up in a queue were blocked by their own infantry, and the cavalry behind them were still surging upward, and Yelu'en had not yet reacted from this shocking change, and the Liao infantry in front of the Eighth Route Army's position had already been crowded

The well-thought-out artillery fired a second salvo.

The dense iron balls opened a bloody alley in the crowd, and the calculated and modified parameters were quickly reported out in the mouth of the thoughtful people, and the artillerymen sweated profusely and quickly shook the handles, hitting the iron balls one after another into the pre-marked area.

In fact, there was no need at all, nearly 2,000 hedgehogs were gathered in a small area about 200 paces wide but not more than 100 paces long, whether it was artillerymen or crossbowmen, as long as they had a general sense of orientation, they could casually throw an iron ball or shoot an arrow to hurt people.

The sound of gold and iron resounded behind the Liao army, and Yelu Quanen gave the order to retreat, and the remaining more than 800 cavalry quickly assembled, ready to break off the friendly army that had been defeated.

With the retreat of the Liao army, the north and south sides of the Eighth Route Army's position sounded the sound of tick-tock military trumpets at the same time.

There was a commotion among the tribal troops in front of the formation, and the security cavalry regiment in front finally began to disperse in attack formation after a long silence.

Both cavalry quickly deployed, sweeping towards the right side of the Khitan tribal army.

On the left flank of Yelu'en, a cavalry suddenly circled the edge of the Eighth Route Army's position, and began to slowly form a column through the passage that stretched all the way to the edge of the Jinhe River.

The cavalry assembled an array of about 100 men, and then began to put blindfolds on the eyes of the horses, and then slowly increased.

Jeru's heart became cold.

The enemy had hidden this cavalry behind the flanks and did not attack until this time, no doubt with the intention of copying their own rear.

At present, there are 800 leather room cavalry in their hands, and the battle may not be a loss, but at present, the former army is defeated like a mountain, and the morale and situation of their own side are so bad that they can not be worse, and the cavalry in front of them is only a hundred people who dare to do a posture of Sichuan Yi Note Horse Eye to only move the white blade charge, and behind them, Huang Beer is pouring out, and in the blink of an eye, a cavalry cluster of 100 people began to urge Ma Jia,

How many cavalry troops are there in the enemy army?

The well-thought-out artillery finally used up all 200 iron shells, and the artillerymen used their tools to lift the wedges that fixed the catapult and prepared it for disassembly and loading.

Standing on top of the Chinese army's Diao Dou and watching the battle, Xi Feng Minda frowned and looked at the busy artillerymen thoughtfully, his eyes did not even sweep the enemy cavalry who were engaged, and said to Li Wenge, who was bored and yawning on the railing of Diao Dou: "This kind of artillery carriage, if it can be lighter, a horse can pull it and run." The infantry formation is no longer capable of vertical and horizontal! ”

Li Wenge rubbed his eyes. Glancing at the busy artillerymen with lack of interest, he pouted, "Where is this?" It's just a little more range, it's a little stronger than the original trebuchet, and it can be used and wielded in field battles, it's entirely for the sake of organization and command, as long as there are perfect mechanisms and regulations, the rest of the problem is only the production of steel and gunpowder."

Xifeng Minda glanced at the captain, shook his head and said, "How many things do you have in that head?" I can't think of how a man who is almost useless in dealing with the enemy can guess a tired army into what it is today. ”

Li Wenge said with a smile: "This is the power of the system, do you know how many crossbow machines we have produced in more than half a year since the defeat of the Tuoba family last year?" ”

Don't wait for the fine seal Minda to answer. Li Wenge licked his lips and replied: "For example, there are 2,800 bodies of Zhang Shu and 800 crossbows of Fuyuan." 3,500 crossbows, 200 iron armor, 1,800 infantry armor, and 1,000 cavalry armor; The essence of the war is that the two sides are competing for productivity, and without this confidence, how dare I fight the grass valley of the Khitans? ”

Xi Feng snorted: "Most of the belongings you have saved have been used by you to equip the army, if you don't come out to grab a handful this year, I'm afraid that by the next thousand years this year, your treasury will be so poor that you will run mice,"

Li Wenge waved his hand: "The lamp steel should be used on the blade, and those wealth, grain, livestock, and manpower are also wasted in their hands. We now sit on the land of the Seven States. With a population of less than one million, it does not rely on robbery. How do you live? ”

Thin Seal Minda thought for a while. Looking at it from afar, the cavalry of the Huai'an cavalry regiment had already fired crossbow arrows at the cavalry of Jeruchan. Only then did he turn his head and ask Li Wenge: "What are you going to do with Datong Mansion?" That's how we have a few troops. Being able to open Datong is already the limit, it is impossible for Daliao to give up in the clouds, and it is impossible to keep it! ”

Li Wenge nodded: "Actually, you all guessed it." Tear down Datong, tear down the Yanmen, and then we'll pat our butts and go home! ”

Xi Feng's gaze swept to a tent in the Chinese army's big village that was impermeable by two infantrymen, and said, "Those treasures you prepared are used to demolish the city wall, right?" ”

Li Wenge nodded helplessly: "Before Lingzhou was opened, our steel production was always limited. No way. Although this treasure thing is very powerful, its current role is limited to demolishing the city wall. ”

Then he said excitedly: "You may not know, in my hometown, the government office responsible for demolishing houses all the year round is the most powerful and feared government office in the city."

"Liao Shi Mu Zong Benji": Ying Li four February Bingwu Shuo, Zhou attacked Han, ordered the government to order Yelu enemy Lu to aid him, Bingchen, Han sent envoys into tea medicine. March Yi Chou, fortunately Nanjing, gave the king of the Southern Courtyard a hundred horses of tart and silk. Lifting the unitary, the Zhou Balu Festival made Li Wenge Kou southwest. Great plunder, should. In the afternoon, the southwest recruited the envoy to fight the Cultural Revolution in Jinhebo, the arrows and stones were like rain, the army retreated slightly, the Cultural Revolution was brave, the troops could not be defeated, more than 1,000 teachers were lost, and the favor was only spared, and he went to Beijing to seize his post.

"Zhou Shu Shizu Benji": In March of the first year of Xiande, the right guard general Cultural Revolution led troops to attack the Qing army in southwest Liao, and the southwest of the war recruited Yelu to limit his grace in Jinhebo, cut more than 1,000 levels, broke it, and the Cultural Revolution sent troops to pursue. Collect the Khan, Yunnei two states, all the departments are attached to the table.

"Zhou Shu Northern Tang Family": In March of the first year of Xiande, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty hunted Gaoping. The king of Zhao took the west as a support. Wang Yi Shen went out of Shuozhou, personally conquered the Khan Prefecture, pointed out by Jing Lu, Hu rode Xian, and set up camp on the bank of the Jinhe River. The southwest road of Liaoxi recruited Yelu En to entangle the people to attack. Wang sent fine Feng Minda, Li Hu, Qiu Huaiwei, Ye Ji "pheasant, kill the cow Simo, etc., to attack it, limit the grace to the infantry to force the formation, the artillery army is commanded to make Zhou Quan meet with artillery arrows. The enemy was defeated; The king master carries a strong crossbow, all with the power of the machine, and the blow can penetrate the heavy armor. Grace could not be defeated, defeated and retreated to the Khan State, and the fine seal Minda was invited by light cavalry to chase Grace for 400 miles. Then the southwestern tribes asked for surrender, and the king learned of his people, cattle and horses.

"The Biography of Zhou Shu Li Hulie": Ding Chou in the first month of the first year of Xiande, and he worshiped the skin and Shi Tong

In February, from the Eastern Expedition of the Northern Tang Dynasty, the troops went out to the side of the Jinhe Bo. On the afternoon of March, the southwest of Liaoning recruited Yelu En to lead troops to fight, flanked the king's division, protected it with a strong crossbow, killed and wounded heavily, the Liao army was defeated, and he fled far away, killing three hundred. Still. Deliberations. Xun Qingche Lieutenant, Jin Zhenwei Deputy Lieutenant, and Deputy Commander Yu Marquis of the Promotion Battalion.

"The Imperial Assembly Wants to Artillery Military System": ...... At the beginning of the army, the camp number was set up in Fenglin, and Wang Yidian awarded Xuanjie Captain Zhouquan. Inspector Command. In the battle of Jinhebo, the artillery army hit 200 steps, the enemy killed and wounded many people, and the generals were surprised.