The process of alternating hot and cold weapons is a long and arduous process, in history, the Europeans through several centuries of exploration and improvement, so that the European army gradually advanced from cold weapons to a mixture of cold and hot weapons, and then gradually became a pure hot weapons army. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 For example, Spain's colonial phalanx, the use of spearmen and musketeers, Spain relied on this hot and cold weapons mixed formation of the phalanx for a while, the powerful power of firearms and pikemen left stab tactics sent the traditional cold weapons era army into the dustbin of history, and its emphasis on absolute discipline also laid the foundation for the establishment of the modern army.

Far away in the East, the mixed use of cold and hot weapons also appeared almost at the same time, whether it was the musket team of Oda Nobunaga of the Warring States of Japan, or the invincible Qi army of Qi Jiguang in the Ming Dynasty, there was progress in the mixing of cold and hot weapons. Especially in the Qi Army, in the famous Mandarin Duck Formation of the Qi Army's mixed cold and hot weapons, the firecrackers are very important main forces.

In the late Northern Song Dynasty era of the Water Margin when Sanniang arrived, Sanniang had already begun the practice of mixed tactics of hot and cold weapons. Due to the current problem of the cost and pass rate of musket production, the musket in the firearms workshop on Shandong Road is still in the development stage, and before the problem of the cost and pass rate of the musket barrel production is solved, the musketeers or musketeers will not appear in the Liangshan Song army formation for the time being. But this does not mean that the Liangshan Song army did not carry out a mixture of hot and cold weapons.

At the insistence of Sanniang, a new class of troops appeared within the Liangshan Song Army, that is, grenadiers. Although there was no musket, but in the Liangshan Song army, the palm thunder was very successful, and the killing effect of the palm thunder was also excellent, but the disadvantage was that if it was thrown too close, it would accidentally injure friendly troops.

At the same time, all the infantry armies in Liangshan were strictly in accordance with the records of the "New Book of Discipline and Effectiveness", and used the mandarin duck array to train and train the sergeants. The slight difference is that the Hu version of the Mandarin Duck has no firecrackers in the formation, and has been changed to a godarm archer, and two grenadiers have been added to supplement the short- and medium-range firepower. In this way, in the Liangshan Song Army's infantry army mandarin duck array, there are long-range divine arm archers, and the Song Dynasty divine arm bow has a very long range, up to more than 240 steps, and there are grenadiers throwing palm thunder in the middle and short ranges, and there are brute players in front of the short range, and there are golden gunners and hook sickle gunners in the back, alternately covering, airtight.

Each squad is arranged in this way, and the Liangshan military system, ten pawns take one lang, ten lang is one guard, ten guards take one school, and ten schools worship one general. Each Lang team is mixed according to the basic establishment of the Mandarin Duck Formation, with two chief and deputy officers in the team, two pikemen, two grenadiers, two divine arm archers, and two brute players. The chief and deputy officers need to be proficient in both length and cold, and once any of the soldiers in the team are injured or killed, they can be replenished in time to ensure the integrity of the formation.

According to the situation of the battlefield, the guards will either divide half of their troops to go about a mile in front of the team as an ambush, or concentrate the archers and grenadiers to go forward to the main battle team about a post in front of the front, and start firing arrows or throwing grenades. The spear and brute players are used as second-tier troops.

In short, within the Liangshan infantry army, the squad can fight alone, and the combined formation of tens of thousands of troops and horses can also fight together. In addition to daily training, this is also inseparable from the strict military discipline of the Liangshan Song Army.

It was when Zhang Shun's fleet launched artillery to attack the Jin army camp on the bank of Fenshui outside Taiyuan City, Liu Tang and Li Kui led a thousand barbarian troops to the shore. And the reason why this military horse has always been called a barbarian player is only because when they formed an army alone, the main force was the barbarian player under Xiang Chong and Li Yan, and the battalion number of the barbarian player battalion was still used after the adaptation.

Li Kui was dressed in iron armor, covered with a layer of cotton armor, and two layers of armor, when he was the first to jump from the boat to the shore, he saw the fire in the golden camp, and the soldiers and horses were scurrying around. Like any cold-armed army, the first attack by a firearms unit can cause great confusion and panic. The same is true of the Jurchens, they were blown up by the sudden rockets and artillery, many sergeants scattered in all directions, or scattered to avoid the fire, and some of them knelt directly on the ground and begged for mercy, they thought that this was a punishment from heaven, and the gods used thunder and fire to destroy them.

Yinshuke's Chinese army camp was on a high ground far away from Fenshui, and when he heard the first explosion, Yinshuke hurriedly grabbed out of the tent, and when he saw the dense Song warships on the Fenshui, Yinshuke was stunned. Then the defeated army guarding the pontoon bridge and iron cable came back to report, and the Song army's sailors broke through the interception on the Fenshui.

Yinshu was stunned, but when he saw the sky-high fire and continuous explosions of the camp on the bank of Fenshui, he opened his mouth wide and froze, when did the Song army be able to fight like this? If the Song army in Taiyuan also had such powerful firearms, would the Jin army still be able to surround Taiyuan City for several months?

Fortunately, Yinshu can also be regarded as a famous general of the Jin Army, and soon he recovered from the shock, and immediately ordered the left and right generals to come out together, and led the troops to support the camp on the bank of Fenshui first, just because Yinshu on Fenshui has arranged for 5,000 military horses to guard the pontoon bridge and iron cable, and the focus of the siege of Taiyuan is under the city, and there are not too many soldiers and horses in the gold camp by the Fenshui River.

After Yinshu can send a few generals, he will personally lead a military horse to press the formation in the rear, and first rectify the chaos in his camp. Just because they saw the power of the firearms of the Liangshan Song army, even the golden soldiers in the Yinshuke camp were a little timid, and many soldiers even knelt down and begged the heavens not to let the angry thunder fire come to their heads. Yinshu could see this scene, and immediately shouted: "Those are the firearms of the Song people, not the punishment of the gods!" Wait for me to fight! ”

If he didn't listen, he was whipped with a whip, and after several efforts, he was able to stabilize the chaotic military spirit of the military horses in the camp, and then pulled out of the camp and prepared to go to battle. When several generals led the army to the front of the Fenshui camp, they saw a fire in the camp and could not enter at all, so they could only collect the defeated soldiers outside the camp and treat the burned soldiers.

After Li Kui landed on the shore, he first entered the camp, but he only advanced dozens of steps before being blocked by the fire in the camp and could not advance. After Liu Tang arrived, Li Kui frowned and said, "Brother Zhang Shun's artillery fire is too fierce, and it is all burned into a sea of fire, and it is difficult to have a way in." Liu Tang pointed to the Jin army battle flag behind the fire and said: "There are Jin army soldiers and horses coming to help outside the camp, this fire just blocks the reinforcements, I can't wait to take this opportunity to dig trenches and repair the base first, only after the fire is extinguished, then there is a way to deal with the Jin army, so as to cover the follow-up soldiers and horses landing." ”

After several military exercises, he also knew that in addition to being brave and fierce in the landing operation, the rapid expansion and consolidation of the landing site was the key to the success or failure of the landing operation.

When the first batch of landing sergeants rushed to repair the trenches, Zhang Shun stepped up his order to land the follow-up military horses, and after the sergeants all landed, Zhang Shun sent 3,000 people recruited along the way to land to help build the landing beachhead together. When the beachhead fortifications were almost completed, Zhang Shun sent people to transport ten rocket launchers ashore and arrange them in the fortifications.

This fire burned until the evening, and then gradually extinguished, giving the Song army of Liangshan most of the time to build fortifications. Why did this fire burn so big, even Zhang Shun was a little confused, it stands to reason that even if all the burning rockets were launched, it would be impossible to have such a big fire.

Zhang Shun didn't know why here, but on the other side, Jin Jun Yinshu cursed there: "I shouldn't have thought of such a ruthless trick if I knew it!" It turned out that the Jin soldiers could not capture Taiyuan City for a long time, so there were Liao army generals who offered plans to collect all kinds of lamp oil, sulfur, fire oil and other fire-causing things from the people near the left, and prepared to throw them into Taiyuan City with a stone thrower, and then burned the city. At that time, the Jin army Wanyan Zongwang was angry with the resistance of the Taiyuan army and people, so he gave an order, and looted a lot of fire-causing things, but later Wanyan Zongwang also calmed down, and the Jin army was reluctant to give up the population and wealth in Taiyuan City, and many generals discouraged Zongwang. So Zhang Shun came with an artillery attack, and ignited these fire-causing things, which is why there is such a big fire.

finally waited for the fire to gradually extinguish, and the Jin army, who had already been unable to bear it, was ready to come forward to fight. Zhang Shun's army has long since stopped firing artillery and rockets, and the Jin soldiers have gradually calmed down after most of the day, and those firearms of the Song army have not hit outside the Fenshui camp, indicating that these firearms also have a range, and the Song army has not been using these firearms, which also shows that these firearms are limited by ammunition like bows and arrows.

After knowing the two characteristics of firearms, the Jin soldiers also began to eliminate some fears, and when counting the losses of soldiers and horses, they found that most of the soldiers were burned by the fire, and there were not many direct kills and injuries by the firearms.

When the evening glow was shining, the fire was extinguished, and the Jin army beat the war drums, and from the burned ruins of the Fenshui camp, they began to clash towards the Song army on the shore.

Wearing two layers of heavy armor, the men and horses were covered with armor, and the majestic Iron Float Slaughter military horse rushed straight forward, burning black and soft soil along the way, trampled by the horse's hooves to smoke and dust, and the earth was shaken by the hooves of the Iron Floating Slaughter military horse. The lookout hand on the mast of Zhang Shun's water army first discovered the movements of the Jin army, and immediately shouted a warning, and the water army immediately raised the signal flag, and the Song army on the shore saw it and hurriedly gathered the people, and the sergeants reorganized their arms to fight, just waiting for the Jin army to rush!