Chapter 241: The Age of Firearms
When Yang Keshi saw that it was already evening, because of the urgent military situation, he set off overnight for a routine night patrol exercise. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info This is not a battle, it is a military training that the commander of the army can make his own decisions, otherwise Han Wang will not want to mobilize a single soldier.
Yang Keshi didn't ask Han Wang for a penny this time, Han Wang naturally understood the promise to give 300 sets of armor samples, there is no love for no reason in this world, so even if the relationship is good, you must settle the account.
Xiao Bu also wandered north of the mouth of the Baizhangling Valley, and he was mainly responsible for cutting off the enemy's retreat route in Yizhou and preventing Baozhou from sending reinforcements. Fifteen hundred cavalry, from the perspective of the Great Song Dynasty, is definitely a powerful army! The main thing is that it has strong mobility, comes and goes like the wind, and it is a headache.
The Liao people belong to the nomadic people, who have conquered thousands of miles of territory for a hundred years, and have received tribute from the Song Dynasty and various tribes, and their wealth is extremely rich. At the same time, the acceptance of sinicization led to the rapid relaxation of the Khitan people, especially the high-level, and the mentality of luxury, wealth, showing off wealth, and arrogance was extremely serious.
When Yang Keshi's 3,000-step army appeared in front of him, Xiao Buye suddenly felt a little contemptuous, the Southern Dynasty really didn't remember to eat. Wasn't the 80,000 infantry army completely broken up by 6,000 cavalry? Just 3,000 infantry troops, just kidding! My 1,500 cavalry can completely annihilate your 5,000 infantry army.
In the infantry battle, the infantry army has almost no chance of winning. It seems that there are important people in Yizhou City, otherwise Baozhou would not have desperately sent troops regardless of this common sense, and it would be cheaper for Yelu Manghai.
Xiao Bu also lazily looked at the Song army that came out of the valley, "If the array doesn't fight, then don't let him line up, send orders to outflank left and right, and the Chinese army will charge with me." "Who said that you must set up a position in battle, surprise attacks, night attacks, half-crossings, ambushes, as long as you can be defeated, whenever is the time to attack.
Sure enough, as soon as the Song army saw Xiao Bu, they began to attack without waiting for the array, panicked, and retreated into the valley one after another. Weapons, food, and equipment were all thrown to the ground, "It's really boring!" Xiao Buye immediately shook his head, the Southern Army was so weak that he had no sense of accomplishment at all.
When they chased to the valley mouth, many Khitan soldiers were looking through the objects discarded by the Song army, hoping to find some windfalls, and some were chaotic. Xiao Bu's face sank, ashamed, haven't you seen money? "Hurry up and pursue the Southern Army, otherwise all military law will be engaged"
As soon as everyone saw that the chief officer was angry, they quickly re-mounted their horses and chased after them.
Yang Keshi pointed to the Liao army on the mountain ridge and said, "Almost a thousand people have come in, and the others should defend the baggage and will not come."
Han Wang nodded and said, "Send a signal to Tang Xiu." The guard behind him, shot the whistle arrow into the air, ten breaths, and the whistle ended with an explosion.
At this time, Xiao Bu was also blocked by the obstacles in the narrow valley road, and the other party actually built a wooden fence here, and countless archers waited with their bows.
"Not good, there is an ambush!" Before Xiao Bu could finish speaking, he heard the explosion of the sentry arrow.
But what ambush will there be? Although the slopes on both sides are densely wooded, they are relatively low, and it is impossible to throw boulders and rolling logs. Outside the valley is its own guard, and it is impossible to have a large number of enemy troops. What is this Southern Korean army doing? Since you can't catch up, withdraw and see what you can do.
Xiao Buye immediately gave an order, the rear team changed to the front team, and withdrew out of the valley in an orderly manner, not to be chaotic, and to pay attention to the movement of the enemy forces around him. Some of the barricades had sharp eyes, pointing to dozens of smoking fuses that were getting closer and closer in the four corners and exclaimed.
Xiao Bu also suddenly had a very bad feeling in his heart, it was too weird, was this a fire attack? Shouted, "Retreat!" ”
But it was too late, and I saw a cloud of green smoke burrowing into the soil beneath me, and then dozens of huge roars sounded one after another, and the ground below me rose high like a wave, and my chest tightened, and my eyes flew out as soon as I was black.
On the side of the 600-meter valley road, a total of 30 largest explosive canisters were planted. The cavalry of the Liao army, which was about 1,000, all entered the area covered by gunpowder. The roar and columnar smoke dissipated, and the scene was filled with blood, broken corpses, and wails like hell.
Xiao Bu also flew out more than ten meters, landed in a meal of weeds, and the horse was disemboweled, and he had already been shocked to death. His clothes were torn into strips of cloth, he was bleeding, his arm was broken, and he couldn't speak.
Yang Keshi watched the detonation of gunpowder up close, and then went to the scene to check the effect of the explosion, and was shocked in his heart. "Boy, how did you bring down the Heavenly Thunder? It's too tragic here, will it hurt the heavens and the peace? ”
Han Wang said, "There are still five hundred enemy troops outside, and you tell me about Tianhe?" If it is delayed, Yizhou may be slaughtered! ”
Someone below said that Xiao Buye had been found, and before he could breathe, Yang Keshi and Han Wang rushed over.
Xiao Bu also saw Yang Keshi's outfit and knew that he was the general, his eyes were bleeding widely, and he pointed at him and said in a hoarse voice, "You, yes, devil, will, suffer, retribution!" Then he straightened himself up and hung his head.
The medical officer tested his pulse and shook his head, indicating that he could not be saved.
Han Wang looked at Yang Keshi, "Murder? Save? We're soldiers, and we don't have a choice. ”
Yang Keshi glanced at him, "Get out!" Labor and management still use you to teach lessons? The whole army goes out of the valley and surrounds the remnants of the enemy! At this time, Yang Keshi was only frightened by the power of gunpowder in his heart, worried that he would also encounter gunpowder explosions in the future. Once you are awake, you know what to do and what to do.
When the remnants of the Liao army heard a violent explosion at the mouth of the valley, they knew that the chief officer must have been ambushed, and his life and death were unknown, so he had no claim for a while. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Yang Keshi sent a light cavalry to contain it, and then sent more than 2,000 infantry troops to gradually encircle the 500 Liao army.
Yang Keshi glanced at the enemy army, and said majestically, "Xiao Bu has also been killed, the Liao army in the valley has been completely annihilated, and you are surrounded, surrender to avoid death!" Otherwise, Hugh blames our men for being ruthless. ”
The Liao army was frightened, the main general and his comrades all died, this is too terrifying, isn't it, what is so powerful? A thousand cavalry, heavily armed, were annihilated in the blink of an eye, could it be those thunders?
Finally, someone dropped his weapons and armor, raised his hands and knelt on the ground, and a brave cavalryman couldn't look at it, stabbed him to death with a shot, and shouted, "Southern barbarians, you can't be humiliated when you can kill them, follow me to kill them all"
A part of the Liao army immediately had the backbone, and immediately put up a sword and gun to attack the posture, and when the big man saw that two or three hundred people were approaching, the big gun was raised high, "Kill!" Hi! With these Liao troops, he rushed towards Yang Keshi.
"Crossbowmen, first column fire! Stand back, the second column fires, back back, the third column fires" the commander commanded loudly.
These three hundred were surrounded by two thousand, and hundreds of crossbowmen; After two rounds of fire, most of them were killed, and in the end there were a dozen left, ready to escape, but they were still shot.
Yang Keshi rode a horse to the group of kneeling Liao soldiers, "Don't be ashamed!" Take it to Baozhou and lock it up! If you're not honest, kill them all! ”
"The Lian Shengjun is waiting for us to come to the rescue, and march to Yizhou urgently!"
"Boy, your gunpowder is a good thing, you don't have to say that you are attacking the city."
"Senior Yang, how did I find out that as soon as you praised me, it was no good to designate?"
"Delusion, it must be your delusion." Yang Keshi said categorically, "I just invite you to drink, and by the way, bring the secret recipe of gunpowder for details" (to be continued.) )