Liao Yongan, the secretary of the ministry, said that when the cavalry was sent to cut off other food routes, strangle its way back, and wait for its army to be chaotic and annihilated in one fell swoop. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Hao Ren knew that this strategy was not bad, but it was really difficult to implement in practice, the enemy had 500,000 troops, and sending fewer troops was equivalent to feeding the enemy meat.

Most of the Song army was the local army of Tusi who were recruited from all over the country, and the combat effectiveness of the army was limited, and there were tens of thousands of new attached troops, even if there were famous generals such as Zhang Dingbian, Zhang Bixian, and Xu Da, the combat power was also limited.

Nanning is a long way from Thang Long City, the news is not conducive to delivery, Hao Ren did not expect Yu Tonghai's army to break through Thang Long City in one fell swoop, causing Hu Yiyuan's army to collapse, and when Deng Yu's army can break through the Lao Su Governor's Mansion and go east to support Yu Tonghai, it is also impossible to fully grasp, at least as long as Yu Tonghai is under Thang Long City and is invincible, it is enough to shake Hu Yiyuan's 500,000 army in Han Land.

The end is 'attacking what it must be saved', so as to get out of the plan to encircle Wei and save Zhao.

The armies of the two sides confronted each other across the Yue River, Hao Ren only put himself in an invincible position, the difficulty of the Annan army crossing the river, the Song army's crossing of the river and the same difficulty, especially the poisonous arrows of the Annan army that saw the blood and sealed the throat, the threat to the Song army was terrifying, not to mention that the 8,000 war elephants of the Annan army could inflict a devastating blow to the Song army that was halfway across the army.

The Song army made a frontal feint attack with two thousand households of the Tusi army and the firearms battalion, built a pontoon bridge, and posed a posture of crossing the river head-on to attract the enemy's attention, while the most elite infantry of the Song army, Wu Liujiu and Yu Tongyuan, with the cooperation of Wu Liuqi, the governor of the Jiangfang Army, crossed the river in the upper reaches of the Yue River, occupied the high ground on the south bank of the Yangtze River, and set up a position.

It is a good trick to avoid the real and the virtual art of war, 'Ming Xiu plank road, dark Chen Cang'.

After Hao Ren summed up his experience countless times, he mastered and applied the "Art of War" day by day, and after all the soldiers and horses crossed the river, he demolished the pontoon bridge on the Yue River.

The commander of the Annan army is Prime Minister Hu Yiyuan, who is best at internal power struggles, so he is in a high position, as for his trajectory in the official history, his means are enough to seize the rights of Annan, establish himself as the emperor, and deceive Zhu Di's side seal.

Although the land of Annam also uses Chinese characters, there are not many Confucian scholars, and there should be some people who have read "The Art of War", but what Hu Yiyuan said, others have this awareness, and it can be regarded as a vain. What's more, Annan has been a self-established country for hundreds of years, and what he is best at is to use the mountainous terrain in the north to fight against the Central Plains army.

Hu Yiyuan sent troops to Langshan for more than two months, and wanted to fight a decisive battle with Hao Ren with an elite army, and then settle the situation in a battle, but Hao Ren lived on the north bank of the Yue River, fortified the city barrier, and could not fight, which further fueled Hu Yiyuan's arrogance, and suddenly heard that the capital was besieged, and the Song army crossed the river to fight a decisive battle, Hu Yiyuan knew that the situation was not good, but he also had a trace of luck, so he could only stubbornly open a military formation and conduct a decisive battle with the Central Plains army.

The drums of war are filled, the horns are whimpering, the flags are hunting, and the bows and arrows are unsheathed.

The Song army was in a triple half-moon formation with the back of the river, the elite of the firearms battalion and the infantry army in front, Geng Zaicheng and Yu Tonghe's two cavalry pressed left and right, the Tusi army and the new attached army were in the middle, and Yang informed the horse infantry army all the way.

And Annan lined up in a wide formation, and the military formation stretched out, and there was no edge in sight.

Hao Ren stationed on Ma Gaopo and took a telescope to look into the distance. The Annan army is wearing more leather armor, the army is neat, and the scale of the huge military formation is unprecedented, Hao Ren has never seen it before, and when he sees it, he can't help but gasp, Hao Ren is about to send someone to sweep the formation, check the enemy's virtual reality, but when he sees and hears the ground trembling.

The enemy's army was silently opened, thousands of behemoths rushed forward, huge hooves smashed on the ground, and the earth resonated, and the enemy was on top of the behemoth, there were pikemen and archers, the height of which was about two and a half times that of ordinary war horses.

The soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty were horrified.

Although Hao Ren had repeatedly conveyed the concept of the elephant army to the whole army before the battle, and drew a picture of the four armies to see, but when such a behemoth monster appeared in front of the military formation, the number reached 8,000 heads, and even the battle-hardened firearms battalion Governor Jiao Lu couldn't help but tremble in his facial muscles.

In the blink of an eye, the war elephant had rushed within three hundred paces. No one knows the fear in the hearts of the soldiers, but the war horses lined up on both sides are frightened by the war elephants, and the fearful screams are endless, and the riders can only shout at the war horses to hide the fear in their hearts.

Three hundred steps, according to convention, is the distance of the Song army's six-pounder artillery, but Hao Ren has already ordered, he has never heard the sound of drums, no army, no unauthorized fire, Jiao Lu can only suppress the fear in his heart, calmly waiting for the order of the Chinese army, and the feeling of depression in his heart increased sharply.

One hundred and fifty paces was supposed to be the maximum range of a three-pounder gun, but the enemy had already entered the range of one hundred and fifty paces and had not yet waited for the order of the Chinese army.

A hundred paces was the range of bows and muskets, and the crossbowmen and musketeers had already put their sweaty hands on the triggers, but the Chinese army was still silent.

Seventy steps, the enemy's crossbow arrows have been able to enter the Song army's military formation, and if this continues, the war elephant that has been running at full speed can rush into the Song army's military formation in the blink of an eye.

Seventy steps, according to the previous practice of the Song army, the shield soldiers needed to step forward to block the artillery, but the Song army still did not move.

Sixty steps......

Jiao Yu was a little desperate, staying in place and waiting to be trampled by the elephant, he instinctively wanted to run, but heard the drum beat of Zhongjun Mo.

The flags of the whole army were waved together, and the soldiers shouted in unison, like a thunderstorm rolled up on the flat ground, and the artillery, muskets, bows and arrows, and crossbows of all armies were fired at the same time.

"Knock-knock!"

The shells flew sideways, straight into the enemy group, and the smoke of gunpowder filled the air, and the flesh and blood flew sideways. A cannonball smashed accurately on the forehead of a war elephant, blood splattered, and the war elephant screamed and fell to the ground with a bang, knocking the rider on the back to pieces.

"Boom-" A cannonball opened a big breath in the stomach of a war elephant, the elephant did not run a few steps, the internal organs were scattered on the ground, the war elephant collapsed to the ground, and the ricochet, but the ricochet, but the tower on the other war elephant was shattered.

"Bang Bang-" The musket fired like a burst of beans, as if it were a rain of bullets, and "Bang Bang-" When the bowstring sounded, it aimed only at the elephant's eyes and soft snout.

Muskets and arrows could not shoot the elephants, but the wounded elephants cried out in pain, ignoring the shouts of the riders, and instinctively ran towards their own formation, trampling on themselves.

As soon as the salvo of muskets and artillery stopped, the pear blossom spears, swords, and shield soldiers lined up, marched forward in unison, overwhelmed the musketeers and artillery men in front, and then shouted in unison to charge at full speed. While running, the pear flower spear that stretched in front of the military formation suddenly emitted a dazzling firelight, and rushed towards the war elephant army formation of the Annan army regardless of it. (To be continued.) )