The rising sun was high and the heat shone on the earth, and the battlefield of the two sides was chosen in the open space outside the south gate of Yanzhou, the noisy crowd and the neighing of horses, this kind of noise diluted a lot of the almost solidified murderous aura in the area outside the south gate of Yanzhou.

Xiahou Haoyue saw that his generals were ready, and the Xiazhou Dingyan Army and the Yanzhou Patriotic Army on the opposite side were also ready for battle.

He nodded with Ding Badao, who immediately began to give orders and began to press forward with a large force. In this battle, Xiahou Haoyue and Ding Badao, as the main and deputy commanders of the Third Army, did a good job of dividing the labor at the pre-war coordination meeting.

Ding Badao had been walking the Silk Road in the Longmen Dart Bureau in the early stage, so his combat experience was more sufficient than that of other generals in the Weizhou Army, so the two agreed to let him take command of this attack, while Xiahou Haoyue led the two cavalry brigades of his army to maneuver.

In the eyes of the Weizhou Army, the Dingyan Army and the Patriotic Army were a bit big as the defending side, and they did not choose to rely on the city to hold on, but instead put on a posture of going out of the city to fight in the field. Seeing that the other party was so brave, all the high-ranking officials of the Weizhou Army had to admire the courage of Li Sijian of the Dingyan Army and Cao Ruting of the Patriotic Army.

However, Xiahou Haoyue understood why the other party did this, because the Weizhou Army's artillery and gunpowder wall-breaking techniques had spread throughout the Northwest Region.

Yanzhou City is not a fortress with high walls, it is because Li Sijian and Cao Ruting are afraid that the Weizhou army's wall-breaking skills will be repeated under Yanzhou City, once the Weizhou army breaks through the Yanzhou city wall, they will become turtles in the urn. Rather than that, it is better to fight a decisive battle outside the city first, if the decisive battle is unfavorable, they still have to rely on the fortified city to wait for reinforcements as a way back.

In addition, since the establishment of the Xiazhou Dingyan Army, the soldiers of the Dangxiang clan have been the main body, and the soldiers of the Dangxiang clan have been good cavalry masters since ancient times, so they also give full play to the specialties of the Dingyan Army in the field warfare, so it is understandable for them to do so.

The Weizhou army, which was on the attacking side, did not care, because its artillery and gunpowder were the same regardless of whether they were in a strong position or a strong city, and the result was that they were destroyed.

Ding Badao drove the war horse under his crotch to move forward slowly, and the soldiers around him also slowly moved in order, because as the attacking side, they had to build a position in front of the formation, so they had to advance steadily.

He watched the Dingyan Army and the coalition army of the Patriotic Army in the distance also moving slowly. However, the slow is only the beginning, and as time goes on, the pace of both sides slowly increases.

Both sides had cavalry troops, but most of the Dingyan troops on the opposite side were cavalry troops, so the Weizhou Third Army responded very cautiously.

Li Sijian saw that the infantry team on the opposite side had begun to move, but the cavalry troops on the other side were actually hiding behind, and he couldn't help but despise the Weizhou army on the opposite side.

The infantry were basically weak in the face of cavalry, and the cavalry on the opposite side seemed to be no more than 2,000 men, while the cavalry on their own side was as many as 8,000. In this kind of battle, as long as your own horse team can successfully break through the opponent's infantry phalanx, the battle is basically won.

Today, as long as they can win the Weizhou army that is attacking from the opposite side, this battle will be considered half won, and the remaining soldiers and horses of the other side will not be afraid, and the patriotic army still has more than 15,000 men and horses, no matter how you look at this battle, your own side will win a big battle.

Li Sijian said to Cao Ruting beside him: "Ambassador Cao's battle against the Weizhou Army today is a major event for our two towns to share weal and hardship, and today is a matter of life and death for our two towns, and please Ambassador Cao Don't hide your selfishness, the sons and daughters brought by a certain Xia Zhou are the elite of a certain Xia Prefecture, if we are defeated in this battle, a certain Xia Zhou will be the second in Yanzhou, and we will all be killed at that time." ”

Cao Ruting immediately nodded when he heard this, "What Li Zhiya said is right, that's the truth." I have long wanted to get closer to Xiazhou, and this time Li Zhiya came to Yanzhou to help in the war, and it was really Cao Ruting's reborn parents. When the battle begins, as long as Li Zhiya is in the rear formation, a certain relative will lead Yanzhou Erlang to meet the battle first. As long as the timing is favorable, Li Zhiya can decide when to attack. ”

Li Sijian saw that this Cao Ruting was so upright, and he was very satisfied. After all, he is a guest army, and he can't take the initiative too much, so as not to be tabooed by Cao Ruting.

Cao Ruting and Li Sijian immediately gave the order after agreeing and ordered the troops to start attacking.

The distance between the two forces continued to shrink as the march of the two teams accelerated, and the strength of the two sides was almost the same, and the huge skirmish line composed of the same human body was slowly approaching.

Ding Badao calculated the distance little by little, and as the distance between the two sides reached a straight-line distance of five hundred paces, he immediately ordered the whole army to stop advancing. The bow/crossbow battalion began to stand on guard, and the artillery battalion began to build forward positions for artillery.

As soon as the Yanzhou army saw that the opposite side stopped, they immediately slowed down the pace of marching, and at this time, the soldiers in the front rows of both sides could basically see each other's figures clearly.

Cao Ruting rode a horse and stood at the end of the formation, and when he saw that the soldiers who had been accelerating their attack suddenly slowed down, he immediately asked the soldiers around him: "What's wrong ahead, why did they stop." ”

Cao Ruting's personal guards immediately went to inquire about the reason, and the Weizhou army was basically ready, after getting the report, Ding Badao was in a good mood, and he said to the herald who came to report the news: "You go back and go to give the order, if the other party starts to charge, tell them not to stay, the fire commanders in the front row don't have to wait for the order to deal with it." ”

Cao Ruting learned that the soldiers in front of him stopped attacking because the generals in front were afraid of some tricks on the other side, so he immediately became angry and furious at the guards. Order the army in front to attack immediately without delay, otherwise military law will be engaged.

After receiving the military order, the Patriotic Army did not dare to delay any longer, and immediately drove his generals to attack the Weizhou Army quickly.

Xu Shisan looked at the Patriotic Army on the opposite side of the country was constantly accelerating, and he couldn't help but smile in his heart, these guys in front of him were not people at all, they were a bunch of moving military exploits.

I think that after he was caught by Li Bao with Chai Cun in Chang'an, he followed Chai Cun to surrender King Ji, starting from the ordinary soldiers of the Weizhou army, and now he relied on the training on weekdays in Weizhou and a few rare sorties to get the opportunity and was promoted to a fire commander. Now he is in charge of ten people, and he always looks forward to fighting on weekdays, and as long as there is a war, they will have the opportunity to divide the land and money.

The Weizhou Army stipulates that if a soldier is unwilling to farm, he can also exchange military merits for money, and the price is the same as the price of 100 acres of fertile land. In addition, those who are brave in battle will be promoted to military positions as appropriate after being evaluated by their superiors. Once an officer is promoted, his salary will be increased tenfold.

However, the Weizhou Army still has regulations, and it will be necessary to be literate, able to read and write military orders, and be able to write post-war summaries. Xu 13 has been an illiterate since he was a child, he remembered that he was really lacking in talent in literacy and hyphenation, and he himself had sighed that he couldn't be the head of anything in this life, but the very intelligent King Ji thought of it for him, if the military merit is outstanding, but does not meet the hard standards of being able to read and write, the general can enjoy the same officer treatment, this move is called the non-commissioned officer.

As soon as this good governance came out, it immediately won the love of a large number of low-level officers for His Royal Highness King Ji, who praised His Royal Highness for understanding the suffering of their low-level officers, so they spared no effort to carry out ideological education to his sons and daughters, and publicized the wisdom and compassion of His Royal Highness King Ji.

Xu Shisan was thinking about his own affairs while also paying attention to his sons, most of them were novices and had not experienced much of the baptism of the battlefield, so they would inevitably be nervous. As an old bird on the battlefield, he has to act as an old hen to guide them well.

"Gao Laohan, you kid take the torch in your hand well, don't be in a hurry and don't panic." "Lin Sanlang, you kid take the shield in your hand well, and when the opposite one collides, if you can't stand steadily, we will be killed by your kid." "Lin Gangzi, don't worry, don't put the grenade under your feet so messy, you kid will definitely not be able to find it when you are in a hurry......"

Xu Thirteen's nagging did not last long, because the Patriotic Army on the opposite side was already approaching within three hundred paces, and at this time he could not nag any longer, and he and the other fire commanders began the first round of giving orders. When he saw that the opposing Patriotic Army had entered the firing range of two hundred and fifty paces, he immediately shouted: "Attention, Divine Arm Archer, Wind, Aim, Fire." ”

Every command Xu Thirteen shouted clearly, concisely and loudly. This is the result of years of training in the Weizhou Army, all of which seeks to build its soldiers into a group that performs vigorously and acts quickly.

After the first round of shooting by the Divine Arm Archers was over, Xu 13 immediately gave the order: "The second row is ready, wind, aim, and launch." ……”

The range of the Divine Arm Bow is long, but it is not easy to make this kind of bow, fortunately, now the specialized division of labor of the Weizhou Workshop has become more and more mature, and after several years of accumulation, the output of the Divine Arm Bow has been able to equip the Weizhou Army.

With the shooting of the three-wheeled divine arm bow, the patriotic army has already suffered a lot of damage, and at the same time, it has also caused more psychological pressure on them.

The bows and arrows of the Tang Dynasty were basically soft bows, and the range was basically within 100 steps, while the strong crossbows of the Weizhou army could reach 24 or 50 steps, and in the third round, an arrow could actually shoot through the soldiers in the front row and injure the soldiers in the back.

What a terrible distance and lethality, and the number of soldiers and soldiers who were shot and intimidated in three rounds of fire on your side was huge.

The Patriotic Army prayed in his heart while running desperately, hurry up and approach the Weizhou Army, otherwise he will always be beaten passively, so what kind of battle will he fight.

But for the Patriotic Army, their suffering was far from over, and as the distance of the attack reached a distance of one hundred and fifty paces, their non-commissioned officers began to roar angrily, and were about to start to open their bows and prepare to return fire, when the Weizhou Army on the opposite side began a new round of strikes.

The "booming" cannon sound shook the earth, and with this deafening roar, it was followed by a scorching "iron fireball", and the oncoming "iron fireball" was a gap after it touched the human body, and those "iron fireballs" were a straight line of flesh and blood as soon as they hit it. As the iron ball rolled in, countless lives were harvested and left before they could scream.

There were also soldiers who were half beaten by the "iron fireball" because their bodies were beaten by the "iron fireball", lying on the ground and crying non-stop, and the broken limbs were everywhere, and for a while, the miserable scene in the formation of the Patriotic Army was like Shura Purgatory, and the soldiers of the Patriotic Army were stunned when they saw this horrific killing.

However, the attack on the opposite side did not stop, in addition to the scorching and terrifying "iron fireball", the Weizhou army also used catapults to drop some black smoke things, after those things landed, immediately emitted choking smoke, in the smoke of the patriotic army is even more difficult to move an inch, most of them are choked by the smoke cough, smoke tears flow.

In addition to the poisonous fire smoke, the next rumbling explosion is even more unguardable, these Weizhou troops are too vicious, the rumbling explosion is not only shocking, but also the attacks that fly from nowhere, these attacks are everywhere and pervasive. The middle one immediately bled profusely and was in agony.

The Weizhou Army's all-round tactics frightened the Patriotic Army, and they no longer had any courage to face such a terrifying opponent, and they immediately began to retreat.

But the patriotic army who cried for their father and mother did not realize that they retreated like this, which would only bring more chaos to their troops, and the patriotic army was in chaos. The soldiers in the back row were blocked by the soldiers who turned around and fled in front, and more people were infected by this chaotic atmosphere, crying and shouting: the Weizhou army on the opposite side is not people, they are demons.

And Xiahou Haoyue, who had been maneuvering behind the Weizhou Third Army, immediately caught this fighter, he pulled out the horizontal knife in his waist and shouted to the cavalry behind him: "It's time for our Weizhou Iron Cavalry to perform, follow a certain kill!" ”