The battle on the riverside is like a piece of music without a prelude, and it reaches its climax at the beginning. Both armies understood that whoever occupied Shaliang had the initiative in the battle, so the battle soon entered a white-hot heat, and the Jin army launched a non-stop charge, they rushed towards Shaliang wave after wave despite the dense rain of bullets and death. The Song army did not show weakness in the face of the almost crazy Jin army, and poured the bullets in the gun on them mercilessly.

"How's the Second Brigade going?" The command post of the lion general was set up on a high platform on the sand beam, and the dust stirred up by the horses' hooves and the smoke from the guns and cannons obscured the already hazy moonlight, Jiang Wei asked in a deep voice.

"Commander, the second brigade is also fierce on the side, if we don't occupy Shaliang, I'm afraid we won't be able to stop the Jurchens' charge at all, the Lianzhu guns often only have time to shoot three or four bullets, the enemy has already rushed up the slope, and some enemy troops have even gone to the position." A Marquis Yu, who had just returned from his inspection, replied.

"The first brigade also fought hard, the reserves had already pressed up, a position was broken through, and Shi Tong led his own troops to fight a counterattack to suppress the Jin army." Another Yu Hou continued.

"Why haven't the machine gun battalions of the brigades gone up yet, and the artillery battalions directly under them haven't arrived, what's going on?" Jiang Wei frowned and asked.

"Commander, the machine gun team has already gone up, otherwise it won't be able to withstand it at all. And we moved too fast, the artillery did not keep up, and here is mostly sandy, the artillery carriages are difficult to move, and now they are rushing over. Someone replied.

"Has the Zhaozhou Army moved?" Jiang Wei asked, staring at the battlefield.

"The Zhaozhou army was repulsed several times out of the city, and now it is trapped in the city, and the two brigades are suspicious. Attacking the city, they no longer dared to move. ”

"Hmm. They were idle and ordered the 6th Brigade to hand over the task to the 5th Brigade. Let them rush here to serve as a reserve, and at the same time tell the Fifth Brigade not to seek to destroy the enemy, as long as they are blocked in the city, it will be a great achievement. "Jiang Wei regarded the Zhaozhou army as a strong enemy at first, but he didn't expect to be blocked in the city, so it would be a bit wasteful to look at them with the strength of two brigades. And the battle here is fierce, there is no reserve team in hand, Jiang Wei always feels that he has no bottom in his heart.

"Commander, now that the two wings are very calm, is it not to draw some troops from there as a reserve? If the Zhaozhou army rushes out of the city, it will pose a great threat to our rear. A Yu Hou suggested.

"It's the beginning of the war. The Jurchens thought they could break through from the front, but once they couldn't lead the attack, they would find another way out, and the idea of attacking our two wings must not move a single soldier from their side. And 3,000 people in Zhaozhou are more than enough to deal with 5,000 people, if you release one, I will kill him first! Jiang Wei said with a glare, and Marquis Yu didn't dare to say it, so he hurriedly ordered someone to send an order to deploy troops.

Several flares rose into the air in front of the 'bang, bang, ......' array, lighting up the battlefield. Jiang Wei picked up the binoculars and looked. The corpses gradually increased within 300 steps of the sand beam, and the corpses were already piled up on the gentle slope, and the higher they went, the more they were, until they reached the front of their own position. Paved all over the slope. The corners of Jiang Wei's mouth twitched, after so many years in the army, this was the second time he had seen a battlefield with so many corpses left in the land of projectiles. And that was still under the city of Xiazhou.

Jiang Wei was not allowed to think too much, and the battle started again. The Jin army showed bravery in these years of warfare. The bloody and pillow corpses did not frighten them, but aroused their bloodiness. A team of people rushed up like a whirlwind. Within 200 steps, he opened his bow and released arrows, disturbing the Song army with a dense rain of arrows, those in front fell, and those behind followed, advancing with difficulty at the cost of countless lives.

The lion general was a veteran of the New Song Army, which existed when the emperor founded the army, participated in all the wars against the Western Xia and Jurchen, and was known for daring to fight tough battles. It goes without saying that Jiang Wei is a high-ranking officer who followed the emperor from a small soldier, and even the junior officers in the army are mostly veterans with actual combat experience. Although the battle was rushed and there were only improvised fortifications, they did not panic in the face of such a frantic attack of the enemy, and all the officers sank to the front of the position to direct the battle.

At the beginning, Zhao Ta formed a new army for the purpose of fighting against the nomadic cavalry, and the dragoons have always been the main force in the army as a type of army that takes into account both horses and horses, and the lion general is also one of the four armies in the Song army that did not use mixed infantry and cavalry. Therefore, they can be said to be experienced in dealing with cavalry, and although the artillery is not yet in place, they are also fighting well. As the 1st and 2nd Brigades, which were the main forces of the enemy, they were divided into two groups, the north and the south, and divided the defensive areas. The brigade is then assigned combat areas by battalions, and then divided into cities, teams, and groups, with reserves at all levels.

In the absence of artillery support, machine guns have become the main fire support weapons, and their position layout is based on machine guns to form a cross-fire network, each team can cover each other, provide support, in front of the position to form a fire network, block the enemy's offensive line, and the machine gun team directly under the general and brigade is used to strengthen the fire intensity of the main defense area.

At night when the visual conditions are not good, it is very difficult for the bead gun to accurately hit the target, even if a single shot hits the target, as long as it does not hurt the vital point, the enemy will still have a certain combat effectiveness. Therefore, the gunners often use the method of concentrated fire to shoot at the cavalry, and rely on increasing the density of fire to cause serious casualties to the enemy horses, so that they lose their combat effectiveness in an instant, this tactic is tried and tested, but the flaws also exist, the enemy often takes care of one when charging in a dense formation, especially when the defense line is weak, kills this one, and lets go of that.

In addition, another sharp weapon of the Song army soldiers is the 'porcelain tribulus terrestris', this weapon has long been used, at the beginning because the black powder used is less powerful, so in order to ensure its power to make a relatively large size, it is inconvenient to carry, and later it was only equipped for the infantry to defend the city, and it was not widely equipped. Now, after the new gunpowder is put into actual combat, it can make the porcelain tribulus terrestris slim down and become a universal weapon for infantry and riding without reducing its power.

Under the fierce impact of the Jin army, the defense line of the lion general was also broken through several times, and the enemy army was expelled after fierce fighting. However, a dangerous situation occurred again on one of the positions of the 1st brigade, where the sand beam was low and collapsed, leaving only a depression of more than 20 zhang long and less than 20 paces long, and due to the terrain restrictions, it was impossible to deploy more troops, and could only rely on the fire support provided by the positions on both sides to barely hold the position.

After several attacks, the Jin army also discovered this weak point in the Song army's defensive line, and they dispatched a thousand-man squad to repeatedly attack, and after paying heavy casualties, one of the machine guns providing fire support in the flank position broke down due to long-term continuous fire. At the time of the pause in the fire, the charging Jin army seized the opportunity and rushed to the Song position. The soldiers of the first brigade and the four battalions of the first battalion of the lion general in the defensive position did not have time to draw their swords and met them, and after running out of bullets, they fought the enemy hand-to-hand with empty guns, but they only slowed down and fell under the hooves of the Jurchen horses.

The cavalry of the Jin Army Brigade rushed up from the gap and crossed the sand beam, and Wanyan Yanying finally waited for the opportunity, so that the elite cavalry who had been on standby rushed to the breakthrough. While rushing to Shaliang to expand the breakthrough, the Jin army rushed inward across Shaliang in an attempt to defeat the Song army on Shaliang and regain the initiative in the battle.

The situation suddenly became tense, and the commander of the 1st Brigade knew that the gap must be blocked, and now there were only a small number of soldiers guarding the war horses behind the Shaliang, and the 6th Brigade was still on the way to arrive, and the artillery battalion that had just arrived had not yet entered the position and was unable to resist at all. After the Jin army was able to break through, it was difficult for the Fifth Brigade to block the Zhaozhou Army under internal and external attacks, and the Song Army had to face the situation of the whole line being scattered. But Shi Zhongxin was quite calm, and knew that the top priority was to prevent the enemy from continuing to expand the breakthrough and block the brigade of Jin Army behind. In that case, even if a small number of enemy troops rushed through the blocking line, it would be like water without a source, and it would not do much.

Shi Zhongxin concentrated all the personnel that could be mobilized by the 1st Brigade to rush to the breakthrough, and he fought very smartly, and did not meet the enemy from the front, but chose to squeeze into it from both ends of the sand beam. Because he knew that the infantry army could not stop the galloping cavalry without array, and if he forced it, he would not only not be able to block the breakthrough, but would also cause great casualties.

While Shi Zhongxin strengthened his firepower to block the passage, he asked some soldiers to throw 'porcelain tribulus terrestris', and the shrapnel flying after the explosion of this thing could penetrate ordinary iron armor and cause damage to people and things within a radius of ten steps. And the loud noise produced will also frighten the war horse and do something incredible.

'Boom, boom...... The dragoons condescendingly threw the porcelain thistle at the crowd of enemies pouring in from the hollows. The Jin troops who came from the floating ferry were all wearing leather armor in order to reduce the load, which could not stop the flying shrapnel at all, and they fell off their horses in the sound of explosions. Not to mention the horses, shrapnel plunged directly into their flesh and bones, breaking their limbs, and the loud sound in their ears also frightened them.

Especially those war horses that have lost the appeasement of their masters have been made frantic and restless, and now they don't do it, turning their hooves and turning around and running back. The ground was lively, and the grumpy horses and their companions behind inevitably collided, and they fell to the ground and were trampled on countless hooves, but their temporary struggle also caused more companions to fall to the ground and give themselves companions on the road.

The Jin army trampled on each other to make the already narrow breakthrough congestion, and the follow-up war horses were still coming, resulting in a series of rear-end accidents, the Song army took the opportunity to strengthen the firepower to the enemy behind to block and shoot, squeezing down from both ends, a burst of random guns and knives and axes, and finally calmed down the scene of the accident, and the piled up of Jin soldiers and horses corpses almost filled this depression, and the platform on both sides was the same height...... (To be continued......)