On the wilderness of Pingchuan, this scene of thousands of troops shouting together is as calm as Deng She, and he can't help but be enthusiastic.

He rode a red horse against the setting sun, with his saber in swing, and behind him, his red cloak waving in the wind. If the entire Red Turban battle array is like an endless wildfire, then he is lighting this fire, giving them courage and prompting them to burn the fire of life.

exhaust the morale of the three armies and win the hearts of one general; Exhausting thousands of people, cutting off thousands of miles of food; It is not in the martial arts formation, but in the calculation of the wise man. As a general, only courage is far from enough, similar to Yang Wanhu, in his life, at best, he is just a martial artist; Famous generals throughout the ages, they are beyond others, and they are different from others, and they are both civil and military.

Since ancient times, the Tao and reason mentioned in the military book are often in common with the rule of famous ministers. If you put it far away, you can make hundreds of people pawns; Those who can put a thousand people into a camp of generals; He who can be a general; Those who can bring up the three armies and raise 100,000 people who dominate the world are generals; From 100,000 people, the people of the world can be the face.

The one who can be the general is the emperor.

Deng She struck the small round shield on his left arm with his sword, rode on the galloping horse, looked sideways at the formation, and said simply: "Drum!" ”

The drums are in the array. Bi Qianniu, Li Jing and the cavalry also struck the small round shield on their left arm with their swords, looked sideways, and shouted in unison: "General's order: drum!" The sound went on and on, and the cheers continued and the drums beat loudly.

Surrounded by guns, dozens of big men stood on the high platform, bare-chested, beating the surrounding war drums one by one. The Shang sound is clear and the horn sound is long; At first, ten steps and one drum; With the approach to the Yuan army, one step at a time.

In the face of fighting, shouting loudly helps relieve pressure and enhance courage, and He Guangxiu's sharp voice erupted in front of the battle: "Kill!" ”

The three armies shouted in unison: "Kill!" "A drum, a step, a kill.

Deng She's judgment was right, the Yuan army on the opposite side was indeed all the people of the Liao king. Although the Mongols were good at fighting, their untrained and hasty minions were still inferior to the young, strong, battle-hardened regular army. Moreover, they had very few cavalry, and the horses of the tribe were mostly supported by the officers, and Elinahar went out to fight on a long run. In the case of step-by-step, the difference is not first-class.

"Has the gun broken formation?" Deng She stared at the Yuan army that was getting closer and closer, and when he was hundreds of paces away, he asked.

Bi Qianniu looked back at the infantry formation: "The banner of General Yang Wanhu and General Xu Ren is still not falling. ”

Deng She didn't have time to look back, and he saw that just in front of the Yuan army formation opposite, there were several bulges covered by flags. An officer of the Yuan army waved a flag, and he didn't know what to shout, and dozens of soldiers swarmed up and lifted the flag, revealing seven or eight artillery pieces.

Shenyang has been operated by Naha, and has a lot of firearms, because the artillery can be defended and attacked, and there are many of them. This Yuan army was attacked by a detour, and in order to facilitate the march, it did not bring many artillery, but only these seven or eight, if they were allowed to exert their power wantonly, the damage caused at close range would not be small.

Deng She leaned down, clinging to the horse's back, and shouted, "Spread out the formation!" ”

In the field, the first use of artillery to cover the attack can be described as the old skill of the Yuan army. Dunshe could almost smell the ignition of the cannon here, and with a few loud bangs, the iron ball flew out. The two red turban cavalrymen couldn't dodge, and they were being hit, and they didn't even have time to scream, and even a puddle of mud smashed by people and horses.

The galloping horses were very fast, they were all old war horses, and they had long been accustomed to artillery attacks, and there was no phenomenon of startling horses. Between breaths, gallop beyond the effective range of the artillery. The Yuan army did not have time to adjust the artillery distance.

After the artillery, it should be a bow and crossbow.

More than 100 steps away from the Yuan army, Deng She raised his left arm: "Raise the shield!" ”

Hundreds of small round shields, raised at the same time; The light of the setting sun was reflected everywhere, and the metal shield suddenly reflected a tragic brilliance. In the Yuan army formation on the opposite side, the knife and axe hands who temporarily arranged to resist horses and guns and other things in front of the formation hurriedly retreated; The archers, who are in the first line, draw their bows and shoot arrows with the order.

Dense locust-like arrows burst through the air. Fortunately, all the horses have simple armor, and around it, in just a few tens of steps, several people have fallen off their horses.

The cavalry of the Yuan army patrolling the flanks hurriedly mobilized and tried to block the charge of Deng She and the others, so as to give the foot soldiers time to adjust. Deng She watched with his eyes, and the cavalry of the Yuan army who came up said that there was not much, but it was a lot less, about seven or eight hundred people.

He knew in his heart that morale could not be discharged, and once he was entangled by the incoming enemy and the momentum of the charge was stopped, the cavalry, who had been fighting for half a day, would inevitably not be able to support it. He gritted his teeth: "Quick fix." Turning his eyes to the left and right, he laughed and shouted: "The world is in chaos, and those who have courage are born; Death to those who have no guts. Gentlemen, are there warriors? And follow me to learn courage, wishful, and hope for the marquis; Unsatisfactory, but do not let others behead! ”

The flying bird flag was raised, and more than 400 cavalry scattered and regrouped, divided into three groups. The largest group of about 200 men, Deng She personally commanded, and attacked the enemy's cavalry formation; the remaining two, one led by Bi Qianniu; One was led by Li Jing, divided into small units, and inserted into the enemy position from the left and right flanks.

The cavalry of the Yuan army were also tribesmen, and they learned the methods of war from hunting, but they lacked experienced officers, and the good and bad were uneven, both old and weak. For a while, being beaten by Deng She, Bi Qianniu and Li Jing smoothly inserted the two wings, and the sound of soldiers fighting and war horses colliding suddenly covered the sound of war drums in the infantry formation.

The power of nearly 1,000 catties, or even more than 1,000 catties, galloping and colliding with each other, is very huge. A soldier who is not good at riding will have the possibility of falling off his horse as soon as he hits him. Thousands of people raised swords and spears at the same time, like two huge hedgehogs, and every moment, soldiers on both sides were wounded, killed in battle, and fell.

Deng She's physical strength was a little unable to keep up, his body in this life was too young, no matter how experienced and high-spirited he was, he couldn't stop the fatigue of instinct. Seven or eight personal soldiers firmly protected his left and right, Deng She struggled to push away the two spears that stabbed over, as if the black clouds were overwhelming, a mass of things with the sound of the wind fell head-on on him, Deng She returned the knife to parry, clicked, and the knife broke the horse soft.

He almost fell off his horse, and hurriedly took hold of the horse's neck, and hid himself in a kick, and the thing fell straight down, and the mount struggled for survival, and sprang forward, and ran before the enemy. Holding the saddle with his hand, Dunsher turned over and jumped over, and was holding the man from behind, and plunged a broken knife into his body.

The man let out a cry of pain, and as the blood gushed out, the strength in his hand gradually disappeared, and the huge mace could no longer grasp it firmly, and fell down with a thud, and smashed squarely on Deng She's original mount. The mount hissed, fell limp to its knees, and died.

With the words and deeds of the old horse thief Deng San, Deng She has understood a truth since he was a child, for cavalry, sometimes horses are more important than people. The mount had been with him for a long time, and they had feelings for each other, and his heart ached, and the broken knife in his hand showed no mercy, pulling it out and inserting it again, until the enemy's waist was stabbed into a bloody blur, and he threw it away.

He shouted, "Kill! ”

Bi Qianniu and Xu Ren succeeded in dividing the enemy cavalry into two halves and rendezvous in the middle of the formation; The soldiers were divided into two routes, one part resisted the charge of the rear of the enemy's cavalry, and the other part folded their horses to kill, and cooperated with Deng She to kill the encircled dozens of yuan army cleanly.

Then, repeating the same trick, the same number of enemies were surrounded. Repeatedly, the enemy cavalry could not resist, among them there were white-haired old men, there were also young men with immature faces, in front of the wolf-like red scarf, they were like sheep, and soon, this Yuan cavalry and the previous enemy, began to break and flee.

Deng She looked at the battlefield, where He Guangxiu and the Yuan army came into contact, hand-to-hand combat had already begun, and it was obviously impossible to rush in from the front, and it was impossible to give full play to the maximum function of the cavalry. He immediately made a decision, commanded the banner, went around in a circle, and inserted diagonally from the enemy's flank.

The officers of the Yuan army arranged some repulsive rifles, the number was limited, and there was no way to protect the entire flank, Deng She and the others bypassed, like a fist hitting the water, and waves of water ripples spread around.

As long as you can successfully infiltrate the enemy's main formation with your elite, disrupt the enemy's formation, and cause confusion among the enemy, you will have the hope of changing the tide of the battle and winning the victory.

At this critical moment, Bi Qianniu suddenly shouted: "General, Xu Renbu ,......"

Deng She was busy, and looked back, after all, the red scarf was a joint operation between the two armies, and it didn't hurt in a short time, but after a long time, there was a lack of friction between each other, and finally there was a problem. Xu Renbu, there was a wavering; Yang Wanhu saw that it was difficult to support alone.

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1. Use artillery to cover the attack first.

In June 1287, Kublai Khan led his troops to quell the Nayan Rebellion and met the main force of Naiyan's army in the land of Burizhan (the triangle of the confluence of the present-day Harha and Nemergen rivers). Naiyan's army numbered 100,000, with vehicles and sanitation as the battalion. In view of the strong enemy camp and hindering the cavalry attack, Kublai Khan first used artillery fire to destroy the enemy camp and inflict greater casualties on the enemy, and then Kublai Khan's army launched an attack under the cover of artillery, and Naiyan's army was defeated and Nayan was captured.

This method of warfare, together with the siege tactics of "attacking the city with artillery first," has formed the rudiments of "firepower preparation" in today's offensive battles.

2. Run out of the effective range of the artillery.

The firing range of China's ancient artillery can be roughly divided into three types: hundreds of paces and beyond; four to seven miles; More than a dozen miles to dozens of miles. However, most of them are of the first type.

"The one who holds the cannon will look at the height of the sprout, and the crosshair will be aimed at the enemy, and the one who wields the cannon will light the fire with his right hand, five or six hundred steps for the big lead, and three or four hundred steps for the small lead. ……”

There is a kind of exterminating cannon, "one shot can be five or six hundred steps, and the lead is always one catty, and the momentum is like a huge thunder, which is good." ”