And just on the Zhenjiang wharf, when a group of loyal ministers and righteous men surrounded the gelding dog, the decisive battle more than 200 miles away had already begun.

Shoot water.

On both sides of the frozen river, the eastern and western armies lined up for more than ten miles.

In the cold winter wind, the flags are like clouds, the armor is dazzling, and the sound of war drums and horns, accompanied by the neighing of war horses and rumbling cannons, echoes in this thousand-year-old battlefield.

There are already cannons.

Both the Southern Song Dynasty army and the Northern Song Dynasty army all carried a large number of bowl-mouth guns, although there was still a certain gap between this weapon and the real cannon, but it could also be loaded with stone bullets, and then this primary solid bullet barely hit close to 100 zhang. This range far exceeds the small trebuchet used in the field, and the combined cannon erected in the field is within 100 meters, so the range of this bowl-mouth gun, which is called a big gun, is not as good as a bed crossbow, but the actual effect is not worse than a bed crossbow......

Anyway, they don't have the ability to decide the outcome of the battle.

There is no accuracy in hitting a bed crossbow for a hundred zhang, but the power is stronger than that of stone bullets, after all, the latter is also the largest range.

It is pure luck to be hit.

At this moment, both sides lined up in front of the infantry formation, behind the repulsion of horses, accompanied by the rumbling of artillery and flames, and in the smoke of gunpowder, stone bullets whistled and staggered, and then fell in the opponent's formation, causing few casualties, or fell in front of the opponent's formation, stirring up the snow that still did not melt on the ground.

It's scary.

"This thing should be bigger!"

Chen Yu said with interest.

"What Xiang Gong said is very true, this big gun is less than a hundred catties, and its power can already smash a battleship, if it is enlarged to hundreds of catties, won't it even be able to break the city wall?"

Li Guang, the staff officer next to him, said.

"What about the people in the armor?"

Chen Yu said with a smile.

Li Guang was stunned for a moment......

"That's right, this thing can kill Wang Yue!

The traitor is nothing more than a strong man, he can wear a hundred catties of heavy armor, even if he can't shoot through the divine arm bow, but even if he is a hundred catties of heavy armor, he can't stop the big gun, not to mention that even the big gun can't break through his armor, we can't make a bigger one, and a thousand catties can always kill him. ”

He said in surprise.

Chen Yu smiled deeply with a deep expression.

"This traitor is cocooning himself this time!"

He said.

"When the thieves are repelled, just go back and build some, and then see how the rebels are rampant."

Li Guang said excitedly.

It's a really exciting discovery.

"Enemy cavalry!"

Suddenly, shouts rang out.

They hurriedly turned their eyes to the battlefield, and on the frozen river where the water was shot, a large number of cavalry swarmed over, and even trampled on the ice on the river, but the water was very shallow this season, which did not affect the passage of the cavalry at all, and this was not a big river.

Chen Yu didn't react, just watched this scene quietly.

The big guns immediately began to be replaced with shotguns, and the bed crossbows were also aimed at the cavalry, and iron feather arrows with gunpowder packs were fired first, causing few casualties among the cavalry and startling the horses with explosions. But the horses were trained, and such an explosion would have no effect, and the torrent of hundreds of cavalry continued to march onto the riverbank.

At the same time, the big guns erupted in flames.

The effect of the shotgun was noticeable, and the casualties of the cavalry increased significantly.

But it didn't work.

The shotguns of these big guns are so weak that they can't penetrate the armor at all, even if they hit the places where there is no armor, that is, they hit a very painful level.

Many horses neighed and tried to turn around.

But under the control of the cavalry, they still kept the charge.

Immediately after that, the shooting of the Divine Arm Bow began, along with the Three-Eyed Gun.

Of course, you can't expect the Southern Song Dynasty army to wait for the cavalry to reach twenty meters, fifty meters is already very heroic, in fact, they can not escape is already very heroic, this is indeed relying on the encouragement of the imperial driver, His Majesty the Emperor is behind him, even if there are still two hundred miles away, the incentive for morale is also obvious, coupled with Chen Yu's heavy reward, in the end, in exchange for the Southern Song Dynasty soldiers still did not escape.

The Divine Arm and the Three-Eyed Gun inflicted more casualties on the cavalry, but they were still unable to stop the cavalry from advancing, and then they rushed to the front of the horse.

The big guns didn't hesitate to run away.

Almost at the same time, the first cavalry to arrive erupted in flames.

Many of the infantry in the formation here immediately fell, and the remaining people screamed in horror in the smoke of gunpowder, and the vast majority of the Southern Song Army who had never been on the battlefield immediately began to look left and right.

After firing the bullets, the cavalry immediately turned around, and took out the bow and arrow on horseback, turned around and aimed at the Southern Song infantry behind, and the follow-up cavalry followed, the three-eyed gun continued to fire, more Southern Song soldiers fell, and then more people began to look left and right, and even as the number of casualties increased, some people began to turn around and try to escape......

Understandable.

After all, the vast majority of them are on the battlefield for the first time.

However, this was only a tentative attack, so the attack was only 500 cavalry, and they attacked in five horizontal formations and four groups in turn, and when they reached the rejection of the horse, they immediately opened fire with their three-eyed guns, and at the same time completed the turn, and after the turn, they quickly fired five arrows in succession with a return shot, and the whole attack process was only more than a thousand bullets and more than 2,000 arrows. Such an attack was not enough to crush an infantry with shield walls and heavy armor, and although some did begin to flee, the whole formation did not collapse, and it was stopped by the shouts of the officers and the crowding of crossbowmen behind.

Immediately afterwards the cavalry withdrew.

Even a few wounded and fallen horses hurriedly got up and fled, and the battlefield returned to calm

"Reward the athletes who bravely kill the enemy."

Chen Yu said.

"Quick!"

Li Guang waved behind him.

A group of soldiers immediately lifted the lid that was opened, showed the boxes of silver coins inside, and in the envious eyes of those soldiers who did not participate in the battle, they walked directly to the soldiers who participated in the battle just now, and then sent them money directly.

"Xianggong, the thief is obviously a temptation, I'm afraid that there will be a big attack next, do you want to order Liu Guangshi to attack?"

Li Guang said.

"Let's see!"

Chen Yu said.

His tactics are similar to those of the Seed Master.

It is the Chinese army, the forward, the rearguard, the left and right wings, but he is behind the forward at this time, the 10,000 he thinks is the most elite infantry blocking the bridgehead array, behind him is the Chinese army of 40,000 people, Liu Yanqing is there to command, there are 10,000 rear guards, and the left and right wings are the cavalry of Liu Guangguo and Liu Guangshi, each of whom leads 5,000 cavalry.

The Song army fought in this kind of five-army array.

On the opposite side was the Changsheng Army, each with one army of infantry and cavalry, in fact, a total of less than 30,000, and the Western Army commanded by Yang Weizhong and the 10,000 Xuyi defenders who defected continued to hold on to Xuyi, of which 5,000 led by Zhe Kecun blocked Liu Guangneng's troops from Haozhou in the west.

But......

It is still not advisable to take the initiative to attack.

Chen Yu is still self-aware at this point.

Of course, the main reason is that my Da Song does not have the habit of taking the initiative to attack, and my Da Song likes to be passive.

Li Guang looked at the other side, the color of the flag on the vast snowfield, and the black beneath the flag, the fire flickered in front of them, and then the smoke of gunpowder made it all hazy.

"It's coming!"

He said suddenly.

In the haze filled with gunsmoke, a wall of steel suddenly emerged.

"Mounted cavalry!"

Li Guang said with a hint of panic.

Chen Yu watched silently, the steel wall quickly became clear in his field of vision, the war horses protected by full armor were closely arranged, the cavalry on horseback were all new plate armor, one by one holding a spear with a small pennant in the sky to form a dense forest, stepping on the sound of horses' hooves like thunder on the edge of the sky, quickly moving forward on the snowfield, and even he could feel the ground under his feet trembling slightly.

And the forward infantry formation in front of him was immediately chaotic.

The emotions of the soldiers who had just been calmed by the silver coins for the first time quickly turned into panic under the threat of mounted cavalry.

This is the most terrifying force on the battlefield of cold weapons.

The cavalry that marched like a wall, with the momentum of crushing everything, stepped through the snowy wasteland, stepped over the frozen river, and carried the murderous aura of the real iron horse glacier, gradually enlarged in their field of vision, gradually cleared, and gradually pressed their breathing. Screams rang out in the forward formation, cries of confusion rang out, and even those who tried to escape had already begun to appear, including officers, who were on the verge of collapse before the mounted cavalry stepped onto the riverbank.

"Left and right flank cavalry attack!"

Chen Yu said without hesitation.

If the cavalry does not attack, then this forward formation is over.

Li Guang personally picked up the flag and turned his head to wave it towards the Chinese army formation behind.

However......

"Xianggong, Liu Yanqing asked us to hold on first!"

He looked at the flag waving beside Liu Yanqing and said with a sad and angry face.

And at this moment, the mounted cavalry stepped on the river bank, and the dense forest of spears in the sky suddenly fell, and then turned to point this way, and with a loud trumpet, the steel wall began to charge with the thunderous sound of horses' hooves.

"Steady, we have a rejection!"

Chen Yu rushed forward like crazy, brandishing his sword and roaring.

However, this was useless, the formation in front of him was like a dam that had reached its limit in the face of the flood, and suddenly and inexplicably collapsed, and all the Southern Song infantrymen who were frightened by the mounted cavalry cried and screamed one by one and turned around desperately, crowded and pushed and fled like crazy. Their officers took the lead in fleeing, and so did the civilian officers they supervised in battle, all of them fleeing, and the formation, which stretched for nearly two miles, almost completely collapsed in the blink of an eye.

Chen Yu watched this scene dumbfounded.

Then his waist bent limply, and he stood there as if he had lost his support, allowing the routs to swarm past him......

"Quick, protect the prime minister and retreat!"

Li Guang's shout rang out immediately.

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