The advent of firecrackers did not completely change the main way of fighting on the battlefield.

At a critical time, you still have to go in with the white knife and kill the red knife to the death.

Speaking of which, Li Kui also regretted it a little, if he had prepared a little more firecracker, or continued to enlarge the caliber of the firecracker into a mortar cannon, and the fire would be a big scene full of stars, maybe it would be better.

It's a pity that there is no regret about taking the medicine.

Besides, it is impossible for Li Kui to abandon the most important part of the war, the contest between iron and blood, in order to pursue the ultimate in weapons. The consumption of firearms is very large, and without logistical support, it cannot last. A fire gun that has run out of gunpowder is worse than an iron lump.

Li Kui glanced at the slightly thin gun array, fifty big guns were missing, and his vision was much worse, as a barrier to resist the first wave of war horses, it was difficult to say whether he could block the next attack of the party members. After all, after blocking the impact of the party's cavalry before, the gun array at the forefront showed signs of loosening, and in the end, although it was blocked, it still scared Li Kui into a cold sweat.

If the military array is really scattered, even if Xiang Yu is reincarnated, I am afraid there is no way.

Gao Yu didn't understand that Li Kui was not a brave and unscrupulous person, he set the battlefield on the river beach, how could he not be prepared at all?

Two days of waiting is enough for Li Kui to arrange an absolutely favorable battlefield environment.

In fact, Li Kui also used a lot of small tricks to deal with it, but when the party members attacked for the first time, Li Kui would rather kill himself than use these little tricks. But Gao Yu didn't understand, it was obvious that the casualties could be reduced, why did Li Kui fight to let the soldiers die in battle, but it didn't work?

One-to-three casualties.

Song Jun is the first, the party is the third, such a field record is enough for the Song army to brag for several years.

But Gao Yu was not satisfied, of course, he was more worried about whether Li Kui would forget the pre-war preparations?

Feeling more and more worried, Gao Yu leaned over to Li Kui and asked in a low voice: "Renjie, we can't go on like this, there are many people in the party, and there are few of us, if we really die, we will be in danger." Whether to use tripwires, when these tripwires were buried, it took a lot of thought. ”

"I know."

Li Kui stared at the battlefield, not even looking at Gao Yu, at this moment, the cavalry of the party was organized again, and the fight was close at hand.

But Gao Yu was worried that Li Kui didn't think of the Yin Party Xiangren's method at all, but forgot?

Forget?

Is it possible?

Li Kui found that the party cavalry on the battlefield began to divide into formations, three thousand people, Zeng Pin zigzag display, he immediately understood the thoughts of the party commander, and there was a little more smile on his face, but it looked terrifyingly tight: "Order, prepare the firearms, shoot with all your strength after entering the firing range, and pull up the stumbling horse at a distance of forty steps from the enemy, and expose the secret early, and Lao Tzu split him alive." ”

After speaking, he added: "The crossbowmen hide behind the infantry, and after the fire attack, they immediately enter the battlefield and shoot across the fire." ”

At this time, he could still issue a military order so clearly, and Gao Yu finally let go of half of his heart. Hurriedly gave the order to the herald, on the surface, the Song army was still the same as before, but the battle mode was completely changed. At least the pressure of the gunners was almost completely gone, and it was foreseeable that after surviving the charge of the party members, the casualties of the Song army would not be too great.

Returning to Li Kui's side, Gao Yu couldn't help but ask: "Renjie, why didn't you use it just now?" ”

Li Kui glanced at Gao Yu at this time, his eyes were full of contempt, and he said coldly: "Didn't you notice that when the party cavalry charged just now, the war horse in the salient part of the party cavalry ran too fast?" ”

"The horse is running too fast? Isn't this normal? Gao Yu thought about it slightly and was puzzled: "Maybe these people's horses are better, or they run faster, this shouldn't be a big mess, right?" ”

Li Kui sneered: "If I am a party general, and I invest in the main force to attack without temptation, I will definitely leave a chance to make a mistake, and this opportunity is a team of party cavalry running in front, even if these people are trapped, the loss will not be too great." Because, I will never believe that the enemy who arrived before me will be stupid and stupid on the battlefield opened up by the other party, doing nothing. ”

"Once there is suspicion in my heart, then there is only one possibility that the prominent cavalry of the party and the cavalry behind are obviously disconnected. If something goes wrong, the attacks of the party members will stop. ”

"Treating human life as a temptation?" Although Gao Yu heard the complete explanation, although this explanation was reasonable, it made him shocked, and he couldn't help but scream: "Those cavalrymen are at least seventy or eighty, right?" Is this a free giveaway? ”

"I'm afraid General Dang Xiang won't know what the result of the cavalry in the face of dense spearmen is, right?"

Gao Yu didn't say a word, that is: Isn't this a careless disregard for human life?

But Li Kui said as a matter of course: "It's just a few dozen men and horses, for an army of nearly three thousand, it's completely worth the price of using this bit of men and horses as a temptation." ”

"But they didn't succeed." Gao Yu thought that the party members did not find Li Kui's arrangement, and immediately became happy, but it was a pity to think that his own people had also lost hundreds in the battle just now. There are not many minor injuries, most of them are serious injuries and death in battle, which is uncomfortable.

But Gao Yu didn't dare to ask, he seemed to know Li Kui's thoughts, Li Kui just felt that the party members wanted to use dozens of cavalry to exchange for the trap he gave the party members, which was not worth it at all. In order to prevent the party members from discovering their intentions, Li Kui decisively used the loss of a hundred lives to protect his little secret. is ruthless, Li Kui has never lost.

This kind of indifference that doesn't take human life seriously made Gao Yu shudder, and he even asked himself in his heart: What if the person who wants to lose is him?

At that time, Li Kui will give up the opportunity because of his high life?

On the contrary, at this time, the deputy general beside Gao Yu, the commander of the archers, Nian Xi, said: "General, Lord Li has done nothing wrong, even if the brothers know Lord Li's plans in their hearts, they will not complain about your lordship." ”

This guy is at stake, and he doesn't forget to pat himself on the back.

You're a subordinate of your master, do you have any eyesight?

But Gao Yu still blamed Li Kui, and Nian Xi said to himself: "General, we have few people, and if we want to beat the party members, we can only pay some lives, and find an opportunity to slash the party members fiercely, and use painless means will be even more unfavorable to us." ”

Gao Yu stopped talking, he was obviously the main general in the army, but he became a drag on the whole army, who did he ask to reason?

It seems that in the whole army, he is the only one who is a general who does not know how to fight, and everyone else will do. What's even more annoying is that Li Renjie, you are a civil official, what are you doing to learn the art of war?

Gao Yu felt uncomfortable being ignored and felt redundant.

But in fact, Gao Yu is also weak-hearted, doesn't he know his own ability?

The art of war can't be learned and sold now, and he can still be expected to command Ruoding on the battlefield, isn't this difficult for a strong man?

In fact, in a situation like Gao Yu, the most ideal battlefield environment is to defend the city. Hide in the fortress with high walls and deep cities, and then fight to the death with the enemy chieftain, as long as the food is not eaten, you will never surrender.

Field combat is the hell mode of infantry tactics, and as a newcomer, it is indeed difficult for Gao Yu to come into contact with such a difficult battlefield situation as soon as he gets started.

Gao Yu couldn't understand Li Kui's thoughts, that is, as a general, he hadn't seen enough blood.

But the non-commissioned officers of the forbidden army, especially the low-ranking officers, could understand Li Kui's thoughts, and even unanimously supported Li Kui, that is, they understood that the kindness of any woman on the battlefield could only kill more people, and could not save even one person's life.

Nian Xi whispered to Gao Yu: "General, our spearmen are insufficient, and we can't support a few rounds of cavalry attacks. But if we can't kill and wound a large number of enemy troops, once we don't have enough foot soldiers, even if we also suffer half of the casualties of the party, then what awaits us will be the total annihilation, and no one will be spared. The brothers all know the idea of direct secret, and that's because the method of direct secret is right, dead brother...... They can only be blamed for their bad luck. ”

Gao Yu was silent, attributing life and death to luck, it was not the first time he had heard of it, but this time it would undoubtedly shock him to be unprecedentedly huge.

As he spoke, the attack of the party members had been launched, and Li Kui ordered the phalanx to retreat, clearing a new open field.

At least, with his current manpower, it is simply not enough to clean up the horses and dead bodies in front of the battlefield.

The party cavalry didn't feel any different.

The Song army still trusted the weapons that were not useful, and the musketeers stood on the edge of the muskets with torches, and the spearmen still knelt on the ground, waiting for the arrival of the cavalry.

It seemed as if everything was exactly the same as the previous engagement.

Habits are terrible, and people forget that danger is coming, or that they underestimate the unexpected.

The iron hooves snapped the earth, and although the vibrations caused by thousands of war horses were not as good as those of thousands of galloping horses, the closer they were to the Song army's formation, the greater the pressure felt by the soldiers.

"Kill!"

After sprinting close enough, the party members began to yell wildly, as if this was the only way to give them courage.

Bell, bell, bell

In the army, the gong sounded, the military flag fell, and the tripping ropes broke through the ground, shaking the smoke and dust brought out of the dirt, and the straight ropes jumped a few times.

When the party cavalry led by the party found out that something was wrong, they immediately exclaimed: "Tripping horses, retreat quickly!" ”

But it's already only a few steps away, not to mention war horses, even people can't react. Grunt, the war horse that was tripped by the horse's leg stumbled to the end, threw the knight on his back fiercely, and the moment he fell to the ground, a crossbow arrow chased after him, and with a thud, shot into the body.

Boom –

When the first musket spit out thick smoke, the sound of cannons covered the neighing of the horses and the terrified wails of the party members.

Boom Boom Boom –

The iron pellets that erupted from the muzzle of the cannon burst out of the air, with a terrible ghostly scream, harvesting all the creatures in front of the muzzle.

The blood suddenly reflected the earth, but the killing was not over, and when the cannon stopped, the crossbowmen who had been replenished from behind began to shoot across, only less than thirty paces away, and the party members were like schools of fish caught up in a big net, in the small space, jumping, scolding, and howling wolves.

All this made the commander of the party see it, and at this moment he couldn't wait to rip out all the hearts of the Song army to pay tribute to his dead subordinates.

But the cavalry's charge advantage was lost, and the cavalry, which had lost its speed, was as vulnerable to the crossbowmen as a lamb to the slaughter. Commander Xiang Xiang gritted his teeth and stared at the battlefield with vicious eyes, and ordered: "Withdraw the troops!" ”

"Report, the general has an order to order your department to clean up the stumbling ropes of the Song army." The commander saw the conspiracy of the Song army, and as a general, there was no reason why Wugutai could not see it, but he still let the herald give the most cruel order.

Filling with human lives also cracks Song Jun's tricks.

At this moment, he had forgotten the crisis of the young master's capture, but he thought that Song Jun was planning a bigger conspiracy. Song Jun's insidiousness had already given him a deep memory, but what made him even more worried was that after all, Song Jun only had a lone army, and there were not many of them, what was the reason for them to do this?

For the annihilation of the whole army?

In Wugutai's view, the performance of the Song army is already the elite of the elite, and in such an army, every soldier is trained with great hardship and huge costs. Any loss is enormous. The commander-in-chief of the Song army did not seem to have any intention of withdrawing at all, but instead stood on the battlefield, and his determination was not to retreat, and he could not let any party members leave.

Aside from the insidious conspiracy, Wugutai could not think of any reason for the Song army to do so. Unless, the chief general of the Song army is a madman.

And this conspiracy is likely to be a 50,000-strong party army on the front line.

Compared to an army of 50,000, what kind of loss is the loss of a few hundred people?

Gao Yu tiptoed and looked at the party members braving fire, shooting crossbows, cleaning up the dark piles on the ground, and said secretly: "Are the party members crazy?" Are these wooden stakes worth paying hundreds of casualties? ”

On the contrary, Li Kui's eyes revealed a few hints of approval, in his opinion, the general of the party is a gentleman, at least in this battle, showing a decisive decision to kill, if it is not for the war, Li Kui wants to run over to the general of the party and say a few words: "Brother, the lord appreciates you." ”

But on the battlefield, Li Kui had to concentrate a lot.

Regardless of casualties, the party members must have been ruthless. On the battlefield, one side is strong, and if the other side can't suppress the momentum, it will be passive in an instant, don't look at the situation of the Song army is very good. However, the Dangxiang people used 1,000 people, or even more people, to fight the infantry of the Song army, and when Li Kui had no infantry available, none of the remaining hundreds of archers could survive under the iron hooves of the cavalry.

than ruthless.

When did Li Kui climb.

He pointed at Lu Qian and said, "You pounce on it with the personal guards of the senior deputy commander!" ”

Pounce on it?

Lu Qian didn't know what Li Kui meant at all?

looked at Gao Yu stupidly.

Before Gao Yu left the capital, he recruited all the spare money in the capital to recruit the warriors in the capital. Most of the martial arts are good at kung fu, and there is only one reason why they are in the capital, waiting for an opportunity, waiting for an opportunity to be a dog for dignitaries. Gao Yu's official position is not high, at least in the capital, he belongs to the kind of small magnates who can't be lower.

The real master is disdainful of following Gao Yu.

For example, Lin Chong didn't want to see Gao Yu, Gao Yu went to invite, but they politely declined.

After all, Lin Chong's master is Zhou Tong, and after learning art and becoming a teacher, he can get an official and a half-position if he mixes a head in the forbidden army. followed Gao Yu to mix, but there was little hope.

As for Li Kui not recruiting Lin Chong, it was because Li Kui was a civil official, and he recruited so many warriors, if he was really framed by the imperial history for rebellion, it would be unclear.

It's good to let Ruan Xiaoer follow. And Ruan Xiaoer's growth can also satisfy Li Kui, Li Kui even feels that Ruan Xiaoer should be slightly stronger than Li Yun when he becomes an adult.

Lu Qian's identity is much worse, and his master's popularity in the Royal Boxing Gym is not good, so he was tempted by Gao Yu's heavy money and followed him to the northwest. He was accompanied by the guards he helped to recruit, numbering fifty people.

These people are not forbidden soldiers, they are actually domestic slaves who take money to do things, let them go to the battlefield, Lu Qian is worried that when the time comes, not only will they not be able to help, but they will do bad things. After all, working hard has become a hard-working job, and no one can get over this hurdle in their hearts!

Seeing this, Li Kui threw Guan Ri to Ruan Xiaoer, and said: "You go to suppress the formation, if anyone takes a step back, there will be no mercy!" ”

Of course, the money for selling your life can't be missing, Li Kui gave a price, which made Lu Qian breathe a sigh of relief: "You are not a forbidden army, you are doing the work of protecting the lord, and now on the battlefield, you can't come according to the rules of your family." 500 per person died in battle, and 300 per person survived. ”