Chapter 441: Proper Use of Gunpowder

On the surface, the Song army's rout and panic seemed to indicate that all the Song army's means had been exhausted, and its courage and physical strength had reached the bottom.

In fact, it is about the same, the courage has not reached the bottom, but the physical strength is really wrong.

The party cavalry was divided into three thousand troops and took turns to fight.

However, the Song army was not numerous enough and did not dare to rest, and even the physical consumption of the crossbowmen was very large.

Everything seemed to indicate that the party had the last laugh, and at the same time, it also indicated that the efforts of the Song army from the beginning did not bring any benefit to their demise. It's not just the soldiers who are running away, but the officers are also running away, and even Li Kui is running away......

After the hay pile was ignited, Li Kui didn't stay at all, and pulled Gao Yu, who was still ready to stick to the position of the main general, and began to escape.

Others running away may really be running away, but Li Kui is different.

This is a lord who is not afraid of heaven and earth, maybe in the face of tens of thousands of cavalry, it is really possible for Li Kui to escape, but in the face of the total number of party cavalry that has fallen to more than 1,000, he still has 800 people in his hands, and escaping at this time is really not in line with Li Kui's character. Apparently, he had another reason.

It's just that the party members were carried away by the low-hanging fruit.

The guards of the Wugutai surrounded him and charged, and the iron hooves rolled in, the momentum of shaking the earth like a drum, a tune that no instrument could play, coarse, but undisguised cold. Jin Ge Iron Horse, talk about this scene that Xu said.

"Renjie, slow down, I'm ......"

The sound of Gao Yu's shouts was drowned out by the loud noise of the battlefield. Fortunately, Li Kui heard it, and he didn't hear it, but he felt that the person he was carrying in his hand was a lot heavier, and when he lowered his head, he found that Gao Yu had fallen to the ground, and was dragged by Li Kui all the way for a while, Gao Yu raised his head and grinned: "I'm dying!" ”

"No, it won't."

Li Kui cut the railway, he has no confidence in Song Jun, and he has no confidence in Gao Yu, but he has confidence in the pit he dug, which is enough. After the battle to the present, the willpower and resilience shown by the Song army have impressed Li Kui, and these guys seem to be much stronger than the Huaiyang army. The Huaiyang Army was the army where Liu Baosheng was at the beginning, and more than 100 people were the shame of the forbidden army that was robbed by the bandits and surrendered without fighting, and the combat effectiveness was not as good as that of the bandits in Niubei Mountain.

And the Song army under Gao Yu was born in Beijing. It stands to reason that it will not be easy to control. What can surprise Li Kui is that although the forbidden army in Beijing is a braggart, they have performed well on the battlefield, completely subverting the setting of the invincible mouths of the capital's masters.

As soon as the two of them spoke, it was impossible to run, and the party cavalry had already entered the position of the previous defensive line of the Song army.

It's just that what makes the party members uncomfortable is that in the process of escaping, Song Jun did not forget to set fire to the hay pile.

There is more than one, it is at intervals, dot one, dot at a distance, dot one.

A row of hay piles was like a city gate, making it impossible for the party cavalry to pass through quickly.

It's not that no one has ever thought of breaking through the hay pile, after all, it's just hay, and this thing is very light, and if the horse sprints at high speed, it can easily break up the hay pile. Even a pile of spotted hay can pass quickly as long as it is fast enough to clear the way for the cavalry that follows.

But......

Is Li Kui putting a pile of hay?

Seeing one of his guards, the Ugudtai left the passage to him, and the guards chose to break through the hay pile to clear the way for the cavalry to follow.

But unfortunately, the hay pile did not move at all, but the guards of Wugutai put their heads on the hay pile, and then bounced back very sadly.

Wugutai was stunned, and his subordinates had reached out and touched the stone hidden under the forage.

Angry, his face was defeated, and he shouted almost madly: "Song Jun deceived people too much!" ”

has been bullied by Song Jun in terms of IQ, even if it is once or twice, there must always be a limit. The Song army commander was addicted to bullying people, and even ordinary forage piles had to be disguised, which made Wugutai almost collapse. And his cavalry team also had to pass through a narrow passage, and the speed slowed down suddenly, and even a large number of them were stranded near the hay pile.

In fact, each hay pile is not big, but the war horse just can't rush over, and it can't hit it.

On the battlefield, stones, civil engineering, and some obstacles are built, which is a very common number of roads in the Chinese military formation. It's like a gossip array or something, there are no obstacles, and it is difficult to completely operate the military array of tens of thousands of people by relying on soldiers to obey the command of the command of the command of the banner.

But it's rare to disguise obstacles.

Just when the party cavalry was stunned, the Song army stopped, not because they didn't want to run, but because Li Kui also built a low wall behind them, and it was impossible for them to rush out. On the surface, it doesn't seem to be very useful, and it can be cumbersome. But in case the cavalry is interspersed behind them, it can also give the Song army some precautions, and even the means to counterattack.

Wugutai was annoyed, staring at Li Kui with bloodshot eyes, as well as the Song army who was recovering from the military formation.

He found that the Song army seemed to have calculated the distance and deliberately made it impossible for the cavalry to rush.

Unless he sent someone to clean up the hay pile, but he was afraid that it would be the same result as a tripping horse rope at that time, the Song army took advantage of the dismount of the party cavalry and came to pick up the cheap. Standing on the ground, the grassland people really can't kill the Song people. This is not to say that the grassland manpower is not strong enough, and the skills of battlefield fighting are not exquisite enough, but the skills of the grassland people are all learned on war horses, but the Song people are all fighting skills practiced on flat ground. Using the disadvantages of the steppe cavalry to deal with the advantages of the Song army, the result can be imagined. Even the weapons are at a loss, there is a way that one inch is one inch long, one inch stronger, one inch shorter, and the scimitar used by the party cavalry is not the opponent of the Song army's Pu knife in infantry battles, and it will be bullied to death.

On the other side, in the valley, the Song cavalry observation post hiding in a high place came with the news, and they climbed down the slope and ran to Li Yun, shouting: "The general has an order, our department will attack." ”

Li Yun had been prepared for a long time, although he had been resting, but watching the friendly army fighting hard, he had not achieved an inch, and his heart was as uncomfortable as a fire, and finally when he arrived at the army, he immediately got up from the ground and turned over his horse. After two hours of waiting, he was tormented, and he couldn't wait to attack at this time.

The three hundred cavalry behind him also followed, and he jumped on his horse.

Compared with the infantry, the Song army has always been stricter in the training of cavalry than infantry because the number of cavalry is too small, and at the same time enjoys higher treatment. If the infantry had made a meritorious contribution from the beginning to the end of the battle, would Li Yun and the cavalry under his command still be able to hold their heads up in the future?

Li Yun turned his horse's head and shouted to his subordinates before going out into battle: "Brothers, it's time for us to go to the battlefield, although the infantry brothers have fought hard for two hours and killed countless barbarians, I'm afraid that some people are already waiting to see the jokes of our cavalry at this time." It's a shame that you are worse than the infantry! You guys are doing as well as the infantry, or a disgrace! Let the infantry see, cavalry on the battlefield is always stronger than infantry. ”

"Kill the enemy chieftain and raise the prestige of our army!"

"Kill the enemy chieftain and raise the prestige of our army!"

The three hundred cavalry followed Li Yun's war horse and crossed through the hidden valley, and as soon as they entered the battlefield, they saw the party's beheaded horses and dead enemy soldiers lying everywhere on the battlefield. At this moment, they had one thing in their minds, rushing into the party army, which was already at the end of the crossbow, and killing all sides.

And Li Kui asked his subordinates to reorganize the military formation, while staring at a few hay piles.

In fact, the retreat of the army and the reorganization of the army only happened in a very short period of time.

Compared with the party members being cheated by him again, Li Kui is of course not satisfied, he is not only ready to let the party members fall into the scheme, but more importantly, he is ready to swallow this party army in one bite, just limiting the speed of the party people's charge, which is far from enough.

But for the party general Wugutai, this is bad enough.

It's like a big meal in front of you, and you are about to start eating, but the host takes it. It's not that you don't eat, but there is an exam question, and you don't eat if your IQ is not enough.

This bad mood, Wugutai is really fed up.

Fortunately, Song Jun didn't blindly dig a pit and bullied him for not having enough IQ. In his opinion, the Song army may really be exhausted, after all, on the battlefield, the Song army held out for two hours without a good rest, especially the spearmen on the front line, and the high-load battle had almost dragged the Song army down.

At this time, it is understandable that the Song army will take out the cavalry.

But when Wugutai saw the number of cavalry of the Song army, he was laughing in his heart, at most three hundred horsemen. Is this enough for people?

It is obviously not enough, as long as you divide the same number of cavalry, you can drag the other side. Then once the Song infantry was defeated on the back, he had the strength to turn back and surround the Song army's cavalry. Compared with war horses and horsemanship, the Song army has no advantage in front of the party members. Only the Song army had better armor and more exquisite weapons, but these were not advantages for the cavalry. Instead, it became a disadvantage.

Because of the heavier burden of the war horse, it can only consume the physical strength of the war horse faster. This is not a secret at all among the steppe tribes.

That is, the Song army had few cavalry, so it used the means of arming to the teeth to maintain the battlefield survivability of the Song army's cavalry. But no matter how powerful the cavalry is, no matter how high the survivability of the battlefield is, can one fight two, or even three and four cavalrymen?

The heavy cavalry was only useful for attacking the dense infantry phalanx, and in Western Xia, although the Iron Harrier was powerful, it would not be able to defeat the light cavalry if it was to be allowed to attack it.

Because the light horse will definitely not be able to beat it at first, but it can escape, and if the burden of the war horse is lighter, it can drag the iron harrier to death.

But the Iron Harrier is placed on the Great Song infantry phalanx, which is indeed very useful.

Wugutai was about to divide his men and intercept the cavalry of the Song army, when the hay that stopped between them exploded, and stones the size of fists, melons, and even heads flew on the battlefield. The impact of the explosion suddenly tore apart the army of the party members like tearing rags, and the scene of people turning over on their backs suddenly made Wugutai frightened and overwhelmed.

With the explosion as the center, the flying stones hit the people and horses like stones on rotten dead wood, and they were knocked to the ground before they could react.

Iron pills the size of fingernails and stones the size of red dates may hit people, but they are just painful injuries. It hurts, but most of it doesn't hurt.

But when a fist-sized stone, even bigger than such a stone, and faster than such a stone, a person is like a clay kneading, and it can kill a person in an instant. Li Kui ran away with Song Jun before, just to avoid the explosion range of the explosives, but the problem is that he doesn't know how big the shock wave will be. You can only run a little longer distance.

The violent explosions became more and more urgent every time, and the party members were not allowed to react at all, and they were enveloped in clouds of explosion smoke that rose into the sky. Such a change scared away the last bit of courage of the party members.

"The devil, it's the devil!"

There was not one person who shouted such words, but one passed on two, and two passed on four, and when the rout could no longer be stopped, the party members could no longer endure the torment on the battlefield. They just wanted to go back, to their tents at home, to lie down in the closest place to the fire, and to get a good night's sleep.

Go to his war.

Anyone who prevents them from returning home is an enemy and will not die well.

The previous rout of the Song army was just to avoid the explosion, but the rout of the party was a real rout. They no longer have the courage to face the war that continues.

Everyone rushed towards the way they came.

All this fell in Gao Yu's eyes, it was incredible. Although the explosion was very sudden, anyone who was intimidated by this level of change would most likely have trouble with their scalp and chills down their spine. Although the explosion was strong, the gunpowder buried in the pile of stones by Li Kui was not enough to involve all the party cavalry.

There was even a bag of explosives that didn't explode at all, but as if it were a stuffy fart, emitting a strong sulfur-smelling smoke.

At most, only two or three hundred people were wounded, but more than a thousand party cavalry collapsed and even the battlefield was defeated. This makes Gao Yu feel inexplicable about why he lost because his opponent was very strong.

On the contrary, his subordinate Nian Xi told Gao Yu very experienced: "General, things on the battlefield are like this, one moment the morale is high, and the next moment the whole line may be defeated." Although the strategy of Lord Zhimi killed and injured a limited number of party members, when the courage of the party members was exhausted, hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of people were defeated. ”

"...... of the year"

"Brother Nian, don't say it, it's important to hunt down and kill the party's dog."

There are words in Nian Xi's words, perhaps only those who have experienced it know that the battlefield rout is terrible. Gao Yu also stared at Nian Xi's back, thoughtfully, it seems that his subordinate is also a person with a story.

But at this time, it is not the time to study the stories of his subordinates at all, but the time to end this damn war.

1,000 people, a little more, but less than 1,500 troops, defeated the party's cavalry of 3,000 in the field, Gao Yu found that his military career was on the road to the peak from the beginning. As long as the final battle is not flawed, he will be able to share most of the credit for this great victory. As for Li Kui?

This product still has to be a county lieutenant!

However, Gao Yu felt that he could have more contact with Li Kui at that time, and even stationed his main force in Yangquan County. If there are two more big victories like this, half of my dream of becoming a captain will be realized.

Gao Yu rode on the horse and smirked, Lu Qian beside him really couldn't stand it anymore, and shouted in his ear: "General, general"!

Gao Yu wiped the corner of his mouth, turned his head and glared at Lu Qian, this thing is too eyeless, don't you see that you are daydreaming?

Lu Qian pointed to Li Kui's back and said helplessly to Gao Yu: "General, Li Zhimi has caught up, should we also follow!" ”

"Kill the party and thieves! What are you still doing stupidly? Gao Yu looked at the party members who were panicking, where is this person? This is a moving official seal! Where could he bear it, he rushed up with a horse, and shouted at Li Kui's back: "Renjie, leave some for me!" ”