Among the Praetorian Guards, Ling Zhen may be the general with the most straightforward personality.

He covered his helmet with one hand, trotted in front of Li Kui, knelt down on one knee and said, "Great commander, Ling Zhen listens to the military order of the great marshal!" ”

"Get up!"

Li Kui pointed to Liao Jun and asked Ling Zhen, asking, "Do you see the doorway?" ”

Ling Zhenfan stared for a while, then glanced at it with a clairvoyant mirror, and immediately said angrily like a cannon that exploded on the spot: "Dashuai, Liao Dog is shameless, he actually learns from us." ”

This is true, but Li Kui did not have any problems with the deployment of the Liao army.

After all, the Glaive Array, and the change of the Glaive Array are not Li Kui's originality. Speaking of which, he and Brother Xiao Chang both learned the formation from the book of war, and they both learned it from a teacher, and this teacher is called Wu Qi.

If the founder of the Glaive Array, the master of the art of war, Wu Qi, uses this array. I'm afraid that there is no need for Li Kui to be like this, with a cannon and a musket, he can easily kill the Liao army.

It's a pity that Li Kui doesn't have such great ability.

He said for the first time that our Great Song people have a big belly, and we don't care about the shamelessness of the Liao people. patted Ling Zhen on the shoulder and said, "Do you see the intentions of the Liao army?" ”

"Marshal, they didn't use cavalry. In this way, the speed must be very slow, if we use artillery against the large vehicles of the Liao army, we should be able to destroy these large vehicles, the only problem is that the rate of fire of the artillery is slow, which may make some of the large vehicles rush to the front of the formation. ”

It doesn't matter if some of them rush over, there are cavalry in this formation, and it should be possible to plug the gap.

He also wanted to have rapid-fire cannons to send all the Liao dogs to the western sky. It's a pity that the rear-loading shell is enough for him to ponder for a while, not to mention whether it is still a front-loading shell now?

Li Kui didn't care about the slow speed of the artillery, he only needed a guarantee from Ling Zhen: "Can you kill half of the cart?" ”

"That's no problem, don't worry, if you can't kill half of the cart, you cut off my head and kick it as a ball."

Ling Zhen naturally had this confidence, and the artillery was all his trained soldiers. Not to mention the means of aiming, he dared to say that he was second in the whole army, and no one dared to call it first.

It's just that his disciples and grandchildren may not have his accurate head and waste a lot of shells.

Ling Zhen immediately returned to his command position and immediately ordered the whole army: "Change the solid bullet!" ”

Shotshots are effective against infantry and light cavalry with little defense, but in the face of a large cart covered with cowhide and amazing defensive power, it is not painful to hit, and it is basically a waste of shells.

Open fire –

Xiao Changge was worried that the next attack would bring him huge trouble, and his eyes were staring at the battlefield. Seeing the formation of the Song army's artillery firing, he was really taken aback. I was afraid that the cart he had prepared with great difficulty would be blown up by a round of artillery given by the Song army. But as a result, only a few large cars were shattered, and the wheels and boards rolled to the ground.

Basically, it doesn't work.

But the other big cars are all fine, and although some of them don't move, they seem to be able to work if they are repaired.

This gave Brother Xiao Chang a lot of confidence, and he grabbed the horsewhip with his hand hard, and breathed a sigh of relief: "Beat the drum to stimulate morale"!

"Brother Xiao, why don't you use cavalry?"

"The cavalry is too big, and if the cavalry hides behind the cart, it loses all its advantages. The cavalry that cannot rush up can only be a live target on the battlefield. ”

Ling Zhen personally operated the cannon, selected a three-pound small cannon, and hit the cart pushed by the Liao army with one shot, and found that the shell hit the center of the cart and did not damage the cart. It only stopped the movement of the cart, and then the cart was still pushed.

At this moment, even Ling Zhen became nervous, and scolded and said, "Insidious Liao dog, the car is actually filled with soil." No wonder it's so slow. ”

Although the Praetorian Guard was equipped with large-caliber ten-pound guns, the weight of that kind of cannon was very heavy, and it was impossible to move it quickly. Even reloading on the battlefield is troublesome.

It's amazing, but it's not practical.

In order to be able to quickly transfer on the battlefield, Li Kui did not carry this heavy artillery. Most of the artillery that accompanied the army was a small cannon with a three-pound shell.

The largest caliber is no more than a six-pound gun.

Such a gun can be easily loaded and the speed is guaranteed.

However, the lethality of the projectiles of a three-pound cannon is very powerful for living beings, but when it encounters a cart loaded with thousands of pounds of sand, this kind of artillery is a little difficult to parry.

Ling Zhen noticed that something was wrong, and immediately ordered all the shelling to stop, and then ran in front of a six-pound cannon.

The so-called six-pound cannon means that the weight of the solid shell is six catties.

The amount of gunpowder was three times that of a three-pound gun.

This is the result of accurate experiments, and if it is doubled, the speed at which the shells are fired cannot be compared with that of the three-pound gun.

When it was ready, Ling Zhen lit the fuse, and the cannon let out a loud roar, and the entire cannon jumped up along with the gun carriage, and then fell. Ling Zhen raised the clairvoyant mirror and stared at the target opposite.

It was like a broken jar with dry ash on the ground, and the Liao army cart that was hit was suddenly torn apart.

This scene seemed to verify Ling Zhen's guess, making him see it in his eyes, but he was anxious in his heart.

"Don't look at it, the Liao people have piled up the cart with dirt, and the cowhide skin in front is just a trick."

"It's hateful, the Liao people are so insidious!"

"This has nothing to do with insidiousness, you live and die on the battlefield, if it is useful, you will use it. At the moment, the Liao's method seems to be working, but the sacrifice is also very large. They abandoned the best tactics of the Liao in warfare and turned to this tactic, which they were not accustomed to. Outwardly, our artillery is not very effective, but you see how fast they ......"

Li Kui noticed something strange and immediately rode to Ling Zhen's artillery position.

And the moment Ling Zhen saw Li Kui, his face was full of shame, he had just said a big thing. Unexpectedly, Li Kui not only did not punish him, but comforted him with words.

Ling Zhen knew very well that on the battlefield, it was changing rapidly, and he couldn't be distracted.

As a commander, he had to put his heart and soul into it. After observing the battlefield, he decisively ordered: "Shoot with six-pound guns, and the other artillery will withdraw from the gun position." ”

"Found a problem?"

It's a good thing that subordinates are spiritual. Li Kui naturally had no reason to be angry, even if Ling Zhen did not ask for his own opinion when he gave the order.

On the contrary, after Ling Zhen responded, he was ashamed of Li Kui and said: "Dashuai, the lowly position has disappointed Dashuai." ”

"Out of the way, tell me what you think."

"Although the Liao army's method of loading earth in large carts has curbed the superiority of our army's artillery. But the last general found a weakness in the Liao army, which may be used by our army. ”

"Oh!"

Li Kuinu said: "Let's talk about it! ”

"Marshal, I don't know if you have noticed, the Liao army pushes the cart much slower than our army. On the one hand, it's because the cart may have a lot of dirt on it. In addition, the soldiers of the Liao army are not used to using people to push carts, and the speed is very slow. At the same time, Dashuai, this is an opportunity. ”

Ling Zhen suddenly raised his tone: "It's the machine that the Liao army sent to our mouths. ”

"You see that?"

Facing Li Kui's inquiry, Ling Zhen was a little nervous. He belongs to Yang Zhi's generals, and his official position is much shorter than Yang Zhi, but Li Kui has no good face for Yang Zhi, especially on the battlefield. Ling Zhen said in a low voice: "Dashuai, the last general will find that the Liao people are unprofessional in pushing the cart. ”

Well, Li Kui admitted, he was disappointed.

Could it be that the Praetorian Guard can be invincible if they are professional in pushing carts?

That's right, Li Kui favored the Glaive Array. Because this formation is a formation that can be perfectly combined with firearms. The combination of long and close attacks is very combined, and there is also the configuration of cavalry. It is rare to see a formation that can be perfectly combined with modern firearms. And the arrangement of the car formation of the Glaive Formation is the essence of the formation.

Ling Zhen saw the disappointment in Li Kui's eyes for the first time, and hurriedly explained: "Great marshal, it's not that the Liao army is unprofessional in pushing the cart, and the last general didn't make it clear before, but that the Liao army's cart has limited the advantage of the Liao cavalry's charge and kill, but instead uses tactics that are not good at fighting against our army. Only by making use of our strengths and avoiding our weaknesses can we win on the battlefield. Now that the Liao army is promoting its shortcomings and avoiding its strengths, it will inevitably be restrained everywhere. ”

"Keep talking!"

"It seems that the Liao army's vehicle formation has made our artillery lose its target, but in the same way, the Liao army's vehicle formation hinders the attack of the Liao cavalry. If it is compared to the infantry, our infantry of the Great Song Dynasty is not a little stronger than the Liao army. ”

"Not bad. What will you choose next? ”

"The grenadiers approached, the foot soldiers raided, let the musketeers move forward, and turn the Liao people's chariot formation into ours."

Li Kui hadn't met such a spiritual subordinate for a long time, but there were a lot of people who went up as soon as he fought. Speaking of which, Gao Yu is the most resourceful existence in Li Kui's commanding career. And the others are much worse, Lu Da, Ruan Xiaoer, Yang Zhi, Li Yun, etc., the force value is not much higher than Ling Zhen, but as a general, he has obvious flaws.

If you can't fight it, you have to fight, and if you have fought it, you have to fight it even more, and the barbaric combat style is rampant.

Li Yun is a little better, after Luda drank, this product is estimated to have one thought: Lao Tzu is the best in the world!

Li Kui didn't fight a battle, although every time he seemed reckless, he was a meaningful command.

"Order, the cavalry rushed to the Liao army's main formation."

"The grenadiers came out of formation, and after approaching the Liao army, they immediately dropped bombs."

"Advance with the drums of the musketeers!"

……

After giving orders one by one, Ling Zhen was frustrated to find that Li Kui had thought much more than him.

In particular, the surprise attack of the cavalry, for the Liao army, was to completely cut off the connection between the Liao army's archers and cavalry, and to create a battlefield opportunity for the Praetorian Guards to fight more and fight less and the weak with the strong.

The changes in the Song army made Xiao Changge, the commander of the Liao army standing on a high place, see it.

Just as he was pondering what the Song army's intentions were, Yelu Chen's slave was surprised to find that the Song army's cavalry had moved.

He couldn't help but look at Brother Xiao Chang, who was still pensive, and couldn't help but exclaim: "Manager Xiao, the opportunity has come." ”

Brother Xiao Chang smiled bitterly: "If the Tielin Army is here, maybe it can keep the cavalry of the Song Army." But the Tielin Army is gone, I'm afraid it's not easy. Even if it was not easy to say in his mouth, Brother Xiao Chang still gave an order to the general of the Pi Room Army: "The left army intercepts and leaves the cavalry of the Song army to me." ”

"The last general will obey the order!"

Before the infantry of the two sides could make contact, the cavalry of both sides fought together in a shock posture.

It seems that the steel city wall is loaded with flesh and blood, and no matter how strong the leather room army is, it will not be a threat to Li Yun's heavy cavalry.

But for the Song army, the biggest casualties in this battle of the north began to appear.

Even if the leather chamber army is a light cavalry, it is always able to inflict a lot of losses on the iron cavalry of the Feilian army with the determination to die on the premise of not wanting to die. Of course, the price paid by the Leather Chamber Army was even greater.

Between the two sides fierce fighting.

The Song army marched to the beat of the drum.

But after a short walk, there were crossbowmen who measured the distance between the two sides with the range of their bows and arrows.

After the feather arrow is fired, as long as it does not reach the edge of the Liao army's chariot array, it will continue to advance. As soon as you get close to the Liao army's chariot formation, stop the march immediately. This seems to be to shorten the distance between the Song and Liao sides, and they deliberately stood outside the threat of the Liao army's bow and arrow.

What made the Liao army wonder was that in the main formation of the Song State, there was a group of foot soldiers with a few 'palm thunder' wrapped in their chests, biting fire folds in their mouths, and coming towards the Liao army. There were also two or three protective foot soldiers on the side, holding shields to help cover them.

In this regard, the Liao army was helpless.

On the battlefield, the means of killing and killing of archers are mainly straddle and projectile.

Flat shooting had little effect, and only the archers in the first row had a chance.

For a battlefield where tens of thousands of people are fighting, the real killer move of the archer phalanx is projectile, a total of 10,000 archers phalanx, with a specific elevation angle, can instantly cover a battlefield area as large as the archer phalanx. If the archers are well trained, 100,000, or even 200,000, or even more arrows can be dropped in this area in the shortest possible time......

This indiscriminate attack can instantly clear a death zone on the battlefield.

But...... The grenadiers of the Song army, threes, threes, twos, projectiles, right?

Not to mention the waste of arrows, archers generally only have two pots of arrows, which is almost forty feathered arrows. Archers who have exhausted their arrows can bully even the weakest infantry on the battlefield at will.

can let these weird Song troops run to the front of the battle, and they are very responsive.

The commander of the Liao army immediately ordered: "Rush out and clean up these Song people." ”

Before the Liao people were ready to rush out of the back of the cart, these seemingly strange Song troops launched an attack.

One by one, the smoking grenades fell behind the cart, and a series of explosions made the Liao army hiding behind the cart chaotic. The angry general of the Liao army immediately ordered: "Archers straddle fire!" ”

The archers who had been completely disrupted in their deployment, even if they were still at the mercy of their superiors, had greatly reduced the threat they posed.

Seeing that the time had come, Yang Zhi immediately ordered the whole army to raid.

Musketeers are very expensive, but on the battlefield, they can't compete for victory or defeat.

Musketeers were constantly being hit by arrows from the air, but more musketeers were already approaching the Liao.

When the distance between the Liao army and the Song army was only about 20 meters, this distance, even if it was hiding behind the cart, the Liao army could not hide too tightly. The commanders of the Song army all shouted in unison: "Free fire!" ”

Bang bang bang

After a burst of bean-like shooting, the Liao army fell in large pieces.

After a round of shooting, the Liao army was surprised to find that the Song army pulled out a short blade in the shape of a hand knife more than a foot long from his waist. Don't forget, the Liao army is all light cavalry, and turning into archers is just not riding.

But in fact, they also have war knives, which are much longer than those of the Song army.

Just as the Liao army threw away their bows and arrows and drew their swords, even the general of the Liao army was stunned.

"Get on the bayonet!"

"Assassination!"

The one-foot-long short knife, after being put on the barrel of the musket, suddenly turned into a short spear more than six feet long, which was longer than that of ordinary people. The Liao soldiers looked down at the two-foot-long scimitar in their hands, scolded angrily, turned around and stepped into the Cairo lap, and went to look for their war horses—