Since the troops fled in rout, Li Renyi could not see the corpses with his own eyes, so he could only guess what the situation was based on the soldiers' descriptions.

After listening, Ding Zhongyi said: "In future battles, the army will not be able to lead the army to rush and kill, and must hide in the formation to command, otherwise it will inevitably become the target of the public." ”

"Not bad." Li Renyi nodded.

Ding Zhongyi also said: "We have not encountered the divine cannon mentioned in the letter for help. These Han soldiers want to lure us into investing more troops and make up our minds to eat all of our army. ”

Li Renyi asked: "Knowing this, can we withdraw our troops?" The King of Jin has already gone around to the south, and once we retreat here, the King of Jin will become a lone army to go deeper. He and the Southern Military Division can't be lost, and the King of Jin can't be ignored. The stakes are too big for you and me to afford. ”

"Do you know that there is a danger of annihilation, and you still have to hit your head forward?" Ding Zhongyi looked a little anxious.

Li Renyi said: "I am the main general, and you are the prison army. If you are willing to take responsibility, I will withdraw. ”

These are all angry words, Ding Zhongyi, a Han person, can't afford this kind of responsibility at all.

Ding Zhongyi said: "Wait for the news of the surprise attack." ”

They sent 3,000 men to enter from a ravine in the north, and crossed the mountains into another river valley, which could go around the rear of the Ming army for several miles.

On that day, they retreated and encamped, and did not attack again.

In the middle of the night, the surprise attack army returned in disgrace.

There were not many Ming troops defending that trail, only a thousand people, and there were no firearms. However, with the help of favorable terrain, the Western Xia soldiers who made a detour and attacked fled in disarray.

The first battle was lost, the surprise attack was ineffective, and Li Renyi was completely blind.

It's not that he is incompetent in commanding troops, but he has never fought this kind of battle, and he doesn't know how to deal with it at all.

And the terrain is disgusting!

After dawn, Li Renyi convened a meeting of the generals and asked everyone to brainstorm and discuss countermeasures.

A few generals said that they should retreat, and most of the generals were clamoring to attack.

As for how to attack, no one can say the specific tactics.

Ding Zhongyi suddenly said: "The river channel near the left is very narrow, can we build an embankment to store water, and then open the embankment to flood the enemy troops downstream?" ”

Li Renyi shook his head: "If you can't store much water, it is estimated that you won't be able to drown your waist, and at most you will go ashore and wet the enemy's legs." Moreover, if the embankment is built upstream, the water level in the downstream drops sharply, and the enemy army will definitely be able to guess the strategy. ”

"Then camp still, delay with the enemy army, and wait for the king of Jin to launch in the south." Ding Zhongyi said.

Li Renyi asked: "What should I do with the Southern Military Division?" ”

Ding Zhongyi guessed: "Most of the Henan Military Division is gone, otherwise I wouldn't sit back and watch the Han divide troops here." ”

Li Renyi thought hard, but he really listened to the advice and retreated in the camp and did not come out again.

This made Yang Zhi extremely uncomfortable, he had already boiled the pot and put oil, ready to fry a good dish, but the dish did not want to be poured into the pot.

This Western Xia army of more than 60,000 people suffered casualties and more than 4,000 prisoners in the first battle, and the deputy commander was also killed in a daze.

They were so scared!

Now that he is guarding the camp and not coming out, Yang Zhi is really not easy to attack. He had to leave people to defend the city, and he only brought more than 12,000 soldiers over, could he go and storm the enemy camp with nearly 60,000 men left?

Once they take the initiative to attack, not only will their terrain advantage be gone, but they will also become the enemy army to occupy favorable terrain.

"Yes," Li Jinyi said, "the most open place upstream, the river valley is only more than two miles wide, much narrower than downstream." Even if our army only has 10,000 men, it can line up and block the river valley. And what's the use of having more enemy soldiers? Will they be able to fully unfold? The extra soldiers either waited stupidly in the rear, or climbed the hills on both sides to shoot arrows. Our army also sent troops to capture the hill, so that the enemy troops on both sides could not go around, and the rest was to storm the enemy camp! ”

With Yang Zhi's character, he would not easily fight like this, but there were tens of thousands of Western Xia troops behind him, forcing him to fight hard if he didn't fight.

"Then storm the enemy camp!"

Immediately the whole army crossed the river and moved forward, and after approaching the enemy camp, the main army lined up in the valley, each sending 2,000 troops to occupy the hills on both sides, and more than 1,000 musketeers also followed them to attack the mountains.

These hills are not steep, and the reason why it is impossible to march is because there is no end to the rolling hills.

During the Ming and Qing dynasties, the population exploded, and even villages were formed in the low places between the mountains.

When the Ming army attacked the mountain, it was very scattered, with the mandarin duck squad as a unit, plus a musketeer to follow, and a group of thirteen people scattered and climbed up.

The rocks were constantly pushed down the mountain, but there were no casualties, and the unpolished irregular stones did not roll quickly on the not steep slopes.

Climb halfway up the mountain, and arrows rain down on the top of the mountain.

There were a lot of troops on the Western Xia side, and they couldn't be deployed in the valley anyway, so they were simply transferred to the mountains to defend in large numbers, and the Ming army really couldn't attack it for a while and a half.

"Array forward!"

Yang Zhi did not expect to take down the mountain, as long as the enemy did not flank the main force from there.

Thousands of troops lined up horizontally, filling the valley to its fullest, with only a few passages left in between.

The tiger squat artillery and ammunition were also carried away, slowly advancing, getting closer and closer to the enemy camp.

Due to the rush of time, the enemy camp has not dug trenches or piled up earth barriers, and only some wooden fences are used as walls to protect it.

About a hundred paces away, the whole army stopped.

Forty tiger cannons were brought to the front of the battle, first stuffed with a fist-sized iron bullet, and then loaded with a shotgun the size of a pigeon's egg. This method of reloading is farther than using all shotguns.

The valley is about 1,400 meters wide, and the river flows against the mountains on the west side.

The enemy camp blocked the river valley, countless enemies stood behind the wooden fence, and not a single general could see it, even the low-level officers deliberately stood behind the small soldiers.

These Western Xia generals finally did not dare to stand in front anymore.

Deng Xia, the commander of the artillery, studied with Zhu Guoxiang for several years. At this time, the distance is measured with a measuring ruler and the firing angle of the tiger squat cannon is adjusted, and the specific method is to use analytical geometry to measure the parabolic landing point.

"Try the gun!"

"Boom, boom, boom!"

The distance of more than 100 steps, only about 200 meters, a small number of fist-sized iron bullets flew out mixed with countless shotguns.

The Western Xia soldiers behind the wooden fence watched the projectiles flying in the sky, and then there were screams one after another.

Deng Xia held the binoculars to observe, and ordered: "Half a scale forward from the cannon leg!" ”

The Tiger Squat Cannon, a small cannon that can move quickly, naturally does not have a too precise angle adjustment device.

It is just a cannon barrel, and the front end is supported by the cannon legs, like an animal squatting on the ground. If you haven't seen a tiger squat, a dog squat has always seen it, that is, the hind legs are folded and sit down, and the front legs are stretched out and stepped on the ground.

The collar of the leg is moved forward, i.e. the barrel angle is adjusted downward.

The second salvo after adjusting the angle was obviously more accurate, and the wooden fence of the Xixia camp fell down in rows, and the Xixia soldiers behind the wooden fence were also hit by shotguns.

Seeing that the Ming army was reloaded again, the Western Xia soldiers who were still alive turned around and fled, and the supervising team couldn't stop them at all.

There was a simple high platform on the south side of the camp, and Li Renyi stood on the platform, witnessing what had just happened.

The two armies were still out of range of ordinary bows and arrows, and only a few archers who could hold strong bows could shoot that far. But what kind of thunderbolt cannon, it can really hit!

The third salvo came soon, and there were always some places that were not greeted, so I adjusted left and right a little.

After another round of shelling, finally no enemy dared to stand at the wooden fence.

However, after seeing that the Western Xia soldiers who held the wooden fence broke and fled, the Ming army did not take advantage of the victory to pursue, but the whole army slowly advanced again.

The march stopped for some distance, and the tiger squat cannon was placed on the ground again.

This is intended to be a large array of infantry plus artillery bombardment, all the way to the flat!

At this moment, the infantry formation had passed the top of the contentious mountain, and there were a large number of Western Xia soldiers in the mountains on both sides.

Ding Zhongyi said anxiously: "These Ming army's divine cannons, like the Song army's thunderbolt cannons, need time to reload the cannons. They could not be allowed to fight, and after this artillery fire, the cavalry was ordered to charge from the front, and the soldiers on the hills on both sides also rushed down to flank the attack! The cavalry was divided into three teams, and if the first and second teams were hit by the guns, the third team continued to charge. ”

It's easy to say, but it's a bit confusing to execute.

A large number of Western Xia infantry automatically retreated, and did not obey military orders very much, blocking some of the routes for sending troops.

The Western Xia cavalry slashed and killed their infantry all the way, and only then did they open up the passage for troops.

The cavalry was also afraid of artillery and did not dare to get too close.

By the time these cavalry rushed over, the Tiger Squat Cannon had already been reloaded, and the first group of cavalry fell nearly half in the charge. Moreover, the trajectory of the shotgun was elusive, and the second wave of cavalry that followed was also affected by stray bullets.

The corpses of men and horses that fell made the cavalry rushing from the rear slightly slow down.

The gunners retreated and hid in the middle of the infantry.

The rest of the cavalry finally rushed to the front of the Ming army, and they came to destroy the artillery, just like the cavalry went out of the city to destroy the siege equipment.

These people turned over and dismounted, drew their swords and slashed the barrels of cannons, and some tried to ignite them with torches.

Until now, the main generals of Western Xia still don't know that this thing is not made of wood at all!

"Dangdang, dang!"

The sound of iron weapons clashing kept coming, and those Western Xia cavalrymen who were wielding swords were instantly stunned.

Ferric?

The rattan player threw his javelin, and the squad leader shot an arrow and beckoned to the cavalry. The armored riders may not be wounded but not killed, but the horses they stopped in place fell one after another, and some of the wounded horses rushed in all directions.

If it weren't for the Western Xia soldiers on the hills on both sides, Yang Zhidu ordered the infantry to charge.

The main force of the Ming army quickly changed formations, there was a river blocking it on the west side, and there was no need to worry, but on the east side, it was a formation to engage the enemy who was descending the mountain.

These Western Xia soldiers rushed down the rugged hillside, and there was no formation at all, but they had to face the Ming army's large array.

As the Ming army adjusted its formation, a group of soldiers came out from the position to the west to attack the cavalry that stopped to destroy the artillery, and the Western Xia cavalry, whose horses were not dead, fled.

Subsequently, the Western Xia troops who went down the mountain to attack were also defeated by the Ming army.

"Catch up and take the hill!"

Li Jinyi, who was in charge of the front command, immediately seized this opportunity, divided his troops to chase down those routed soldiers up the mountain, and took advantage of the situation to occupy the mountain.

Then he went south from this hill to kill the enemy army on the other hill with the troops who had attacked the mountain before, and flanked the enemy army on the other hill from the north and south.

"Dutong, those cannons are made of iron, they really can't be destroyed!"

The cavalry who fled back wept and mourned one by one.

Li Renyi looked blankly at the Ming army in the distance, and muttered: "How to make a cannon made of iron?" ”

Ding Zhongyi asked, "The torsion bar is also made of iron?" If you cut off the torsion bar, you won't be able to shoot a cannon. ”

The cavalry replied: "There is no twisting bar." It's just a big iron pipe, and there are a few hoops on the outside of the iron pipe, and there are two legs in front of the iron pipe. ”

Bands?

And two legs?

Ding Zhongyi said in a daze: "Could it be some kind of spirit living thing?" ”

(End of chapter)