After riding a few steps forward, Ye Qian Hongguang turned his head and looked at the north wall of Dagou again, and asked the messenger next to him: "What is the name of the general of the Dagou Song Army?" "An officer of the Xi Army, we
I didn’t pay attention before, there is no intelligence!” Ye Qi Hongguang sighed and asked: “If the Song army in the city leaves the city to fight with us in the field, what will be the result of the battle?” The recruiter gritted his teeth and said: “We, the Liao Kingdom,
The fighting skills of the warriors are far superior to those of the Song army, let alone this miscellaneous army. If they fight head-on, the Song army will be overwhelmed by our Liao warriors as soon as they engage in battle!" After a pause, the recruiter hesitated and said: "It's just this army.
The army's crossbows are too strong. Now that our army has suffered a new defeat, its morale has been dampened. I don't know if it can charge forward. It is very possible that it will be defeated by cannons and cannons on the way. The outcome is unpredictable."
Ye Qi Hongguang nodded and took a breath. The strength of this Dagou Song Army was really shocking. Now even in the field battle where the Daliao Army is best, Ye Qi Hongguang is not confident of winning. Back to
In the camp, Ye Qian Hongguang had no intention of staying in Dagou anymore, and immediately encouraged the broken troops to break camp and head north. The losses suffered by the northern expedition were too heavy, and the warriors no longer had the intention to set off, so it was not suitable to fight again at this time.
The best thing to do is to stay in the north with peace of mind and safely send the looted people and materials back to Youzhou.
Although nearly 4,000 people were lost, with the people of the Song Dynasty as slaves, the vitality of the Northern Recruitment Envoys could slowly recover. This trip to the border of the Song Dynasty was still a good deal. With the people of the Song Dynasty as slaves, yeah
Qian Hongguang's team slowly left Dagou and headed for Yingzhou. The Khitan army escorted these crying Song people, and the Khitan army moved very slowly. These Song slaves were already malnourished and weak, so they were killed by the Khitan soldiers at this time.
They were escorted one foot deep and one foot shallow, and several people would fall every mile they walked.
For those fallen Song slaves, the Khitan soldiers would kill them a few more times to make sure they were dead before throwing them on the road. However, Ye Qi Hongguang was not afraid of encountering the Song army if he marched too slowly. This time the Khitan army
They won every battle after entering the pass. Except for the battle at Dagou, the Khitan army was invincible and attacked. Ye Qi Hongguang did not believe that any Song army would dare to challenge him.
Even if he encounters 10,000 Song troops, even if he relies on the half-impaired Northern Recruitment Envoy, Yeli Hongguang is confident that he will defeat the enemy. After all, he still has 400 elite Xi army troops and 900 elite horse armors.
, as soon as these elite cavalry charge forward, ten thousand Song troops will be overwhelmed. And the combat effectiveness of the six thousand auxiliary soldiers exceeds that of the average Song army.
The various soldiers of the Song Dynasty were always vulnerable. Ye Qian Hongguang did not believe that the Song army near Cangzhou dared to challenge him.
Ye Qi Hongguang knew the other Song troops, but underestimated the courage of the Dagou Song army. Ye Qi Hongguang walked ten miles north, and suddenly there was a cloud of smoke and dust behind him, and fifty vests who were scouting the enemy's situation suddenly ran back. The leader
Zhuanda jumped off his horse, half-kneeling on the ground, and said loudly:
"Sir, the Song army in the ditch has come out!" Yang Peng saw the layout of the Khitan army through the telescope. He responded tit-for-tat and arranged the vanguard group to the west wing. One hundred and twenty powerful crossbows were placed on the far west side.
Arrange the Polu regiment on the east wing, and place one hundred and thirty strong crossbows on the easternmost side. After the strong crossbow vehicle is equipped with bearings, its maneuverability has been greatly improved, and it can run faster than the infantry when pulled by a horse.
, the layout was quickly completed. In order to cope with the cavalry rushing into the formation, Yang Peng chose a relatively thick four-row formation and let the infantry fire in four stages.
After chasing the Khitan army two miles away, Yang Peng asked the riflemen to load bullets, unload the crossbow from the crossbow cart, load the bow and arrow and push it away, getting closer and closer to the eight thousand Khitan army that came out. Yang Peng watched in the telescope
Be careful: although the Khitan army had just suffered a defeat, it was still very impressive. Especially the elite 900 horse armor and 400 Baixi army were very ambitious. They rode on their horses and howled loudly, inspiring other auxiliary soldiers.
This was a tough battle. Amidst the billowing smoke and dust, the two armies gradually came closer. At 400 meters, 300 meters, and 200 meters, the Khitan army began to charge at a faster speed. More than a thousand cavalry and more than 6,000 infantry rushed towards the Tiger Regiment.
It seemed like they were shaking slightly.
The battle begins. "Fire!"
Yang Peng gave a loud order, the Chinese army's horn sounded, and 3,700 riflemen began to shoot at the enemy's Chinese army. A thousand riflemen in the first row took aim at the target and pressed the trigger. Amidst the crackling gunfire, a
A sheet of white mist emerged, and a thousand rounds of bullets were like a heavy rain, attacking like the Tatar army.
The soldiers in Tianjing New City have undergone long-term training and have very good accuracy. They are considered experienced veterans. In addition, the accuracy of the flintlock rifles is very good, and the soldiers have a high hit rate at 200 meters. Not to mention the formation of the Khitan army is so
It was so dense that many missed bullets also hit other Khitan soldiers beside and behind them - six hundred Khitan soldiers were hit by one shot.
Bullets are like death to these unarmored followers and auxiliary soldiers. The thin clothing of the Khitan army was ripped open by the bullets like pieces of paper, and the fragile skin was pierced mercilessly by the bullets. The bullets whirled and spun.
Then, like the movement of a blender, it rushed into the bodies of the Khitan soldiers, spinning the organs they encountered into a piece of pulp.
More than 200 followers and more than 300 auxiliary soldiers vomited blood and fell to the ground. A "Zhuanda" who was rushing to command was howling in the team to boost morale, but was suddenly hit by a bullet in the left side.
Face. The high-speed rotating mini bullet shattered half of his head in an instant, and the brains and blood splashed out, spraying all over the floor. He fell into a pool of blood with a thud, and the Khitan army next to him was heartbroken.
trembling.
The Khitan army followers and auxiliary soldiers who were not hit by bullets looked at the rows of fallen soldiers in front of them, and remembered the massacre in the morning. Their faces turned pale and they slowed down their charge. But after only four seconds, the third
The second salvo came. There was another crackling sound of gunfire, and another piece of white smoke emerged from the Tiger and Ben regiment's position. The smell of saltpeter became stronger and stronger in the air. The distance was 175 meters.
Another thousand bullets were fired at the center of the Khitan army.
More than 600 Khitan soldiers were hit, and their bodies suddenly froze. Blood spattered on the wounds of the bullets. The wounds caused by the rotating bullets were not small, and the area was at least ten times the cross-section of the projectiles. They sounded trumpets on the human body.
The wound is large on the outside but small on the inside. Sometimes lead bullets will split when breaking through the human body, which makes the wound larger and makes it even more impossible to remove the projectile after the war.
The Khitan soldiers and auxiliary soldiers who were hit screamed and fell to the ground. A team of a thousand men rushed into the auxiliary soldiers. They were supposed to be holding the line, but were suddenly hit in the right shoulder by a bullet.
He wore three layers of heavy armor, but the joints of his shoulders were only protected by a layer of cotton armor. His shoulder blades were immediately shattered, and his entire right hand was considered useless. Blood burst out, and the pain was overwhelming. This thousand-man team
Screaming and covering his wound, he fell forward and lay on the ground.
Unexpectedly, I, who had been with the army several times to sweep through the Song Dynasty, would be defeated here today. Thousands of auxiliary soldiers were frightened by the power of rifles. Where is this fighting? This is a line up to be shot! No one dares to rush to the front and die.
, everyone slowed down, and finally the entire Chinese army stopped on the battlefield tremblingly.
They had lost their fighting spirit. The third row's salvo started, and seven hundred rifles sprayed out smoke, delivering the final blow to the followers and auxiliaries who had lost their fighting spirit!
A Tatar auxiliary soldier was shot in the stomach. The bullet broke through the skin and penetrated into the auxiliary soldier's abdominal cavity, turning his intestines into a ball of mud. Blood immediately poured from his stomach into his mouth, and his mouth
He spurted blood and fell to the ground, dyeing the land of Song Dynasty red.
A Khitan soldier was shot in the left chest. The ironless cotton armor on his body could not stop the bullet from piercing. His lungs were pierced and turned into a ball of flesh and blood. He was a veteran of many years of fighting, although
He had never been selected as a foot soldier, but he had fought with his masters in Mobei and Liaodong. Unexpectedly, he was killed in the land of the Song Dynasty today. The pain was so severe that people could not feel it, and the strength in his whole body felt like it had been squeezed.
It quickly disappeared from his body like a dry sponge, and he fell into a pool of blood.
The third row fired a volley, killing more than 400 Khitan soldiers. The center of the Khitan soldiers collapsed. At this time, there was no recruitment of envoys, and the rear was vast. The rifle formation in front was too terrifying, and they fell down immediately.
Twenty-five percent of the soldiers and auxiliary soldiers were killed. This casualty rate has exceeded the limit that the soldiers and auxiliary soldiers can bear. No one is willing to risk their lives to fill the death zone in front of them.
The Khitan soldiers in front screamed, turned around and fled back. The Khitan soldiers in the middle were stunned for a moment, fearing that the soldiers in front would retreat and expose themselves to the enemy's guns, so they also joined the fleeing team. In the end, the entire team collapsed.
Suddenly, all the auxiliary soldiers abandoned their helmets and fled to the north. The auxiliary soldiers and auxiliary soldiers were like a wave of powerless waves, rushing to the beach for a while, and then collapsed towards the road in embarrassment. Five
More than a thousand of the auxiliary soldiers fled to the north, abandoning their flags and armor, and fled to the north without hesitation.
Ye Qian Hongguang saw the collapse of the Chinese army and sighed. At this time, he was personally leading the Northern Recruitment Envoy to charge on the west flank of the front. He was urging his horses to gallop, leading the elite and
Fende Bashiku with 13 layers of armor attacked the west wing of the soldiers in Tianjing New City - In order to strengthen the charge on the west wing, Yeli Hongguang gathered all the "Feng De Bashiku" from the fifty centurions.
On the west wing, charge into battle with the elite of the Xi Army.
He knew that the followers and auxiliary troops would be defeated sooner or later. These soldiers had suffered a defeat in the morning, and they did not have the courage to rush into battle at this time. But he did not expect that the Chinese army would be defeated so quickly. Three rows of soldiers from Tianjing New City fired volleys
However, it only took a few breaths to defeat the entire Chinese army. He originally hoped that the Chinese army could support it for a longer period of time to buy some time for his trump card - the elite Xi army to charge into the formation.
Originally, if the Chinese army could persist in firing a few more volleys, the centurions led by him could rush into the Song army's queue. The soldiers in Tianjing New City were all firearms soldiers who used artillery and blunderbuss, and their hand-to-hand combat ability was probably not worth mentioning.
As long as 500 Xi army elites and Fende Bashiku rode into the Song army's camp and attacked back and forth, these Song soldiers were only capable of fleeing.
However, now that the central army was defeated, the cavalry on the west wing could only bear the firepower of the Song army with their bodies. Fifty steps away from the Song army, Ye Qi Hongguang saw the Song army's powerful crossbow and began to fire arrows.
The Song army wanted to use strong crossbows to deal with them? How many cavalry could those bows and arrows hit? But Ye Hongguang soon realized that he was wrong. This Song army was something Ye Hongguang had never seen before, and it should not have been done.
The terrifying troops I saw - those terrifying arrows sprayed out from the bows were not bows and arrows!
The two wings were seventy-five meters away from the Tatar cavalry. Yang Peng gave a loud order. The horns of the central army of the Huben Regiment sounded, and the one hundred and fifty gates on both sides fired. The long arrows spit out tongues of fire and aimed at the thousand soldiers who were rushing towards the two wings of the Huben Regiment.
Five hundred Liao iron hooves sprayed out bows and arrows. Yang Peng looked at the corpses of Khitan soldiers on the battlefield and asked the soldiers to go up and deal with them - kill the seriously injured Khitan soldiers, cut off their heads, and remove their armor.
After clearing the battlefield, Yang Peng found that he had captured 4,007 heads, and most of them were the heads of Khitan elite horse and infantry soldiers - he had beaten the Northern Recruitment Envoy to half a disability - from Youzhou.
After the war, no Song army had ever obtained so many Khitan soldier heads on the frontal battlefield. Handing over these heads would definitely be a great victory, and a great victory would inevitably lead to promotion and wealth.
I wonder if the Cangzhou garrison will ask me to give out the heads to other generals. Mrs. She said that dividing the battle merit is a rule in the army. I think she is not lying. I guess there will be no exception. I guess the heads will still be divided.
With so many heads, all civil servants and generals in Cangzhou will be promoted this time.
The officials in Cangzhou got a huge advantage for nothing. Duan Zhixian and several other senior officers were extremely excited and gathered around Yang Peng, chattering about the results of this battle. "Brother! This time the Khitan soldiers were beaten badly by us.
Got it!"
Duan Zhixian said with a smile: "Sir, we only killed four people this time! Two were slightly injured and two were seriously injured." Cheng Shijie said excitedly: "The Khitan soldiers fled north and did not dare to go further south!" Yang Peng
He looked at the Khitan army retreating slowly in the distance and asked, "Why are the Khitan soldiers retreating so slowly?"
Duan Zhixian frowned and said: "City Lord, the Khitans are guarding the people of the Song Dynasty. These people are walking slowly!" Yang Peng thought for a while and said: "Let's go and save these people of the Song Dynasty!"
Several senior generals were stunned for a while, and it took a long time to react. Duan Zhixian said: "Your Majesty, the city lord is talking about fighting with the Khitan soldiers in the field? Sir, the Khitan's field fighting ability far exceeds that of our soldiers!" Even if he likes to shout and fight most on weekdays,
Zhou Dayong, who called for death, also said: "Lord City Lord, fighting in the wild is the strength of the Khitan soldiers. The Tatars still have four thousand soldiers and horses, and it will be very dangerous for us to fight out!"
Yang Peng said calmly: "When the Khitan soldiers are defeated and discouraged, I will annihilate the Northern Recruitment Envoys in the wild. You gather the troops and follow me on the expedition!" "Sir..." Yang Peng said in a deep voice: "My idea
It's been decided, don't say any more!" Several officers looked at each other and didn't dare to say anything more, so they could only go down to summon the troops. The horn sounded, and the 3,700 riflemen and 300 strong crossbowmen of the Huben Regiment quickly gathered.
Okay. Yang Peng rode in the front row, asked his bodyguard to hold high the Yang family's flag, and led the troops to march north to pursue the Khitan soldiers who were recruiting envoys to the north.
After walking for three hours, Yang Peng caught up with the slowly advancing Khitan soldiers. Ye Qi Hongguang was furious when Yang Peng's army caught up. This Song army killed 8,000 Liao warriors and made a lot of money for himself.
After completing their military exploits, they were still not satisfied and wanted to pursue and kill them. Is this Song Dynasty army going to force itself to spit out all the people and money it had robbed and let itself flee back to the north with only its remaining soldiers?
Then Ye Qian Hongguang's entry into the pass was not a waste of troops. In this way, not to mention other recruiting envoys, at least the northern recruiting envoys would be afraid of being beaten by the Song army, and they would not dare to enter easily in the future.
Closed. If these Song people are sent to Youzhou, even if you lose your troops, you will have an explanation. The emperor will at most deprive you of your title. If you abandon these Song people, you will suffer eight losses if you enter the Pass.
Among the thousands of warriors, not even a single commoner of the Song Dynasty was plundered. The emperor would definitely put him in jail on the spot.
Who is the general of this Song army? Do you want me to kill Hongguang? This Song army is really too arrogant. Don’t they know the reputation of our Liao Kingdom and our Khitan army in the field? A mere four thousand soldiers and horses dare to challenge it.
Four thousand Khitan troops? Even if our Northern Recruitment Envoy has just suffered a defeat, four thousand Song troops cannot challenge it. Although I lost the siege battle in the morning, I still have 400 elite Xi troops and nine
Hundreds of horse armor. These warriors are all double-layered heavy armor. When these elites rush into battle, even ten thousand Song troops will be overwhelmed.
Ye Qi Hongguang's brave and warlike character took over his mind again. He turned his horse's head and glared at the Song army that was slowly pursuing them in the distance, and said loudly: "The whole army will follow me to the south to kill the enemy!"
Singing loudly, he rushed to his own Khitan soldiers to mobilize the troops. The trumpets sounded and the war drums beat, and the north summoned four hundred white-armored soldiers and nine hundred horse-armors to mount their war horses, preparing to charge into the formation as cavalry. Two thousand eight hundred were clad in cotton armor.
His followers and four thousand unarmored auxiliaries also turned south to engage the enemy as infantry.
Ye Qi's red gold-woven dragon scroll slowly moved to the south, leading four thousand warriors to march southward. The Liao army's Xi soldiers were on the west wing, the vests were on the east wing, and the infantry were in the center. They marched hand in hand to meet Tianjing in the field.
The challenge of the four thousand Song troops in Xincheng.
A shotgun shell is a cylinder with a thin layer of iron outer shell. There are a hundred small iron pellets inside the shell. After the artillery fires, the rifling fragments at the bottom of the shotshell push the projectile forward. When the projectile leaves the barrel, the cylinder breaks and the pellets are inside.
It shoots out to form a pie-shaped barrage in the space. This barrage will pass through a conical space with the muzzle as the fixed point, and strafe all targets in this conical space.
Facing the cavalry who charged at close range and almost collided with the crossbows, the power of the shotguns was huge. The one hundred and twenty strong crossbows on the west wing spit out long arrows, and more than two hundred arrows were ejected from the arrow chamber.
They shot toward the Xijun elites and Fende Bashiku at a speed invisible to the naked eye. Although these Khitan elites wore two layers of armor or even three layers of armor, these armors still couldn't stop the long arrows at such a close range. Shooting at such a rapid rate
The incoming arrows killed the Khitan soldiers in the front row and the Fende Bashiku people.
One hundred and twenty Xi army elites were hit by long arrows, with bloody holes in their bodies, and fell to the ground with a plop. Thirty Fende Bashiku were also shot. Although they had three layers of armor on their bodies,
But the long arrows still penetrated into their bodies and damaged their organs, causing them to die on their horses one by one and fall off their horses. Even their horses were shot and fell to the ground, twitching and struggling on the ground. One
The bearded man was struck by an arrow. He looked at the two bloody holes in his chest in disbelief and fell to the ground together with his horse. Even though he fell to the ground, he still couldn't believe that he was about to die.
He knew this fact - he was the most valiant warrior in the Liao Kingdom and an officer of the Thousand-Man Corps. He had fought countless battles and killed many enemies, but today he died before he even touched the enemy.
He opened his eyes wide and vomited out a mouthful of blood, and died without closing his eyes. An elite leader of the Xi army, "Zhang Zhuang", who was holding an iron axe, was hit in the left eye by a bow and arrow. The bow and arrow immediately penetrated the entire head of Zhuang Zhuang.
The back of the head smashed through the skull and flew out, and then shot into the armor of a Xi Junjing behind. The strong one died on the horse without saying a word, and fell down from the horse with a thud. The Khitan soldiers behind also let out a scream and feared.
Touching the bloody hole-like wound on his chest, he lay on the horse's back and couldn't get up.
With just one shot, one hundred and twenty powerful crossbows killed one hundred and fifty Khitan soldiers on the west wing. If the elite Khitan soldiers were not all wearing two or three layers of armor to block the long arrows, the long arrows could have penetrated
Passing through the bodies of the first level of cavalry, they stabbed into the enemies in the second row behind them, causing even greater damage.
The situation on the east wing was even bloodier. After a volley of 130 six-power crossbows from the east wing, the front layer of the Khitan army's cavalrymen fell down like weeds cut by a lawnmower. Not only the people
Falling down, all the horses were injured and fell down in an instant. Blood flowers bloomed one by one. After the blood flowers fell, the body of the horse soldiers was exposed one after another with horrific blood holes, which were the wounds caused by the long crossbow arrows.
The two hundred and twenty Khitan army horseback cavalry who rushed in front fell. Almost every one of them was hit by two or three arrows. A horseback leader "Zhuanda" wearing three layers of armor rushed in front. At this time, he was shot by a long arrow.
The arrow hit three places. The outermost iron-studded cotton armor, the middle scale armor, and the innermost chainmail were all penetrated. The three long arrows pierced his scarred skin like three swords.
, broke open his flesh and blood organs, and killed this brave warrior who was killed out of the mountain of corpses and sea of blood on horseback.
This Zhuanda died on his horse before he even had time to utter a scream. When had the vests ever seen such a terrifying weapon? The still-living vests were frightened for a moment, and stopped beside the body of the dead vests, advancing and retreating.
Loss of evidence.
Just as they were still hesitating, the 500 musketeers in the fourth row of the Polu Regiment opened fire. From a distance of 75 meters, the well-trained Polu Regiment almost missed their shots, hitting more than 400 people.
The vest. The bullets tore through the armor, rushing into the flesh and blood under the armor like a hunger, spinning recklessly.
Only screams were heard one after another, and more than 400 vests fell off their horses. At this distance, bullets could already penetrate two layers of armor and kill the vest soldiers. More than 400 vests who were shot were either dead or injured, and all were lost.
combat effectiveness.
The vests were defeated. The 1,600 northern rebels, the vests, were now beaten to only more than 300 people. The vests were completely disabled. Even the dozen or so leaders "Zhuanda" who were still alive were
Losing the morale to charge into battle, they turned their horses around and fled away into the distance one by one. The other vests became even more panicked and even lost their weapons, just hoping to run faster when escaping.
The Khitan army on the east wing no longer exists. However, the elite Xi army and Fende Bashiku on the west wing are more motivated. They were attacked by powerful crossbows and arrows, but they still maintained their morale, and no one was killed by the bows and arrows.
He stopped in front of the corpses, but bypassed the corpses and rushed towards the vanguard selection group 75 meters away. Although one hundred and fifty people were killed, this most elite Khitan army cavalry was still murderous and heavy.
The sound of horse hooves trampled on the ground, as if a piece of rolling thunder was rolling over.
Yang Peng shouted loudly: "Fire bayonets!" The horn sounded, passing Yang Peng's order to the vanguard selection group. Yang Peng had already explained the combat operations steps to officers at all levels before, and at this time officers at all levels heard the horn.
Then he gave a loud order, and immediately asked the soldiers in the second and third rows who had fired their guns to load bayonets, and asked the first row who fired first to continue loading the ammunition and charges at the back, and asked the soldiers in the fourth row standing at the front to load bayonets.
Ready to shoot.
At a distance of seventy meters, the elite soldiers of the Xi Army and Fende Bashiku fired a bunch of bullets at the Chao Selection Regiment. Screams rang out one after another, and more than fifty soldiers of the Selection Regiment were shot by the Khitan army's bows and arrows. After shooting one arrow
, the elite Khitan troops on the west wing spread out and crashed into the two thousand infantrymen on the west wing of the vanguard selection group, as if they were going to overwhelm the vanguard selection group at once. Seventy meters, sixty meters, sixty meters away, fourth row
The soldier fired.
At a distance of 60 meters, five hundred rounds of rice bullets seemed to have eyes, shooting straight towards the chests of more than 400 Xi soldiers and Fende Bashiku. At a distance of 60 meters, the lethality of the bullets was astonishing.
Whether it was Xi Bing's double-layer armor or Fende Bashiku's three-layer armor, bullets could penetrate the armor and kill the enemy. A Fende Bashiku was hit by a bullet on his left waist, and the bullet broke through his three layers of armor.
Armor, shot through his skin and into his kidneys. Although the three layers of armor cushioned the bullet's lethality, the rotating bullet still destroyed the Khitan Army officer's kidneys. The unbearable pain began from
The news came from his waist that Fende Bashiku could no longer continue fighting and screamed and fell off his horse.
A Xi soldier was hit in the left chest. The outermost layer of thick white scales failed to save him, and the inner layer of fine chainmail could not block the spinning bullet. The bullet rotated and entered the Xi soldier's chest.
The heart has turned this vital organ into a ball of blood. If this warrior of the Khitan Army, a Xi soldier who is good at fighting in battle formations, rushed into the Huben Division's formation alive, I am afraid that five or six soldiers of the Huben Regiment would not stop him.
He couldn't stop him. But now he was hit by a bullet before he could touch the enemy. He trembled on his horse and lost all his strength. He fell to the horse with a plop.
If you want to know what happens next, let’s look at the breakdown in the next chapter.