The soldiers in front of the formation kept falling, making Xiao Tianyou turn pale. These were brave warriors of the Liao Kingdom. Although they belonged to the Xi tribe, they were still precious armed forces. When facing the Song army, these Xi tribe soldiers
Their combat power was comparable to that of the most elite Song army. However, in front of Yang Pengjun's firearms, these warriors fell one after another before they even faced off against the enemy.
Xiao Tianyou could clearly see from his horse that the Khitan army of the Xi tribe had rushed seventy steps in front of Yang Peng's formation and had already left behind more than 3,000 corpses. If they wanted to rush into Yang Peng's formation, they would have to sacrifice more than 3,000 more.
Can his own army withstand such casualties without collapsing? Xiao Tianyou was highly nervous. The enemy's firepower was too fierce and they were equipped with countless firecrackers and powerful crossbows. Xiao Tianyou originally had more than twenty machine crossbows.
, but this time when marching thousands of miles to attack Yang Peng's lair, Xiao Tianyou did not bring the heavy crossbow. Only when he was facing Yang Peng did Xiao Tianyou feel that there was no lack of artillery firepower.
Only cavalry can win! The enemy's front is very strong, but what about the sides? Xiao Tianyou waved his hand and shouted loudly: "Charge from the side!" A horn sounded, the flag of the Chinese Army was waved, and four thousand Khitan vests and six thousand Khitan cavalry listened.
Upon receiving the order, the Chinese army galloped out. They rode out from behind the Khitan infantry, gradually accelerated, and circled around to attack the side and rear of the Huben Division. They hoped to encounter a vulnerable flank that they could crush with the iron hooves of the cavalry.
The so-called Liao Khitans were the strongest army in the world. At this time, 10,000 Khitan cavalry rushed towards the flanks of the Huben Division. However, what they encountered was the flanks of the Huben Division as hard as iron plates. Yang Peng's phalanx
The number of people in the four directions is the same. Except for the artillery that moves with the enemy's main attack direction, the infantry on the four sides have almost the same combat effectiveness. Guarding the left and right wings are 6,000 musketeers with live ammunition. In response to the Khitan army's charge, they have already
Been waiting for a long time.
The Khitan vests and Xi tribesmen howled around the front of the Huben division, separated from the left and right, and rushed to the two sides like two uppercuts. What responded to them was the roar of the soldiers of the Huben division from the side that echoed throughout the fields.
"Kill the Khitan dog!"
The soldiers guarding the left and right wings were the Polu Regiment and the Entrapment Regiment. Although these two regiments were established later than the Selection Regiment, most of the soldiers in these two regiments still killed the bandits and withstood the charge of the bandit cavalry.
Veterans of the formation. Of course, there are two thousand recruits in the two regiments, but these recruits have also recently captured Tianjing New City and have seen blood in the Battle of Jinghai. At this time, there is no problem in shooting calmly on the battlefield.
Especially at this time, the whole army was roaring with killing sounds, united as one, and the recruits also suppressed their inner fears and devoted themselves to fighting to kill the enemy. The soldiers aimed diagonally at the Khitan cavalry rushing from both sides, and pressed
The trigger was fired. The crackle of gunfire rang out, more than two thousand rifles spit out tongues of fire, and two thousand rounds of bullets were fired at the Manchu Tatars and Khitan soldiers who were charging into the formation. The Khitan army stretched into a two-mile-wide front and was hit hard.
, the cavalry in the front row seemed to have hit an invisible wall, and fell from their horses with a huff.
The four thousand Khitan vests were okay. They wore two layers of armor. A rifle shot from 200 meters away could not penetrate their armor. After being shot, they just paused on their horses. The Khitan cavalry wearing cotton armor was miserable. After volleying, several
Hundreds of Khitan cavalry were killed immediately, fell from their horses, and fell to the loess soil without making a sound. In the eyes of Master Hu Ben, these proud Khitan cavalry were just moving targets.
There were also injured people: their stomachs were punched through, their hands were broken, and their legs were broken. Screams and shouts rang out from the mouths of the injured Khitan warriors, which suddenly affected the morale of the cavalry behind them.
It fell into the freezing point. The corpses of cavalry and military horses lying on the ground became obstacles for the rear cavalry, blocking the charge of the rear cavalry. The cavalry fearfully walked around the corpses on the ground, or could not avoid the wounded directly.
He stepped over him, trampling the wounded on the ground until they were bloody and bloody, and continued to rush towards the side of the Tiger Division.
The second shooting started. There was another crackling volley of gunfire, and a large amount of white smoke emitted from the Huben Division's position. The smoke filled the surroundings of the soldiers, making the Huben Division look like a group of magic soldiers.
Two thousand rounds of bullets broke through the smoke and shot at the Khitan cavalry rushing into the formation, tearing open small wounds as they spun, and penetrated deeply into the flesh of the Khitan soldiers.
Blood bloomed on the bodies of nearly a thousand Khitan cavalry. The warriors who had been driving their horses recklessly just now lost the ability to move and screamed and fell under their horses. The ground was filled with corpses and wounded for a while, gurgling out.
Blood. The Khitan cavalry in the back row bypassed and stepped over the corpses and wounded on the ground, but they lost the courage to charge into the formation.
This is not charging, this is charging to death! The center of the Khitan army stood on a higher ridge. Xiao Tianyou rode on his horse and saw the miserable situation of the Khitan cavalry charging into the battle. He felt his heart bleeding. He suddenly turned closer.
How will two thousand Khitan cavalry and more than three thousand Khitan infantry soldiers explain to the Queen Mother after returning to Youzhou? Although these Xi tribesmen are not Liao people, the Xi tribe's status in the Liao Kingdom now plays a decisive role.
No one of Yang Peng's soldiers and horses was injured now, but he had already lost thousands of people. Can this battle be won? This battle really shouldn't be fought? Xiao Tianyou gritted his teeth, but he didn't care at all.
I felt that the nobles of the Xi clan in the Chinese army were even more heartbroken. They could no longer bear to see the horrors on the battlefield. They all looked pale and closed their eyes, as if the warriors who died in the battle were their brothers. They were killed by God.
Xiao Tianyou actually used my Xi tribe’s warriors as cannon fodder!
Xiao Tianyou's deputy general Zhang Hua looked at Xiao Tianyou and then at the battlefield, speechless. The Song army's firepower was so fierce that the Khitan army in front of the battle, especially the Khitan cavalry, were shrouded in fear of death.
The body was trembling and the face was pale. The horses rushing into the formation slowed down and the formation became a little erratic. If the Khitan horse soldiers were not still around, the Khitan cavalry would have collapsed.
However, the four thousand Khitan vests had not been damaged and their structure was intact. Wearing two layers of heavy armor, they howled and rushed forward, rushing to the front of the team. The third volley of gunfire began.
"Kill the Khitan dogs!" "Kill the Khitan dogs!!"
Under the command of the platoon leader, the riflemen at the rear stepped into the shooting position, and platoon after platoon began to shoot at the Khitan soldiers rushing into the formation. Red flames appeared one by one, and two thousand flintlock rifles were beyond this era.
A cone-shaped bullet symbolizing death was fired at the Khitan vest.
At a distance of one hundred meters, the cone-shaped bullet had enough kinetic energy to break through the armor! The bullet hit the body of the vest soldier, broke through the cotton armor of the vest, broke through the chain armor under the cotton armor, and broke through the vest warrior
His skin penetrated deeply into the body of the vest.
Brutal blood bloomed on the bodies of the horse soldiers in the front row, and blood poured out from the wounds like a fountain. The horse soldiers fell off their horses one after another, hitting the ground hard, rolling and shouting on the ground. Their helmets
It fell to the ground, revealing the smooth scalp and ugly money rat tail of the vest soldiers. After twitching a few times on the ground, their corpses stopped moving.
For soldiers with powerful weapons, the difference between a good shooter and a poor shooter is huge. The former's combat power is even several times that of the latter. In order to improve the hit rate, Yang Peng's soldiers practice an astonishing amount of target practice, and recruits practice every day.
In target shooting, a gun will be scrapped after three months. Veterans often practice maintenance after reaching the target, and practice until 99% of the time they hit the target at 200 meters! It is not an exaggeration to say that all of them are excellent shooters.
With a distance of more than 100 meters, the soldiers' hit rate was astonishing, at least 70%. But this time the Khitan horse soldiers rushed to the front, and more than a thousand were killed at once. I saw that the Khitan horse soldiers were killed in batches.
Killed in front of the formation, the soldiers of the Polu Regiment and the Entrapment Regiment were filled with the pleasure of revenge. They shouted in unison: "The morale of the Khitan cavalry can no longer be sustained. They have abandoned more than two thousand corpses in front of the formation. You can
It is said that a fragile life is used against the power of firearms. And this firearm is not a firearm of this era, but a rifled gun that is two hundred years ahead of this era.
If the technological gap of fifty years is called a generational difference, the gap of two hundred years is a world of difference. The technological gap made this massacre particularly cruel. Several elite Khitan troops who led the charge knew that
The team had reached the critical point of disintegration, fearing that the cavalry would collapse and the sacrifice of the warriors in front would be meaningless. They anxiously blew the horn to boost morale.
The horn sounded, encouraging the cavalry to continue advancing.
After hearing the sound of the horn, the eyes of the Khitan horse soldiers all turned blood red. They had just killed more than a thousand people in front of the formation, and the battle loss rate was as high as 20% to 30%. If they hadn't seen that there were only a thin 30% of the soldiers on the other side.
If they hadn't firmly believed that they would win as long as they charged forward, they would have been defeated long ago.
It was the contempt for the close combat of the Song Army's artillery soldiers that supported them to continue to charge into the battle with their lives. Hearing the sound of the horn, nearly three thousand vests howled and thrust their heel spurs into the belly of the war horse under their crotch, stabbing the horse's belly.
They were dripping with blood and urged the horses to rush forward. They rushed towards the soldiers of the Tiger Division as quickly as possible, and soon they were fifty steps away from the musketeers.
In the Song Dynasty, one step was one and a half meters, and at fifty steps, the horn bow could already hit the target. The Khitan cavalry on horseback shouted with joy, bent their horn bows, and fired bows and arrows at the Ming army 70 meters away.
.Hope to be able to shoot down Master Huben’s fire gunman with a hail of arrows.
The Khitans in the front row fired arrows, and the Tatars in the back row also managed to find an angle to throw their bows and arrows, shooting at the Polu regiment and the trapping regiment. More than three thousand bows and arrows pierced the sky and shot at the Tiger Division's team. The bows and arrows were like a piece of fire.
Raindrops flew towards Master Huben. The ideal shooting range of the horn bow is within forty meters, and the distance of more than 70 meters is still a bit far, not to mention the bumps immediately, and the aim was not accurate at all. Only three hundred bows and arrows hit Master Huben.
More than 300 soldiers screamed and covered their arrow wounds and withdrew from the formation.
However, the Tiger Division, whose morale was high, was not frightened by the rain of arrows at all. In response to the rain of arrows, two thousand rifles fired furiously.
"Kill the Khitan dog!"
At a distance of more than seventy meters, the soldiers of the Huben Division with excellent shooting skills were almost accurate with each shot, knocking down the Khitan soldiers who were bending their bows and shooting arrows one by one. At this distance, not to mention two layers of armor, even three layers of armor could protect them.
Unable to stop the Huben Division's conical bullets, nearly two thousand bullets were sprayed on the densely grazing Khitan soldiers, killing these warriors who had worked hard on bows and horses for more than ten years before entering the battlefield.
If the soldiers of the Huben Division can become excellent archers by practicing hard for six months, the training time of an archer is measured in years. Without more than ten years of practice, these Khitans would not be able to become qualified.
Soldiers. These trainings take up a lot of time and manpower. But no matter how hard they train, no matter how brave the warrior is, they can only finish it off with one shot in front of a conical bullet.
This technical gap made the balance of the battlefield tip unreservedly to the side of the Huben Division. Shooting from a distance of more than 70 meters, the hit rate of the soldiers of the Huben Division was more than 70%. More than a thousand Khitan soldiers or Khitan soldiers
The army horse was shot, and the Khitan soldiers who rushed to the front row to shoot arrows were suddenly wiped out. The sight of blood flying everywhere was like a massacre.
An elite of the Xi army who was leading troops into the battle was also shot. He was hit in the forehead by a bullet and died instantly. He fell off his horse without saying a word and fell to the cold ground, no longer alive.
.Seeing the tragic scene of the charging cavalry, the Khitan army’s central generals were all speechless.
Xijun Yibai burst into tears, rushed to Xiao Tianyou's horse, grabbed Xiao Tianyou's right leg and said: "General, please order the withdrawal of troops, there is no way to fight!" He was in his fifties and had been living as a noble of the Xi tribe for a long time.
, he usually has a majestic air. But at this time, he was crying so hard that he shouted in a hoarse voice: "General, all the warriors of my Xi tribe are dead!"
Other Xi tribe nobles murmured: "It's over, the Xi army is over, they were defeated by the Song army!"
Xiao Tianyou's face was also white, which made his blood-red eyes even more ferocious. He threw away Yibai's hand and shouted loudly: "Let me go!" "Withdraw your troops now, and the warriors in front will die in vain." He said
He shouted loudly to Han Derang: "Han Derang, you lead five thousand infantry and charge forward!"
Han Derang no longer had the calmness of the past, and asked with a trembling voice: "General, do you really want to charge five thousand infantry?" Xiao Tianyou yelled: "Go ahead, we will charge you in just one breath! Charge!"
We will win if we go up there!”
Han Derang stood there motionless. Xiao Tianyou shouted: "Today I will get rid of this powerful enemy for the Liao Kingdom! Destroy Yang Peng! Charge forward. If we lose this battle, I will be responsible for the Queen Mother alone!" Han Derang bit him.
Gritting his teeth, he rode his horse towards the infantry camp in front of the formation and led his troops into the formation.
On both wings of the Huben Division, the Khitan cavalry charging into the formation collapsed. They had already lost more than two thousand warriors, and no longer had the morale to attack Yang Peng's flanks. Where are these weak flanks? This is the strong bone that lures the warriors to come up and die. Six
Thousands of Khitan cavalry rushed out, and now there are only more than 3,000 left. The firepower of those Song army gunmen is continuous. Even with the archery skills that the Khitan people are proud of, they cannot shoot these fire guns.
The Khitan cavalry shot and wounded more than 300 Song troops, but their own side suffered more than a thousand casualties.
The only hope is to rush forward and fight hand-to-hand. There are still fifty steps away, and if we endure one or two volleys from the Song army, we can probably rush forward. But everyone values their own lives, and no one is willing to use their lives to fill the formation.
The former cannon fodder in the death zone, if you don't escape now, you will be the next one to be shot with a rifle.
What's more, if they are shot by the Song Army's cavalry for one or two rounds, how many cavalry can be left on their side? Will they be able to defeat the Song Army in hand-to-hand combat? First, a dozen cavalrymen stopped rushing forward, turned their horses and fled to the north. These
The mood of the deserters soon brought down the charging team. Then dozens or hundreds of Khitan cavalry all began to flee. In the end, the more than 3,000 Khitan soldiers who were still alive had no fighting spirit and collapsed thousands of miles away. They turned their horses and
They fled in panic towards the east and west sides, hoping to escape from the firing range of the Tiger Division.
After several rounds of volleys, the 6,000 Khitan cavalry, known as cavalry, turned into more than 3,000 deserters in a panic, scurrying on the yellow soil of Tianjing New City. As soon as the Khitan cavalry escaped, the two thousand who were still alive were
The Dokhitan cavalry soldiers were nakedly exposed to the firepower of the Tiger Division. The cavalry soldiers were not stupid either. They knew that there were 6,000 well-trained fire gunmen in front of them, and more than 2,000 people would not be able to charge forward anyway. What's more,
The two rounds of shooting just now have killed more than a thousand vests. The casualty rate of the vest soldiers is as high as 40%, and their morale has collapsed.
Several Xi army elites shouted loudly, hoping to boost their morale. They blew the charge horn again, hoping to summon up the last strength to rush into the Tiger Division formation. However, their efforts were of no avail.
Looking at the fleeing Khitan cavalry, the horsemen only hesitated for a few seconds, then turned their horses one by one and fled to the east and west sides. Ten thousand Khitan cavalry abandoned four thousand corpses in front of the formation and fled in confusion. So-called
The legend that the Khitan army is invincible is just a joke in front of Master Hu Ben. Kill the Khitan dog!"
The Khitan cavalry was already fleeing, but the Polu and Trap regiments on both wings were still shooting. As long as the enemy did not escape the range of the rifles, they would still be within the strike range of the musketeers.
The Polu Regiment and the Trapping Regiment poured two more rounds of bullets at the fleeing Khitan cavalry, killing many more panicked Khitan cavalry. On the side battlefield, the Huben Division won a complete victory at the cost of 300 casualties. There were no more people in front of them.
The enemy is standing. On the front battlefield, the Tatar infantry are still charging.
"Kill the Khitan dogs!" "Kill the Khitan dogs!!"
There was white smoke coming out of the rifles everywhere, and the pungent smell of saltpeter permeated the battle formation of the Huben Division. Amidst the roars of killing slaves one after another, the front selection group and the gangster group continued to shoot at the Manchu and Mongolian soldiers.
, like a massacre. Every thirty meters the Khitan army advanced, they had to bear the blow of a rifle fire, and more and more corpses were piled up in front of the formation.
The seriously injured and shouting wounded were everywhere, and no one paid any attention to them. A large amount of blood gushes out of the corpses, and blood is everywhere. It is spread on the ground like water after a heavy rain, exuding a disgusting smell of blood. Charge from behind.
The Khitan soldiers had to step over the corpses scattered on the battlefield and step on the blood on their feet before they could rush to the front.
The Xi tribe's infantry were at the forefront. The Xi tribe brought 10,000 infantrymen this time, but they only withstood one round of artillery shells and three rounds of rifle volleys before being defeated. The Xi tribe lost their troops in front of the formation.
Three thousand soldiers disembarked and rushed to a distance of 140 meters from the front of Huben Division. When their morale collapsed, they fled back in panic and fled the battlefield.
They were lucky. After they escaped, the Huben Division would target the other Khitan troops who were still charging and would not pursue them as they fled. They only sacrificed 30% of their soldiers and escaped from this massacre-like battlefield. Seeing the stream
The tribal infantry collapsed, and Xiao Tianyou, who was standing on horseback in the center, snorted coldly.
When Yibai heard Xiao Tianyou's cold snort, there were two traces of tears on his face, and his hands were shaking - the casualties among the soldiers were too heavy. Only half of Yibai's Xi army commander and the 1,600 soldiers escaped.
Buyendai knelt on the ground, staring dumbfounded at the rout of the Xi tribe's infantry. Buyendai was the tribal leader of the Xi tribe, and about one-third of the 1,800 warriors died on the battlefield. After this battle, Buyandai
What kind of leader should Yan Dai be? He didn't know how he should look when he returned to the grassland to face his herdsmen.
Because of Xiao Tianyou's tenacity, more than 10,000 Xi clan warriors have sacrificed more than 6,000 people. This is no longer a heavy loss, but a disability. Hearing Xiao Tianyou's snort, Buyan, who was kneeling on the ground,
Dai suddenly raised his head and glared at Xiao Tianyou.
The other Xi clan nobles also suffered heavy losses and were very angry when they heard Xiao Tianyou's snort. The soldiers had already worked hard, but Xiao Tianyou, who used the Xi clan people as cannon fodder, was not satisfied yet. The Xi army and the Waifan Xi clan members
The leader and the leader of the Waifanxi tribe looked at each other for a while, their eyes full of hatred for Xiao Tianyou.
All the nobles of the Xi tribe have made up their minds. After returning to Youzhou this time, the Queen Mother must deal with Xiao Tianyou, who is good at light combat and uses the Xi tribe people as cannon fodder. At this time, the Xi tribe warriors were defeated and the leaders needed to go out to organize the team.
The Xi tribe nobles no longer stayed in the center of the army, and rode out one by one to collect the defeated army. Xiao Tianyou saw that the Xi tribe army had been defeated and had no fighting power anymore, so he did not stop the Xi tribe nobles from leaving the army.
On the battlefield, the Khitan army was still charging forward. Behind the Xi infantry were auxiliary soldiers and followers who were used as cannon fodder. Most of those auxiliary soldiers were Liao people who had not been able to choose infantry. They only wore flimsy
Mianjia. There are also some Han people who raised the flag and became Liao people. They also only wore simple Mianjia. Their combat power was far inferior to that of the armored bannermen.
The followers were even more shabby. Most of them were Aha from the Xi tribe, both Han and Korean. They didn't even have continuous armor on their bodies, and the only weapon was a short knife in their hands. The Khitan army was highly disciplined, and these surrendered
The Khitan slaves were kept obedient by the military discipline of the Khitan army and did not dare to do what they thought. For them, going into battle and killing one or two Song soldiers, making military exploits and raising the flag became the Liao Kingdom, haha,
It is their lifelong ideal. As long as they raise the flag, they can eat well and wear warm clothes, which can change their life's destiny. If they keep doing Aha, one day they will die of illness or freeze to death due to lack of food and clothing.
Because of their desire for military glory, although these auxiliary soldiers and followers were poorly equipped, their fighting spirit was not low. From a distance of 140 meters, more than 5,000 auxiliary soldiers and followers screamed from behind the Xi people who fled in both directions.
He rushed out and charged towards Master Hu Ben with his sword raised. What greeted these humble soldiers were one hundred and forty powerful crossbow cannon fodder.
Aiming at the more than 5,000 auxiliary soldiers and followers, the crossbows opened fire. Only a loud "whoosh" and "whoosh" sound was heard, and one hundred and forty crossbows sprayed long arrows at the auxiliary soldiers and followers. A thousand long arrows were fired.
The arrow shot out at a high speed and penetrated into the howling auxiliary soldiers and followers. Once it penetrated, there were two holes in the front and back. If the projectile passed through the torso, various organs would be immediately torn into pieces and turned into flesh and blood together with blood.
It bursts out from a wound like a blood hole. If the projectile hits an arm or leg, it can immediately break the bones, or even directly break the entire limb.
More than a thousand auxiliary soldiers and followers with poor equipment were hit by shotguns and fell to the ground screaming. Some Tatars who were seriously injured but not dead were twitching and struggling on the ground, shouting for help, but no one paid attention.
They. On the battlefield, the most valuable thing is life.
The more than 4,000 auxiliary soldiers who were still alive seemed to have known for a long time that there was a quagmire hell ahead, but they did not immediately collapse after suffering a fierce attack. With greed for military success, they gritted their teeth and continued to move towards the vanguard group and the gangster group.
They charged forward. They pushed the battle line forward about thirty meters, and were hit head-on by rifles about 110 meters in front of the Huben Division.
A thousand soldiers with gunpowder and bullets ready stood in the front row and shot at the Tatars in front again. The soldiers coldly aimed at the rushing auxiliary soldiers and followers and pressed the trigger. Almost every Huben soldier
The division soldier pressed the trigger, and blood spurted out from the body of an auxiliary soldier and a follower. The auxiliary soldiers and followers in the front row seemed to have been named, and they fell to the battlefield one after another. Those who were dead
The number of Khitan soldiers and the second Khitan soldiers increased the size of the corpses on the battlefield.
What happened after all? Let’s hear the details next time.