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

He covered his helmet with one hand, trotted to Li Kui, knelt down on one knee and said: "Commander, Ling Zhen is waiting for the commander's orders!"

"stand up!"

Li Kui pointed at the Liao army and asked Ling Zhen, "Do you see the way?"

Ling Zhen stared at it for a while, then took a look with a telescope, and immediately looked like a firecracker exploding on the spot, and said angrily: "Commander, Liao Gou is shameless, you even imitate us."

This is true, but Li Kui did not think there was any problem with the deployment of the Liao army.

After all, the Yanyue Formation and the transformation of the Yanyue Formation are not Li Kui's original creations. Speaking of which, he and Brother Xiao Chang both learned the formations from military books, and they both learned them from a teacher, and this teacher was named Wu Qi.

If Wu Qi, the founder of the Yanyue Formation and a master of military art, had used this formation, I am afraid that he would not need Li Kui at all. He could easily kill the Liao army with cannons and muskets.

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

He immediately said that we Song people are just big-minded and don't care about the shamelessness of the Liao people. He patted Ling Zhen on the shoulder and said, "Have you seen the Liao army's intention?"

"Commander, they didn't use cavalry. As a result, the speed must be very slow. If we use artillery to attack the Liao army's carts, we should be able to destroy these carts. The only problem is that the rate of fire of the artillery is slower.

, which may cause some large vehicles to rush to the front of the formation."

It doesn't matter if some of them rush over. There are still cavalry in the formation, so they should be able to block the gap.

He also wanted to have rapid-fire artillery, which would send all the Liao dogs flying to the west. Unfortunately, rear-loading artillery shells were enough for him to ponder for a while, let alone front-loading artillery shells now?

Li Kui didn't care about the slow speed of the artillery. He only needed a guarantee from Ling Zhen: "Can it kill half of the big cars?"

"That's no problem. Don't worry, Commander. If you can't kill half of the trucks, you can cut off my head and play it as a ball."

Ling Zhen naturally has this confidence. The artillerymen are all his soldiers. Not to mention the distance and the means of aiming, he dares to say that he is second in the army, and no one dares to say that he is first.

It's just that his disciples and grandchildren may not have the same accuracy as him and waste a lot of cannonballs.

Ling Zhen immediately returned to his command position and immediately ordered the entire army: "Replace with solid bullets!"

Shotguns are effective against infantry and light cavalry that have little defensive capabilities, but when faced with large vehicles covered in cowhide and with amazing defenses, they are neither painful nor itchy, and are basically a waste of shells.

Fire——

Brother Xiao Chang was worried that the next attack would bring him huge trouble, so he kept his eyes fixed on the battlefield. When he saw the formation of the Song Army's artillery firing, he was really frightened. He was deeply afraid that he would be okay.

The large carts that were easy to prepare were blown up by a round of artillery fire from the Song army. But in the end, only a few carts were smashed into pieces, and the wheels and boards rolled to the ground.

It's basically unusable.

But other large cars are still in good condition, and although some of them are not moving, they seem to be usable after repair.

This gave Brother Xiao Chang a lot of confidence. He held the riding whip firmly in his hand and breathed a sigh of relief: "Beat the drum to boost morale!"

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

"The target of the cavalry is too big, and if the cavalry hides behind the cart, it will lose all its advantages. The cavalry that cannot charge can only be a living target on the battlefield."

Ling Zhen personally operated the cannon and chose a small three-pound cannon. One shot hit the cart pushed by the Liao army. He found that the shell hit the center of the cart and did not damage the cart. It only restrained the cart's movement.

, and then the cart was actually pushed forward.

At this time, even Ling Zhen became nervous and cursed: "Insidious Liao Dog, the car is actually filled with dirt. No wonder it is so slow."

Although the Imperial Guard is equipped with large-caliber ten-pound cannons, those cannons are very heavy and cannot be moved quickly. Even loading them on the battlefield is troublesome.

Although it is incredibly powerful, it is not practical.

In order to be able to move quickly on the battlefield, Li Kui did not carry such heavy artillery. Most of the artillery accompanying the army were small cannons with three-pound shells.

The largest caliber cannon weighs only six pounds.

Such artillery can be loaded easily and its speed is guaranteed.

However, the destructive power of the three-pound artillery projectiles is very powerful for living creatures. However, when encountering a cart loaded with thousands of kilograms of sand and soil, this kind of artillery is a bit difficult to withstand.

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

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

The amount of gunpowder added is three times that of a three-pound cannon.

This is the result of a precise test. If the speed is doubled, the speed of the shells cannot be compared with that of the three-pound cannon.

When he was ready, Ling Zhen lit the fuse, and the cannon made a huge roar. The entire artillery and the gun mount jumped up, and then fell. Ling Zhen raised his telescope and stared at the target on the opposite side.

Like a broken jar containing dry ash falling to the ground, the hit Liao army cart immediately fell into pieces.

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

"Don't worry, the Liao people piled the cart full of dirt, and the cowhide covering in front was just a cover-up."

"What a shame, the Liao people are so insidious!"

"This has nothing to do with insidiousness. On the battlefield, you are fighting to the death. If there is a useful method, you will use it. At the moment, the Liao people's method seems to be effective, but the sacrifice is also huge. They gave up the best of the Liao people in the war.

tactics, and switched to this tactic that we are not used to. On the surface, our artillery is not very effective, but you look at their speed..."

Li Kui noticed something strange and immediately ran to Ling Zhen's artillery position on horseback.

The moment Ling Zhen saw Li Kui, his face was full of shame. He had just spoken big words. Unexpectedly, Li Kui not only did not punish him, but comforted him with words.

Ling Zhen knew that on the battlefield, things were changing rapidly and he couldn't be distracted.

As a commander, he had to devote himself wholeheartedly. After observing the battlefield, he decisively ordered: "Fire with the six-pound cannon and withdraw the other artillery positions."

"Did you find a problem?"

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

On the contrary, after Ling Zhen responded, he said shamefully to Li Kui: "Commander, I let you down with your humble position."

"It's okay, tell me what you think."

"Although the Liao army's method of using large trucks to load soil curbed the advantage of our army's artillery, the general discovered a weakness of the Liao army, which may be used by our army."

"oh!"

Li Kui Nu said: "Tell me about it!"

"Commander, I don't know if you have noticed that the Liao army pushes carts much slower than our army. On the one hand, it is because the carts may be loaded with more soil. In addition, the Liao army soldiers are not used to using carts with people.

Push, the speed is very slow. At the same time, Commander, this is an opportunity."

It was as if the steel city wall was covered with flesh and blood. No matter how strong the Pishi army was, it was only a minor threat to Li Yun's heavy cavalry.

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

Even if the Pishi Army is a light cavalry, they can always inflict considerable losses on the Feilian Army's cavalry without risking their lives and with the determination to die. Of course, the Pishi Army has to pay a greater price.

During the fierce fighting between the two sides.

The main formation of the Song Army began to march to the beat of drums.

But after walking for a short distance, there were crossbowmen using their bows and arrows to measure the distance between the two sides.

After the arrows are fired, they will continue to advance as long as they do not reach the edge of the Liao army's vehicle formation. Once they get close to the Liao army's vehicle formation, they will immediately stop marching. This seems to be to shorten the fighting distance between the Song and Liao armies, and Qi deliberately stood outside the threat of Liao army's bows and arrows.

What puzzled the Liao army was that in Song's main formation, there was a group of infantry with several "Palm Thunder" wrapped around their chests, holding fire sticks in their mouths, and came towards the Liao army. There were also two or three guards on the side.

Infantry, holding shields to help cover.

There was nothing the Liao army could do about this.

On the battlefield, the main killing methods of archers are straddle shooting and projectile.

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

For battlefields where tens of thousands of people are fighting, the real killer move of an archer phalanx is projectile. An archer phalanx with a total of ten thousand people, using 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 fall in this area in the shortest time...

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

But...the grenadiers of the Song Army, shooting in twos and threes, right?

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

But letting these weird Song troops run to the front of the battle line was very embarrassing.

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

Before the Liao people were ready to rush out from behind the cart, these strange-looking Song troops launched an attack.

Smoking grenades landed behind the cart one by one, and a series of explosions caused chaos to the Liao army hiding behind the cart. The furious Liao general immediately ordered: "Archers straddle fire!"

The archers, whose deployment had been completely disrupted, even though they still obeyed their superiors, the threat they posed was greatly reduced.

Seeing that the opportunity had come, Yang Zhi immediately ordered the entire army to launch a surprise attack.

The musketeers are very valuable, but on the battlefield, even the value of money is not worth the battle for victory or defeat.

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

When the distance between the Liao army and the Song army was only about twenty meters, at this distance, even if they were hiding behind a large vehicle, the Liao army could not hide too closely. The commanders of the Song army all shouted in unison: "Free fire!"

bang bang bang

After a burst of shooting like exploding beans, the Liao army fell in large numbers.

After a round of shooting, the Liao army was surprised to find that the Song army pulled out a short sword-like sword about a foot long from his waist. Don't forget, the Liao army's Pishi army were all light cavalry, and they could also become archers.

It's just that I don't ride a horse anymore.

But in fact, they also had swords, which were much longer than those of the Song army.

At the moment when the Liao army discarded their bows and arrows and drew their swords, even the commander of the Liao army was stunned.

"Fire the bayonet!"

"Assassination!"

The one-foot-long dagger, after being put on the barrel of the musket, suddenly turned into a short spear more than six feet long, which was longer than ordinary people. The Liao soldier lowered his head and looked at the two-foot-long scimitar in his hand.
Chapter completed!