After riding a few steps forward, Ye Qi 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 information!" Ye Qi Hongguang sighed and asked: "If the Song army in the city leaves the city and fights 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 artillery on the way. The outcome is unpredictable."
Ye Qi nodded redly and took a breath. The strength of this Dagou Song army is really shocking. Nowadays, even in the field battle that the Daliao Army is best at, Ye Qi Hongguang is not confident of winning. Back at the camp, Ye Qi Hongguang had no intention of staying in Dagou anymore, and immediately encouraged the defeated troops to break camp and head north. The losses suffered by the Northern Recruitment Army were too heavy, and the warriors no longer had the thoughts they had when they set out. It was not appropriate 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 Envoy could slowly recover. This trip to the border of the Song Dynasty was still a good deal. Carrying the people of the Song Dynasty, Ye Qian Hongguang's team slowly left Dagou and headed for Yingzhou. Carrying these weeping Song people, the Khitan army moved very slowly. These slaves from the Song Dynasty were already malnourished and weak. At this time, the Khitan soldiers were escorting them one foot deep and one foot shallow. Several people fell down every mile they walked.
For those slaves from the Song Kingdom who fell, 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 won every battle they entered. Except for the battle at Dagou, the Khitan army was invincible. Ye Qi Hongguang did not believe in any Song army. Jun dares to come up and challenge himself.
Even if he encounters 10,000 Song troops, even if he relies on the half-crippled Northern Recruitment Envoy, Ye Qi Hongguang is confident that he will defeat the enemy. After all, he still has 400 elite soldiers and 900 elite cavalry in hand. Once these elite cavalry rush 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 Qi Hongguang didn't believe that the Song army near Cangzhou dared to come up and challenge him.
Ye Qian Hongguang knew the other Song troops, but underestimated the courage of the Dagou Song army. Ye Qi Hongguang walked ten miles north, when suddenly a cloud of smoke and dust billowed behind him, and fifty vests who were scouting the enemy's situation suddenly ran back. One of the leaders, Zhuanda, jumped off his horse, half-knelt 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 mobility is 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 asked the infantry to fire in four rounds.
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 looked carefully through the telescope: Although the Khitan army had just suffered a defeat, it was still very powerful. In particular, the 900 horse armor and 400 elite Baixi troops were very ambitious. They howled loudly while riding on their horses, inspiring the other auxiliary soldiers.
This is a tough battle. Amidst the billowing smoke and dust, the two armies gradually approached, 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, and the ground seemed to be 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 and pressed the trigger. Amidst the crackling gunfire, patches of white mist emerged, and a thousand rounds of bullets were like a rainstorm, attacking like the Tatar army.
The soldiers in Tianjing New City have undergone long-term training and are very accurate. They can be regarded as experienced veterans. In addition, the accuracy of the flintlock rifle is very good, and the soldiers have a high hit rate at two hundred meters. What's more, the Khitan army's formation 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 tantamount to death for these unarmored followers and auxiliaries. The thin clothes of the Khitan soldiers were torn apart by bullets like pieces of paper, and their fragile skin was pierced mercilessly by bullets. The bullets whirled and whirled, rushing into the bodies of the Khitan soldiers like the movement of a blender, spinning the organs they encountered into a piece of pulp.
More than two hundred followers and more than three hundred 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 on the left side of the face. The high-speed rotating mini bullet shattered half of his head in an instant, and his brains and blood splashed out all over the floor. He fell into a pool of blood with a thud, making the Khitan army next to him tremble.
The Khitan army followers and auxiliary soldiers who had not been 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 just four seconds later, 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, and the smell of saltpeter became stronger and stronger in the air. From a distance of 175 meters, another thousand rounds of bullets were fired at the Khitan army's center.
More than 600 Khitan soldiers were hit, and their bodies suddenly froze, and blood bloomed on the bullet wounds. The wound caused by the rotating bullet is not small, and the area is at least ten times the cross section of the projectile. It creates a trumpet-shaped wound on the human body that is large on the outside and small on the inside. Sometimes lead bullets would split as they broke through the human body, making the wound larger and making removal of the pellets after the war even more impossible.
The Khitan soldiers and auxiliary soldiers who were hit screamed and fell to the ground. A team of 1,000 soldiers rushed into the auxiliary troops. They were supposed to hold the line, but were suddenly hit in the right shoulder by a bullet. He wore three layers of heavy armor, but the joints on his shoulders were only protected by a layer of cotton armor. His shoulder blade was immediately shattered, and his entire right hand was considered useless. Blood burst out and overwhelming pain hit him. The thousand-man team screamed and covered their wounds, falling forward and lying on the ground.
Unexpectedly, I, who had accompanied the army to sweep across the Song Dynasty several times, would be defeated here today. Thousands of auxiliary soldiers were frightened by the power of rifles. How could this be a war? This is a procession to death! No one dared to rush forward to die, everyone slowed down, and finally the entire Chinese army stopped on the battlefield tremblingly.
They have lost their will to fight. 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 was shot in the stomach. The bullet broke through the skin and penetrated into the abdominal cavity of the auxiliary, turning his intestines into a ball of mud. Blood immediately poured from his stomach into his mouth. He spit out blood and fell to the ground, staining the land of Song Dynasty red.
A Khitan soldier was shot in the left chest. The ironless cotton armor on his body did not stop the bullet from piercing. His lungs were pierced and turned into a ball of flesh and blood. He is a veteran who has fought for many years. Although he has never been selected as an infantryman, he has fought with his masters in Mobei and Liaodong. Unexpectedly, he would be killed in the land of the Song Dynasty today. The pain was so severe that no one could feel it. All the strength in his body was quickly lost from his body like a sponge that had been wrung out. He fell into a pool of blood.
The third row fired a volley and killed more than 400 Khitan soldiers. The Khitan army's center collapsed. At this time, there were no envoys to recruit, and the rear area was vast. The rifle array in front was so terrifying that it knocked down 25% of the followers and auxiliaries in one go. 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 penalty area in front of them.
The Khitan army 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 gunfire, so they also joined the fleeing team. In the end, the entire team collapsed, and all the auxiliary soldiers abandoned their armor and fled north. The followers and auxiliary soldiers were like a wave of powerless waves, which washed up on the beach for a while and then collapsed in the direction they came from. More than 5,000 auxiliary soldiers rushed to the north, discarding their flags and armor, and fled north without hesitation.
Ye Qi Hongguang sighed when he saw the collapse of the Chinese army. 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 Xi army with 420 layers of heavy armor and Fende Bashiku with 13 layers of armor to attack Tianjing New City. The west wing of the soldiers - In order to strengthen the charge on the west wing, Yeli Hongguang gathered all the "fendeboshiku" of the fifty centurions on the west wing and charged into the formation with the elite of the Xi army.
He knew that his followers and auxiliary soldiers would be defeated sooner or later. These soldiers had suffered a defeat in the morning, and at this time they had no courage to rush into battle. But he didn't expect that the Chinese army would be defeated so quickly. The three volleys of soldiers from Tianjing New City defeated the entire Chinese army in just a few seconds. He originally hoped that the Chinese army could support him 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 centurion led by him could rush into the Song army's queue. The soldiers in Tianjing New City are all firearms soldiers who use cannons, and their hand-to-hand combat abilities are probably not worth mentioning. As long as five hundred elites of the Xi Army and Fende Bashiku rode into the Song Army's camp and killed them back and forth, these Song Army troops were only capable of fleeing.
However, now that the Chinese army has been defeated, the cavalry on the west wing can 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 shoot arrows.
Is the Song army going to use a powerful crossbow to deal with itself? How many cavalrymen can those bows and arrows hit? But Ye Hongguang soon realized that he was wrong. This Song army was a terrifying force that Ye Hongguang had never seen before and should not have seen. Those terrible bows and arrows spurted out 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 Huben regiment's central army sounded, and the 150 gates on both sides fired. The long arrows spit out tongues of fire and sprayed out bows and arrows at the 1,500 Daliao iron hooves rushing towards the two wings of the Tiger and Ben regiments. 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 foot armor - 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 will definitely be a great victory, and a great victory will inevitably lead to promotion and wealth.
I wonder if the Cangzhou garrison will ask them to give their heads to other generals. Mrs. She said that it was a common practice in the army to divide the battle merits. I guess she was not lying to herself, and there would probably be no exception. The heads would probably 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!"
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, and it took them a while to react. Duan Zhixian said loudly: "Lord City Lord, are you talking about fighting in the field with the Khitan soldiers? Sir, the Khitan's field fighting ability is far better than our soldiers!" Even Zhou Dayong, who usually likes to shout and kill the most, also said: "Lord City Lord, in the wild field The strength of the Khitan soldiers is to fight in waves. 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 Recruiting Envoys in the wild. You gather your 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 assembled. Yang Peng rode in the front row and asked his bodyguard to hold the Yang family's flag high and lead 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 Pengjun caught up with him. This Song army killed 8,000 warriors of the Liao Kingdom and earned enough military exploits on themselves, but they were still not satisfied and wanted to pursue and kill themselves. Is this Song Dynasty army going to force itself to spit out all the people and money it robbed, and let itself escape back to the north with only the remaining soldiers?
Then Ye Qian Hongguang's trip to the pass was not a waste of men and horses. In this way, not to mention other envoys, at least the northern envoys will be afraid of being beaten by the Song army, and they will not dare to enter the pass easily in the future. If these people from the Song Dynasty were sent to Youzhou, even if they lost their troops, they would still have an explanation. The emperor would at most deprive him of his title. If these Song people were abandoned and he entered the Pass and lost eight thousand warriors without plundering a single Song people, the emperor would definitely put him in prison on the spot.
Who is the general of this Song army? Do you want me, Ye Qian Hongguang, to die? This Song army is really too arrogant. Don’t they know the reputation of our Liao Kingdom and our Khitan army’s athletes in field battles? A mere four thousand soldiers and horses dare to challenge four thousand Khitan troops? Even if our Northern Recruitment Envoy just lost a battle, the four thousand Song Army cannot challenge them. Although he lost the siege battle in the morning, he still had 400 elite troops and 900 vests. These warriors are all double-layered heavy armor. These elites rushed into battle and fought, and even ten thousand Song troops would 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 from afar, and said loudly: "The whole army will follow me to the south to kill the enemy!" Sing loudly, rush to your own Khitan soldiers and mobilize the troops. The horns were blaring and the war drums were beating. The North summoned 400 white-armored soldiers and 900 horse-armored soldiers to mount their war horses, preparing to charge into the formation as cavalry. Two thousand eight hundred followers in full armor 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, and he led four thousand warriors to the south in formation. The Daliao National Army's Xi soldiers were on the west wing, their vests were on the east wing, and their infantry were in the middle army. They marched hand in hand to meet the challenge of the four thousand Song troops in Tianjing New City in the field.
A shotgun shell is a cylinder with a thin iron outer shell and a hundred small iron pellets inside. After the artillery fires, the rifling fragments at the bottom of the shotgun push the projectile forward. When the projectile leaves the barrel, the cylinder ruptures, and the projectiles inside fly out, forming a round cake-shaped barrage in the space. This barrage will pass through a conical space with the muzzle as the fixed point, strafing all targets in this conical space.
Facing the cavalry who charged at close range and almost hit the crossbow, the power of the shotgun 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 chambers, shooting towards the elite Xijun and Fende Bashiku at a speed invisible to the naked eye. Although these Khitan army elites wore two layers of armor or even three layers of armor, these armors still could not stop the long arrows at such a close range. The arrows fired at high speed knocked down the Khitan soldiers and Fende Bashiku people in the front row.
One hundred and twenty elites of the Xi army were hit by long arrows, with bloody holes in their bodies, and fell to the ground with a plop. Thirty points of Bashiku were also shot. Although they had three layers of armor, 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 war horses were shot and fell to the ground, twitching and struggling on the ground. A bearded man named Fende Shiku was hit 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 when he fell to the ground, he still couldn't believe the fact that he was about to die - he was the most courageous warrior in the Liao Kingdom and an officer of the Thousand-Man Corps. He had fought countless battles and killed many enemies. Today he died before he even touched the enemy.
He opened his eyes wide and vomited out a mouthful of blood, then died with a look on his face. 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, smashed the skull from the back of Zhuang Zhuang's head, flew out, and shot into a stream behind. In the warrior's armor. The strong man died on his horse without saying a word, and fell down with a thud. The Khitan soldiers behind also let out a scream, touching the bloody hole-like wound on their chest in fear, lying on the horse's back and unable to get up.
With just one shot, one hundred and twenty powerful crossbows killed one hundred and fifty Khitan soldiers on the west flank. If the elite Khitan soldiers were not wearing two or three layers of armor to block the long arrows, the long arrows could have passed through the bodies of the first layer of cavalry and pierced the enemies in the second row behind them, causing greater damage.
The situation in the east wing was even bloodier. After a volley of 130 six-power crossbows from the east wing, the front layer of cavalrymen of the Khitan army fell down like weeds cut by a lawnmower. Not only the people fell, but the horses were all injured and fell down in an instant. Blood flowers bloomed one by one, and after the blood flowers fell, horrifying blood holes were exposed on the body of the horse soldiers, which were wounds caused by powerful crossbow arrows.
The two hundred and twenty Khitan army horse cavalry who rushed in front fell. Almost every one of them was hit by two or three arrows. A vested leader "Zhuanda" wearing three layers of armor rushed in front and was hit by long arrows in three places. The outermost iron-studded cotton armor, the middle scale armor, and the innermost chain mail were all penetrated. The three long arrows pierced his scar-covered skin like three swords, breaking open his The flesh and blood organs killed this brave warrior who was killed out of the mountain of corpses and sea of blood on horseback.
This Zhuanda died on the horse before he could even let out a scream. When have the vests ever seen such a terrifying weapon? The still-living vest was frightened for a moment. He rode his horse to stop next to the body of the dead vest, unable to advance or retreat.
While they were still hesitating, the 500 musketeers from the fourth row of the Polu Regiment opened fire. At a distance of seventy-five meters, the well-trained Polu regiment had almost no miss, hitting more than 400 vests. The bullets tore through the armor, rushing into the flesh and blood under the armor like a hunger, spinning recklessly.
Only screams were heard, 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 vest soldiers who were shot were either dead or injured, and all lost their combat effectiveness.
The vests were defeated. The 1,600 Northern Recruitment Envoys were now beaten down to just over 300, and the vests were completely disabled. Even the dozen or so leaders "Zhuanda" who were still alive lost the morale to charge into the battle. They turned their horses and fled into the distance one by one regardless of the situation. 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. But the elite Xi army and Fende Bashiku on the west wing were more motivated. They were violently attacked by powerful crossbows and arrows, but they still maintained their morale. They did not stop in front of the corpses of the men and horses killed by the bows and arrows, but bypassed these corpses and rushed toward the selection group seventy-five meters away. Although one hundred and fifty people were killed, this most elite Khitan army cavalry was still full of murderous intent. The heavy sound of horse hooves on the ground was like a rolling thunder rolling over them.
Yang Peng shouted loudly: "Fire the bayonet!" The horn sounded, passing Yang Peng's order to the vanguard selection group. Yang Peng had previously explained the combat operations steps to officers at all levels. At this time, officers at all levels heard the horn and gave orders loudly, immediately asking the soldiers in the second and third rows who had fired their guns to install bayonets, and let the first The first platoon that fired continued to load the charge at the back, allowing the soldiers of the fourth platoon standing at the front to prepare to fire.
At a distance of seventy meters, the elite of the Xi Army and Fende Bashiku fired a barrage of bullets towards the Choosing Group. Screams rang out one after another, and more than fifty soldiers of the Selected Front Regiment were shot by the Khitan army's bows and arrows. After shooting an arrow, the elite Khitan troops on the west wing scattered 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, the fourth row of soldiers opened fire.
At a distance of 60 meters, five hundred rice bullets seemed to have eyes, shooting straight towards the chests of more than 400 Xi soldiers and Fende Bashiku. The lethality of bullets at a distance of 60 meters is astonishing. Regardless of whether the opponent is the double-layered armor of Xibing or the three-layered armor of Fende Bashiku, the bullets can penetrate the armor and kill the enemy. A Fende Bashiku was hit by a bullet in the left waist. The bullet broke through three layers of his armor, penetrated his skin, and entered his kidney. Although the three layers of armor cushioned the bullet's lethality, the spinning bullet still damaged the Khitan Army officer's kidneys. Unbearable severe pain came from his waist. Fende Bashiku could no longer continue fighting and fell off his horse with a scream.
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 failed to block the spinning bullets. The bullet rotated into Xi Bing's heart, turning this vital organ into a ball of blood. If this warrior of the Khitan Army, a Xi soldier skilled in fighting in battle formations, rushed into the Huben Division's formation alive, five or six soldiers of the Huben Regiment might not be able to 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, and fell under the horse with a plop.
If you want to know what happens next, let’s look at the breakdown in the next chapter.
