Back to the Song Dynasty as a tyrant

"I originally guessed that His Majesty would send troops to reinforce Youzhou, and sent a cavalry to ambush at Sanchakou, waiting for the opportunity to send troops, but..."

"Don't talk about it, this is the end of the matter, let's think about how to win the battle in front of us!"

Brother Li Cha said: "You must not lose the state, Your Majesty will send [-] troops to the east of the city to support, and the rest of the troops will fight the official Zhao family!"

"You also think it's time for a decisive battle?"

"Right now, Yuzhou is under siege. The Song army is backed by Xiazhou and has control of Hongzhou. It has no worries about the granary in its hands, but our army is in a passive position. We can only fight quickly, but..."

"But what?"

Brother Li Cha said: "But Song people now have artillery."

"Why artillery?"

Brother Li Cha explained the cannon, and everyone couldn't help but look surprised.

"It's no wonder that the Song army was invincible. It turns out that the Song army has new weapons!" Li Qianshun said angrily, "How many weapons did Zhao Guan's family prepare!"

"Your Majesty, don't worry." Brother Li Cha said again, "Although the Song Army has artillery, once it enters a large army battle, the effectiveness of the artillery will be reduced."

"Do you know anything about artillery?"

"I don't know much about it, but I also heard the details from the escape from Hongzhou." Brother Richard paused, and said, "Now the arrow is on the string and we have to shoot, Your Majesty!"

"Then I will write a decisive battle letter to Zhao Guan's family?"

"Surely so!"

Li Qianshun thought about it, and finally made up his mind: "Okay!"

Li Qianshun immediately dispatched another [-] soldiers and horses, and these [-] soldiers and horses were given to Li Yu as commander, and Li Yu went to the east gate to support Li Yuyi.

In the evening, Zhao Ning received Li Qianshun's decisive battle letter.

"Not only did Li Qianshun not have the slightest intention of surrender, but he also issued a decisive battle letter to me." Zhao Ning took Li Qianshun's decisive battle letter and said to the left and right, "I originally wanted to save some people from dying, but his party members moved into the Central Plains and fought with the Central Plains Assimilation, sure enough, the barbarians are afraid of power and not virtuous!"

"Your Majesty, let's fight!" Sun Fu jumped out.

"Fight! We must fight. I managed to force Li Qianshun's main force to Yuzhou. If he doesn't surrender, how can I let him go! Where is Zhang Bofen?"

"His Majesty, Zhang Shuai will arrive tomorrow morning."

"Okay, there's no rush. I'll go back to Li Qianshun and make an appointment for a decisive battle the day after tomorrow."

In the evening, Li Qianshun received a letter from Zhao Guan's family.

"Official Zhao's family has invited me to a decisive battle the next morning."

Brother Li Cha said: "Official Zhao's family is waiting for the soldiers from behind to come over. I think that our army will march into the city early tomorrow morning to fight the Song army. The Song army must not be allowed to rest!"

Ren Dejing also said: "I think King Jin is right!"

Wei Ming Anhui said: "Your Majesty, our army has also come from a long way away, and we need to rest for a day before fighting again. We must not rush in again."

Brother Li Cha continued: "Your Majesty, you must not miss the opportunity at this time."

"King Jin has already lost [-] elites, should he continue with Meng Lang?"

Li Qianshun thought for a while and said, "The day after tomorrow will be the day after tomorrow. Our army really needs to rest."

In the early morning of the fifth day of October, someone came to announce: "Your Majesty, Zhang Shuai is back."

Just after the announcement, someone came to announce again: "Your Majesty, Li Dutong is here."

"Li Shifu?"

"Yes."

"Let the two of them in!"

Li Shifu and Zhang Bofen entered the camp.

"I see you, Your Majesty."

"Who was the one who attacked Brother Li Cha yesterday?"

Li Shifu said: "Your Majesty, it's a minister!"

Li Shifu's armor was still covered with blood, as was his face.

"Okay! You have made a great contribution!" Zhao Ning was overjoyed, "I have eliminated my worries! I will remember your contribution, you go down to rest first, and rest your soldiers well. Tomorrow we will have a decisive battle with the Xixia people!"

Chapter 1055 The iron kite reappears! (Second more)

The case of the battle of Yuzhou tells us that in the micro environment, things change too fast, and no one can predict exactly what will happen next.

In layman's terms, because the geographical distance is not large, the forces of all parties are relatively close, there is randomness in meeting in a short period of time, and there is also randomness in the consequences.

Therefore, people often say that history has its contingencies, referring to events in a certain region within a period of time.

But people also say that history has its inevitability, which is from the macro level, referring to the development trend of history, and the span of this trend is very large.

To sum up, if someone tells you that he can take one step and count ten steps without making mistakes in every step, you can safely and boldly think that this person is either a fortune teller or a liar.

Finally, on the battlefield, adaptability is king.

Whether it is Li Qianshun or Zhao Ning, they have made ever-changing decisions in response to the ever-changing battle situation.

"Report! Your Majesty, we have detected a bandit from the north of the city to the east of the city."

Zhao Ning said calmly, "That's Li Qianshun who went to support Youzhou City."

"We will also send troops to support," Sun Fu said.

"We can't."

"why?"

"Let's send troops to support, and Li Qianshun will continue to increase his troops?"

"Continue to increase troops no matter what."

"Isn't the main battlefield to the east of the city?" Zhao Ning glanced at Hanhan Sun Fu, "If the main battlefield is crowded to the east of the city, it will only be beneficial to Li Qianshun, not to our army. Our army is now splitting up with two armies. Make the most of your military resources."

Sun Fu glanced at Chen Gui in confusion, and Chen Gui said, "With our 10,000+ army, it is impossible for everyone to go to the battlefield at the same time. Dividing troops also has the benefits of dividing troops, which increases the contact surface on the battlefield."

"Don't distract too much, every change on the battlefield may be the enemy's deliberate attempt."

"Yes."

The sky suddenly became overcast at noon, and Liu Kai received the latest information from the scouts that a Xixia army was approaching here.

Not long after, such intelligence became more and more dense.

Liu Kai immediately transferred Liu Rui to deal with it, and Xiao Heda stayed behind to continue the final attack on Youzhou.

The attack on Youzhou made Liu Kai understand a truth, the Xixia people are not weak in defensive battles.

In other words, this Yuzhou defender is really a bit dry.

At the beginning of the attack on Shizhou, it was resolute and very fast.

Xiazhou surrendered directly, but when it arrived in Yuzhou, it became so difficult to chew, even a large part of the city wall collapsed, and the resistance will of the Xixia Army in Yuzhou was still so tenacious.

During the siege of the city for several days in a row, the Song army also killed some people, but now Youzhou can't last long.

Liu Rui led a team to the northeast corner of Youzhou City and met Li Yu.

When the two sides met, they didn't give each other a chance to form an array, so they started charging, and soon they fought head-on.

After killing for a while, when the battle was in full swing, Li Yu organized a group of cavalry to rush in from the side.

The Song army did not show any weakness, Liu Rui made a special trip to get a group of hundreds of crossbow archers, and when the Xixia cavalry appeared, the crossbow archers immediately replenished and shot with strong crossbows.

The shot was not elsewhere, but the horse.

But I saw blood pouring out of the war horses, whining endlessly, and collapsing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The Xixia cavalry quickly dispersed when they saw the Song army using their powerful crossbows.

I don't know how long after they dispersed, they began to gather again, and then changed direction and rushed to the battlefield, repeated the impact several times, the Song army was impacted many times, and the attacking formation was obviously loose.

The Xixia army was not much better, and the cavalry of the Song army also attacked many times, seeing the Xixia army cutting back and forth.

The two sides are basically in a confrontation stage.

Suddenly, there was a sound of war horse neighing, iron hooves shook the ground, and an extraordinary army burst out in front.

They were all in armor, even their horses were covered with iron armor.

There were only 500 cavalrymen, but when they appeared, they looked like ghosts of death on the battlefield.

They quickly entered the battlefield, and as soon as they entered, they actually crushed the Song Army, which was originally in a somewhat sloppy formation.

All who resisted them were killed at once.

The Song Army, which was still resisting, was quickly defeated.

"Report! Manager Liu, a cavalry cavalry has appeared from the Xixia people!"

"Cavalry in armor!" Liu Rui narrowed his eyes, "It's an iron kite!"

The iron kite, the heavy cavalry second only to the Iron Buddha, is one of the personal guards of the Xixia emperor and the elite of the Xixia elite.

The iron kites are all composed of the sons of the nobles of the party, and they usually provide a large amount of meat for each meal. The armor is the best armor in Xixia, and the knives, bows and arrows are the best.

Regarding the iron kite, the Bianjing Jiangwu Hall once compared it with the iron pagoda in the Kingdom of Jin.

If the three thousand iron kites and the three thousand iron pagodas confronted each other head-on, who would win?

Yue Fei said that the Iron Buddha could win, but Li Yanxian said that the Iron Kite could win.

Some people even say that Jin Wushu's iron pagoda is an imitation of Xixia's iron kite.

"Song History Bingzhi" records: There are Pingxia cavalry, so-called "iron kites", who can travel hundreds of miles and wait for thousands of miles.When encountering enemies on the plains where they are galloping, they often use iron kites as soldiers to rush forward.

More than that.

Shen Kuo, a scientist in the Northern Song Dynasty, said in "Mengxi Bi Tan": "The method of forging armor is very thick at the beginning. Without fire, it is cold forged, and it is three-thirds less than two-thirds of the original thickness."At the end, the chopsticks are left for not forging, and they are hidden like warts. If you want to test the thickness before forging, it is like bamboo shoots left in soil in dredging rivers, so it is called "warts".

"Warring armor" is the iron armor worn by iron kites.

Shen Kuo once participated in the battle of Yongle City during Shenzong's five-way campaign against Xia. He witnessed the defensive effect of "Warring Armor".

In other words, even if the distance is only tens of meters, Song Jun can't shoot through the wart armor with the most powerful crossbow arrows.

In the Song Dynasty, there was another saying: Khitan Saddle, Xia Guojian, and Goryeo Secret Color are all the best in the world.

Xixia is not only powerful in forging iron armor, but the sharpness of swords is also unrivaled in the world. These are also one of the equipment of iron kite.

When the iron kite appeared, Liu Rui's expression also changed.

Those are Lord Xia's personal guards. It is said that there are only three thousand in total, but they actually appeared here?

Lord Xia is really willing to spend all his money!

Liu Rui said angrily, "Boys, come with me to kill the iron kite!"

"Yes!"

The remaining Song Jun shouted immediately.

Liu Rui personally put on the infantry armor weighing tens of kilograms, and led a group of infantry armor, slowly advancing towards the battlefield ahead.

The iron kite's charge became more and more fierce, rolling and roaring in the Song army's formation like a solid torrent of steel.

The heavy knives in their hands can shatter the bones of Song soldiers.

Countless people fell under such a front.

Once this line of defense is torn, the Xixia army can rush to the east of the city and cause a devastating assault on the Song army that is attacking the city.

PS: I want to emphasize that I saw some readers say to use open-ended ammunition, that is, shells that can explode when fired. This thing must have a fuze device, and it must be there, otherwise it will explode in the barrel.

Is there anyone else who starts cursing as soon as they see a war, saying that they don't know how to use horse refusal posts?

I clearly wrote in the previous wars that before the ancient cavalry assaulted, a small number of cavalry had to be sent to test each time. It is almost impossible to use horse refusal posts in encounters, and the enemy is not that stupid.

It is impossible for me to write cavalry tactics every time, and send a small part to test it first, right?

In addition, there are some readers, if you think there is a problem, please clearly point out the problem logically, we will discuss and correct it together, and I am constantly learning.

But you put a hat on in general, I can't stand it!

Chapter 1056: Great Loyal Minister Li Yu? (third change)

Stepper A cannot run while on the move.