Back to the Song Dynasty as a tyrant

But the casualties are under control.

"Gunners come forward!" the commander of the barracks shouted.

The command flag in the middle of the battalion was waved a few times, and the team began to quickly adjust itself.

The soldiers on the side began to extend to the outside, and then the soldiers began to extend skillfully, leaving a certain distance.

The gunman behind held a long gun and moved forward quickly.

A battalion of the Song Army has 500 people.

At this time, not only one battalion is doing this, but other battalions are doing this.

This is the beginning of the offense-to-defense transition.

Infantry A's combat movement itself is very slow, at most it is a trot, and it is not difficult to stop.

The difficulty is that on the battlefield, the formation can be quickly switched, just like it is now.

This is one of the criteria to measure whether the army is elite.

Song Jun's switch is very smooth.

The Xixia people originally saw that there were no pikemen in the front row of the Song army, and they were going to attack with cavalry, but the Song army switched too quickly.

In front and on both sides, spearmen began to be arranged in an orderly manner.

At this time, the two parties entered a new round of confrontation, and they were not far apart.

"Report! Your Majesty, a large number of reinforcements have been sent to the middle of the West Thieves, and armor-piercing arrows have appeared!"

Zhao Ning was looking at the good news from Chen Gui on the left, and he was quite proud that his tactics were arranged very well.

However, the stereotypes and the soldiers operate very well. No matter how ingenious the tactics are, they need an army with strong execution ability to execute them, otherwise they are all empty talk.

However, when Zhao Ning heard the battle report from the middle lane, his smile disappeared.

"Armor-piercing arrows?"

Zhao Ning hadn't spoken yet, but Sun Fu said, "The western thief actually has armor-piercing arrows!"

"The god-armed crossbows are all from Xixia. It is not surprising that Xixia people have armor-piercing arrows." Zhao Ning's face returned to calm, "Li Qianshun dispatched armor-piercing arrows so quickly and sent a large number of reinforcements. It seems that he has already learned One of the troops was defeated, and I wanted to suppress the elite in the middle before the morale of the army in the middle was affected, and I will fight to the death!"

Chapter 1065 Ace vs. Ace ([-]rd update)

At this time, another scout came quickly.

"Report! Your Majesty, we have spied on the movement of the Xixia iron kite. It is advancing towards the battlefield of the Chinese army forward behind a forest eight miles southwest of the Chinese army forward."

"Has the iron kite finally appeared?" Zhao Ning looked in that direction.

He immediately got down from the handsome platform, went to the desk in front, and looked at the map on the desk.

This map was drawn based on the intelligence of multiple scouts, and it is the current deployment map of the two sides' troops.

Zhao Ning pointed to the location of Xixia's capital garrison, and then pointed to the location of Li Shifu's forward, and said: "This front cannot be broken by the Xixia people and needs support. The Xixia people use armor-piercing arrows. We don't need them. Only by using the armor-piercing arrows at the most critical moment and concentrating the most useful weapons can the advantage be multiplied."

Sun Fu asked, "When will it be used?"

"Don't interrupt me yet."

"Zhang Bofen."

"Chen is here!"

"You send [-] arch holy army infantry to support Li Shifu, hold this front, and then command [-] cavalry, what's your name?"

"It's called the Jingsai Army, Your Majesty." Zhang Bofen added.

"There are too many things in my mind, and I even forgot such an important name. You will command five thousand Jingsai troops and enter here." Zhao Ning pointed to the position two miles northeast of the forward battlefield, "Wait here for the changes in the battle situation. .”

Zhang Bofen nodded, and suddenly said: "Your Majesty, I think of something."

"what's up?"

"I heard before that the cavalry in Anbei Mansion were also named Jingsai Army, and it was chosen by Lu Auditor's son."

"Lu You?"

"It seems to be him."

Zhao Ning smiled and said: "It's okay, let's not mention this matter for now, I will allocate all the artillery to you, and you must place the artillery in this position."

Zhao Ning was still referring to the location of the Jingsai Army.

"Use an infantry armor as protection. You decide how many people to protect. The iron kite must be staring at the forward battlefield. The forward battlefield cannot be defeated. Once either of the two sides is defeated, it will cause the central army's morale to shake."

Zhao Ning's mind was spinning very fast.

"Li Qianshun has two ways of attacking. One is to let all the iron kites charge, so that the combination of the iron cannon and the infantry armor may not be able to block them all. The left wing of the forward army must also be impacted by the iron kites. But once it fails to break through our defenses, the iron kite will fall into a passive state, with no room for maneuver."

"The second method of attack is to divide the iron kites into several teams and attack our army from different directions to increase the chance of a breakthrough. I predict that he will use the second method, because the second method can increase the impact surface."

"We are currently unable to determine how many iron kites Li Qianshun has, but there must be quite a few, and they will cooperate with his ordinary armored cavalry to quickly attack our army's forward flanks."

"The Jingsai army and the artillery are not here to support Li Shifu." Zhao Ning emphasized, "Remember, Li Shifu plays the forward, and he has to defend his front, while your goal is to attack the Xixia forward from the flank. You and The iron kite is competing against time, whoever can defeat the opponent's striker first will win the war!"

Zhang Bofen immediately said: "Your Majesty understands, don't worry, I will defeat the Western Thieves before they do!"

"Use the armor-piercing arrow and the artillery together. For the artillery shells, I have completed all the iron beads for you. The number of shells should be sufficient. The armor-piercing arrows and the iron beads are enough to smash the left wing of the Xixia striker!"

"Yes!"

Zhao Ning handed the token to Zhang Bofen.

"Order!"

Zhang Bofen took the badge and hurried down to lead the troops to arrange.

Sun Fu hurriedly said, "Your Majesty, how should we line up?"

"It's up to Zhang Bofen to make his own decision. There are so many scouts on the battlefield, and he doesn't lack intelligence, so he can't take care of everything."

Sun Fu said: "Your Majesty is wise, those scouts should give the information to His Majesty first, and then His Majesty will personally issue orders to Zhang Bofen, so as to ensure that the battle situation is under His Majesty's control."

"How can I command an army of 10,000+ by myself? You don't have to worry about employing people, so you don't have to say much."

Sun Fu definitely remembered that when he was looking for Guo Jing to dance at the top of the city, Zhang Bofen personally chopped Guo Jing off, and even angered Sun Fu, who was then the deputy privy envoy, face to face.

Sun Fu is still holding a grudge in his heart.

He glanced at Zhang Bofen, didn't say anything more, just turned his head and said eagerly, "Your Majesty, it's time for the decisive battle!"

Zhao Ning was not in a hurry, he asked, "How is the battle going on Liu Qi's side?"

"It's just a few cavalry fighting, and both sides are very restrained." Fan Zhixu said.

"Who is Liu Kai's opponent, have you found out?"

"It might be Brother Richard."

"Brother Li Cha?" Zhao Ning smiled and did not continue to ask about this matter.

As long as Liu Kai can hold Brother Li Cha and not let Brother Li Cha interfere in the middle battlefield, it will be fine.

He walked out of the tent, continued to walk up to the commander's platform, and looked at the battlefield ahead.

This time, Li Qianshun played his trump card, and he Zhao Ning also played his trump card.

The Serenity Army has always been a secret, and the Military and Political Yuan's external establishment does not have this army, and it is for the sake of secrecy.

This army selected some of the most capable cavalry in each military town to form an equipped cavalry.

That is heavy cavalry.

Different frontier troops also have some equipment in these years, but due to the limited quality of horses and cavalry, the number is extremely limited.

But the emperor's personal guards were different. There were a total of five thousand cavalry, and the horses were tightly wrapped from head to toe.

Their armaments are comparable to iron kites and iron stupas.

Similarly, their physical fitness is also top-notch.

As for the armor-piercing arrows, there are not many of them.

Armor-piercing arrows are special-purpose arrows. The characteristic of this type of arrow is that the sharp part at the front of the arrow is very short, and the rear part (excluding the collar) is a prism or cylinder or a streamline similar to a cylinder.

The sharp part is short, so that the arrow is not easy to deform during the armor-piercing process, and the armor-piercing state is preserved.

The rear part is a column that can reduce the degree of friction during armor piercing.

This type of arrow must be used with a strong bow.

After the Song Army deployed a large number of crossbows, it slowly reduced the number of archers.

Because archers have too high demands on people.

However, if a crossbow wants to shoot armor-piercing arrows, it needs a strong crossbow to be effective.

Xixia people have armor-piercing arrows, but the number is bound to be limited.

There were bursts of shouts and killings ahead, and the Chinese army's battlefield was in full swing.

The outmoded army on the left has been chasing Xixia's rout for a while, and they have gained a lot.

The corpses of the army on the right of Xixia were strewn across the field. If Li Qianshun hadn't dispatched the middle in time, the panic of the collapsed right might have spread to the army in the middle.

The snow is getting heavier.

Both sides were red-eyed.

Chapter 1066 Charge to the death! (first update)

The vanguards of the two armies met at the very beginning, dispatched a small number of elites, gradually increased their strength, until the Xixia vanguard was defeated, and at this time the Xixia capital guards came to support.

The armor-piercing arrows stopped the Song army and quickly formed a long spear formation.

At this time, Xixia's new striker, after using the armor-piercing arrow, obviously suppressed the invincible fighting arrogance of the Song army just now.

Then Xixia's armored cavalry began to dispatch from the two wings.

According to the information provided by Li Yu, Li Qianshun had a total of [-] cavalry.

The [-] cavalry on the right had already been defeated, Brother Li Cha had [-] on the left, and [-] in the middle.

There are [-] iron kites in the middle, and [-] cavalry are medium-sized cavalry like kidnappers.

This number is very scary.

Just think about the concept of ten thousand cavalry.

Each cavalry is spaced ten meters apart horizontally. If there are 100 horses horizontally and vertically, the vertical and horizontal distances are 1000 meters.

The length of a general football field is only 105 meters, and 10 cavalry are listed, which is equivalent to the length of [-] football fields.

Twenty-two thousand cavalry is equivalent to the length of 22 football fields.

Of course, Li Qianshun did not send out all the [-] cavalry in the middle in one go. Except for the iron kite, the normal number of medium cavalry was [-], distributed on the two wings.

The reason why the other [-] medium-sized cavalry did not come up was that they were lurking in the rear, looking for opportunities to take advantage of the ever-changing battlefield.

After all, this kind of medium-sized cavalry is different from the iron kite. The iron kite is responsible for pushing horizontally when the Song army's army is loose. This kind of medium-sized cavalry can quickly detour and fight.

They can lie dormant in the back, and can quickly rush into the battlefield at any time.

At this time, the Xixia forward has [-] cavalry on the left and right wings, and the scale is already very large.

They spread out from both wings, like an eagle spreading out a pair of huge wings, and began to push towards Li Shifu's left and right wings.

What's even more frightening is that these two cavalry are equipped with long spears.

Once the medium cavalry is equipped with spears, it means to charge.

This also shows that the Xixia people are very aware that ordinary bows and arrows have no effect on the infantry phalanx of the Song Army.

Times have changed. The rate of armor on both sides has greatly increased. The bloodletting tactics of the traditional cavalry rushing to the vicinity to shoot with bows and arrows and then quickly detour to cause psychological burden on the enemy infantry are no longer suitable for such Song Jinxia battle.

Those who can reach the armored infantry are either armor-piercing arrows, heavy artillery, or the terrible charge of cavalry.

At this time, in the frontal battle, the Xixia people chose to charge with medium-sized cavalry.

I saw the [-] cavalrymen on the left wing marching out mightily, with countless iron hooves clattering on the ground.

The horses neighed one after another, and the cavalry raised their spears one after another.

At a glance, the iron armor is like a sea, and the spears are like a forest, as if there is no end in sight.

The front row, showing a cone shape, is nearly a kilometer long.