Unparalleled Concubine

Although this thing has great limitations, it can be of great use on the battlefield with only an area-of-effect ability, so it has to be guarded against.

Li Xin waited and watched on the high slope for a while, and after the formation of the forbidden army was almost formed, he also rode to the Ningzhou army camp. The top and bottom generals began to distribute specific tasks. After seeing Li Xin's arrival, Li Shuo immediately got up, bowed to Li Xin and clasped his fists: "I have seen the general!"

As soon as he spoke, all the generals of the Ningzhou Army bowed to Li Xin and clasped their fists: "I have seen the general!"

"It's time, you're welcome."

Li Xin sat straight on the main seat, and said, "Sit down and talk."

The group sat down as promised, and Li Xin said, "The Forbidden Army in Gyeonggi is only more than ten miles away from us, and it will arrive in half an hour at most. Let's make a long story short at this time."

He directly asked Li Shuo, "What is the strategy of the Ningzhou army to meet the enemy now?"

Li Shuo bowed his head and said: "Back to the general, the last general has already prepared a defensive position. The firearms battalion will fight first. After the first round of firearms, the firearms will fight the second round. At this time, the enemy's formation is similar. It was disrupted, and the main force of our army can take the opportunity to send troops to fight the enemy head-on."

Speaking of this, he paused, and said in a deep voice: "The imperial army has a lot of people this time. According to the general's estimation, firearms are useful, but for a while, there is no way to kill the main force of the enemy. Most of them still have to fight from the front. "

"This is... a tough battle."

After listening to Li Xin, he nodded and said, "There is nothing wrong with the general strategy. Let me correct it."

"This time, the imperial army... about two or three thousand cavalry followed them out of the city. If I'm not mistaken, there are more or less thunders on these cavalry."

The imperial court sits in the world, and the resources it possesses are far from comparable to those in the Southwest. The structure of Tianlei is not complicated. After the emperor got the gunpowder recipe, he ordered the supervisor to make it with all his strength. Although it didn't take long, the things had already been produced. Quite a lot.

Most of the imperial guards in Gyeonggi are infantry, but there are exceptions. The two battalions of imperial guards together have about [-] cavalry, which is insignificant compared to the total number of hundreds of thousands of imperial guards.

Now there are only four Zhechong mansions in the capital, but almost half of the cavalry in the imperial army have been sent out!

After hearing these words, the expressions of the generals of the Ningzhou Army changed slightly.

The Southwest was the first army to possess firearms. Although the Ningzhou Army came into contact with firearms later than the Hanzhou Army, they also knew about firearms very well. Now that the enemy has firearms, these people are frowning.

Li Xin remained expressionless, and continued: "Most of the cavalry of the Imperial Army are carrying sky thunders to disrupt our army formation. They are here to fight the first battle. Soldiers go out to meet the enemy, and use firecrackers and crossbows to deal with these cavalry."

Cavalry is a very difficult unit to limit, especially for guerrilla intrusions like this, rather than cavalry that fights head-on with you, it is difficult to limit, even long-distance weapons such as bows and crossbows, it is also difficult to shoot fast-moving cavalry .

Historically, it seems that only Datang's Modao formation has achieved good results. Other than that, cavalry can only be defeated by cavalry.

But firearms are different.

Although this thing is crude, the speed of lead bullets is still far faster than that of arrows, and it should be able to cause considerable casualties to the cavalry.

Li Xin took a deep breath and continued: "These cavalry are used by the enemy to throw thunder. If they break into our army formation, you must adapt to the situation and disperse the formation. Don't let them blow up our army formation. Chance."

"What's more, the imperial court's sky thunder...the power should be much lower than our sky thunder. We have to guard against it, but we don't need to be afraid."

Having said that, Li Xin stood up, looked around at the generals in the battalion, and said in a deep voice: "Everyone, this battle is the most important battle of our Eastern Expedition. If I win, I will be in a position to win. If I lose, I will only be embarrassed." Fleeing back to the southwest, I will face the court's crazy revenge in the future."

"At this time, everyone in the world is looking at the capital. If we win this match, at least half of them will fall to our side!"

With a tyrannical attitude, the Southwest Army fought all the way from Hanzhong to the capital, and the name of the Sixth Prince is still there. But until now, Li Xin has not received the support of many forces, because most of the forces are still not very optimistic about the Southwest. military.

After all, the mistakes of the Pingnanhou Mansion are still clearly visible.

But winning this important battle will make a big difference. At that time, many people on the sidelines will place their bets, and Li Xin will get the support of many forces, even comprehensive support!

Li Xin shouted in a deep voice: "Everyone, give him a fight and win the Forbidden Army. The Ningzhou Army will be famous all over the world today!"

Li Shuo took the lead half-kneeling on the ground, cupped his fists and lowered his head, shouted: "The last general is waiting, I will surely live up to the great general's trust!"

After saying this, he took the lead out of the camp and began to assign specific tasks to the dozens of generals behind him.

The firecrackers, which have been upgraded to 1000 people, are arranged in the positions on the two wings, quietly waiting for the arrival of the imperial cavalry.

It was still early morning at this time, but there was no sun in the sky, and thick dark clouds piled down, making people very depressing.

A great battle has begun!

Chapter 1081 Crushing experience!

As far as the combat effectiveness of the cavalry is concerned, the strongest cavalry in the past 200 years was the iron cavalry when the Yuwen Department of Xianbei entered the customs from outside the pass. With only 10,000+ cavalry, they swept across the entire Jiangbei and became a famous empire in the Central Plains.

Until the Northern Zhou Dynasty, even though the nobles of Xianbei had degenerated to the point where it was difficult to mount a horse, the standard cavalry of the Northern Zhou Dynasty was still better than that of the Southern Jin Dynasty, but the cavalry could not defend the city, so Ye Cheng led a dozen or 20 infantry, Brutely broke into Yandu.

Up to now, it has been 50 to [-] years since the fall of the Northern Zhou Dynasty. Whether it is riding and archery skills or the quality and quantity of cavalry, the Great Jin Dynasty still has not caught up with the Northern Zhou Dynasty. There are only [-] cavalry in the central imperial army, and the quality is worrying.

Although these [-] cavalry can fight on horseback, most of them can draw bows and shoot arrows on horseback. However, the accuracy of archery on horseback is far inferior to that of the Yuwen tribes in the north. It can only be used for mobile interference, far less than the Yuwen tribe. level of combat power.

But even so, it was enough.

After all, the imperial court sent them out, not to let them ride horses and kill the enemy with crossbow arrows, but to let them use the maneuverability of cavalry to throw imperial thunders into the southwestern army formation.

Two thousand cavalry left the city first, but they were not in a hurry to charge. After the main forces of the four Zhechong Mansions were almost in position in the front, these cavalry were divided into two groups, interspersed from both sides to the two wings of the Southwest Army, and prepared to strike with thunder. Disperse the formation of the Southwest Army.

These people are all lightly dressed, and besides bows and arrows, they each carry two to four sky thunders. Their task is to successfully throw the sky thunders into the Southwest Army's formation and disrupt the Southwest Army. The formation of the army, so that the four Zhechong mansions in the front can successfully break through the defense line of the Southwest Army and defeat these Southwest rebels in one fell swoop!

The cavalry on both sides entered the two wings of the Southwest Army smoothly. Because of the high maneuverability of the cavalry, the crossbow arrows on the front of the Southwest Army did not cause a lot of casualties to these cavalry. Only less than a hundred of the more than 2000 cavalry were shot down by bows and arrows. Most of the rest rushed to the two wings of the Southwest Army.

The person in charge of commanding the cavalry was Zhong Xuantong's second-grandson Zhong E. He went to Yunzhou City after he was 16 years old. This time he returned to Beijing from Yunzhou City with his grandfather and took care of his grandfather Zhong Xuantong.

There are not many cavalry in the capital, but there are quite a few cavalry in Yunzhou City. Therefore, Zhong E, a family member who has been on horseback for many years, took the command of this cavalry logically.

He also brought five or six sky mines with him.

After rushing to the position of the two wings, Chong E immediately shouted: "Brothers, find a gap to penetrate in, don't love to fight after entering, withdraw immediately after losing the sky thunder, and then stop the next penetration!"

After receiving his order, more than 1000 cavalrymen on the left immediately dispersed and rushed towards the left-wing formation of the Southwest Army. distance.

At this time, thousands of people suddenly appeared in the formation of the Southwest Army. Some of these people were holding strange iron pipes, and some were holding longbows. The sound of the sound, arrows shot from the longbow, there was another loud noise, and flames burst out from the strange iron pipe!

Arrows and lead bullets shot towards these imperial cavalry!

Zhong E's face changed slightly, but he didn't panic, he shouted loudly: "Walk around, don't rush in straight!"

There is absolutely no problem with this simple combat order in the cavalry of the Yunzhou Army, but the cavalry of the Forbidden Army is obviously not as good as the Yunzhou cavalry due to lack of daily training. The speed of the horse dropped a lot at once.

Zhong E gritted his teeth, he shouted angrily: "The horse can't slow down, can't slow down!"

The reason why cavalry is so valuable is because of their valuable mobility. Once they lose their speed on the battlefield, they lose everything.

After the first round of salvo by the Southwest Army, more than 1000 cavalrymen under Zhong'e's command fell down in unison!

Most of them were shot down by lead bullets.

After all, most soldiers in this era would not panic too much when facing bows and arrows, but when facing a firecracker they had never seen before, they had no experience and were directly knocked to the ground!

The firecrackers of the Southwest Army have been systematically trained. Every time they shoot, they will be divided into three rows, and then let the front, middle, and rear three rows shoot in turn to offset the reloading time. Therefore, after the first salvo, there is no After a while, the sound of the second round of salvo sounded!