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Yanliang's army never expected that after one night, the allied forces would be defeated, and the new city that had already been captured was also recaptured by the Daheng Kingdom.

The arrogance that was originally high was hit because of this, but what they didn't expect was the fiercest counterattack they faced since the beginning of the war.

After regaining the new city, the morale of the Daheng army soared, and Si Yuanting's series of performances in this battle from planning to fighting the enemy fearlessly and bravely established his initial prestige in the army.

After regaining the new city and rearranging the defenses, Si Yuanting immediately discussed with Zhou Ji, Zhu Bili and the military division again, and formulated the next counterattack strategy. According to Si Yuanting's arrival with 13 reinforcements, he immediately won the first battle. Momentum, it is inevitable to take advantage of the victory and pursue it, and completely wipe out the downturn after the surprise attack.

When the Yanliang army was beating drums again under the scorching sun to order the soldiers to advance, Si Yuanting, Zhu Bili and others were already on the tower.

After many days of fighting, the fields outside the city were already covered with blood-stained corpses. The thick smell of blood filled the air and mixed with the smell of gunpowder smoke, almost suffocating.

The vanguard commander of Yanliang looked up and saw Si Yuanting in silver armor on the tower, he raised his hand to stop the soldiers from advancing, he squinted his eyes to see Si Yuanting's haughty but breathtakingly beautiful face in the sun, He sneered and said, "Is there no general in this Daheng country who can hold the battle? He even sent a vase to fight! I'm not afraid to laugh my ass off!"

Scolding and provoking before the battle is a drama that will be staged in all wars throughout the ages. Calling the battle is to damage the morale of the opponent, and the side that loses its breath first is often more likely to lose.

The so-called three armies are the front army, the middle army and the rear army.The rear army is the logistics army that guarantees the logistics supplies and food, the middle army is the main force of the army, and the front army is the vanguard.

Because Si Yuanting led the reinforcements to Shanhaiguan and took back the new city, Yanliang's attack once again let the forwards come out to take the lead to test the reality.

Facing the call of the vanguard commander, Si Yuanting didn't talk nonsense, and stood on the tower with a heavy bow in his hand.

An outstanding archer can draw three to four stone bows, and the heavy bow in Si Yuanting's hand is more than two hundred catties, which is a four-stone bow. The arrow shot by Yuan Ting burst out of the air with a sharp force, and shot straight at the vanguard commander under the city.

The vanguard commander didn't expect Si Yuanting to be so direct. In the blink of an eye, the arrow had already shot in front of his eyes. He swung his saber hastily, but he only had time to cut off the arrow body. He didn't even have time to let out a scream before the arrow shot into his eyebrows, directly shot him off the horse.

At the same time, Zhou Ji led the energetic Cangyuan army who had not participated in the recapture battle to attack, and rushed out of the city to the Yanliang army in a conical formation emphasizing offensive breakthroughs.The striker led by Zhou Ji is an elite force, extremely fast, and the troops on the two wings of the formation are also extremely powerful.

Because Shanhaiguan is not suitable for launching an offensive formation, the dangerous terrain has made Yanliang's army always choose the fish-scale formation that is most suitable for attacking.After the commander-in-chief of the Yanliang army was in the formation, the main forces gathered in the center to form a number of fish-scale small square formations with slightly convex front ends. Good for offense.

The reason why Si Yuanting decided to use the conical formation to attack is precisely because the conical formation can attack the enemy in a narrow front through the elite forwards, quickly break through and split the enemy's formation, and the two wings can expand the results of the battle.

Yanliang's former army was first shot and killed by Si Yuanting, and then the Cangyuan army led by Zhou Ji broke through the formation. It didn't take long for the army to be defeated. Before noon, Yanliang called for gold to withdraw the troops, and the morning's battle was hastily ended. Siege.

Another victory completely wiped out the previous arrogance of the Yanliang army. They did not expect that even if Chu Yuezhi, the famous "killing wolf" on the border and other countries, could not lead the conquest, another one from the Daheng Kingdom would come up and send them off. A commander who lost two battles.

The soldiers and horses brought by Si Yuanting rejuvenated the soldiers guarding Shanhaiguan. Although the 13 troops rushed all the way non-stop, they were much more energetic than the soldiers who fought hard for days.

But this was not enough. This time, Si Yuanting not only brought soldiers and horses, but also sent Zhao Bin's new artillery with a longer range and successfully developed swords and guns before leaving the capital.

Shortly after Yanliang withdrew his troops, Si Yuanting ordered that artillery be set up to bombard Yanliang's barracks at noon.

The new type of cannon developed by Zhao Bin has an effective range of two miles and a maximum range of four miles. It not only has a high muzzle velocity and high power, but also has a very high precision. There are lugs at the center of gravity of the gun body, and this is used as an axis to adjust the shooting The speed and amount of gunpowder, combined with the front sight and the rear sight, are much higher than the previous cannons in terms of accuracy.In addition to the improvement of the gun body, Zhao Bin also improved the shells.In the past, most of the cannons could only fire solid bullets in order to attack and defend the city, but now, Zhao Bin has developed a shotgun that can cause large-scale damage to the enemy.

This time, Si Yuanting made the most accurate test for Zhao Bin's cannon by using the Yanliang army who took the initiative to send it to his door.

Although Yanliang's army is also equipped with cannons, but because they planned to launch a surprise attack at the beginning and fight a speed war, so equipped with too many cannons will inevitably slow down the marching speed, which is not beneficial for long-distance expeditions. Therefore, the number of cannons and gunpowder equipped by Yanliang's army this time is far less than that of Si Yuanting's side.Coupled with the consumption of the previous siege, although the Yanliang army immediately set up cannons to try to fight back, their number of cannons was insufficient, and they were still old-style cannons. The effective range was only one mile, and the longest range was less than three miles. Not enough, it is simply difficult to resist the artillery bombardment launched by Si Yuanting.

The ammunition fired from the cannon bombed and exploded in the air, but the ammunition fired from the Shanhaiguan city was completely suppressed, smashing the sky and covering the Yanliang barracks. In less than half an hour, the Yanliang barracks were burned to the ground. sea ​​of ​​flames.

Food and grass were burned in such a horrific bombing, and artillery ammunition and weapons were also destroyed.

Gunpowder smoke and flames were mixed, and the flames opened their teeth and claws in the thick black fog, while underneath were the heart-piercing screams of Yanliang soldiers.

Seeing this situation, Commander Yanliang knew that the battle was still defeated. The strength of the Daheng Kingdom was far stronger than they imagined. Whether it was the commander, military strength and equipment, they were far higher than them by more than one level.

However, Emperor Yanliang's order for him was that he must severely damage the defense line of Shanhaiguan no matter what.

Commander Yanliang knew that he and his soldiers had no way out, so when the first round of bombing came to an end, he ordered the entire attack and made a final counterattack.

In the final counterattack, Commander Yan Liang used a stacked formation, dividing the army into three rows, with soldiers holding spears and knives at the front, bows at the back, and god-armed crossbows at the end.

Of course, Si Yuanting had clearly predicted Commander Yanliang's prediction.

This time, Si Yuanting chose to take the initiative.

The army he led changed the large formation into a small formation, with 12 people as the most basic combat unit. In this formation, there are two long card players and shield players at the beginning, followed by two wolf fighters, followed by Four spearmen, and finally two short soldiers.The shield hand protects long-range shooting weapons, the wolf is the main force of the attack, and uses the spear to kill people. The short soldier cooperates with the spearman, on the one hand to prevent the enemy from entering, and on the other hand, it can make up for the spearman to continue attacking when he is tired.

But this time, Si Yuanting let the spearmen in the vanguard use more lethal swords and spears.

Si Yuanting divided the army into four parts. The front part is the vanguard, which is the main offensive force; the two wings are the surprise soldiers, which are responsible for protecting the vanguard's side and rear, and attacking the enemy's flank at the right time.

So when Yanliang's remaining [-] troops were about to launch a final counterattack, Commander Yanliang saw Si Yuanting in silver armor riding on horseback, leading the mighty army behind him, appearing in front of them all. In the eyes of the Yanliang soldiers, Si Yuanting drew out his long sword and pointed at the Yanliang army, and under the smoke of the gunpowder, he issued a deafening order with abundant internal strength——

"Anyone who violates the border of my Daheng country will be punished!"

The Cangyuan Army, the Tuntian Army, and some soldiers who had been guarding Shanhaiguan raised their weapons one after another, and issued a unified and earth-shattering cry: "Anyone who violates the border of our Daheng Kingdom will be punished! Anyone on the border of the Daheng Kingdom will be—killed—!”

Wave after wave of voices attacked the Yanliang army like mountains and seas, and it was the counterattack led by Si Yuanting that attacked the Yanliang army.

The hoofbeats of the war horses and the footsteps of the soldiers pounded heavily on the battlefield that had been fighting for many days, but this time, the sound of drums and horns to launch an attack came from the tower of Shanhaiguan.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

The wind howled, the flag of the Daheng Kingdom was waving in the wind, and the sound of the rumbling drums shocked every soldier of the Daheng Kingdom on the battlefield. They uttered a cry that made all the Yanliang troops terrified, and rushed forward with the most ferocious and fearless posture. To Yan Liangjun.

"Anyone who violates the border of my Daheng country will be punished! Kill—!—!"

Commander Yanliang fought several battles in his life, and even once confronted Chu Yuezhi's two armies. That time he also fought extremely hard. Under the desperate escort of his subordinates, he barely escaped with the remaining [-] soldiers.

But this time, seeing that Chu Yuezhi is more handsome than Chu Yuezhi, he is also more terrifying than Chu Yuezhi. Si Yuanting, who is riding a war horse and commanding an army to attack him like the most ruthless god of death, knows that he will Impossible to get a glimpse of life.

The silver armor was once again stained with scarlet blood, billowing dust rose from the ground, and the sound of cannons was accompanied by the shouts of killing from the soldiers of the Daheng Kingdom; The Yanliang soldiers were covered in blood, and their eyes were full of fear of defeat and despair of death.

With an angry shout, Si Yuanting beheaded the commander Yan Liang who had already lost his fighting spirit on the spot, allowing all the soldiers of the Daheng Kingdom to see the complete victory of this battle.

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The author says:

For the range of the cannon, refer to the data of the Hongyi cannon of the Ming Dynasty and the evolved Hongyi cannon of the Qing Dynasty. Here, it is set that the effective range of the cannon improved by Zhao Bin is close to 1000 meters, and the longest range is about 2000 meters.