"These new armies of the Song Dynasty were able to defeat the Jurchens. They are indeed somewhat different from the previous Western armies of the Song Dynasty.
No! It should be a huge difference, just the fighting spirit is too strong~"
First, Hou San, a legendary leader of the New Army who lost an arm, took the lead in singing; then the entire Third Army plus a group of civilians, a total of 50,000 people, sang "" "Fan Yan Kaige".
The huge sound seemed to be able to suppress the loud sound of horse hooves as it shot straight into the sky.
In the mouth of the current emperor of Xixia, Li Qianshun, he muttered something like this in a low voice.
Yes, that's right!
Lao Hei, Da Yu, and Wu Zu, who were preparing for the first battle with Xixia after entering the Hetao Plain, did not know that even Li Qianshun, an enemy chieftain, appeared on the battlefield at this moment.
It's just that this person did not directly join the charge.
Under the protection of a group of iron kite cavalry, he was now staying on a hill about five or six miles away from the battlefield, watching the battle in front of him with great interest.
If you think about it carefully, Li Qianshun's appearance here is not at all incomprehensible.
It can even be said that it is very logical.
It has been almost a hundred years since the founding of Xixia, and a proper intelligence network has been established in the Song Dynasty, especially in the surrounding areas.
Every move of the Third Army, wherever it marched every day, could not escape their control.
As for the New Army of the Song Dynasty, an army that could be said to have no contact with them at all, Li Qianshun and others had heard how powerful it was through various rumors.
In fact, he has never had any real contact with him.
Now that the Third Army is coming, they naturally want to test the quality of the legendary New Army of the Song Dynasty.
Only then can we make some adjustments based on the actual situation.
Of course, such an adjustment refers to how to deal with the new imperial court of the Song Dynasty and how Hu Yitong, a powerful official, dealt with this aspect.
For such a partial army with only 40,000 regular soldiers in front of us, plus a mere 10,000 civilians.
This time, the entire Xixia army was mobilized and half of it was deployed on the Linzhou battlefield. Li Qianshun had an almost six-fold advantage in strength.
I have never really taken such a partial army seriously.
He was even prepared to swallow them up in this battle.
But soon after, during this so-called trial battle, the unexpected process and results completely changed his mind...
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The cavalry leading on the Xixia side, that is, the mercenaries composed of Tubo people, Gaochang people, and Klie people, rushed to a position about three hundred meters in front of the car formation.
In the car formation, there was a roar of "fire!", which was shouted out in a long and loud tone.
There is no way! Even Lang Qing and the military soldiers from the Ministry of Industry have tried their best to cast Napoleon field cannons of various calibers since the battle of Zhuxian Town.
However, the quantity produced was barely enough to form two artillery divisions.
When the two artillery divisions were all deployed on the most important Yanjing battlefield, the artillery that the Third Army could allocate were about a hundred small Folang machine guns mounted on new carts.
The range of this thing is only one mile if it reaches the sky.
In order to pursue the killing effect, you can only fire at such a distance.
Suddenly, more than a hundred iron pellets, which were no more than the size of duck eggs, were fired at the mercenaries who didn't even have much armor, driven by gunpowder.
Soon after, there were seventy or eighty riders, who seemed to have hit an invisible wall of air and were knocked to the ground on the spot.
It is a pity that for the huge force of the Xixia people who are currently rushing over, it is not even a fraction.
In addition, these Xixia people had obviously heard about the Song army's powerful firearms from the Jin people.
They also used firecrackers and small explosive packs in advance to conduct some adaptive training on their war horses. Now, amidst the loud sound of cannons, these war horses were not even frightened.
Combining the above, it cannot be said that morale has been greatly affected.
After seeing such a scene, Zhang Dabang, nicknamed "Black King Kong", clenched the ghost-head knife in his hand that he had used for many years.
I couldn't help but rant in my mouth:
"Ms. Hu is also too partial. Our Third Army is not raised by maids. Why is there such a big difference?"
For such a small deputy chief to have such a huge resentment against the superior Hu Xiang, not only was their third army not equipped with large-caliber artillery, but it also did not have the legendary rockets.
It's another killer weapon, the 'swarm of bees', which is to use a box to hold some sharp arrows and use gunpowder as a driver.
The kind of gunpowder weapon that will shoot out with a "swish" when lit, is temporarily kept and cannot be used due to the strict orders of Old Hei Xianggong and others.
Otherwise, how could these dirty-looking Gaochang people, Tubo people, and Kerei people in front of them rush forward?
Just like that, amidst Zhang Dabang's complaints, a group of cavalry rushed closer and closer.
As for those small Folang machine guns, after firing two rounds of solid bullets in succession, when the cavalry rushed within a hundred meters, they finally switched to shotguns and started firing.
In addition, after reaching such a distance, most of the targets in front of us have no armor.
The musketeers who stood or crouched behind the wooden walls of the car formation also fired their brown Bess muskets and fired at the opponents who dared to form a dense formation.
What needs to be explained is that in the current battle that relies on vehicle formations for defense.
The musketeers did not use any kind of three-stage attack. They fired one shot and then stopped reloading.
Instead, after emptying the musket in his hand, he passed it behind him and took the loaded musket behind him.
Lift it, aim, fire, switch guns again, and so on.
As for Zhang Dabang and his old brothers, what are these volunteers of the Volunteer Division doing?
These former heroes with stronger melee abilities were of course waiting. After those Xixia people rushed into the car formation, it was time for them to show off their skills.
But it seems that they have no chance today.
Because even if Lao Hei and others thought about the 'swarm' of rockets as the most important trump card, they suppressed it and did not use it.
When the white smoke representing the firing of Xiaoflangji and Brown Bess muskets in the car formation began to rise.
After the dense steel balls and lead bullets were greeted by the so-called mercenaries, these soldiers used to hold up a simple leather shield and wooden shield when fighting against the Western Army of the Song Dynasty, and rode on their horses to face the rain of arrows and rush forward.
The guys in the Song Dynasty's Bu Zhen.
I was horrified to find that a large number of people of the same race around me fell off their horses one after another.
That is to say, relying on the speed of the horse, and being completely stunned for a while, he didn't react at all, and still relied on the inertia to continue to rush forward.
But with each advance, more and more people were killed and injured.
Finally, when some grenadiers behind the convoy received the order, they were just ready to throw grenades, but they did not actually pull the fuse.
Those mercenaries who rushed to the car formation, more than thirty steps away.
Finally, he reacted under the opponent's terrifying firepower and his own tired casualties.
They didn't even care that up to now, the horn sound indicating retreat had not yet sounded; they all just pulled their horses' heads to the left and right and began to flee desperately.
For those who participated in the battle just for some money, food and materials, they felt that there was really no need to risk their lives here.
They are poor, yes, but they are not stupid.
Therefore, the Xixia people's so-called attack to test the quality of the Song Dynasty's new army ended hastily after it had just begun.
Their efforts left many arrows on the thick wooden boards of the car array.
And by a very coincidence, the arrows that flew in through the shooting hole injured a dozen musketeers, and there was no result at all.
On the contrary, these so-called mercenaries had already killed more than 2,000 people in front of the car formation in a very short period of time.
The opponent is defeated even though we haven't fought much yet?
Such a huge sense of disparity made them all ready for a fight to the death, ready to risk their lives to get a big name in the title of wife and shadow child.
I was confused for a while and didn't even react.
Finally, after the embarrassed opponents escaped three or four miles away, they cursed a mantra that was said to be from a certain husband: