On a hill more than thirty miles outside Jincheng Pass, Xu Zizhen and three other people were watching from the top of the mountain. In the distance was the densely packed Xixia army. From this angle, the entire army could be clearly seen.
Liu Fengsui clicked his tongue and said loudly: "This Yuan Size really can't keep his temper. Look at this posture. Is it necessary to break Jincheng Pass today?"
Xu Zizhen laughed and said: "How can it be so easy? Mr. Xiaozhong sent people to harass their army just to make them lose their composure. How can there be no reason to be unprepared? Don't think that the 30,000 Deshun army will definitely fight.
With only one hundred thousand Xixia cavalry, Xianggong Xiaozhong alone can withstand an army of eighty thousand."
Liu Feng was slightly moved, looking longingly towards Jinchengguan, and said with emotion: "If we, the Song Dynasty, can have more talented people like this, why should we be afraid of the little Kingdom of Jin?"
Xu Zizhen patted him on the shoulder: "Looking at you, you really admire him. Why don't you go back to the city and introduce me to you so that he can take you in as a general or something?"
Liu Feng smiled and said: "No, I know myself, so how can I be a general so easily? But if the eldest brother becomes a general, I would be willing to serve under you. I am afraid that the eldest brother will dislike me."
Xu Zizhen sneered and said: "Don't be so presumptuous. Is it so difficult to be a general? A while ago, Mr. Xiaozhong wanted me to be a general, but I didn't care about him."
Liu Fengsui was surprised and said, "Why is this?"
Xu Zizhen pretended to be disdainful and said: "How can my ambition be as simple as being a young general in Xianggong's account? Don't look at the fact that I have been chased like a dog by the Xiao family and Sanjue Hall. I will definitely destroy them someday!"
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Bu Fen clapped his hands and laughed and praised: "Well said! Brother Xu is very thoughtful and has great skills. He will definitely be able to lead an army in the future. How can this little kind of gentleman compare with you?"
No matter how thick-skinned Xu Zizhen was, he couldn't help but blush a little at this moment. He laughed and said: "Brother Bu, please don't hurt me. I'm just bragging. If you really want to fight, I can't compare to Xiaozhong."
One thousandth of my father-in-law."
Bu Fen chuckled: "You make that little gentleman look like a god, but in my opinion, it's nothing more than that. Even if the strategy of disturbing the enemy is really as you guessed, how can He Size be?
How can an incompetent person not see through his intentions?"
Xu Zizhen was stunned: "What do you mean? Brother Bu, are you saying... that Yu Size deliberately pretended to fall into a trap to attack Jincheng Pass?"
Bu Fen pointed at the Xixia army in the distance and said: "See for yourself, if Yun Size fell into the trap, he would be furious at this time, or he would use the human sea tactic to break through the pass at all costs. What is the terrain of Jincheng Pass and you don't want to come?"
If you know that, how can you charge forward with cavalry?"
Xu Zizhen looked carefully, and Bu Fen didn't say that he hadn't noticed yet. Sure enough, the front line of the Xixia army was full of cavalry, and densely packed infantry followed behind. It was completely different from the previous Xixia army's siege formation.
At this moment, Xu Zizhen suddenly clearly saw a flag waving a few times in the Chinese army camp, and then the formation of the army suddenly changed. The cavalry all retreated, and behind the cavalry Bu Zi
They were like passing locusts, squirming through the gaps in the cavalry queue and swooping towards the gate.
From this hilltop, we could no longer see the specific situation of Jincheng Pass, but Xu Zizhen and the other three people still clearly heard a series of gunshots.
Xu Zizhen's heart immediately relaxed when he was just mentioned, and he smiled and said: "Look, I said Mr. Xiao Zhong is prepared, right?"
But before he finished speaking, dozens of strange-shaped carts suddenly rushed out from behind the Xixia army. Underneath were two rows of huge straight wheels. In the middle was a frame made of rough wood mixed with steel bars, with a long pole at the top.
The long arm has a bowl-shaped stone pocket at the end.
Each cart was pulled by more than a dozen horses, and the formation was uniform. Wherever it passed, the army quickly moved out of the way, allowing them to pass through wide passages. In just a blink of an eye, these carts reached the center of the formation.
Stopped steadily.
The closed cannonballs flew down like rain, but the artillery shells used in the Northern Song Dynasty were mainly stone and iron bullets, and the range was not far. It looked very loud, but only when the cannonballs fell into the dense team of people
Only then will the damage be caused. Like now, the Buba soldiers rushed up quickly, the formation was extremely loose, and they were running around at will. In this way, the damage of the artillery was reduced to the lowest point.