Guo Song's 130,000-strong army arrived at Caoba Plain where the Khitan tooth tent was located. Scouts came to report and found the main force of the Khitan army ten miles away, which was also nearly 100,000 people.
Guo Song immediately ordered the army to form a formation. Yao Jin and Li Bing each led 40,000 troops as the left and right wings, he led 30,000 of the most elite Iron Guards as the central army, and Pei Xin and Yang Xuanying each led 10,000 cavalry as the mobile assault army.
"Your Highness, are the number of Chinese troops too small?" Li Bing asked worriedly.
Guo Song smiled slightly, "They want to make a comeback. The best strategy is to attack the Chinese army with all their strength. If my number is smaller, they will not change their strategy easily."
"The lower level officials are also worried about this, so they think the number of soldiers in the Chinese army is too small."
"Who said the number is small? Isn't 20,000 cavalry a Chinese army?"
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Only then did Li Bing realize that the commander was deliberately letting the Chinese army show weakness to attract the enemy's attack. The 20,000 cavalry also belonged to the Chinese army. He immediately bowed and said: "Your Highness is so brilliant that he is inferior to a humble position!"
Guo Song said calmly: "The battle between the two armies depends on knowing ourselves and the enemy. As long as we take the initiative and lead the enemy's nose, victory will definitely belong to us in the end!"
The 130,000-strong army quickly deployed. Pei Xin and Yang Xuanying each led 10,000 cavalry behind the two wings. It was obvious that the two wings were heavier and the center was lighter. However, the generals of the Jin army did not think so. The 30,000-person center was one of the few in the world.
The elite of the 100,000 Jin troops, even the elite of the elite, are the Iron Guards who directly belong to His Highness the King of Jin.
At the front of the Chinese army are the world-famous 5,000 heavy armored infantry, followed by 15,000 spear infantry. They can also fire ordinary bows and arrows, which is more than enough to deal with the temporarily recruited soldiers of the Khitan with poor equipment.
Behind the spear infantry are 10,000 heavy crossbowmen, who can shoot three-foot-long armor-piercing arrows with a range of 200 paces and can easily penetrate the enemy's shields and two layers of leather armor. These 10,000 heavy crossbowmen are also
cavalry.
The most powerful firearms battalion of the Jin army is also hidden in the Chinese army, which is four specially constructed carriages. Inside the carriages are four medium-sized trebuchets, which can throw forty kilograms of iron fire mines 150 steps away.
, there are also thirty cyclone cannons carried on camels, which are small trebuchets that can throw small iron fire mines weighing ten kilograms a hundred steps away.
The Firearms Department has successfully developed a three-pound individual soldier-thrown iron fire mine, which will be manufactured on a large scale next year. The exploding iron fragments and dense poisonous nails inside can kill and injure dozens of people. These firearms are used to deal with Dong Hu
The great killer of the human and grassland nomadic armies, it will also be a powerful weapon against the Khazar army and the food army in the West in the future.
The 130,000 Jin army formation slowly advanced forward, and the overwhelming 100,000 Khitan army in the distance was also approaching. When the two sides were three miles apart, they stopped. A strong wind blew on the grassland, and the battle flags were blown away.
The wind blew loudly, the dark clouds hung low, and murderous aura filled the air, as if the air was also filled with the smell of blood.
The moment of life and death finally came. Yeluyun Deshi took a deep breath, waved his sword, and shouted loudly: "Attack!"
"Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!" Earth-shaking war drums sounded, and the Khitan army suddenly launched.
Thirty thousand Khitan cavalry came in overwhelming force, forming an inverted triangle, and went straight to the Jin army's center. Their strategy was very clear. They defeated the enemy's center, causing the entire enemy army to be defeated.
The army of more than 100,000 was motionless, as dignified as a mountain. Guo and Song's strategy was equally clear. Use heavy armored infantry and crossbowmen to annihilate the enemy's cavalry, then use cavalry to defeat the enemy's omen soldiers, and then concentrate their forces to annihilate the Khitans.
There are more than ten thousand standing troops.
The heavy armored infantry were divided into three rows. The first two rows squatted down one after another, pressing the hilts of their swords against the ground, with the blades tilted upward. The third row was one foot apart. They did not squat half-crouched, but stood with their swords crossed. This is
The experience gained from many fierce battles is that if a war horse is blocked by a front row of soldiers, the cavalry will often be thrown behind the heavy armored infantry, so a row of soldiers must be left behind the heavy armored infantry to do the last-ditch attack.
"Crossbowmen prepare!" Guo Song ordered.
The flags were waved, the war drums sounded, and the 10,000 heavy crossbowmen lay on the ground and opened the crossbow with their feet. Another soldier fired arrows in coordination. The 5,000 heavy crossbows were aimed at the sky, and the 15,000 spearmen also took out their arrows.
The bows and arrows were cocked, and 20,000 arrows were pointed at the enemy coldly, waiting for them to approach.
The 30,000 cavalry were huge and the horses were galloping, coming like a surging tide. The ground was shaking. They were getting closer and closer. The original inverted triangle disappeared and turned into a disorderly run. This is also a typical example of lack of training.
Performance.
Five hundred steps...three hundred steps...two hundred steps...one hundred and fifty steps
"Heavy crossbowmen shoot!" Guo Song gave the first order.
The red flag was waved, and the commander shouted: "Shoot -"
There was a series of crossbow sounds, and five thousand large arrows were shot out at the same time. The dense arrows rose into the sky, forming an arrow cloud, and then turned into raindrops and fell on the heads of the cavalry. The cavalry were all young and strong Khitan men who had just been recruited, wearing thin clothes.
Armor, without a shield and with crude weapons, how could they withstand the lethality of a heavy crossbow.
Big arrows pierced the chest one after another, and the cavalrymen screamed and fell off their horses.
"Archers shoot!" Guo Song gave the second order.
The cavalry had already rushed a hundred steps away. At this time, with the sound of clappers, 15,000 spear soldiers fired their bows and arrows one after another. Fifteen thousand arrows were shot out more densely. Although a single arrow was not as lethal as a heavy crossbow.
But to deal with these poorly equipped cavalry, bows and arrows are enough.
An overwhelming barrage of arrows roared in, and the soldiers at the front fell off their horses one after another. After a burst of bows and arrows, there were only a few of them. The heavy crossbowmen killed more than 1,700 people, but the 15,000 arrows killed more than 4,000 people.
As long as a person falls off his horse, he will be trampled to death.
At this time, Guo Song found that deploying heavy crossbows was a bit redundant, so he ordered: "Mount the heavy crossbow troops!"
After the order was issued, the 10,000 heavy crossbow soldiers put down their heavy crossbows one after another, got on their horses, and mounted their horses. This was the only cavalry in the entire Tang Dynasty. They were lucky enough to become Guo Song's iron guard. Thousands of people came from behind.
The soldiers removed the heavy crossbows from the ground and placed them on the cart accompanying the army.
The surging cavalry finally reached the heavy armored infantry. There was a violent collision, accompanied by screams. The corpses of the horses and soldiers instantly piled up in front of the Modao Formation. When the collision gradually stopped, the heavy infantry stood up in a hurry.
It began to show its power, five thousand Mo Dao gleaming with cold light, forming a forest of knives, mercilessly slashing at the incoming enemy cavalry...
The arrows continued to fire round after round, and thousands of people fell in each round. The originally dense 30,000 cavalry began to become sparse, and the remaining cavalry's morale declined and began to retreat.
Yeluyunde realized that the situation was not good and shouted: "The whole army attacks!"
The remaining 70,000 troops began to launch an all-out attack. The conscripted troops were at the forefront, while the standing army was behind.
Guo Song sneered and immediately ordered: "The cavalry on the left and right attack!"
"Woo!" The horn sounded, and Pei Xin and Yang Xuanying's 20,000 cavalry attacked at the same time, killing the unorganized enemy soldiers with lightning speed...
Guo Song calmly watched the changes on the battlefield. The entire enemy army attacked, and the target was still his own central army, which was completely expected by him.
He also saw Yeluyun Deshi's intention to use the ragtag army he recruited to consume the physical strength of his soldiers, and finally his standing army launched a fatal blow to him.
Although Guo Song dismissed Yeluyun Deshi's idea, he did not want to waste too much time on this rabble.
Guo Song immediately ordered: "Send the order for both wings to attack together!"
The central army sounded the rapid beat of war drums, followed by the waving of two yellow flags. This was the sound of drums and flag language. Yao Jin and Li Bing simultaneously ordered the left and right armies to close in on the center.
The two armies began to gather together, and Guo Song gave the order for the firearms battalion to attack.
Four specially-made carriages appeared behind the heavy armored infantry, pulled by eight horses. Behind them was a wide and long carriage. The top and four sides of the carriage had been opened, revealing four small trebuchets. Each trebuchet was manned by twenty men.
Soldier control.
The trebuchet was already creaking open, and four small iron fire mines were also put into the throwing pocket. The soldiers lit the match rope, and then there was a continuous throwing sound of 'Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!' and the four iron fire mines soared into the sky.
Get up and shoot towards the dense group of cavalry...
The iron fire thunder is an extremely terrifying thing to any Donghu soldiers. They don't even think of it as a weapon, but think it is a sorcery or the anger of the gods. This is the first time that the Khitan army has seen the iron fire thunder.
, a series of iron fire thunders exploded in the crowd, dazzling fire, deafening explosions, black smoke rising into the sky, and fallen soldiers one by one.
These soldiers who were recruited from all directions were frightened. When they reacted, everyone shouted, turned around and ran away frantically, "Sorcery! Sorcery!"
Iron Fire Thunder was regarded as a sorcery by them, causing them to completely collapse.
The Khitan army was defeated like a mountain. Guo Song ordered 40,000 cavalry to attack, hunt down the fleeing enemy soldiers, and issued a killing order.
At this time, Yeluyun Deshi was also deeply shocked by the iron fire thunder. Zhu Tao had never told him that the Tang army still had such weapons. Looking at the conscripted soldiers running away, Yeluyun Deshi also fell into extreme passivity.
, in a dilemma, if he retreats, he will be chased and killed by the enemy on all fronts, but if he advances, they will be in trouble.
But more importantly, they have no retreat.
"Great chief, fight with them!" His brothers and nephews shouted one after another.
Yeluyun Deshi pulled out the knife, gritted his teeth and swung it fiercely, "Kill!"
"Kill!"
More than 20,000 Khitan soldiers roared and rushed towards the enemy's center.
In addition to the 40,000 cavalry chasing the enemy, Guo Song still had 90,000 troops. He also waved his sword and ordered: "Surround the enemy and kill them all for me!"