Zhao Zi pointed to the party military camp a mile away and said to Chen Shuo: "That is the military camp of the White Horse Supervision Division, I will give you 1,500 infantry, with the cavalry of your department, and take it." If Bao Zhong leads the army to fight, Yang Wenguang will attack in the rear and cooperate with your department. I led the whole army to the junction of Lou Bobei, twenty miles away, and blocked the way for Bao Bao Zhong to retreat. In this battle, we must completely annihilate the enemy army! ”

Chen Shuo promised, thought for a while, and said, "What if the party's soldiers and horses flee to the right wing military city?" ”

Zhao Zi said: "That's not your business, there are thirteen Lang cavalry to pursue, you just need to hold here." ”

Chen Shuo crossed his hands and listened to the order. The thirty or forty thousand auxiliary soldiers in the barracks of the White Horse Supervision Division were ignored by everyone. Dou Shunqing casually arrested thousands of people, which has already shown that the status and combat power of the party's auxiliary soldiers cannot be regarded as regular troops, and they are more similar to the temporary conscripted miscellaneous soldiers in the Song army.

Bao Zhong was riding on a horse, and after a long time, he suddenly saw the Song army start to move, and the whole line pressed towards him. couldn't help but be taken aback, and said, "What kind of tactics is this of the Song army?" Don't you come to charge the army and attack with the whole army? ”

No one around answered, and several powerful generals had already led their troops to die in front of the battle.

The Song army advanced about a few hundred paces, and when it was more than two hundred steps away from the Dangxiang army's formation, it suddenly stopped.

Bao Baozhong's heart suddenly hung up, for fear that the Song army would stop and arrange artillery, and the rest of his men would be finished. While ordering the soldiers to retreat, he gathered the last more than 2,000 personal soldiers of the Chinese army, preparing to rush forward in a part, delay the Song army, and cover his retreat.

At this moment, a horn sounded, and a cavalry rushed out of the Song army's formation, all of whom were iron-armed, and rushed straight towards the Chinese army who were lying for loyalty. At the same time, the cannon sound in the Song army's formation sounded, and flowering shells fell in the cavalry formations on both flanks of the party.

In a normal attack, Yang Wenguang should have found out the weak point of the party's army formation, used artillery to cover the infantry's advance, and divided and surrounded the party's army. However, almost all of the party's infantry were killed, and the rest were mostly mounted and light cavalry, and the artillery was chaotic as soon as it was released, and the musketeers could not catch up with them, and they could not be divided. There is no way, I can only rely on the powerful firepower like this, punch the master to death, and defeat Bao Zhong first. Pursue the rout, and have their own cavalry of the Thirteen Langs.

Bao Zhong was gathering troops and horses, and the iron armor at the head of the well came unexpectedly, and he urgently ordered the light soldiers on both wings to move closer to the center to cover themselves.

Jing Dutou was holding a horse chopping knife and was rushing forward, when he saw the party cavalry concentrated in the middle quickly lined up and fired arrows at him together. shouted: "Straight lady thief, these dozens of catties of iron on my grandfather's body were pierced by a few of your arrows!" ”

Before the words fell, the arrows shot by the party cavalry fell on their bodies, making a clanging sound. At a casual glance, there were still bone arrows mixed in it, how could it be possible to shoot through iron armor? The White Horse Prison Division is a poor place, and even the regular soldiers in the army cannot be equipped with iron arrows, except for a few iron arrows, many of them are equipped with bone and stone arrows. For the ironclad cavalry at the head of the well, it looked pitiful.

Jing Dutou was furious: "Take a bone arrow to shoot grandpa's iron armor, should it be a child's play!" ”

As he spoke, he commanded the headquarters and ran straight into the party cavalry.

A few years ago, the Western Northern Song Dynasty army was defeated by the party army that ate horse feed and used bone arrows, and the victory was a small victory, and the defeat was a big defeat. The Song army took the battalion as the basic unit, and there was no higher organizational form, and the effective field scale could only be about a few thousand people. In addition, without effective reconnaissance, the field battles were faced with several times the number of party troops, and they could only be defeated again and again.

The party's auxiliaries were useless, and the confrontation with the Khitan was the most obvious. The party faced the Khitan, gathering tens of thousands of troops and horses, and the actual battle in front of the battle was often less than 10,000. As soon as the main soldiers were defeated, the auxiliaries scattered and fled. However, once the regular soldier wins, it is completely different. Plundering everywhere, the auxiliary soldiers are not much worse than the regular soldiers when facing the people. When fighting the Song army, the auxiliaries were useful, but they were useless against the stronger Khitan.

Since the Battle of the Gaoliang River, the Song army has basically lost the ability of the Great Army to fight in the field, and the situation has deteriorated. In fact, the party does not have this ability, and in the face of the attack of the Khitan army, it is often held with the help of the right time and place, and with the help of the opponent's arrogance and stupidity. Although the Khitan party has won many final victories, it never dares to regard itself as a victor and obediently declares itself a vassal to the Khitan, which is related to the huge gap in field capabilities. The Khitan was defeated, and there was not much loss, and it will come back next year. Once it wins, the party is in danger of annihilation.

The Khitan attacked the Great Song Dynasty, facing a deep ditch fortified city, no matter how strong the field ability was, it was useless, and the Song army did not go out of the city to fight. Fighting siege warfare is the weakness of the Khitan, and in the end, it can only be how to go and how to come back. It is a field battle against the party, and there are few fortified cities, so the advantage is great.

Among the three countries, the party is the weakest party. However, the Song army could not conduct large-scale field battles, and every major battle was bound to be defeated, and there was no other way than to build a walled fort and hold on. After several years of war experience, the party army has always looked down on the Song army.

Today, facing the Yingtianxiang Army led by Yang Wenguang, it is completely different. Most of the battalion and field troops are soldiers who are not wanted by the forbidden army, and the quality of individual soldiers is not a strong point; in addition to muskets and artillery, they can win consecutive battles by relying on their unrivaled organizational ability.

Jing Dutou rushed to the front and rear, waved the big knife in his hand, cut down the party cavalry that was blocking in front of him, and said sharply: "Chong, the sons rushed up, and arrested the party captain, everyone's first merit!" ”

Three hundred iron armor, like a huge iron hammer, smashed a way through the party cavalry.

After two rounds of artillery, the cavalry on both flanks of the party was finally disorganized, and it was no longer possible to maintain the formation, and the horses began to run around.

Yang Wenguang, who was looking at the tower, looked at the gun emplacements everywhere and sighed secretly. The battle was fierce and short, and the large guns did not have time to move and could not move forward to re-emplacement, so they had to stay here. The infantry was followed only by light artillery, which disrupted the party cavalry.

Seeing that Jing Du rushed out of the covering cavalry with ironclad cavalry, he had already seen his face clearly, and he couldn't help but be frightened. The party had no way to resist this iron armor, and anyone who stood in its way was crushed and rushed straight at him. At this time, a thought appeared in the heart of Bao Baozhong, is it really going to be wiped out here today? In the past few years, there has never been a matter of tens of thousands of party troops being annihilated by the Song army, do you have to start with yourself?

The cavalry on both flanks was in chaos, and the Song army stuck to its place. A frightened horse came running and killed him from a distance with a musket, and did not come forward. The chaotic cavalry is better dealt with with by their own cavalry, and when the infantry comes forward, they will not be able to play to their advantage.

At this moment, a personal soldier ran in front of Yu Bao and said, "Captain, the military camp two miles later has been attacked by the Song army!" ”

Bao Zhong said angrily: "Where did the Song army come from? ”

The soldier said: "The Song army from Hue." In addition to attacking our military camp, tens of thousands of people went to Shubobei! ”

In the barracks, I only saw countless Song troops riding horses in the distance, all the way to Lou Bobei, where can I find out the number of people? Anyway, it wouldn't be wrong to say more, just casually report a figure of tens of thousands.

Bao Zhong turned his head sharply, and saw Jing Dutou with red eyes, slashing over the party cavalry blocking in front of him with a knife, staring at him. A soldier next to him stabbed him with all his strength with a spear, not only did he not pierce the iron armor, but he fell off his horse with one heel.

Bao Zhong sighed and said to the deputy general beside him: "Bring a thousand personal soldiers to block these ironclad cavalry of the Song army, and I will immediately take people to save the military camp." No military orders, no retreat, otherwise you will be headed! ”

After speaking, he turned his horse, took the rest of his own soldiers, gathered the cavalry on both wings, and headed towards the barracks two miles away.

The adjutant general drew his sword in his hand, and with a thousand soldiers left behind by Bao Zhong, he commanded the headquarters that surrounded the head of the well. Knowing that he is the tail left behind by the broken tail to survive, what can he do?

Ten Tianlang rode on a horse, looking ahead with a telescope, his neck stretched out. After a while, he put away his binoculars and scolded, "What the hell is this place!" Straight lady thief, a horse Pingchuan, with this treasure can't be far away! ”

After speaking, he said to the generals around him: "The news from the front, Yang Wenguang's department has defeated the enemy army, and the party's soldiers and horses are fleeing!" Wherever they go, according to the previous plan, each of you will take your headquarters to chase after them. After a slight order, if the enemy army is chaotic, then chase after it! Everyone has their own subordinates, and no matter how senior they are, they can't take care of it! There are two places where the supplies are assembled, one is the military camp of the party in front, and the other is the Lou Bobei intersection twenty miles away! ”

The generals agreed and departed.

Thirteen Lang looked at his own direct subordinate headquarters of about 1,000 who stayed behind him, and said, "Go to the party barracks!" ”

Chen Shuo took his 2,000 cavalry and 1,500 cavalry infantry and rushed straight to the Dangxiang military camp in front. These 1,500 infantry were actually Dou Shunqing's subordinates, and there was no major war there, so they came to Zhao Zi.

The distance of several miles was in the blink of an eye, and as soon as Chen Shuo gave the order to prepare for the attack, he saw a cavalry rushing out of the Dangxiang military camp. About five or six hundred people, each with a horse gun, greeted the Song army.

"Rush!" As soon as Chen Shuo spoke, he rushed forward with his horse first.

Seeing the approach of the two armies, the Dangxiang cavalry was just about to shout and shout to kill, when they heard a burst of gunfire from the Song cavalry, and with the smoke of gunpowder, the five or six hundred Dangxiang cavalry soon all fell behind the Song cavalry.

The party was encamped in a hurry, even the antlers were not complete, and the barracks were full of gaps. The cavalry of the Song army rushed in and swept along the road inside the barracks. Whoever was holding a knife and a gun as if he was going to fight it down, he threw down with one shot and rushed out from the other side. Reloaded with ammunition, he rushed into the barracks again and rushed out from the other side. After three trips back and forth, there was no more resistance from the party soldiers, and they all sat obediently at the door of the barracks, as quiet as chickens.

Chen Shuo arranged for 300 cavalry to take the most conspicuous position in the barracks to guard the captured party soldiers, and said to Liang Hu, the commander of the infantry: "As long as there are no major changes, the party soldiers in the barracks will be our prisoners." You immediately command the headquarters of the post and set up a formation in the direction of the return of Bao Zhong. I will lead the cavalry to guard your flanks. Behind Bao Zhong, General Yang Wenguang led the army to attack, and Bao Zhong did not dare to attack! ”

Liang Hu promised, seeing that smoke and dust had risen in the distance to the north, he hurriedly led his troops to set up a formation, preparing to fight and protect his loyalty. Behind him were tens of thousands of prisoners, and in front of him was the main force of Bao Baozhong, in the middle of the two sides, Liang Hu didn't feel the slightest fear, arranged the formation one by one, and even set up a mortar.

After the winning streak, the morale of the Song army was completely different, and there was a sense of being a strong army.