This time to attack the Liao army, Wang Yan personally presided over the overall situation. The loyal and brave army commanded Bai Anmin to lead 10,000 foot soldiers to form a large formation of the Chinese army, Zhao Xingde's 3,000 firearms were among them, Han Shizhong of the second army in Zhenbei led 3,000 cavalry to form a left vanguard formation, the iron cavalry army commanded Jiao Yong to lead 3,000 cavalry to form a right vanguard formation, and the third army in Zhenbei commanded Bi Sheng to lead 4,000 cavalry to form a palace rear formation.

After the Song army completed the large array, the advance and retreat of each battalion were all controlled by the drums and trumpets of the Chinese army, and the flag of the Chinese army also galloped back and forth on horseback. The commanders of all the armies, together with the flag officers, had a little time to go out or engage the enemy before receiving the order to go out into battle or engage the enemy army.

Teng Ying is a native of Baling County, the capital of the Second Army in Zhenbei, and Han Shizhong recommended Zhao Xingde as a banner officer. There were neat phalanxes of friendly troops in front of and behind the Huojiao camp, and he turned his head sideways and smiled at Yuhou Su Wenyu and said: "Lord Commander is really good at picking days, on the third day of the third month of March, Yueyang downstairs divides eggs." ”

Su Wenyu said with a smile: "Today, I will ask the Liao people to eat iron bullets." Su Wenyu looked to the left, and the six phalanxes in a row were all seven-foot long-pole spears of one color, although the training lasted only fifteen days, but the ranks were the most neat in the entire Chinese army, which was not much better than the Bianjing Tianzi review.

Different from the proofreading, at this moment, the sound of cannons and crossbow arrows continued, arrows flew in the sky, and the left and right vanguard formations had already faced the left and right abduction horse cavalry of the Liao army. The hooves of the galloping horses rumbled, shaking the ground slightly. Shouts of killing and screams resounded in the sky. However, as if they were reviewing the Bianjing Emperor's Son, the Fire Gun Army marched in the center of the infantry army's large array with neat steps.

After the formal formation of the army, the fire gun army was organized into six battalions, and each battalion was lined up in a phalanx of fifty columns and ten rows in a horizontal plane, and ten non-commissioned officers in each column were the most basic squads, and the chief wore fifty pounds of heavy infantry armor, and the rest of the soldiers wore thirty pounds of light infantry armor. The chief stood at the front of the line, and when the guns were fired behind, they had to hold up their spears to prevent the enemy from approaching and disrupting the formation of the firecracker camp, and behind the chief was the deputy chief, and if he had not died, all the firecrackers would be ignited by him with a fire breaker. Before Zhao Xingde reorganized the Huogun Battalion, these two generals were both army commanders. After the deputy chief, they were ranked from highest to lowest according to their qualifications and status in the squad, and only the last one was pressed by the oldest soldier who was not an officer. Behind the veteran is the military law team specially configured for the fire battalion by the command yamen. The head of the capital stood in the space to the right of every ten columns of soldiers, and the battalion commander stood in front of the entire battalion in front of the right of the ranks.

Including Zhao Xingde, everyone in the fire gun army is a foot soldier carrying a fire gun on their shoulders, and there is a flag officer carrying a big flag behind the army commander, and the commander of each battalion has a head and a long flag hanging on the gun pipe. Zhao Xingde stood in front of the right side of the entire Fire Gun Army, assisted by Yu Marquis Su Wenyu and several loud banner officers to give orders, and all the commanders of the first row could see all the officers directly under their superiors, including Zhao Xingde, the commander of the military capital.

In the eyes of the officers above the head of the six fire battalions, Zhao Xingde's expression did not look like he was on the battlefield at all, he frowned and stared into the distance, but it didn't seem to be observing the situation of the battle between the two armies at all, but more like being stunned.

"If a stray arrow hits me, maybe the fire camp won't collapse." Zhao Xingde secretly thought, "They should hate me, I won't take the officers to drink and gamble like Han Shizhong, and my martial arts are not very good, but I severely restrain them with military orders that the soldiers can't understand at all." With only fifteen days, I did not have time to win hearts and minds, cultivate prestige, and leave the impression of cold-bloodedness and ruthlessness on all six battalions. The current fire battalion is an army that is condensed by military orders, not by the prestige of generals. ”

Just when he was thinking like this, the anxiety of the Fire Gun Army because of the imminent battle was alleviated a lot by Zhao Xingde's calm attitude. Some think, "The ruler attaches so much importance to this surnamed Zhao, no wonder he has no fear." Some thought, "It's a death anyway, if this surnamed Zhao dares to run first, I'm going to put a hammer on his back." "Some think" The military order I missed just now was pushed from behind, and it didn't fall into the eyes of this surnamed Zhao, so let's eat his military stick afterwards." Some eyes only looked at their toes, muttering "left, right, left, right......" The Fire Gun Camp was like a balloon taut by all kinds of anxious emotions, and there were many people who didn't have time to think about the problems they were about to face the Khitans. Just as they were advancing with a calm pace, the foot soldiers in the front had already entered the Liao army's formation.

Zhao Xingde saw it, and said in a deep voice: "Ready!" ”

"Ready-Ready-"

"Ready-Ready-"

The battalion commander and the head of the capital shouted the order, and some of the nervous soldiers almost dropped the firearm in their hands, and many people silently chanted in their hearts, "Just prepare." "Just preparing." In the previous training, many people were overly nervous, and when they heard "quasi-prepared-", they began to unload the guns, and they suffered a lot.

Beyond the head of the friendly army phalanx in front, the commanders of each battalion could already see the chaotic battlefield, the battle between the two sabers of Song and Liao was a mess, everywhere was the noise of people and horses, the sound of arrows breaking through the sky was endless, and there were also people who continued to fall into the Chinese army's formation, and corpses began to stumble on the ground, and bright red blood was flowing everywhere.

Seeing that the Song army was getting closer and closer to the artillery base, Xiao Dabu, the commander of the Liao army, was forced to order the Tiebi battalion to intercept the Song army again.

With the sound of tinkling bells, Xu Ding got up again, he was lucky to go out last time, and this group of five slaves was fine. In the last battle, the Song people turned into a piece of flesh and blood and fell to the scene, Xu Ding will never forget, he forced himself to forget. On the other side are still Han people of the same language and clan, and they still have to use crazy killing to survive. "I'm going to hell." Xu Ding said in a low voice, and these words were heard by Zhang Zhouhou, a Han prisoner beside him, and Zhang Zhouhou muttered: "Our Han'er will live in hell in this life." Following the order of the Xi officer, the Tiebi battalion came to the back of the Liao army in front with heavy steps, and after the Liao cavalry in front of him slowly retreated from both sides, Xu Ding saw the frightened eyes of the Song soldiers.

"Kill!" The Xi officers urged behind, the Tiebi battalion marched forward with slow and heavy steps, and the Song army foot soldiers who were still extremely brave just now automatically retreated, just when Xu Ding was faintly disappointed that the Southern Dynasty people were not bloody, suddenly dozens of soldiers in light armor came out from the chaotic army on the opposite side, almost rushed to the front of the Tiebi camp like a death, and did not avoid the heavy axe blades that were advancing like a wall, some hugged the front row of the Tiebi battalion soldiers, and some desperately squeezed into the depth of the back row of the Tiebi camp.

"Are these Southern Dynasties crazy?" Zhang Zhouhou muttered.

A Song soldier was immediately smashed by a mace and half of his shoulders collapsed, and he was still desperately holding the feet of the Tiebi Battalion soldier, who was heavily armored and inconvenient to bend over, so he only smashed his body with a mace, almost smashing into a bloody mess, but his hands were still holding the enemy. At this moment, only a few loud sounds of "boom, boom, boom" were heard, and the earth-shattering thunder carried by the Song sergeant began to explode one after another.

The jaw of the Murwei man holding the mace was blown off the spot by the iron block, and the explosion of earth-shattering thunder sent out pieces of iron in all directions, and at the same time spewed out thick sulfur smoke, which made the Liao army's iron-walled battalion cough in a mess.

Despite the fire battalion, Wang Yan still did not give up the plan of shaking the sky and thundering the dead soldiers, this invitation to the Liao military is of great importance, and there is no room for mistakes, even if dozens of lives are sacrificed, it is necessary to ensure that the victory is on the side of the Great Song Dynasty.

Taking advantage of the fact that the Liao army in the front, including the Tiebi Battalion, was in chaos because of the earth-shaking thunder, the forward formation of the Song army moved to both sides, and the Huoqi army, which was originally in the middle of the large array, advanced in front of the Liao army.

The explosion of earth-shattering thunder continued, Zhao Xingde silently watched the death of dozens of Song people, the corners of his eyes were a little moist, he held back the undulating emotions in his chest, and ordered in a deep voice: "Take over." ”

"Pick-up--"

Under the order of the head of the first row, the chief of the first row squatted on the ground to prop up the seven-foot iron gun, and the deputy of the second row unloaded the spear, set up the fire gun, and at the same time took out the fire fold, and blew a few breaths on it to make the open flame burn vigorously, and the third and fourth row of soldiers also unloaded the gun and hung the rope sleeve of the wooden stick at the rear end of the gun on the hook on the gun, which could be erected at any time. The six platoons of non-commissioned officers in the back still kept their guns stabbed on the guns, alerting the enemy to the close-quarters raid of the fire guns.

Three hundred firearms have been set up, aimed at the Liao army, which is still in chaos ahead.

"Ignition—fire—"

Along with the password, the deputy chief used a fire breaker to ignite the medicine primer inserted in the small hole in the breech of the barrel. The three thousand soldiers all held their breath, and the deputy commanders in charge of lighting the fire were even more in their throats, and the sound of burning sounded more like a drum, which was a double medicine. After fifteen full days of training, the damned general had only let them shoot a single pill with live ammunition.

The medicine was very short, and the burning time was also very short, and the sound of "bang" pierced the death-like silence in the fire gun camp, and then, as if the New Year was exploding in battle, the sound of "bang bang bang" continued one after another, and in a very short period of time, three hundred fire guns were fired one after another, and streams of smoke rose on the position of the fire gun camp, like a storm of iron projectiles, flying towards the Liao people.

Xu Ding was still coughing in the smoke, and he didn't care when he heard the crackling sound on the other side, and in the blink of an eye, he suddenly felt that something like a hidden weapon such as a flying locust stone was coming from the opposite side, and before his brain could react, he asked Xie Ye of the Five Kingdoms beside him: "What's the matter?" Before Xie Ye could turn his head, suddenly, a fire bolt pierced his iron mask on the spot, and Xie Ye snorted and fell headfirst down. The iron chain dragged Xu Ding's waist down with a clatter.