choke element

Chapter 776 Thunderbolt

Monk Wanyan Chen reacted very quickly, just as the horse's back tilted, he supported the saddle bridge and flew up.

Relying on his heavy armor, he rolled two or three times on the ground, barely steadying himself.Even so, his face was covered in blood from the gravel, and one arm and ankle hurt like they were about to break.Looking back, the front leg of the war horse was broken, making it unusable.

"Change horses!" Monk Wanyan Chen knelt on one knee and yelled.

The cavalry team ran without stopping, and the rear team had already rushed to lead the horses.Monk Wanyan Chen gritted his teeth, galloped a few steps along the side of the horse, and turned onto the horse's back.

He shook his head suddenly, driving the terrible situation of the iron cannon explosion out of his mind, and then said sharply: "With such power, what army can't be smashed? Can this battle still be fought? We must not let those iron cannons continue to be thrown! Everyone followed I'm coming! We have to destroy that convoy! The sooner the better!"

The speed of this cavalry was already extremely fast. Following the shout of Monk Wanyan Chen, everyone hit their horses again and again, driving the horses into a frenzy. The whole team was like a huge arrow, moving along the long Moraine shot past.

But at the front of Ding Haijun's front, the moment old monk Fan was killed, the prominent gap in the Jin army's death and forgetting life was closed.

The soldiers with long spears exerted force with both hands, and lifted the old monk Fan, who was missing a calf, on the tip of the spear and lifted it high.Because of too much force, his two eyes suddenly protruded, which was very frightening: "I have protruding eyes, and there are monkeys and pheasants. I killed a golden army of thousands of households!"

Dozens of people in the left and right queues cheered in unison, and the lieutenant who led the troops shouted orders at the right time, and dozens of people took a step forward.

It was only one step, and then everyone confronted the soldiers of the Golden Army who rushed to the rear again, but this step also drove the fronts of the left and right wings.In the blink of an eye, the entire horizontal formation suddenly roared like a gray wave, and it became much more violent.On the opposite side, the Golden Army didn't look like a wave, but rather like a small boat floating on the tide of the sea, ready to be capsized at any time.

Guo Ning, who rode his horse and stood behind the formation, saw all this in his eyes.

He suddenly asked, "Who is that lieutenant?"

Jue Cong immediately went out to inquire, and came back a while later to report: "It's Liu Ran's subordinate named Zhang Pingliang. The three who just ordered to kill the enemy are also old soldiers under Zhang Pingliang's subordinates."

Guo Ning nodded, and said to the left and right: "Liu Ran is a veteran in the battlefield, and there are many talents around him. This Zhang Pingliang is very good at leading a team to fight. Look, they just slaughtered a thousand households, which demoralized the enemy army. Frustrated, our team just moved forward to suppress. But if we go forward a lot, it is easy to be besieged by the following enemy forces on three sides, and it is also not conducive to the cooperation of friendly forces on both sides. So he just gave an order and took a step."

The attendant at the side suddenly realized: "One step is enough. When he goes out with this step, he can just take the entire horizontal formation forward. Since the formation is not loose, the pressure on the enemy will be even greater."

Another attendant nodded: "It's amazing that you can still be so calm when the enemy and the enemy are fighting each other."

Guo Ning and his attendants naturally didn't know that the reason why Zhang Pingliang was able to calm down was actually because his wife Li Shi repeatedly told him not to rush forward before the expedition, but to think more about everything.

After all, Zhang Pingliang is now a military officer, with an unusually beautiful wife, two yards, hundreds of acres of land, and two new shady households.

Life is going well, after all, it is not like the kind of energy that was barefoot and not afraid to wear shoes back then.Including him, many grassroots soldiers began to figure out how to get the greatest victory at the least cost on the battlefield.

Guo Ning also had a vague feeling about this, but he didn't tell the attendants.

The combat effectiveness of an army comes from two aspects.

The fierceness and daring of the fighters themselves are one aspect, but the strength in this aspect is actually something that cannot be met.

For example, in the early days of Dajin, it relied on a group of savages known as "invincible" in the Baishan and Heishui.This group of people conquered east and west, and in less than 20 years, they destroyed the Liao Dynasty, broke the Song Dynasty, and established a great country.When they died of old age or were satisfied with their wealth, the fighting power of the Dajin Kingdom's army seemed to return from the myth to the human world.

The situation of the Ding Navy is similar to it, but it is also different.

When Guo Ning started his career, he relied on the most fierce and brave gang in the northern border of the Dajin Kingdom. It has only been four years since his rise, and most of his companions are still very young and have high spirits.

But in the past four years, Guo Ning has given the soldiers very good treatment, making most of the soldiers who had nothing at first become small landlords with permanent property, and they can even look forward to a better life.

Under such circumstances, the soldiers are no longer desperate beasts, and once the beasts become humans, they will no longer be as ferocious as before.This is a fact, there is no need to be harsh.

These years are not like the future generations in Guo Ning's dream, people's hearts and ideas can't be gathered, and the slogans of the country and the nation are used to motivate soldiers, and they can't force much energy.

If three years ago, our side faced the Jurchens who were desperately charging with a horizontal formation, and Guo Ning was not allowed to retreat, the formation would never retreat at all. Even if a hundred people died here, the formation would not be half gapped.

It can be seen that the enthusiasm for daring to die in the army is indeed fading.Guo Ning must be filled with other things to maintain or even continue to improve the combat effectiveness of the army.

That is the army's training level, tactical literacy, logistical support, ordnance and equipment, and even military discipline, severe punishment and generous rewards, etc.

Now it seems that people's energy has receded a little bit, but the combat effectiveness of the army has not declined. The capabilities of grassroots officers have also improved significantly. The methods of combat are very flexible, which is very good.

Thinking of this, Guo Ning steered his horse forward, raised his head and asked, "What's the effect?"

What Guo Ning asked was, of course, the effect of throwing iron cannons. He was riding on a horse, so he couldn't see clearly because of the fighting battlefield on both sides and the smoke and dust.

Zhang Lin took three steps and made two steps, and got down from the watch car.

"My lord, there are six iron cannons that have not exploded, and seven are thrown in the air. The 47 iron cannons that bombarded the enemy's formation killed and wounded about 500 people in the Jin army. The 3000 men and horses in the formation are enough to push them back."

This kind of gunpowder weapon has been transported from thousands of miles, and it is inevitable that some of them will fail, just like when the counterweight catapult machine is assembled on the battlefield, it is inevitable that some of them will have some malfunctions and become wooden furniture that scares people.A single wave of bombardment can determine the outcome of a battle of nearly ten thousand people, the effect is already too good.

Guo Ning nodded: "It's a pity that the battlefield is too wide. Since the enemy army is not concentrated, the damage of gunpowder is limited. And if the enemy army reaches the level of concentration, it must be fighting hand-to-hand with our army. An iron cannon goes down. If you kill one hundred enemies, you won't lose fifty or sixty."

"Exactly. And there's one more thing."

"please say."

"Beside the Triangle Lake that day, we fired iron cannons at the Mongols. The key was not to kill, but to intimidate. The Mongols are savage and ignorant, and they have always believed in the gods, so they regarded the power of the iron cannons as divine punishment like thunder and lightning. , but my Dajin soldiers have dealt a lot with the Southern Dynasty, even if they haven’t seen iron cannons with their own eyes, they have heard that the Song people are good at defending the city with firearms...they are not as frightened as the Mongols.”

"So, it mainly depends on the power of the iron cannon itself."

"Yes."

"Then do you estimate that after a few more rounds of casting, the effect of directly destroying the enemy army without the need for soldiers to fight?"

"In my opinion, it takes three or four rounds to throw two hundred iron cannons out to kill and injure more than 1000 people, which is almost enough."

"We need two hundred for this game!" Guo Ning was speechless at first, and sighed a long time: "We spend too much money, iron cannons are very expensive! In the past two years, the Ordnance Department has asked for money. It's as if you don't want to die!"

"Ahem, my lord..."

Zhang Lin bowed down: "Although our launcher can reach a long distance, we have to turn the winch and pull up the counterweight before each launch. In a short period of time, we can't throw three or four rounds at all. In addition, the brought The number of iron cannons is limited, and there is still Kaifeng City to fight."

Guo Ning nodded.

"Then let the soldiers pack up as soon as possible. The power of this round of throwing is enough for the front army to defeat the enemy, and it will definitely attract the attention of the fierce generals of the Jin army. They will soon mobilize the fine cavalry to charge from between the center army and the two wings Come here, just in time for us to gather and annihilate them."

He patted Zhang Lin's arm: "This one of yours is still very useful, right now, hold on to the car formation safely..."

Speaking of this, Guo Ning suddenly turned sideways on the horse.

On the gravel plain, the hot wind blows continuously, making rustling noises.In this sound, it seems to be mixed with other sounds, like the sound of torrent rushing under the embankment, gradually coming from behind a long moraine in the southeast.

Guo Ning turned back again, leaned on the saddle and looked up.

In the direction of the Chinese army, a hot air balloon was slowly floating at a height of about ten feet.On the balloon, a figure is violently waving two flags in a special order.

"Already here? So soon?"

Guo Ning thought for a while, then laughed dumbfoundedly: "I'm afraid, someone thought from the very beginning that they were going to cut off the connection between our ministries! It's so daring!"

(End of this chapter)