"It's the Empress Dowager Xiao's formation with camel cannons extended spearmen!"

Wanyan Zongbi's eyes were still sharp-eyed, and he could see clearly that the camels had small cannons on their backs.

This is not an ordinary camel soldier, but a camel artillery cavalry. In fact, it can also be regarded as a heavy musketeer.

The musket that can be used by individual soldiers has not yet been found out that camel cannons were cast in bronze. The bronze had a low melting point and good casting performance. In the Middle Ages when metallurgical technology was underdeveloped, it was definitely a top-quality material used to cast cannons.

However, the strength of bronze is not as strong as that of cooked iron, and the strength of casting is not as strong as forging. Therefore, bronze cast cannons are heavier. It is fine to use this material to cast cannons, at most, use a few horses to pull it. But it is not possible to use it to make a convex gun. Who can handle a gun weighing dozens of pounds?

The technical threshold for forging gun barrels with cooked iron is much higher than that of casting bronze cannons during the Shang Dynasty, and in theory, it can also cast large bronzes with complex shapes. The technology forging iron pipes has not been very mature until now.

Moreover, the barrel has a small diameter, so it is difficult to handle the inner chamber. If it is not handled properly, the barrel will easily leak air and the bullet will not be able to hit far.

Therefore, the Tianjin Artillery Factory and the Yanshan Artillery Factory have not been able to produce qualified muskets until now. Even a bulky musket as Mushkat heavy musket is still under development. If it is not ten or eight years old, it is probably not practical.

The camel cannon (bracket cannon) was developed by the Tianjin Artillery Factory for alternative weapons before the single-soldier hand cannon (the word musket) was put into use. In the Zhou Army, this kind of bracket cannon was not a field weapon, but was used to be set up on a bastion. Therefore, there were no camel cannons in the Zhou army.

However, when Dongliao obtained the bracket cannon, the tactic of putting this light cannon on the camel's back created that Dongliao was a semi-herd and semi-agricultural country, not only had a large number of horses, but also many camels.

Camels are very strong animals, which can carry four or five hundred kilograms of weight, and can carry bracket cannons and walk around. Therefore, camel artillery cavalry has become a very mobile type of troops, which can move with cavalry, which is very suitable for the situation of the Dongliao army.

In the process of using camel artillery cavalry, the military strategies of Zhou State in the Dongliao Army summarized a way of fighting with dismounted cavalry and artillery cavalry.

That is, use spearmen to cover artillery cavalry to get close to the enemy formation, and then use camel cannons to bombard them. After the opponent's formation is scattered, use spearmen to launch an attack.

This way of fighting is actually to replace the crossbow with a camel cannon. Of course, the fire density will decrease, but the range of the camel cannon is farther than that of an ordinary crossbow, and it has a greater lethality, and it can break the armor by 100%!

And if you are hit by a camel shell, you will be immortal and disabled!

If you are lucky, you will die. If you are not lucky, you will struggle for a few days and die. If you are less lucky, you will be broken by your hands and feet and endure hardships for the rest of your life...

Therefore, camel artillery has a great blow to the Jurchen people's anger. It is often bombarded for several rounds, and it will cause chaos or a broken can.

Facing the Dongliao spearmen (dismounted cavalry) who were waiting for battle, the charge like a broken can be killed.

Therefore, this kind of camel cannon-long spearmen's fighting style made the Jurchens on the Korqin grassland suffer a lot.

Since the Jurchens always encounter this kind of playing style when they face off against Empress Xiao, they also call this tactic "Empress Xiao's Formation".

The "Empress Xiao's Formation" dispatched this time is very large.

The spearmen were densely arranged in 20 rows, and 200 people stood shoulder to shoulder on the front of the horizontal lineup. A total of 4,000 people were all equipped with armor, and each was carrying a spear.

There are also a large number of camel artillery soldiers on both sides of the spearmen, and each square formation is enough to 500 camel soldiers. In other words, 1,000 camel cannons were carried on the battlefield. Wu Haogu is really a bit more important than friends. He is really willing to invest a lot of money in his support for Empress Dowager Xiao!

The bronze consumed by these 1,000 camel cannons alone is no less than 100,000 kilograms! The total price of ordering this batch of camel cannons from Tianjin Cannon Factory and Yanshan Cannon Factory is as high as 80,000 silver coins.

With the expense of training gunners and purchasing ammunition, this camel artillery spent more than 150,000 silver coins, and the price of the camel itself was not counted.

Needless to say, this huge sum is all unsecured credit loan that Wu Haogu personally took out to lent to Empress Xiao...

"Father, let the middle army send their men to charge!" Wanyan Zongbi immediately put forward the most feasible suggestions.

But Aguda was stunned when he heard this, "The middle lane is still being bombarded, and the team is dispersed. How can you rush? Even if you rush up, you can't defeat the square formation... Unless you have several times more people, you will be roundabout from left and right."

"It's better to be defeated than being bombarded by camels." Zong Bi explained, "It's not possible to detour from left and right. Their square formation will become hollow formations, protecting the camel cannons in the formation. The camels are tall, and the cannons placed on them can still cross the spearmen and open fire.

Moreover, there are 4 kilograms of cavalry cannons installed on both wings of the enemy Camel City. Once our sons get too close, they will be bombarded with iron sand bombs, which will cause heavy casualties!"

Agu looked closely and found that it was indeed the case. The "Empress Xiao's square formation" was pressed from the middle, while the artillery positions of the Eastern Liao Army were arranged on both wings. In other words, both sides of the square formation were under the cover of artillery.

If the Jin soldiers want to detour to attack the two wings of the "Empress Xiao's Formation", they will have to be bombarded. If the distance is not controlled well, they may be bombarded by shotguns!

"What should I do?" A Guda frowned. His troops were obviously three times as powerful as those of the enemy, and the men were brave enough, so why were they suppressed and beaten?

"You can make a big detour," said Wanyan Zongbi, "Now the frontal firepower of Liaogou is very strong, so it should have concentrated most of the artillery. There are most likely no firearms on the back.

Therefore, we should divide some of the troops and horses to attack on both wings of Tuocheng, leaving only the rear to not fight. This is the method of surrounding three palaces and one."

Aguda nodded, "What should I do when I am on the front?"

Wanyan Zongbi said: "Just let the men fight for their lives, even if they die, they must absorb this square formation. Otherwise, they can support the two wings by retreating into Camel City, which will be difficult to fight.

Fortunately, our troops are strong and layered up, and they can always entangle the Liao Dog! As long as we entangle the Liao Dog in the front, it will be easy to deal with both sides. It’s nothing more than hand-to-hand combat, and just fill in the lives of humans!”

"Okay!" Aguda nodded, "Wu Shu, if you were asked to command, how many people would you be sending to detour, and how many people would you be sending to hold their front?"

Wanyan Zongbi thought for a while: "There are thousands of Liao dogs in front of him, and at least ten thousand people can hold them.

As for the forces on both sides, it’s almost the same as 20,000 each.”

"The two wings of the circle are almost 20,000," Aguda nodded, "If there are too many, they can't be moved open. Their wings are quite narrow.

However, we should have sent more people to deal with the Empress Dowager Xiao’s formation, and more than 10,000 people are not enough.”

"Father, how many men do you want to send out?"

"Thirty thousand!" Aguda said, "Ali Xi is in front, the main soldiers are escorting the back!

Anyone who can kill the enemy's head at the first level will be promoted to the official army, and will be my Great Jin clan in the future!"

"What? Father, are you serious?"

Aguda snorted: "How isn't it true? Wushu, now is the time for our Great Jin Kingdom to fight desperately.

If you can't eat the tens of thousands of people, you will lose the battle of life and death!"

A Guda has invested a lot this time and is really going to work hard!

The Jurchen Meng'anmou restraint has developed to this day and has become a serfdom. Alixi is no longer a military division of labor, but a symbol of identity. Only the Jurchen serfs will act as Alixi.

Ali Xi wanted to be promoted to the army, that is, from a serf to a Jurchen nation that could receive a share of land, which was tantamount to the heavens. According to the old rules of the past, great contributions must be made to be promoted.

Today, you only need a head of the Liao people to reach the sky in one step!

This is enough to make Alibaba and others crazy rewards!

Under the heavy reward, there may not be brave men, but at least there may be reckless men. When Wanyan Aguda's order was passed on to the Jurchen army, the Alixi soldiers, mainly Goryeo and Bohai people, all cheered loudly!

These farmers and herdsmen finally saw hope of turning things around!

Behind the "Empress Xiao's Formation", Wu Yixin was riding on the back of a tall camel. He also heard the sudden roar of mountains and tsunamis from the opposite side. Although he didn't understand what the other party was calling, he also knew that it was definitely not a good thing.

So he immediately ordered the troops to stop advancing and deployed the hollow square spear outside, including Wu Yixin's personal soldiers and camel artillery cavalry.

At the same time, it was also ordered that the artillery on both wings of Camel City stop shooting the artillery barrels and need to be cooled so that the Jin soldiers can continuously fire shells when they launch a counterattack!

After giving the order, Wu Yixin began to rub his eyes and look at the opposite side. At first, the smoke was still heavy and he couldn't see anything clearly. He could only hear the sound of long and short horns coming from the opposite side, and the sound of people whistling.

Hearing this voice, he knew that the Jin people were about to fight back!

After a while, the strong wind on the grassland had blew away the smoke of gunpowder, and the situation on the opposite side finally showed up. On the Dongliao side, everyone who could see the changes in the Jin army formation took a breath.

The Jin soldiers are going to fight to the death!

The Jin army formation on the opposite side was changing, and two large cavalry were divided into two wings, and they were detouring towards the two wings of the Liao army's Tuocheng. It was obviously preparing to attack the two wings or side rears of the Liao army's Tuocheng.

In the center of the front of the Jin army, the Jin army was sorting out its formation. A dense and huge mixed battle formation of infantry and cavalry covered a large area of ​​grassland.

The infantrymen were wearing armor, holding swords, shields, spears, bows and arrows, and the number was at least ten thousand or even twenty thousand! Behind them was the Jin cavalry of the brigade, with a number of more than ten thousand!

Did the Jin people use a sea of ​​people to fill in the "Empress Xiao's formation"?

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