Outlaws of the Marsh

Chapter 480 The Final Battle
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"Boom boom boom boom..."

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The impact of the huge explosion caused people to turn upside down wherever they passed, and the black pyrotechnics of the explosion swept the earth more and more tightly, and many pillars of black smoke exploded from the blasted uneven sandy land into the air like a whirlwind. Go!
Under the shroud of this seemingly endless black smoke, there are chaotic people and horses everywhere, people and horses are trampled and squeezed everywhere, and the terrified coalition soldiers and their horses are running around on the battlefield at a loss ...

Seeing that the former army of the coalition army was blown up, Han Shizhong decisively ordered the crossbowmen to attack, taking the opportunity to cause more casualties to the coalition army.

When Han Shizhong's combination attacked, at least ten thousand people were killed or injured by the coalition forces.

And that's not the most important thing.

The most important thing is that the attack formation of the coalition forces is chaotic. To be precise, it should be that the attack formation of the front army of the coalition forces is chaotic, that is, the tip of "∧" is chaotic, which makes the coalition forces unable to continue to attack forward.

If Yue Fei and Wu Jie on the two wings decisively dispatch elites to attack at this time, although the possibility of a big victory in this battle is not high, a small victory should be sure.

But both Yue Fei and Wu Jie remained silent.

For one thing, Commander-in-Chief Liu Qi did not give an order for them to attack.

Secondly, they are not willing to only achieve this result—just like Emperor Tianzuo’s greatest reliance, at this time, that is, when only the front army of the coalition army enters the encirclement, tighten their pockets, then the coalition army that is all cavalry can still Withdrawing the large army, the Liangshan Army with only [-] cavalry troops must have very limited results. It is far from reaching Li Yan's goal of defeating Emperor Tianzuo, Xixia, and Mongolia in the first battle. , and the west of Yundi will still be under the threat of Emperor Tianzuo, Xixia, and Mongolian tribes, so Li Yan can't put all his energy on competing in Yandi in the east.

Let's talk about the Union Army.

In fact, only the Xixia Army as the former army has been hit hard so far. The Mongolian tribes and the Liao Army did not actually suffer much loss.

This is not a good thing for Xixia.

If the coalition forces withdraw at this time, Xixia's original leading position in the coalition forces will inevitably be lost.

Furthermore, Li Liangfu and the others were not reconciled to the result of the battle, because they still had a trump card on their side.

Based on the above, Li Liangfu ordered Tie Yaozi to immediately regroup the army and continue to attack.

The iron kite suffered a lot of damage from the unconscionable cannon's attack.

but--

The iron kite men and horses were all dressed in cold forged armor.

This kind of armor is also called Wart Armor. Its color is blue and black, smooth and translucent, and the hair can be seen. It is tied with musk skin as a belt. It is thin and tough. Its defense performance is much stronger than that of Song Armor, and it is also much stronger than the iron armor of Liangshan. .

Moreover, the most bullying thing is that this kind of cold-forged armor cannot be imitated by the Song Dynasty, including Shuibo Liangshan. In other words, this kind of armor is unique to the Xixia people.

(If people from Qingtang Qiang used raw materials produced in the Song Dynasty, they would not be able to make cold-forged armor.)
Later, through repeated research, Tang Long and other engineers believed that the problem should be in the raw materials, that is, the materials produced in the two places are different——the refined iron produced in the two places is different in hardness, plasticity, and strength. , processed in the same way, the results are not the same.The armor used for cold forging is called annealing and tempering in the early stage to eliminate material stress. In the later stage, cold forging does not require fire and is naturally hammered. Therefore, the raw material must meet two conditions: good plasticity (ductility), fatigue resistance and Fracture is extended under hammering, while improving the surface hardness, the inside of the nail plate still has toughness, and will not eventually break.However, the materials produced by Dasong do not have the conditions for cold forging, and they cannot be processed by cold forging at all. They are either too soft or too hard. If they have to be processed in this way, the nail plate will eventually break due to metal fatigue.

Li Yan, who has been in charge of the production department in a steel plant for more than two years, although he does not understand cold forging technology, knows that cold forging technology is not a technology with production area restrictions in later generations, so it should be that Tang Long and the others did not find it. right way.

But no matter what, the current cold-forged armor only belongs to Xixia, and mainly belongs to the iron kite.

Wearing a cold-forged iron kite, its defensive power is astonishing, and it is not even afraid of the outstretched crossbow - beyond a dozen steps, the damage of the god-armed crossbow to it is very limited, and only within ten steps can it cause a certain amount of damage to them .

Of course, the thousands of unconscionable guns before this still killed a lot of iron kites.

But only less than a third of them were killed.

Ma Duo and the iron kite are all connected together, and some of them are always spared.

Therefore, so far, the iron kite has only suffered heavy damage, and has not completely lost its combat power.

Soon, nearly [-] iron harriers formed an army, and then attacked the central army of the Liangshan Army.

The Xixia army behind Tie Yaozi also continued to attack in an irregular cone formation under Li Liangfu's order.

Seeing that the iron harrier was so difficult to deal with, Han Shizhong couldn't help frowning, "This iron harrier really lives up to its reputation!"

Han Shizhong asked Min Cheng to control his battalion of heavy armored infantry to retreat slowly, and at the same time ordered the [-] infantry that had been prepared long ago ([-] of which were reserve soldiers serving as civilian husbands) to prepare to throw thunderbolts.

When the iron kite reached the throwing range, Han Shizhong ordered the flag to be waved, and then under the order of all the generals, 10,000+ thunderbolts were thrown out by Liangshan Army within a few breaths.

"Boom boom boom boom..."

"Boom boom boom boom..."

"Boom boom boom boom..."

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Under Hong Tianlei's attack, there were only six or seven hundred powerful iron kites left, and less than ten thousand of the former coalition forces.

Han Shizhong saw the right moment and decisively ordered a counterattack. After receiving the order, the soldiers of Chengmin Battalion immediately threw away their large shields, and then rushed forward with a hammer and a heavy axe, and dealt a fatal blow to the iron kite knight who had blown off his horse.

The defensive power of the cold-forged armor is astonishing, even beam knives can't break it, and only heavy weapons such as hand hammers and heavy axes can kill the iron kite cavalry under their protection.

Therefore, Han Shizhong only equipped the Chengmin camp with hand hammers and heavy axes, and took advantage of the iron kite being blown away, and resolutely fought back. He could not only take the opportunity to destroy the difficult iron kite, but also create a chaotic zone as a buffer area, blocking the cavalry behind the coalition forces.

The reason why the cavalry is powerful is that they have a strong impact, and the infantry cannot stop them.

If the speed of the cavalry can be slowed down, then they are actually nothing to fear.

Han Shizhong immediately ordered Yang Zhengying to charge up to meet the iron kite with a saber and a hook and sickle gun.

Yang Zhengying was very calm, commanding his battalion of heavy infantry to step forward steadily, and then cut off the horse's legs.

And because the horse stumbled, the knights of the iron kite rolled to the ground one after another, and were fatally hit by Cheng Minying's hammer and heavy axe.

The mighty iron kite, which had left countless legends, was wiped out by Han Shizhong in the chaos.

Li Ganrui, whose martial arts were almost no worse than Lu Junyi's, was killed by Cheng Min, Yang Zheng, and a dozen soldiers of the Liangshan Army during the chaotic battle.

When Li Liangfu saw it, his heart bled. He never expected that the iron kite, which is invincible and invincible, could be broken in the ground!
Moreover, Li Ganrui is the direct younger brother of Li Ganshun, the lord of the Western Xia Dynasty, and a serious prince. Li Liangfu really doesn't know how to explain to Li Ganshun after returning.

All the people in the allied forces could see how much damage Xixia suffered this time.

Yelude rushed to Li Liangfu again and said: "My emperor brother will definitely fulfill his promise to your country of Xia." Then he looked at Li Yan's banner of the Chinese army, and said: "The rest is up to us."

Now that the matter has come to this point, Li Liangfu looked at what to say, so he could only nod his head and said, "I'll leave it to you."

Yelude nodded emphatically, and ordered someone to blow the horn.

Not long after, an army of 2 horses appeared in the middle and back section between the two wing lines of the "∧" in the cone formation.

What kind of army is this?
The leader is a tall horse from the Western Regions!

Mobei and the Western Regions are both places where horses are produced, and Khitan has controlled Mobei and the Western Regions for many years. Although they have suffered repeated defeats in recent years and have been robbed by the Jurchen and Li Yan, in fact, Emperor Tianzuo still has one with hundreds of thousands of horses. The territory of a good horse, that place is Ketun City in Mobei!

And the [-] tall horses from the Western Regions were selected from the hundreds of thousands of good horses in Ketun City.

The knights on it are all the elite among the elite selected from the Liao, Xixia, and Mongolian tribes.

The [-] elite troops are the trump card of the coalition forces.

And the leader of the [-] elite troops was Wu Yanguang, the number one warrior of the Liao Kingdom.

The one-of-a-kind horse with an iron spine and a silver mane is carrying a 1.9-meter-high Wu Yanguang on its back. The horse and man are in armor, and a steel gun with a thick iron point in their hand. From a distance, this fierce general with a man and a horse looks like a A prehistoric beast!
On the left and right of Wu Yanguang, there are two inappropriate generals, Aric and Qiong Yao Nayan.

In addition, the fierce generals of Xixia and the top warriors of the Mongolian tribes are also accompanied by Wu Yanguang.

The [-] elite riders did not come out quickly.

After coming out, they slowly but smoothly assembled into a formation.

It is still a "∧" type cone array - a slightly smaller cone array.

This is an indomitable battle to seek a breakthrough in the central government.

It is also an array of head-on decisive battles without half-point tricks.

After forming a battle formation, the [-] fine cavalry slowly accelerated within the vast space created by the coalition army, preparing for the final decisive battle with the Liangshan army.

On the viewing platform, Liu Kai used a binoculars to see the [-] fine riders, and murmured, "Maybe there is trouble!"

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It may be that I have some psychological problems and can't sleep well, so I woke up at two o'clock in the morning, and then coded out this chapter.

This time, the work is done, and I can finally go to sleep with peace of mind.

May you all have a wonderful day, and may I myself have a good night's sleep! ! !

(End of this chapter)