Kai Fu Han

Chapter 504 Battle in Cangzhou 9
On the fourth day of the first lunar month, they buried pots to make rice at Mao hour, and set out from camp at Chen hour.

The two armies of the Xinghan League and the Jin Army formed their own formations. After arranging for a while, the entire formation was pushed forward. The two sides made a tacit agreement not to disturb each other. It was like the Warring States Period, when the two armies fought and only fought for military formations.

If you stand between the two armies and watch.

The army formation of the Xinghan League is neat and clear, and it is like a single person advancing and retreating. There is no noise in the entire army formation, only the clear military slogans of the officers.

Looking at the military formation of the Jin Kingdom, the main force of the Jin Army was in front. It was the first to form the formation, and then it stayed at the front. As the military formation expanded, it slowly moved forward.Looking at the main force of the Jin Army alone, they are still considered elite.But looking back, the main force of the Jin Army on the outermost edge is followed by a whole column of civilians. It is not an exaggeration to describe it as a mess.

In the civilian military formation, the generals do not know the soldiers, and the soldiers do not know the generals. All they can see is groups of soldiers gathered together. The generals are constantly wandering around, reprimanding and directing the militiamen to form a basic array.

After the formation of the Xinghan League was completed, the entire formation of the Jin Army had not yet been formed.

"Do you want to take the opportunity to charge?" Liu Zhijie asked.

Looking from a distance, this is indeed a very good fighter.

"Is there anything suspicious around you?" Liu Xinqi asked.

"No, our scouts have controlled all the reconnaissance rights within ten miles of the surrounding area and found nothing abnormal." Liu Xinbao replied.

"Where is Qingchi County?"

"The last communication was half an hour ago, when the Jin army was leaving the camp." Liu Xinbao replied.

If the cavalry were to rush here with all their strength, the Jin army's cavalry would probably be already ten miles away from the battlefield.

It should be broken continuously, and it will be chaotic instead.

"Send three infantry regiments to press up!" Liu Xinqi ordered.

"Yes!"

Liu Zhijie dispatched all the musketeers from the three infantry regiments of his [-]th Brigade to the front of the military formation and began to slowly advance towards the Jin Army.

"Deploy the artillery formation quickly. The Jingyan [-]-year-old heavy artillery is placed on the right wing of the military formation, and the Jingyan [-]-year-old artillery is placed behind the three infantry regiments." Liu Xinqi ordered towards Zhao Yinghao.

"Yes!" A deputy brigade commander who had been prepared for a long time immediately went down to carry out the task.

"The Jin army has changed its formation." Liu Xinbao reminded.

Liu Xinqi looked towards the Jin Army Formation, and saw that the Jin Army elites who were at the front of the Jin Army Formation separated on both sides and stopped on both wings of the formation, leaving the civilians out.

The difference from before is that now the front of the civilian formation has been blocked by a row of carts. The structure behind the cart cannot be seen clearly. The front is a long baffle nine feet wide and six feet high, with sandbags fixed on the outermost side of the baffle.

The carts were placed one next to another, tightly blocking the entire Jin Army formation behind them.

"It turns out that Jin Jun wants to use these carts to get closer to us." Liu Xinqi suddenly realized.

The previous speculation that the civilian husbands were cannon fodder and that the civilian husbands would be used as consumables to create opportunities for the main force of the Jin Army to engage in close combat with the Xinghan League musketeers all came true.

"Can this sandbag stop bullets?" Liu Xinbao asked.

"Okay, there is a layer of soaked quilt between the sandbags and the baffle." Liu Xinqi had good eyesight and could clearly see the cart five miles away. He then ordered the signal soldier next to him: "Inform the musketeers to retreat. Pull all the squatting tiger cannons forward."

After receiving the order, the musketeers who had just advanced about thirty feet immediately retreated back according to the standards of retreat operations.

At this time, the Jin Army's cart array began to press towards the Xinghan Allied Army array.

"Order, the cavalry must gather on the left wing of the army." Liu Xinqi ordered again, not frustrated because the volley shooting method was cracked. "yes!"…

Watching the cart formation approaching step by step, it reached the point where the Xinghan Allied Forces formation was three miles away.

"Order Jingyan's second-year artillery array to fire!" "Yes!"

boom!boom! …

The order came in an instant, and the musketeers had already retreated behind the Jingyan [-]nd-year-old artillery array, and the artillery fired their shells at the Jin army.

The shells streaked across the sky and landed in the cart array. The ten-pound iron bullet hit the cart, immediately destroying the cart and scattering sand and wood chips.

Unfortunately, behind the destroyed cart, there was still a layer of carts.

"The quilt weakened the damage caused by the splintered wood chips, and the sand absorbed most of the power of the artillery shells, so the shooting effect was not good." Liu Xinqi frowned.

Looking towards both sides of the Jin Army's formation, a large number of the main forces of the Jin Army have been lined up, more than [-] troops.

The Xinghan League has only eight cavalry battalions with [-] cavalry.

"Send people in the direction of Qingchi County. You must keep an eye on the movements of the Qingchi Jin Army and report them as soon as possible." Liu Xinqi warned Liu Xinbao.

"Yes!" Liu Xinbao also noticed something was wrong, and after receiving the order, he went down to execute it himself.

As time went by, the Jin Army's cart array moved forward step by step despite the fire from the Xinghan League's artillery.

[It doesn’t make sense, the artillery cart shouldn’t have such a strong will to fight. Liu Xinqi muttered to himself that the civilians pushing carts did not rout under the fire of artillery.

You must know that although the power of artillery fire was weakened by the cart array, it still caused a large number of casualties. After all, it was artillery shells that could even destroy city walls, and the cart array could not completely compete with them.

Suddenly, Liu Xinqi discovered that a cart on the second floor was destroyed, forming a small gap that was not replenished in time by the carts behind it. From the gap, he could see a large number of armored golden soldiers behind them. These golden soldiers The long sword was unsheathed, and it was stabbed directly at the retreating civilians.

"Supervise the team!"

This gap was quickly filled.

A quarter of an hour later, the Jingyan [-]nd-year artillery had fired more than a dozen rounds. The barrel was so hot that it had to reduce the rate of fire because water was needed to cool down after each shot.

The Jin Army's cart formation was already close to one mile away.

"Order the tiger crouching cannon to fire!" Liu Xinqi immediately ordered.

A large number of Tiger Crouching Cannons on the front line began to pour shells towards the Jin Army's formation.

The Tiger Crouching Cannon with a very high missile fired explosive shells over the cart array and directly hit the back.After a round of shooting, the advancement of the cart array immediately slowed down, with some stopping and some continuing to move forward, causing the formation to curve.

The rate of fire of the Tiger Crouching Cannon was much faster than that of the Jingyan [-]nd Year Artillery. The explosive shells were fired continuously, and the Jin Army's cart formation also seemed a bit shaky.

I thought this round would be a rout, but I didn't expect that after less than twenty breaths of time, the cart formation was stabilized again and continued to advance towards the Xinghan Allied Forces formation.

"The Jin army in Qingchi County has moved, with 20 cavalry in the vanguard and [-] main force behind. The cavalry is moving very fast. It is estimated that they will arrive here in an hour." Liu Xinqi, who went out to explore the news, returned and reported to Liu Xinqi road.

"Yeah!" Liu Xinqi responded, continuing to focus on the cart array ahead.

(End of this chapter)