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Chapter eight hundred and sixty five. Strength as always

This is definitely the most glorious moment in a man's life. Thousands of soldiers are moving forward in an endless manner according to their own will, even if the front is death!

That's it now. In Wang Hou's telescope, the entrances and exits of his military camp, under the command of the military flags and war drums, the iron stream quickly gathered into a neat battle formation like solidified cement, and it was also overwhelming, running through the entire narrow Yangquan Basin, with flags like forests and shouting soaring into the sky. The army was like a mountain, pressing against the 270,000 Eastern Army in Hebei, Central Plains.

"Have Mr. Jia not come out yet?"

Putting down the telescope, Wang Hou asked casually to the guard beside him.

This is the authority of the leader. His whim was the problem. The guards had to investigate every five minutes. Facing his problems, the school beside him answered with fists and affirmatively.

"Return to the lord, Mr. Jia has been studying intelligence for a night and has not left the house. Now the lights are still on in the military tent!"

"Then don't bother him!"

The army cheered again as the war horses neighed. Liaodong had the longest army. The battle-hardened knights were nearly 50 years old. Under Zhao Yun, who was still a middle-aged and frozen male god, they took the lead in the central army formation. At the same time, Yongzhou heavy cavalry and Liangzhou heavy cavalry were also two troops that were separated from each other by the Western cavalry, one left and one right, forming a cavalry in front of the military formation as if a dragon had taken off. The crackling and crisp sound of horse hooves attracted Wang Hou to lift up the telescope again.

Although the small basin is flat, it is too narrow. In fact, it is not suitable for cavalry raids and circling, and cannot fully utilize the advantages of the Kansai Army.

Therefore, the large number of recruited light cavalry were placed on both wings of the army this time by Wang Hou. In front of the light cavalry, there was a 25-year-old. The field artillery troops were divided into two and ranked in two thirds of the central army. The light cavalry and some of these heavy cavalry were arranged at oblique angles to protect the artillery.

This time, the focus of attacking the area was in the central army. Wang Hou wanted to break through the middle. Three selected heavy cavalry units with 15,000 people were placed in the middle. Behind were Liangzhou and Yongzhou's elite infantry with a total of 84,000 troops. Wang Hou planned to break through Sima Yi's central army in one fell swoop and win him cleanly and beautifully, so as not to make any trouble.

This time, the formation was completely different from the past, and Sima Yi did not have time to be alert in advance. With the Guanxi Army declaring war, the Eastern Army that was fighting was still a large array of troops. The left, center and right armies almost divided the military strength equally, giving full play to the most common number of infantry in the Central Plains. The thick infantry formation was evenly matched than under Wang Hou's command.

Geographically, the Yangquan Basin was not equal in thickness in this era. The terrain in the west where Wang Hou was located was narrow and slightly higher, about three-fifths of the basin. The Yangquan County town where Sima Yi was guarding was at the remaining two-fifths of the basin. His military formation was wide from Wang Hou, but the distance was too wide to reduce the defensive forces.

On this battlefield that determined the fate of the Central Plains more than a thousand BC, the first one to roar was the God of the battlefield, the cannon, who came through time!

"fire!!!"

As Wang Hou issued the general offensive order, he clamped the two 2500-year-olds of the central army, narrow and long, and tried his best to make his arms thin. He used steel hoops to strengthen the length of the cannon body and divided them into three batches, and took the lead in venting his anger to the Sima Yiqi coalition.

The cannon is not just a pipe to hollow out the heart. Although when Cao Cao was there, Wang Hou was constantly synchronizing with Yecheng in order to gain trust, the artillery technology of the Western country has been developing faster than the Kanto gentry who has a huge manor and does not want to develop. They have been intrigued by politics all day long. It is five miles away, and it is still arranged on two wings. The farther distance of the Kanto artillery actually suppressed the range of the East Army's bronze cannon and attacked the dense army of the Kanto gentry coalition first.

The explosion of shrapnel shots brought hail to the gentry armed forces, mostly light troops. The ball-sized shots exploded on their heads like fireworks. At the terrifying acceleration, they hit the foreheads of the Eastern Army. Those with helmets could be better, and their heads were like bricks, and blood flowed downwards. Those without helmets simply opened a tofu brain shop, watching the array of gentry soldiers from afar. Groups of soldiers were harvested wave after wave, just like the leeks pulled by Temou in later generations.

It was directly composed of farmers. The weaknesses that lacked the chance of the army were infinitely amplified under the attack of artillery fire. In the face of terrifying killing, many military formations collapsed directly. Infantry holding their heads ran away with their heads. In the rear, heavy infantry hurriedly carried heavy shields to the front, scolding the gentry officers who killed deserters with a messy voice like the vegetable market. However, none of the officers in the front four or five rows of arrays that were hit by artillery fire went forward.

Amid the messy shouting, Sima Yi was choking cannons hidden and took them out this time. Not to mention, Wang Hou really underestimated him. The dense copper cannons were pushed forward and transported. The number was no less than a thousand, and there were even one thousand two or three.

I don’t know if this is whether Sima Yi decided to fight with him in the Yangquan Basin. He fully utilized the power of artillery in the army formation and defeated his elite training equipment. However, the number of heavy infantry was small, but Sima Yi’s wishful thinking was dashed. Before the artillery was pushed back, the sports car without turning angle entered the range. The second round of Western Army artillery bombardment fell like thunder, hitting Sima Yi’s artillery formation with a crackling sound.

This time, the solid bullet was fired. A large iron ball weighing several kilograms hit the softer bronze cannon with a bang. The huge force even knocked the entire cannon away, hitting the crowd, and its lethality was even greater than that of the shelling.

The military thought of the later Western genius Napoleon, the great emperor of the Great, also fully utilized the power of artillery. Wang Hou did this. The artillery soldiers of the gentry who were still marching suffered a devastating blow, and their weakness of lack of training was also revealed.

Just like the Ming army more than 1,500 years later, the artillery soldiers who lacked training were frightened. Before they could wait for the four miles to reach the range, they could no longer withstand the pressure and took the lead in firing the artillery out.

The eight or nine hundred bronze cannons that could be fired were earth-shaking. The shocking mountains were buzzing, and countless iron balls roared into the Western Army's formation. However, most of them had already fallen weakly on the ground before hitting the Guanxi Army. More than a dozen iron balls bounced forward and fell into the array of heavy cavalry in the front army, which was so shocked that the war horses were bouncing and neighing.

After controlling the war horse and watching the iron balls bounced around his feet, the agile Western Army heavy cavalry spat out again with disdain.

However, the artillery fire shone together, and in the fierce battle, bursts of overwhelming roars seemed to be shocked from an extremely distant direction. This was different from the noise on the battlefield, which attracted Wang Hou to put down his telescope and looked east. However, in the eyes, there were only layers of mountains. In a daze, he lowered his head again and continued to focus all his attention on the battlefield, just as the echo of giant cannons in the narrow basin.

The artillery fire confrontation lasted for half an hour!
Chapter completed!
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