In the army of tens of thousands of people under Shile's troops.

A horse quickly crossed the army and galloped in front of Shi Le. The rider on the horse controlled the reins halfway. The running horse stopped in a beautiful and steadily in front of Shi Le's horse.

"General, the Qingzhou thieves in front of me are very neat. Taobao and I led the cavalry to clash with each other twice, and it's useless."

This rider is Guo Heiluo, one of Shi Le's "Eighteen Riders".

When Shi Le led the 8,000 cavalry and 30,000 infantry behind arrived, the Qingzhou army on the opposite side had already arranged an array.

Because the cavalry of the Qingzhou Army had already been forced back to the infantry array by the Shile vanguard cavalry, the vast space outside the battlefield completely became the world of the Shile army.

Taking advantage of the time when the 30,000 infantry troops were deployed, Shi Le ordered Guo Heiluo and Taobao to lead some cavalry to harass the Qingzhou army, intending to shake the Qingzhou army by arraying and feinting attack.

This method has almost succeeded repeatedly when facing ordinary Jin troops and refugees. Often, only thousands of cavalry formations and then approaching, which can cause chaos in tens of thousands of infantry soldiers. Then only cavalry attack the weak areas, and the rest is to chase the dead and chase the north.

However, Shi Le, who had fought with the Qingzhou army twice, knew that although the Qingzhou army had nothing surprising in marching and formation, the soldiers of the Qingzhou army were often relatively high in morale, and the proportion of soldiers of the Qingzhou army wearing armor was very high, so the effect of such cavalry formation formation was definitely not to be attacked.

"I know, leave some elites to continue to harass the thieves, and suffocate the morale of the thieves. The rest are withdrawn for rest."

Shi Le did not say a word of blame to Guo Heiluo and Taobao, because all this was as expected. If the Qingzhou thieves on the opposite side could be so easy to deal with, he would have been killed by him in Licheng and Juancheng.

After Guo Hei took the order and retreated, his deputy next to him Diao Ying came to Shi Le and said.

"General, I see that the Qingzhou thieves on the opposite side have only 10,000 people, but the military formation is strict. If they fight hard with them, there will be many casualties. It is better for us to confront them in a formation. We have more people, and they can even be consumed."

Diao Ying's words immediately made Shi Le feel a little angry.

Shi Le knew that Diao Ying had just had some deep fear of Qingzhou, so he said such a mess.

"Fuck me, I led my army to marches for more than ten miles here, not to confront Qingzhou, but to take advantage of the fact that the army alone is going deeper and to destroy it in one battle."

Since Zhang Bin and other Han scholars, Shi Le felt more and more that Diao Ying, a fellow villager, gave him some bad ideas.

"Diao Youshi, this is a bad thing. The Qingzhou bandits can travel a hundred miles to this point, so they must be full of supplies in the army. I just looked from afar and thought that the Qingzhou bandits would definitely not be afraid of confrontation, but our army is different. Our baggage is all in Guangping, and our infantry is thin. If there is no tent and torch, how can we survive the winter night?"

Zhang Bin on the other side immediately denied Diao Ying's proposal.

Shi Le led the main force to come, but he didn't carry the tent and supplies at all. It was obvious that he was just a quick battle. Diao Ying's murmur words were simply a ugliness.

Shi Le was too lazy to pay attention to Diao Ying, who was becoming increasingly unusable.

"General, I see that the Qingzhou thieves on the opposite side are using the four-sided flat barbarians. Well, the four-sided array. Although this array is conducive to defense, it is not convenient for changing formations and attacking. The general can mobilize a large army to attack one side and force the thieves to change formations. Then, while the formation is not stable, sending a thunder cavalry to rush over, and you can definitely defeat the thieves." Zhang Bin's face was full of all the enemy situations in his control.

Zhang Bin's words were exactly what Shi Le wanted.

"Okay, Meng Sun is indeed a great talent, and I thought so too."

When Zhang Bin heard this, he had no trace on his face, but he felt complacent. This Hu general valued him so much that he must do his best to help him achieve great things in this chaotic world so that those powerful and noble families in the Jin court who regarded him as a child servant, could see who was the best talent.

Subsequently, Shi Le ordered the entire army to form a formation, and the 30,000 infantry formed a thick formation with a width of only two miles, so as to prepare to concentrate on attacking the front of the Qingzhou army.

As for thousands of cavalry, they were divided into two wings.

Shi Le's order was to let these Hu cavalry wait for a while. After the Han infantry and soldiers in their troops used their lives to disrupt the Qingzhou bandit formation, these Hu cavalry took advantage of the opportunity to attack the Qingzhou army.

After receiving the order, Taobao, Guo Heiluo, Liu Ying, Wu Yu and other Hu people under Shi Le led their respective cavalry to advance on both wings.

Shi Le himself personally took charge of the central infantry formation, and assisted the command of the infantry with Zhang Bin, Cheng Xia, Xu Guang and others.

Just as Shi Le's army was about to beat the drum, a bald man in thick beards and robe slowly appeared in front of Shi Le.

Under the service of two equally bald Han men, the bald Hu man boarded a large cart that had been prepared, and then he whispered a lot of words like a pig biting a cow.

No one of the Han infantry soldiers under Shi Le understood what the Husband was saying.

A bald Han man serving under the Humen of the Hanba quickly walked to Shi Le, then folded his hands together and said proudly.

"Master Zhu Tu said that he had just blessed the general's power, which could offset the 3.33 million ghost soldiers and thunder evil in the Heavenly Master's Demonic Way. The general can feel at ease to kill demons and eliminate demons. Moreover, Master Zhu Tu is kind and will come to the formation in person to resolve the grievances for the thief army and save the dead souls."

When Shi Le heard this, he felt relieved.

"The great clan is indeed mercy. I thank Zhu Tu for me first. After I kill these Qingzhou thieves, I will definitely build Futu and Lan Ruo in Jizhou. I will also ask the emperor to open the monk's name."

Then, Shi Le waved his hand and the drum spread, and the army of more than 30,000 infantry and cavalry finally started.

.....

At the same time, the Qingzhou Army, two miles away from the Shilehu infantry and cavalry army.

Liu Yu had also seen Shi Le's troops finally began to move towards him.

"These dog-wrenching captives finally dare to rush forward. I thought they wanted to spend the night with us until dark." Zhao Kun, who had been following Liu Yu, had been impatient for a long time.

"These infantry must have tens of thousands of people. Why are the arrays so narrow?"

Liu Xun looked at the Hulu infantry that began to advance opposite. Generally, ten thousand people spread out in loose arrays is enough to make people feel like they are all over the mountains, but the front of these Hulu infantry is quite limited.

"Haha, it's not that the enemy's opponent does not want to expand a bigger front, but because most of these infantry soldiers are forced to conquer Hebei people. If the front is too wide and they are unable to take into account too large the scope, it will be difficult for those who fear the enemy and cowardly formation to discover it."

Ran Long's words immediately answered Liu Xun's doubts.

"Also, it's getting late. If we divide troops and siege the four sides, just siege the infantry will take up half an hour. The enemy on the opposite side must have thought that it would be better to attack with all our might and then use cavalry to attack the side. The speed of winning can be faster than the infantry's siege the three sides."

Liu Xun soon had new doubts.

"If the Huluo attacked several times, wouldn't he have to exert all his strength faster? How could it be slower than this?"

Ran Long thought for a while and continued.

"There are many people without armor in these barbarian infantry. I guess if they fight with the Qingzhou army with all their might, they may be penetrated by our army. By then, the barbarian army will not be able to convey information, and a defeat may lead to the defeat of the entire army."

After hearing this, Liu Xun immediately answered.

"Oh, I understand, because these barbarian infantry are too useless, they can only be used together in one place. If they divide the troops, they will be afraid of war."

Although Liu Yu heard all the conversation between Ran Long and Liu Xun, he did not comment at all because he had been observing the advancing enemy troops.

Although he knew that it would be difficult for Shi Le's infantry to change complex queues while advancing, let alone arrays that change directions, Liu Yu was still afraid that if these barbarian infantrymen changed their formations when facing the enemy, it would disrupt the tactics he had planned for a long time in his mind.

Fortunately, the Hulu infantry on the opposite side had no intention of changing the formation, and had always maintained the shape of a heavy infantry formation and slowly pressed towards the Qingzhou Army.

As the Hulu infantrymen were getting closer and closer, Liu Yu could finally make up his mind to send his secret weapon.

With the right time and place, it is time for Liu Yu's secret weapon to show off his skills.

...........

"Come here! Send an order to deploy all the bronze cannons in the north, go quickly!"

At this time, Liu Yu could deploy all five bronze cannons on the front, because it was impossible for the Hulu infantry to change the main attack direction, because if they were changing directions on the outside, the Qingzhou army with the advantage of the inside only needs to fine-tune the formation on all four sides to deal with it.

If the Hulu generals lead the iron, they only need to change for a few rounds, and just walk can consume a lot of their physical strength, while the Qingzhou army only deflected and moved a few steps.

Soon, five heavy bronze cannons were pushed from the central army to the front of the enemy by dozens of large and round infantry soldiers.

The lack of various materials has almost exhausted all Liu Yu's savings and has also benefited from the profits of salt throughout the year.

Because metal zinc has not been extracted, all of these five cannons were cast by bronze casting.

Since the Shang Dynasty, China's bronze casting technology has been almost the king. Although the control of metal purity and proportion is not as good as that of modern times, the technology of casting a three-pound cannon is not difficult for these craftsmen who can cast a thousand-pound cauldron.

It's just a test of more smelting and mold casting.

Compared with the standard gunshot, the weight and strength are slightly insufficient, but for Liu Yu, these five bronze guns are far better than the first bronze gun in the initial experiment.

Liu Yu was already very satisfied with this.

These five imitation three-pound cannons are four feet long and weigh 800 kilograms. Compared with the standard three-bolt bronze cannons in later generations, they can definitely be called "benefit" version.

It fires a solid bullet of about three kilograms of pig iron balls, using granulated black huoyao, with the maximum effective range of about two hundred steps.

Because of the haste, most soldiers of the Qingzhou Army had only heard the sound and smoke of the bronze cannons, and had never seen its true power.

Most people think that the first impression of these five bronze cannons is: "expensive".

Of course, this includes Ran Long, who is a newcomer.

When Chen Xian, who was slapped with a big mouth, told Ran Long that there was a magic weapon in the Qingzhou army that was powerful and could attract lightning to strike the earth, Ran Long remained quite suspicious.

However, when Ran Long returned to Liu's pre-account to counsel military affairs, when he saw the divine weapons mentioned by Chen Xian with his own eyes in the Central Army, he couldn't help but believe it.

Because, are these five magic weapons too expensive?

Ran Long obtained Liu Yu's permission and went up to touch it. He found that the five large tubes were actually cast of copper, and judging from the quality, the proportion of copper was much higher than that of Wuzhu coins.

Especially when Liu Yu told him that this "cannon" was at least millions of dollars, Ran Long no longer doubted the power of this "cannon".

Because in his opinion, if it is not as powerful as this, it is simply a pity for the price of one million yuan.

With this million, how much iron can you buy and how many weapons can you build? If you use one million to buy iron, it may be enough for a soldier in the army.

Moreover, Liu Yu told Ran Long that this was much more than that.

Ran Long knew that every time these "cannons" made of copper coins were used, they would cost a thousand yuan of "huo yao", and a three-pound iron ball weighing more than a hundred yuan.

"I want to see what power these "gold-swalking beasts" called cannons have!"

Ran Long's eyes, starting from Liu Yu's order, have been staring at the cannons and the Qingzhou soldiers who were pushing the cannons forward.

Because according to Ran Long's estimate, if these copper cannons are melted into copper coins, they can kill a group of people with just money. He wants to see what the situation is like when Chen Xian said "thunder strikes the earth"!

After dozens of Qingzhou soldiers worked hard to push the five bronze cannons to the right position.

The Hu infantry in the distance had advanced to a distance of about a hundred steps away from them, and they began to stop there and organize their queues.
To be continued...