Jiang Cai was not mistaken, Ma Ji's former army did encounter with the Tartars, they moved forward quickly, the other party came faster, and the two sides almost collided head-on on the border between Guide and Guohua Prefecture, so it is not accurate, the spies of the previous side still gave him a short time to prepare, just a moment. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

This is also something that can't be helped, Shi Zhong's subordinates have too many places to monitor, on average, the manpower everywhere is insufficient, compared to the thousand-man team of Aruhun, the hundred-man team of Siding is almost inconspicuous, who would have expected him to run so fast, and when the spies found out, the two sides had almost collided.

A moment of time is also time, Ma Ji did not waste the slightest, the team of five thousand people immediately changed from a vertical column to a horizontal column, it was too late to pay attention to the depth, the seemingly simple change of formation contained great risks, if the news of the spies was not accurate, the other party was a determined general, and it may bring him a catastrophe.

Fortunately, none of this happened, and just after a quarter of an hour had passed, and the horizontal formation had not yet been completely straightened, horns of varying lengths sounded in the distance, and in the absence of clairvoyance mirrors available, it was obvious that the other party had a farther field of vision than theirs. Thinking of this, Ma Ji couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat, if there were no eyes hidden in the dark, this rescue trip would only be a journey of death, and there would be no luck at all.

"The whole army is here, and if the enemy comes to attack, no matter whether it advances or retreats, those who violate the order will be killed."

Regardless of the surprise of his generals, Ma Ji planted his flag behind him, staring ahead without blinking, the part of their formation is from the road by the river through the river valley to the edge of the mountain forest, at such a long distance, it is not easy to make any formation, the more critical question is, what is the purpose of doing this?

Seeing that the commander had no meaning to explain, the two commanders had to return to their respective positions according to the order, and the long array was spread out in the order of the front gun, the rear bow, and the secondary crossbow, and each column had only a thin layer, no backup, no flanks, and if the Tartars on the opposite side rushed into battle regardless of casualties, the consequences were extremely unpredictable.

As the main general, what he wants to release is only a rough direction, and he doesn't need to move his mouth for specific things, this role is actually not much different from Liu Yu, who is not familiar with the war, of course, if he needs to, he can also go into battle to kill the enemy, but if it reaches that point, it means that the war is almost over, either he was killed by the enemy in front of him, or he participated in the pursuit after the defeat of the enemy, and the result is actually similar.

"Li boy, what is this piece called?"

"Ahh The person he asked was a young man wearing a personal soldier's uniform, who was not much different from the Song people in terms of appearance, and originally focused on the array of the Song people, but when he heard it, he couldn't help but be stunned.

"In front is a monolith beach, about twenty miles away from Guohua Prefecture, there was a village on the shore, more than a dozen families, living by fishing and hunting, after the Yuan people came, they hid in the woods, when I brought people last time, there was no sign of the Yuan people in this area, how ......"

It can be seen that he is a little nervous, the Chinese language is not as fluent as his father, in order to hide the rambling for a long time, Ma Ji didn't care about him, it was a coincidence, since the two sides met here, then there is a side it is destined to.

There are still more than twenty miles away from Guohua Prefecture, which means that the enemy's reinforcements will not arrive immediately, and the time left for his own warning should be enough, and his heart is a little more fixed. At this moment, there was a sudden piercing scream, how long had it been since this sound had been heard? Ma Ji subconsciously raised his head, and saw that the sky above the sky that was still cloudless and blue suddenly appeared a small sparse black shadow.

At this time, the cavalry of the Yuan people appeared from a distance, rode their horses and raised their bows, and pounced quickly. Ma Ji's gaze only flickered in mid-air for a moment before he retracted it, because the old army with a little eyesight knew very well that the strength of these arrows flying into the air was far from enough to reach their military formation, and it was just the usual means of the Tartars to confuse the enemy.

"The enemy is here, get ready."

Before the arrows in the air fell, the commanders standing in front of the formation made the same response, according to the formation, the spearmen who were originally standing at the front held the spear body more than a foot long and landed on their knees, as if kneeling on the ground, so that the entire front line was suddenly shortened by half a section, leaving the crossbowmen behind them with a field of vision and space to fire.

Immediately afterwards, the crossbowmen in the second row, whether it was a divine arm bow with a range of up to 100 paces, or a slightly more powerful crossbow, all crouched down on one knee, and its height was just above the heads of the pikemen in the front row.

The rearmost archer didn't need to make any movement, untied the hardwood longbow on his back, expertly adjusted the strength of the bowstring, and placed the quiver tied to his waist at his feet, the most comfortable position. Reaching out and feeling out a feather arrow, he held it upside down in his hand, and licked the neatly cut arrow feathers with his thick tongue, which may still have a hint of wild fishiness on it, and seemed to be satisfied, so he took it with his slightly bent fingers, and put it on the double-strand string that was straightened by the double horn handle of the bow, and pulled it away with the most suitable force, forming an irregular oval.

"Kou!"

It was only then that the first arrows flying in mid-air fell and plunged diagonally into the dirt about thirty or forty paces away from the formation.

Xiding had no choice but to do this, in fact, at the first moment he found out that the Song people used a horn to notify the rear, that kind of transmission method took the way of relay, continuously towards the rear, and where this rear was, he didn't know at all, let alone how much he had rushed forward?

What he didn't expect was that Song Ren's reaction was much faster than he expected, and when the team was entangled and forced up, a human wall suddenly appeared in front of him! Yes, in Siding's opinion, this is the human wall, otherwise why would they have discharged such an unreasonable formation, covering everything from the dense forest above to the river beach below, without even planning to leave a little gap for themselves.

This is an extremely unreasonable approach, their thousand-man team is just a reconnaissance horse, there is no requirement to block the enemy at all, as far as Siding's idea is concerned, find the enemy's traces, report it, and then look for opportunities to see if there are any flaws that can be used, which is why he knows that the distance is not enough and will shoot the first round of arrows.

The result of the temptation surprised him a little, this large number of Song troops was unmoved, and there was no panic and deformation in the long array, which showed that the other party was either ignorant or confident, the former can be regarded as a rookie who was newly enlisted, and the latter was of course a veteran of the battle, so he wanted to try again.

However, a hundred-man team, on the front of a few miles wide, will become very loose when pulled out, and this will minimize the lethality of the opponent's crossbow. Of course, he didn't have a plan to defeat thousands of Song people with a team of 100 people, but if he didn't give it a try, who knows?

Launching a charge from a distance of more than one hundred and fifty paces, with the limit range of the Mongol riding bow, it was necessary to advance at least eight to ninety paces, and the opponent's equally sparse horizontal formation made the projectile a waste of arrows, and Sidin kept estimating the distance with the sound of the wind blowing in his ears.

Less than a hundred paces away, it was only a few breaths for the fast horse that rushed up, but what he didn't expect was that such a short moment would make people feel so long.

The array did not fight, and when the sound of crossbow arrows breaking through the air passed overhead, Siding, who was lying on horseback, remembered this maxim.

In fact, not only did he not expect that Ma Ji, who was more than 100 steps away from the formation, was also the same, he knew exactly how many people there were on the other side, just a team of 100 people, even if the elite could be one of ten, then he could only defeat a thousand people, but he had 5,000 people here, or the formation had been completed, could it be that the Great Song Dynasty could be bullied to such a point in their eyes? Almost instantly, an indescribable irritation arose.

Sending his anger out were hundreds of loaded Divine Arm Bows, the powerful crossbow machine was suddenly released by its owner, and the complex spring passed through a series of transmissions of the internal structure, forming a huge thrust, and when the black featherless arrows tore through the air, they would make a soft sound similar to "poof", and finally converge into a beautiful symphony in the distance.

Ma Ji was not very satisfied with this, I don't know if it was a mistake in estimating the distance, or it became tense under the pressure of the enemy's charging formation, this distance was almost the limit that the divine arm bow could reach, and the enemy's array was very loose, and the results that could be achieved were naturally self-evident, and there were few screams in the distance, and even horses came out, and several fast-moving black shadows fell to the mud ground wrapped in huge dust.

In fact, he is demanding, a war horse that rushes straight over, at a distance of about a hundred steps, what people can see is only a small front, and after excluding factors such as wind power, shooting angle, etc., the chance of hitting is almost a small probability, but as long as even one hits, the impact is also obvious, and Siding, who rushed in the middle of the team, was timid.

At this time, they had already rushed more than fifty steps, only a breath or two away from the launch distance, but the palpitating sound of breaking the sky sounded again, this time there were many more falls, and he even clearly saw a cavalry not far away, first was shot in the head of the horse by a crossbow arrow, and then the figure in the air flew up several blood flowers, and without a snort, he fell down, smashing out a puff of dust and smoke.

"Retreat!" Whether he could hear it or not, he didn't even dare to raise his arms, and began to turn the horse's head directly at the speed of the rush, the speed was too fast to stop immediately, the only way was to turn with the trend, from straight to oblique and then cross and then turn again, and then ...... Run as fast as you can, and run past the arrows to survive.

At this moment, there are about sixty steps away from the Song people's military array, and they have entered the range of the Song people's strong crossbow, and will reach the maximum range of the bow and arrow.

I have to say that between life and death, the quality of people often reaches the limit, not to mention that these Mongolian cavalry can be called elite, of course, Siding's voice cannot travel far, but the hundred household banners that follow him closely have become the direction indicated by all the cavalry, and the rest of the people react only one step slower than him, a step between life and death.

The enemy changes formation in front of the formation, and the originally small frontal surface suddenly becomes a huge horizontal plane, which only takes a moment for a seasoned shooter. The arrows swooped into the distance, the feathers of the arrows trembling in the air, desperately trying to hold on to the target in their master's eyes until the moment the arrows collided.

The screams rang out, and the regretful Sidin had no time to distinguish who those people were, he felt as if he had been bitten by a mosquito on his shoulder, and the pain made him bite his lower lip tightly, and he lay down on the horse without saying a word, and when he swept sideways in front of the Song people's formation, his eyes swirled around the huge banner behind the formation, and on the flag blown by the river wind, a golden Chinese character was wrapped in a bright ball of blood, just like the price he and his men paid at this time.

The word "horse" was one of the few Chinese characters he could recognize, because they were a people on horseback, and it was the first Chinese character they had to recognize since they conquered the Central Plains. And the figure of Gao Ju standing under the banner immediately, Sidding didn't see his appearance clearly, but by feeling, there must be a smile on this person's face, with a sarcastic smile.

Ma Ji didn't laugh, the other party's approach was indeed the way to die in his opinion, but the fighting quality he showed in the end made him frightened, and also made him put away his previous contempt, he had a lot of experience fighting with the Mongols, and it was clear that this was just a prominent reconnaissance cavalry, and there would be at least a thousand cavalry troops behind, and it would never be too far from here.

Not far ahead, on the battlefield, several ownerless horses searched in vain, some men or horses who were not yet dead wailed helplessly, and those companions who had left them had fled without a trace. Ma Ji was not very interested in the results of the battle, there was only a hundred-man team in total, and about half of them escaped, got off the horse, gave a few simple orders, and walked towards the other end of the military formation.

"You Jiang Zhaofu, do you have any news?"

A sergeant with a small square box in his hand shook his head, I don't know if it was the distance or some other reason, there was no new news in the box, Ma Ji looked at those mountains and forests with some depression, if Jiang Cai's cavalry was not in place, he would have to take more risks here. Since there is already contact with the enemy, it is unlikely to go any further, marching is different from fighting, once there is a change in the array of foot soldiers, it is very easy for the enemy to take advantage of it, and today's battle shows that the enemy is not only brave, but also has brains, and it is by no means as simple as it seems.

A few miles away from them, in a river valley, a great cloud of dust and smoke obscured the entire plain, and Aruhun's thousand-man squad was hurrying over, until dozens of horsemen appeared in front of him, and he raised his hand and ordered the whole army to slow down. When Sidin gritted his teeth and knelt in front of his horse, the feathered arrow behind him was still stuck in his back, but judging by the length of the flesh, the life of this man should be in danger.

"Get up."

Aruhun asked his own soldiers to go down and help the man up, so that he would not be able to hear what he said on the ground, and he lost almost half of his men and horses in just one look, and Aruhun didn't even have the strength to be angry at the moment, and he had to think carefully about the news that Sidin had brought back, because it was the life of dozens of Mongol warriors in exchange.

If there was no war, his complete team of 1,000 people, whether it was fighting or leaving, would be able to make the boss unable to say anything, but after breaking so many people for no reason, if he left like this, would the Song people still be as frightened as before? He could not afford this guilt.

It's just a few thousand foot soldiers, as long as it doesn't hit head-on like before, how to fight, of course, it is the cavalry that has the initiative to have the final say, since the Song people are coming to the rescue, it is impossible to stay there and not leave, as long as they are in the state of marching, there will always be opportunities, Aruhun is not short of patience, he is only afraid of one situation, that is...... Fail.

"You look like this, the battle will definitely not be done, take your people to the back, bring my words to Wuban Hudu Wanhu, let him quickly gather troops and horses, just say that the Song people are coming to help, the number, more than 10,000 people, Aluhun will be waiting for his arrival here."

Although Sidin was a little unconvinced, there was no room for negotiation in Chito's words, and he understood that the other party was afraid that he and his men would affect the confidence of others. As for why he exaggerated the number of Song people, he did not raise any doubts, for the Mongols, the Song people were thousands or tens of thousands, and the difference was not big, because the result was the same.

"Nagu'er, your people are the front team, look at what the Song people are doing, try not to alarm them, lest they be so scared that they don't even dare to go."

After those remnants left, Aluhun called another hundred households under his command, and pretended to give a casual advice, which unsurprisingly caused the people around him to laugh, for them, dealing with the Song people was like hunting on the grassland, without those high walls made of stones, no matter how the Song people wanted to fight, they would not be put in their eyes, even if they were the least good at water.

Aruhun looked smiling, his eyes actually shining with a cold light, the enemy needed contempt in order to psychologically trample them under his feet. And the opponent, can never be underestimated, this is the old master of the Uliang Habe said the most, the terrain here is not conducive to the play of the cavalry, the room for maneuver is too small, if you do not enter the jungle, and there is no advantage on the horse, for him, every decision means the disappearance of life, whether it is his own or the enemy's, he has to be cautious again and again.