Infantry troops are often the most vulnerable on the move, and cavalry certainly does not give up this opportunity. In the past, the Song army relied on the city fortress and could not hold out with the help of the mountainous terrain, so that the Shangdu army did not achieve an inch at a great price. At that moment, the Song army finally walked out of the fortress, and the enemy cavalry immediately realized that the fighter plane that had been waiting for a long time had finally arrived, and even if the whole team attacked, the three hundred steps of the front rushed towards the Song army, wanting to break through their thin line.

"Stand!" Hearing the change of the drums, the officer who led the team waved his sword and gave the order to stop advancing, and the various queues stopped almost at the same time.

"Ready to shoot!" Hearing the sound of the password, the soldiers in the first platoon quickly switched from shoulder guns to gun raising, and at the same time opened the safety and aimed the muzzle of the gun forward; The second column followed three steps forward with their guns in hand, and the last column followed six steps with their shoulder guns, narrowing the distance between the two teams.

After preparing to give the order, Tian Zhong did not rush to give the order to fire, he cautiously looked at the hundreds of enemy horsemen galloping over, shouting, waving his horse whip, urging the war horse to speed up. He knew the performance of muskets very well, and in order to test the performance of flintlock pistols, the little emperor once conducted experiments by erecting a wide curtain as a target to simulate enemy troops, and then ordered an infantry battalion to design the target at different ranges. At a distance of 150 paces, the hit rate is only more than 20 percent, at 100 steps it can be increased to 40 percent, and at 70 steps it can reach 6 to 70 percent.

Therefore, every experienced officer understands that the closer the fire is fired in an engagement, the greater the lethality. For the cavalry to attack the first round of fire, it is necessary to deal a heavy blow to disrupt their offensive momentum and rhythm, and with the speed of the cavalry's impact, it also leaves them a chance to release three rounds, so they must give the enemy a heavy blow in order to gain an advantage in the subsequent close combat.

Since the two armies were only three arrows apart, the Yuan cavalry had to increase their speed in a short time, and the horses had turned from trotting to running fast after increasing their speed, and now the two armies were only a hundred paces apart, and they had to raise the speed of their horses to the highest in the remaining very short time to increase the impact, and at the same time pick up their bows and arrows, ready to disrupt the formation with arrows first. And at this distance, good archers can already shoot arrows into the enemy line, and they can't wait to shoot the first arrow.

The speed of the arrow is faster, and the more lethal it is, but the Yuan army found that the Song army in front of them was like a puppet, that is, it did not raise a shield to block, nor did it shoot to stop it, and saw that the enemy was constantly hit by arrows to the end, and his heart couldn't help but be ecstatic, knowing that countless enemy troops were difficult to stop even if they erected many obstacles and put out a gun array, so they firmly believed that it would be difficult to block the impact of their iron cavalry with only three human walls.

"Fire!" After the enemy cavalry entered the firing range, although he saw that some soldiers were hit by arrows, Tian Zhong still did not give the order to shoot, and it was not until the enemy rushed into the best range that he waved his sword fiercely. As the commander of a brigade, his privilege was to have horses and horses, and his weapon was to have this command knife in addition to a musket, and the standard-bearer behind him immediately waved the red command flag to convey the order to his subordinates.

'Bang, bang, bang...... hundreds of muskets rang out at the same time, raining down on the oncoming enemy horsemen. The muskets pierced through the armor of the enemy cavalry with great force, tearing their bodies apart without hindrance, and the unwielding force of the impact lifted them off their horses. And the horses that were shot were not much better, and those who were hit by the vital point fell down in an instant, and the wounded and not dead jumped around in pain, lifted the soldiers off their horses, and even rushed indiscriminately in the horses, so that the entire cavalry group was stagnant.

The follow-up cavalry saw that the forwards had broken off their horses, but they had no time to dodge, so they could only hit it hard, but the speed of the resistance slowed down, and then there was another roar, and the rain of bullets came again, and the tragedy repeated again. After the third shot, less than a hundred percent of the enemy soldiers could rush to the front of the Song army, but they were faced with bayonets like a forest.

Under the repeated blows, the speed of the war horse dropped again and again, and the impact was greatly reduced, and the cavalry that lost its speed was fast meat, and he was surrounded by the Song soldiers who rushed up. Often, before they could swing their scimitars, the horses under them had already been shot first, and then a bayonet on his side had penetrated his armor and picked him off his horse. Seeing that the situation was not good, the remnants of the horse's horse turned their horses' heads and stabbed around in a circle, and ran back, but the gunfire began again behind them, and none of the ten who were lucky enough to escape the shooting and return to their own formation.

The drums of war rose again, and the Song army quickly resumed its offensive formation, and they only had time to move the casualties of their headquarters to the passage between the queues, where their own baggage teams and medical teams rescued and contained them. But the strict discipline and almost harsh training forced them to put away their grief, and they couldn't look at the comrades who had been with each other day and night on the side of the road, so they continued to move forward with the queue. Because whoever looked left and right in the middle of the battle or left the formation without permission, his teammates and officers behind him had the right to kill him on the spot with bayonets.

However, the Song army did not take advantage of the victory to pursue, but switched to a column based on the capital, according to a slow rhythm of about seventy-five steps per minute, two feet per step, due to the reduction of the number of columns and the shortening of the spacing, the Song army's horizontal column could easily be transformed into a marching column, and the width of the column happened to be the width of the ordinary road. In the past, the queue training and formation changes that were constantly practiced on the parade ground were the tactical formations and movements actually used on the battlefield.

When you reach the battlefield and then turn or turn between marches, the queue becomes a horizontal line when shooting. No one on the battlefield is allowed to make any moves other than those prescribed without orders, and even the victorious troops must remain in formation and not pursue the defeated enemy without permission. Otherwise, a scattered army will not be able to maintain its firepower, and it will easily put your own side in danger......

"Stay in formation!" Jia Tao, who was marching on the right side of the queue, shouted loudly with a grim face, letting the soldiers' footsteps keep up with the rhythm of the drums. He is the head of the third commander of the first brigade and the second regiment, and his ancestral home is Ganzhou, Jiangxi, and he is also a scholar, but he died before catching up with the good times, and later heard that the Xingchao opened a branch in Qiongzhou and came all the way across the sea, but still missed the second by-election.

At that time, there were two ways to go, one was to enter the government to continue studying, and the other was to enlist in the army. Feeling that the country was ruined and people died, Jia Tao gave up his pen and followed Rong, because he was selected into the new army training camp because of his education, and after three years of study, he joined the imperial army, and because of the good way to lead the troops, he was promoted to the head of the capital the following year and became a grassroots officer, but it was the first time to participate in actual combat.

Jia Tao knew that he would serve the battlefield from the day he decided to join the army, and he was also eager to make contributions on the battlefield, and he also thought that he might sacrifice his life for the country. And when they followed His Majesty to the conquest in person, the first brigade had been on standby since the beginning of the battle, listening to the incessant sound of guns and cannons in front of him made him eager to join the battle, but when they were ordered to launch a counterattack and step into the real battlefield, it still made his heart tighten.

The front of the fortress was littered with corpses of men and horses, which had long since rotted in the sweltering weather, emitting a foul smell, and those corpses that had not been dead for a long time, their stomachs quickly swelled into balls, and when they reached the limit, they would explode with a 'bang'. The guts and pus and blood splattered everywhere, making people feel sick, and the thought that they might be the same still makes people feel chilled. What is even more unbearable is that there is no way to avoid it on the way forward, and from time to time you have to step on these corpses. And the brief exchange of fire with the enemy cavalry just now also made Jia Tao realize the fragility of life.

Although B did not face the onslaught of the enemy horsemen, he also served the task of protecting the flanks, and when hundreds of enemy horses came and their iron hooves beat the ground, one could clearly feel the earth trembling, and the echo in the valley made people feel palpitations. For the first time, Jia Tao felt that death was so close to him, and he couldn't help but have the idea of escaping in his head, but the rigorous training allowed him to instinctively filter out this idea, and mechanically executed the orders issued by his superiors.

"Turn left, walk in unison, and the four-way column becomes a three-way team!" Jia Tao not only had to pay attention to his soldiers at all times, but also paid attention to the changes in the command flag and drums of the commander in front of him, so as to adjust the formation at any time. He was still about two hundred paces away from the enemy's formation, and the order to change into battle formation on the march was given again, and he shouted the order so that his soldiers could hear it.

"Stand upright, turn right!" After turning left and marching about forty paces, Jia Tao suddenly found himself facing the enemy's Chinese army, which was the most heavily fortified place for the enemy.

"Let's go!" The drums sounded again, and the second regiment began to move forward beyond the two wings, and their command will take on the main attack task, Jia Tao's face instantly turned pale, and he felt that the hands holding the gun were sweaty, and his legs were as heavy as lead, but he still mechanically issued the command to move forward, which just made people listen to a little fluttering.

"Stay in formation, don't panic!" Jia Tao soon found that it was not he who was nervous, but the soldiers in Yidu were also solemn, especially those soldiers who had just enlisted for more than a year were even more throat-stirring, nervously swallowing saliva, and their feet were also out of rhythm. He realized that he was the leader of the team, and that his nervousness had also affected his soldiers, and he immediately gathered his mind and shouted.

"Do you say you have no clothes? with the Son. Wang Yuxingshi, repair my spear. Enmity with the Son! How can you say that you have no clothes? With the Son. Wang Yuxingshi, repair my spear halberd. The low drum sound of ...... with Zi Kai played "Qin Feng", and the commander Liu Tong was a veteran of the battle of Yashan and the defense of Qiongzhou in the army, and he also found that these soldiers who had just entered the battlefield were nervous, so he walked in front with his head held high and sang a military song with the sound of the drum, and at this time, the Marquis of Yingyu also walked forward quickly and walked side by side with it, singing in unison!

Seeing the two chief officers in the camp in front, Jia Tao seemed to have an immediate reliance, and his spirit unconsciously perked up, looking at the robes who got along day and night on the left and right, thinking that he could sing and sing with his brothers, and die generously for the country is not a happy thing in life. Under the guidance of the officers, the whole battalion sang in unison, and approached the enemy with sonorous and powerful steps......

"Hold on to your formation!" As we got closer to the enemy, the feeling of oppression intensified, and the singing had stopped, and only the dull footsteps and the heavy breathing of the soldiers seemed to be left in heaven and earth. Jia Tao visually measured that he was less than 100 paces away from the enemy formation, but the commander had not yet issued the order to shoot, and the armies still maintained their formation and moved forward. The archers of the enemy army seemed to be unable to bear this feeling of oppression and began to release arrows, and Ruying's stray arrows fell from the air, smashing on the helmet with a crisp sound of metal strike, causing a commotion in the queue, and he immediately shouted loudly, and the soldiers who were in each team and the commander of the group immediately reprimanded the abnormal movement and quickly stabilized the formation.

"Keep going!" The order to shoot at ninety paces was still not given, but the enemy's arrows were more dense, but Jia Tao knew that the enemy troops could not see the situation in front of them except for the archers in the first row, and the people behind could not see the situation in front of them, but only threw them into the air. The helmet and cuirass provided good protection for their vital parts, and although the body was hurt by the arrows, it could not cause damage to the flesh, but the exposed limbs became the weakest point. The commander who walked in front made his left arm pierced by an arrow, which made the soldiers in the front row slow down, but they only instinctively shook and roared and still maintained the pace of marching.

"March-to-shoot ready!" After eighty paces, the command to prepare to shoot finally came, and after a few neat and crisp sounds, the soldiers kept moving their shoulder guns and changed to holding their guns with both hands, still maintaining a neat queue to move forward.

Seventy paces, sixty paces, the order to open fire had not yet been given, and the queue was moving forward under a rain of arrows like locusts, but from time to time someone fell down from the arrow, but no one stopped, and the vacancy was immediately filled by the soldiers in the back row. Jia Tao worked hard to maintain the formation, and he couldn't help but be anxious, it is said that he has now entered the range where the musket can be most effective, and he can even see the faces of the soldiers in front of the enemy's formation.

Fifty steps, only ten steps away, Jia Tao found that more than ten people in the capital were shot and fell, and now before he could shoot, Yidu had lost nearly one-third of his troops, but without an order, he could only keep reminding the sergeants that they must not shoot without authorization, and those who violated military law will be dealt with. He also saw that the enemy army was also feeling the oppression, the formation was showing signs of loosening, and the archers began to move into the formation.

"Fire!" Within forty paces, finally waiting for the order to fire, the three columns of infantry began to fire alternating volleys, backward reloads, and again salvos. In order to increase the density of firepower, the officers are also equipped with muskets, and Jia Tao is of course no exception......