The next day, although the weather was fine, the Yuan army still did not leave the camp. Li Luo had no choice but to wait. On the third day, the snow melted a lot, and the Yuan army finally came out of the camp and lined up, and the coalition army also came out of the camp and lined up.

In the morning, the two armies were again facing each other, and the sabre was tense.

First of all, Timur and Li Luo each stood on the high car mountain in front of Daxu, looking at each other's formation.

"Woo-woo-woo-"

The desolate and majestic horn sounded in the Yuan army, and under the order of the king of Yunnan, the huge cavalry cluster began to approach slowly, and the 50,000 Duan infantry troops and a large number of slaves behind also followed, like an overwhelming black cloud.

This is to close the distance and adjust the best attack space for the cavalry.

And the three major formations of the coalition forces were also in full swing and did not move. Li Luo was dressed in black dazzling armor, squinting at the Yuan Army Brigade that was pressing over like a tide, and his heart was solemn.

He did succeed in mobilizing the Yuan army and occupying a local superiority in troops. But if you want to win the war, you have to pay a lot of casualties in exchange.

That's 100,000 iron horsemen!

The generals of the coalition army were also a little nervous, they had never faced more than 50,000 enemy cavalry. There is no need to think about it, once the 100,000 enemy cavalry is launched, it will be a tsunami-like offensive.

The light cavalry of the Yuan army at the front finally entered the range of five miles. Five miles is the best distance for cavalry attacks, which can make the horse speed reach the highest and the state of the war horse is also the best.

Timur also rode a tall black horse, rode alone in front of the cavalry array, and began to patrol.

This is also a tradition of the Golden Family. It's actually a kind of etiquette. Because each of the knights participating in the battle may return to the embrace of the Immortal Heaven, the commander will ride his horse in front of the formation and communicate with the knights one by one with his eyes, which can be regarded as encouragement, tribute, and farewell.

In front of the mile-long cavalry, the horses snorted and shook their manes, and the knights and horses were spraying white mist in the cold wind. Even in winter, you can smell a strong sweat sour and fishy smell on the tip of your nose.

Just think about how many men who haven't taken a shower for a long time and sweat a lot gather together.

Timur also rode slowly and silently past the huge procession, his eyes sweeping over a pair of eyes full of war. Many Mongolian knights nodded silently.

The resolute King of Yunnan, this cold man, also had a little moist in his eyes.

It took half an hour, and Timur completed the pre-war inspection ceremony.

Although the light cavalry of the Yuan army had 80,000, they were not mixed, and the tasks were different.

Fifty thousand Mongol cavalry, skilled in cavalry and archery, were to be followed by bows and arrows against the allied infantry formations. The 30,000 Duan clan and the Nanban cavalry were not good at mounted archery, and they would launch a traditional cavalry charge with cavalry spears and spears under the cover of the Mongol color cavalry.

The combination of the two can bring the power of cavalry into full play.

After that, there was an elephant herd attack, then 20,000 heavy cavalry, and finally 50,000 infantry. The attacks are layered, with wave after wave of stacked attacks. Timur and others also believed that with such a fierce offensive, the anti-thief coalition would definitely collapse.

There will be no temptation, no refueling tactics, but an all-out blow to completely defeat the infantry-based thief army.

Once the thief army collapses, all the cavalry will be slaughtered, and a big victory will be in the bag.

And Li Luo understood that without powerful firearms, the worst outcome of the Yuan army would be able to preserve its strength and retreat.

"Mordoga." The king of Yunnan said softly.

"Mordoga!" The soldiers shouted together, and the drums of war suddenly rained down.

The cavalry of the Yuan army let out a terrifying shout that made the scalp tingle, and they each urged their horses to trot at a high speed, Duan and the Nanban cavalry were holding their spears and spears, and the Mongolian cavalry took off their bows one after another.

The sound of horses' hooves grew louder and louder, and from the sound of the sea tide at the beginning to earth-shattering thunder, the whole earth trembled.

The sound of "booming" horses' hooves is accompanied by the neighing of war horses,

Under the galloping of 80,000 war horses, Li Luo's tall car was also trembling slightly.

"Boom—" In the blink of an eye, the cavalry of the Yuan army wiped out a distance of two or three miles, and then began to divert, turn, and outflank.

"Put!" The generals of the coalition forces, who received the order, also ordered the firing of stone cannons and bed crossbows.

Large pieces of stone bullets and bed crossbows roared out and blasted towards the Yuan cavalry, but the casualties caused were almost negligible, and many stones fell before they could reach the distance.

If the bed crossbow and stone cannon could really restrain the cavalry, then the Song Dynasty would not die.

The coalition's powerless long-range counterattack made the Yuan cavalry even more frantic and rushed up more fearlessly.

Seeing this scene, Timur also showed a sneering smile.

Li Luo, what's the use of having more soldiers? If there are more cavalry, then it will really be useful. You run out of gunpowder, and this battle will see how long you can hold out.

"Boom—" The cavalry of the Yuan army swept in like a mad rush, and the momentum simply changed the color of the storm. Many Mongolian cavalrymen have skillfully drawn their feather arrows, ready to shoot arrows quickly from their horses.

The spears like a forest on the periphery of the thief army, although they look terrifying, as long as they are repeatedly peeled, they will collapse sooner or later.

In the blink of an eye, the cavalry of the Yuan army had rushed to within a mile, and the momentum was violent, and even their murderous and hideous faces could be seen clearly.

"Woo Hehuning!"

"Mordoga!"

Tens of thousands of cavalry galloped like this, like thunder, advancing without retreating.

At this time, if you look down from the sky, you can see that the three streams of cavalry generally crashed into the three coalition formations, and the Mongol cavalry began to circle and force the coalition forces.

But at this moment, the original coalition army sounded the drums of war, accompanied by a sharp whistle, and then the pikemen on the periphery turned around and trotted back, and the entire large array suddenly contracted, revealing a large number of firearms behind them.

At the front was a row of gunners, and behind them was a cannon with a hole in the door.

The gunners were all in position, and the ammunition was loaded.

Although the cavalry of the Yuan army at the front found an abnormality, it was not clear at first, and it was impossible to retreat.

"Put!"

"Put!"

A large cloud of black smoke suddenly rose up, and almost at the same time, there was a thunderous roar.

The three large arrays of 1,000 or hundreds of large and small artillery pieces roared together, and in the loud sound of a landslide and a crack, a large number of metal cannonballs blasted into the dense cavalry ranks of the Yuan army.

At this distance, the bows and arrows of the Yuan cavalry could not reach, and the range of the artillery was more than enough. Therefore, the Yuan army immediately fell into a situation of being completely passively beaten, and was stunned by a sudden round of artillery bombardment, and many people did not react.

Under this round of ferocious artillery volleys, a large number of Yuan cavalry people flipped on their backs, and flesh and blood flew sideways. In particular, hundreds of ten-pound cannons, as soon as the cannon bombarded, a long trench was blasted out in the Yuan army, killing and wounding one piece, and the Yuan soldiers were all shattered.

The entire sky above the coalition army was filled with black smoke and filled with a strong smell of gunpowder.

Thousands of Yuan cavalry were killed and wounded under this round of artillery baptism.

Even Liang Jun and Song Jun were stunned by Tang Jun's sharp firearms.

However, due to the huge inertia, the cavalry of the Yuan army behind still continued to rush over, and did not stop immediately. In fact, the cavalry behind only heard a loud noise, and they did not know how miserable it was in front.

"Put!"

Immediately afterwards, the 25,000 musketeers of the Tang Army also pulled the trigger in a row and shot at the cavalry of the Yuan Army thirty zhang away.

In the shrill sound of swans and thumps, a large number of Yuan cavalry preparing to shoot arrows were shot. The hot buckshot pierced through their leather armor and into their bodies, screaming in pain.

After several rows of firearms were fired, thousands of Yuan troops were killed and wounded. Between the Yuan army and the coalition army, it has become an insurmountable line of fire.

The reloaded musketeers fired again, followed by the next row, alternating fires. Then the moderately fast reloaded cannon was also fired again.

Finally, the reloaded cannon roared again.

Under the continuous and dense rain of bullets, the huge cavalry ranks of the Yuan army were in disarray, trampling on each other, rushing left and right, advancing and retreating, and being baptized in the range of firearms.

In the cavalry cluster of the Yuan army. It has become a bloody place, full of dead people and horses, and the casualties are extremely heavy. What's even more terrifying is that the Tang army's sudden firearm bombardment knocked out their courage and frightened the war horses.

The frightened cavalry of the Yuan army shot arrows one after another, and at the same time retreated, intending to open the distance and escape from the range of firearms. But because the team was messy, there were too many people, and the speed of the horse was lost, and it would be a mess for a while.

However, the rain of arrows of the Yuan army still caused casualties to the coalition forces.

However, the casualties of the cavalry of the Yuan army have exceeded 10,000 people, more than ten times more than the casualties of the coalition army.

"Cavalry attack!" Li Luo, who was calm on the surface, but his palms were sweaty in fact, immediately issued a military order for the cavalry to attack.

A torrent rumbled out of the central formation of the coalition army, swooping down on the disorganized and disorganized cavalry of the Yuan army.

More than 30,000 cavalry of the Tang Army, all dispatched!

"Infantry attack!" Li Luo ordered again.

At the same time, the war drums in the coalition army were beating, and the trumpets suddenly sounded. The combined infantry armies of the two large formations on the left and right attacked on all fronts and rushed up with the cavalry.

Firearms are also nervously reloading.

More than 30,000 Jurchen, Khitan, and Dangxiang cavalry of the Tang army fiercely rushed into the cavalry of the Yuan army, throwing out hand axes, wielding maces and other long weapons to slash and kill. In this way, the cavalry of the Yuan army was bitten, and it was even more difficult to get out of the battlefield.

More than 100,000 allied infantry troops, whether it was the Tang army, the Liang army and the Song army, took the opportunity to rush forward, surrounded and intercepted, and completely lost their scruples about the formation.

It is... Siege!

What the cavalry group feared most was the chaotic battle after losing the speed of the horse, and being surrounded and intercepted by the infantry army with superior numbers. For cavalry, the loss of horse speed was a disaster.

Immediately afterwards, the heavy infantry in the coalition forces also rushed forward. And Li Luozhong's three thousand Mo knife team, the Huya Forbidden Army, also held a long Mo knife and strode close.

The Mo knife soldiers advanced into the wall, and when they went down, they were often shattered and invincible.

The archers in the coalition also abandoned their formations and blocked the perimeter of the Yuan cavalry cluster, firing a dense rain of arrows to prevent them from escaping.

The two sides completely fought into the white-knuckle chaos that the cavalry feared the most. Many cavalry of the Yuan army could only dismount and fight on foot under the desperate circumstances.

Of course, the Mongol cavalry on the horse was strong, but once they lost their horsepower, they were inferior to the veterans of the Tang Army who had been trained hard for a long time in white-knuckle combat.

In particular, the warriors of the Tang Army, who regarded death as home, were unsurpassed in both their personal combat strength and their will to fight, and soon suppressed the fierce Mongolian soldiers.

Dali and the Nanban cavalry are also very brave, but they are not the opponents of the Tang Army veterans. Coupled with being outnumbered, they were killed one after another.

Even the recruits of the Tang Army are also very good. They stabbed the enemy on their horses with their spears, dragging them off their horses and killing them.

Relatively speaking, the performance of Liang Jun and Song Jun is much worse. However, he still fought bravely against the enemy, and although the casualties were heavy, the results were also not small.

At this time, those who did not participate in the battle were the firearms army and Li Luo's central array. The firearms army all withdrew into the central formation and began to move forward slowly, forcing towards Yexian Timur, who was several miles away.

Of the tens of thousands of cavalry, most of them fell into a desperate situation, and only more than 20,000 cavalry successfully opened the distance and broke away from the interception of the allied infantry cavalry.

All this is a long time to say, in fact, from the Yuan army's charge to the present, it is less than half an hour of effort.

The more than 20,000 cavalry of the Yuan army, which had escaped from the quagmire, did not flee, but accelerated after opening up the distance, and rushed towards the allied infantry that had no formation to protect and participated in the suppression of the Yuan cavalry brigade.

But at this time, the cavalry of the Tang Army, which had already cut through the cavalry cluster of the Yuan Army, also went around from the side and rushed towards more than 20,000 cavalry. Both sides have horse speed, and when they collide together, they are bloody.

The Mongol cavalry tried to distance themselves and used reckless tactics against the Tang cavalry. The cavalry of the Tang Army, who was good at horse warfare, desperately narrowed the distance and bit it up with white blades.

The whole battlefield was completely chaotic. The sounds of fighting, shouting, screaming, and neighing of horses were earth-shattering and tragic.

The king of Yunnan and the others, who were miles away, looked stunned, full of disbelief.

"Li Luo has gunpowder!"

"There's gunpowder!!"

"Damn!!"

The eyes of the king of Yunnan were red. Eighty thousand light horsemen, how can it be like this? Firearms of the rebels ... It's so sharp!

Hiding in the formation and suddenly making trouble, how can you not suffer a big loss?

Before they had time to bet on war elephants and heavy cavalry, the light cavalry was defeated?

Li Ting and Bo Luohuan also saw that their hearts and galls were broken, and they were angry.

I was deceived by Li Luo! They've been fooled!

If they knew that Li Luo still had so much gunpowder, they wouldn't have formulated this tactic anyway!

Thief!

The order of the king of Yunnan to withdraw his troops had been issued, but the battlefield several miles away had become a melee, and the enemy was outnumbered, and he could not withdraw at all.

At this time, it is to bet on war elephants and heavy cavalry, and there is no point. The heavy cavalry did not have the cover of the light cavalry, and the situation would only get worse if they attacked the central formation of Li Luo, who had firearms, alone.

Heavy cavalry was always used in combination with light cavalry.

As for the war elephants, they will only turn around and flee under the bombardment of firearms.

"Herald! Infantry rush forward! The King of Yunnan roared with blood-red eyes, "Duan Qing! Your infantry rushes up and fights! "At this moment, the most useful thing is the infantry.

Duan Qing's father and son were also depressed at this time. Of these 80,000 light horsemen, 25,000 are Dali's soldiers and horses.

How many can survive today?

Defeated, defeated.

"Duan Qing!" The king of Yunnan looked at him with murderous eyes, and his face turned pale, "You didn't hear what this king said?" Strike your infantry! ”

Duan Qing's body trembled, and then he came back to his senses, and said with a bitter face: "Tsk! ”

Even if he was defeated in this battle, he did not dare to disobey the military orders of the king of Yunnan.

"Wait!" Li Ting's face was ugly and he stopped, "King, the cavalry has been defeated, these 50,000 Dali infantry join the battle group, at least they have to run four miles in armor, and when they rush over, their physical strength will be greatly reduced!" It is estimated that not only will it not be able to rescue the cavalry out of trouble, but it will be put in again! ”

Bo Luohuan also said: "King, what Li Ting said is right, 50,000 infantry troops will be given for nothing." We have too few soldiers and horses to do this! Look, King, Li Luo's central array has already forced over. ”

The king of Yunnan gritted his teeth and looked at the central formation of the coalition army that was slowly approaching, and he could only dispel the idea of infantry reinforcements.

Now, he can only watch tens of thousands of cavalry fall into a desperate situation, but he can't rescue, or even do anything!

It was only then that he realized that he was thin. If he hadn't divided his troops, even if Li Luo had firearms, this battle would not have been like this.

Yes, divide the troops. Why do you want to divide your troops? Why do you believe that Li Luo is out of gunpowder?

It's all because of that Wang, Wang...

"What about the general surnamed Wang?" The king of Yunnan asked.

Soon, Wang Wei, whose face was pale and mournful, was brought up.

From the moment he heard the sound of artillery, he knew he was finished. He's not stupid, even if he doesn't understand being used at this time?

It turns out that it's all a trap.

Dong Huchen knew that he wanted to reduce the yuan, so he deliberately acted, leaked fake news, and deliberately gave himself the opportunity to go out of the city and surrender to the informant.

Stupid.

Finished.

When Wang Wei was brought to the king of Yunnan, he was already frightened into a mess.

"My lord, the minion is really... It's really... Fooled, no... Not intentionally... The minions are really loyal to the king..."Wang Wei stammered in fright as he saw that the king of Yunnan was about to turn into a real killing intent.

The king of Yunnan looked at Wang Wei in disgust, "You roe deer-like fool, you can be stupid yourself, but the king who harmed you is stupid with you!" You can't live anymore. ”

Li Ting and Bo Luo Huan's faces were also flushed, and they were furious. They knew that Wang Wei really surrendered, but this fool was used by Li Luo, and they were also fooled, and it was a great shame to bury so many cavalry.

Wang Wei kowtowed like pounding garlic, and his soul flew out of the sky in fright, "The king spares his life!" But before he could finish knocking his head, his head flew up.

The king of Yunnan personally slaughtered Wang Wei with a knife and shouted: "Order! Collect the troops and defend the battalion! Seeing that Li Luo's central array was getting closer and closer, he didn't dare to delay any longer, and immediately abandoned the cavalry that was stuck in the quagmire of bitter fighting, and ordered to return to the camp to hold on.

As a capable commander, he knew very well that he could no longer do anything today, so he could only stick to the camp and wait for the other two troops to converge.

Although this battle was defeated, it may not be impossible to turn over. In Youxian and Baoqing, he still has more than 200,000 troops.

There are still more than 100,000 troops of Lu Wenhuan in Jiangling, and there are more than 100,000 Tusi troops in Fujian.

Not to mention, there is also a strange army arranged by my grandfather, who will cross the Yangtze River and attack the empty Jiangnan.

He still has a chance!

Li Ting and Bo Luohuan were both relieved. The king of Yunnan can bend and stretch, and the strong man breaks his wrist, so he finally doesn't need them to advise him anymore.

The king of Yunnan looked at the battlefield several miles away with a miserable face, and shouted: "I, also Timur first!" Swear to Changshengtian that as long as Timur does not die for a day, as long as Timur can still step on the war horse, he will not forget to avenge you! ”

Of course, this is said to the soldiers and horses around him.

By the time Li Luoqin led more than 100,000 people from the central army to come over, the remaining 70,000 yuan army had already retreated into the camp and was heavily defended.

The Yuan army camp was set up on a gentle slope with a mountain back, and it was built relatively strongly, and this terrain was very convenient for heavy cavalry charges.

The large camp of the Yuan army stretched for several miles and occupied the entire foothills. But many of them were empty, because this large camp was built before the Yuan army divided its troops. At this time, the king of Yunnan retreated into the strongest and highest position of the Chinese army.

Li Luo relied on firearms, bullied the Yuan army and was frustrated, and simply swaggered into the camp vacated by the Yuan army, and the birds occupied the dove's nest. This camp is on the right side of the camp of the king of Yunnan.

The two became neighbors, only separated by two wooden villages, less than a mile apart.

Li Luo posted it like this, of course, because he was afraid that the king of Yunnan would withdraw his troops and flee.

The king of Yunnan did not expect that Li Luo would lead his army into the vacant military camp and look at him closely.

Bullying this king's soldiers is a new defeat? This is too shameless and arrogant, right?

The king of Yunnan could only order 50,000 infantry to defend the wall, and ordered the slaves to dig earth and stone to strengthen the wooden wall, so as to prevent Li Luo from bombarding it with artillery. His position in the camp of the Chinese army is very high, and if he adds a tall arrow cart, he can shoot arrows into Li Luo's camp, and it is not that there is no means of counterattack.

In fact, if the king of Yunnan had left behind the infantry, baggage, and slaves at this time, and led 20,000 cavalry to escape, he would still have been able to do it.

But he was unwilling to lose after all, and still had hope for the battle situation, so he did not escape.

Li Ting and Bo Luohuan didn't have the intention of escaping. If you don't run away, you still have a chance to turn defeat into victory. Once he escapes, the battle situation in Hengyang will collapse completely.

At this time, the fighting on the battlefield had stopped.

The cavalry of the 80,000 Yuan Army, except for more than 8,000 people who escaped from the battlefield and were pursued by the cavalry of the Tang Army, the others were either killed or captured.

Among them, 10,000 people died under firearms. There were more than 40,000 people, who were besieged and killed by hundreds of thousands of allied troops.

There are also tens of thousands of Duan's cavalry, who chose to surrender.

The coalition forces captured more than 20,000 intact horses.

There is no doubt that firearms play a key role. Although firearms only wiped out more than 10,000 cavalry, if it weren't for firearms, the cavalry of the Yuan army would not have been in chaos, would not have lost their horse speed, and would not have fallen into the quagmire of being surrounded by infantry.

At dusk, the cavalry of the Tang Army, which was pursuing the rout of the Yuan cavalry, returned. Hugu, Yelu Zhongjie and others reported that they had chased and killed more than 3,000 people, and more than 4,000 people fled to Daozhou.

At this point, the cavalry of the 80,000 Yuan Army was almost completely wiped out.

However, the casualties of the coalition forces in this battle were also very heavy.

When the number of casualties was counted, Li Luo took a look at it and inhaled a cold breath in distress.

More than 3,000 veterans of the Tang Army were killed, and most of the brigade lost its strength. More than 8,000 recruits were killed. Veterans plus new recruits, up to fifteen thousand or two thousand killed!

The Liang army suffered as many as 20,000 casualties, and the Song army had the smallest number of troops participating in the battle, but the number of casualties was as high as 8,000!

More than 40,000 coalition troops were killed.

Plus the injured ones, that's more.

Even if the cavalry of the Yuan army fights with white knives, it is still a real elite soldier. The Mongol soldiers, in particular, were even more powerful. Even the Tusi cavalry is as fierce as a wolf. That is, the Duan's cavalry, which has poor combat power.

I can't say that I won a miserable victory, but the price is really great.

Moreover, this battle is not over yet. Now Timur led the remnants of the Yuan army to stick to the camp, and if he didn't solve him, he couldn't really win.

Not to mention Li Luo, even Xiao Yan is heartbroken. Most of the 20,000 Liang troops are Liang veterans, old brothers in the church!

"Surround the camp of the Yuan army, don't let Timur escape first!" Li Luo said hatefully, "The losses in this battle are so huge, we must completely annihilate this Lu Yuan army, and we will all succeed!" ”

"No!" The generals will receive the order together.

By the next day, more than 200,000 coalition troops surrounded the Yuan army's central army camp and blocked the way for the Yuan army to escape.

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