Guo Yi took Wei Jie, Wei Hao, Zhao Yue, and a general team arranged by Song Qing to chase in the direction of Lin Xi's team, and they saw that less than two miles away, there were already fires and the sound of fighting, on the hot air balloon, rockets were shot out from time to time, fortunately, the hot air balloon flew high, and there were rockets shooting upwards on the ground from time to time, and they began to turn their heads down before they reached the position of the hanging basket.

It's a bit embarrassing, but the arrows shot into the sky still fall to the ground.

So a strange military formation appeared, and the Xuanyi army formed a semi-encircled semicircle around the hot air balloon, and the two sides of the semicircle extended to the left and right, and the Mongol soldiers also faced this semicircle.

Because the first to come was the cavalry of Meng Yuan, the cavalry tried to consume the Song army by means of rapid movement of the cavalry outside the Song army's formation, but the Song army not only carried a shield, how much could defend against the arrow rain of the Meng Yuan cavalry, but also hatefully that the arrows thrown down by the crossbow on the hot air balloon were extremely powerful, and the direction of the arrows fired from the flat was different, falling from the sky, which was a small round shield that could not be resisted, so it was necessary to use the fast movement that the cavalry was best at.

But the sight is very bad in the night, and the speed of the horse is raised, and if it encounters a pit, the horse stumbles and either falls to its knees, or the horse's leg is broken.

When the horse falls to its knees, it will throw the cavalry down, and if the cavalry falls to the ground, the following horses may trample or impact them, which is basically a life and death.

If the horse's leg is broken, the horse will be ruined, and the soldier on his back will be thrown more violently, and the horse will struggle even more under the pain.

Two repeaters can shoot twenty arrows from the hot air balloon for each breath, and then the new repeater needs to be unmoored to take off the new repeater, and then send the missing repeater down.

Each batch of crossbows came up, and there were about a dozen of them, all of which were tied with cotton ropes.

At the beginning of the battle, it had already entered a life-and-death struggle, and nearly two thousand cavalry would be hit by a rain of arrows every three to a second, and each wave of arrow rain was twenty, either strafing or concentrated shooting.

Originally, the 4,000 Song army infantry against the 2,000 Mongolian cavalry, that was a joke, it was an exaggeration to destroy it in minutes, but it was a joke to break up in minutes.

The Song army in the arrows and shield armor, generally sharper than the Mongolian soldiers, but the Mongolian soldiers eat meat and drink milk, live on horseback all the year round, physical strength compared to the Song army can not eat, can not drink water physique, to be several times stronger, the athletic ability is incomparable to the Song army, so the Mongolian soldiers like to use the fast gallop, projectile or flat shooting Song army formation method, the Song army has no horses, or horses, equestrian skills are not as good as the Mongolian soldiers, that is the game of whack-a-mole, a few more rounds, each round can always take the lives of some Song soldiers.

This time, though, things have changed a bit.

Although it is still a war of attrition, but the battle loss ratio has gradually reversed, originally two thousand Mongolian soldiers threw a round, even if there is a shield, the Song soldiers also fell one or two hundred, if the Song army shoots arrows from the middle of the shield, the Mongolian soldiers who run in the brigade will also be attacked by the rain of arrows, and the Mongolian soldiers may also fall one or two hundred, if the Mongolian soldiers bully the edge of the Song soldiers and cut off their heads with sabers, almost the soldiers in front will be lost. If the Mongolian G cavalry charges into the Song army formation, if the width of the military formation is not enough, let the Mongolian soldiers kill through, that is the effect of emptying all the way, two thousand Mongolian soldiers against four thousand Song soldiers, even if the Song soldiers form a thick four or five layers of military formation, the Mongolian cavalry charges horizontally, and the Song soldiers are not enough to cut.

After loitering and losing four or five hundred men on both sides, the Mongol cavalry finally discovered the problem, and the remaining cavalry lined up in two rows, and then began to charge without waiting for the unified order.

After only one charge, the Mongol cavalry killed the Song army, because the two armies were mixed together, and the arrows of the hot air balloon were ineffective, and the Mongol cavalry lost four or five hundred men, while the Song army lost thousands.

The Mongolian cavalry was not afraid of death, and when they saw that the losses of the Song army were almost one to three, they couldn't help but scream excitedly and shouted again and again.

Now there are about 13,400 Mongolian cavalry, and they can still form more than 100 charging squads.

The Song army can only form a circle formation as soon as possible, the advantage of the circle array is that the personnel are closely arranged, they can raise their shields, and watch each other, also known as the turtle formation, which is a defensive formation, but the Song army has only two thousand seven or eight hundred personnel, according to the four-layer arrangement, each layer is only six or seven hundred people, the outer layer is more, and the inner layer is less.

However, the ability of the fourth-tier personnel to guard against the charge will be lower, and if the Mongolian cavalry has another charge, the proportion of the number of people may be reversed, and at that time, the collapse of the large array will only be a matter of moments.

The arrows on the hot air balloon are still continuing, but the Mongol soldiers are no longer lined up in a phalanx, but in two thin circles, and the arrows will take the lives of three or four or four or five cavalrymen every second, and may also incapacitate six or seven cavalrymen, but now, the lethality of the hot air balloon, in the whole battle, has no overall situation.

After a few breaths of adjustment, the Mongol cavalry launched a third charge. This charge, did not penetrate the Song army's circular formation, after all, if the circular formation had to pass through, it would almost have to penetrate seven or eight layers, this kind of charge, the leading cavalry would almost be lost, and the cavalry that did not penetrate the enemy formation, except for the people at the tail who could withdraw, and one or two cavalrymen in the front, most of them would be injured or even killed.

In the third charge, the Mongol cavalry lost more than 300 people, which made the Qianhu who led the troops very angry, these soldiers are their wealth, although the loss of personnel, the dividends of each of the remaining people will increase, but it will reduce their own strength, reduce too much, it will make them in their own tribe, prestige and influence will be greatly reduced.

The two thousand households have ghosts in their hearts, and after a while, they reached an agreement, that is, they each chose one side to charge, and now the cavalry has lost half of the battle, and it is almost to the limit that they can accept, and the problem now is that after killing these four thousand Song soldiers, it is just to open the door to slaughter, and the soldiers who came from the eagle's beak rock, except for a small number to support the sniper corps, did not hesitate to continue to extend to the south and west—it must have been a mouthful of fat, or even how many fat sheep, Two thousand households have the heart to give up the sniper corps in front of them and go straight to the transport team, but there are still 20,000 infantry troops behind, and they don't want to be able to arrive soon, if there are too many dead people here, and they will not be able to launch an attack for a while, then they will be picked by the infantry army behind.

So if you don't care about these sniper corps coming forward to attack the transport team, this kind of beautiful idea can only think about it in your heart, if they live between the transport team and the sniper corps, then they will suffer from the enemy, if the Song soldiers dare to entangle them desperately, the Song soldiers also have tens of thousands of people, two or three thousand cavalry are blind in the dark, once there is no speed, it is to catch a turtle in the urn.

The convoy continued westward on the southern line, the fire dragon winding, but fast—for the front was light infantry empty-handed, armed with weapons. But five hundred transport guards, armed with crossbows, hurried to support, and quickly, the transport guards and the hot air balloon circle were emptied, and the cavalry were not stupid, who could not run.

Now, underneath the hot air balloon, shaped like a tadpole, a circular array plus the tails of two repeater squares.

At this time, the two cavalry Qianhu felt that the situation was a little wrong, and the possibility of charging into the formation had become smaller, and now the wisest way was to watch this circular formation and wait for the infantry army to come up, and the infantry army could throw a large number of arrows, in this case, it was not possible to effectively kill and injure the Song soldiers.

The two sides counted their numbers, and the two Mongol cavalry had less than 500 men and horses left in each of the thousand households, which was a huge loss, of course, it was still within the range that each could bear, in fact, to replenish the Han cavalry, there were a lot of people rushing to do it.

The battlefield eerily calmed down, only the hot air balloons maintained a frequency of twenty arrows every five seconds, the killer cavalry.

These flies are really annoying, so the two Mongol cavalry teams retreated a little, but they still surrounded the Song army almost on three sides, and at the same time the messenger scouts were finally sent out - anyway, they can't eat these Song soldiers, so enjoy the first merit of dragging the Song soldiers, and let the infantry army also die.

Soon, a group of Song soldiers arrived from the direction of the Western Front and joined the defenders of the hot air balloon.

However, soon after, something strange happened, and the Song army first spread out in formation and stretched to both sides......

Well, let's stretch it, and the Mongol cavalry will also start to retreat accordingly - anyway, such a thin formation, a dash for a while, it's better to kill.

But it didn't take long for the scouts of the Mongolian cavalry to find that in front of the two armies, some small fires were lit one after another, and after that, the flying sky began to move backwards, and all the Song army formations were also moving slowly, and gradually formed a funnel array.

When the two thousand households saw this situation, they suddenly felt a little strange, Song Jun wanted to run? lure us into the funnel array, we don't, some of the cavalry hundred households who can't bear it are ready to lead each other to outflank, to be honest, the long-distance attack at night is also quite physically exhausting,

Suddenly, the balloons threw objects at the back of the Mongol cavalry, which had no fire, but fell to the ground, and there was a huge explosion, each of which took the lives of three or four soldiers or horses, and the horses began to run in fright in all directions.

In the Mongol army formation, it was immediately greatly affected, and four or five hundred cavalry simply attacked the Song army formation.

Rushing out of one or two hundred steps - I'm sorry, the place of the fire, after all, the ground is relatively bright, people have light, horses also have, so near fifty or sixty fires, the Mongolian cavalry lined up in a charging formation, five horses or even ten horses lined up in formation, like a torrent, the sound of hooves rumbled, trembling the earth, and then rushed through the fire, and then, a louder rumble, one by one, in the middle of the charging team or even a little further back, the ground rose with fire and gravel, and the horses and people were torn apart and hit, The neighing of horses and the wailing of people shook the night.

Jiang Chen was overjoyed and immediately shouted: "Brothers, attack with me and kill all the Tartars!" As he spoke, he brandished his sword and ran forward.

Jiang Chen's shouts and the shaking of the earth made all the Song troops and Mongolian soldiers stunned, but the order was exciting, rows of crossbows, bows and arrows, shot out, and then rows of swords and shields, like blades, cut towards the Mongolian cavalry.

In fact, most of the Mongolian cavalry rushed through the mine array, after all, the horses were fast, and some of the horses were frightened and accelerated towards the Song camp.

At this time, more than a dozen objects rushed through the crowd, and the explosive blaster fell into the Mongolian cavalry, which once again exploded in the horses, and then extended the projection to the Mongolian cavalry in the rear.

Firearms such as the Song Dynasty earthquake thunder have been popularized, so everyone is psychologically prepared for an explosion, but these things are a little different, when they are thrown out, there is no smoke and no fire, and they can't see clearly at all.

Now the Mongol cavalry that rushed to the Song army was only more than 200 horses, and under the crossbow arrows, almost the next round, most of them had fallen off their horses, and there were still fifty or sixty of them, and they resisted stubbornly, but everyone had to face a dozen bows and arrows and four or five sword and shield hands, and it was only a matter of time before they were defeated.

Xiao Man said to Lin Xi happily: "Venerable Master, what a surprise, if there are a thousand of such sharp weapons, we will be able to sweep away the enemy army in Yashan." ”

Lin Xi was also very pleased: "Science and technology are the primary productive forces, but it is people who use weapons, so they should not be wasted." In addition, if you want to love the land of cliffs, relying on weapons alone is not the best way. For now, though, let's enjoy the joy of crushing. ”

After a while, Hu Buqi and Jiang Chen came back to see Lin Xi, and Lin Xi said: "Excuse me, the soldiers have worked hard." ”

Jiang Chen smiled bitterly: "Yes, now there are 4,000 people, and there are less than 2,000 left, and more than half of the casualties are killed." If it weren't for the Venerable Master's aid in the battle, we would have been wiped out for half an hour at most. ”

Hu Buqi said: "Venerable Master, this kind of thing just now is so powerful that it can be used as a defense, and it is absolutely amazing. There are also ballista-blasting canisters. How many can we use now? ”

Xiao Man said: "Twenty grenades were given to hot air balloons just now, and now there are one hundred and eighty left, and there are one hundred short-handled grenades, and two rounds of twenty crossbow blasting canisters have just been used, and now there are eighty, but there are only ten crossbows for firing, and fifty-five triangular mines should be used, and forty-five are left, and fifty are pointing at mines, all of which have not been used." ”

Jiang Chen said, "Venerable Master, do we want to pursue the tail?" ”

Hu Buqi said: "It's not proper, as the saying goes, you can't be proud, and you can't chase after the poor, we have more than half of the casualties, and now the soldiers are chasing with this bad breath, and there are tens of thousands of infantry troops behind the Tartars, we can't resist anyway, we have to think of something else." ”

Lin Xi said: "You hold the transportation line, the core goal is to rush the supplies today, as long as the materials are delivered, we can quickly make more weapons, the hatred of the brothers, it will not be a few days late." ”

Hu Buqi said: "Master Jiang, I have an idea. ”

Jiang Chen said: "I would like to hear about it." ”

Hu Buqi said: "You can't pick and choose, true and false, so that they don't dare to take a step beyond the thunder pool." ”