At the end of October of the second year of Xiangxing, the attack and defense of Wan'an Military City officially began.

Attacker: The main general lost The Hague, with 3,000 troops. Among them, there are 2,000 soldiers, and about 1,000 are not on fire and miscellaneous servants.

Defender: The main general Zhao Lie, with 2,000 troops. Among them, there are 1,000 soldiers, 800 brave and auxiliary.

The Hague deployed his troops on the south bank of Lingshui, on a undulating hill in front of the wooden bridge, and the original lush trees and weeds were cleared away, so that it was convenient to arrange the troops. In fact, this terrain is not very suitable for the formation, but there are few vast flatlands on the south bank of Lingshui, either hillsides or woods, so there is no choice.

Suddenly, The Hague set up a regular five-square formation, with the Chinese army in the center, and the miscellaneous soldiers in the rear, each of the four sides lined up in a formation, each with 300 soldiers. The Chinese army has the strongest strength, with 300 cavalry, 500 sharp soldiers, and 200 miscellaneous soldiers. These 300 cavalrymen were all knights of the Beiting Army, with tall horses of one color, wrapped in white scarves, with various weapons such as scimitars, medals, axes, javelins, horse bows, etc., wearing one-piece chain mail, and some war horses were also wearing armor. Neatly arrayed under the general's teeth, the sun shining on the dense rings of chain mail, neat and solemn.

The Beiting Army is the pro-army of Ali Hague, with a total of no more than 1,000 people, and the Issemu people are second only to the Mongol soldiers in the battle sequence of the Yuan Army. This colored cavalry army fought with Ali Hague from Mobei to Guangnan, all of them experienced a hundred battles, and one was ten. Every time there is a tough battle, Ali Hague only needs to send this "killer weapon", which is invincible and unbreakable. After so many years and so many battles, the battle damage is no more than 100 horses.

The knights of Beiting are all elites, and it is not easy to replenish, and Ali Hague has been serving in Jinghu Province and has never returned to his hometown, so he has never been replenished. Not only that, but the officers of these knights were also sent to the new annex army from time to time to serve as important lieutenants to supervise the new annex generals. For example, the color eye general next to Liu Zhongxiao, a thousand households in the new attached army, is a knight officer of the North Court.

Therefore, every knight of this Beiting army is precious to Ali Hague, and the loss of one will be distressed for a long time. The previous Ali Hague left his eldest son with more than 100 Beiting troops to suppress Qiongzhou. As a result, the Hague sent a hundred households to quickly lead a team of more than 30 Beiting knights to the sea, half patrolling and half drilling, in order to adapt to the wind and waves at sea. Unexpectedly, he encountered the Dragon Bird Army, and was beaten by a fat beating, most of the dead and wounded, and even the chief officer Tumisu died.

In a small encounter, he lost more than 20 knights of the North Court, which made Ali Hague feel distressed and angry. If the Lord is not his son, I am afraid that he will have his head cut off. Even so, a military stick is indispensable. This account, which was lost in The Hague, was all recorded on the heads of the Dragon Bird Army and Zhao Lie. This time, Atta gave him three hundred knights of the North Court, and he wanted to repay the blood debt in one fell swoop.

If it weren't for the muskets of the Dragon Bird Army, with these three hundred knights of the North Court alone, they would have been sure to attack the city and break the city overnight.

As for the heavy losses of that encounter, The Hague later repeatedly asked the surviving knights, "an iron pipe that breathes fire, smokes, and sounds projectiles" was the answer of all the knights who were still terrified in retrospect. These are all warriors who fought out of the sea of blood in the mountains of corpses, and they are all like this? Furious and curious, Lost Hague was somewhat relieved to learn that it was a new weapon that had never been seen before that had defeated his Beiting Strongman. Later, with the destruction of Ma Fuji's 2,000 new annexed troops, the word "musket" entered his ears for the first time. He wanted to see what the "muskets" of the Dragon Sparrow Army were.

When he lost the city of Chen in The Hague, the first thing he saw was not the rows of muskets described by the knights of the North Court, but two zigzag barricades.

The so-called horse wall is a kind of fortification often used by the Song army to assist in defending the city. Usually build one or several low walls around the city wall, and set crossbowmen and gunners behind the wall to prevent enemy horses from rushing to the pool wall, and kill and wound the defenders with bows and arrows, which is regarded as a kind of wall defense of the court fortification.

It was precisely because of the existence of these two barricades that The Hague had to set up a formation on the south bank of Lingshui, and if he wanted to collect debts and revenge, he first had to pass through the wooden bridge five feet wide and twelve or thirteen zhang long. The first barrier of the Song army was only fifty or sixty steps away from the wooden bridge, which was the effective killing distance of the infantry bow and the strong crossbow.

Of course, The Hague knew that the reason why the Song army did not destroy the bridge was to use the wooden bridge to strike a blow when his soldiers crossed the river. The Hague didn't care, he believed in the warriors under his command, and he didn't have a choice. How long does it take to build a bridge from somewhere else? Finding a small boat or a bamboo raft, and crossing the river so slowly and scattered, is it not becoming a target for the crossbowmen and musketeers of the Song army?

Under the trade-off, regardless of whether this wooden bridge is a trap of the Song army or not, the Hague must be rushed over from here.

It is not surprising that the horse wall has been lost in The Hague a lot, but there are inevitably more battlements of the horse wall under the Wan'an Army City, and there is one every few feet. What's even more strange is that when the army is approaching the city, there is not a single Song army on the horse wall, and there is no peak nearby to spy on. But the Hague was convinced that there must be a Song army behind the wall.

It is true that there are no Dragonbird soldiers to be seen on the barricade wall, because the soldiers are all leaning against the wall with their guns in hand. The military order they received was that the enemy would not move and we would not move.

There are two barricade walls, the second wall is slightly higher than the first wall, and the two walls are in the shape of a ladder, which does not affect the shooting boundary. There are battlements on the wall every three feet, and after the cross-perforations of the battlements, a pair of nervous but vigilant eyes flashed......

Suddenly lost The Hague and rode slowly, and the crowd behind him rode from the scene, and the big hunting curled up. The cavalry passed through the middle of the passage of the left and right military formations, and the layers of sergeants in the phalanx on both sides were neat and solemn, the spears were like forests, and the shields were like walls, and the killing intent of the cold was as if even the heat of the sun had been dispelled.

The recruits of the Dragon Bird Army behind the barricade wall were in a bit of a commotion, and they were severely stopped by the officers of the team, and some even whipped their sticks, and then slowly quieted down.

Behind the second barricade wall, the commander Shi Yang leaned against the earthen wall and remained motionless, his thick double-barreled shotgun against his shoulder, and his indifferent eyes revealed a trace of disdain: this group of Yuan troops came just in time, and after a tough battle, these new soldiers of the old army are expected to become real Dragon Bird Army soldiers.

Suddenly, The Hague galloped along the river bank, turned back, galloped in front of the left flank phalanx, and suddenly reined in the neighing of the war horse, drew out the scimitar, slashed through an arc of light, and knocked on the back of the knife on a stout colored deputy Qianhu shoulder armor wearing an iron helmet and wearing a Tieluo ring armor: "Gullit, you lead the Han army to charge the left battalion." ”

"The last general obeys the order and will break this wall!" The Semu army general roared and clenched his fists heavily, his face trembled, and the armor leaves on his body clanged.

Suddenly The Hague nodded with satisfaction, and he was very confident in this fierce general from the Beiting Army.

Ali The Hague's army consisted of many parts: the Mongol army, the Tanma Red army, the Jurchen army, the Khitan army, the Han army, the new annexed army, and so on, the standard Yuan Dynasty army structure. But there is a clear difference in the weight of this structure. The Mongols had very few soldiers, only a thousand households, but only a few hundred soldiers, most of whom served as wartime wartime warlords. The Tanma Red Army is its elite, and it is only a full number of thousands of households. The Jurchen army and the Khitan army also had two to three thousand households each. The most numerous were the Han army and the new annexed army, and the Han army was the main force of its army.

The Han Army is the name given by the Mongols to the hometown army of the Song Dynasty that was occupied by the Jin State for a hundred years in Jiangbei, Hebei and even Yanshan. Although they are of the same language and species as the new annex army south of the south of the Yangtze River, they have been separated from their homeland for hundreds or even hundreds of years, and they have long since disregarded themselves as Song people. In addition, the sinicization of the Jin country is extremely high, and the integration is very fast, so I think of myself as a Jin person.

The biggest difference between these Han armies and the new annexed army is that they regard the Song Dynasty as a foreign country, so they have no psychological burden when attacking the Southern Song Dynasty, and they are the pawns of the Yuan army in the conquest of Jiangnan.

The earliest marshal of the Han army was the Song general Liu Quan, Ali Hague was the deputy marshal, and later due to discord with Liu Quan, Kublai Khan divided the Han army into two, and the two of them each led half. Therefore, among Ali Hague's army, the Han army was the largest. Suddenly lost the 8,000 army led by The Hague, and the Han army accounted for more than one-third.

Send the bravest generals, with a whole battalion of 300 Han troops, to impact or even tear through the two barricade defenses, be sure to try out the reality of the Song army, especially the reality of the musket - even if it is worth all death!

Suddenly, under the shadow of The Hague's heavy eyebrow arch, two bloodthirsty and fierce lights shot out.