When the muskets of the Western Song Dynasty madman soldiers rang out, the heart of Temujin, the Mongol Khan who was supervising the war, was pumping.

That's two or three thousand muskets fired at twenty paces! Even though it's night, the hit rate is still so high that it makes people vomit blood.

And after the close-range salvo of the musket, it was a resolute white-knuckle assault!

Of course, Temujin Khan knew that the musketeers of the Western Song Dynasty were capable of fighting white-bladed assaults, and he also knew that their ability to fight white-bladed assaults was no less than that of the cowardly Xue warriors. If the warriors were not blinded by musket fire at close range, they would not be afraid of the enemy's hand-to-hand combat. But after a storm of bullets, how much more will the warriors have?

After all, they are flesh and blood, and they are not made of iron and brass. How can you afford such a blow?

"Father, father Khan...... The warriors are defeated! ”

Tuolei's voice trembled.

That's a cowardly Xue Jun! Each one of them was a carefully selected warrior, and he could bring a team of 100 or 1,000 people to the new Persian army...... Thousands of them were killed like this?

"Let the fifth and sixth thousand-strong teams of the cowardly Xue army go up!"

Temujin gritted his teeth and ordered.

As a great military strategist, of course, he will not make a one-shot deal. Reserves or something, they have been ready for a long time.

On the other side of the battlefield, Yang Tiexin, who was also on the front line to supervise the battle, found that the Mongols had put in reserve, and immediately ordered six pikemen to join the battle.

Of course, none of these pikemen carried spears, but maces and torches.

Tonight, the lights are dark, and there is no fighting. Arrays must be commanded with unity of command and dispatched by banners and golden drums. Thousands of people cooperate with each other as one.

Now I can't see it, how to schedule the formation? So tonight it's a scuffle. Night melee is not something that ordinary armies can fight, that is, the Western Song Army, which is now in a state of Junnationalist madness, if it was the Great Song Dynasty Forbidden Army that used to eat mixed food, where could it fight such a battle?

I don't care how much I give!

Now it's okay, the "gun doctors" and military households in the Western Song Dynasty have made a hole in the profits and driven them crazy. Now I don't even talk about the reward, I just screamed and went to the battlefield to fight the Mongols.

The pikemen who went up with torches threw their torches into the pile, and then rushed up with maces to join the warband.

And the torches they threw out before were soaked in animal fat, so they were not so easy to extinguish. So after falling to the ground, it still emits light, which can be regarded as providing some lighting for the pitch-black battlefield.

However, these lights were not prepared for the soldiers of the Mongol and Song armies who were fighting.

The two gangs of people who are fighting are "masters", and their nutrition is quite adequate on weekdays, but there is no night blindness or anything. Even if it's dark, you can't find out where the enemy is. Moreover, the uniforms of the Song army and the Mongols were very different, and it was impossible to identify the wrong target. Therefore, there is no need for torch lighting.

These torches were actually prepared for sharpshooters taken out by the "target hunters".

A full 500 sharpshooters, like 500 beasts, quietly approached the crowd fighting in the firelight under the cover of night. Wei Wenweng, the old man of Jinshi, was also among them, with two of his retinues and three rifled guns with good bullets.

The "skirmisher tactics" adopted by the sharpshooters of the Western Song Dynasty were not lined up, not fired in a volley, and fought casually, relying on marksmanship to win.

This time, Wei Wenweng approached about 30 paces away from the battle group of the two armies before stopping.

At this distance, he could already see the color of the uniforms of the soldiers on both sides who were fighting.

The Mongol uniforms were white, while the Song army was a striking red.

Wei Wenweng lit the fire rope with a fire breaker, and then raised his musket to aim at a strong Mongolian man in a white robe and wielding a mace. This strong man's martial arts are outstanding, and he has just knocked over a Song soldier and is about to kill him with a mace. As a result, a gunshot rang out, and the skull was shattered by lead bullets.

After killing the first target, Wei Wenweng was in a calm mood, without the slightest excitement, just threw the musket to his entourage, and at the same time took another rifled gun, aimed at the target again, and hooked the trigger.

The guns rang out!

Jinshi kills people, and it is really a matter of moving a finger......

Gunshots like fried beans rang out one after another on the battlefield, and were soon heard by Temujin.

"Shooting? Where to shoot? ”

The Great Khan of Mongolia suddenly became nervous.

"Like, it seems that the Song people are shooting!" Towley replied in a trembling voice, "They, aren't they?" It's night! ”

It's night and visibility is poor...... Even if there is a torch lighting that falls on the ground, it will inevitably injure one's own people by mistake.

But...... Most of the hits were still Mongol warriors. So from a mathematical point of view, it is still cost-effective to use a sharpshooter in night battles, and it is very cost-effective!

The sharpshooters of the Song army, who fired frequently in the night, became the last straw that crushed the spirit of the Mongolian warriors! Oh, they can't be considered straw, at least they are a big tree, and they crush hundreds to death as soon as they come up. Rao is cowardly, and the warriors can't hold back. From the moment when the enemy suddenly fired a volley of guns at close range, tonight's battle was a complete disaster. The losses of the troops had long exceeded the limits that these cowardly warriors could bear, and if it weren't for the Great Khan overseeing the battle, they would have collapsed long ago.

But now the enemy is actually shooting in the dark...... This is a hot weapon to fight a cold weapon! The warriors didn't have guns today, how could they fight an enemy with guns?

"Defeated, defeated......"

I don't know who made the panic cry first, and the word soon spread around the battlefield and into the ears of Temujin Khan. At the same time, the cowardly warriors on the front line suddenly avalanche and fled towards their own positions.

When Temujin saw this, he knew that he had been defeated!

Not a battle, but a crucial battle!

And it was lost in the field to an enemy who was absolutely inferior in numbers......

Temujin gritted his teeth, "Let's retreat!" ”

"Father Khan ......," said Tuolei, "let my son lead the warriors to fight again." ”

"Nonsense!" Temujin scolded, "Tuolei, is now the time to be rash? Can't we afford to lose a war in Great Mongolia? ”

"Father Khan ......" Tuo Lei was reprimanded by Temujinichi and had already sobered up, "The child knows that he is wrong! Please let the father go first, and the child will lead the way to the end. ”

Temujin nodded, this son of his own can still be taught.

"Okay, I'll leave it to you, be careful." After saying that, Temujin got on his horse and quickly withdrew from the battlefield under the protection of thousands of cowardly soldiers.

Watching Temujin leave, Tuo Lei took a breath, turned back to one of his subordinates, and said, "Let your men get on their horses and prepare to charge!" ”

"Your Highness, it's night!"

Tuo Lei snorted coldly: "The Song people can shoot with muskets at night, are our warriors of Great Mongolia still afraid to ride horses at night?" Remember, if you retreat with one blow, you can't fight. ”

It turned out that the purpose of towing mines was to create chaos and create an opportunity for the defeated Mongol troops on the battlefield to retreat.

Under the city of Yirebao, the Mongols had an absolute advantage in numbers, so the Song people did not dare to pursue and attack. As long as you get away from the castle, you should be able to disengage.

Therefore, although the battle of Yilebao was an ugly loss, it was not a heavy loss for the Great Mongols. It is nothing more than the loss of about 3,000 cowardly warriors, and there are no thousands of Persians before...... For an army of 200,000 troops. It's really nothing.

For Temujin, the real problem was that the Western Song army showed more combat effectiveness than expected.

It seems that he provoked an enemy that should not be provoked!

The Mongol cavalry's assault under the cover of night did bear fruit, as the Song army did not intend to fight in formation, so they did not carry spears. It was impossible to use spear formations against cavalry, and the maces they carried were of little use against cavalry. So under the onslaught of the Mongol cavalry, it soon became a mess.

However, the chaos was not only the infantry of the Song army, but also the side of the Mongol warriors. Because before the Mongol cavalry attacked, the infantry on both sides was already a scene of melee.

Therefore, the Mongol cavalry attacked the infantry on both sides in the melee, and their own formation was also very chaotic, after all, it was impossible to maintain the formation when attacking at night.

Therefore, after the onslaught of the cavalry, there was a great mess on the battlefield.

At the same time, the hand-to-hand fighters on both sides, who had fallen into the chaos, began to retreat to their respective positions, and the purpose of towing mines seemed to have been achieved. But there were still many sharpshooters of the Song army on the battlefield, and they did not evacuate. Not only did they not evacuate, but they opened fire on the Mongol cavalry under the darkness.

At this time, the fires on the grasslands and wheat fields had gradually been extinguished, and the smoke and dust that filled the air were blown away by the northwest wind, and the bright moonlight sprinkled down, providing a deadly light to both sides in the night battle.

And the Mongolian cavalry wore polished plate armor, which could reflect the moonlight at night, which was very windy, and as a result, they became a live target for the sharpshooters of the Song army, and were killed one after another!

At this time, the Mongolian cavalry could not bear it and retreated one after another.

As soon as the cavalry retreated, the Song infantry who had already retreated screamed and turned over and killed—now is the time to cut off their heads and grab credit!

As soon as the infantry of the Song army counterattacked, the Mongol army looked a little like it was about to collapse.

Tuo Lei couldn't breathe, but now it's a big night, and the main force of the Mongol army is retreating again, if the palace army collapses, it is easy to change from retreat to collapse.

The Mongol army of 200,000 is now far from its own logistics base, and is completely supplied by carrying a large number of cattle and sheep. In the event of a collapse, there is a risk of losing the herd and sheep it carries. This would mean that the 200,000-strong army would have to travel more than 1,000 miles without supplies and return to the vicinity of Chachi!

This will be a disaster that will ruin the national fortunes of the Great Mongolia!

In the case of an imminent disaster, Tuo Lei did not care about the danger, and immediately ordered his personal guard of 1,000 people to dismount, form two horizontal columns, and use arquebuses to shoot.

Although the Mongols were still proficient in mounted archery, they did not use bows and arrows when dismounting, but used light muskets to shoot.

The reason for this is mainly because the armor rate of the Western Song Dynasty army is very high, and the quality of the armor is also very good - the Western Song Dynasty is now a master as a soldier, whether it is a sharpshooter taken out of a target shooter, or a military landlord handed down from father and son, he is a landlord. Moreover, the Western Song court also encouraged them to bring their own weapons and armor (the court could save money). In order to improve the probability of survival on the battlefield, of course, the old man has to get the best equipment for himself. And equipment is also property, which can be passed on to children and grandchildren, and it is worth spending a little more.

Therefore, although the metallurgical industry of the Western Song Dynasty is far inferior to that of the Great Zhou Dynasty and the Eastern Song Dynasty, the well-crafted plate armor made by the folk blacksmiths of the Western Song Dynasty is not much worse than the mass production goods of the Great Zhou Dynasty and the Eastern Song Dynasty.

Moreover, the Western Song Dynasty, the Eastern Song Dynasty, and the Great Zhou Kingdom were in a cultural circle, so the metallurgical technology of the Eastern Song Dynasty and the Great Zhou Dynasty would always flow to the Western Song Dynasty through various channels.

Therefore, the folk blacksmiths of the Western Song Dynasty have now mastered the crucible iron-making method, and they will also remove slag and carburizing, but the production scale is very small, the cost is relatively high, and they do not have the advantage of market competition.

But there is nothing wrong with producing armor and boutique smoothbore guns for a handful of old men.

As the enemy of the old soldiers of the Western Song Dynasty, the Mongols were certainly not fools, and they would not stupidly use bows and arrows to shoot at smoothbore guns.

Bow and arrow to defeat smoothbore guns or something...... Hehe, that's a complete absence of consideration for the protection of plate armor and the best of smoothbore guns - not all smoothbore guns have an effective range of only a few tens of meters!

The best of both heavy and light smoothbore guns, both of which can have an effective range of more than 100 meters.

In the era of "lining up to shoot" in the West, skirmishers and light infantry who fired cold guns have always existed.

And now the Western Song Dynasty's target shooting has become the soil for cultivating snipers.

Therefore, using a bow and arrow against the sharpshooters of the Western Song Dynasty is simply sending them to death!

The Mongol platoon shooting really worked, because most of the Song troops on the battlefield did not carry muskets and could not confront the Mongols who were shooting volleys. He had to stop the pursuit and retreat out of the range of the opponent's musket.

However, the sharpshooters who were trained as target hunters were attracted by the Mongol musketeers, and fired at the Mongols at a distance in loose formation. After some time, some of the Song infantry who had recovered their muskets also rushed back to the battlefield and participated in the long-distance musket fire. And Tuo Lei also reorganized some of the retreating cowardly Xue troops, allowing them to take muskets and go to the battlefield again.

So the battlefield was very lively, but there were not many casualties.

After all, the distance between the two sides is very far, and the sky is dark, just to hear a sound.

But as the sky began to lighten, the fires in the grasslands and wheat fields near Ireburg were completely extinguished, and the visibility on the battlefield was enough for the musketeers to see their targets in the distance.

As a result, the Western Song army, which had better marksmanship, clearly gained the upper hand, and the losses on the Mongol side began to increase.

Seeing this, Tuo Lei had no choice but to order his troops forward, wanting to get close to the opponent and open fire. And he himself had to move forward with the musketeers.

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