The man who killed Jochi with a black gun was named Wei Wenweng, a native of Pujiang County, Qiongzhou, in his thirties, and a jinshi in the fourth year of Jiading in the Great Song Dynasty (1211)!

What the? Jinshi killed? And also killing people on the battlefield!

Is there a feeling that Jinshi has been broken? It's still bad, and the Western Song Dynasty is really desperate for survival...... So in this year, the scene of the Western Song Dynasty opening ceremony is a spectacular!

Thousands of people carried guns into the examination room, as if they were going to war, first lined up neatly in front of the "Statue of Confucius with Guns in Angry Eyes" (where is Confucius, he is simply a western cowboy), and saluted Confucius with guns, and then entered the target shooting.

This exam is absolutely fair, open targeting, failure to hit the target on the spot, it is impossible to cheat. And not only to kill the target, but also to shoot the bird live target, to hit the wild boar live target, if you don't hit well, you may call the pig to arch. However, after the appearance of the bayonet, the lifter had an extra safety factor when shooting live targets, and if they couldn't kill the wild boar, they could also use the bayonet to stab the wild boar.

After the Ministry of Rites test, there is also a palace test. That's the royal target, which is a very psychological test!

If the target shooting results in the front are not good, the Jinshi will be gone!

Since the Jinshi of the Western Song Dynasty are all shot at targets, they naturally have mastered the ability to kill, and all of them are combat Jinshi sharpshooters!

So Wei Wenweng, a jinshi, has really killed people now, and there is more than one.

From the beginning of the tug-of-war between Broken Leaf and Ili, he, a "sharpshooter", has been active on the front line as a military attaché, and has killed many Mongolian warriors.

The Jinshi of the Great Song Dynasty can now easily kill the Mongol warriors...... It looks incredible, but it's also natural to think about it.

Now the Western Song Dynasty's imperial examination is a true skill of loyalty and patriotism, which is much more effective than writing poems with a brush. If you have real skills, of course you have to use them. Why else?

And this Wei Wenweng is also powerful among the combat jinshi, he was born in a famous imperial examination family in Qiongzhou, Sichuan (almost a sharpshooter family), and has an elder brother named Wei Liaoweng. This person is not only a Jinshi, but also the most famous firearm designer in Sichuan, who has designed many famous guns.

Well, that's right, many Jinshi in this era are themselves firearms experts.

Because you can bring your own musket to shoot targets in the imperial examination, and you only miss the target, no matter what kind of gun you use. You have to have the skills to build a Remington sniper rifle, and you can also go to the imperial examination.

Therefore, many imperial examination families have made great efforts in firearms, such as the Wei family in Qiongzhou and the Gao family in Qiongzhou for generations, and they have opened a gun shop at home and hired a famous gun maker to specialize in building guns for the imperial examination.

And Wei Liaoweng, the great talent of the Wei family, is proficient in target shooting, Confucianism, and military science, and is also a master of firearm design. A very special firearm was designed for the Wei family and the Gao family - rifled guns!

The bore of this firearm has several straight rifling lines carved into it, which allows the bullet to have a more stable trajectory and a longer effective range. If used by Wei Wenwen, it can accurately hit a humanoid target at a distance of 200 paces.

It is with this rifled gun that the children of the Wei family and the Gao family have gone to high school one after another! And Wei Liaoweng himself is the first and third place in high school......

Wei Wenweng's rank is not as high as that of his brother, but his marksmanship is also outstanding, and within 200 steps, he can also achieve a gunshot sound.

So after high school, he was sent to the front line to lead the troops and command a musketeer team.

By the way, rifled guns are still a secret now! The Wei family and the Gao family in Qiongzhou did not make the rifled guns secret public.

This is the proud capital of the two families in the future, how can they let others know?

Therefore, the team commanded by Wei Liaoweng still used old-fashioned smoothbore guns, and only he went to the front line with a few rifled guns.

Those rifled guns were not something that anyone could touch, and only the two retinues that Wei Wenweng brought out from his hometown (the Western Song Dynasty allowed military attachés from Jinshi to bring their entourage) could help with them.

Today, Wei Wenweng is riding along the edge of the Broken Leaf Mountain with half a team of Juren, Xiucai and half a team of knights, searching for the traces of the Mongolian cavalry.

The so-called Broken Leaf Mountain is the name given by the Han people, and to the north of the Broken Leaf Mansion, it is the remnant of the Tian Shan Mountains. There is little rainfall in this area, so the hillsides are bare, and there is no vegetation cover. At the same time, due to the moisture of the water flowing from the melting snow of the Tianshan Mountains, the valleys and canyons are often full of green trees and abundant water and grass.

During the decades when Xiliang ruled Broken Leaves, the valleys and basins in this area were the happy land of Xiliang knights, full of large and small manors, rich and comfortable, self-sufficient, and full of idyllic scenes.

But now, all that remains is a barren area, with the occasional sight of the ruins of the Knight's Dock and the natural growth of wild wheat that resembles a weed.

I don't know if it's because the Jinshi, Juren, and Xiucai of the Western Song Dynasty were too ferocious, and the range of activities of the Mongolian cavalry during this period was significantly reduced. Not only did the Song army no longer attack the Tuntian area of the Ili River Valley, but even the area around the Broken Leaf Mountain was not very common to see the Mongols, but there were still frequent activities of Mongolian rangers in the Broken Leaf Valley and the grasslands north of the Broken Leaf Mountain. However, they did not dare to get too close to the Song army's scouts during the day, and only launched an attack when night fell.

Therefore, whenever dusk approached, the cavalry of the Song army, which operated in the grasslands or the valley of the Broken Leaves River (which is also a large flat land), would shrink into the mountains. If possible, look for an abandoned knight dock to spend the night.

There are dozens of high-quality musket handles that can be fired from a distance, and without using cannons, they can't be hit without two or three hundred lives.

Even if you get in, you still have to fight hand-to-hand!

Although the imperial examination does not rely on hand-to-hand combat, it is not very easy to deal with the lifters and talents with the smoothbore guns with bayonets. And they don't go it alone, they tend to team up with the same number of knights.

And the hand-to-hand combat ability of the knights of the Western Song Dynasty is not weak!

Like the Great Zhou side, the status of the knight military class in the Western Song Dynasty also declined with the popularity of hot weapons. Moreover, they have relatively few ways out, except for being admitted to the Huashan Lecture and Martial Arts Hall, they can only serve as cavalry.

Among the cavalry, the Imperial Knights, which directly belonged to the Emperor of the Western Song Dynasty, were the most noble. In order to join the Imperial Knights, it is necessary to pass the Imperial Tournament - that is, the knights who want to join the Knights compete on horses and horses in front of the Emperor. Because the location of the martial arts competition is usually placed in the Huashan Lecture Hall, and the sword competition under the horse is the main event. Therefore, this kind of competition is also known as Huashan on the sword.

Although there are only a few people who can become the imperial knight through Huashan Lunjian, this method of determining the number of imperial knights through the competition has also greatly improved the hand-to-hand combat ability of the Western Song Dynasty cavalry.

Perhaps their martial arts were a little worse than those of the Oishi Guards and the Mongol warriors, but it was difficult for ordinary Mongol warriors to defeat them.

Moreover, the cavalry of the Western Song Dynasty was often equipped with strong and light plate armor, which was difficult to kill in hand-to-hand combat.

Therefore, according to the squad of Western Song warriors guarding the wall dock, the Mongol cavalry was also unwilling to attack, unless there were cannons.

"Captain, there's a dock over there, let's spend the night there tonight."

The sky had already darkened, and a "battle lifter" from the Western Song Dynasty pointed to a long-abandoned wall dock road not far away.

"Captain Li, you take two people to check first."

Wei Wenweng has been on the battlefield for more than a year and has developed a habit of being cautious. He wouldn't rush someone near a dock.

Who knows if there was a Mongol ambush inside?

A knight received the order, rode away with two horsemen, searched the wall dock back and forth, and then rushed back to report.

Wei Wenweng asked one of his deputies, a "battle cuo" who had failed several exams in the Ministry of Rites, to take a large group of people to camp in the wall dock. And he took the captain surnamed Li and two cavalrymen, rode to the bottom of a hillside, and then dismounted and walked up the mountain.

Mountaineering is for the sake of looking into the distance.

Stand tall and look far!

And now that the sky is going to be dark, if there is a Mongol army stationed within a radius of tens of miles, then after ascending, you can see the bonfires dotted with stars.

The hill chosen by Wei Wenweng did not look high, but it was very difficult to climb, and when the three of them (and one was watching the horses at the foot of the mountain) climbed to the top, it was already dark.

At night, the valley of the Broken Leaves is pitch black, with occasional sporadic fires flowing in the darkness, which should be Mongolian rangers who go out at night.

"Why are there so many ......," Lieutenant Li muttered, holding a telescope in his hand and surveying the valley in the distance.

"It's a little bit more!" Wei Wenweng also noticed that something was wrong.

Mongol rangers did move at night, sometimes with torches.

But there will never be so many rangers with torches and swaggering at night.

Are they not afraid of being shot in the dark?

"Captain, do you want to send someone to set up an ambush?" Lieutenant Li asked.

"It's too far, isn't it?" Wei Wenweng frowned, "It looks like it's thirty or forty miles, if you don't gallop on horseback, you have to walk for two or three hours."

Moreover, it can't be a trap to shoot so many torches, right? ”

"Yes, too...... Then take another look. Lieutenant Li turned around and a cavalryman went down the mountain to fetch food—the cavalrymen who had spent the night in the wall dock would prepare hot food, which would be sent to the foot of the mountain when it was ready. And the lieutenant surnamed Li knew that he and Wei Jinshi were going to observe on the mountain for a long time, so he asked people to pick it up.

The reason for this long observation was that they needed to determine whether the Mongol cavalry with torches was advancing eastward.

If so, then there is a good chance that they are covering an army that is advancing in the night!

Armies are most afraid of being ambushed at night, and now it is the era of artillery and muskets. If a dozen cannons were sprayed with shotguns, the army of tens of thousands of people would have collapsed.

Therefore, when marching at night, it is common for cavalry to move in front of the ranks with torches to attract ambushed enemies to open fire.

When the food was delivered to the top of the mountain, the captain surnamed Li put down the lookout and said to Wei Wenweng beside him: "They are heading east...... It looks like it's covering a large army! ”

Wei Wenweng took a roast leg of lamb that still had a little warmth, took a bite, chewed a few times, and swallowed it.

"After seeing the Mongols, I finally can't hold my breath!" Wei Wenweng said, "Let's find out the situation." ”

"Go during the day." Lieutenant Li said, "As long as you find out their approximate location tonight, you can pounce on them tomorrow morning." If there really is a large army, it is impossible to hide it tightly. ”

"Good!" Wei Wenweng nodded, "Listen to you." ”

The combat jinshi is not a real professional officer, and the captain surnamed Li is a professional soldier who graduated from the Huashan Lecture and Martial Arts Hall, commonly known as the Huashan faction officer.

Therefore, in terms of tactical arrangement, Wei Wenweng must obey this officer with a lower rank than him.

……

"Great Khan, we should have been discovered by the Song people's scout cavalry by now!"

When the gunshots came from a distance, Jebe, who had previously served as Jochi's deputy, already knew that the army led by the Great Khan himself had been exposed.

"The scout cavalry of the Song people is so powerful?" Temujin, who was eating breakfast in the tent, was a little surprised.

"Great Khan, it's not their cavalry that is powerful, but their muskets!" Jebe gritted his teeth and said, "Their muskets are far and accurate, and they especially like to shoot black guns!" It's so cunning! ”

Temujin snorted and slammed to his feet. Scared Zhebe, he sweated a lot, but he couldn't just go out and wander around, in case a Jochi shot someone like a black gun, he Jebel would die and couldn't redeem it.

"Great Khan, you ......"

"Get out!" Temujin spat out just two words.

He wasn't interested in checking the range and accuracy of the Song muskets!

Let people collapse with one shot, but they are not wronged!

"Open up? Where to? "Jebel is stupid, and he didn't turn a corner all of a sudden.

"To Ireburg, of course!" Temujin.

Located between the middle reaches of the Ili River and the northern slope of the Tien Shan Mountains, Yirebao is surrounded by plains rich in water and grass. Before Temujin took over Shattered Leaf Province, it was little more than a deserted pasture. And now, the Xiliang Han people who escaped from the Broken Leaf Mansion and the Song army that marched west have opened up a large area of Tuntian here. There is also a division of troops stationed there, which is the frontier stronghold of the Western Song Dynasty in the battlefield of the Ili River-Shaye River Valley.

If the Mongols were to break the Song army's approach, they had to break through this stronghold.

Temujin, on the other hand, had a bigger plan, he wanted to lure the main force of the Western Song expeditionary force to come and relieve the siege by besieging Yilebao, and completely defeat the Song army advancing westward by encircling the points. Then he concluded a treaty favorable to Mongolia - his psychological price was that the Western Song Dynasty ceded Xiliang and paid 300,000 taels of silver to Mongolia.

In order to win this war, he personally led 100,000 Mongol elites and the same number of new Persian vassals, a total of 200,000 troops, marched in a stealthy way, and now drove to the eastern part of the valley of the Broken Leaf River, which was only more than 200 miles away from Yirebao.

"It's too late to find out about my army!" Temujin said proudly, "I have ordered the whole army to march quickly, and within three days, I will surround the fort of Yirebao!" ”

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