Chapter 322: All-out counterattack

Zhao Tianyou is even more anxious than Kublai Khan, he is anxious that Kublai Khan has suffered so many blows, but don't be sick one day and can't swallow his breath, even if he dies, it doesn't matter, the jade belt on his waist has to be left for me. （）

The Song army that followed him continued to grow and grow in the war, and after recovering most of the territory on the south bank of the Yellow River, it already had 200,000 cavalry and more than 300,000 infantry. According to Zhao Tianyou's constantly differentiated and unbroken bottom-level organization, the process of growing the contingent is also a process of dispersion, learning, and growth; as long as there are qualified officers at the grassroots level, no matter how large the base is, the growth rate of combat effectiveness is basically controllable.

At this time, the main force of the South China Sea Fleet had already taken more ports, and more than 300 main warships, loaded with a large number of artillery shells and materials for the firearms battalion, docked at Ningjun and Dengzhou on the Shandong East Road, and made peace with Zhao Tianyou, who had just occupied Chuzhou, Mizhou.

After unloading the shells and supplies of the various armies to the port of Dengzhou, Zhao Tianyou led the army to the Daimyofu first, and the South China Sea Fleet coordinated and marched north along the coastline. Yidu Mansion, Binzhou and Zizhou surrendered successively, and the Yuan army stationed in the local area has become a frightened bird, and the number is small, and the Song Dynasty has not yet been killed, and the remaining local officials can only put up white flags to welcome the Song army into the city.

After the artillery of the Tai'an army bypassed Mount Tai, the Song army of the Five Routes surrounded Jinan Mansion, frightening the Yuan general Abari to abandon the city and lead the army to flee north. In the Daimyo's mansion, he was intercepted by Kublai Khan's vanguard officer, the fourth prince Namhan, and executed 600 people from Abari and his own army, and his body was tied to a horsetail and dragged into mud.

Namuhan led 60,000 fresh troops to meet the 80,000 cavalry under Zhao Tianyou in Dezhou, because Namuhan's movement speed was too fast, and the intelligence department of the Song army did not grasp its whereabouts in time, and fought a real cavalry battle outside Dezhou.

The original city wall of Dezhou City has been damaged, and the current one is a wall of eight feet that was barely built on the original site, but it only has the appearance of a city wall, but it has little defensive value. Therefore, Namuhan did not enter the city, but stationed outside the city, and after executing the fugitive general Abazhi, he barely stabilized his morale, and urgently needed to find the Song army, wanting to announce his arrival with a victory.

Zhao Tianyou was still bathing at Baotu Spring, and the process of taking Shandong was very smooth, but it also exceeded the estimated time, mainly because of the mud on the road, and after a light rain, the entire march plan was to be delayed.

This is still the Song army has been equipped with a considerable number of horses, and the mobile march is still so slow and difficult, it can be imagined that the hardships of the anti-Yuan resistance back then, the large army was two-legged and four-legged to compete, and it was already eighty percent ripe at the beginning, and when the battle started, it was ten percent lost.

Zhao Tianyou stayed in Jinan Mansion for two days, and then went north along the coastline, and taking Cangzhou Qingzhou was equivalent to arriving at Hebei East Road, which could already threaten the location of Dadu. It stands to reason that Kublai Khan should not be so slow, but the position of the 600,000 army that needs to be defended is too much, Kublai Khan thought that the main force of the Song army should cross the river north from the middle route, but he did not expect that the strongest fleet had already arrived at his side.

Not a single of the 60,000 cavalry of Namuhan remained, all of them died outside the city of Texas, and the battlefield spread for more than 30 miles, full of corpses of horses and soldiers, and the blood that flowed out stained the ground into patches of bloody mud.

The 80,000 cavalry of the Song army lost nearly 30,000 in battle, and the general who led the army was named Li Mingyi, who was a graduate of the first phase of the martial arts hall, and was promoted in battles again and again, and is now a general of the 80,000 unified army.

Also because of the speed of the march, Li Mingyi's cavalry was a bit aggressive, the gun trucks of the firearms battalion did not keep up, and only dozens of rapid-fire guns participated in the support, but fortunately, the equipment of the cavalry of the Song army is super awesome.

The short crossbow tied to the arm is almost one for each person, and the arm crossbow that has been upgraded many times has been accurately designed, and the power has been improved many times, and it has the function of semi-automatic winding and arrows, which makes the Song cavalry even more powerful.

The saber made of stainless steel became sharper and sharper, and the toughness also exceeded the scimitar used by Meng Yuan, and when it was close to hand-to-hand combat, the scimitar of the Yuan soldiers was often cut off along with the arm, which can be said to make countless Yuan soldiers feel desperate.

Each cavalryman had two arrow magazines, and the wolf's tooth arrows and armor-piercing cones were used alternately according to their use, and the multi-layer composite armor sewn from cowhide on the Song army's body had already made the archers of the Yuan army begin to doubt life.

After each arrow is shot, it may not be affected by various reasons, and it cannot make the soldier who is hit by the arrow lose its combat effectiveness immediately, so sometimes it is necessary to shoot multiple arrows in unison, and if one shot can't kill you, you can have a few more.

But this time, after the Yuan army shot the arrow, it hit the vital point of the Song cavalry, but it was easily bounced off, not to mention seriously injured, and even a layer of armor could not be shot, and this battle was extremely aggrieved.

Na Muhan made good use of a spear, and the soldiers around him were also composed of spear teams who were good at using guns, and broke into the Song army formation and fought a few rounds, and indeed injured a lot of Song soldiers. However, after the first few round-trips, some Song troops noticed this Yuan army team, which must be an important general of the Yuan army, and then deliberately sent troops to isolate them from the main force of the Yuan army.

"Thunderbolt ready, perimeter retreat!"

With a shout from the back of the crowd, a large number of Song troops who had surrounded the hundreds of people in Namuhan suddenly turned around and left, killing the Yuan army in other directions, as if the Yuan army here had nothing to do with them.

Na Muhan was stunned for a moment, and when he felt bad and wanted to beat his horse and speed away, hundreds of white smoke iron shells thundered into the sky, and a circle of infantry from the small cannon was thrown out of the hands of the infantry, and smashed into Na Muhan's team from mid-air.

"Run......

As soon as he shouted, a series of explosions covered the entire area, and countless shrapnel were like sharp knives, drilling in and out of there, drilling bloody holes in the bodies of men and horses.

The Song army's thunder time was very good, most of them exploded above the heads of the Yuan army, and the biggest casualties were not horses, all of them were soldiers on horseback, and the previous method of lying on horseback to avoid was also ineffective.

One by one, frightened and wounded war horses, carrying the bloody corpses of soldiers on their backs, fled in all directions without direction or goal, and rushed towards the neatly arranged Song army camp.

When he was about to crash into the ranks, he shouted out one after another, and a row of soldiers with long-handled spears rushed out of the Song army's formation, but as soon as they lowered their bodies, they poked the handle of their guns on the ground, and the tips of their spears pointed at the galloping horses at an oblique angle.

"Poof! Poof! ”

The frightened horses were pierced through their bodies with spears, and after a few convulsions on the spot, they fell with a pop, and streams of blood poured out from the corpses of men and horses.

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