Because the Song army's musketeers were generally armed with bayonets (armor-piercing cones), they had a certain anti-cavalry ability. Thus their hollow phalanx could be formed on its own with musketeers.

On the battlefield of Yiliebao on July 17, 1217 Western calendar, Yang Tiexin asked 1,600 Song army musketeers to form the front of the hollow phalanx.

So it was these 1,600 musketeers who approached in the confusion or so of the 9,000 Persian undead troops.

They were divided into two rows, all carrying smoothbore guns with good ammunition and lit arquebuses. The queue is neat, approaching step by step.

Due to the previous indiscriminate firing in the panic, most of the Persian undead had already run out of bullets from their muskets. Seeing the Song army's musketeers approaching, they had to hurriedly reload.

And in the process, the Song army's gunman continued to fire, and from time to time bullets hit the Persians, making them even more flustered.

The Song musketeers who were marching in line soon passed the gunmen who were shooting on their knees.

The gunslingers' vision was obscured and there was no way to fire. But did not withdraw from the battlefield, but formed two horizontal columns in a flurry of whistles, and then began to load.

And at this moment, the roar of musket salvos was heard again in front.

The Song musketeers did not, like the lobster soldiers of later generations, rush to within twenty paces of the Persians and then fire a volley. Instead, they opened fire at a distance of forty or fifty paces, but their level of shooting was good, and a single salvo knocked out more than three hundred Persians.

At this time, the Persian undead army had already received two rounds of 2,000 shots from the doctors, plus this round of musketeers volleys. Thousands of people have been killed!

However, the Persian undead army was not a general, with casualties reaching 10%, and still did not retreat. The Persian musketeers standing in the front row also reorganized their formations and loaded their ammunition under the supervision of the officers.

But just as they were about to open fire, the Song army musketeers who were standing dozens of paces away suddenly became half a cut shorter, and they all squatted down.

What's going on?

Afraid of death?

Wrong! There were two rows of musketeers about twenty paces behind them, already aiming their muskets at the Persians.

This one...... Who should I fight?

The Persian undead army was immediately confused.

"Squatting ......"

"Fight the enemy who is standing!"

The officers of the Persians gave very different orders, as they had never encountered such a situation before.

And now it was too late to ask their superiors, so the Persian musketeers on the battlefield pointed their guns at different enemies as a team.

Woohoo Woo ......

The salvo of both sides began almost simultaneously! Smoke spewed and projectiles flew in front of the arrays of the warring sides.

This time both the Persians and the Song suffered casualties, but the losses of the former were much greater than those of the latter!

Because the Song musketeers, who were closer to the Persians, were crouching, and the targets were smaller. The Persians, on the other hand, were standing and had larger targets.

As for the gunner, who was far away from the Persians, it was simply out of range of the Persians' heavy smoothbore guns.

And it was the gunmen who fired at the Persians, and their shooting skills and muskets prevailed. Although the distance is far, it is impossible to fight at all.

Therefore, the Persians suffered another loss in the exchange of muskets, and nearly 200 more people were shot, while the Song army musketeers on the other side fell only a few dozen people.

But just when the Persians were about to collapse, half-kneeling in the grass, Guo Kang, who had just loaded his bullets, suddenly heard four rapid whistles, and then the shouts of the officers.

"Hollow phalanx, battalion horizontal formation, two columns!"

Guo Kang was in his heart at the moment: Oh no, the Mongol cavalry is coming!

It turned out that Tuo Lei had already discovered that the Persian undead army had died in a heap, and if it continued to fight, it would have to collapse.

It seems that you can't beat others with muskets, so it's better to transfer cavalry to charge into battle.

However, he couldn't rush at other people's pikemen, but at the center of the battlefield, the two teams of Song army's musketeers who lost the cover of pikemen.

Several Mongol cavalry thousand-man detachments, who received the order, immediately turned their arrays and launched a charge.

The officers of the Song army, who were in command on the battlefield, immediately reacted, forming a hollow phalanx and using bayonets against the Mongol horse team.

However, the first to meet the Mongol cavalry was the artillery shells of the Song army. The artillery of the Song army was now moved to the sides of the large hollow phalanx (immediately after the advance of the musketeers on the front, the phalanx was adjusted and turned into a small hollow phalanx) to drive away the Mongol cavalry.

And if the Mongolian cavalry wants to attack the Song army musketeers in the center of the battlefield, they have to withstand the fire of these dozens of field guns!

The four-pound iron ball roared and swept towards the galloping Mongolian horse team, quickly breaking up several of them. The iron balls swept through the crowd of horses, rubbing, touching, and all of them were swept off the horses. There were also some Mongols who were swept off their horses by the strong wind from the shells!

But there were also some centaurs who rushed through the artillery barricade and rushed towards the hollow phalanx of the Song people.

On the battlefield, everyone who saw this scene held their breath.

The critical moment that will determine the outcome of today's battle has arrived!

Already on his horse, he was already on his horse, holding a monocular, staring at one of the galloping Mongol lancers.

They quickly approached the phalanx of the Song army, and the Song people's muskets seemed to fire, knocking down a lot of warriors on horseback! There was also some confusion in the formation.

But the charge, still going on!

Tuo Lei praised in his heart: Sure enough, he is a warrior of the Great Mongolia......

By the time he applauded, the spears of the Mongol cavalry had been flattened, and the horses under their crotches had accelerated to the fastest. The entire horse team, like a projectile spewing out of the muzzle, roared and rushed towards the hollow phalanx of the Song people.

And the Song people ...... There was no confusion!

Tuo Lei saw that Song Jun's array in the telescope was still the same, and his heart suddenly chuckled.

At this moment, the collision has already happened!

The galloping war horse crashed into a musket with a long sleeve bayonet!

The bayonet (armor-piercing cone) stabbed the horse in the chest, the horse neighed and fell, and the knight on horseback was thrown forward by a huge inertia. Fell within the hollow phalanx. Immediately, a few Song officers and soldiers who were waiting in the hollow phalanx pounced on them and slammed them with maces!

The soldiers of the Song Army, who were armed with muskets, were also knocked out by the huge impact force, and then fell heavily into the grass.

This fall is most likely a broken bone and tendon......

But the hollow phalanx of the Song people was not broken by the Mongolian horse team!

How is this possible!

Towley simply couldn't believe his eyes. That's the musketeers! Musketeers can withstand cavalry, so what do you need pikemen for?

At the same time that Towmine was shocked, the impact occurred again and again.

Every time they hit, many Song musketeers were knocked away, but their hollow phalanx stood tall.

Not only did it not disperse, but it was also able to counterattack with muskets, and the Mongolian cavalrymen who were beaten were overturned on their backs.

Tuo Lei, who was watching the battle behind the battle line, was a little anxious, how could the invincible cavalry of the Great Mongolia not even be able to break the musketeers of the Song people? That's not going to work!

Tuo Lei, who was a little anxious, decided to personally direct the cavalry assault in front, so he led a thousand-man team guarding him to advance forward and ran to the right side of the Persian 10,000-man team that was shooting at the Song army.

At this time, the situation on the battlefield can only be described as chaos. Because the long-distance firing of the Persian undead army and the musketeers of the Song army has not stopped, the battlefield is filled with choking gunsmoke. I am afraid that it will be difficult for both sides to see each other's positions clearly, and the accuracy of shooting will naturally drop greatly.

At the same time, the onslaught of the Mongol cavalry was very badly organized. Because the Mongol cavalry was always bombarded by the Song army's artillery in the process of attacking, the formation was already very scattered before they collided with the Song army's hollow phalanx.

Moreover, the musketeers who formed the hollow phalanx of the Song army were also firing desperately, and the charging Mongol cavalry turned on their backs. By the time they collided with the Song army's phalanx, the impact had been greatly attenuated, and there was no threat to the Song army's phalanx.

In addition, several cavalry thousand-man detachments sent by Tuo Lei did not concentrate on attacking one phalanx, but attacked two Song infantry phalanxes separately, dispersing the impact.

Having found out the reason for the poor impact effect, Tuo Lei immediately gave a series of orders.

The first was to order the musketeers of the Persian undead army to retreat, and the pikemen to move forward and begin to charge!

Secondly, he ordered all the cavalry to concentrate on the left flank of the Song army's musketeer phalanx (that is, the phalanx that was about to be attacked by the Persian undead army), and prepared to attack after the undead army came into contact with the Song army.

The adjustment of the Mongols quickly attracted Yang Tiexin's attention, and he immediately began to adjust the deployment. Ordered the pikemen to cover the movement of the artillery and join the phalanx of the "gun doctors". Immediately after the convergence, the Spearman phalanx turned into a straggler formation and dispersed in front of a hollow phalanx of pikemen.

At this moment, the pikemen of the Persian undead army also rushed forward with the fire of the Song army's rows of muskets, and recited aloud the scriptures of the Illuminati Sect while impacting.

These undead soldiers are all devout followers of the Illuminati Sect! Inspired by faith, they launched a decisive charge!

The scriptures recited by the immortal army in Persian, Guo Kang couldn't understand a word. But he still knew something was wrong!

Although the hollow phalanx could withstand the cavalry charge, it had little resistance in the face of a dense pikeman onslaught.

The only hope is to break up the opponent's formation with a dense rain of bullets.

But they were now in a hollow phalanx, not in two or three columns. The musketeers were divided into four directions, and there were only more than three hundred smoothbore guns in each direction, which was simply not enough to repel a dense phalanx of thousands of undead pikemen.

"Get on the bayonet! Plug ...... down"

When Guo Kang heard this desperate cry, his body couldn't control it and began to tremble.

Because the enemy's spear is about to pierce his chest!

At this time, it is too late to reload and shoot, and the tragic hand-to-hand combat is about to begin!

However, this hand-to-hand fight did not take place between a bayonet and a spear, and a musket with a bayonet could not have stabbed a spear more than a foot long.

So the officers gave the order to put the muskets with bayonets on them, and the bayonets were plunged down into the dirt to form a simple fence.

"Dense phalanx!"

Guo Kang's ears once again heard the officers' orders.

These are all queue changes that have been honed in training. After inserting the musket into the earth, it is time to meet the enemy with a mace and a dense phalanx!

However, during the training of the recruits, Guo Kang was told that once this situation occurred, it would be the final battle......

After completing the formation, nearly 1,400 musketeers armed with maces formed a small but tight phalanx. Guo Kang stood in the first row facing the spear, holding the mace in both hands, and staring at the tip of the approaching spear with red eyes.

All he could do was slam the tip of the spear with his mace.

He went into battle wearing improvised plate armor, and as long as he was not poked by the tip of a spear with powerful armor-piercing capabilities, he had hope of staying alive and continuing to fight.

At the same time, he also knew that he still had more than a thousand murderous gun doctors and dozens of bronze cannons behind him, and there was still hope......

"Kill!"

Several bright spear tips soon appeared in front of Guo Kang's eyes, and he roared, smashing the mace in his hand with all his strength. Then he closed his eyes...... He was hit hard in the chest, and the force was so great that he suddenly lost his center of gravity, and the whole person fell backwards. But instead of falling to the ground, he was helped. Because there were several rows of Song soldiers carrying maces behind him.

He snapped open his eyes, breathed in the blood-smelling air, and looked down...... There is no barrel of a gun that is stabbed into the body!

Still alive......

To live, you have to fight!

This is the fate of the children of military families, and Guo Kang has known this since he was a child.

He shouted, swinging his mace and slamming the tip of another spear that was stabbing at him!

The Song musketeers, who formed a dense phalanx, soon fell into a bitter battle, and their maces were no match for the pikes. Even if a lot of spear tips are knocked off, other people's spears can still be vigorously slapped.

And the mace can't reach people!

However, the pikemen of the Persian undead army did not have a good time, and it was the spearmen who were half-crouching in the grass who inflicted casualties on them.

Because the front of the undead army was relatively wide, it formed a three-sided encirclement of the latter after colliding with the dense Song army array. Therefore, the gun doctors scattered in the rear of the Song military formation were able to open fire.

For a while, the situation on the battlefield changed to the undead army killing the Song army musketeers armed with maces with spears, and the Song army's gun doctor used them as live targets.

In this era, the confrontation between the two armies usually pays attention to fighting in formation, and the command is relatively rigid. The pikemen of the undead Persian army who were hit by muskets could not dismantle their formation and attack the opponent's skirmishers. So I was killed quite a few very quickly!

And Tuo Lei also found these hateful gun doctors, and they can't be allowed to shoot comfortably, otherwise the undead army will die......

But he didn't have time to readjust the deployment of the Mongol cavalry, and the communication on the battlefield in this year basically relied on roaring, which was very troublesome to adjust.

Therefore, he simply sent his own escort team of 1,000 people, and did not send all of them, but dispatched 5 of them to attack the spear doctors scattered behind the Song army's musketeer phalanx.

As a result, there were only 500 Mongolian warriors left to guard Tulei......