The first to engage was the artillery of both sides, and Bayan accompanied the army with dozens of field guns, just as Li Zhe had captured in the previous Olgrad camp.

The Mongols had already mastered this weapon, but in the past, it was often the Song people who bombarded the enemy's walls, but today it turned out to be the other way around, and the Mongols bombarded the Song army's camp with artillery.

Since Li Zhe has even made the city wall here, it is not impossible for Bayan to learn to draw a gourd and a scoop.

It's a pity that the Song army used heavy siege artillery to bombard the city, while Bayan used light field artillery, which was okay to bombard people, but the effect was very average when used to bombard the city wall. However, relatively speaking, the breast wall of the tofu scum project on Li Zhe's side is indeed not good, and it has been bombarded by the enemy artillery from a distance to make a few gaps.

The Tartar gunner saw that the bombardment was even more vigorous, and he threw out all the guns and bombarded them far away.

But they bombarded the city wall, and the artillery on Li Zhe's side followed their artillery. The artillery of his own army also began to roar, Li Zhe had a lot of his own artillery before, and this captured another twenty guns in the enemy, and the artillery battle was even more fierce than that of Bayan.

The two sides bombarded one after another for more than ten minutes, and although the Mongolian army broke through many breastworks on Li Zhe's side, on his side, the sound of artillery became smaller and smaller, and gradually became inaudible.

The artillery team of the Mongols has been cleared by the artillery of the Song army, and the artillery battle has been started, after all, the Song army has a slight advantage.

Seeing this, Bayan had no choice but to order the remaining artillery to be quickly withdrawn, for the Mongols, the artillery team on their side, whether it was artillery or gunners, was very expensive, and this round of losses just now was enough to break his muscles and bones.

The moment the cannon fire stopped, the Mongol cavalry whistled in unison, the iron hooves flipped and the earth shook, and began to charge towards the Song army.

There are 10,000 people, boundless, not to mention the cavalry with stronger impact, Li Zhe stood in front of the formation, looked at the past, and saw a piece of black pressure, from left to right, occupying the wide front of the entire river valley, which was more than ten miles long, and was rushing towards him.

Looking at the enemy rushing directly in front of him, he was still a little uneasy in his heart.

In this battle, he has exhausted all the means at his disposal, but he doesn't know what the consequences will bring.

He now wants God to give him even one more day, or add even five hundred more men to him, and he will be more sure to win this battle, instead of resigning himself to fate like now.

Trenches, breastwalls, these are definitely one of the most effective tactics for the enemy's cavalry charge, but the problem is that he has too many enemies to face.

The enemy army rushed through the area between the positions of the two armies like a flood in an instant, and before they came to the front of the formation, there was still a distance of two hundred meters, and the Mongols on horseback whistled, and the Mongols on horseback strained their legs on the horse, and the people stood up, and pulled the air bow in their hands into a full bow, and when the horses under the crotch jumped to the highest point, they shot arrows with a brush.

I only heard a buzzing sound, like a muffled thunder, and thousands of arrows flew into the air immediately, covering the sky like a dark cloud.

"Shield!"

"Shield!"

"Shield!"

In the trench several miles long, the Song army shouted loudly, and the Song army in front of the battle raised their shields to resist the killing of bows and arrows.

I saw that the sky saw that the rain of arrows quickly crossed the sky, and only after rising into the air did it fall in black, and in the blink of an eye, a dense layer fell out of thin air in front of the Song army's formation. But because the Song army was hiding in a trench or behind a breastwork, the Mongols suffered almost no casualties in this round of long-range shots. Even a few arrows fell into the trench, but they were blocked by the Song army, who had been prepared for a long time, waving their shields.

If Li Zhejun was still in a formation on the flat ground as before, the projectile in front of the Mongols would inevitably cause the Song army to suffer a lot of casualties, but now, hehe!

This is the reason why Ma Zhong, Yan Guozhen and others were very happy when they saw Li Zhe take out this trench and breastwork.

The Song army was able to shoot at the Mongol army in the trench and behind the chest wall, not to mention anything else, just saying that this sense of security could greatly improve the morale of the army, and at the same time, because of the psychological quality, the combat skills of the sergeants and soldiers could also increase by two percent out of thin air.

The Mongols had just finished the first round of projectiles, and the entire front of the Song army was also shooting at the same time!

In the past, when the Song army was in the array, it was generally not allowed to shoot at a distance of 100 meters, not because the range of the musket was not as good as the bow and arrow, this is a joke, no matter how bad the chemical energy weapon propelled by gunpowder is, it must be stronger than the bow and arrow with physical charge.

In fact, after a hundred years of evolution, the craftsmanship of the Song army musket has already had a killing distance of two or three hundred meters, and as long as it hits, it is still a broken tendon. It's just that because of the inaccuracy, the efficiency is extremely low, so the Song military formation generally rarely fires a salvo at this distance, but now, the Song army has such a safe shooting environment, so why shoot one more round?

I saw that in front of the Song army, thousands of flintlock muskets of all kinds bloomed one after another, and the entire front raised a whole thick white smoke, like a white dragon rising from the ground.

The high-speed projectiles fired from muskets were far faster than bows and arrows, and in the blink of an eye, they flew close to the Mongols, and the observation posts set up by their own troops on the high posts in the rear could clearly see clearly, and the entire front of the Mongols seemed to be missing countless small gaps out of thin air, and nearly a hundred cavalry rolled under their horses without saying a word.

The distance is very long, such a shot is indeed not efficient, the loss of this hundred people is almost not worth mentioning compared to the Mongolian cavalry array, the cavalry in front of him was shot and fell, and the other Mongolian cavalry behind him did not blink, flashed from the side and then accelerated again.

Immediately after that, dozens of artillery pieces in the Song army fired again, bombarding the Mongol formation, causing a lot of casualties, but in front of so many enemies, they were only like dozens of waves in a blink of an eye.

The entire enemy army was still roaring and rushing forward.

At a very close distance, the Mongols whistled again in front of the large formation, and the formation opened again, and the light cavalry in front of the formation split to the sides, revealing the heavy cavalry behind them.

Those light cavalry armed with bows and arrows swept past the front of the formation, looking for the opportunity, but it was a pity that as far as the eye could see, the Song army was all hiding, at most showing their heads and muzzles, so how could these archers find their targets?

Even the charging heavy cavalry was also confused, looking at the Song soldiers in the trench, they didn't know how to start for a while, so they had to manipulate the horses under their crotch to prepare to cross the horse trap all over the ground and try to impact the chest wall. It's a pity that such cavalry was flanked by the enemy in the trench behind him and on the chest wall at the same time.

When a Mongolian general saw it, he said hatefully:

"What are these southern barbarians, what are they doing, these many people are hiding in the ditch, what kind of battle are they fighting?"

Bayan, who was watching the battle, had to frown when he heard this, today's Song army made this strange formation, which really caught him by surprise.

The wars of all dynasties and dynasties are all heroic battlefields, the blades are fighting, the Song army is all hiding in the hole, what kind of battle is this, is it not a whack-a-mole?