Chapter 85: Mountains and Rivers Reorganization for Posterity (2)
Bai Yijie looked at the black military horses in the distance and didn't listen to them, assembled, and then impacted, and scattered in front of the red city wall of the army again and again, and his heart was a little fixed, it seems that Zheng Yunming will not have to worry about his life for the time being, seeing the men and horses of the army shuttling around the base camp, and there is more dust rising in the direction of the pontoon bridge in the east, the Song Dynasty fought on the mainland, and the troops that could be mobilized at the beginning of the war were limited, but the time was slightly delayed, and the reinforcements naturally came. After it can be used, the reserve male is almost similar to Xining's armor, and after the construction of the top-down system is completed, the combat effectiveness is not comparable to that of the armor guards. These days, when the Ezhou army and the Mongolian army were struggling with each other, the entire Jinghu area that was not affected by the war was doing two things, preparing all kinds of military materials to supply the main force of the imperial court that was about to arrive, and fully mobilizing the reserve soldiers in all towns and villages, of course, these reserve soldiers were not enough to directly enter the battlefield, Zheng Yunming was not even prepared to use it as an effective combat force, but at this moment, any force could become the last straw that broke the camel's back, Zheng Yunming made a decision that later historians were happy to be happy about, and he ordered all the more than 100,000 reserve officers and soldiers that were being assembled in Jiangnan to be thrown into the various battlefields where they were fighting.
100,000 horses and horses rolled westward, kicking up the dust in the sky, noisy and noisy sounds, this scene alone was enough to make the Mongolian soldiers who were fighting to the death frightened, and even did not use these reserve soldiers whose combat effectiveness was not strong to enter the battle, many of the Mongolian troops who were still fighting to the death had lost their fighting spirit just by seeing the smoke and dust raised in the rear of the Song army, and they fled one after another. The Mongol soldiers on the north bank, who desperately crossed the river to try to save the Great Khan from danger, also lost confidence, and the Hanyang gentry who stood on the south bank of the Yangtze River to watch the bustle (there is always no shortage of lively guys in history, and the fathers and elders of Hanyang were so bold and stupid) could see that the northern army was fleeing quickly backwards on horseback.
The general trend has been decided, Bai Yijie made this judgment in his heart, although the hateful Nine Dragons in front of him are still firmly established in front of the Golden Dome Tent, but the Mongolian army is gone, although many people still can't see this clearly, and even Zheng Yunming may not be able to conclude that he has won the battle, but Bai Yijie has already understood.
He looked at the reservists who passed by the formation, all of them were in high spirits, lined up in a neat queue in front of their supreme commander, raised the bright blades in their hands to salute the governor, and then sang the army to teach the war song and rushed to the battlefield, war is a game of fighting power, but also a stage of fighting wit, but more importantly, there is a momentum, where the momentum is, even if there are any flaws in the deployment. Either they are inferior in numbers, or they make mistakes in their calculations, and seemingly unforgivable mistakes become insignificant, because the side that rises will crush all obstacles like a rolling stone and win the final victory.
Such a situation may be a reflection of the organizational strength within the group, or the overwhelming advantage in materials and the gap in the efficiency of use, or the gap in weapons, or simply a temporary morale boost, Bai Yijie thought that these factors were more or less reflected in this decisive battle, but in any case, the most important thing is that the Song army has won the victory, and the next thing is to sweep away those stubborn people who still refuse to admit defeat.
However, there are still imperfections in the victory, when a group of soldiers and soldiers go back and forth, it is inevitable to cause some confusion, some units have not been trained for a long time, some troops are dizzy in the frequent orders, and some units are even because of their Zheng Xianggong's encouragement of the initiative of the generals and the leaders are hot-headed blind movements, of course, there are also orders that are conveyed incorrectly, just like this group of elite soldiers who are wearing armor and holding high red flags in front of them, obviously because of a mistake in the order.
What Bai Yijie hates the most in his life is this kind of mistake because of the unclear military order, such a mistake is usually in the traditional seven laws and fifty-four chops, but when it comes to fighting, there are not a few such fools, if you meet other generals, you will definitely understand the inevitable chaos on the battlefield, and maintain your subordinates, but Bai Yijie has always been ruthless in governing the army, so that some people in the army say that Zheng Xianggong is like a mother, and Bai Junshi is a strict father. Bai Yijie stood up from his seat with a gloomy face, put down the feather fan in his hand, the generals who were still making such mistakes at such a tense moment had to be killed by the Ming army.
Seeing that unit rushing ahead of the Chinese army, the colonel of the garrison shouted and asked, "What part are you, and where is the password!" ”
Before he could finish speaking, a wolf's tooth feather arrow immediately pierced his throat.
Niu Phosphorus slammed the phoenix wing helmet on his head to the ground, and roared with red eyes: "Follow me and kill Zheng Yunming!" ”
Hundreds of Mongol warriors unloaded their helmets in unison, revealing the bare crowns of their heads and braided hair, and shouted in unison: "Baturu! Kill Zheng Yunming! "Cut off the antlers in front of you, and at great speed, rushed into the unsuspecting Chinese army camp tent.
Before the impact on Zheng Yunming, Niu Pho quickly used a speculum to make an estimate of the battlefield situation, this new invention of the Southern Dynasty was an excellent tool for the Mongols, before the Southern Expedition, Niu Pho even proposed to the Great Khan a new cavalry tactics based on the speculum, that is, a large number of cavalry equipped with speculum to evacuate the formation of multiple ways to go hand in hand, at any time to use the speculum to detect the enemy's movements, once the enemy is found, immediately start the attack on the spot, while blocking the enemy's reconnaissance forces, covering the artillery forward, and gather the army to encircle and annihilate, Unfortunately, the basis of such a tactic was to equip speculums in batches, but the speculums smuggled from the strict ban of the Song Dynasty to the north due to smuggling were still extremely scarce treasures, and only commanders of the rank of generals could be equipped with them.
It doesn't take a closer look at the overall situation, just need to see clearly the equipment on Zheng Yunming's side and the increasing number of flags in the east, and Niu Phosphorus can judge that with these people in his own army, it is difficult to break through head-on to the distance where Zheng Yunming can be sniped.
Over the years, the Song army's ability to deal with cavalry has been increasing day by day, before the Mongolian cavalry breaks into the enemy's infantry phalanx, they will encounter a baptism of artillery fire at a distance of at least 200 paces, and then there are arquebuses and crossbow arrows volleys, after breaking in, the Song army infantry has exercised a very tenacious will, sometimes even the three rows of spearmen in front of them are killed and wounded, and the entire phalanx will not collapse. The soldiers and horses of the Song Dynasty would quickly pile up like wolves smelling blood, unfurling one defensive line after another in front of the Mongol cavalry, and constantly rolling and extending to the two wings, trying to encircle the new phosphorus. Even if Niu Huo's subordinates exerted twelve points of combat power, it was impossible for them to break through to Zheng Yunming a hundred steps, let alone successfully kill Zheng Yunming.
Therefore, it is necessary to use strategy, except for the troops on the front line and the Song Dynasty, the Mongol army has rarely used strategy, just relying on a few sets of fixed tactics and huge national strength, it is enough to crush all the surrounding forces that dare to block the Mongol army. In fact, the Mongols did not lack the wisdom of scheming when their strength was weak, and thousands of years of blood and death in the steppe made every steppe person a first-class strategist. Before launching the final assault, Niu Phosphorus prepared hundreds of sets of Song army armor, and disguised himself and hundreds of henchmen as Song Army, when his cavalry team entered the Song Army's strict formation from the front with great fanfare, Niu Phosphorus took these hundreds of people to take advantage of the chaos of the two armies to quietly sneak into the Song Army's battle line, if there were only 11,000 people on the battlefield at this time, each standing in accordance with the direction, and never moved, then this abrupt small army that violated military orders may soon be discovered by the Song Army.
However, Zheng Yunming and Bai Yijie's move to move forward at this moment gave Niu Huo a chance, it was common sense to organize reserves to go forward when the enemy cavalry was in a large-scale assault, and the chaos caused by this was really excusable, but it was precisely because of this small extenuating circumstance that Niu Ning was able to seize the opportunity to get close to Zheng Yunming.
There was no doubt that the arrival of a large force of the envoys along the river and the Jinghu Reserve Army added to the confusion, and even Zheng Yunming, who had always been known for his meticulous observation, did not realize that danger was rapidly approaching him when the military horses of different regions and different units were mixed together and bustling forward.
And when he found out, those murderous and fearless Mongol warriors were only fifty paces away from him. Although there were more than a thousand guards of the Governor's Mansion in between, it was by no means an untouchable distance.
In the distance, he stared at the dignitary in gold plate armor under the umbrella of Qingluo, obviously this was the first person of the Southern Dynasty that the Mongols had been longing for for twenty years but had never been able to hunt successfully, the man who had made generations of Mongol Great Khans shout in their dreams to take his head, the legendary hero who had stubbornly blocked the Mongolian whirlwind at his feet, and was now only fifty steps away from him. His eyes widened, his teeth tightened, and he strode towards Zheng Yunming.
The guards who were the first to come to their senses and stood behind the antlers shouted in unison, each drawing his blade and lining up into a wall to block the path of the Assassins. Where is Niu Phosphorus willing to entangle with them more, stepped forward, danced the two sharp iron steel knives in his hand, and instantly cut off the head of a guard in front of him, that guard turned out to be a skilled Jinghu veteran, who had also cut off a lot of Mongolian army heads for many years on the battlefield, but this time he faced this Mongolian general, he didn't even have a chance to fight back, and Niu Phosphorus's double knives were not withdrawn, and he swung to the left side, and cut off the arm of a guard on the side.