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Therefore, these cavalry, which were used as the aces of the Great Song Dynasty, turned out to be of little use in today's battles. Zhao Kui recruited Yao Xing, the commander of the Tabai Army, and Ma Gui, the commander of the Xuanfeng Army, to sit with him in the Command of the Envoy Office, while the soldiers of the Xuanfeng and Tabai armies hid in places that were difficult for the enemy's artillery to watch the battle, and restrained their war horses, so as not to be disturbed by the fierce fighting sounds, and then cause unnecessary casualties. This was undoubtedly a helpless choice for these Ma soldiers who took attack as their vocation, but many sergeants secretly rejoiced that not all of them had the courage to face off with the Mongolian iron cavalry.

They were only used in the final moments of the battle, either in a desperate last struggle after the Mongols had broken the city, or in pursuit when the Mongols had retreated.

Until then, the infantry will withstand all the attacks of the Mongol army. The brunt of it was the soldiers under the Jing'e Deputy Metropolitan Division deployed on the west and south city walls.

Zheng Yunming spied the footsteps of the enemy army from the window lattice motionlessly, there are all kinds of armies under Tasi, among which the task of the Han army is to use as a vanguard army when attacking the city, and the clothes and armor of the Mongolian soldiers are all self-prepared, but as the Han army under Tasi, the ten thousand households and thousands of households each have their own considerations, the killing and wounding of the siege soldiers are quite terrifying, if there is no complete defense, the morale of the soldiers is difficult to guarantee, but it is a task that requires great morale.

Zheng Yunming could see that there were not many soldiers in armor among the first wave of attackers, and they were at the forefront of the group. And the front of these armored warriors pushed a huge shield cart, and the wooden shield was pushed by manpower to cover the archers behind them to advance step by step towards the fortifications outside the city of the Song army, and they were only dozens of steps away from the row of forked wood at the front.

Suddenly, there was a bang, and a shield cart suddenly sank into the ground.

According to the usual rules of the Song army's city defense, outside the moat, a dry trench was dug on the periphery, and various spikes were buried in the dry trench to block the enemy's advance. The width and depth of the trench were about half to one-third that of the water trench, but Zheng Yunming's troops had considerable difficulty in completing the moat, and there was no financial or manpower left to dig the trench. In order to make up for this shortcoming, Zheng Yunming did everything possible to save some people, plus the participation of loyal and righteous people, and dug some traps in the periphery of the row of forked wood, which is also the front of the entire city defense fortifications.

Of course, this is a trick similar to the naughty boy's vindictiveness, but as long as you place the trap properly, it can still have a surprising effect. However, a row of traps set up on the periphery caused the Mongolian army's shield carts to fall into six or seven vehicles, which cannot but be said to be a little luck on Zheng Yunming's part.

Losing the protection of the great shield, the archers could only continue to march forward in their whole formation, past the rows of forked wood and the rejection of horses, and came to the sheep and horse wall built by the Song army outside the city. This was already the distance that General Zhu shot, but not a single general cannon on the city wall fired. Zheng Yunming is waiting for a more suitable time.

And the archers have also climbed the sheep and horse wall? The wall continues to advance, to do cover shots, they are also too far from the wall. They had to risk being fired by the enemy at any moment to seize a position where they could shoot, and then cover the approaching moat of the infantry that had ascended first, in preparation for the crossing.

They were estimating the distance they would shoot, as were the archers at the head of the city. The two sides did not seem to be fighting at all at this moment, but the invisible contest was going on all the time.

Finally, the crossbowmen on the city wall began to shoot, they were condescending, with a good range advantage, a row of bows and crossbows shot down, down dozens of archers who rushed to the front, some of the soldiers who climbed the city waved defense cards and regimental cards and rushed forward to cover their archers, and the rest of the archers ran quickly, grabbing the position of shooting before the second wave of bows and arrows of the Song army fell.

They drew their horned bows and sent a rain of arrows towards the walls.

The proportion of crossbows in the army is not as good as that of the Song people for the time being, Zhang Shun and his Dahongshan crossbowmen hold strong crossbows in their hands, and they shoot non-stop, including long-range weapons such as the divine arm bow. In the battle between the city and the city, the garrison side naturally has more advantages. At the same time, the bed crossbows on the turrets began to fire, and the huge guns and arrows were not aimed at the archers who had spread out to shoot at the walls, but at the infantry who began to run towards the moat. The huge spear spear broke through the air from the city wall, nailing the entire armor soldier in the impact to the ground, and the Song army stood on the city wall, and there was a string of towers to dodge at any time, and the arrow curtain formed by the curved bow and arrow had a lower killing effect, and the Mongolian horror feeling would not be touched if he did not see it with his own eyes. But despite this, the discipline of the Tath army was very high, and the attacking warriors rushed towards the moat, ignoring their comrades who were pinned to the ground and those who were wounded and howling on the ground by their crossbow shots.

"The other party has met with you in Shatou City." Bai Yijie looked at Zheng Yunming and smiled: "Shi Tianying's black army really lives up to its reputation. ”

The first military horse to start the battle of Xiangyang City was the black army that had competed with Zheng Yunming in Shatou City last year. The method that Tath used to motivate the soldiers was really good, Zheng Yunming couldn't help but sigh in admiration, using these soldiers who had endured a year of shame and revenge had reached the peak to carry out the first wave of siege, which could give the soldiers defending the city the greatest spiritual shock.

"The Shi Weizhong we let out," Bai Yijie said, "I won't rejoin the attack." ”

"If I were in command, I would have let him in." Zheng Yunming looked at him as he spoke: "Only at this time, he is the strongest in combat power You see, who is not Shi Weizhong?" ”

Bai Yijie leaned on the window lattice and watched. A familiar figure in the vanguard army that rushed to the front in the distance was loudly beckoning the troops to move, although he had already put on his helmet and armor, but he still recognized that it was the black army management army Qianhu Shi Weizhong who had just been released from the city by the Song people yesterday.

The bamboo general at the head of the city also began to fire, and the stone bullets set off a wave of qi in the attacking army, but the repeated explosions were obviously not enough to resist the anger of revenge, and the armor soldiers who rushed in front of them rushed to the front of the moat with a loud shout and a dense artillery fire. They untied the skin tied to their bodies with all their hands and feet, threw it in the river, and began to cross the moat with the skin in their arms.

The so-called Pi Hun is not the Fanbang language, but ten out of ten Chinese. When the sheep is killed, the flesh and bones of the sheep are dug up, and only a whole skin remains, which is sewn and filled with air as a floating tool. The Song people also used this simple river crossing tool, which was called a floating sac. But usually in the presence of boats, no one will choose such a stupid method as a pontoon. But the Mongol army that raised cattle and sheep was the same as the Han people planting crops. It's not a difficult thing to make thousands of skins peel off.

Zhu Sheng paced back and forth on the city wall, shouting loudly to the archers who kept shooting: "When they cross the river, they are slow and unable to fight back, so they are the best targets!" Shoot! Shoot! Shoot non-stop! ”

He was not wrong at all, and when he crossed the moat, it was the time when the Mongol soldiers were most embarrassed. Their degree slowed down a lot, and they could only move forward by paddling with both hands, and some of the soldiers of the Black Army were also tasked with transporting the ladder, so they could only tie the ladder to the skin, and then drag the ladder with one hand and paddle forward with the other. Others paddled with one hand and raised their shields with the other, making them unable to paddle fast and unable to counter the city's shots.

The archers of the Tulong Army are the best at this kind of dog-killing combat, and it should be said that they have used this dog-killing tactic since the first battle with the Mongols. Standing behind the pheasants, they drew their bowstrings and fired sharp arrows at the unresisting enemy. They also took advantage of this opportunity to join in the fun, they set up the firebolts on the battlements, stuffed the projectiles with hemp paper, and fired the guns downward, and most of the projectiles turned into splashes on the water. However, once a projectile hits the enemy, it often penetrates through the heavy armor and penetrates the body. The corpse immediately loosened its skin, and the blood stained the surface of the nearby water a crimson, and the corpse sank to the bottom of the moat with its heavy iron armor. There were soldiers who let go of the ladder and sank, but there were also people who came up from behind, pushing the ladder to continue to move forward.

Zheng Yunming watched expressionlessly as the water of the moat gradually covered with floating swords and wooden shields, the river was dotted with strands of blood, just like the flowers of death blooming on the Santu River, this twenty-six-zhang river has become the terminal of the lives of countless young black soldiers. But Zheng Yunming didn't feel anything else. He had heard the veterans of the Lin'an Temple say before, killing people on the battlefield, killing the first person is the most shocking, as you kill more and more, the spirit will become more and more numb, in the end, killing people is only a daily job, just like a farmer farming, a merchant selling, and it is not a thing to take ten lives a day.

Zheng Yunming has gradually experienced these feelings. Seeing the enemy's continuous casualties in the arrows and bullets of the Tulong Army, he no longer had a scholar like Shatou City to sigh, but kept coldly calculating in his heart how much damage the black army's forwards had suffered, and how much blow they would suffer in the upcoming battle to the city, and whether they would be enough to give up the idea of revenge, the strictness of military discipline and the self-esteem of being a soldier. From the walls of the west city of Xiangyang, the black army was completely destroyed mentally, so that they no longer had the courage to face Xiangyang.

The destruction of the great power that rules thousands of miles begins with the destruction of this black army as the vanguard.