If you can face the saint, it is a major event like winning the champion, and the middle-level generals and military generals who are born in scholars are all surging with blood, not to mention the first war to find the marquis, if it is really famous in history, it will be praised for eternity at every turn, such a temptation is not inferior to the most violent aphrodisiac for people with a little ambition.

"The Envoy is right behind you! Those who advance are honored and rewarded, and those who retreat are dead! Wang Deng shouted: "If you want to leave a name for eternity, follow me!" ”

Zheng Yunming took out the sword from Ren Xiongwei's hand, and shouted with the sword: "What is our slogan!" ”

The chorus of 12,000 armies shook the sky: "Those who are greedy for life die, and those who forget the dead live!" ”

Zheng Yunming waved the cold blade in his hand and shouted, "Attack!" ”

Before the two armies officially clashed, the battle of the mat field was already in full swing. In the final battle, Zhao Kui made a bold move, and even dispatched 2,000 cavalry to take the lead in attacking the Wu'er army, naturally, the cavalry of the Song army was very poor, and there was only one tactic, that is, a swarm of swarm assault, which is often called wild wave warfare in the army. Since the southern crossing, with the lack of high su zhì riders and good horses, the su zhì of the cavalry units has repeatedly declined, and even the formation that can be arranged in the Central Plains cannot be organized. The tactics of the Mongols were almost unimaginable to them, and it was needless to mention that a thousand horsemen were divided into a hundred and ten squads to take turns galloping.

At this time, most of the good horses in the Western Regions were occupied by the Kangli Turks and Mongols, and these Wuer infantry only carried ordinary riding horses, but the cavalry that was put together in this way did not fall behind in the slightest when dealing with the onslaught of the Song army.

But taking advantage of the opportunity for the cavalry to engage the opponent, the guerrillas led by Ge Huai rushed into the tight array from the flank.

Although the strict troops claimed to be all horsemen, they were not all cavalry, and half of them were horseback foot soldiers, distributed in three fence areas used to besiege the Song army. The three fences erected by the Mongol army not only blocked the way for the Song army to get out of the city, but also blocked the cavalry of their own army, and the strict cavalry could only advance and retreat through the road specially opened by Guò. However, the Song army did not lack the tools and experience to break the barriers, and using large axes and knives and saws, they quickly broke down the fences of the Mongol army, and then divided into small teams that cooperated with each other to engage in close combat with the strict infantry army. On this particular battlefield, the fence sometimes even became a help for the Song army. A hundred musketeers in Ge Huai's army set up their muskets behind the fence and easily fired at the tight cavalry, which was blocked by their own infantry and fences, and could not organize an effective counterattack for a while, so they had to retreat temporarily.

After the cavalry retreated, the infantry arrays scattered between the fences were immediately exposed to the fierce attack of the Jing Chu army. In order to cooperate with the attack of the brigade of infantry, the Jingchu army concentrated almost all the firearms that could be moved, and all the firearms on the side vans were removed, and the firearms were carried by the infantry army, and the military artillery was carried by two-wheeled vehicles, and the infantry advanced together.

Wu Qian stood on the lookout in front of the gate tower of the West City, hiding in the string of towers and looking through a speculum, the sound of cannons in front of him was like rolling thunder, and the gunshots were dense and weaving. The Vultures were either shot or arrowed, and they were routed. Although the strict infantry army fought in formation, after a short white-handed confrontation, it was also defeated and could not form an army. Zheng Yunming's army soon broke through the trenches and wooden fences set up by the Mongol army to besiege Xiangyang, and destroyed all the triple wooden fences. The Song army that came out of the south and north gates also turned to the west and flanked Zheng Yunming after defeating the few enemy troops in front of them. On the front of more than ten miles, there were banners and figures of the Song army everywhere, and the Mongolian army retreated in a hurry, and it seemed that it could not be supported.

He put down the spectacle excitedly, and when he turned his head to look at the envoy, Zhao Kui ordered with a stern expression: "Immediately send the escort army Yu Marquis, supervise the battle after the battle, and those who dare to withdraw and return, regardless of the rank, will not be forgiven!" ”

He shouted in a calm voice: "The most dangerous time has come! ”

The rapid offensive of the Song army was blocked by three fences, and the degree slowed down, and most of the troops had not yet had time to form a phalanx. They did not capture the main forces of the Mongol army for strangulation, nor did they organize a temporary defense of the cavalry in time. This was the most critical moment for the Song army.

Zheng Yunming is no longer a young man who has no experience in military affairs, and of course he knows the danger best at this time, he sent his own soldiers one after another in his team to summon the news, whether it was his own troops or not, all of them asked all the troops to form a formation to guard against the attack of the Mongolian cavalry. He understood that this was the opportunity that the Mongol cavalry, who had been cowering behind from the beginning, had been waiting for for a long time.

Sure enough, not long after he sent out the herald, a loud horn sounded on the opposite side. The Mongol cavalry spread out on two wings, and the cavalry squads rushed out of their own formation one by one and surrounded the two flanks of the Song army. This was a common tactic of the nomadic cavalry, and even the Central Plains cavalry often used it. The middle lane is contained, the two flanks attack, and the army is nicknamed the abducted horse, which is a metaphor for the cavalry team attacking from the side like two crutches of people, strong and powerful, and the other party is inconvenient to guard against.

Even if it was so far away, Zheng Yunming could still see the enemy's flag without a speculum, it was indeed Zhang Rou's banner. He shouted loudly: "Call the front firearms salvo, don't let Zhang Rou get close!" ”

But it was too late, and Zhang Rou's swiftness was far from being comparable to Yan's loose and slackness soldiers, especially the Song soldiers on the two wings were not Zheng Yunming's subordinates, and their reactions were not so fast, just like a sharp iron knife cut into the tofu, and the loyal army of Meng Jing's subordinate who did not have time to form a formation on the northern wing was broken into by Zhang Rou's cavalry.

Zhang Rou, who is like a killing god, is dressed in black Tiekai, and rushes to the forefront of the team with an iron cone gun in his hand, and his unstoppable appearance makes people secretly frightened. Meng Jing's troops were originally not weak, and if they formed a phalanx, their combat power would not be lost to Zheng Yunming's headquarters at all. However, in order to ensure the safety of Zheng Yunming's flank, he was forced to retreat back by pressing the Mongol infantry with a brave offensive, and instead let his soldiers face the Mongol cavalry onslaught with an evacuated rank. At this time, if you want to organize a formation, you have lost the best opportunity, Zhang Rou led five hundred elites to clash and fight in the Song army, and broke through the military formation of Meng Jing's department in a very short time.

Of course, this is not the end of the battle, and it is not uncommon for the infantry to clash with cavalry, and if the infantry is demoralized, it is not uncommon for them to turn around and flee under the fierce attack of the cavalry. But the Zhongshun army was all dead soldiers recruited by Meng Heng from Dengzhou, Tangzhou and other places, that is, the remnants of the last main force of the Jin State. All of them are veterans of a hundred battles, and it is not a problem for them to fight alone on weekdays, but when Zhang Rou broke through the formation, they were still fighting with the cavalry in the rear while trying to form a formation despite great difficulties.

Zhang Rou also knew that it was very difficult to break up Meng Hui's subordinates with one blow, even if the night raid team that had ambushed Meng Hui before, he had the advantage of being the first to break them. But the cavalry has absolute initiative in the face of the infantry, a blow fails, two or three times, or even ten times a hundred times of charging formation, as long as the troops can be rotated in time, the infantry can not support long under the repeated conflicts of the cavalry, and the one hundred and ten times of the charge, for these battle-hardened northland cavalry, is as common as eating and drinking.

Zhang Rou whistled, and the cavalry turned back one after another, regrouping under the military flag behind Zhang Rou, only when they were about to turn over and kill back behind Meng Jing's army, there were already two rows of elite soldiers with helmets and armor in front of them, already holding spears in a panting formation.

The reinforcements sent by Zheng Yunming came so quickly that Zhang Rou was also surprised.

For those who know Zheng Yunming, this is not unexpected. During the pre-war planning, Zheng Yunming and his subordinates always designed various actions that the other side might take, and then listed the appropriate countermeasures one by one. The kidnapping horse tactic of the cavalry's flank raid was originally one of the commonly used tactics of the Mongolian army, and it was also the usual tactic of the Han cavalry in the Mongolian army, and it was impossible for Zheng Yunming not to be prepared.

The best tactic to deal with the Kidnapping Horse Charge is to deploy a team of Kidnapping Horses with equal combat power on both flanks to intercept it. or against its head, or cut off its tail, so that it cannot be unwielded. However, the battlefield in the western suburbs of Xiangyang was cramped, and the combat strength of the cavalry in Jinghu was very different from that of the Mongol army. Zheng Yunming had no choice but to settle for the next best. What he used to counter the Mongol cavalry assault was the so-called reserve strategy. The name is called the reserve army, in fact, it is just that Zheng Yunming likes to play a new term, in the army, this is called a new soldier or a new force, but the new force is usually a general, and not every battle commander will leave a part of the military horse as a raw soldier to use. That's because in the battle of cold weapons duel, one side collapses and often loses, and there are very few battles that really rely on fresh soldiers to decide the victory, on the other hand, the general's personal guards are the default new force in the army, once the battle situation is unfavorable to him, the commander swings his knife and goes into battle in person, and the personal soldiers he leads are the best new force.

For Jing Chujun, the Beiwei Army around Zheng Yunming was a natural reserve. But today's battle is different, the Mongol army is bullying on horseback, advancing and retreating freely, and the Beiwei army often cannot catch up with the battlefield, and the two wings have been broken through by the abducted horse team. Zheng Yunming's method was to ambush a thousand troops on the left and right sides of the friendly army, led by a strong general, and once the enemy began to charge into battle, after letting the enemy army through the first conflict, immediately lay down two horizontal columns behind the enemy.