Chapter Eighty-Five: Collapse
The impatient firecrackers who had been waiting for a long time immediately aimed ahead, deducted the bracket, and there was a row of slightly quieter roars, who were hesitating whether to charge or follow the few Mongolian generals who had fled together, and in this roar, a few blood flowers rose on their bodies, and they immediately fell backwards on their backs and fell into the bloody mud on the ground. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
At this time, the land in front of the artillery position had already been soaked with the blood of the enemy, and it had become a blood-colored swamp, which made people feel slippery when stepping on it, and in front of the Song army's formation, the Mongolian army was already a mountain of corpses under the continuous bombardment of more than a dozen artillery pieces, and if you want to turn over, you have to step on the corpses of these horses, not to mention that the new annexed army is forced to go into battle, even if they are all guys with big nerves, they can't bear it anymore.
All the new annexed troops chose to retreat backwards at this moment, and as soon as the Song army was divided, a group of roaring Song cavalry rushed out and chased after the retreating new annexed troops.
Li Ruohu, Fang Lai! Each of you will lead a man and two wings to press up! Defeat them! Gao Huaiyuan carefully observed the fierce battle in front of the two armies, and when he saw that the impact of the Mongolian cavalry on both flanks had been desperately contained by the Song army, he immediately waved his hand and ordered.
Li Ruohu and Fang Lai immediately received the order loudly, then turned around and rushed down, each ordering four hundred Gao Huaiyuan's pro-troops, and after a loud shout, they rushed towards the two wings.
Although their number is not large, but these hundreds of people are all the elite of the Song army, and they are also the reserves of Gao Huaiyuan's hand, the battlefield at this moment, the central Mongolian infantry army has collapsed, and the two wings have temporarily formed a stalemate, these hundreds of people pressed up, as if it was the last straw that broke the camel's back.
As soon as the hundreds of pro-troops led by Li Ruohu and Fang Lai were put into the battlefield, these boys were all angry and launched a counterattack against the Mongolian cavalry who were huddled together.
As more and more Mongolian cavalry fell off their horses and were chopped into meat sauce, the momentum of the Mongolian army just now could no longer be supported, and the Mongolian cavalry in front saw more and more Song troops rushing towards them like crazy, and finally began to retreat.
Batu also saw that the central infantry had begun to retreat, and the Song cavalry had already fought out of the big formation, and the panicked generals of the newly attached army saw that they could not escape the pursuit of the Song cavalry, so they ran towards the Mongolian cavalry on both wings, trying to find shelter in them, which aggravated the confusion of the cavalry, and this battle can be said that their Mongolian army has been defeated.
Collect the troops! Hurry up! Batu realized that if he had been a little late, he would have been wiped out in this battle, so he gritted his teeth and had to order a quick withdrawal.
After the horn of the troops sounded, the Mongolian army, which had already panicked, began to turn their horses and retreat, but the Song army was like maggots on tarsal bones, clinging to them tightly, and the shouts of killing resounded throughout the entire Bailong River.
I saw that the Mongolian soldiers were like frightened birds, spread their legs, and ran towards the road with all their might, followed by the Song army like a flood, and the Mongolian soldiers who ran a little slower would be immediately dismembered on the spot.
As the saying goes, defeat is like a mountain, Batu rode on his horse, and his mouth was bitter for a while, defeated, completely defeated!
The Song army pursued for nearly ten miles, until the infantry army exhausted all its physical strength, and then stopped its footsteps, but the cavalry still chased after the asss of the defeated Mongol soldiers, relying on their stronger horsepower than the Mongol army, and successively cut down the Mongolian cavalry that had fallen behind one by one.
This battle can be described as a happy dripping, Gao Huaiyuan led the army along the way to harvest the heads of the Mongolian army, constantly counting the results, the new annex army of the Mongolian soldiers in this battle was wiped out, and their elite cavalry also suffered heavy losses, the Song army captured countless armor, flags, the biggest harvest is that the Song army captured as many as 2,000 Mongolian horses in one fell swoop, originally these horses were the spare horses of the Mongolian cavalry, but because they lost too quickly, so that these horses left in the rear did not have time to take away, and finally became the trophies of the Song army.
At this time, Zheng Bingjie raised the question in his heart to Gao Huaiyuan: Handsome! When the Mongol cavalry began to attack the flanks of our army just now, I wonder why the general was sure that the defeat of the Mongol Tatars was decided?
Gao Huaiyuan smiled and explained to these generals: This is very simple, the Mongol army just wanted to use their infantry to attract our firepower, and the cavalry division to attack from both flanks, this plan seems to be good, but they ignore an important problem, that is, although the terrain here is still quite open, but after so many troops are put into the battlefield at the same time, it still seems too crowded!
The Mongols were best at their cavalry and archery, breaking the enemy's will through repeated attacks, rather than frontal charges, and today they made a fatal mistake, that is, to launch a full charge when the two wings of our army were still very stable, and to make them abandon their martial arts, and in the absence of room for maneuver, they made a hard charge on both wings of our army.
If our two wings can't support their impact today, then I'm afraid that we will be defeated today, and we may be killed by them along the Bailong River, but unfortunately they didn't expect that our two wings have heavy troops, as long as they withstand their impact for a period of time, they will lose their mobility, and they will have to attack the length of our army with their own shortcomings, so the officer expected that they had lost this battle!
Everyone suddenly realized, and couldn't help but secretly call for luck in their hearts, today fortunately, the soldiers on both wings supported the onslaught of the Mongolian soldiers, otherwise this battle is likely to be chased and cut down by the Mongolian army, they also understood at this time, why Gao Huaiyuan gave such an order, that is, to force the two wings not to take half a step back, and finally won the victory.
Although they relied on the superiority of artillery to win this battle, it seemed a bit tricky, but in such a large-scale field battle, they could defeat such a huge Mongol army in one fell swoop, if there was no Gao Huaiyuan from the middle, I am afraid that if they were given dozens of artillery, the result would not be much better.
The army pursued until dark, then stopped the pursuit, Liu Desheng led hundreds of cavalry under his command to return to the army, and the army was stationed, and set up camp less than fifteen miles away from Jiezhou City.