Shi Bu personally led more than 3,000 of the most elite Mongolian cavalry, and then rushed towards the mound where Gao Huaiyuan's military commander flag was located, and the scene of thousands of war horses urging together made everyone feel a shock, they could experience the feelings of Liu Dayong when they crossed the river to lure the enemy just now, at that time Liu Dayong and they were facing the charge of more than 10,000 Mongolian cavalry, and they were able to stick to the ferry without immediately collapsing, which is enough to be admired. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoark">=~-?Looking at the galloping Mongolian cavalry, everyone's nerves tensed, most of them have now lost their fear of war after a series of huge battles, but this does not affect their adrenaline secretion, making people uncontrollable and excited.

Looking at the Song army commander banner getting closer and closer, the Mongolian soldiers also began to get excited, they were not afraid of death, the bloodthirsty ** made them have turned into beasts at this time, they just wanted to pounce on the cunning enemy team in front of them, and use their weapons and even teeth to completely tear the enemy apart, let them know that in the field, even if they occupy an absolute advantage, they will not be the opponent of their steppe eagles, only to be completely torn apart by them, there is no other way!

The horses under their crotches also seemed to feel the excitement of their masters, and then they also became excited, and without the knights on their backs to spur them, they themselves took the initiative to speed up the pace of galloping, and as they got closer, the enemy was getting closer and closer.

Gao Huaiyuan stood quietly on the top of the mound, looking down at the rolling army of Mongolian cavalry, his index finger began to beat slightly, he stared at the grass with small yellow flowers outside the arrow in front of the formation, silently calculating the distance of the enemy.

Boom Boom Just when Shi Bu led a large number of cavalry to rush to the Song army's arrows away, their horses' hooves stepped on the small yellow flowers that had just bloomed, crushing the grass and flowers all over the ground in the soil, but some of them suddenly felt that their war horses' hooves were soft, and they seemed to have stepped on something different from the ordinary ground, and the first reaction of the skilled knights was that they might have stepped on the trap set by the enemy in advance, so they immediately pulled the reins of the horses hard, trying to get the horses into the trap before they fell into the trap, He jumped with his horse and escaped from death, but what he didn't expect was that immediately, in their ranks, there were several violent explosions.

In the midst of the crowd of the Mongol cavalry, several clouds of smoke and flames suddenly rose up, and a large amount of earth and stones rose into the air, mixed with countless blades of grass, flowers, stumps of men and horses, and splashes of blood, and then scattered in all directions like flowers.

This kind of thing happened beyond the expectations of almost everyone on the battlefield, and suddenly everyone looked towards the place where the explosion occurred, and the war horses of the Mongolian generals were so shocked at such a close distance, although the Mongolian horse is a very good war horse, but the war horse in this era has not been trained in special explosions, so the sudden change made them frightened, many war horses were disturbed by the sudden explosion, and jumped up in panic, Even the knights on their backs were skilled in horsemanship, but they couldn't control them for a while, and the array of the mighty Mongol army was immediately chaotic.

What frightened the Mongolian generals even more was that when these explosions sounded, the ground was full of earth and rocks, and countless irons, iron pieces and other things flew out from the ground, which were raging among their crowds, and the soldiers and horses near the explosion point could not resist such a blow at all, and they were hit by these flying objects.

No one knew what had just happened, but the Mongolian army's charging formation was completely disrupted because of these huge explosions, so that its originally neat charging formation was suddenly scattered, and the frightened war horses and camels carrying their masters began to deviate from the original direction, rushing out in all directions, and even some Mongolian soldiers were caught off guard, and were thrown off the horse by their mounts in shock, and fell into a mess, and lost their weapons for a while and lay on the ground and couldn't get up. The unfortunate ones watched themselves being trampled under the feet of other horses, and the lucky ones could only moan and roll on the ground.

Gao Huaiyuan clenched his fist with his right hand, and he exclaimed excitedly on the horse! The voice was full of pride and excitement.

It turned out that these explosions were given by him, and he had made a lot of preparations before he sent his troops north, because the artillery was too conspicuous, and this time was not the time to take it out and use it, so he did not bring the artillery with the army, although on the territory of the Flying Tiger Army, he had already stockpiled a batch of artillery in advance, but for the sake of secrecy, he had already ordered Zhou Jun, Fu Daquan and others not to use the artillery easily on the battlefield, so in the war against Li Quan in the north, there was no artillery.

But this did not mean that Gao Huaiyuan had completely abandoned the terrible weapon of gunpowder, he began to think about new things a year or two ago, after the artillery had already matured.

The first thing that came to his mind were mines and grenades, both of which were simple and practical, very long to use on the battlefield, easy to make, and powerful, so he gathered craftsmen and tinkered with them in a hidden place outside the city of Lin'an.

Grenades aside, it's a simpler thing, and although there is no fuse ignition device available, it can be replaced after being ignited with a twist, and there will be an explanation right away.

After all, he did not study chemistry, and his knowledge of chemistry was still limited, and it was impossible to make a raw material for the manufacture of modern gunpowder, especially nitric acid, for the time being, so he could not get things such as mercury in detonators for the time being, so the development of the delivery device became a problem.

After all, whether the mine is pulled or triggered, it needs a firing device to detonate, and it is not easy to solve it without a detonator, so Gao Huaiyuan racked his brains, and finally thought of flint fire, this thing is relatively simple, the handgun in his arms is used to fire this device, so he ordered skilled craftsmen to make steel flint fire device, and after many tests, finally made a usable flint fire device, with this thing is much simpler, they put gunpowder in an iron jar, After compaction, the mouth of the jar is equipped with a firing device, relying on a wooden board to pull, as long as the wooden board is stepped on, it can be fired, so that the world's first stepping mine is made, of course, when necessary, it can also be pulled by rope to fire, in short, this new weapon is born.

Although he did not carry artillery to participate in the battle this time, he pulled some newly made mines and other materials with the army, ready to deal with the needs of the emergency, but in the process of dealing with Li Quan, Gao Huaiyuan was not able to use this thing on the battlefield, but at this time, he brought it here, so that the Mongolian army first tried to try the power of mines.

After setting a plan to lure the enemy deep last night, he chose this place as the location where the mines would kill the enemy for the first time, and sent Li Ruohu with his own soldiers to lay more than 10 large mines in this open land.

Because the power of black powder is limited after all, the detonation rate is the lowest kind of explosives, in order to ensure the power, Gao Huaiyuan made the volume of this mine very large, which was filled with nearly ten catties of gunpowder, in order to ensure the power of the mine, and he also ordered the craftsmen to put a lot of broken iron and iron on the gunpowder to increase the killing range of fragments, so after the detonation, the power of these mines is very considerable, enough to blow the ground out of a large pit several meters wide and a few feet deep, the surrounding Mongolian cavalry suffered greatly, and suffered heavy casualties on the spot.

Shi Bu was one of the luckier guys, when the mine was repeatedly detonated by them, he was within the killing range of a mine, but he was miraculously not injured by the mine, not even a single piece of shrapnel, one of his men on his side, for him to block all the shrapnel flying towards him, so that in addition to being shocked, his ears were a little deaf, and he did not suffer any injuries on his body.

But his war horse was frightened, when even if he jumped up and about, almost lifted him off the horse's back, so frightened that he had to throw away the big axe in his hand, desperately grabbed the reins of the horse, and hugged the horse's neck so that he was not taken off the horse, the huge explosion hurt his ears, so that he couldn't hear anything for a long time, his heart was panicked to death, dizzy and unbearable, until a while, he understood what had happened, and then looked at his own soldiers and horses, this time it was like a hornet's nest that had been stabbed, and it was not like a mess.

He didn't understand what had happened, it was the enemy's weapon, but he knew that it must have been caused by gunpowder, so he was still burning just now, when it was extinguished as if he had been poured a basin of cold water, although he was brave and good at fighting, but after all, he was still alone, he would be afraid, he would be afraid, and he would also be in awe of the unknown.

And this kind of explosion, he felt frightened, looking at the stumps of people and horses scattered everywhere and the bloody corpses and internal organs, he was stunned, he could fight the enemy with a knife and a gun, but he could not resist such an explosion, if the enemy continued to attack them with this weapon that I don't know what it was, then could they still fight?

So, after calming the frightened mount, he began to hesitate, took the war horse, and involuntarily began to retreat.