Chapter 508: General Battle (3)

The repeated shelling for more than half an hour caused considerable casualties to the Yuan cavalry archers, and when nearly 10,000 cavalry archers retreated, less than half of the soldiers were able to ride on their horses intact.

The cavalry archers of the second 10,000-strong team, led by Boyandi, rushed to a distance of more than 100 meters in front of the camp at Guanzitan.

The sound of artillery, although occasional, was no longer a threat to the Mongol cavalry.

Boyan waved his hand, but saw a rain of arrows flying towards the Song army's camp, which made the shield soldiers guarding it scramble. Having gained air superiority, a large number of Yuan army infantry rushed up again.

Ali Hague said excitedly: "Your Majesty, do you need to transfer the return artillery?" ”

"No, you don't." Kublai Khan shook his head and said, "The accuracy of the return artillery is a little worse, and it is easy to accidentally injure the soldiers of our dynasty who are attacking in front." ”

Like the first attack of the Yuan army, when the Yuan army attacked more than ten meters in front of the camp, most of the mounted archers stopped shooting, except for the more than 1,000 marksmen with the most superb archery skills. With the cover of the bows and arrows shot by the cavalry archers, and the cowardly Xue army with huge shields, there were a lot more Yuan soldiers who rushed to the front of the camp.

Seeing this, Wen Zhang immediately ordered: "Throw a grenade." "Nine in a row, who is good at throwing, threw a hundred projectiles at once.

As soon as the Yuan army at the front saw hundreds of projectiles flying out of the camp, they immediately fell to the ground. After the explosion of "boom, boom", the unharmed Yuan army got up again and continued to rush forward.

Wen Zhang was stunned for a moment, and said secretly, "The Mongols have become smarter? Seeing that the Yuan army had reached less than ten meters in front, he had to order again: "Seventh Company, Ninth Company, throw bombs." ”

The two companies of soldiers who received the order threw two more rounds of throwing grenades, this time two companies, a total of 400 projectiles, to disrupt the enemy's formation, and the musketeers took the opportunity to pull the trigger, causing the group of Yuan soldiers who were charging forward to suffer casualties.

"If this continues, there will not be enough grenades." I frowned.

Gongsun Xiaochen said: "Your Majesty, the last general has been calculating, and the Imperial Forest Army has used 1,500 pieces. ”

"Yes."

"Your Majesty, then, do you want to notify them to stop using it?"

I thought for a moment and said, "No. ”

Hundreds of meters away.

Ah Shu looked at the expressionless Kublai Khan and said, "Your Majesty, our army has suffered a lot of losses, do you want to continue to attack?" ”

Kublai Khan said coldly: "Go on." ”

The Yuan army attacked round after round, with little pause.

This battle started in the early morning and has been fought for nearly two hours. Not counting the cavalry soldiers who were killed by artillery 100 meters away, there were at least more than 20,000 soldiers of the Yuan army who fell in front of the camp, and the casualties of the Song army were less than 800, which can basically be said to be the slaughter of cold weapons soldiers by firearms. However, by this time, the weaknesses of firearms began to be slowly exposed.

The artillery entered a period of recuperation, the hot barrel needed to be cooled with cold water, and the heat of the barrel of the musket was soon about to reach a critical point, so the musketeers began to shoot in turn, and the archers of the third compartment of Wu Songhan's department of the Lin'an Military Region also appeared at the forefront, and the Royal Forest Army musketeers on the guardrail fired alternately.

Time passed little by little, and when Gongsun Xiaochen told me that there were only 1,200 grenades left, I said, "Xiaochen, inform the 20th Army and prepare to leave the camp." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty."

"The artillery battalion will need at least half an hour of cooldown, and this time will be the hardest."

"Brother, why don't I go too." Fang Ling saw that the situation was tense and said busily.

"Ling'er, not yet." I laughed.

Last night, according to my instructions, Jiang Wanzai led his men to dig several simple trenches 30 to 120 meters in front of Guanzi Beach, plus the previous dug and various obstacles, so that the Mongolian cavalry could not pass in large quantities.

Under the command of the commander of the 20th Army, more than 2,000 heavily armored infantry troops suddenly rushed out of the main camp and attacked the forward troops of the Yuan army.

The sudden heavy armored infantry army made the Yuan army slightly flustered, but soon, under the leadership of the cowardly Xue army, the position was stabilized, and the two sides fought hand-to-hand with each other.

At the same time, all the cavalry archers of the Yuan army stopped firing arrows, and the vast majority of musketeers also stopped shooting at close range, aiming their guns at the Yuan army in the distance, and no one could guarantee that they would not hurt their own people. On the guardrail, only more than 40 musketeers, still shooting at the enemy in front of them, these people are snipers in the Royal Forest Army, although in the chaos, but they can also catch the target from time to time, with the help of their companions around, their arquebuses are always in a state of ignition, as long as there is a chance, they will pull the trigger, with each gunshot, a Yuan soldier will fall to the ground, if the arquebus burns out, and can not find the target, it will be fired into the sky.

When the two armies were fighting, these sporadic gunshots went unnoticed at all, and did not seem to help the whole battle situation in any way. However, a few clever Yuan soldiers found that their superiors were decreasing one by one.

The Yuan army in front was basically sword and shield hands, and it was difficult to compete with the heavily armored infantry army, although the cowardly Xue army was brave, but the number was too small, and it soon fell into disadvantage. However, the follow-up Yuan army broke through the net of the musketeers and attacked in front of the camp in waves.

Taking advantage of the numerical advantage, the soldiers of the Yuan army besieged a heavy armored army with two or three people, and gradually regained their disadvantage.

"The Twentieth Army is worthy of being the main foot soldier of our army, and it has a slight upper hand in the infantry battle with the Yuan army."

"Yes, Your Majesty." Yuan Jian said, "This heavily armored infantry army of the Lin'an Military Region is full of strong men from the original forbidden army, but it can only barely form an army, Yin Yinglei also sighed, the physical fitness of our soldiers is still lacking." ”

In this kind of hand-to-hand combat, strength is undoubtedly the most important, the enemy slashes with a knife, which may cause some damage to the heavily armored soldiers, but to be hit by the heavy weapons in the hands of the heavy armored infantry soldiers, they will be seriously injured if they do not die.

There is no skill to say, you cut it, I cut it, it's simple. This is the ancient war, except for the general heads-up, the battle between soldiers is so direct.

If there is an audience watching outside, it will even find it boring.

Of course, the heavy infantry army also has its weakness, that is, the physical strength consumed is far greater than that of ordinary soldiers. Not to mention the weapon in his hand, the armor alone is not something that ordinary people can bear.

Of course, the experienced soldiers of the Yuan Army knew this, and under the leadership of the Cowardly Xue Army, they tried not to confront the officers and soldiers of the 20th Army.

Jiang Wanzai, who was directly commanding the battle on the guardrail, saw that the physical strength of the heavily armored infantry army was gradually exhausted, and the soldiers of the Yuan army who rushed up in the follow-up were endless, so he nodded to General Zhu Huan on the side.

When the 20th Army attacked, all the officers and men of the 6th Chamber had already assembled in front of the main camp, and rushed out just for the order.

Zhu Huan held the double knives in his hand and said loudly: "Sixth box soldiers, rush with me." ”

Zhu Huan, the commander of the sixth chamber, was a refugee who fled to Yangzhou from the north, and he was full of martial arts and was extraordinary. Under Li Tingzhi's account, there are three generals with outstanding martial arts, namely Jiang Cai, the leader of the Broken Army, Shi Zhong, the head of the stick and gun skills of the Yangzhou Military Region and the commander of the eighth chamber, and General Zhu Huan, the former leader of the military tax army and the current commander of the sixth chamber.

After the establishment of the Jianghuai Military Region, the original armed tax army was dispersed, and half of the soldiers in the sixth compartment were from the armed tax army. The Wu Tax Army is composed of displaced people from the north, and these Wu Tax Army and the Mongols have a deep hatred, how can the pain of family destruction and death be easily forgotten? Compared with the original Yangzhou Army, the training of the Wushui Army is more hard, and in their hearts, there is only one purpose, that is, to go back to their hometown.

More than 10,000 officers and men of the Jianghuai Military Region replaced the heavy armored infantry army and the Yuan army.

The forces of both sides in front of the camp were gathering more and more, and the first 100 meters in front of the camp were full of people, and the musketeers could no longer shoot, and even snipers could no longer capture the targets of the shooting, and the battle completely returned to a contest of cold weapons.

Zhu Huan was originally born in foot combat and has outstanding swordsmanship. I saw its double knives waving, the light and shadow flashed, opening and closing, like a rolling giant Lang slapping the shore. The soldiers of the Yuan army who poured up fell under the light of their swords, and even the cowardly Xue army rarely had a five-in-one enemy. Seeing Zhu Huan so brave, coupled with the chic of the battle armor, the Yuan army could naturally see that this person was the chief general of the Song army.

At this time, a Yuan army soldier dressed in an ordinary cowardly Xue army armor rushed up from the side, this person was wielding a scimitar, and as soon as he came up, he fought with Zhu Huan, and he was evenly matched.

In the battle of thousands of troops, my eyes were already a little late, and even Fang Ling couldn't see the situation of the melee clearly, so he could only listen to Yuan Jian tell the details.

"General Zhu Huan was entangled by a cowardly Sergeant Xue, this person is skilled in swordsmanship, and he must not be an unknown person."

After a few breaths, Yuan Jian said again: "The strength of the two is equal, I'm afraid I won't be able to tell the winner in a short time." ”

The sixth compartment waited for work at ease and had the upper hand in physical strength, and the military tax army was also high-spirited, although the successor troops of the Yuan army attacked one after another, they still had a slight upper hand.

The scene of the scuffle lasted for about a quarter of an hour, and another team rushed in the distance, and it can be seen from the military uniform that this Yuan army of about 3,000 people was all Mongolian cowardice. Although it was not on a war horse, the impact of the cowardly Xue army was also quite sharp, and the team of three thousand people rushed to the center of the battlefield in an instant.

"Rush, kill." The cowardly Xue military shouted loudly in Mongolian.

The addition of a large number of cowardly Xue immediately increased the confidence of the Yuan army present. The cowardly Xue Jun's moves were concise and experienced, and he suppressed the momentum of the Song army in one fell swoop.

Zhu Huan, who was in the midst of a fierce battle, heard another shout of killing from the side of the Yuan army, and knew that the other party had added new troops, and he was entangled by the opponent and could not command the battle, so he immediately became anxious.