When the barbarians heard the sound of the trumpets in the enemy's formation, they immediately prepared for battle with all their strength when they were ready to take a nap, but after waiting for a long time, it was quiet over there, and the large array did not change in the slightest, except that the people who ate and guarded changed shifts. Everyone pondered that it was the first time that the two sides met and the language was incomprehensible, and of course, the contact signals in the army were also very different.

The barbarian figured out that he dismounted again and spread out the stall to prepare to replenish his strength, this time he ate two bites, the enemy's trumpet and drum sounded again, everyone heard something wrong and hurriedly threw down the food and climbed onto the horse, this time the Song army still had no signs of attacking, but began to unload the car to build a camp, seeing that this means that they are not ready to leave and camp under the crowd of enemies.

"Attack, level the enemy's array, and rob the Han people's property!" Although Sun Khan didn't know that the Han people of Lu Dao had a saying of 'one drum, then decline, and three and exhaust', it was always unpleasant to be played two times by others, and he also knew that Lu Dao tossed twice and his morale was completely lost, so he ordered an attack.

Although the barbarians have entered the threshold of civilization with one foot, their tactics are still in the primitive stage, and they still rely on large-scale cavalry shock tactics to break the formation, and then rely on hand-to-hand combat with the enemy to defeat the enemy, and annihilate the enemy when he escapes. This mode of operation is naturally related to the region and mode in which they live, but it is mainly subject to weapons and equipment, and it is also a tactic of last resort.

The Western Regions are located in the remote and inhospitable northwest, and the level of civilization is much lower than that of the Central Plains and the Jurchens and Dangxiang people who have absorbed the culture of the Central Plains, which leads to their backward weapon-making technology. Since cavalry is different from infantry, it is impossible to carry a strong man with great lethality but bulky. However, the barbarians' bow-making skills were backward, so they could only carry some small bows. As a result, the cavalry's cavalry not only did not have a long range, but also had little lethality. Some heavily armed or even moderately protected infantry cannot be effectively killed.

Therefore, the cavalry of the nomads in the Western Regions was mainly equipped with bows and arrows for defense at that time, and when the sentry cavalry was found by the enemy and needed to escape, they generally used bows and arrows to keep the enemy at a certain distance from them to facilitate escape. Or when dealing with infantry and other light cavalry, before approaching the close hand-to-hand game, give the enemy a certain amount of damage, play the role of disturbing the enemy, thinking that it is convenient to rush to the enemy's hand-to-hand combat!

In addition, there is also a fatal disadvantage that the cavalry's cavalry usually does not have a high hit rate. This is because it is very difficult to balance the body, grasp the direction of the horse, and grasp the hit rate on the horse. Therefore, it is no less difficult to train a cavalry with a high hit rate than modern training for special forces. This, coupled with the aforementioned problems of range and lethality of mounted archery, has led many tribes and nomads to be unwilling or feel that it is not worth spending so much time and effort on training qualified mounted archers.

And this situation changed only after the grandson of the grandson of the leader of the Mughal tribe, Hebule, who was now preparing for war on the left flank, and the genius military strategist Temujin reformed the tactics of bows and arrows and cavalry, so that he was able to sweep half of the world. Of course, the current barbarians have no chance to know, let alone use it in war......

In the face of the barbarian cavalry coming on horseback, the Song army did not line up and hedge as before. Instead, they went on the defensive, and even the cavalry on both flanks retreated into formation. Gao Zhong did this because the road to the west was far away, so the hussars who charged as cavalry were not incorporated into the army, and although they used dragoons to hedge against the enemy, they would not be left behind. It can inevitably cause large losses; The second is that the best trick of these nomadic cavalry is to run if they can't beat it, and once they can't hit it hard, they let them run. It's hard to find them again. Moreover, it is familiar with the terrain and is reduced to zero. Harassment is also a nuisance.

Considering that I can't stay here for long, I don't want to stay behind. Therefore, Gao Zhong knew that he must take advantage of the opportunity of concentrating most of his forces to fight a decisive battle with his own side to deal a devastating blow to him and lay the foundation for future operations. Therefore, Gao Zhong decided to use the most common tactic in the early stage of the Xiangyi army - defensive counterattack, relying on his advantage in firearms to consume the enemy's strength in defense, while preserving his own strength, and then launching a counterattack after paying huge casualties to encircle and annihilate him.

"Fire!" The lookout post on the lookout car saw that the enemy had entered the firing range, and immediately reported to the commander, and Gao Zhong ordered to intercept it with artillery fire.

"Rapid-fire guns, solid shells, five hundred steps, shoot!"

"Rapid-fire guns, solid shells, four hundred steps, shoot!"

"Mortar, flowering shell, three hundred steps, shoot!"

"Rapid-fire cannons, shotguns, two hundred paces, shoot!"

The artillery fired four volleys in quick succession, and the cavalry of the barbarians also approached the front, but they were at the end of their crossbows. In fact, under the first round of artillery fire, the loud sound and fire light had already frightened the war horses who had never seen such a new thing, and they wanted to flee quickly, but when they turned around and went against the road, they immediately collided with the same kind that could not stop behind, and they were more frightened and lost their minds, only to know that the companions who ran forward continued to run forward even more frantically.

Another round of solid bullet fire from the Song army smashed out bloody alleys among the enemy troops, and even the people on the horses were afraid of the power of the artillery, but this time the horses under the seats could not stop and carried them forward. The flowering bullets that fell in the third round exploded in the enemy group, and the surrounding people and horses were overturned in pieces, and the people and horses had lost the courage to charge at this moment and began to scatter and flee. But the next round of shotguns blew like a hurricane, and few of the people in front survived. The charging Nabarians no longer had the courage to cover the remaining distance, so they turned their horses around and fled back to their own formation, but only two or three out of ten could go back, and most of them were left on the battlefield.

"Dahan, the Han people will make the demon law, you can break it!" Subir, who was watching the battle, was frightened by the bloodshed in front of him, and more than 2,000 cavalrymen who participated in the first round of attacks were lost in the loud noise before they could touch the edge of the Song army's large array.

And Surber said that there is also a basis, the barbarians are located at the junction of Chinese and Western cultures, it is inevitable that they will come into contact with Western religions, and now the Christian Nestori sect has been widely spread in Naiman, but shamanism still occupies a major position among the barbarians, in the legend that the kings of the barbarian countries are proficient in shamanic witchcraft, can rule mortals and elves at the same time, and have the magical power of "making gods and witches, sacrificing wind and snow", so the people are in awe of it, thinking that their head has great magical powers. Since their Great Khan is not a mortal, he is also an immortal, and now that the other party has won with demon methods, he can only have a showdown of immortals first!

Whether it is the so-called immortals and spells, they are all a kind of deception to achieve a certain purpose, and the loss of Bianjing City has long proved how unreliable the immortal art is. And now Sun Khan was forced into a corner, his army was frightened by the 'spells' of the Han people, and he didn't dare to step forward, even the war horse under the crotch was trembling in fear, seeing that there was a danger of collapse, and the ruling let him use magic to stabilize the morale of the army and improve morale, so as to fight again. Fortunately, the 'divine art' has been passed down from generation to generation within the family of the Naiban monarch, and only his own family knows what is going on and what the effect is, anyway, it does not hinder people from the outside world who are convinced that their Great Khan is an immortal.

So there was a magical scene on the battlefield, the altar was arranged in the barbarian army, and the livestock were slaughtered as sacrifices on the spot, and a group of people were there chanting words that no one could understand, and dancing a dance that no one could understand, but the raging flames, coupled with the smoke of gunpowder scattered on the battlefield and the dead corpses everywhere, just created a strange atmosphere, so that people involuntarily fell into it, especially for the devout believers, and soon resonated in the ceremony, and was unconsciously brainwashed!

Of course, it was the Song soldiers who fought against them who felt this the most, because they were once again attacked by a gang of nay, thousands of madmen. They are not afraid of life and death, they are not afraid of guns, they turn a blind eye to their comrades who are blown apart and hit by a hornet's nest, and they do not listen to the terrible screams and cries for help of their fallen comrades.

"Wei Feng, your second battalion immediately fills the gap in the defense line of the second brigade, arranges the defense line based on the machine gun position, and puts an enemy in and cuts off your head!" Now not only was the frontal battlefield under fierce attack, but a large number of enemy troops had appeared on both flanks and rear of the Song army's main array, and the 1st Desert Brigade responsible for defending the left flank was also under great pressure, and the 1st Brigade had to use reserves to control Han Li.

"Commander, our brigade has always been a charge, how can you send us too!" Wei Feng asked puzzledly, the first brigade is the reserve of the desert army, and it has always been reserved for tough battles, but today it was just the second attack of the enemy army that sent them up.

"What are you talking about, I can't see that the barbarians are all beaten and charged like crazy, can you organize a second attack like this? I didn't see that the dragoons all dismounted and moved forward, as long as they withstood this round of enemy charge, the barbarians would be scattered, and you must be prepared to counterattack while defending! Han Li kicked Wei Feng and said, he could also see that the attack of the barbarians seemed ferocious, but this kind of reckless attack could not break through the firepower net they had woven with firearms, and would only cause great casualties, and when they realized that the casualties were unbearable, the frenzy turned into panic, and the collapse would inevitably occur, so as long as they held on, victory would belong to them...... (To be continued......)