The Tiger Artillery Corps, which followed behind the infantry brigade, barely attracted much attention from the Mongols, and they were only engrossed in a large area of red uniforms in a brownish field.

Niu Phosphorus gestured expressionlessly, and the ten thousand households around him shouted loudly: "Listen to the truth!" Since the Great Khan raised his army on the Onon River, he has been invincible and invincible, and there is today's great Mongolia! Your last opponent is only Sinan Siguo, or rather, only Zheng Yunming! You grew up in Mobei, followed the Great Khan to thousands of miles away, fought all kinds of enemies and defeated them one by one! Today, it is not Zheng Yunming who wins, the victory belongs to you! Glory to the Great Khan of Mongolia! ”

The Mongolian iron horsemen shouted to the sky: "Baturu! Baturu! ”

Neupho pointed his whip forward and shouted, "Attack! ”

The sound of horses' hooves hitting the ground came from the white mist, knocking on everyone's eardrums, but for the officers of the Shenwu Army, this was already a battle that had been experienced more than once, and the shock of the horse's hooves was a little accustomed to them, and they couldn't see the face of the enemy cavalry clearly in the fog, and the psychological shock was weakened a lot, on the contrary, the commanders had to keep reminding: "Be careful!" The enemy's cavalry is coming! Hold on to the spear! Alert! ”

And the commander-in-chief of the artillery also gave a loud order: "The artillery is deployed into position, ready to fire!" ”

Dozens of tiger guns on both flanks immediately stopped advancing, turned the muzzle forward, although the fog dissipated slightly, but they still could not distinguish the target, but this does not matter, the shotgun used for sniper cavalry can also be used to shoot only on experience in the case of visual inaction, although this is only a last resort in a special period, but the gun's shotgun is fired in order, it can indeed cause a terrifying killing area. However, this qiē presupposes that the artillery commander leading the team has sufficient experience to distinguish the approximate distance of the enemy cavalry by the sound of horses' hooves. For the artillery officers of the Shenwu New Army, these are not a problem at all, they are all elite gunners who were taught by Zheng Yunming in Jingchu in the past 20 years, they have fought on the steep mountain passes, they have fought in the open field, they have even fought in the dirty swamp, they have built a rainproof shelter with grass and cowhide in the fierce wind and rain, and groped their way to fire in the moonless night with a little glimmer of light in the distance, for these battle-hardened soldiers, They are well placed to cope with the situation.

"The enemy still has three hundred paces! Get ready! "The enemy still has 200 paces, and the shells are loaded!" "The enemy is just a hundred paces away, open fire!" With a clear command, the Tiger Cannon fired one after another the projectiles in the chamber, and fist-sized shotguns flew straight into the dense fog in front of them with fire and loud noises. With the neighing and wailing of men and horses and the heavy sound of falling to the ground, it was clear that the shelling of the Shenwu New Army was not without success.

But the Mongols did not seem to be deterred by the oncoming blow, and the sound of horses' hooves and shouts of killing came with armored iron horses that broke out of the fog and iron chiseled spears that reached the front door. With the muffled sound of objects colliding and the screeching sound of swords and guns, the Mongol cavalry rushed into the Song army's spear array.

"It's stupid!" Han Feng was not far from the rear, and could barely see the battle scene in front of him through the fog, and he said loudly to Liu Yicheng, the deputy general beside him: "General soldiers, you must find out the strength of the enemy before the battle, if you take the risk of using frontal attack tactics to deal with the dignified formation, as long as the enemy has a little discipline, the attacker will definitely suffer heavy losses, you see, how stupid their attack is!" ”

This wave of frontal clashes naturally caused the Mongols to suffer heavy losses, and even Wanhu couldn't help but shout to Niu Li: "It's not easy for the athletes in front to fight hard, please let Nayan let them retreat a little, and wait for our firearms to come up and suppress the enemy first before charging again!" ”

New Phosphorus said expressionlessly: "Keep attacking!" Where is the blood of a man? Don't let Han Feng stop advancing, never withdraw his troops until he stops advancing! ”

Wanhu took a deep breath, how could he have heard Niu Phosphorus say such a thing, for the soldiers of the Mongolian headquarters, the Mongolian generals are all careful to protect them, because the population of Mobei is sparse, and the core strength of Mongolia will be weakened by one point if it is killed in battle, and now Marshal Du actually used the precious soldiers and horses of the headquarters to charge the strict Song army, and he has really been carried away by the desire to fight!

But he didn't dare to disobey Niu Huo's orders, because he clearly saw that the captain of Niu Ning's guard rushed towards the Song army with several hundred households of Niu Ning's closest cronies. He shouted: "Baturu, come with me!" He drew his sword and hurried his horse forward.

The Battle of Huama Lake was the first major battle of the day, and the Mongol cavalry fought desperately to face the Song infantry with artillery cover at the cost of dead and wounded, killing and wounding hundreds of Shenwu soldiers, and blocking the Song army from the position west of Huama Lake with courage and tenacity. The two armies built a barrier seven or eight miles west of Huama Lake, rushed to repair their positions, and prepared for a long-term confrontation.

But the battle of Huama Lake is not the most tragic battle today, Xiang Shibi led a group of soldiers and horses in the enemy's weak Daye Lake from the waterway, all the way to the lì not to mention, the really tragic battle in Huhuangzhou, of course, Zhang Sheng led the army in Huhuangzhou when landing, at first did not encounter the legendary tens of thousands of elite soldiers. There are only two or three thousand old and weak soldiers left in Huhuangzhou, Zhang Sheng doesn't know how Zheng Yunming turned tens of thousands of elite soldiers into a trace like a trick, but he has long known that Zheng Yunming has a lot of connections in the north, and it is said that every day the Mongolian Khan meets some people, what dishes he eats, and even what he says to the concubines, will truthfully reach the ears of the prime minister of the Southern Dynasty. If Zheng Yunming gets some means, he naturally has this ability.

But he did not dare to be careless at all, and as soon as he came ashore, he expelled the enemy troops in Huhuangzhou, occupied the settlements, quickly burned the pontoon bridges, and scuttled all the two or three hundred small boats along the coast. Before the war, Zheng Xianggong said clearly: "I can only give you two or three easy hours, and then the enemy situation is unpredictable, but I can tell you with certainty that the enemy will have at least 50,000 people, including many elites, I want to give you and others more military horses, and I am afraid that the battle will be fought against the water, and the whole army will be annihilated if you can't fight well, if you dare to go, you dare to go, if you don't dare to go, I will change the prince of Sanxiang to go in autumn." ”

This is too obvious but the method of agitation, if you say this to Wei Sheng, Wei Sheng will laugh, but this is especially useful for Zhang Sheng, since he said this, Zhang Shengqi's eyes are bloodshot, and he is extremely strict in preparing for war.

"When you lay the foundation of the fence firmly, you put some branches in front of you and cover them with floating earth, thinking that your house is building a fence. Such a fence wall can even be arched by pigs, and what else can stop the Mongols! The Mongols are better than pigs if they are useless! “

"The tiger artillery team over there, why are there only so many shells prepared? What the? Do you think it's enough? You'll know if it's enough until the enemy's saber hits you! Go to the ship immediately and remove the spare ammunition, grapeshot and shotgun at least three times the usual amount! Because there are many more enemies than we do! Whether you can survive depends on the performance of your gunners! ”

"I have repeatedly said that the trench should be wide enough that the enemy's horses cannot cross it! The antlers had to be inserted hard enough, and all the worn-out spear heads I had collected from other camps were tied to the antlers for me, so that the tartars who couldn't jump up would have a hearty stomach! ”

"Don't let up for a moment! Slack off, wait until the tartars are repulsed! Tartar's arrows and iron spears will show no mercy! Fight the enemy with 12 points of spirit! You will be rewarded alive! ”

What Zhang Sheng said was true, before the three hours arrived, dust was set up around Huhuangzhou, and the army rushed from all directions to encircle Huhuangzhou. The Mongol naval warships also rushed from the upper reaches to launch a counterattack on the Song warships that were waiting on the Huangzhou River.

The fierce battle in Huhuangzhou was more brutal than the battle at Huamahu, and the Mongol army was believed to have invested at least 60,000 horses, and it was clear that Prince Tachar, the commander-in-chief of the Mongol army who was supervising the battle in Jiangbei, concentrated the main forces in the north in an attempt to retake Huhuangzhou. On the river, with the remnants of a few tortoiseshell ships as the vanguard, they hit three or four hundred large and small warships and launched a counterattack. Under the cover of the sharp warp boats, twenty Haihu gunboats formed a single column on the river without any scruples, and swept away the enemy ships that dared to approach head-on with intensive artillery fire. As a result, the Mongol army's attempt to regain control of the Huangzhou River failed at all, but the battle on land was completely different.

A group of Han soldiers per 100 people, led by the head of a hundred Mongolian households, lined up in a dense formation and advanced towards the position of the Song army. In the face of an enemy army with a strong position that has been deployed in advance, it is indeed the infantry that is more effective, and this is a view that has been widely accepted in recent years in both the North and the South and even in other countries, especially when it is not the Mongol headquarters that is attacking, and there is no need to avoid any casualties.

But there is also a problem with this, most of the Han soldiers who attacked belonged to the subordinates of Yan Zhongsi in Henan and other places, since Yan Shi was defeated in Xiangyang and lost all his troops, the Yan family has not been able to recover the basic combat effectiveness, Yan Shi and his sons Yan Zhongsi and Yan Zhongji spent a lot of effort, at most they can only gather 3,000 troops to fight, but the Mongolian side is very dissatisfied, Henan is at the forefront of the war against the Song Dynasty, and the number of troops is so small that at most it can only be used as a force for law and order, It was impossible to participate as a powerful servant during the southern expedition, so Meng Ge specially ordered Yan Zhongsi to sign an army in the territory, and a total of 10,000 thousands of troops were signed in Henan as the vanguard of the attack on the Southern Dynasty.