The sky is bright, and the morning breeze is dancing. The humidity of the night in the mountains and fields had slowly risen at dawn, as if it were a thin layer of mist. Occasionally, one or two birds and beasts chirped, but it made the morning seem more quiet.

And countless war knives and spears condensed with morning dew flashed on the flat ground west of the Mianman River!

Li Pu's army had left the camp one after another last night and set up, and began to set up battle formations before dawn. Now it has unfolded a ten-mile-long array on the flat land of five miles west of the Mianman River, and in the middle is Li Pu's descendant Tang Dynasty soldiers, and the various heroes and powers who are dependent on Li Pu are divided into left and right. The total number of troops is about 80,000! It's dense, as if it stretches all the way to the horizon.

They were joined by 20,000 Mongol troops lined up on their backs. Half of them wore leather armor and leather armor, and the formation was quite neat; The other half didn't seem to have any armor, only a leather helmet, and the formation was very loose. But the most surprising thing is that these two Mongolian teams of 10,000 people did not ride horses!

The Mongols actually went to war without riding horses! Of course, it was not without horses, although many of their horses had died in this southward movement, but not to the point where there were no horses. The reason they chose to fight on foot was that the thunder arrows in Li Pu's army always disturbed the war horses—the Mongol horses were not yet adapted to the smoke of the battlefield because they were not specially trained.

It costs money to get the horses used to the sounds of explosions and fireworks! And Kublai Khan was not so bold as to spend millions of dollars to buy artillery training horses. At present, among the four kingdoms of the Tang, Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties, only the war horses of the Northern Ming Dynasty have been trained in artillery warfare - the Eastern Tang and Western Yuan are not willing to spend money, and the Southern Song Dynasty does not have a few war horses at all, so it is not troublesome.

Hundreds of three-bow bed crossbows were pushed onto the battlefield. About 100 of them belonged to the Eastern Tang Army, and the remaining thirty or forty were Mongols.

The side of the three-bow bed crossbow. A side sign was also erected to block the cluster of arrows. The defending Mongols also placed a lot of hastily tied deer barricades in front of the side cards to resist horses.

The Heavenly Thunder Arrows have been loaded, and the fuses have been ignited. As the officer commanding the artillery corps violently waved the red flag in his hand. shouted: "Fat!" "Every three-bowed crossbow shot out the Heavenly Thunder Arrow!

The three-bow bed crossbows of the two sides are only two miles away, and it is very difficult to launch a heavenly thunder arrow to hit the human body at this distance, but the bombardment array is accurate one by one! Fortunately, the artillery on both sides has little experience, and I don't know that bombarding the infantry phalanx at this distance is much more cost-effective than bombarding the opponent's artillery positions - in fact, Chen Dexing doesn't know this reason, he was not born in later generations to study military affairs, and he doesn't know that the accuracy of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was poor, and European artillery played like this.

Boom Boom!

On the artillery positions on both sides, columns of smoke suddenly rose, and each posture rose straight into the sky. The plumes of smoke rose at first, then in rows and almost all at the same time.

Parts of a three-bow bed crossbow. The fragments of the deer on the side, and you can vaguely see the human body lifted into the sky! In a short time, the three-bow bed crossbows of the Mongols, who were inferior in numbers, were all muted. On the battlefield, only seventy or eighty three-bow bed crossbows belonging to the Tang Army remained, and they continued to fire heavenly thunder arrows. The target of the shooting became the Mongol army formation on the bank of the Mianman River. The Mongol positions were soon shrouded in blue-black smoke. The smell of H medicine filled the battlefield, flowing slowly, making the Mongolian soldiers on the front line a little breathless.

The artillery bombardment with the three-bow bed crossbow did not take more than a stick of incense, and more than a thousand heavenly thunder arrows had been fired. almost wiped out the inventory of heavenly thunder arrows brought by Li Pu from Taiyuan. When the last salvo of Celestial Thunderbolts is over. The Tang Army soldiers of the brigade have already begun to charge! This is the experience they summed up in the battle of Taiyuan, and the infantry should launch a charge when the smoke created by the heavenly thunder arrows has not dispersed.

Kublai Khan stood on a high place, staring at the battle ahead with wide eyes. Because he was standing on a high place, his vision was quite good, and he was not obstructed by smoke, so he could see the battle ahead clearly.

The battle. It can be said that the Mongolian Great Khan was an eye-opener - the battle began with the bombardment of thunder and arrows, and then covered the infantry charge with the help of the smoke from the explosion of H medicine...... Obviously, Li Pu's brain is not stupid. I'm still very good at summing up experience.

The first wave of the offensive of the Don army was very rapid, standing from a high place overlooking. The crowd is no longer surging, but pouring down! The soldiers of the Tang Dynasty with sharp leather armor. Rushing over like a landslide - they did not form a tight formation, but scattered in the charge, moving forward in groups! The junior officers of the Tang army all stood at the head of the line, holding Tang-style large horizontal knives to lead the soldiers forward, and countless spears rose and fell forward in the morning light. The entire battlefield is almost crammed with soldiers! The sound of hoarse shouts came, and Kublai Khan couldn't hear what they were shouting, but it was certain that the morale of these elite Tang troops was high.

Kublai Khan suddenly realized that the Eastern Tang Dynasty founded by Li Pu was not a declining dynasty, but a rising country like the morning glow! And it has already played a little momentum, up and down is the time to be ambitious. It's not the same thing at all from the Song Kingdom in the south...... It's no wonder that Baturu will be defeated by the Tang army, and he was too light on the enemy before.

But today, the victory of this battle still belongs to the Great Mongolia!

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Li Pu also immediately stood on a high place at this time, holding a monocular, looking at the battlefield intently.

Today's offensive was almost a hammer deal, and the first wave of the offensive threw 12,000 men of Yulin Army and Jin Wuwei into attacking the "unarmoured" infantry on the left flank of the Mongol army. At the same time, 8,000 men of the leading guards were also dispatched to charge the right flank of the Mongol army to contain those Mongols with armor.

Because in Li Pu's view, those newly attached Shanxi heroes and horses can't fight a tough battle, and the sky is a good battle - these generals must be well organized, trained, equipped, and redistributed to the land, so that they can become real soldiers (of course, the soldiers must have financial resources, Qin Ruishi, Wei Wushu, Sui and Tang Dynasty soldiers, all have an economic foundation, but most of the military households in the middle and late Ming Dynasty went bankrupt and became poor). But now, they can only follow behind the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty.

The distance of the charge was only a few hundred paces (equivalent to 1,000 meters), and the smoke of gunpowder on the battlefield had not yet dissipated, and the collision was staged everywhere on the battle line. Probably due to the smoke obscuring the view, the Mongols' bows and arrows showed little power, but only a few indiscriminate showers of arrows.

"Kill the Tartars, kill the Tartars!"

The soldiers of the Tang Dynasty shouted, and countless spears composed of steel spears rushed into the Mongols' battle formation from the forest-like front! Although it is not a cavalry charge, the high-speed moving infantry and the spear also have a good momentum. The only fly in the ointment was that Li Pu's soldiers ran too fast and accelerated too early in order to rush into the Mongol formation before the smoke cleared, so that the formation was scattered and could not be maintained.

"Immortal Heaven bless the Mongols!"

At the same time, the shouts that seemed to be uttered with all the strength of the body also resounded in the Mongolian army. Then there was the sound of fierce iron and blades clashing......

"Hold on!"

"There was no breakthrough? Could it be the effect of the last battle? ”

As a gust of mountain wind blew away the smoke that filled the battlefield, Kublai Khan and Li Pu saw clearly the shape on the battlefield at the same time.

Those Mongolians, who seemed to be scattered and "did not wear armor", actually withstood the impact of the elite of the Tang army! He only took a few steps back, and then stopped his retreat with a shout of "Immortal Heaven bless the Mongols"!

A bloody battle ensued, and the two sides collided and scuffled. The sound of the blade piercing into the human body continued to sound one after another, and the soldiers on both sides kept falling, and human lives were consumed by each other as if they were being asked for money. Mixed with the clashing of weapons, the swords and the screams of death, there was the screeching sound of the tips of blades and spears gliding across the armor.

After fighting for more than an hour, the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty who were on the front line had already discovered that something was wrong. Many of the Mongols' leather robes had been cut open by sharp blades, revealing the willow-leaf iron armor inside—a kind of cold-forged armor made by craftsmen from Western Xia! Not only is it extremely difficult to build, but it also requires excellent quality iron (it should be a kind of low-carbon steel, which does not contain sulfur and phosphorus, so it can be cold forged, and the cold forging process can make the texture of the iron sheet more compact, and will not cause the carbon in the iron sheet to be oxidized) without heating and burning red, and it is forged raw! Each pair is worth hundreds of pieces, and it was once the best armor in the world (now it is the best steel armor of the Northern Ming Army).

Even in the Great Mongolian Kingdom, only the cowardly Xue army guarding the Great Khan could afford to be equipped with a true cold-forged willow leaf armor.

"Cowardice!"

"It's cowardice!"

The soldiers of the Tang Army on the front line, and Li Pu, who was watching the battle from the rear, all exclaimed at the same time - seeing the dazzling light reflected by the cold-forged willow leaf armor in the sun, and then looking at how hard these Mongols were on the battlefield.

Who else doesn't know that they are the cowardly army that protects the Mongol Great Khan?

And not one or two, but tens of thousands of cowardly Xue troops, which means that Kublai Khan himself also came to Jingcheng Pass!

Li Pu subconsciously raised his head and searched around for the Nine White Silks, which symbolized the Great Khan of Mongolia.

"Rise my Nine White Threads!" Kublai Khan, who was standing on the tower of Jingcheng Pass, shouted, "Blowing the trumpet, beating the drum, I want everyone to see Jiuxu, let everyone know that the Great Khan of Mongolia has arrived!" Great Mongolia is also the master of the northern Han land! ”

With the rise of the Nine White Silks, countless Mongolian soldiers and horses suddenly poured out of the city gate of Jingcheng Pass and the mountains and forests on the east bank of the Mianman River. All of them were cavalrymen, sharply armoured, like a tide, rushing towards the shallows that could be crossed...... (To be continued......)