After firing the first arrow, the Dahongshan crossbowmen did not stay in place as usual, they underwent new training and adopted a completely different mode of combat than when they were in the people. They turned sideways and handed the crossbow to their companion behind them, and at the same time took the spare crossbow that had been wound from their companion's hand, picked it up again, and fired a second wave of crossbow arrows with swiftness.

When the crossbowman released the arrows, the archers in the rear had rushed to the first column along the gap in the formation, and after the crossbowmen finished firing the second salvo, they immediately pulled out the bows and arrows in their hands and fired two salvos at the rapidly approaching cavalry, archery was the line of the army, under the influence of Lai Ruyue, Zheng Yunming also unconsciously asked his subordinates to put the speed of shooting in the first place, if the range of the bow and arrow played a major role in the previous battles, when fighting against the Mongolian legions that were all cavalry, The speed of shooting became the most important thing in archery.

After firing two arrows at great speed, the archers also retreated with the crossbowmen, and behind them the musketeers had been waiting for a long time, ready to deliver the last blow of the Hu cavalry that was about to charge in front of them.

With a powerful command to open fire, the Song army's musketeers put their firearms on the horses, and the white smoke and fire suddenly wrapped the figures of the horses and firearmsmen, and the lead bullets that broke through the air knocked the Mongolian cavalry and horses to the ground.

The sound of fire, gunsmoke and fire also frightened the Naiban cavalry who faced firearms for the first time, but after the lessons learned last year, the Mongols had already had a preliminary experience with the firearms of the Song army, they blindfolded the mounts of the armored cavalry with cloth, and pierced their ears again, relying on the shrewd control of the rider to direct the horses under them to toss and turn, which was not an insurmountable difficulty for the Mongols who grew up on horseback, and in addition, it was much more difficult to supervise people than to dispose of horses. Qu was ordered three times before the army, and anyone who wavered and retreated in the face of the enemy's firearms, or did not obey the command of the generals of his headquarters, would be immediately punished as slaves or put into the service of the army of the dead, and his wife and children would also be punished as slaves of his companions, and his property would be divided among his companions.

Under the supervision of such a strict military law, the Naiban cavalry trembled and resisted their desire to flee on horseback, and continued to charge towards the Song people's position with all their might.

The musketeers hurriedly put away their muskets and turned around and ran backwards, trying their best to get behind their own safety barrier before the enemy crashed into the horses, two rows of spearmen in a tight formation. The first row crouches, the second row stands, and the squatting spearmen poke their spears into the ground and hold them with their feet, the tips of their spears pointing obliquely forward, and the soldiers standing in the second row hold their guns in a drip style, with the spears flat and the tips slightly down. Two rows of spears formed a formidable wall of spears, the tips of the iron spears glowing coldly in the sun, and they waited motionlessly for the torrent of cavalry to crash head-on.

But instead of engaging in a violent collision with the Song spear wall as expected, the Naiban cavalry grabbed the reins before they even crossed the rejection, and then the Pegasus quickly retreated towards the wings.

There was a loud cheer from the city, and everyone rejoiced that the Mongols had given up the attack. Wu Qian wiped the sweat from his forehead and said with a smile: "It seems that the Mongols are not fools, and they dare not collide with the spear after all." ”

He looked sideways at Zheng Yunming, Yang Luo and Lu Xunzhi, but he couldn't see the slightest look of joy, even Zhao Kui didn't smile, just looked down at the city with his whole body instilled.

Wang Deng shouted and shouted: "The archers come forward again!" The second onslaught of the enemy is coming! At the far end of the line of sight, the second cavalry had begun to take off, charging at almost the same pace as the first.

Zheng Yunming said to Wu Qian: "When the Hu people want to board the big array of our army, they often use this tactic, the first army pretends to assault, and when we don't move, the first team passes by, and the second team continues to assault, and when our army does not move, the third team continues to attack, this is the method of exhausting the enemy, but this trick is useless to Wang Jingsong's subordinates. ”

As Zheng Yunming expected, in front of the large array of the Zhenwu army, which stood like a mountain, the second team braved the rain of arrows and lead bullets to charge until the rejection of the horse, and when they saw the Song army's formation showing no signs of disarray, they stopped the momentum of the impact and retreated to both sides.

In the third and fourth waves, the barbarian cavalry tirelessly repeated the futile onslaught, each time abruptly stopping before rejecting the horses, and then the column swept across the large array and retreated to both flanks.

Wu Qian said with a smile: "Such a toss back and forth, in addition to wasting a lot of strength, how can it shake the position of our army in the slightest?" Isn't it foolish for the enemy to do this? ”

Zheng Yunming sighed: "They are watching the formation of our army, and they are not just simply watching, but while watching, they use cavalry detachments to mobilize the deployment of our army, and then choose the most favorable time to attack." ”

"Look, isn't Wang Jingsong's formation a little scattered now?"

Wu Qian carefully poked his head out of the pheasant's moat, and even with his layman's eyes, he could see that Wang Deng's formation had loosened slightly.

For Wang Deng, this loosening of the formation was not due to lax military discipline or improper command, but more like an active change under the enemy's mobilization.

Because many of the Naiban cavalry that swept through the two wings did not withdraw to their own formation, but regrouped on both flanks and in front of the Song army, this time the Song army was not only facing a frontal threat, but had to be guarded against in three aspects.

The formation of the two flanks of the Zhenwu army was forced to rearrange with the enemy's cavalry on both flanks, and the two neat flank phalanxes turned one side against the enemy, and some of the archery squads in the center were also reinforced, so that there was a scattered situation in both the flanks and the central array.

Frequent troop movements will inevitably cause confusion in the formation, which is something that Han Yue and Wu Jue cannot avoid. And this time was precisely the fighter that the Mongols were looking for.

"They're going to move for real!" Zheng Yunming shouted to Wu Qian: "This is the real first round!" ”

Before he finished speaking, the Naiban cavalry scattered around the Zhenwu Army suddenly shouted in unison with a terrifying cry, the sound was like the unison howl of a pack of wolves at midnight, making people feel murderous in the long howl, as if the wolves would move out in a big way in the next moment, tearing the ignorant prey into pieces.

But this time, they were not facing prey waiting to be killed, and Wang Deng shouted: "The Tartars are going to fight hard this time!" Left Wing Ready! Ready! The central formation is ready! ”

The howling of the Naiban cavalry suddenly stopped, and the cavalry brigades on three sides began to attack the Song army's formation. This time, unlike the impact on the front alone, the sound of horses' hooves from three sides doubled the fear. Even the battle-hardened veterans of the Zhenwu Army couldn't help but widen their eyes and their breathing became heavy.

It would be a make-or-break blow. The cavalry who came from three sides braved the arrows to charge at full speed, and when they came to the rejection of the horse, they did not stop anymore, but gently knocked the horse's belly, and the war horse rose into the air, jumped over the rejection of the horse, and slammed into the wall composed of the spears of the Song army.

Zheng Yunming knew that if it weren't for the loose formation of the Song army's spear array while repeatedly adjusting, the Mongolian generals on the opposite side would not have been able to give the order for a general attack anyway. But even if it was a slight hole in the Song army's formation, if it really wanted to hit this dense spear tip, it would take great courage to do it.

Rumors that the Mongols were not good at attacking the frontal formation were self-defeating at this moment.

However, the heavy casualties caused by the head-on collision with the spear array can also be imagined, in addition to successfully stepping on the Song army's spear array in the loose place, in front of the vast majority of the spear array, the Naiban cavalry ended up being pierced by the spear, and the war horse turned in front of the dense gun array, and the corpse smashed into the Song army's array.

Blood, screams, heavy corpses, and the impact of war horses shrouded the spear array, and even after a year of brutal training, when it really collided with the enemy's cavalry, there were still many places in the spear array that were broken by the cavalry's penetration.

Ge Huai yelled: "Hold on to the front!" The rear squad of spearmen stepped forward! ”

The spearmen and halberders in the back rushed forward and stabbed the Mongol cavalry, which had lost their impact, and the cavalry, which had been blocked by the spearmen in the front with their bodies, once they lost their speed and impact, were even weaker than the most inferior infantry in the face of the spear thrust.

Two hurried hugs sounded in the distance, and the Naiban cavalry, which was blocked by the Song army's spear array, turned their horses' heads and retreated as if they had been amnesty.

The Zhenwu army finally passed the test of the first round of war. Although this price was not easy, the spearmen who stood on the outermost part of the entire Song army as a shield wall were pierced through the chest on the spot by iron chisel guns, some were directly smashed by iron bones, and were crushed to death by enemy cavalry and horses.

Wang Deng waved his hand expressionlessly: "The spearmen in the front row retreat and trim, and the spearmen in the third and fourth rows step forward!" ”

It is the fate of the spearmen to use their flesh and blood to block the enemy's fierce cavalry conflicts, and every spearman is taught when he joins the team, they don't need to have the talent of an archer, nor do they need to have the skills of a sword player, and there is only one thing they have to do well, which is to hold on to the array and fight to the death. ，