The rout in front was reported to Niu Pho's camp by Tan Ma Chi all the way, Niu Pho was furious, and personally led the army to make a big move, trying to defeat the Song army in front of him in one fell swoop, and some senior generals reminded him that the Song army in front of him should not be underestimated in terms of quantity and quality, and it must be Zheng Yunming's main force who came to retaliate. At present, there are only 20,000 cavalry in the battalion, and I am afraid that it will be difficult to deal with, so we must gather the cavalry scattered all over the place, encircle and divide the invading Song army on a large scale, seize this good opportunity of the decisive battle, and defeat the main force of the Song army in one fell swoop.

Niu Phosphorus is naturally not a fool, he knows the truth of concentrating forces in a decisive battle, but this qiē takes time, and the fighter, the fighter is the most precious, Niu Phosphorus is not without fighting with the Song army, the first battle of his first battle, is to follow the Marshal Chahan to attack Huaidong, at that time the Mongolian army was facing the Huaidong system envoy Du Gao, this person is extremely cunning and changeable, several times Chahan will mobilize the Song army from the city, ready to besiege the city to send reinforcements, but every time at the critical moment was resolved by Du Gao.

On the one hand, it is based on the factors of terrain, the existence of rivers and mountains makes it take time for cavalry to gather, on the one hand, the combat effectiveness of the infantry of the Song Dynasty is increasing day by day, and their large phalanx, even if the Mongols have a two-fold or three-fold advantage, it is difficult to break through, and when the Mongols spend time deploying their own troops, the Song people are also seizing the time to concentrate their own troops, and once the two sides engaged in a large-scale battle, the Mongols were not sure to repel the large phalanx of the Song people.

Niu Phosphorus has a new method of warfare to solve the current dead end, that is, regardless of casualties, use part of the main force to stick up, before the Song army formed a large array, firmly stick to him, while fighting, and on the other hand, with the rest of the powerful troops to copy the enemy, so that the belly and back of the enemy. The key to this method of warfare lies in whether the forward troops, as the vanguard force that attracts the enemy to engage, can stick to the enemy and grasp the enemy firmly.

Therefore, Niu Huo must personally lead the team, three times the Hu Ji sounded, the 20,000 cavalry came out one after another, and the momentum of the 20,000 fierce Hu cavalry moved to the ground, and even the river bank was trembling slightly. The Mongols marched all the way to the point close to Bailingzhai and engaged the Song infantry.

The difference is that the Song army used a new type of musket, and did not have to rely on the tactics of continuous firing to maintain continuous firepower, because the lightness of the guns themselves made the loading faster, so as to ensure the continuity of firepower under the tactics of three salvos.

Under the continuous fire attack, the dismounted musketeers of the Mongol army were a little unbearable, they used heavy standard arquebuses imitated from the Song Dynasty, which required a gun carriage to shoot, and were overwhelmed by the musketeers of the Song army when firing, but the musketeers were not allowed to retreat, and sent a personal team to supervise the battle, and cut all the musketeers who dared to flee in front of the formation, while ordering two or three thousand heavy armored cavalry to detour from the right flank and attack the flank of the Song army.

These cavalrymen were already equipped with two muskets, according to the tactics drawn up in advance, they should be divided into 100 squads, after rushing to the range of the pistols, with two pistols to fire, and then quickly retreated, changed to the next team to continue firing, and they hid in a safe distance from a distance to load, this is the cavalry pistol rotation method commonly adopted by the cavalry of the Southern Dynasties in the past few years, and once used this method of warfare to fully promote the advantages of new firearms, and defeated the Mongolian cavalry archers. But the Mongol cavalry's habits over the years could not be changed overnight, and after two muskets were fired, they threw their expensive pistols on the ground, still pulling out their beloved hunting bows and shooting at the Song army.

Han Feng's subordinates were not afraid of this way of fighting, and the orderly firing of the musketeers and the shells fired by the light artillery formed a barrage on the flanks of the army, and once the Mongol cavalry wanted to break through this barrier and arrows at close range, they would inevitably suffer heavy losses.

In his speculum vision, his soldiers and horses fell into the dust one by one, and even if a few people broke through to the distance that the bow and arrow could hit, the Song people would immediately adjust their firepower and annihilate him. He yelled anxiously, "The Iron Cavalry is assembled and ready to break through!" ”

The knight in fine armor shouted loudly, brandished his iron spear and scimitar, and began to move slowly forward, forming a horizontal line behind the musketeer, obviously, Niu Phosphorus wanted to promote his proud heavy cavalry breakthrough tactics, although there was no guarantee that the Song people would be routed in one blow, but at least he would not be completely devastated by the Song people's large number of muskets in the counter fire.

The heavy cavalry slowly lined up in the sonorous sound of the collision of armor leaves, one row, two rows, three rows, and even more than ten rows of horizontal formations, this layout of the new phosphorus is to increase the follow-up assault of the formation, after all, the Song people are used to laying multiple formations, if the Mongol array is too small, it is easy to fall into the siege of the Song army's infantry.

Just as the Iron Cavalry was becoming more and more concentrated and ready to attack, suddenly a cannonball flew in front of them with a pungent smell of gunsmoke, followed by a dense rain of bullets.

While the musketeers and light artillery were blocking the Mongol advance, Han Feng was doing something to concentrate the long-barreled artillery on the frontal position under the cover of the spearmen. Forty-four long-barreled Shenwei cannons and sixty short-barreled Zhenwei cannons were all concentrated in the front, and as the Song spearmen moved forward, the Mongols did not notice that behind them was a dense artillery array, and when Han Feng gave the order to open fire, the Mongols had no time to react.

Heavy artillery fire poured down on the dense ranks of unprepared cavalry, and immediately disrupted the entire ranks. The Mongols were not prepared for this unprecedented and bold method of concentrating artillery for intensive shelling. They instinctively turned their horses around and fled.

And the escape of the forward heavy cavalry exposed the unprepared light archers and heavy armored archers in the middle and rear. Although the ironclad assault cavalry is a trump card in his army, it is not the core of his own army, although the traditional Mongolian assault cavalry, although it is known as stepping down immediately, the battle is unparalleled, but with the passage of time, the new generation of Mongolian warriors are at ease, although they barely maintain the level of bows and arrows, but in terms of close combat, compared to the new generation of cavalry trained by the Southern Dynasty using the Royal Forest Army and the military academy system, it has fallen behind. Fortunately, the Mongolian headquarters in Mobei still maintains simple and robust customs, and every time they die in battle, they will not be left behind. However, these horses were limited in number, and many Mongol generals had to look for new strong soldiers as replacements for the Mongol cavalry.

During his expedition with Montgossi, he attacked the mountains west of the Western Sea, where the people called themselves Caucasians. They rode on tall horses from the Don River, coming and going like the wind, and in fighting were in no way inferior to the elite Mongol cavalry. These warriors carried iron shields carved with delicate stripes, black iron maces, and sturdy large-leaf armor all over their bodies, which were also heavy loads, but they still walked like flying after they were draped. It took a great deal of effort for the Mongols to conquer their villages, and after conquering the Caucasian tribes, they immediately set about recruiting these fierce heavy knights. Like the Mongol ironclad cavalry of the early days, the Caucasian soldiers were proficient in mounted archery, both in hand-to-hand combat at close quarters and on horseback like the Mongol cavalry.

A total of 5,000 high-nosed and deep-eyed Caucasian soldiers were recruited to form a 5,000 households directly under his own command, and the army was in awe and called the West Sea Armor of New Phosphorus. The Shenwu army concentrated on using artillery to destroy the assault cavalry in the vanguard, but these Xihai armor soldiers were not disturbed in the slightest, they were tightly united under the battle flag of Marshal Nupho, and with only one order from the marshal, they immediately rushed out and smashed the enemy's head with the mace in their hands.

As soon as the order to spread the queue was issued, the cavalry of the Song army crossed the artillery positions of their own side, lined up in a neat queue and began to charge in small steps.

In the past ten years, the most famous general in the Song army was Han Feng, and the most feared unit of the Mongols in the Song army was the Lianghu Iron Cavalry under Han Feng, which was the largest number and best trained cavalry army of the Song army formed by the original Jinghu Cavalry Command and Jingnan Pacification Envoy Cavalry Force. Under the command of the young general Han Feng, this brave cavalry corps has been praised in both the north and the south by approaching Yue Fei's back cavalry. But unlike the Beiwei cavalry, this cavalry was more modern, or in Kublai Khan's words, more "Zheng Yunming".

In accordance with Zheng Yunming's orders, this cavalry all uses red cavalry equipment, because it is scarlet from people to horses, and is nicknamed the lobster battalion by Jiangnan. And the imperial court also praised this army when it came to it, often referring to them as "vermilion tiger horse" and "red armor pixiu".

This kind of outfit was also discussed by officials that it was flashy to spend an expensive cost to buy a full set of red equipment, and Zheng Yunming wasted public money in order to build his own ace army.

But Zheng Yunming knew what such a red torrent meant to the enemy on the other side. He had seen a Mongol Tatar cavalry collapse on its own in the face of a surging wave of red armor without a fight. This was originally a phenomenon that was often seen in the Song army in the early days of the Song-Mongol War.

The infantry army is expensive and the horse army is powerful. The gorgeous equipment of the cavalry seems useless, but it is actually part of the amazing momentum of the cavalry, and no one will really be indifferent to watching the red thousands of troops and horses coming from the earth.

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