When the Yuan State Western Expedition Headquarters said, 'It seems that the best way is to take Warsaw quickly', Hao Ren's tone was helpless. Several core generals around him were silent. Judging from the basic situation, this judgment is correct.

The Dnieper is not a small ditch that can be crossed by a leg, but a large river several hundred meters wide. It is not as good as the Yangtze River, and it is not a natural danger that ordinary armies can easily cross. As long as the Yuan State can hold the Dnieper River, the Kipchak Khanate has nothing to fear.

It's just that the geographical location of Kiev, the capital of the Yuan Kingdom, is not good. Kublai Khan, the former Great Khan, used the Dnieper River as the boundary river between the Yuan State and the Kipchak Khanate, and Kiev, located on the banks of the Dnieper River, was close to the border. This was not a problem when the Kipchak Khanate and the Yuan State did not tear their faces. When the Kipchak Khanate and the Yuan State tore their faces, Kiev immediately faced an enemy attack. In the event of an accident in the capital, the Yuan Kingdom will be hit hard. At this time, the only one who can make a decision is Hao Ren, the lord of the Yuan State.

Seeing that everyone else was silent, Hao Ren insisted on his decision, "I have asked the Great Khan's army to return to Kyiv with the Fourth Division and Iron Eagle, and we will continue to attack Warsaw with 90,000 people." Can the beachhead opposite the three pontoon bridges be occupied tomorrow? ”

"Yes!" The generals all replied loudly.

"Then it's up to you, tomorrow we must go to the west bank of the Vistula!" After Hao Ren finished speaking, he punched the location of Warsaw on the map.

The latitude of Warsaw is a little south of the latitude of Mohe and several degrees north of the latitude of Harbin. The end of June in the Western calendar is the summer solstice period. It didn't take long for it to get gray again. This kind of heavenly appearance made the army of the Great Song Dynasty in Yinshan very unaccustomed, and the people of the Yuan State had long been accustomed to it.

In the light of reading a book, hundreds of iron-boned wooden boats have been built, and hundreds of wooden boats are being built on the shore. The iron parts and planks for shipbuilding were prepared in the Yuan Kingdom and arrived on the east bank of the Vistula River after a long journey. The shipbuilders had already had breakfast, and in addition to three or four hours of darkness a day, there was a lot of natural light that allowed them to finish the battle. The Western Expedition was arranged at this time with this in mind.

Thousands of Yuan Guo cooking classes did not stop after providing food to the shipbuilders, but became more busy. They were going to provide breakfast for more of the day.

When the first rays of sunlight pierced the clouds, the flotilla of the Yuan ** team began to move. More than four small boats are connected and covered with planks, and these assembled large boats slowly sail to the west bank of the Vistula River under the protection of a single boat. There were a large number of iron chains piled up on the big ship, and the chains were slowly lowered into the water. Ordinary boats are lined with wooden planks and docked side by side at the planned pontoon positions. The soldiers on the boat hooked the chains with hooks, pulled the chains to the ship, and shrunk them into the rings of the pontoon hull with iron locks.

Every time a 10-meter pontoon bridge is completed, two transports approaching the city. There were a number of iron anchors on the board. The soldier first handed the iron chain behind the iron anchor to the soldiers on the pontoon bridge, and the iron chain was temporarily fixed to the iron chain of the main body of the pontoon bridge, and the soldiers on the bridge and the ship worked together to prop up the iron anchor boat for a certain distance, and the soldiers on the iron anchor boat pushed the iron anchor into the gap. More than 200 catties of iron anchors smashed high water columns on the river surface and disappeared on the river surface in an instant. The soldiers on the pontoon bridge immediately tightened the chains, and when they could no longer pull the chains, they used iron locks to fasten the chains that connected the iron anchors to the Yokogawa chains.

An iron anchor weighs more than 200 catties, and in less than two hours, seven or eight thousand catties of iron anchors have been thrown into the river, firmly fixing the parts of the three pontoon bridges that have been built in the river. On the position of the Yuan ** team on the east bank of the Vistula River, there are still tens of thousands of catties of iron guys in the preparation area, waiting to be thrown into the river with the progress of the bridge construction.

In order to build these three pontoon bridges, the Yuan ** team prepared iron tools with a total weight of more than 100,000 catties. This is also one of the reasons why Hao Ren is unwilling to retreat easily, that is, for the Yuan Kingdom, these investments are too huge. If you leave these things behind and return to the east, it is equivalent to giving the enemy a great gift. The next time the Yuan Kingdom launches another expedition to the west, the enemy will use these weapons made of iron to deal with the Yuan ** team.

On the west bank of the Vistula River, the army of the Teutonic Knights watched in amazement as the Yuan ** team built pontoon bridges at an astonishing speed, and the three wide pontoon bridges took shape as quickly as if by magic. When the Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights, who heard the news, arrived on the shore, the pontoon bridge had already been repaired to the center of the Vistula, and the boats in the river were clearly visible.

"That thin rope can stop the boat! Black art! It's heretic's sorcery! The Grand Master heard the noble knight next to him mutter.

Although he felt that this was very reasonable, the Grand Master did not want to say it. Turning his head to look at the noble knight who spoke, he and the knights next to him drew crosses one after another, as if they wanted to use the holy cross power of God to dispel the evil magic of the enemy.

The iron chain used by the Yuan ** team to build the pontoon bridge is very thick, the thickness of a child's arm. Designed by the Great Song Dynasty water conservancy experts who helped the Yuan Kingdom, it has been tested three times in actual combat on the Dnieper River. In the eyes of the Teutonic Knights a few hundred meters away, it was just a thin one. No amount of rope could keep so many 'big' boats firmly in the middle of the rushing Vistula, and this is not sorcery.

If the knights of the Teutonic Knights knew that this was not a magic rope, but an iron chain, they would probably be just as shocked. More than 100,000 catties of iron, which has exceeded the annual iron production of Poland and the Teutonic Knights. As for the amount of labor required to process this iron into a fairly standard iron tool, it is beyond imagination that it would take years to complete the current level of iron processing in the Teutonic Order.

The Yuan ** team did not give the members of the Teutonic Knights a chance to see the iron chain clearly, the front end of the pontoon bridge was still two hundred meters away from the river bank, and more than a dozen large ships composed of four small boats anchored on both sides of the front end of the pontoon bridge. Once the anchor was secured, the guns on the platform began to fire heavily at the Teutonic Knights on the shore.

Five-pound iron balls flew into the ranks of the knights one after another, and the members of the regiment were injured when they rubbed and died if they hit it. The last thing that lacked in the Vistula was water, which the artillery crews used to cool the barrels from the very beginning. There is almost no intermittent time between shots.

The Teutonic Knights' understanding of long-range projectile weapons was still at the level of lever-type catapults, torsional ballistae of hemp rope, and tendon-type crossbows. Although I had heard many rumors about the Eastern Army, it was the first time that I had really come face to face with the round black tubular firearms.

I saw the Mongols tinkering, stuffing something into the black thing, and then with the thick white smoke, something spewed out of the black thing. It looks like some kind of goblin. The stupid Teutonic knights were shot two hundred times before they suddenly found that their brothers were killed and wounded by their side in a tragic manner. Only then did he shout, turn around and run. Not so long ago, there were only a few hundred dead or wounded knights left on the banks of the river, which had been full of people.

With great effort, the anchor was retracted, and the Yuan artillery firing platform continued to approach the east bank of the Vistula. One step ahead of them, the boat transported some infantry ashore first. Although it was the first time that the Teutonic Knights had seen artillery, they also knew that once the Yuan infantry had set up a bridgehead on the east bank of the Vistula, and when the pontoon bridge was completed, the vicious Yuan cavalry would be able to reach the city of Warsaw without any hindrance.

The Grand Master gave the order, and some of the bold and fearless members of the Order gathered. They fell to one knee. The clergymen in the army held ritual weapons and blessed them one by one. After receiving the blessings of incense ash sprinkled on their heads, holy water poured on their bodies, blessed by holy words, and splattered with saliva particles, the knights full of divine feelings got up and lined up, wielding swords and spears to kill the bridgehead of the Yuan Kingdom.

The first to attack were the longbowmen and crossbowmen of the Teutonic Knights. The crossbow archers, in particular, stood in several rows in dense formation. The knights hated the crossbow arrow, a hateful tool that could be easily operated by any filthy peasant and effective in killing knights. But when used against the Mongol pagans, these knights found the crossbow arrows to be reliable and even cute.

At this time, the soldiers of the Yuan Kingdom who had already landed on the west bank of the Vistula River quickly lined up in a neat line after some people beating small drums, and the knights of the knights were even more happy, so that the crossbow arrows could be more effectively used. At the orders of the knights, the crossbowmen pressed the tail of the crossbow arrow slot to their chests, and with the other hand grasped the bowstring, pulled it to the trigger position and buckled it. Then draw the crossbow arrow from the quiver and place it in the arrow slot.

The Mongols on the opposite side did not look dryly, and the musketeers had already loaded their bullets. The commander who was born as a shepherd and herded cattle shouted: "Pull out the stopper!" ”

The musketeers immediately obeyed the order, and without waiting for the long-range shooters of the Teutonic knights on the opposite side to fire their weapons, the musketeers of the Yuan Kingdom, who had already come ashore, fired their first salvo.

Compared with the enemy, the number of musketeers of the Yuan Kingdom is still too small, and the number of enemies knocked down by bullets is not large. A rain of arrows from the opposite side flew in a moment later. The musketeers of the Yuan Kingdom all wore cuirasses and iron helmets with visors. Some were hit by an arrow in the leg and fell to their knees. This did not prevent the uninjured Yuan musketeers from taking out their bullets, loading them, and raising their guns to aim according to the command.

Two commanders who were born as cattle herders and sheep herders were also shot and fell to the ground, which did not make the other commanders shake in the slightest. They strolled to the front of the line, allowing the enemy's arrows to clank on their helmets and armor, and continued to direct the musketeers to fire at the enemy's bows and crossbows.

After copying the system of the Song Army, the Yuan ** team paid great attention to cultivating soldiers who obeyed discipline and listened to commands and could stand up at critical moments. For these Yuan people who served in the army, it was too easy to want to die in the cruel grassland. Natural disasters can die, diseases can die, and hunger kills the poor on the grassland slowly and painfully all the time.

The parents of the herding baby and the sheep baby die like this, the brothers and sisters of the herding baby and the sheep baby die like this, and the cow and sheep babies and their children will die like this. In this world where blood is completely important and people's nobility is determined by the identity of the owner of the genitals, King Hao Ren finally opened the door to the cattle and sheep herders. In the army, relying on their own experience and the experience of others, these cattle herding babies and sheep herding babies understand that with their own efforts, they can also get food and clothing, let their families have wealth, and even let their families get the state's pension even after death.

The pension is not a bag or stack of money of insignificant or modest value, but a place for livestock, horses, and their children to go to school and join the army. When a cheap life that could have died at any time has more measurable value, life and death are no longer so worthy of panic and fear.

In the brutal confrontation, people on both sides kept falling. The Yuan ** people who landed on the shore rushed quickly into the queue of their own people in the face of the rain of arrows, braving the enemy's arrow rain and the enemy to carry out brutal shooting. When the wounded soldiers fell to the ground, their lips were tightly closed, and they did not make a sound of pain. Let the brothers drag them behind the line where they were standing straight. Under the cover of a human wall formed by brothers, bite the cork handed to them by the military doctor and receive temporary treatment for pain.

The gunfire on the battlefield was loud, and the thick smell of gunpowder smoke and the gradually thicker smell of blood filled the queue. Except for the sound of gunfire and the high-pitched and loud sound of command, there was no sound of pain and screams in the queue of the Yuan army's landing force, which was composed of elites.