Zheng Jie never thought that the Song army would have a large-scale battle with the Mongolian army with cold weapons. And it is also unfolding on such a large plain.

The Song army used to think that the Great Plains was a very favorable terrain, and when the Song army was broken, the terrain became very bad in an instant. If the formation is arranged in a place with a certain slope, Zheng Jie can effectively see the entire battle situation. Now all the transmission of intelligence in the troops can only rely on the correspondents who come and go.

Before Zheng Jie could figure out the situation, the communicator of the division behind relied on the excellent organizational skills of the Song army and ran to Commander Zheng Jie. The correspondent shouted anxiously: "Report to the commander, we have been attacked by the Mongol army. It's broken! ”

Knowing that the two divisions were attacked at the same time, Zheng Jie only felt as if an invisible big hand was tightly gripping his neck, and he couldn't even breathe. The advantage of the Song army was that it was a well-trained array, and any enemy had no way to face the impregnable defense of the Song army. Although the upper echelons of the Song army will also say that everyone will definitely be challenged by the same musket army in the future. It can be said that everyone actually thinks that this kind of challenge will probably be a long, long time later, and the enemy will learn the musket, and the Song army will also have more advanced weapons.

But now this self-confidence was easily defeated, and it was not necessary to break the Song army front with invincible muskets and steel discipline, but only a well-organized fire bull formation. And Zheng Jie is the person who created the history of the defeat of the Song army!

Just when Zheng Jie couldn't breathe, he saw the chief of staff running up to Zheng Jie and saying something loudly. Seeing such a close person and feeling his ugliness, Zheng Jie only felt as if there was an electric current passing through his nerves, and he was ashamed to find a hole to drill into. However, this emotion dispelled the state as if he was paralyzed, and Zheng Jie finally heard what the chief of staff was shouting.

"Commander, let the troops retreat to the station first! Rely on the station to defend! The chief of staff shouted anxiously. Although he did not fall into a state of stiffness, the chief of staff did not have the same calmness as before.

Zheng Jie said almost instinctively: "Can the command system still work?" As soon as the troops dispersed like this, the retreat turned into a rout! "This is a problem that Song Jun has not been able to solve. This kind of neatly arranged army can indeed advance and retreat as it pleases before it is scattered. But once you throw it out and go into battle, you can only wait for the battle to the end. It is easy to march, but difficult to retreat. Even during the exercises, almost every retreat turned into a rout. In the end, everyone felt that the focus was on how to maintain the array, and how to break the enemy in one blow.

"Then establish a defensive line first, and let the withdrawn troops withdraw from the defensive line and regroup." When the chief of staff was in the military department, he devoted great energy to research in this area.

With such a discussion, Zheng Jie suddenly felt that his brain was bright, and he shook his head heavily, "The army has not been trained, so it will never work to do this!" ”

After speaking, Zheng Jie turned his head and asked the correspondent, "Has your division's front been penetrated?" ”

"Not when I came!" The correspondent replied immediately.

"Then go back and tell your division commander that you will immediately organize the troops in the rear row to march forward. The troops that were already in disarray, let them retreat from the gap in the queue. The rear row troops must move forward and keep the queue to fight the enemy! If the position is penetrated, then both sides will fight separately. This battle can only advance, not retreat! Zheng Jie shouted to the correspondent.

Seeing that Commander Zheng Jie gave an undiscouraged order at this time, the correspondent also felt excited, and immediately stood up straight and replied, "Yes!" ”

"Chief of Staff, you go with the correspondent to the division headquarters in the back to command. I will now go to the front division headquarters to command. Our Song army could never be defeated by the Mongols. Since the establishment of the official army, we have never lost to the Mongols. Not before, not this time! ”

After speaking, Zheng Jie strode forward, and he didn't even greet the guards. The guards were shocked by Zheng Jie's words, and it wasn't until Zheng Jie quickly walked out ten paces that the guards ran briskly to follow with the excitement of heroes.

At this time, the battlefield on the front line had completely fallen into chaos, and the Song army officers were shooting at the nearby Mongol cavalry with pistols while shouting meaninglessly for their subordinates to move closer to them. Some of the Mongol cavalry condescended to slash the Song army with sabers, stabbed the Song army with cavalry spears, and some of the more backward ones shot vigorously with cavalry bows.

In close combat, the Mongol armor showed its superiority. The bayonets of the Song army were not very effective in breaking through the Mongol armor, while the Mongol weapons were very effective in killing the Song army. Screams, shouts, the clashing of weapons, the sound of gunfire, stirred into a pot of porridge on the battlefield. Even after being scuffled, the front platoon and the middle troops of the Song army, who had conducted a lot of such training, were still fighting tenaciously. It didn't collapse right away.

When Zheng Jie finally commanded the rear row and marched towards the melee battlefield, the Mongol troops who rushed forward were soon defeated. They were high up in the air and became targets for rifles.

And the Mongol army saw that something was wrong and immediately withdrew like a tidal wave. The Mongolian cavalrymen who were skilled in horsemanship even picked up the Song weapons scattered on the ground, and even captured some Song prisoners. Zheng Jie didn't expect the Mongolian army's reaction to be so decisive, and the whole person was also stunned.

This is the Mongol army that has appeared in the intelligence before, they are determined, cunning, riding hard-working Mongolian horses, they will attack without hesitation when they encounter the opportunity, and once they are in danger of defeat, they will not hesitate to retreat. And like a hungry wolf, prepare for the next round of attacks.

The Song army built by the Zhao official family used to promote the Mongolian army in this way. However, the surrender of Lin'an and the Battle of the Yellow River made the Song army feel that the Mongol army was an army that could only show off its might and charge into battle. There is no longer any primary knowledge of their cunning and steadfastness.

At this time, there were thousands of corpses left on the ground, including the Mongol army, and even more the Song army. The number of corpses comparable to that of the Song army was the carcasses of Mongolian cattle. Of course, at this time, there were still some crazy cattle remaining, and they were trying to continue to attack the Song army on the battlefield. And the Song army freed up his hands and used a platoon of guns to kill these criminal cows who broke through the Song army's front.

Five days later, Zhao Jiaren in Hangzhou received the news. Two divisions of the Song army were attacked by the Mongol army, suffering tens of thousands of casualties. In addition to the wounded division commanders, the commanders of the Song army suffered more than 100 casualties. The entire military department was completely speechless. Everyone didn't expect a famous general like Zheng Jie to slaughter such a big heel.

What is even more surprising to everyone is that the Song army, which has mastered the battlefield, finally simply said that the Mongol army was severely defeated. It is not said how many people were killed or wounded. Those who are more intelligent have understood that they are afraid that the number of Mongol troops killed and wounded in this battle is much lower than that of the Song army.

Originally, Zheng Jie had 50,000 troops in his hands, and the Ministry of War believed that Zheng Jie might break through the walls of the capital. Now that Zheng Jie only has 30,000 people left, fighting in Dadu, which is 300 miles away from Zhigu Village, everyone thinks that Zheng Jie can't do it, and he shouldn't take such a risk. That is, the operation failed.