"That militia agreed to fight us?" Gorten Wanhu frowned slightly, and his voice was full of doubts.

"It's just some militia groups, and even the Song army has nothing to fear." Zhu Qiongqianhu, who spoke, was full of confidence. When the other four Qianhu who came with them heard this, they also agreed.

Gorten said coldly: "According to what you said, this group of militias has built such a city in a few years, can the Song army also do it?" ”

As soon as these words came out, the five thousand households all shut up. A city is not the same as a walled city. The sides of the walled city are a few hundred meters long, and there are thin low parapets made of layers of stone and earth. Troops can be stationed inside, and even if they are attacked, they must first face the condescending defensive posts on the earthen wall.

Cities are different, there have to be cities and pools. To be more detailed, there must be a city wall and a moat. Although a closer look can be determined, the city on the opposite side appears to have been built with trees placed side by side on the ground, and then filled with earth in two rows of trees to build a wall. There is still a big gap compared to the brick and stone city walls, but the infantry is also extremely troubled when attacking the city with both "castle" and "pool". This is not an existence that can be taken without paying a considerable amount of human life. To build such a city, it is necessary to have a strong organizational force, at least ordinary Han army princes have no such ability.

Seeing that the Han princes were silent, Gorten spoke: "When fighting the enemy, I think they will set up a formation by their river. Let's not go up and fight with them, and after the engagement, we must feign defeat first. ”

The princes of the Han army all thought that the war was naturally to be won, and when they heard that the battle was about to be defeated, these people were stunned. They stared at Wanhu Gorten with wide eyes, their eyes full of puzzlement.

Gorten said calmly: "I have seen that it is more than ten miles from the river on their side to our side, and when they are tired from pursuit, we will use cavalry to go around their backs. You take advantage of the situation and fight back. In this way, they were killed in one fell swoop. ”

Hearing such a strategy, the incomprehension in the eyes of the Han army princes turned into admiration. It is worthy of being a Mongolian nobleman who is good at fighting, and what he takes out casually is a first-class plan. Just as they were about to express their admiration, Gorten continued: "But defeat and retreat are afraid that it will become a rout. So I'll just take this as the best way to see if there are any other ways to do it. ”

After saying that, Gorten looked at the five thousand households. If all his men were Mongols, Gorten was fully confident that he would implement this tactic, because this tactic was a very common tactic for the Mongols. At the time of the Western Expedition, in the war to destroy the Western Xia and the Jin State, such tactics repeatedly reaped victories. But when his subordinates were Han soldiers, Gorten felt that he had to be cautious. As he just said, the defeat of the Han army may directly turn into a rout.

Unless they have to fight due to a surprise attack, the general battlefield is tacitly performed by both warring parties. This time, the battlefield was located right in the middle of the northern city of labor and the main camp of the Mongolian army. Early the next morning, the horses of both sides began to move back and forth throughout the battlefield. Seeing the Mongolian horse galloping in every corner of the battlefield, Fei Bin, who was in charge of the preparation for the battlefield, couldn't help but start to speak.

The best scenario that everyone can think of before the war is that the Mongols do not scout, are not sure, and go to the battlefield with a big grin. However, the Mongolian army in reality is very cautious from any point of view, and the Mongolian army not only thought of the joints that the Haizhou Tuntian army could think of, but also implemented them earnestly.

Even if he had full confidence in his own artillery, Fei Bin still felt very disappointed, if the Mongol army could be careless, the victory rate of the Tuntian army would be improved.

At this point, however, there was no other way. When the sun was fully rising, the Mongol horses retreated. On two stretches of the horizon there were large groups of men. The troops of the Tuntian Army and the Mongol Army began to advance to the battlefield.

On the whole, the battlefield where the two sides fought was a large flat land more than 100 miles long and 20 miles wide, bordered by water on three sides and facing the sea on one side. Such a large territory was enough for an army of more than 100,000 people to fight, and the Mongols sent more than 4,000 people. The Tuntian army sent 10,000 men.

As soon as the Mongol Wanhu saw the size of the other party, he judged that the opponent's army must be at least 8,000, and he felt a little uneasy when he landed. Most wars were won by the superior side, and the Mongols' magic weapon was to gather superior forces in the space of engagement. There was not enough room for the Mongols to be mobile, and the army under Wanhu was not a cavalry that was known for its mobility.

However, he was not willing to retreat like this, because the retreat would have too much impact on morale. And what about after the retreat? Withdrawal?

If you want to complete the previous task and loot the land where Zhao Jiaren farmed, you must break through the place where the grain is gathered. In other words, to attack the city behind Zhao Jiaren's army. Instead of that, it is better to fight with Song Jun first. The Mongol troops under his command all had several years of military experience, and some even had more than ten years of military experience. Zhao Jiaren has only been here for three or four years, and it is impossible to have a strong army.

Since both sides wanted to be able to line up and fight again, both sides were given time to line up. The Mongol side is a very traditional column model. The small army leader led the column and followed the banner of the big army leader. For an hour or so, the front four squares were lined up. The Mongol Wanhu left a thousand-man squad and the Mongol cavalry as the central army.

Although the Tuntian army was outnumbered by the Mongols, they were familiar with the terrain and the troops were guided by waist drums. The soldiers did not have to bother, they only had to follow the beat of the drum, according to the pace of more than 100,000 steps that had been trained in more than two years, and followed the march of the company that had been trained thousands of times. The time for the troops to complete the reorganization was even less than that of the Mongol army.

This is a very ordinary Spanish phalanx, after the reform of the Spanish phalanx, it is 75% light musketeers, 25% spearmen, Zhao Jiaren's musket production is not enough, here it becomes half each.

At the front of the formation were sixteen artillery companies, each with six two-pound guns. 96 two-pound guns were placed securely on the gun carriage. One song jin is about 1.2 city catties, and one pound is 0.9 city catties. Therefore, the two-pound cannon was only a little smaller than the three-pound gun, and this difference in weight did not have any effect on the battle at this time.

Further behind were the soldiers and their four-meter-long spears. At this time, the spears were all standing upright, as if they were a dense forest. The pikemen were in a ring, so the Mongols could not see the dense array of musketeers in the middle of the pike.

Before the soldiers on both sides were put into the fight, dozens of people came out of Mongolia, including Nobunaga Shaman, a great monk in a robe, a bull-nosed Taoist priest, a thief bald in Tibetan Tantra, a green cloth holding a holy book of great food, and some foreign monks holding a cross. To provide spiritual comfort to believers of different faiths.

The Tuntian army here encountered a big scene for the first time, and everyone was nervous in their hearts, but there were actually a lot of small problems. Just when the commanders were anxious, there was a group of demons on the other side...... The commanders of all units were sincerely grateful for the grand event of the blessings of the gods.

Taking advantage of this time, each company began to urgently deal with the problems of its own company. The Mongolian army prayed for blessings for half an hour, and the most outrageous artillery company on the side of the Tuntian army forgot to bring the fuse, and even took the fuse back through the cavalry.

The Mongol army opposite the Tuntian army actually wouldn't have tossed for so long in normal times, but Wanhu and five Qianhu were discussing how to deal with such a battle. Because of the superiority of the Song army on the other side, the officers of the Mongolian army felt that it was more dangerous to play that trick to lure the enemy again. If you can't lure the enemy deeper, what remains is a very traditional means of field warfare. But the Song army's marquis's spear array made the Han army have a headache, and they couldn't think of a way to deal with it for the time being.

The Mongol Wanhu Gorten was not nervous, the Mongols had been fighting for so many years, and from the east to the west, they had seen countless spear formations. The way to deal with this kind of gun formation is very simple, that is, to find a way to destroy the formation of the gun formation. A four-meter-long spear would never be able to engage in melee combat, as long as it could break through, even if it was just a small opening, it would collapse the entire gun formation.

After talking about the theoretical principle of breaking the spear formation, Gorten said to those Qianhu who admired him incomparably: "This time we don't have to rout, the infantry slowly retreated, and the cavalry prepared on both flanks. The Song army on the opposite side has no cavalry, and when the cavalry enters the gun array, you immediately turn back and charge to kill. ”

After such a discussion, the little half hour has ended. Calling back the messengers of the gods from the front of the battle, the Mongols sent the archers to the front line according to very traditional methods.

Although it was autumn, the evacuated oracles were sweating on their bodies. Taoist talisman drawing is considered light manual labor, and these are okay. The immortal shaman is going to dance, the strong man has a lot of bells hanging on his body, and this weight has to be one or twenty catties, and he twists his waist and dances down a few times, and the shaman sweats profusely, and he is almost dehydrated when he is tired.

Wanhu Gorten rode on his horse and watched the camp of the Song army opposite from the front position. He found that there seemed to be no trace of archers in the Song army. In previous wars, in addition to a large number of archers in the Song army, there were also a large number of long-range shooters such as bed crossbows and pedal crossbows.

This Song army is Zhao Jiaren's subordinates, and it is normal for them to have artillery. The Mongolian side has heard that Zhao Jiaren is good at artillery. But the number of artillery was too small. There were more than 5,000 people on Gorten's side, in addition to more than 800 cavalrymen, all of whom carried bows and arrows, there were also more than 800 archers.

Fang Cai Tanma has already checked, and there are only 96 artillery pieces in front of the Song army. Judging from the formation of the Song army, Gorten did not see at all that there was a vacancy for the archers.

At this moment, a ringing arrow shot into the sky. With this sharp sound, the Mongol archers bent their bows and arrows, and the battle was set up, and after prayers, it was about to enter the official stage.