Ignoring the shouts of the Mongolian infantry hundreds of paces away, ignoring the Mongolian cavalry galloping back and forth a hundred paces away. The Song Army Military Band played relaxing music, and the members of the front row teaching team stepped on the drums. With such an example, the Song army brigade behind also stepped on the drum and advanced on the battlefield.

Kublai Khan, the Great Khan of Mongolia, watched from a high place on a dirt slope. He has elongated eyes, which would have been painted round if someone had painted him at this time. The Great Khan of Mongolia had never seen such a disciplined army, never before where discipline could prevail over the human instinct of fear.

The Song army was not all around the action, and the Song army on the periphery was fighting. They lined up in an elongated horizontal front, keeping their comrades behind them. To the surprise of the Mongol Khan, the pikemen stood behind the musketeers. The elite of the Song musket corps was indescribable, and they would only shoot when the Mongol cavalry or infantry arrived fifty paces away from them.

The white smoke from the rows of muskets formed a smoke barrier in front of these troops, and the Mongol army was chaotic compared to this uniform action. The formation was disorganized, the organization was chaotic, and even when the Mongol troops were killed in rows, the fallen Mongol troops looked in disarray.

Since the Mongol army could not break through such a thin barrier, the Song army brigade acted calmly on the battlefield, and by the time Kublai Khan saw it, the six divisions of the Song army that had been put into the battlefield had already surrounded the county seat of Huaxian.

Zhao Jiaren was also in the army at this time. Among the six divisions of the Song army at this time, three divisions were distributed in the west of Huaxian County, outside the east gate, north gate and south gate of Huaxian County, each with the strength of one division of the Song army. When the encirclement of the Song army was about to be completed, the Mongol army was dispatched from inside the city to rush out of the city and line up neatly outside the city.

"Roar, there are reliable generals in the city." Zhao Jiaren couldn't help but say happily. If it was an ordinary general, he would not be able to hold it out when the Song army attacked the city. Unless it was a situation where the troops were extremely inferior, or the combat effectiveness of the two sides was too far apart, the defenders had to hide in the city. At this stage, the Mongol army did not think that its combat effectiveness was much worse than that of the Song army, so they should send troops and horses to protect the city walls outside the city.

No matter how much the combat effectiveness of the Mongol army and the Song army is different in reality, at least the level of this general is not ordinary. Zhao Jiaren felt that he couldn't let go of such a general. At this moment, a herald was brought to Zhao Jiaren, and the herald said loudly: "Report to the captain, we are the seventh division in the north of the city, and the Mongolian army is ready to charge with heavy cavalry on our side. ”

Hearing this, Zhao Jiaren's eyes lit up. China has long had heavy cavalry with armor to charge into battle, and the Jin people have iron-clad chain horses, claiming to kill 100,000 people per battle. The Mongol army also had this kind of heavy cavalry, and someone in the Song army's pre-war staff meeting was responsible for listing all the Mongol arms, and everyone carried out various deductions on the territory where the battle was about to be fought. All kinds of routines were derived from these deductions, and gradually perfected in drills and battles.

Capable generals will naturally make the right judgments. After Marshal Boyan, who commanded the two field armies of the Mongol army to the north, determined the movement of the Song army's troops, he secretly said in his heart! When the Song army entered the encirclement of 'a strong city in front and a chasing army behind' with a completely contrary to the military common sense of this era, although Marshal Boyan did not know what the Song army wanted to do, he was quite expecting such a situation. When the Song army completed the encirclement of Huaxian County in the middle of the Mongolian army, Marshal Boyan felt a strong unease.

If the Song army could really accomplish their military objectives and withstand the onslaught of the Mongol field army while also conquering the county seat of Huaxian County, the Mongol army would have lost their large battalion. The perfect encirclement turned into a joke in an instant. The 80,000 Mongol troops will be left alone in the field without baggage and food.

"Prepare to charge!" Marshal Boyan gave the order in a cold voice. A low horn sounded, and the Mongol cavalry gathered in a dense formation from a loose formation. The Mongols did not immediately attack, and began to coat their horses and knights with heavy armor.

Light cavalry with no armor, or only leather armor, were not suitable for charging into battle. Any general with a modicum of military knowledge knew that he should use a pikeman to resist the onslaught of light cavalry. The cavalry's response to the spear formation was to coat themselves and their horses with thick armor. This kind of heavy armor weighs dozens of pounds, and after wearing these, the horses can't run long distances, so they wear them in relatively close places. After Song Jun saw this, he immediately replied to Captain Zhao.

Zhao Jiaren rode straight to the north of the city without hesitation. At this time, he had to go to the north of the city to help stabilize the morale of the army, and at the same time satisfy Zhao Jiaren's own curiosity. Heavy cavalry charges were soon withdrawn from the stage of history after the development of firearms. Even the famous French cuirassiers, young cavalrymen began to abandon their cuirassiers before the defeat of Napoleon I at Waterloo. They think it's less useful.

When Zhao Jiaren left the army in the west of the city, the Song army had already begun to attack the city. On the opposite side is a small city more than two meters high, and the way to attack the city is completely different from attacking a large city such as Bianliang. When Zhao Jiaren galloped into the Chengbei Army, he saw that all the field artillery in the Chengbei Army had been dragged to the direction facing the Mongolian heavy cavalry. The inside of the army was like a great enemy, and his expression was quite serious.

The division commander, staff officer and others were nervously carrying out the final command, and when they saw Zhao Jiaren coming, they immediately saluted. Zhao Jiaren returned the salute and said: "I came here to take over your command, I came here to see how you can defeat these heavy cavalry." You continue to command. ”

At this time, there was no room for these people to be polite, and after listening to Zhao Jiaren's words, the headquarters of the Seventh Division continued to operate. Zhao Jiaren went to the lookout. Because the Mongol army did not have field artillery, after the Song army arrived at the offensive position, they quickly erected a lookout in the military formation, which was able to condescendingly check the enemy's movements.

Three platforms were built in the north of the city, two of which were three or four meters high, and one was built directly five meters. Zhao Jiaren got on the three- or four-meter-high platform, and immediately felt that he wanted to be poor and go to the next level. Looking to the north, the armor of the Mongol soldiers on the horses is clearly visible. Seeing that those arrays are almost finished, it won't be long before they can attack.

Turning his head to look south, the movement of the Inner Mongolian army in the city was also clearly visible. White smoke rose from the west, east, and south of the city, and needless to say, it was the result of the use of gunpowder weapons. Under the heavy bombardment, the Mongol army at the head of the city had begun to disorganize. Then a huge cloud of smoke suddenly rose from the west wall of the city, and then Zhao Jiaren felt that the platform under his feet began to tremble, and then there was a dull explosion.

Even with good gunpowder, there is no way to easily blow up the masonry city wall, but the earth city wall is not so particular. Coupled with the time constraints, the siege plan was very simple and crude. The Mongols were suppressed with powerful firepower, and then explosives were used to blow up the walls, destroying at least part of the earthen walls and providing a passage for the troops to rush to the top of the city. Long ladders are not impossible, but the efficiency is relatively low.

After such an explosion, the Mongol army in the west of the city immediately panicked, and it could be seen that a large number of troops in the city began to pour towards the west of the city. Then three puffs of smoke and dust rose in succession in the east of the city, indicating that the Song army in the east of the city had also broken through the Mongol army out of the city and began to destroy the city wall.

Is it the west of the city that goes to the city first, or the east of the city that goes to the city first? When Zhao Jiaren was watching, he heard the attendant say: "Tai Lieutenant, the Mongolian army is beginning to attack!" ”

Turning his head, he saw the Mongolian infantry in front of the Mongolian heavy cavalry getting out of the way. Zhao Jiaren was surprised that this was simply a fart off his pants, and then he couldn't help laughing. The reason why I feel that the Mongolian army is troubled is because Zhao Jiaren is standing on a high platform. If you look at it from the ground, those infantry can indeed effectively block the line of sight, making the heavy cavalry charge more sudden.

At this time, there was no obstacle in front of the Mongol heavy cavalry, and they faced the infantry phalanx of the Song army. The cavalrymen urged their mounts and began to march in a neat line. From 300 meters to 200 meters, the ranks of the heavy cavalry were still neat. Zhao Jiaren sighed in his heart that the discipline of the Mongolian cavalry was higher than that of the Mongolian infantry.

After sighing for only a second, the field artillery of the Song army began to roar. The rear row of the Mongol heavy cavalry was shot first, and a small piece was missing from the neat queue. It was a small piece three hundred meters away, and although Zhao Jiaren had not made a targeted comparison, the position where the five-pound cannon was beaten was definitely not only killed by a Mongolian heavy cavalryman. Next, the five-catty cannon and the two-catty cannon began to shoot into the ranks of the Mongolian heavy cavalry one after another. As long as one shot is hit, even if it is only hit by a two-pound cannonball, the Mongol heavy cavalry will immediately lose its combat effectiveness in the most fortunate case.

Judging by the effect, the lucky Mongol heavy cavalry did not seem to be much. Then he saw the knight fall from his horse, or the horse fell to the ground. Each time, it made the queue that looked neat a little chaotic.

Zhao Jiaren looked down at the artillery battalion that was firing fiercely, and he was also quite emotional in his heart. Now Zhao Jiaren is equipped with cannons, which have a straight trajectory and cannot directly hit the enemy behind the shelter. The units of artillery began with an artillery company, a company of six artillery groups, that is, six guns. An infantry battalion has six infantry companies, and an artillery battalion is also six artillery batteries with thirty-six artillery groups.

Now the number of pikemen in the Song army was greatly reduced, so the troops had all kinds of new proposals for organization. There is a great deal of debate about whether there is one artillery battalion or two artillery battalions in each division. At this stage, the Song army did not completely eliminate pikemen, so there was only one artillery battalion in each division.

Even so, more than a hundred shells were fired from the thirty-six guns in less than a minute. These shells were very effective in reducing the speed of the Mongol attack. The Mongol army in the front row was only a hundred meters away from the Song army.

The musketeers, standing side by side with the gunners, began to fire heavily at the rate of four shots. The rate of fire of the paper-shelled bullet fire cap gun could reach six rounds a minute, and the locust-like bullets flew towards the heavy cavalry in pieces, as if the scythe of death had swung through, and the column of heavy cavalry in the front row fell by more than half.

Seeing the intensity of infantry firepower, Zhao Jiaren smiled. It's time to shoot!