The sound of the horn sounded, and the Mongolian cavalry who were fighting with the Thunderbolt army suddenly became excited, and they rampage violently like a red-eyed bull, which made the already inferior Thunderbolt cavalry even more dangerous for a while. Just as the cavalry formation of the Perak Army was broken through and surrounded by division, a loud brass horn sounded from the position of the middle army of the Perak Army. The three cavalry battalions that heard the sound of the brass horn immediately adjusted their formation and quickly retreated to the rear of the infantry, and for a time they retreated cleanly, exposing the entire infantry formation to the front of the Mongol cavalry.

Liu Heima was overjoyed when he saw this, and he was quite complacent about his decision. In his opinion, the cavalry of the Perak Army had been crippled, and at that moment, all the cavalry from three directions needed to charge collectively and make a centripetal assault could break through the hastily built infantry defense line of the Perak Army and destroy all the artillery in one fell swoop. As long as there is no artillery, the infantry will be lambs to the slaughter, and the cavalry, which has fled a few miles away, has been severely wounded and wounded, and has long since become frightened birds, and there is nothing to fear. He then gave another order, and ordered his cavalry to launch a death charge towards the infantry camp. At present, the Mongol cavalry was only two or three miles away from the Thunderbolt infantry, and it could be reached in an instant.

The Mongolian army is worthy of being a strong army to conquer the world, and under the order, it adjusted its formation and rushed to the Thunderbolt army in a very short time, and the whole process was like flowing water in one go. Different from his self-confidence, Hu Du, who led the charge from the left flank, suddenly had an ominous premonition in his heart, which he couldn't help but shiver, saying that the tragic situation of Liu Da'er's cavalry under Meizhou City after charging into battle still made him palpitate. However, he kept comforting himself in his heart, how could Liu Da'er's cavalry be compared to the Mongol cavalry? Moreover, they only had two hundred horsemen, and the current Thunderbolt army did not have a good defensive line and artillery positions. It's just that as the distance between the two sides gets closer and closer, the thunderbolt soldiers in front of them are not chaotic, but are constantly rushing to the low wall and the van.

Kudu, who was in the center of the charging procession, suddenly caught a glimpse of a fire in front of him from the dense gap between the horse's head and the man's head, which made his heart sink sharply, and he hurriedly ordered the horse's head to turn around and retreat. As soon as he finished speaking, the firelight flashed frequently, and the dense cannon fire rang out at the same time, and a large cloud of white smoke rose above the Thunderbolt line. As soon as Kudu turned his horse's head to the right, he found that the cavalry in front of him had fallen by at least a third. In a hurry, he rode his war horse and fled in a large arc to the rear, followed by another round of artillery behind him, and many horses around him neighed and fell to the ground, and even the soldiers who followed him lost half of them. The continuous shelling made Kudu's heart frightened, and he jerked at the war horse under his seat, and the painful mount rushed out hundreds of meters at once.

Kudu, who was lucky enough to escape two rounds of shelling, did not escape the third round of shelling after all. A shotgun broke one of his mount's hind legs. The horse neighed and fell, and the Kudu was thrown several meters away. Fortunately, the land of the western Sichuan Plain was soft and overgrown with weeds, and it was as if he had fallen on the carpet, but he was just bruised and swollen. Seeing Kudu's mount fall to the ground, a few soldiers who followed closely behind him kicked off the horse of one of the cavalrymen next to him and pulled him onto the saddle that had just been vacated as he passed Kudu. Protecting the commander is the first task of these soldiers, and as for the unlucky ghost who was kicked down, whether he can survive the artillery fire depends on whether his life is hard or not.

Suddenly, under the protection of his own soldiers, he escaped for several miles in one go, and did not stop to catch his breath until he fled behind the array of the Mongol Han army. He ordered the number of people who fled with him to be counted, and found that only about two hundred horsemen remained, which made him angry and frightened. Of course, the anger was due to heavy losses, and he personally led the five hundred cavalry on the left flank to lose most of them in one battle, which was really an unbearable loss. The fear was because the fear of artillery had penetrated deep into the bone marrow, and the loss of less than 100 cavalry in the fierce battle with the Perak cavalry for more than a quarter of an hour just now, but in a few rounds of artillery bombardment, it lost nearly 200 cavalry. If he hadn't taken the opportunity to retreat, he would have suffered more serious losses, and maybe he would have lost his life here.

The Kudu cavalry attacking the right flank had also witnessed the power of the artillery, so they also fled quickly after the Thunderbolt army opened fire, but the commander who led the team was not as alert as the Kudu, and the order to escape was given a moment late, so the losses were even more serious, and only more than 100 cavalry escaped. After this battle, there were only more than 300 cavalry left in the 1,000 cavalry of the Kudu Division, which was basically a sales number. When the two remnants of the cavalry converged, they suddenly looked at the sparse cavalry queue in front of them, and wanted to kill themselves with their swords, but they were held down by their subordinates. He has been in the army for more than 30 years since he was a child, and he has never suffered such a heavy defeat. Throughout the nearly thirty years of the Mongol invasion of the Song Dynasty, it is rare for the Mongol cavalry to suffer a crushing defeat with such a high casualty rate.

In fact, the charge of the Mongol Han cavalry was more ferocious than the Mongol cavalry attacking both flanks. Although Liu Heima was able to command western Sichuan by hugging Kublai Khan's thigh, many Mongolian generals had no reverence for him. Especially in the eyes of the Mongol generals, Liu Heima and the Mongol Han army under him were just "grass seeds", just ministers of Kublai Khan, and still second-class people in the empire. Therefore, Liu Heima, Yelu Maizhu and others held their breath to prove the strength of the Mongol Han army and subdue the unruly Mongol generals with their achievements. Therefore, the momentum of his charge is extremely fierce, and there is a great heroism of "the strong man is gone", which is also the so-called "conversion fanaticism". What's more, although Liu Heima knew the power of the Thunderbolt artillery, and Yelu Maizhu had even seen it before, they didn't know that the Thunderbolt artillery technology had already been iterated several times, and the power was far from being comparable before.

Yelumaizhu is also a fierce general, under his lead in the charge, the frontal Mongolian Han cavalry is much more powerful than the Mongolian cavalry on both wings, because this charge not only has more than 700 horsemen, but also includes Liu Heima's trump card and the last killer - 200 heavy cavalry also went into battle. Although the 800 lightly armed cavalry who charged head-on just now inflicted heavy casualties on the Thunderbolt cavalry, they also lost more than 200 cavalry themselves. Liu Heima did not hesitate to let the remaining lightly armed cavalry rush in front to clear the way, just so that the heavy cavalry that followed behind would kill the Thunderbolt army with one blow. It's just that although his small movements were hidden, they were still discovered by Cao Ergou, who was standing on the lookout with a telescope and observing.

Liu Heima's Mongol Han army had a total of 1,000 cavalry, of which 800 were lightly armed cavalry equipped with leather armor and 200 were heavy cavalry equipped with iron helmets and iron armor. As a Sinicized nomadic people, the Khitans are not only famous for their cavalry, but also extremely good at fighting, but they have all been defeated by the Jurchens' strong heavy cavalry "Tiefutu" and the Tangut heavy cavalry "Iron Harrier". Of course, the Khitan Liu Heima knew the power of the Jurchen "Iron Floating Massacre", so he spent a lot of money to build his own "Iron Floating Massacre". These heavy cavalry because the men and horses are heavily armoured, the requirements for the horses are extremely high, the daily feeding is also very fine, each cavalry also needs two auxiliaries to help transport the armor and weapons of the horses, and it takes a long time before charging to put on heavy armor for the horses. Although it is expensive and inconvenient to use, there is a reason why Liu Heima still gritted his teeth to raise this heavy cavalry - these heavy armored cavalry each have a total weight of at least 1,500 catties, just like a tank in the era of cold weapons, once charged, no one can resist it.