Chapter 51: Frightened
The cavalry of the Song army was mighty, the harness and armor were complete, and the horses of the river meanders were all the same, and the sky was full of moving heads and horses, and the momentum was compelling. In Li Quan's array, some generals screamed.
"How could the Song army have so many cavalry?"
For a long time, the reason why the Jin army could win more and lose less against the Song army was that it had the advantage of cavalry, and if it was an infantry field battle, the Jin army did not have much chance of winning.
"What's all the fuss about? The Song army occupied the land of Hexi and Hehuang to raise horses, and there were tens of thousands of war horses a year, and Huaidong was a border fortress, so how could there be a shortage of cavalry? ”
Another Mongolian general shook his head and sighed.
"With so many tall horses, why didn't they give us some points? If you want me to say, Emperor Song is really not a thing, he always guards against thieves and guards against us! ”
Another general complained and was indignant.
He didn't want to think about it, even in the Chuzhou Rebellion that year, they killed the important ministers of the Song Dynasty and the Huaidong system envoy Xu Guo, and they did not listen to moderation, which was like a rebellion, and the court did not cut off their money and food, and they swallowed their anger for three years.
Now that they have voted for the Wokotai of Mongolia, they have turned against the Song Dynasty and want to be left and right, which is really whimsical and shameless.
"Aren't we thieves? It's a pity that Song Ting is not easy to fool. Now he and Song Ting have torn their faces, and they can only meet each other with swords. Otherwise, we can get some benefits. If you don't make it, you can still ......"
The other black and thin general, Tian Tian, was shameless and said with a smile.
He raised his head casually, and found that Li Quanzheng turned his head, his eyes were vicious, looking at him like a poisonous snake, his heart was pounding, and he said with a smile on his face:
"Enfu!"
Li Quan's eyes were cold, and the black and thin general was uneasy, so he quickly lowered his head, not daring to look at Li Quan.
annoyed the "Enfu", and if you don't get it right, your life will be lost, and your head will fall to the ground.
"Look, there's a fight on the Sailor's side!"
Suddenly, a general shouted loudly, attracting everyone's attention, and even Li Quan turned his head, beat his horse to the west, and went straight to the canal to the west.
The black thin general broke out in a cold sweat and secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
After this vicious battle, whether you win or lose, I am afraid you will have to run for the future. Otherwise, you don't know when you'll die.
Looking at the canal again, the sound of the Song army's artillery was earth-shattering, which seemed to overpower the thunderous hooves of the Mongolian cavalry on the bank.
"Fire!"
Amid the rumbling sound of artillery, Liu Keyong stood in the artillery array on the bank of the canal, directing the gunners in the army to load ammunition and constantly fire artillery at the Mongolian warships on the canal.
The artillery array was 100 paces long, swinging out in turn, divided into three rows, nearly 100 artillery pieces were fired in turn, and iron pellets and iron balls poured towards the warships of the Mongol army.
The firearms of the Song army are neatly equipped, except for the standard 5 earth-shaking thunders for the soldiers, a 30-pound small cannon for every 50 people, plus another 100-pound medium-sized cannon in the army, the firepower is naturally not weak.
Iron pills and iron balls rampage, the Mongolian warship was beaten into countless holes, the ship's side hatch was broken everywhere, the Mongolian army desperately fought back through the side of the ship, the arrows were like flying locusts, although the Song army on the shore was covered by a shield, but it was still shot down. The feathered arrows on the shore shot into the ground like a forest of steel arrows that suddenly grew.
The grenadiers of the Song army had a round shield on their heads, ignited the earth-shattering thunder, and were not afraid of casualties, and ran to throw bombs on the warship. The earth-shattering thunder bombarded indiscriminately, and the blood and flesh on the Mongolian warship flew sideways, and the terrible screams continued, and there was a tragic blend of iron and blood.
Li Jun, the general of the Mongolian army's naval division, commanded at the bow of the ship, and beside him, several wounded Mongolian soldiers howled in a pool of blood, and the injury made Li Jun creepy. The firearms of the Song army were so fierce and dense that the Mongol troops were constantly overturned, either dead or wounded. I don't know if the fight continues, whether the whole army will be wiped out.
Because the shipbuilding technology of the Song Dynasty adopted the technology of watertight cabins, although some Mongolian warships were broken and the Mongolian soldiers suffered heavy casualties, they did not care about casualties, and the Song army was constantly shot down by constantly firing arrows from the hull, and even the gunners were affected.
"Bomb dropping!"
Li Junsheng was hoarse, and the thick bowl mouth and round earth-shaking thunder were thrown out by the small stone throwing machine of the Mongolian army, and flew from the boat to the shore, and some of them exploded into the crowd of the Song army, causing pieces of screams and exclamations.
Although the Mongolian army did not have the portable sky-shaking thunder like the Song army, there was no shortage of ordinary round ball earth-shaking thunder. Although the power of gunpowder was not great, it was superior to the large size and large amount of gunpowder, which caused a certain amount of damage to the Song army.
"These dog thieves are tough enough!"
The former army was commanding Sun Liguo to command the artillery to release artillery, and he was covered with sweat.
"These guys are seaside idlers, prisoners, smugglers, outlaws. The boats are all on the water, and it's not easy to deal with! ”
Liu Guoping, the former deputy general of the army, held a shield, and the feather arrows were shot at the shield, and "Bangbang" sounded.
Both of them are graduates of Jinling Jiangwutang, which is also a common practice for generals in the army, and half of the generals are from Jiangwutang.
A round earth-shattering thunder came in smoke and volleyed into the air, landing a few meters in front of Sun Liguo, everyone was shocked, and hurriedly lay down, shields to cover their bodies. The earth-shattering thunder exploded, the shield cracked, and the two Song soldiers and shield hands fell to the ground in a languishing, one fell to the ground and groaned, and the other had blood gushing from his chest, and his eyes were wide open, as if he had died.
"I'll fuck your uncle!"
Liu Guoping burst out a mantra of the emperor's principal and roared behind him.
"Bomb drop! Destroy him for Lao Tzu! ”
Dozens of soldiers ran forward, some were shot down, and some of them rained down on the Mongolian warships with smoking thunder in their hands.
Thick smoke billowed out, wood thorns and sawdust flew, and the screams of the Mongolian warships continued, and countless pieces of meat and human organs fell into the river one after another, like a rain of flesh.
"I'll go! Luckily, there are firearms! ”
The Mongolian army's offensive was frustrated, Liu Guoping exhaled, only then did he feel a sharp pain in his palm, and when he looked down, the little finger and ring finger of his left hand were cut off in half, and they were drenched in blood.
"Hurry up, fast bandage him!"
Sun Liguo shouted loudly, Liu Guoping frowned, didn't say a word, and left immediately.
"This kid, you can bear this. It's hard enough! ”
Sun Liguo shook his head, looked at the Mongolian warships on the canal, and muttered.
"The water master still wants the water master to deal with it, where is the water master? Why don't you see them come out? ”
Inadvertently seeing Liu Keyong with a black face behind him, Sun Liguo couldn't help but be startled.
"General!"
"What's whining? Without a sailor, you won't be fighting anymore? Did the martial arts teach you this? ”
Liu Keyong angrily reprimanded his subordinates, and his eyes involuntarily looked in the direction of Yangzhou City.
Zhenjiang Water Division, Jinling Water Division, Ezhou Water Division, and 450,000 Jianghu Water Divisions of the Great Song Dynasty, there should always be some who come out to set up a field.
Before the Song army's big array, the Mongolian cavalry soon entered the range of Erli, they began to accelerate, the iron hooves of the war horses flew over, and the field was full of galloping ironclad warriors, mercury poured on the ground, fierce and vicious.
More than 1,000 Mongolian heavy cavalry were in front, they were armed with thick spears and heavy iron rods, and the heavy cavalry was dressed in solid armor and horses with protective gear, just like an iron floating massacre. Behind them, thousands of cavalry light cavalry of the Mongolian army followed closely with horned bows in hand, but they went straight to the right flank of the Song army.
"General, do you want to fire immediately?"
Jia Rudao's little heart beat violently without fighting.
"What's the hurry? Wait for them to get closer! ”
Xin Su looked at the galloping Mongolian heavy cavalry, and his heart beat faster unconsciously.
The army has its own officers with actual combat experience transferred from the Northwest Frontier Army, and what are the tactics of the Mongolian army, and what the lethality and impact are, Xin Su probably understands, and the "Tatar Policy" also roughly informs them. It's just that in the face of the impact of thousands of troops, he can't help but feel afraid.
If you don't have firearms, you're afraid of ......
Iron hooves trampled the ground, the ground trembled violently, and the Mongolian heavy cavalry quickly advanced into a range of one mile, their horses accelerated, and the knights immediately looked hideous, and it seemed that they were about to break the large array of the Song army.
"Fire!"
Xin Su's forehead was covered with sweat, and he couldn't hold back it anymore, roaring angrily.
"Puffy Puff!"
On the artillery position of the Song army, hundreds of general guns opened fire first, thick smoke rose, and hundreds of seven-pound solid iron balls came out of their chests, splitting their heads and covering their faces, and went straight to the surging Mongolian iron cavalry.
The iron ball fell to the ground, bounced and galloped, and collided head-on with the galloping Mongolian heavy cavalry, the sound of terrible fractures continued, the war horse fell to the ground with a sad roar, and the Mongolian heavy cavalry was thrown off the horse one after another, and was annihilated by the smoke and dust and the cavalry that overtook behind.
The rumbling cannon rang out again, and hundreds of medium-sized sub-mother guns opened fire together. The shotguns flew, and the cross-section of more than two miles in front of the Song army's large array was covered, and the iron pills were dense and urgent, hitting the people and horses, and the blood mist was filled, and the Mongolian heavy cavalry was planted under the horses one by one.
Hundreds of small cannons continued to fire, and the iron pellets were fierce and swift, and continued to kill the Mongol light and heavy cavalry.
The three kinds of artillery opened fire one after another, and the sky was full of flying iron pellets and iron balls, of different sizes, flowing clouds and water, breathtaking, they smashed into the Mongolian cavalry formation, wantonly killing, and disregarded human lives.
The sound of artillery was deafening, the iron balls and iron pills roared away, and the Mongolian cavalry who fought staggered from side to side, and people turned their horses on their backs, and as far as the eye could see, there was a battlefield full of smoke and dust and countless casualties, like a hell on earth.
In the midst of the Mongolian army's array, Li Quan's face was pale, and his body trembled slightly.
Before the two sides could engage in battle, the Mongol army paid at least 1,000 cavalry dead and wounded. As for the Mongol heavy cavalry, they were almost killed and wounded, and very few could break out of the Song army's artillery and shoot them.
This cavalry assault, the battle situation can be described as tragic, and the casualties can be described as heavy.
I thought that the cavalry was strong enough to destroy the withering and decaying, but who knew that the artillery of the Song army was so fierce that the jade was burning.
Up to now, only by relying on the cavalry to break through the right flank of the Song army, and the two armies fighting close to each other, can they have the possibility of victory.
The Song army's central army was under the big line, the order flag waved, and the cavalry on the right wing of the Song army's large array urged the horses forward, eight thousand iron horsemen, the iron armor was cold, like a moving steel torrent, facing the Mongolian cavalry formation that came from afar.
All sabers, riding spears and round shields, earth-shaking thunder, everyone with crossbows and horned bows, cold and shining steel armor, and high-headed horses in Hexi.
The cavalry lineup of the Song army was neat, and it could be said that it was armed to the teeth.
Even so, the charge was as unpredictable as ever. No one knows, after a collision, who will lose their lives?