Chapter 257: The First Battle with the Mongols

Yue Wudi said with a smile: "Lord Xin and Han Xiang don't know that before the rise of Temujin, the Mongols were still in the era of clans that were the common people in the world, and the spoils looted by the soldiers through the war all belonged to the entire tribe, and the soldiers themselves did not get any benefits. ”

Temujin, on the other hand, in recent years, has begun to practice private ownership among his tribes. Most of the goods looted by the soldiers of his tribe belonged to the soldiers themselves, and they only had to hand over some of them to Temujin. It is precisely because of this that the soldiers of the Temujin tribe have such a strong desire for war. ”

"This ......" Han Yanxuan and Xin Qiji were both a little surprised, and a little dignified, no wonder Yue Wudi would be so jealous of Temujin, this kind of system would really increase the combat strength of the soldiers under his command!

"However, although this can stimulate the soldiers to fight**, it is not all good. You see, it won't be long before someone from the Zamuhe tribe or the Wanghan tribe will turn to Temujinbu. No one wants to keep the spoils of war that they have traded their lives for. I have heard that there are already many small tribes, and for this reason, all of them have fallen under the command of Temujin. Yue Wudi said with a smile.

"What does the virtuous nephew mean that Wang Han and Zamuhe will have a conflict with Temujin sooner or later?" Xin Qiji's pupils shrank, and he immediately thought of this possibility.

Yue Wudi smiled: "This is inevitable. It's a pity that neither Zhamuhe nor Wang Han is Temujin's opponent. We will have to face Temujin in the end, and this is inevitable. So the most important thing for us is to accumulate our own strength, no matter how strong Temujin will become, we only need to be stronger than him, and that will be enough!"

Xin Qiji sighed: "I only found out today. Today, only you can save these thousands of Han people. Temujin will eventually become the most formidable enemy, and this will be the old man if it were not for your reminder from your nephew. I haven't seen it either!"

Han Yanxuan said: "What Mr. Jiaxuan said is very true, if it weren't for Yue Shaoxia's remarks, Han Mou realized the horror of the Mongols, Han Mou held the power of the prime minister, how could he be willing to be driven away by Yue Shaoxia?"

Han Yanxuan's half-truths and half-truths made a wise person like Xin Qiji nod as a matter of course.

Yue Wudi held back a smile, turned his head to look at the Mongolian camp, and said, "Tomorrow, after Temujin finishes resting." I'm afraid that a tentative attack will be launched against us. Han Xiang, send an order to the three armies, get ready. ”

Yue Wudi was not wrong at all, and the next day, before the sky was completely bright, Temujin sent 30,000 cavalry, led by him, Sang Kun and Zamuhe, and the troops were divided into three routes and launched a surprise attack on the Song army camp from three directions.

The Mongol cavalry came and went like the wind. The camps of the two sides were only a few miles apart, and they arrived in the blink of an eye. A hundred meters away, the Mongols began to run around the camp, and at the same time opened their bows and arrows, with the help of the galloping power of war horses, they should have shot the wolf's tooth arrows to a hundred meters away, and they were still powerful.

Arrows from the wolf's teeth were shot into the tent of the great camp. There was no sound, neither screams nor exclamations from inside.

Temujin's eagle winced, but remained silent, just staring straight ahead.

A large column at the outermost point of the Song army. It had been knocked down by the wolf's fangs of the Mongol cavalry, revealing the empty tent inside. The Mongol cavalry who saw this scene were a little surprised, but Temujin did not give the order, and none of them retreated, and they all continued to shoot arrows at the camp tent further inside.

Suddenly, in the camp of the Northern Expeditionary Army, a column of camp tents was torn open the power tent, and arrows the size of spears were shot out from it, which were the bed crossbows of the Northern Expeditionary Army!

The Mongols had never seen this kind of heavy armor within 500 paces, and they wanted to fight with their bows and arrows, but they were shot by huge crossbow arrows with unparalleled force, and each crossbow arrow pierced the bodies of several Mongolian cavalrymen before falling to the ground.

Temujin's eyes stared coldly ahead, and the Mongol cavalry under his command was like straw harvested, but his face did not change in the slightest.

It was as if it was not his own soldiers who were dying, but the enemy troops on the other side.

And those Mongol cavalry, who did not receive the order to retreat from Temujin, did not even retreat without permission, although the bed crossbow was terrible, but they were still struggling to shoot arrows.

"Order, disperse!" Temujin shouted in a cold voice.

"Order, the formation disperses!" Mu Huali waved the flag, he was the commander of ten thousand soldiers, as soon as the flag moved, the commanders and centurions under his command received orders one after another, and conveyed the orders.

In an instant, the Mongol cavalry, out of extreme danger, dispersed in an orderly manner, and for a time, the threat of bed crossbows was greatly weakened.

It's just that in this way, many Mongol cavalry were squeezed into the rear, and their bows and arrows could no longer pose a threat to the Song army.

"Forward!" Temujin ordered. The order was resounded through the banner, and the Mongol cavalry rushed forward.

The cavalry in the front row fell down in rows under the fierce fire of the bed crossbows, and the corpses of men and horses were piled up on the ground, which became an obstacle to the advance of the subsequent Mongol cavalry. It's just that the riding skills of the Mongolian cavalry are really too much more than the cavalry of the Jin Kingdom, even if the front is full of corpses, they still easily control the horses to cross.

Those corpses could not be an obstacle to the advance of the Mongol cavalry at all.

In the blink of an eye, the Mongolian cavalry at the forefront entered within a hundred paces of the bed crossbow, which was already the range of their bows and arrows, and there was no need to give orders at this time, the Mongolian cavalry shot arrows one after another, this was their instinct.

The phrase "Mounted Shooting Wushuang" is not a joke, in such a murderous battlefield, the Mongols' arrows are still shot with great accuracy. Many soldiers of the Northern Expeditionary Army who operated bed crossbows were shot and killed by the Mongol cavalry.

However, the Mongols also paid a heavy price for this, and the bed crossbowmen who could not follow up controlled the bed crossbows, and the huge crossbow arrows were stimulated, and the Mongols and horses were penetrated together.

The whole battlefield was extremely tragic, the Mongols did not care about life and death, and the Northern Expeditionary Army was also imposing, holding their positions and refusing to retreat.

Within just 100 meters, it suddenly became a huge meat grinding field.

Yue Wudi looked at the shocking scene in front of him, but his heart was as quiet as stopping water.

Relatively speaking, the Northern Expeditionary Army still has the advantage at the moment, and the Mongol cavalry, with their rudimentary bows and arrows, must pay more than three times the price at the same time if they want to get past the slaughter of the bed crossbow and kill a Northern Expeditionary soldier.

But Yue Wudi knew that this advantage would not last long, the Mongols had 70,000 cavalry, and once they were all put in, with bed crossbows, they would be far from being able to completely keep the other party out.

And he also believed that Temujin was completely ruthless, and used the lives of the Mongol soldiers to consume the bed crossbow of the Northern Expeditionary Army, because he was eager to fight with the Northern Expeditionary Army at this time and test the true combat power of the Northern Expeditionary Army.

Temujin had indeed intended this, and he was shocked by the horror of the bed crossbows of the Northern Expeditionary Army, and there was a fire in his heart, and he hated these clever things, and did not believe that his warriors would be helpless in front of these bed crossbows. He hoped to cross the bed crossbow of the Northern Expeditionary Army and really fight with them, because then he could achieve his goal of testing the combat strength of the Northern Expeditionary Army.

Temujin's wish was fulfilled by the life-and-death charge of the Mongol cavalry under his command, and after paying the lives of nearly 5,000 cavalrymen, the remaining 5,000 Mongol cavalry crossed the bed crossbow as they wished.

Bows and arrows were fired, and the Mongols asked themselves to be invincible. Sure enough, although the archery skills of the Northern Expeditionary Army are also good, there is still a big gap compared with their Mongols, not to mention that they shoot arrows in the gallop of war horses, and their strength is much greater.

Under the vertical and horizontal shooting of the Mongols, the archers of the Northern Expeditionary Army suffered heavy losses. However, the Mongolian cavalry was not comfortable, and the officers and men of the Northern Expeditionary Army, even if they had an arrow in their hearts, had to shoot an arrow again before they died.

Temujin's pupils shrank, and the Mongol cavalry did not take much advantage of the Mongols' best cavalry, which made him even more dignified.

"Charge!" Temujin's eyes flashed with cold lightning, and he ordered loudly again. Less than 5,000 Mongolian cavalry, suddenly while controlling the horse charge, while shooting arrows, a hundred paces away, under the gallop of the war horse, just a few breaths of time, the Mongols approached the archers of the Northern Expeditionary Army, immediately pulled out their scimitars, wanting to kill all the archers.

Suddenly, in the Northern Expeditionary Army, a group of bronze hammer soldiers crossed out, replaced the archers, became the front row, the copper hammer waved, specifically at the horse's head to smash, among which Bi Zaiyu was even more courageous, a pair of drum urns and golden hammers smashed the Mongolian cavalry on their backs.

However, the bravery of the Mongol cavalry was by no means comparable to that of the Jurchens, they were superb in riding, and many times they were able to control their horses to avoid the copper hammer, and the scimitar in their hands even cut the neck of the copper hammer soldiers.

In this battle, there are still losses on both sides, and they are not small.

There was a gloomy look in Temujin's eyes, and then Bol suddenly reported: "The Great Khan, Zamuhe and Sankun, under the attack of the bed crossbow, have suffered heavy losses and have already retreated!"

Temujin's face suddenly sank, and he ordered hatefully: "In that case, let's also withdraw our troops." The Song people really turned into tigers as Yan Yi said. ”

Under Temujin's orders, the Mongol cavalry did not like to fight, and turned their horses and left, and the Northern Expeditionary Army wanted to chase and kill, but they turned around on their horses and shot arrows, and shot many in a row. Under the orders of the commander, the pursuit can only be stopped.

The fierceness of the Mongols' battle and the calm retreat made all the officers and men of the Northern Expeditionary Army have a fire in their hearts. Since the Northern Expedition, they have always been like a bamboo, and even the fortified city of Luoyang was broken overnight, but at this moment, they were blocked by a group of Mongolian savages, how could they not be angry?

As for the insignificant record of killing at least more than 5,000 Mongols, in the face of such a record as the great destruction of Luoyang and the annihilation of 90,000 enemies outside Kaifeng, they didn't even bother to mention it, so they naturally didn't take it to heart. (To be continued......)