In the Southern Song Dynasty, I competed with Mongolia for the world

Chapter 218 Mongolian No.1 General
The combat effectiveness of the Sichuan army was still strong during Cui Yuzhi's tenure. Since Cui Yuzhi left, the system behind him was not working, and the military equipment was getting worse and worse.

Before Zhao Yurui ascended the throne, the Sichuan army was still using this formation, but due to the lack of military equipment, the pikemen could not stand up, and the archers were getting weaker and weaker. This tactic was actually useless.

After Zhao Yurui ascended the throne, they saw that Wu Lin's tactics were more agreeable, discussed with Meng Gong, and improved. Under normal circumstances, there is a layer of artillery behind, but now the artillery is too late, and they are still dozens of miles away. All on foot.

One improvement of Zhao Yurui is that the front row of pikemen added shields.

The Song army in Wu Lin's time had no shields in the front row and relied entirely on spears to resist cavalry. The key point was to squat still, which was a bit stupid.

It's okay to beat the current Jinren and Xixia, but when the Mongolian army rides and shoots in a storm, it's just a gift.

Moreover, this style of play places great demands on the quality and discipline of the pikemen, and even those who are not afraid of death are at the front.

Why did Wu Lin use the main formation and the second formation, because the main formation is always broken.

When the pikemen collapsed in front, the cavalry rushed in behind, and the crossbowmen would give away their heads, so they were easily defeated when they encountered the Mongolian army.

Of course, Zhao Yurui's queue training was strictly disciplined, but he still added shields in a humane way, and instead of the round shields of the Song people, he used the large rectangular shields of the Europeans.

So at this time, Gao Zhiyao was also taken aback when he saw Song Jun.

I saw the Song Army infantry dismounting one after another, and many of them had long shields hanging on one side.

The shield was larger than any they had ever seen, and it was a rare rectangle. (After all, the mainstream of the world is still the small buckler)
What shocked Gao Zhiyao even more was the Song Army's discipline.

After these Song soldiers arrived, they quickly stepped down and lined up according to the orders. During the whole process, except for the orders of the officers, almost no one spoke, and the actions were quickly in place.

And their spirit and morale are rare for Gao Zhiyao to see.

His own Xixia soldiers were all downcast when they saw the main force of the Mongolian army coming. Many of them still had expressions of fear and shrinkage on their faces, and they had no fighting spirit at all.

The expressions of the Song soldiers did not change much, and their eyes were sharper. Some people were quite excited, and of course, there must be some people who were afraid.

But the overall momentum and morale are much stronger than Xixia soldiers.

Because the biggest use of queue training is to boost morale.

Anyone who has seen the military parade knows that the uniformity and strict discipline can bring great visual impact to people.

These Song soldiers followed Zhao Yurui's people after more than a year of formation training, plus the food was in place, the army was not in arrears, and they often watched their own formation demonstrations. Everyone knew that their formation was very spectacular, very shocking, and not easy. Get broken so everyone has morale.

In addition, whether it is the Sichuan Army, the Zhongyi Army, or the Zhongshun Army here, they have been fighting for the first two years before Zhao and Rui ascended the throne, so they look quite elite now.

Just as the Song army got off their horses and formed an formation against the Hulu River, Tuo Lei was also arranging an attack.

Tuo Lei is known as the strongest commander in the history of Mongolia, the No.1 general of Mongolia. Many historians believe that Genghis Khan's "four steeds", "four mastiffs" and eight great generals are not as good as him, especially his strategic vision It is unique and quite powerful.

If he hadn't died too early, it is estimated that the Southern Song Dynasty would have died long ago.

This is the first time he has fought against the Song army. He attaches great importance to it and is very careful.

Tuo Lei didn't expect to meet a large group of Song Jun here.

He knew that his father Khan planned to form an alliance with the State of Song, and after Xixia was destroyed, he had to consider the matter of eliminating gold.

But the Song people didn't talk about Wude, so they abducted so many cattle, sheep and horses from Xixia.

But will this destroy the peace talks with the Song people?
Tuo Lei just thought about it, then immediately shook his head and vetoed it.

The people of Song Dynasty are very good at fooling around. When the time comes to apologize and say a few good words, the emperor of Song Dynasty and his subordinates will be so excited that they will die of excitement. We must still make an alliance to destroy gold.

Fighting is definitely necessary, but how to fight, whether to defeat and drive away, or to kill them all, has to be carefully considered.

"Yike Nayan" Just when Tuo Lei was considering whether to kill all the Song people, Ao Tun Shiying, the general beside Tuo Lei, stepped forward and said: "The cattle and sheep are not here, why don't you take people across the river at the end? Regardless of this Song army, go after the cattle and sheep first?"

'Yike Nayan' is the honorific name for Tuolei in the Mongolian army, which is similar to the 'big official' of the Song people.

In the Mongolian army, most of the people were called Tuolei Yeke Nayan, some were called the Fourth Prince, and some were called Daguanren.

And Aotun Shiying is one of the top ten powerful generals under Tuo Lei's subordinates, and they are all top generals in the Mongolian army in history.

Ao Tun Shiying is a Jurchen whose ancestors were from the Kingdom of Jin. He assisted Wanyan Aguda in conquering the Kingdom of Liao and was named king with a different surname. He is considered the clan of the Kingdom of Jin.

Aotun Shiying has a strong physique since he was a child. He is brave and good at archery and proficient in military tactics. He is a rare general among Jin generals. Genghis Khan knew that Autun Shiying was a talented man with both civil and military skills. He personally gave him a tiger talisman and ordered him to be subordinate to Duohuo Lucheli of the Pioneer Department, and then to the Tuo Lei Department to accompany the army on the western expedition.

This person is proficient in the languages ​​of Mongolian, Han and Jin countries, both civil and military, and is known for his strategy.

Seeing the Song army forming an array with their backs on their backs, he knew that the Song army planned to fight against the Mongolian army here, but the Song army's cattle and sheep must not be guarded now, so it would be better to grab a wave first and then kill some Xixia people. wonderful?
In the eyes of Ao Tun Shiying, the Song army and Xixia army in front of him are already dead.

As long as they ignore the Song army first and cross the river to cut off the cattle and sheep, this Song army will have no food source, and it will do without attacking behind. overwhelmed.

Of course it is possible to fight like this, but Tuo Lei didn't simply want to destroy the Song Army.

Mongolia is about to destroy Xixia, and it will plan to form an alliance with Song Dynasty to destroy the Jin Kingdom.

It is also a good opportunity to test the strength of the Song army first, and the Song army has already formed an army. As the No. 1 general of Dameng, how can he avoid not fighting and take the cattle and sheep first?
"Don't care about cattle and sheep." Tuo Lei said in a deep voice at this moment: "The opponent has formed an formation, and they must want to compete with our army."

"I want to see the strength of the Song Army. I think the leader of the Song Army also wants to try the bows and arrows of our Dameng warriors."

"Hahahaha." There was laughter all around.

Song Jun is also worthy?Contempt flashed in Ao Tun Shiying's eyes.

"Otun Shiying."

"The end is here."

"I'll give you two quarters of an hour to defeat this Song army. I will kill them all, leaving no one behind."

"Here." Ao Tun Shiying grinned, with a ferocious look on his face.

Tuo Lei knew that it was too late to recover the war horse, so he hated these Song people very much.

"Woo" soon, the horn of the Mongolian army gathering to prepare for the attack began to sound.

"Line up——" The voices of Zhang Neng and other officers in front of the Song Army's formation rose and fell.

Hush, huh, huh, huh, huh, huh, huh, huh, huh, huh, huh, huh, huh, huh, huh, the front three rows of pikemen, holding a gun in one hand and a shield in the other, quickly lined up.

Bang, all the large shields stood heavily on the ground, and the pikemen squatted down one after another. At this time, only their hats and eyes were still exposed, and their bodies were completely behind the shield wall.

The first row of long spears is placed on the large shield in front at a 45-degree angle. According to the training requirements, when the cavalry rushes up, all the people try to lower their bodies as hard as possible to firmly press the tail of the long spears to the ground and firmly press the upper part of the long spears on the shield. superior.

But when the two sides collide, either the spear breaks, or the opponent falls, and the spear will definitely not fly around.

If the cavalry does not rush, but just shoots, then raise the shield 45 degrees to the front of the body. Such a long shield can basically cover the whole body and effectively protect the spearman.

Four, five or six rows were full of archers, and all the archers had quiver bags hanging on their left and right waists, and some even took more from the horse's back and put them under their feet.

The seventh and eighth rows are the third tier of strong crossbowmen. The crossbowmen carry waist knives and relatively few arrows.

The ninth row and the tenth row are god-armed archers.

The god arm bow is actually a crossbow.

"In the first year of Xining, Zhang Ruoshui and Li Pingliao, the envoy of the Xishang Pavilion Gate, were known to Zhang Ruoshui when he was appointed to the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The crossbow made by Ruoshui Jin was actually presented by Li Hong, and it was also a kind of crossbow. The body is made of wood, the bow is made of sandalwood, the head of the spear is made of iron, the hair of the horse's face is made of copper, and the string is made of hemp rope. Counting inches, shoot more than 340 steps, and half a stick into the elm."

Looking at this description, it can shoot more than 300 steps, which is quite powerful.

In the Song Dynasty, the length of a foot was about 1 centimeters. It can be seen that the length of the "bow body" is about 30 meter, and the length of the "string" is about 1 centimeters.The arrow feathers of the crossbow are made of wood, and the length of the crossbow is about several inches.If it is eight or nine inches, it is close to one foot.The number of inches should be greater than 75 inches and less than 4 inches.Probably between 8 and 12 cm.Not very long.It is almost the length of a chopstick, and the quality is not too large.

More than 300 steps refers to the maximum range.And the effective shooting range (about one hundred steps) is about 6 cm to 12 cm into the half of the elm wood, that is, half of the arrow shaft.This is very penetrating.The God Arm Bow shoots small-sized arrows with a maximum range of more than 300 steps.The effective range can be shot into elm wood from 6 cm to 12 cm, and the penetrating power is quite strong, and the power is also strong.

Of course, the god-arm bow has its advantages and disadvantages. At that time, the ratio of god-arm bows in the Southern Song Dynasty army was about one-tenth, that is, in an army of 1000 people, there were [-] god-arm archers.

First of all, he has high requirements for accuracy. The Song Army assessed that five arrows out of ten were qualified, but few people were qualified.

"God's arm bow stack is a hundred and twenty steps away, ten arrows are given, and five of them are qualified. If there are few rewards in the army, I'm afraid I'll be too lazy to practice shooting.In front of the palace, the horse infantry survey committee changed the number of arrows posted in the middle to the upper stack, and one of the two upper stacks was pasted in the middle. "

You see, Song Jun asked him to shoot five arrows to qualify, but no one hit them. Later, he changed to hit the upper half of the target to qualify.

No way, it's not easy to shoot this thing from a long distance.

Therefore, it is useful to face large-scale and dense infantry. If there are few soldiers and horses on the opposite side, and you have few bows, whether you can shoot or not depends on your luck.

Secondly, it requires high arm strength.

At first, the bow strength standard of the God Arm Bow in the Song Dynasty was 2 stones and 3 fights, which is already the arm strength of a super general, such as Yue Fei and Li Pingxia.

Later, it was found that it did not conform to the reality. In actual combat, the magic arm bow was fired at a relatively short distance, and it did not need a range of two or three hundred steps. Moreover, it was very labor-intensive to shoot so far, and it could be made lighter.So the imperial court issued an edict to create a god-arm bow with a bow strength of 1 stone and 4 buckets, which is lighter and requires much less strength from the crossbowmen.

But four fights with one stone is not low. At the same time, the Mongolian army and the Jin army Xixia army had about eight fights for ordinary cavalry bows.

Therefore, the divine arm bow has higher requirements on the sergeants and greater strength, so it is less necessary to select soldiers.

(End of this chapter)