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

Chapter 328 Being spit out by Song Jun
The Song Army has a very powerful artillery piece, which deals a line of damage when fired, and the range is extremely long.

Their forwards were fighting hand-to-hand with the Song army, and there were still soldiers and horses hundreds of steps behind, but the Song army's artillery fired in intermittently, knocking the people behind them off their feet and causing panic everywhere.

The soldiers and horses in the middle of the Mongolian army also had a hard time. The Song army's divine arm bows were denser and faster than the artillery, and they kept shooting at the soldiers and horses in the middle.

The forward of the Mongolian army was the worst. Not only was it difficult to climb over the Song army's carriage, but it was also attacked from multiple directions by the Song army's infantry bows, crossbows, and spearmen.

Salita watched for a quarter of an hour after dismounting, but he didn't see a few Mongolian warriors rushing into the Song formation. Many people either fell in front of the carriage or fell on top of the carriage.

The few Mongolian troops who climbed over the carriage immediately faced the ant-like Song troops inside. No one could survive for more than five seconds.

"If this fight continues, we will all be doomed." Zalita only looked at it for a moment, and then he looked horrified and his face turned pale.

On the frontal battlefield, the Mongolian army was completely at a disadvantage. The previous batch died, and only the two wings were slightly better.

The Song army had cavalry on both sides, and the Mongolian army also had cavalry. After they went up, the two sides fought in a melee, directly killing each other.

The left wing of the Song Army is the real Song Army cavalry, and the right wing is the Goryeo cavalry. The Song Army cavalry on the left wing is very fierce. Now it is not better than cavalry shooting. The two sides are fighting inextricably. The Song Army even has an advantage because the Song Army has artillery support behind the formation. , Breaking into the Mongolian cavalry formation from time to time.

The Goryeo cavalry on the right wing was not very powerful, but they were very desperate, and it was hard to tell the outcome of the fight with the Mongolian army.

Later, Salita learned that the Song army had filled up carriages behind the Goryeo cavalry and set up a horse-rejection formation.

In other words, you cannot retreat with the Goryeo cavalry. If you lose and retreat, you will bump into the horses and carriages.

The Goryeo army had no way out and could only fight to the death.

This was because the Song army was afraid that Goryeo would collapse and attack the Song army's formation deliberately.

Moreover, Cui Chun's Cizhou Goryeo army itself has relatively strong combat effectiveness. The Mongolian army failed to defeat Cizhou. In the original history, the Goryeo court surrendered, but Cui Chun did not surrender. The Mongolian army could not do anything to defeat Cizhou. .

Therefore, the Mongolian cavalry on both wings could not break through, and destroying the horse-drawn carriage formation head-on was the only way to win.

Salita was very anxious at this time. The cavalry on both wings had no advantage. If the casualties continued like this on the front, they might be doomed today.

He quickly looked back left and right. At this time, in addition to a few close friends, there was also Han general Wang Rongzu nearby.

Wang Rongzu held a shield in each hand, abandoned his horse, and was retreating in front of Salita.

They are now only thirty steps away from the front, which is equivalent to the position of the middle army.

This position is not good either. The Song Army's divine arm bows and foot bows will all shoot at them.

Because this location is where the Mongolian army has the largest concentration of archers.

Wang Rongzu had previously led a group of archers to shoot at the Song army. Unexpectedly, the Song army immediately organized a wave of arrows, which were intensively reflected back. The two sides fired several rounds. The Mongolian army's archers suffered heavy casualties. Wang Rongzu escaped by hiding behind his horse. , quickly threw away the bow, took two shields and retreated to Salita.

"The opposite side is not the Goryeo Army, it's the Song Army, it's the Song Army, and that's the Divine Arm Bow." Wang Rongzu shouted as he approached.

"It's the Song Army." Salita scolded: "When did the Song Army come to Goryeo? Why did they help Goryeo?"

The Song army did not take the land route, but obviously took the water route. The key is why the Song army wanted to help Goryeo?
Aren’t they, the Mongols, uniting with the Song Dynasty to destroy the Jin Dynasty?
Salita knew that Mongolia was borrowing a road from the Song people on the other side, but he didn't expect that the Song army here actually came over.

Wang Rongzu didn't know about the problem of Salita, so he could only say: "The armor of the Song army is very powerful, and ordinary horses and bows cannot penetrate it."

He had just led a group of archers to dismount and shoot the Song army forward. Then he saw a Song army standing on the carriage wheel, exposing half of their body, and then shooting at them with a rifle bow.

At that time, many Mongolian soldiers were overjoyed when they saw the Song army showing up, and they shot at the Song army one after another.

After the Song Army shot an arrow, he lowered his head.

There was a clanging sound, and there was almost a sound of metal handing over at the scene in front. The Mongolian army shot several arrows at it, but it had no effect.

As a result, Song Jun stood on the wheel and shot a few arrows. After more than a dozen arrows were inserted into his shoulders, chest and other places, he grinned and slowly shrank back.

Wang Rongzu was shocked at that time. He knew that the opponent's armor was heavy and might not have penetrated, or even if it had penetrated, he would not have been seriously injured.

The Mongolian army's horse bows are usually about eight fights each, and the more powerful ones can hold one stone.

Obviously, it is now difficult for the Badou bow or lower bows to cause strong damage to the Song army's infantry.

Considering that it is winter now, there may be cotton armor inside the Song Army's armor. Whether it can break through the armor is a question.

"The Song Army doesn't seem to be in armor?" Salita also raised his head to look. Because the Song Army's carriage was blocking the front, it was not easy to see the Song Army. Occasionally, the Song Army would stand on the carriage, so they could see clearly.

The Song Army wore Goryeo military uniforms on the outside and a new type of cotton armor on the inside. There were iron plates in the armor. However, when they were on Jeju Island, many crossbowmen of the Song Army had their original iron armor shoulders and chests replaced with iron plates. Take it off and hang it in cotton armor before the war. Some people still wear leather and cotton armor on the inside.

Therefore, many crossbows have two or three layers of armor on their hands and body.

In this case, it would be difficult for the Mongolian army's horse bow to cause a lot of important damage to the Song army.

When the Mongolian army fought hand-to-hand at close range, they usually needed to use bows and arrows to shoot at the opponent's positions, and then surge up to break the formation.

They did not have the heavy armored infantry of the Later Jin Dynasty, so during the Western Expedition, they relied on kite mounted archers and heavy armored cavalry to achieve repeated victories. However, the Southern Song Dynasty and Goryeo fought for decades and relied on a large number of troops. Servants fight hand to hand.

Now there are also a large number of servants under Salita, but it seems that the servants can't defeat the Song army if they rush forward and fight hand-to-hand.

Salita saw with his own eyes that many servants finally climbed onto the carriage. Whoosh, whoosh, there were spears coming from all directions under the carriage.

The people on the carriage had to avoid the sharp spears fixed on the roof of the carriage, and they also had to guard against the Song Army's spears. They had to defend themselves from the left and right. Before they even got off the carriage, they were stabbed several times.

For about half an hour, the front line in front of the carriage was full of corpses of Mongolian soldiers.

Salita still had something to say about the Song Army's defense line. He turned around and shouted to Wang Rongzu: "It is impossible for everyone in the Song Army to be heavily armored. We must organize archers to shoot down the Song Army's defense line."

"Otherwise our people won't be able to get in."

Wang Rongzu's face darkened when he heard this, and he kept nodding.

"Go, gather the archers, and throw them in together." Salita grabbed Wang Rongzu's front: "No matter what method you use, ask people to stand where they are and not to retreat, not to retreat, and shoot against the Song army, and kill them. ."

"Here." Wang Rongzu had no choice but to hand Salita a shield, took another shield himself, turned around, and at the same time ordered the archers from all ministries to be summoned.

He wanted to summon [-] archers, mainly the Mongolian army headquarters, to shoot fiercely at the same place of the Song army, destroy the Song army and open a gap.

As soon as Wang Rongzu left, Salita called General Tang Gu again.

"Gather all men with axes and heavy weapons to break up the carriage and climb no more."

"Wang Rongzu will summon archers to shoot this section, and you will break the carriage at this section -"

"Here." Tang Gu also took the order and left.

Salita looked back and saw the artillery fire from the Song army in the rear formation. The intervals were not long, and more than a dozen artillery pieces fell each time.

He thought that the Song army only had a dozen cannons.

In fact, the Song army had more than 100 gates, and they just took turns to attack the rear formations in batches without interruption.

Although there were only a dozen or so gates taking turns to fight, the Mongolian troops in the rear formation were still in a panic. Coupled with the slippery mud on the road, horses fell down from time to time. More and more Mongolian troops in the rear formation had abandoned their horses or led their horses forward. , or just go forward with your weapon.

"Come here, notify Wang Rongzu behind, go back and prepare rockets, and shoot at the front line of the Song army later." Salita suddenly thought of fire attack.

The infantry camp of the Song Army on the opposite side is very dense, and they use horse-drawn carriages to block the front. As long as they are set on fire, they can be stopped for a short time, but when the fire is extinguished, won't there be a gap in the Song Army?
But who would use rockets in daytime battles? The Mongolian army camp also brought a small amount of kerosene, which was originally used to light fires at night during night attacks. Now Salita suddenly thought of it and had to send someone back to the camp to get it.

The battlefield was nearly ten miles away from their camp, which meant that the men had to go back.

It takes more than an hour to go back and forth and prepare the rocket.

"Here." As soon as this subordinate received the order, he turned around and mounted his horse.

Sudden.

Pu Chi, Pu Chi, a rain of arrows from the distance landed here somehow.

"Ah" the Mongolian soldier screamed and fell heavily from his horse to the ground.

Salita himself was also blinded, and the war horse in front of him almost crushed him.

As the war horse let out a mournful cry, it also fell to the ground.

It turned out that the Song army on the opposite side fired a wave bow in his direction.

The horse in front of him was shot with three or four arrows.

"Damn it." Salita cursed, and when he looked back, he saw a subordinate holding his banner high.

"Back off, back off -" Salita wanted to ask his subordinates to throw away the flag, but thought about it and couldn't throw it away: "Move to the southwest corner, move to the southwest corner -" and asked his subordinates to take the flag away from him.

The subordinates had no choice but to hold up his big flag and retreat to another place.

Several other subordinates raised their shields and gathered around him.

He also held up his shield. After thinking about it, it was still not safe. He came behind the fallen horse, bent down and held the shield above his head, and continued to observe the battlefield.

The situation in front was still extremely fierce. The Mongolian troops rushed forward one after another, and fell in front of the carriage one after another.

At this time, Tanggu, the Mongolian army, ordered hundreds of people and followed him to rush to the front of several carriages.

"Cut!" Tang Gu gave the order, and everyone raised their axes to chop at the carriage.

Tang Gu also had an ax in his hand, but it was a bit small.

Because the axes carried by the Mongolian army were usually used as throwing axes and were relatively small.

Tang Gu's ax is relatively large, the front part of the ax is bigger than a palm, and it can be used by craftsmen in ordinary times.

He found a carriage wheel and struck it hard with an axe.

"Puch!" The first ax struck about an inch in, making him slightly startled.

Tang Gu was relatively strong, so this ax could do it. Unexpectedly, he only cut in an inch.

It can be seen that Song Jun’s wheels are made of relatively strong materials.

He picked up the ax and chopped again.

After several blows, the wheel was still not broken. A sergeant came over and helped him chop with a knife.

But the effect of using a knife was relatively poor. Some people's knife edge collapsed after just a few cuts.

"Get out of the way." Tang Gu felt that this man was affecting him, so he pushed the sergeant away, waved his arm and struck again.

Kacha finally cut off the top of the wheel after dozens of blows.

Boom, the carriage shook slightly, but there was no big reaction.

Tang Gu and several others pulled hard on the broken wheel and tried to pull it back, trying to break it.

Phew, someone suddenly screamed.

"Ah" one person lay down holding his calf.

But he was hit by an arrow in his foot.

Tang Gu subconsciously felt cold in his feet and quickly moved to the right.

Phew, another arrow came from under the carriage, passed between Tang Gu's legs, and hit the foot of another Mongolian soldier behind him.

"Ah" the Mongolian soldier picked up his feet. Although he did not fall down, he gritted his teeth in pain.

Tang Gu cursed loudly, are you beating up the nun, the one who shot the opponent's feet with arrows on the battlefield?Do you still want face, you guys?
He was a little panicked at this moment, fearing that he would be shot in the foot.He was a general. No matter if he was hit by an arrow in his hand or on his body, as long as the injury was not serious, he could continue to fight as a soldier. If his foot was shot and crippled, the Mongolian army would not want him if he continued to fight in the future.

"Pull it quickly, pull it quickly, it's about to break." He quickly motioned to his men to get it and took a few steps back.

Several Mongolian soldiers rushed forward, grabbing the severed part and pulling hard.

at last.

"Collapse", the carriage made a loud noise, the wheels were pulled directly off, and the heavy carriage sank.

The side closer to the Mongolian army was about twenty or thirty centimeters shorter.

Tang Gu heard the sound of the carriage landing and knew that there were many things in the carriage and it was relatively heavy. No wonder it was lying in front of them and could not be pushed.

The carriage is about 1.5 meters tall with the wheels attached, and with a sharp gun inserted on it, it is also [-] to [-] centimeters tall. Overall, it is taller than a person.

Now after falling to the ground on one side, it is still more than one meter high, and they still have to climb up, but the morale of the Mongolian army is still boosted, proving that they can cut down the carriage.

The scene burst into cheers, but the next moment everyone looked at each other in confusion. After one side of the carriage fell to the ground, the pointed spear head that was originally pointing upward was now pointing directly at them.

It’s also difficult to climb up.

How to climb?

Tang Gu was still more fierce. He looked around and suddenly gritted his teeth and picked up a body from the ground: "Give it to me."

Someone immediately came forward and helped him lift the corpse's feet. The two of them swung it forward hard and threw it directly to the top of the carriage. The sharp spear on it pierced the body and the body hung on it.

More Mongolian troops began to throw the corpses of their companions directly onto the top of the carriage.

The Mongolian army planned to use piles of corpses to clear a path.

It was at this time.

On the wheel on the other side of the carriage opposite, a Song Army was revealed again.

This Song soldier wore a heavy iron helmet on his head. Because of the heavy armor on his body, when he stood on the carriage, there were two Song soldiers behind him holding his waist, fearing that he would not be able to stand.

The Song Army appeared just a few steps away from Tang Gu and the others, and the two sides stared at each other.

"Hehe" Song Jun grinned and jumped down quickly.

Tang Gu was confused, and the Mongolian army didn't care and continued to throw the corpses forward.

But right now.

"Whoosh" behind the carriage, a black shadow flew over.

Tang Gu's eyes were quick and he quickly took half a step back to the side.

With a plop, this thing hit another Mongolian soldier's shoulder and broke on the spot.

There were scolds all around, and many people were splashed all over, including Tang Gu's helmet and shoulders.

After the panic, everyone discovered that it looked like an earthen jar with kerosene in it, about the size of a beer bottle in later generations. It shattered instantly after being thrown on the Mongolian army, and kerosene splashed all around.

"Grass" Tang Gu suddenly felt bad, turned around and ran away.

Swish, swish, more earthen jars were thrown over from behind the Song Army's carriage.

The forward Mongolian troops screamed in various ways. Many people knew that something was wrong and wanted to flee.

But the Mongolian army behind them rushed forward, and they couldn't run fast back.

Whoosh whoosh, then a wave of rockets shot straight into the crowd.

The scene suddenly exploded. Many people were set on fire and ran back, only to ignite others.

It's winter now, everyone has a lot of clothes and armor, and they are cotton clothes that can easily catch fire. If they burn even a little bit, it will be serious.

The flames only started to burn locally. Unexpectedly, as people fled in all directions, the fire grew bigger and bigger.

Not far away, Salita was still trying to burn the Song army with kerosene.

Unexpectedly, the Song army took action first and burned them first.

Moreover, the Song army first threw kerosene bombs and then fired rockets, which was better prepared than the Mongolian army and burned them more severely.

The Mongolian army on Tanggu's side collapsed in an instant.

The scene became more and more chaotic, and the Song army's crossbows and artillery kept firing, and it looked like the Mongolian army was about to be defeated.

At this moment, Salita thought of the way his entire army came, the narrow road with only a few horses shoulder to shoulder. It would be possible for them to be defeated and the entire army to be annihilated.

"Shoot them, shoot them—" Salita ordered frantically. Anyone who was on fire and was running around would be shot on the spot.

The Mongolian army began to kill their own people.

But this undoubtedly added fuel to the fire and did not help. The scene became more chaotic, and further away was a place that his order could not reach for the time being.

Salita looked up in disbelief and saw rockets everywhere in the distant sky.

All Song army's infantry bows were changed to rockets.

Who fought with rockets in broad daylight?

Throughout the ages, only people from the Song Dynasty have done this.

Just when Salita was frightened and frightened.

"Plop!" A rocket suddenly flew not far away.

A trusted guard beside him lowered his head and screamed, but he was hit by an arrow in the leg.

This guard was quite fierce. He gritted his teeth on the spot and pulled out the arrow from his leg.

"Ah" I almost fainted and screamed in pain.

But after the arrow was pulled out, the flames on his legs were still burning, and the flames had already ignited his cotton-padded clothes.

The Mongolian soldier quickly slapped the flames, but unexpectedly was shot in the shoulder by another arrow.

He couldn't care less about the lower part than the upper part, and patted the fire up and down. After only a few pats, the flames on his shoulders burned his hair. With a breath, the entire cotton-padded clothes on his upper body were also burned in the next moment.

The Mongolian army screamed and asked for help, staggering towards the Salita.

"Damn it." Salita cursed and backed away quickly.

I saw the Mongolian soldier screaming and walking for a few steps. The flames on his body became bigger and bigger. Finally, he flopped and fell heavily to the ground. After rolling on the ground a few times, he became completely motionless. He soon became a man on fire.

He looked blankly at the burning people on the ground. From the corner of his eye, he saw flames everywhere, and more burning people were screaming on the ground.

Faintly, his nose moved a few times, and he felt the smell of burnt flesh and blood beginning to fill the air, with a faint roasting aroma.

"Uh" Salita's stomach twitched and she almost vomited on the spot.

He was also a strong Mongolian general who massacred the city with the Mongolian army. Today he was really vomited by the Song army.

"Huh!" A red light suddenly rose in the air again.

Salita and many Mongolian troops looked up and saw even bigger fireballs flying in the air.

The Song army began to use trebuchets.

Huge fireballs were thrown from the rear, slamming into the Mongolian army's formation.

Almost at the same time, the earth-shattering artillery sound sounded again.

This time, hundreds of artillery pieces of the Song Army fired almost simultaneously.

Bang bang bang bang, the continuous artillery sound at the scene was deafening, and the black sky was filled with artillery shells one after another hitting the Mongolian army brigade.

The attacks of hundreds of trebuchets and hundreds of artillery pieces almost scattered the Mongolian army.

"Kill." At this moment, the Song Army roared and blew the horn of attack at the same time.

At this time, the Mongolian army was demoralized and their formation was in chaos. The Song army directly launched a charge.

The charging troops of the Song Army came out from both wings. Previously, the cavalry and the Mongolian army were fighting bloody battles on both wings. At first, the two sides still relied on each other, and it was difficult to tell the winner. The two wings of the Song Army had a slight advantage, but the Mongolian army did not collapse.

But when the trebuchets came out and directly hit the Mongolian cavalry on both wings, the Mongolian army couldn't stand it anymore.

Moreover, the last wave of artillery from the Song Army hit both wings of the Mongolian army. As a result, the front of the Mongolian army did not collapse, but the right wing of Yelu Xuejian collapsed first.

Yelu Xuejun's men were all Khitan cavalry, and they were originally facing the real Song army on the left wing of the Song army.

After his cavalry rushed forward, they found that the Song army's cavalry on the opposite side was difficult to fight.

When viewed from a distance, the Song Army's formation was completely covered in darkness, and the armor looked very thick. When they approached, there were only bursts of cold light in front of them. The Song Army's cavalry were almost covered from head to toe, and even the horses were covered with armor in many places. .

At that time, Yelu Xuejun took a breath: "Heavy armored cavalry?"

If this kind of heavy armored cavalry were placed in the open space on the plains, Yelvxue would really not be afraid and would only laugh at them.

The Mongolian army's kite riding and shooting can let the opponent know why the flowers are so red.

But now there is no room for them to fly kites and mount archers. The northernmost part of the two sides is the river and lake, and the Mongolian army cannot get around it, and the Song army is quite cunning.

Yelv Xuejun tried to slow down and pull out the Song army's formation to create enough space.

But when the Mongolian army slowed down or stopped moving forward, the Song army's thousands of horsemen huddled together and moved forward slowly without coming to fight.

The Song army didn't care at all whether there would be a fight on the left wing, as long as the Mongolian army was defeated in the middle and the Mongolian army could not break the carriage formation.

Moreover, if the Mongolian army fails to advance, the Song army's artillery will continue to attack the Mongolian army's rear line.

Yelu Xuejun continued to test, but the Song army was unmoved. At this time, he knew that it was difficult to kite the Song army on the opposite side, and there was no space and time.

Because you don't move, the Song army on the opposite side fires artillery fire from time to time, and you are completely on the side of being beaten.

"What should I do?" Soon one of his subordinates came over and asked Yelu Xuejun whether the Song army would come out.

Yelv Xuejun thought for a while, and first sent a thousand cavalry to shoot at the Song army, but found that it had no effect.

First of all, the ground is covered with snow, and it is easy to slip if you run too fast. In fact, if they want to shoot at the Song Army, they have to get within fifty or even thirty steps of the Song Army's forward.

When the entire Mongolian army fired and moved laterally, the first few rows of the Song army immediately dismounted and then used rifle bows to shoot at them.

This style of play simply shattered Yelu Xuejun's outlook on life.

I have never seen a cavalryman dismount and use a rifle.

Yeluxue, who was skimming, was frightened and angry, and directly ordered to turn around.

Both sides fight head-on.

Amidst the rumbling sound of iron hoofs, the Mongolian army turned around and rushed towards the Song army without saying a word, and the Mongolian army behind them also followed suit.

(End of this chapter)