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

Chapter 445 Finally found a way to deal with the Song Army

The two sides kept pulling and pulling in front of the two armies. The Mongolian army repeatedly tried to pull out the Song army, and there was a time limit for the transmission of orders on the battlefield. Sometimes the forward Song army would be pulled out by the Mongolian army and become excited, and would chase them out.

Whenever this happens, woo woo, the Song Army's rear formation blows the horn.

When the Song troops heard the horn sound, they turned their heads and continued to return to their formation.

The cavalry from both sides fought in front of the formation for nearly half an hour, and almost all the follow-up troops from both sides arrived at the scene.

The Song Army's carriage had not reached the front yet, and was on its way from the rear to the middle.

Kuo Duan couldn't wait any longer. When he saw that Aotun Shiying's cavalry was slightly more than the Song army by several thousand and was still unable to gain the upper hand, he immediately said: "Kublai Khan, take people up from the left wing and see if there is a chance to cut through the Song army." military."

"Promise." Kublai Khan did not hesitate and immediately ordered a wave of soldiers and horses.

"Wait a minute." Chagatai was so shocked that he didn't even stop shouting. Kublai Khan had already rushed out with his own soldiers.

He immediately told Kuo Duan that the Song Army's positional warfare was difficult to fight, and they should not charge easily until they were pulled out.

Kuo Duan said that their carriage has not arrived yet. If they wait a little longer and arrange the carriage, it will be difficult to fight.

Kublai Khan led his men to attack from the left wing. Shader immediately gave the order, and Li Pingxia led a group of cavalry to meet him.

The Song army had thick armor in front, so they could only shoot the Song army from behind, or fight them hand-to-hand and kill them in the back.

However, the Mongolian army was unable to penetrate the Song army's formation. Around two o'clock in the afternoon, the Song army's cavalry began to retreat. Chagatai knew that the Song army's infantry camp had already set up a large formation.

Li Pingxia followed Shader into the Chagatai territory and pushed across the Mongolian king's territory. He brought tens of thousands of civilians and thousands of carts with him, walking and fighting slowly along the way.

Li Pingxia knew at a glance that the Mongolian army wanted to pull or circumvent them.

Kublai Khan had fought a battle with the Song Army outside Blackwater City and knew the Song Army's tactics.

Kublai Khan's large group of cavalry originally came towards the Song army. When the two sides were about to confront each other, the Mongolian army swept to the right, trying to get behind the Song army.

Soon, the forwards of both sides broke away from each other on the battlefield and separated again.

The Song army outside Blackwater City had pulley bows with a long range, but the Song army in front of them seemed not to be equipped with them.

"The Song Army's infantry camp and horse-drawn carriage formation has been set up. Let's withdraw and let them continue to move." Chagatai said: "They can either wait where they are, or they can continue to move forward."

The Mongolian army began to sweep towards their right front from hundreds of steps away.

As soon as his 10,000 fusiliers arrived, the Mongolian army retreated.

Chagatai was speechless for a moment.

"Slow down, slow down, and run parallel to the Mongolian army."

Then I felt that something was wrong with this order, and some people might not understand it, so I immediately changed it: "Follow the direction of my flag and run."

"What?" Kuo Duan looked in disbelief.

Kublai Khan was furious and moved his troops and horses back and forth, left and right, while Li Ping and Xia Manyouyou led the Song army, moving left and right.

The Mongolian army suddenly blew the retreat horn, and 70,000 to 80,000 Mongolian troops retreated one after another.

Li Pingxia's cavalry is different from Meng Ying's.

Kuo Duan immediately understood what Chagatai meant.

Shader looked up at the sky, then at the earth, and secretly cheered in his heart.

"Damn it, the Mongolian army was beaten so hard that I didn't dare to go up." Lu Wende cursed and found Shader.

Kublai Khan found out that Song Jun had seen through his intentions and would not let him go around behind them, and he was so angry that he wanted to scold his mother.

Li Pingxia's cavalry are armored, which weighs sixty-five kilograms. With the cold-proof clothes inside, the armor of this wave of cavalry has exceeded seventy kilograms, and their defensive power is also quite strong.

Meng Ying's 18,000 cavalrymen traveled across northeastern Mongolia and attacked for thousands of miles. One man and two horses, half of which were light cavalry and half with heavy armor, were carried by war horses in order to maintain mobility.

The Song Army still slowed down because the Song Army was heavily armored and had to rely on infantry and camp positions to fight. The Song Army would try not to speed up the horses easily and consume the horse's horsepower.

"The Song Army's weak point is at its back, go around it." Kublai Khan ordered as he ran.

The Song army slowly slowed down and turned around, moving in the same direction as the Mongolian army.

This is a vast and gentle land, suitable for cavalry, and it is not difficult for carriages and artillery to advance.

"Withdraw." Chagatai suddenly said.

Are we going to withdraw before we can decide the outcome?

Chagatai and Kuoduan kept mobilizing their men and horses to advance. At the peak of the Mongolian army, 70,000 to 80,000 people surrounded the Song army and fought wildly. The Song army only had 40,000 to 50,000 cavalry fighting on the outside.

His cavalry were all heavily armored, while Meng Ying's cavalry's heavy cotton armor only weighed fifty kilograms.

The Mongolian army used various tactics, including deliberately retreating, pulling and tempting, and outflanking from behind.

Of course, today's battlefield is very large. There are more than 200,000 troops on both sides spread out on the vast land. Neither the Song army nor the Mongolian army can take full account of it.

The Mongolian army was obviously unwilling to attack their carriage formation, so they deliberately retreated.

While moving, the two sides kept firing at each other, with arrows flying back and forth.

The tactics that had been tried and tested during the Western Expedition were completely useless in front of the Song army.

The Song Army's cavalry fought with them in the front formation, waiting for the formation of the infantry camp behind to be completed.

The baggage and carriages of the Song Army did not fully arrive in front of the formation, and the Mongolian Army and the Song Army's cavalry fought one after another for more than an hour.

As Kuo Duan said, neither the Song Army's baggage nor the carriages have reached the front. This is indeed a good opportunity.

"Then push forward. If they don't come up to fight, we will push all the way to Qianzhou and attack Qianzhou directly."

The Song army immediately mobilized the soldiers and civilians accompanying them, pushing the cannons and carriages, and the trebuchets moved forward.

Although it moved slowly, the cavalry kept following them.

Chagatai and Kuoduan watched Song Jun really move forward slowly. They looked at each other, quite speechless.

The Song army's style of play did not respect martial ethics. It was completely a rogue style of play, forcing the Mongolian army to attack.

The two of them were angry and speechless, but there was nothing they could do.

More than 100,000 Song troops moved forward in groups at the same time. Although it was slow, it was less than a few dozen miles away from Qianzhou. Let the Song army move slowly for a few days and they would reach Qianzhou City. Then they would have to fight.

"Let people prepare stone cannons under Qianzhou City, and then give the Song army a hard blow." Kuo Duan thought of their stone cannons at this time.

In order to counter the Song Army's long-range weapons, the craftsmen in Qianzhou City worked overtime and built more than 160 stone cannons in the recent period, and they also made stone bullets every day. The Song Army's artillery and vehicle formations need to move forward. As long as they are caught by surprise, the Mongolian Army's stone cannons can deliver a fatal blow to the Song Army.

Chagatai thought for a while, and it seemed that this was the only way now.

With rogues like Song Jun who do not respect martial ethics, they can either rush forward and take their lives, or use longer range weapons to force Song Jun to come out for a decisive battle.

The Song army is now cowering like a tortoise, forcing them to charge, which is simply a rogue.

But Chagatai also knew that the Song army's artillery had a range beyond their stone cannons, so it would only be a surprise. Once the Song army's position was disrupted and the Mongolian army rushed in, the Song army would be dead.

"Go back to Qianzhou City first, then station outside the city, cover the stone cannons behind, and let the sentries drive away the Song army's sentries and pull out all the stone cannons." After discussing with Kuoduan, Chagatai decided to use stone cannons to The Song army delivered a fatal blow.

A strange scene appeared on the battlefield. The Song army slowly moved forward. The Mongolian army first slowly retreated, and then turned around. Hundreds of thousands of Mongolian troops retreated towards Qianzhou.

Shader and Lu Wende were surprised. They thought the Mongolian army was going back to defend the city. Didn't the Mongolian army know that the Song army liked to attack the city the most now?

Unexpectedly, they soon received news that part of the Mongolian army was stationed outside Qianzhou City, with a company camp several miles away.

The two of them didn't understand the Mongolian army's plan. Anyway, they continued to lead the Song army forward.

Before dark that day, we set up camp thirty miles away from Qianzhou.

When it was getting dark, the Song army's formation was buzzing with a large number of artillery fire.

On the Mongolian side, tens of thousands of cavalry immediately rushed out of the formation and went straight to the Song army's artillery carriage.

Chagatai has suffered from the Song Army. If you don't care about the Song Army, the Song Army's artillery will push forward. When you sleep at night, it will fire forward intermittently. It's disgusting.

Therefore, Chagatai has been sending sentries to patrol around the Song Army's camp. When he saw the Song Army's artillery being pushed out, he immediately mobilized the army, mainly to force the Song Army back.

When the Song army saw the Mongolian army coming, they did not dare to stray too far from the camp. They first concentrated the artillery on the outside of the camp, then pulled out the carriages and blocked them all in front of the artillery. Then came the fusiliers, archers, and spearmen. Soldiers and infantry battalions came out and followed the carriage.

After the formation was arranged, dozens of artillery pieces of the Song Army slowly pushed forward under the escort of the 30,000-foot battalion.

Most of the Song army was still in the main camp, and this time they sent out 30,000 infantry battalions and artillery battalions.

It was getting darker at this time, and Chagatai's son Hedahai also signaled that he could not fight. This time, the Song army had a carriage blocking the way, and the sky was getting darker and darker, which was not conducive to the Mongolian army. However, one of Kuoduan's subordinates did not believe in evil, so he I had never fought against the Song Army before, so I really didn’t take it seriously when looking at such a low and slow carriage.

As for Tianhei, isn't it also Tianhei over Song Jun's side? Everyone is facing darkness. If Song Jun dares to come out, I will fight.

Because Kuoduan and Chagatai were not there, he ignored what Brother Yesu Meng said and gave the order, leading tens of thousands of cavalry around to the right and charging at the right wing of the Song army.

He was also smart. He charged the Song army from the side. If he got in, he could cut the Song army in two.

Moreover, there seemed to be fewer Song Army carriages on the side, and the artillery was also pushed forward in a straight line. If they wanted to hit the flank, the Song Army's artillery had to turn around, which was more troublesome.

This Meng general is relatively powerful, and his idea of ​​fighting is fine, but he has never seen the power of the Song army's chariot formation plus flintlocks and archers.

The artillery of the Song army was useless. After the Mongolian army entered one hundred and fifty steps, the flintlock guns and bows and arrows began to attack.

Because it was dark, both sides had poor visibility, so they were both shooting blindly.

However, the Mongolian army's bows and arrows are powerful only when they are close, and the hit rate when thrown is much worse than when fired flatly by a flintlock gun.

As long as the Song army hits the horizontal line they want to aim at, if they can't hit the front, they still have a chance to hit the back.

There was a loud bang and a loud bang. Many Mongolian soldiers were knocked over and knocked down.

Before the Mongolian army accelerated their charge, the sky was relatively dark. Both sides relied on the weak moonlight in the sky to see the opposite side. The two armies could still be vaguely visible within twenty steps, but it was pitch black twenty steps away.

After dark, the Mongolian army seemed to have become bolder. Anyway, they could not clearly see the dead and wounded, so they rushed forward without an order to retreat.

As a result, gunfire continued from the front, and the Song Army's rockets quickly started firing.

After fighting for less than two quarters of an hour, without waiting for the order to retreat, the Mongolian army suddenly collapsed, turned around and ran away.

The Mongolian army who came back cried to Kuoduan's confidants that they couldn't rush forward at all. The Song army's new firearms were too powerful. Every row in the upper row was killed. Even if they rushed forward and there were carriages blocking them, many brothers died in front of the carriages. The people and horses who got off had blocked the front, so the brothers withdrew because they couldn't get through.

Because it was dark, General Nameng could not see the situation ahead, but the attack suffered heavy losses and was ineffective, so he had no choice but to return to the army unwillingly.

The Mongolian troops who returned to the camp took inventory. After a while, they found that there were thousands of horses that had not returned. This time they were really surprised, scared and unwilling.

At this time, Kuo Duan had no choice but to ask Chagatai, what should I do next? Song Jun came up with his cannon.

Chagatai thought for a while and said in a deep voice: "We can only send a small number of Qingqi to harass us."

Chagatai has been thinking about ways to deal with the Song Army's position battle in the past few days. After thinking about it, the Song Army relied on a large area of ​​flintlock guns and archers to cause damage to the Mongolian Army. The Mongolian Army actually wanted to reduce casualties. It's not difficult, just spread out and don't gather together for a large-scale charge.

Now the Song army's tens of thousands of battalions came to harass the Mongolian army with dozens of artillery pieces. The Mongolian army could only fight back, and the best way was to use a small number of scattered light cavalry.

After discussions between Chagatai and Kuoduan, the Mongolian army quickly gathered five hundred light cavalry, each carrying several barrels of arrows, and they were preparing to learn from the rockets used by the Song army.

When the five hundred light cavalry were assembled and ready to leave the camp, the Song army's artillery had been pushed from thirty miles away to ten miles away.

The Mongolian army immediately met them, with five hundred light cavalry far apart, with dozens of steps between each cavalry.

This trick really works.

Tens of thousands of Song troops came forward to protect the artillery. Unexpectedly, only a few hundred Mongolian troops came forward this time.

The Mongolian army was scattered. The power of the densely packed flintlock muskets and bows and arrows of the Song army was greatly reduced. In addition, it was dark now and could not see the other side clearly. The Song army began to crackle, and the flintlock muskets and bows and arrows were fired twice. Wave, and then realized something was wrong.

Both sides were using rockets, and the Mongolian army did not move forward. They fired along the perimeter of the Song army's formation, shooting rockets from time to time, and specifically shooting at carriages and people pushing carriages.

The Song Army's rockets also shot over, and they soon discovered that the Mongolian troops were relatively few and very scattered.

There were only hundreds of Mongolian troops running around in front, criss-crossing each other, shooting rockets and burning the Song army's carriages.

The Song army fired back several waves with flintlock guns and bows and arrows, but the effect was not very good. After all, it was dark and the people on the opposite side dispersed.

Seeing that many carriages were set on fire and they had to put out the fire, Song Jun decided to retreat after thinking about it.

"Wow!" Seeing the Song army's ignited carriage retreating, cheers came from the Mongolian army.

Chagatai and Kuoduan were also overjoyed that day. The Song army's plan to harass them with artillery at night was finally broken by them.

Chagatai added: "Tomorrow, try to use cavalry to contain the Song Army's cavalry. Then, like tonight, send a small number of troops and horses to take turns moving forward in batches to shoot at the Song Army's horse formation."

Kuo Duan nodded and said: "Let the city prepare more rockets. We will also use rockets during the day tomorrow to burn the Song Army's carriage."

The two of them finally found a way to deal with the Song Army's horse formation.

As long as the Song army didn't have their carriage blocking the way, the Mongolian army would dare to charge.

(End of this chapter)