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The seventy-eighth chapter, who is worthy of this fight (1)

The defeat in front was reported to the camp of Nüssel by detective Ma Chi, who reported to Nüssel's camp. Nüssel was furious and personally led the army to launch a large-scale move, trying to defeat the Song army in person in front. A senior general also reminded him that the Song army in person in front should not be underestimated in terms of quantity and quality. It seems that it must be Zheng Yunming's main force coming to take revenge. At present, there are only 20,000 cavalry in the camp, and they are afraid that it is difficult to deal with. They must gather the cavalry scattered around the world to encircle and divide the invading Song army on a large scale, seize this opportunity of the decisive battle, and defeat the main force of the Song army in one fell swoop.

Ninety was naturally not a fool. He knew the principle of concentrating troops in the decisive battle, but it all took time. Fighters and fighters were the most precious. Ninety was not without fighting with the Song army. In the first battle, he followed the Marshal of the Du of the Du attacked Huaidong. At that time, the Mongolian army was facing Du Gao, the commander of Huaidong. This man was extremely cunning and changeable. Several times, Chahan mobilized the Song army from the city and prepared to siege the city to attack the aid, but every time it was resolved by Du Gao at a critical moment.

The young Nurphy summarized a truth in such repeated battles of wits. It was difficult to gather troops and horses first and then march separately to encircle the enemy. On the one hand, it was based on terrain factors. The existence of rivers and mountains made it take time to gather cavalry. On the one hand, the combat effectiveness of the infantry in the Song Dynasty increased day by day, and their large array was difficult to break even if the Mongols had a double and triple advantage. When the Mongols took the time to deploy their own troops, the Song people also seized the time to concentrate their troops. Once the two sides had a large-scale war, the Mongols were not sure to repel the large array of the Song people.

New Phosph has a new tactic to crack the current death situation, which is to use part of the main force to stick it on regardless of casualties. Before the Song army formed a large formation, it held it firmly, fighting while plagiarizing it with other powerful troops, causing it to be attacked from both sides. The key to this tactic is whether the vanguard troops that attract the enemy to fight can be able to hold on to the enemy and capture the enemy tightly.

Therefore, Nurphy must lead the team in person. After three times of Huzhe, 20,000 cavalry teams set out in sequence. The momentum of the 20,000 fierce Hu cavalry came from the ground, and even the river bank was trembling slightly. The Mongolian army drove to the place close to Bailing Village and fought with the Song army's infantry.

The Song people arranged antler fortifications in front of the formation as usual, and then the musketeers stepped forward to shoot at the enemy. The difference is that the Song army used new muskets, and there was no need to use the tactics of serial shooting to maintain continuous firepower, because the lightness of the gun itself makes the loading faster, so that the sustainability of firepower can be ensured under the tactic of three-stage volleys.

Under the continuous fire attack, the Mongolian army's dismounted musketeers were a little overwhelmed. They used heavy standard musketeers imitated from the Song Dynasty, and needed a gun stand to fire. They were overwhelmed by the Song army's musketeers when firing. However, Nurphy ordered the musketeers not to retreat, and sent personal troops to supervise the battle, beheading all musketeers who dared to escape in front of the formation, while ordering two or three thousand heavy armored cavalry to detour from the right wing and attack the flanks of the Song army.

These cavalry have been equipped with two muskets. According to the tactics planned in advance, they should be divided into hundreds of squads. After rushing to the range of the pistol, they fired with two pistols, and then quickly retreated, and then continued to fire. They hid at a safe distance to load. This is the cavalry pistol wheel shooting method commonly used by the Southern Dynasties cavalry in the past few years. They once defeated the counterattack of Mongolian archers with this tactic that fully developed the advantages of new firearms. However, the Mongolian cavalry's years of habit cannot be changed overnight. After the two muskets were fired, they threw the expensive pistols on the ground, and still took out their beloved hunting bows and shot at the Song army.

Han Feng's subordinates were not afraid of this way of fighting. The musketeers opened fire in an orderly manner and the shells fired by light artillery formed a barrage on the flanks of the army. Once the Mongolian cavalry wanted to break through this barrier and fired arrows at close range, they would inevitably suffer heavy losses.

In Newton's vision of the glass, his soldiers fell into the dust one by one, including his men and horses. Even if a few people rushed to the distance that the bows and arrows could hit, the Song people would immediately adjust their firepower and annihilate him. He roared anxiously: "The Iron Cavalry Team gathers and prepares to break through the formation!"

The knight in exquisite armor shouted loudly, waved the iron spear and scimitar in his hand, and began to slowly move forward, placing a strait behind the musketeers. Obviously, Nurphy wanted to carry forward his proud heavy cavalry's sudden tactics. Although it was not guaranteed to defeat the Song people with this blow, at least he would not be devastated by the Song people's numerous muskets in the shooting.

The heavy cavalry slowly arranged the formations in the sound of the clanging armor leaves colliding, one, two, three, and even more than ten rows of horizontal lines. This layout of New Phosph was to increase the subsequent assault power of the formation. After all, the Song people were used to setting up multiple formations. If the Mongolians had too few arrays, they would easily fall into the siege of the Song army infantry.

Just as the Iron Cavalry team was becoming more and more concentrated and was about to launch an attack, suddenly a shell flew towards him with the smell of pungent smoke, followed by a dense rain of bullets.

While musketeers and light artillery blocked the Mongolian army's vanguard's attack, Han Feng was doing something, concentrating the long-barrel artillery on the front position under the cover of the spearmen. Forty-four long-barrel Shenwei artillery and sixty short-barrels Zhenwei artillery were all concentrated on the front. As the Song army's spearmen moved forward, the Mongolian army did not realize that there was a dense array of artillery behind them. When Han Feng ordered the fire, the Mongolians had no time to react.

The fierce artillery fire poured into the unprepared cavalry squad, and immediately disrupted the entire queue. The Mongols were not prepared for this unprecedented bold tactic of gathering artillery together for intensive artillery bombardment. They just instinctively turned their horses and fled in scattered places.

The escape of the heavy cavalry of the vanguard exposed the light archers and heavy archers that were not prepared in the middle army and the rear. Although Nuotian was angry, he was not panicked. Although the iron-armed assault cavalry was a trump card in his army, not the core of his own army. The traditional Mongolian assault cavalry, although it was known to be in an early stage and unparalleled battle, as time moved, a new generation of Mongolian soldiers remained at a disadvantage. In close combat, compared with the new generation of cavalry trained by the Southern Dynasties using the imperial guards and military academy systems, it was a disadvantage. Fortunately, the Mongolian headquarters in the north of the Mobei still maintained a simple and vigorous custom, and they were at the forefront of death in every battle and did not fall behind. However, the number of these people was limited, and many Mongolian generals had to find new strong soldiers as alternatives to Mongolian cavalry.

When Nurphy was following Mongke's western expedition, he once followed the army to attack the mountainous areas west of the West Sea. The people here called themselves Caucasians. They rode tall Donhe horses, coming and going like the wind, and fighting was no less than the elite Mongolian cavalry. These soldiers held iron shields with exquisite stripes in their hands, danced with black iron nail hammers, and strong large leaf armor all over their bodies. They were also heavy loads, but they still walked as fast as they were worn. Nurphy and the Mongolian army spent a lot of effort to conquer their villages one by one. After conquering the Caucasian tribes, Nurphy immediately began to recruit these fierce heavy armored knights. Like the early Mongolian iron armored cavalry, Caucasian soldiers were also proficient in cavalry and shooting skills. Whether they were close to each other or rode horses like Mongolian cavalry, they were all first-class.

Newton recruited a total of 5,000 Caucasian soldiers with high noses and deep noses, forming a 5,000 household directly under his jurisdiction. The army was in awe and called Newton. The Shenwu Army concentrated on using artillery to destroy the assault cavalry of the vanguard, but these West Sea soldiers were not disturbed at all. They were united closely under the battle of Marshal Nugget. They only rushed out with one order from the Marshal, and smashed the enemy's head with the mace in their hands.

As soon as the order to launch the queue was issued, the large group of cavalry of the Song army crossed the artillery position of their side and lined up in neat rows to start charging in small steps.

In the past ten years, the most famous general in the Song army was Han Feng. The most terrified army of the Song army was Han Feng's Iron Cavalry under Han Feng. This was the largest and most trained cavalry army, which was formed by the original Jinghu Commander Cavalry and the Jingnan Pacifier Cavalry. Under the command of the young general Han Feng, this brave cavalry army's reputation in the north and south countries has been directly on the rise of Yue Fei's Beiwei Cavalry. But unlike the Beiwei Cavalry, this cavalry is more modern, or in Kublai Khan's words, it has more "Zheng Yunming".

According to Zheng Yunming's instructions, this cavalry all used red cavalry equipment. Because they were vermilion-colored from people to horses, they were nicknamed Lobster Camp in Jiangnan. Although the nickname was not very nice, once the cavalry with tens of thousands of red vests was dispatched, their momentum was spectacular. The court also praised this army and often called them "red colored tiger cavalry" and "red armored Pixiu".

Such outfits were also discussed by the censors that it was flashy and unreal to spend expensive costs to add a full set of red outfits, and that Zheng Yunming wasted public funds in order to build his own ace troops.

But Zheng Yunming knew what such a red giant stream meant to the enemy opposite. He had seen a Mongolian Tatar cavalry collapse without confronting the surging red armor wave. This was originally a phenomenon that occurred frequently in the Song army in the early Song and Mongolian War.
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