As the saying goes: one point is short, one point is risky. The guard battalion came on horseback this time, and their personal equipment was all riding guns. In order to facilitate carrying, the barrel of the mounted rifle was one foot shorter than that of the standard musket in general, and the corresponding bayonet was less than five feet, which was equivalent to the length of a short gun, and was obviously at a disadvantage in combat. But the officers and men of the guard battalion played with technology, and a cavalry musket with a bayonet could also be used as a weapon for killing.

For the officers and men of the guard battalion, the command to "put on the bayonet" is equivalent to the order to charge, and it is a sign that the battle has entered the most tragic climax. As soon as the two sides engaged, they fought against the enemy without showing weakness, and a quick assassination overturned the enemy soldiers rushing in front, and when the follow-up Yuan army relied on the strength of the crowd to try to surround them, the two armies fought together again.

Without an order, the soldiers of the guard battalion formed a formation in the vicinity with two or three people, cooperated and covered each other, and killed the enemy. The training on weekdays has allowed them to develop a tacit understanding with each other, and they don't need to make a sound to each other at all, a look, a simple body movement makes each other understand. Don't underestimate this kind of coordination, in a fierce and brutal white-knuckle fight, it may only take half a second to calmly turn back and deal with another enemy rushing behind you.

Most of the bayonets equipped by the Song army were triangular pyramid spurs, which could not be chopped and could only be stabbed. Since the natural pressure of human tissue has little effect on the entry of the thorn, the thorn is designed for maximum lethal effect, and is long enough to pierce two adult men in the chest. In addition, the three sides of the triangular pyramid spur are opened with blood grooves, which can make the entry and exit of the thorn in the human tissue more rapid and smooth, so that the stabbed enemy will lose the ability to attack in the shortest time.

This is because after the bayonet penetrates the human body, due to pain and foreign body sensation, the human muscles will instinctively contract, tightly wrapping the blade body, and the adsorption effect of the blood-filled wound on the bayonet will make it difficult to pull out the bayonet. With a blood tank, blood can flow out of the blade, and air enters along the blood tank, reducing the adhesion of the wound tissue to the bayonet, thus making the knife drawn more smoothly.

The veterans of the Guards Battalion were battle-hardened veterans, and they tried to avoid using the chest that was most likely to kill people when assassinating, not only because the armor would focus on protecting the chest, but also because the bayonet could easily get stuck in the middle of the ribs and could not be withdrawn in time to fight again. So their approach is to target the weakly protected abdomen, even if they can't kill the enemy at the moment, it is enough to make them lose the ability to continue fighting.

In the hands of these veterans, muskets are not only limited to killing enemies with bayonets, but also the butt and body of the gun are also sharp weapons for killing. The butt of the gun with copper inlaid at the bottom is like an iron bone, and with the huge inertia, even if you are hit while wearing armor, you will break your bones and tendons, and you will suffer a severe concussion. The iron barrel runs through almost the entire body of the gun, and it is an iron rod when picked up, and it will not feel good if you take a hit.

At the same time, the officers and men of the guard battalion did not give up the superiority of muskets, and they divided into a detachment of sharpshooters who specialized in shooting enemy officers and archers. In order to disrupt the organized attack of the enemy army and eliminate the most threatening 'Assassins' of their own side. Under the leadership of Tan Fei, they quickly defeated the enemy's attack with a fierce white-knuckle battle, not only did they not be surrounded by the enemy, but they divided the enemy.

The Mongols were also stunned, they had never seen such a stubborn and fierce opponent in a white-knuckle battle, in the past, only the loss of city defenses, or the formation was in disarray, in the face of their scimitars, the Song army would collapse in an instant, scatter and flee, become a lamb to be hunted down. But today they have become cattle and sheep in the slaughterhouse, beaten to the point of being powerless, and suffering heavy casualties, and the corpses are all over the ground in a while. What terrifies them even more is that these people are inhumane, and even if they are seriously injured who have lost the ability to resist, they will make up for their lives.

"Kill!" Facing the shouts of the Song army in front of them, the remaining Yuan soldiers were already frightened and ran towards the town desperately. But the rain of bullets from behind them quickly knocked them to the ground, and more than 300 people barely survived.

"Check the casualties, check the weapons!" Tan Fei raised his hand and wiped his face, wiping off the blood stains that had been splashed on it, but where did he wipe it clean, but it was a little more hideous, and he gathered the team and said loudly.

"Commander, three of our troops were slightly injured, no serious injuries, no casualties, and 500 rounds of ammunition were consumed, and they can still continue to participate in the battle." The first team quickly finished the inspection, and immediately saluted and reported. Tan Fei's decisiveness, bravery, and ruthlessness in the battle just now have already made these proud soldiers and fierce generals respectful, and there is no contempt for them.

"The wounded are waiting here for the follow-up troops, informing them of the situation of the battle, and waiting for evacuation. The rest and the Commander went to rescue their brother who was trapped in the mountain. After Tan Fei stepped forward to check, the three injured were all wounded in their limbs, and although they could continue to participate in the battle, their mobility was inevitably inconvenient. As far as he knew, even in a fierce battle, each musket fired no more than twenty-five rounds of ammunition, and the ammunition they carried with them was based on this, so now only more than five hundred rounds of ammunition were consumed, and the remaining bullets could support the next battle without replenishment. So he decided not to wait for the follow-up troops, but to take advantage of the fact that the enemy's reinforcements had not yet arrived, and immediately plunged into the rescue operation......

"Alas, they are such a bunch of crazy people that they didn't even have a single mouth alive!" After Li Hongbin, the commander of the second division, led his troops to land, he followed the footsteps of the guard battalion that was playing the vanguard, but found that where he passed, there were only corpses all over the ground, and he couldn't help but shake his head and sigh. At the moment, the emperor was sitting on the riverside, and the commander went out to the front to command, and he, the commander, could only act as a pawn and command in front of the battle.

"Dutong, the guard battalion only used one of the troops of the capital to defeat the current enemy, if they all go into battle, I am afraid we will not need us!" Fang Lin, the commander of the second division and the first regiment, said a little frustrated.

"The guard battalion is His Majesty's pro-army, all of them are elite soldiers selected by the whole army, and it is said that all of them have the ability to be a hundred, and it is your blessing to be able to see them today." Li Hongbin said.

"Alas, it's really embarrassing to see it today!" Fang Lin was a little lost.

"Of course, I think the Sprinkle family was also a soldier in His Majesty's personal guard camp back then, but in less than a year, it was transferred out with the expansion, otherwise...... Alas! I don't know if Li Hongbin lamented whether he was lucky or disappointed when he was transferred out of the guard camp, he sighed.

"Yu Dutong, this is the guard left by the guard battalion to pick us up!" Just as the two of them sighed, the pioneer who explored the path brought back three people and replied.

"Li Dutong, our commander ordered us to inform us that the enemy in front of us has been annihilated, and he led his troops to Guabu Mountain to rescue the trapped personnel, and specially ordered to wait for contact!" One of the three wounded soldiers left behind stood up and saluted.

"Okay, if you are injured, please turn around and rest, and this place will be handed over to us!" After Li Hongbin returned the salute, he nodded.

"Xie Dutong is good, and the lowly rank will wait here, and wait for the brothers to return together!" But the three of them thanked each other and refused to go first.

"In that case, let's be diagnosed and treated by the military medical doctor first!" Seeing this, Li Hongbin could only sigh and say. It is obviously an iron law of strict adherence to the protection of each other when retreating, and brothers do not return, and they will never go alone.

Li Hongbin learned that the guard battalion had gone forward to rescue people, and he did not dare to slack off. Immediately, the officers of the same regiment would observe the terrain, arrange an emergency battle plan in case the enemy in the town reinforced, and send a receiving force in the direction of Guabu Mountain. As soon as the arrangement was completed and he returned to the temporary command post, a report came from the guard post ahead: the cavalry of the Mongolian army brigade was found in the northeast direction, and it was galloping in the direction of the ferry.

Li Hongbin immediately picked up his binoculars and climbed a high slope to look at the direction of the enemy troops, and saw about 500 enemy horsemen galloping towards their location. Based on his understanding of the enemy in front of him, the 200 cavalry with distinct armor in front should be subordinate to the personal guards stationed in Qianhu in Guabu Town, they are the elite of the main army, and their combat effectiveness is the strongest. Behind them was a cavalry corps composed of a group of teenagers, who were supposed to be reserves. Behind him was a group of infantry troops with different costumes and different weapons, and he felt that this was to mobilize all the people to whom his thousand households belonged.

After a short discussion, Li Hongbin ordered the first battalion to enter the improvised fortifications that had just been built and prepare for battle. The first capital was in charge of the north, the second was responsible for the south, and the third capital was used as a reserve, and the battalion headquarters and the mortar detachment directly under it provided fire support in the rear, preparing to ambush the enemy. At this time, although the Yuan army was only a mile away from the ambush point, it did not realize that the two small hills in front of it were actually the ambush positions of the Song army.

After bypassing a wood, the leading enemy cavalry did not send a scout team to reconnoitre, but still came straight along the main road. The Song army, which was defending the place, did not start shooting rashly, but boldly and calmly approached the enemy, and did not fire fiercely until the Yuan cavalry was only thirty paces into our position, and then opened fire fiercely according to Dutou's order to fire. In an instant, hundreds of rifles and several Baizi guns that had been aiming for a long time on both sides simultaneously opened heavy fire on the Yuan army's leading cavalry and the following guards.

The unprepared Yuan army was attacked by such intense firepower that it was immediately beaten to the ground and chaos. In a very short time, the advance detachment of the enemy troops approaching the position was almost completely wiped out. At the beginning of the battle, the pro-soldier Baihu was mortally wounded by a bullet in the head, and most of the accompanying leading cavalry squad were also killed, but at this time, the pro-soldier team behind them reacted quickly, and saw that the front was ambushed, and immediately divided into two ways to reinforce forward. One squadron attacked to the south, the other directly to the Lubei position.

These personal soldiers who served as the vanguard underwent strict military training, and their weapons and armor were relatively sophisticated, and their combat effectiveness was tenacious. When attacking, it launches multiple assaults with skirmishers, supported by mounted archers, and the assault speed is very fast. However, as soon as they approached the position of the Song army, they were bombarded by the "grenade barrage", and all of them who rushed fiercely were destroyed. The rest of the Yuan army remained obsessed, and although they were constantly attacked by firearms, they continued to regroup, repeatedly attacking the Song positions regardless of casualties, trying to open the way, and even the young soldiers who followed dismounted to provide support with bows and arrows.

The uninterrupted battle lasted for about half an hour, and each attack of the enemy's troops was crushed before the Song position, and the casualties were heavy. After five consecutive charges, more than half of the casualties were still lost, and if it weren't for the enemy Senhu who stopped the attack at this time, these enemy soldiers might have been completely annihilated. However, the repeated charges of this guard were not without results, and they also recovered the son of Qianhu who was seriously wounded and served as a personal soldier, but the entire army was almost disabled.

Qianhu Habichi, who was stationed in Guabu Town, realized at this time that the Song army that had captured the ferry camp and dared to ambush his own brigade was by no means the previous squad of men and horses who had crossed the river to harass them, but the main force of the Song army had already crossed the river. He immediately lit a beacon fire to the nearby Qianhu Mansion in Changlu Town and the Duge Wanhu Mansion in Liuhe to report the enemy's situation, and asked for reinforcements, and sent people to Pegasus to report to the Duwanhu Mansion.

Habichi's son was seriously injured and died in a short time after he was rescued, and he was also red-eyed, and at the same time, he also sent a messenger for help, and at the same time, he also concentrated all the forces that could be mobilized by the headquarters and continuously launched attacks, hoping to drag down the Song army and prevent it from further developing in depth. And Changlu Town is only more than 30 miles away from Guabu Town, and Liuhe is only a few dozen miles, and has already entered a state of combat readiness.

By 10 o'clock in the afternoon, the guard battalion had already routed the enemy troops besieging Guabu Mountain, rescued the trapped assault detachment, and was retreating to the ferry while fighting. The scouts sent out also reported that a large number of enemy troops were found in the northwest and south of the ferry. Li Hongbin realized that the enemy army would arrive quickly by virtue of the vertical and horizontal post roads, and in this way, the situation of the Song army crossing the river would become quite dangerous, and it was possible that the Yuan army would be trapped in the north of the river.

After rescuing the trapped detachment, he broke away from the enemy and withdrew to Jiangbei, but he did not expect the reinforcements of the enemy to come so quickly, Li Hongbin had to immediately adjust the deployment and ordered the third battalion to fortify in the direction of Changlu Town to block the enemy. At the same time, the 1st Battalion of the 2nd Regiment and the 1st Battalion, which were on standby on Ilha Island, landed ashore and set up the second line of defense, and immediately withdrew to the second line of defense after receiving the guard battalion, waiting to cross the river and retreat.

Li Hongbin demanded that the first regiment should strictly prevent the enemy in front of him from making a detour backwards, cut off their retreat, and use the advantage of firepower to block the enemy troops, so as to gain time for the retreat of the guard battalion. At the same time, it is necessary to strengthen the second-line fortifications, otherwise it will not be possible to block the onslaught of the enemy's cavalry with the current strength. And quickly inform Chen Fenglin, the capital commander of Qingzhou Island, of the current plan, and report back to His Majesty to make a decision.

And Habichi was not willing to fail at this time, and constantly sent troops to attack the position. Wang Lin, who was at the forefront, found that the enemy cavalry had lost most of it, and even the young soldiers had been transferred to the battle to cooperate with the infantry charge, and he had long been unwilling to be beaten passively, so he concentrated the strength of the first and second battalions, and launched a counterattack after heavy mortar bombardment, in order to drive the enemy away from afar, so that he would not dare to approach, and win a favorable opportunity to leave the battlefield......