Chapter Seventy-Nine: Tartar's Surprise

Tartars really look down on us! So many cavalry were sent! Hum! Tell the armies, continue to rest in place for the time being, and see how the other side acts! After Gao Huaiyuan put down the binoculars, he commanded the herald beside him. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

With the waving of the Chinese army's order flag, the Song army in the front row sat down together, and the auxiliary soldiers in the back continued to maintain the original speed and carried the rejection horses and other objects to the front, placing the rejection horses in the front of the Song army's array, and tying these rejection horses together with iron chains.

Watching the actions of the Song army, Batu knew that the time left for him was not enough, once the Song army built enough fortifications to defend against the cavalry in front of the formation, it would bring them great trouble and more casualties when attacking.

So he glanced at the soldiers behind him, thinking that they were almost rested, so he raised his hand and was the first to turn over on the war horse, and now his confidence in victory can be said to be sufficient, but the only thing that makes him a little uneasy is that he doesn't know if Song Jun will use those mysterious weapons that have made the sea urchin cold this time, but this is not up to him, he can only cheer himself up, even if he encounters that terrible weapon, His brave Mongol warriors will continue to charge at the enemy without fear.

500 steps of fixed guns, solid ammunition loading! Just behind the spearmen at the forefront of the Song army, a line of artillery was lined up, and Xing Fang shouted an order to the artillery under his command with his finger in front of him.

At present, the number of artillery under Xing Fang is no longer the more than 100 people they were when they first went into battle, these days during the training in Ganquan Town, Gao Huaiyuan selected a group of people from the army and supplemented them to Xing Fang, the number of artillery is still so much, but the number of people in each artillery group has expanded to more than ten people, in addition to the original gunners, the new gunners are mainly only responsible for carrying materials, pushing guns and other physical work, but in this way, the original gunners are liberated from heavy physical work, This makes it easier to complete the task of loading and firing guns, and also increases their speed a lot.

Another point is that these new gunners can only be regarded as the protectors of the artillery, once the artillery is attacked by the enemy, each of them is equipped with a large shield and a spear, and each of them is also equipped with a waist knife, which can protect the safety of the artillery and make it continue to fire without interference.

Xing Fang was very satisfied with Gao Huaiyuan's arrangement, so that he could concentrate more on directing the artillery battle.

When the Song army began to line up, Xing Yi led his subordinates to push the artillery into the front army's position, and blocked their figures with a human wall, quickly built an artillery position, and placed all the artillery.

Under the command of Xing Fang, the gunners completed the first reload at a fast speed, and set the muzzle of the gun at a distance of 500 paces, and then stood on the side of the gun.

Looking at the copper cannons lined up below, Gao Huaiyuan was very proud, he took a big step forward in the history of artillery, although it cost him a huge amount of money to cast these cannons, but when they were used in war, it was worth everything.

Although the number of these artillery pieces is still a little insignificant for the Mongolian army on the opposite side, Gao Huaiyuan believes that these artillery pieces will still become the masters of this battlefield, after all, those Mongolian Tartars have never seen this thing, and he believes that they will give these Tartars a great surprise today.

When the horn sounded in the Mongol army, Gao Huaiyuan glanced at the situation of the Tartar army, and saw that five hundred Tartar cavalry began to line up in front of them.

With the wave of the enemy's flag, the Mongol cavalry immediately began to activate, at first they only kept their horses moving slowly, and when the whole army adjusted the distance, they began to increase their speed.

The Song army could gradually feel the trembling of the ground under their feet, and a row of soldiers with strong crossbows was ordered to start coming to the front of the queue, and the strong crossbows against the cavalry should be the most advantageous weapon before the artillery was put into battle, but what made Batu not understand was that the crossbowmen of the Song army were basically concentrated on the two wings of the Song army, and the crossbowmen did not appear in the front army array in the center.

Leading the attacking soldiers and horses is a centurion under Batu, he is very skilled in controlling the speed of the team's advance, and led by him, gradually began to speed up, Batu's order to him is very simple, is to make full use of this terrain, constantly repeatedly harass the Song army front, until the formation in front of the Song army is disrupted, this method of warfare he does not know how many times he has used, to deal with the enemy's infantry army, it can be said that it has been tried and tested, the Mongolian cavalry is invincible in the world, he firmly believes that under their endless continuous strikes, No army could withstand such an attack.

Each cavalryman carried at least three pots of arrows on his horseback, which was enough to make the enemy suffer a rain of arrows.

What they are best at is to use this method to continuously shoot the enemy until the enemy army can no longer bear this psychological pressure and collapses on its own, then this is the moment when their whole army will assault, this time they have taken out their own housekeeping skills without exception, and the war horses are running faster and faster under their urging.

Seven hundred steps, six hundred and fifty steps, six hundred steps, five hundred and fifty steps out of the way! Xing Fang observed the distance of the enemy army, and when he saw that the Mongol cavalry was close to five hundred paces, he yelled at the pikemen in front of him.

Back off! The commander of the pikemen immediately shouted, and the pikemen in the front row immediately divided into several sections, quickly and orderly from the gap in the artillery to the rear.

Ricocheting attack! Launch! After Xing Fang saw that the pikemen had withdrawn, the front of the artillery suddenly became cheerful, and he immediately waved the small flag held high.

The gunners who had already prepared immediately pressed the torches on the fire door, and a piece of fire and gunpowder smoke immediately rose from the central position of the Song army, and then the rolling cannon sound dispersed in all directions like rolling thunder, and before the Mongolian cavalry heard the sound, more than a dozen iron bullets fell in front of their team.

These solid projectiles hit the ground and smashed up clumps of earth and rocks, and then, with the rebound of the ground, they flew up again, continued to fly forward, and immediately rushed into the cavalry formation of the Mongol soldiers.

The projectiles immediately plowed through the ranks of the Mongol cavalry, carrying a huge amount of kinetic energy, crushing anything in front of them that stood in their way, whether horses or people, they were immediately torn apart by them, until they lost all kinetic energy and fell to the ground.

In the place where the projectile passed, the legs of horses, human legs and all kinds of stumps continued to fly, as long as it touched the iron pellet, no one could be spared, one after another unlucky horses fell into this wilderness, and more than a dozen unfortunate Mongolian cavalry also fell to the ground immediately.

When the projectile shattered their limbs, they didn't feel the pain, but when they realized that a part of their body had left their bodies, the unlucky ones felt the severe pain, and they all hugged the body and let out a terrible scream.

There was also a cavalryman who felt that his calf shook violently, but he did not immediately fall off the horse, still sitting on the back of the war horse, holding his hard bow, and continued to rush forward, but after looking down, his eyes suddenly widened, and he suddenly found that it was just a collision, and the part of his calf was connected to one of his feet, and he didn't know where to fly to, and at this time he felt the severe pain coming from the broken leg, so he could no longer sit firmly on the horse's back, and rolled over on his side with a scream, But he was also unlucky, and when he turned off the horse, the other foot was still firmly in the horse's pedal, and the frightened horse dragged his body and ran wildly in the ranks.

The unfortunate cavalryman was dragged by his horse and kept beating on the ground, as if he were a rag doll, and kept screaming, until his head fell firmly on a stone, and the Mongolian cavalryman was considered to have ended his painful journey, and his brains were sprinkled on the road where the horse passed, and the limp corpse was dragged aside by the horse.

The sudden roar suddenly frightened the horses of the Mongolian cavalry, and the originally neat shock formation immediately became chaotic, and all the Mongolian cavalry opened their mouths in astonishment, looking at the Song army formation that was spewing fire.

Even Batu's mouth was wide open, and his jaw seemed to be dislocated, and he didn't even realize that saliva was flowing onto his chin.

Could this be the kind of terrible weapon that Nahai said about the Song army? Batuu's heart was beating violently, as if he had suddenly cramped.

Seeing that the array of the Mongolian cavalry had begun to disorganize after being hit by a round of artillery, Xing Fang did not observe the casualties of the enemy army at all, but immediately shouted: Three hundred paces of fixed artillery, solid ammunition loading!

The gunners who had been ready immediately pounced, pushing the guns back because of the recoil back into place, and frantically began to wipe the muzzle and clean the slag, and the loader holding the bag filled the gun chamber at the moment when the rifper had just pulled the brush out of the muzzle, and then another loader used the gun shaft to penetrate the bottom of the gun, and the last loader immediately filled the gun chamber with a round iron bullet wrapped in sackcloth

Reloaded! After loading one cannon after another, the gun commander quickly reported to the station loudly.

Fire! Xing Fang once again struggled to wave the small red flag in his hand.

Then the Song artillery array sounded a series of roars, and the projectiles jumped on the ground, and they flew into the ranks of the Mongol cavalry again