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

Chapter 242
"Thousand households." Just as Shi Xingzu was screaming in his heart, a horse stopped beside him, and a guard jumped off his horse and handed his own horse to Shi Xingzu.

Shi Xingzu nodded, just about to reach out to pat the guard.

Whoosh, there was a sudden wind in the air, and he subconsciously shrank his neck.

Puchi, an arrow fell from the sky behind him, hitting the horse's head.

After shooting in, the tail of the arrow is almost invisible, and it looks like the featherless arrow of the divine arm bow.

Bang, the war horse fell to the ground again.

Shi Xingzu and his personal guards looked at each other in dismay. The Song man's divine arm bow was nearly a hundred steps away, and an arrow almost pierced the horse's head. How powerful is this force.

The point is, before they came, they still thought that Peng Yibin's department was the head of the local army, and there was a gap between them and Song Ting's regular army. They didn't expect that among Peng Yibin's troops, they were equipped with Song Ting's most powerful bow.

Although Song Ting publicly recruited Peng Yibin, and also canonized Peng Yibin, Li Quan, Shi Qing, Xia Quan, and even Shi Tianlu's father Shi Gui had all been canonized by Song Ting. Song Ting was basically a formal canonization. Heads won't be of any help.

When Shi Tianze asked Shi Tianlu to send troops, he still regarded Peng Yibin as the leader of the local army, not as the regular army of the Song Dynasty at all.

But judging from the present, Peng Yibin's army may have received strong support from Song Ting.

Just when Shi Xingzu was terrified, Song Tian was standing on the carriage looking into the distance a hundred steps away.

After the Mongolian army launched a frontal charge, Qian Daqing's cannon finally rang.

But this cannon fires extremely slowly. Qian Daqing has 25 cannons, [-] of which are long cannons.

There are tens of thousands of Mongolian troops on the opposite side, and these twenty artillery pieces are no different from throwing a stone in a pond.

His soldiers and horses were right in front of the artillery formation, and there were all carriages in front of him.

All the pikemen stand in front of the carriage, and the crossbowmen are behind the carriage. The pikemen are mainly to cover the carriage. When the enemy forces approach, they will retreat behind the carriage.

Song Tian was not afraid of death, standing on the height of the carriage, just in time to see the Song Army's [-] cannons entering the Mongolian army's formation just now.

It seems that the range of damage is not large, but the Mongolian army can be vaguely seen falling down.

Every time someone fell down, Song Tian would yell, "Fall down, fall down."

"One, two, three, this cannon hit well, but it knocked down three."

But this time, the Song Army's god-arm bow and cannon can hit this distance. No one knows whether it was the cannon or the god-arm bow that knocked it down.

Song Tian said this to boost morale and make the soldiers think that the artillery is very powerful.

In fact, he also felt in his heart that the shooting was too slow and the number of artillery pieces was small.

No, after the [-] cannons were fired, the fire has been silent for a long time.

This would require hundreds of cannons on the scene, and the effect would be excellent, Song Tian thought silently.

Before the fight started, he felt that the artillery battalion was useless, but now that he saw how powerful it was, he felt that there were too few artillery battalions, so it was not useless.

His view of the artillery battalion is gradually changing.

Just as he was thinking wildly, Zhou Bing beside him shouted: "Come up, come up, come up."

The Mongolian army began to rush forward, the military flags were unfurled here, officers at all levels were shouting, and the pikemen in front of them retreated to the back of the carriage.

Other pikemen without carriages also followed them and retreated on the same level.

"Tiger." Suddenly an officer shouted behind him, and he shot the bow first, and the arrow was still tied with a red cloth.

It's like an order.

Then, like a chain reaction, Beng Beng Beng, the Song Army's step bows were fired continuously.

The Mongolian army has rushed within fifty steps.

Without further ado, Song Tian jumped out of the carriage, and pulled out a javelin from the carriage.

Take a few steps back and forth.

The six or seven rows of pikemen in the front row of the Song Army were very densely packed. There was still some space behind them. They were all crossbowmen, but the space was not very large.

He took two steps to run up and shouted: "Get out of the way."

Whoosh, a javelin was thrown.

Thirty paces away, a group of Mongolian troops rushed thirty steps away, and Song Tian's javelin pounced, hitting one of the Mongolian soldiers.

"Okay." There were applause from all around, Zhou Bing's voice was the loudest.

"Damn it, hahaha." Song Tian laughed out loud at first, then his face became serious, his eyes were very shocked.

The charging momentum of the Mongolian army on the opposite side was very scary, and they looked like they were going forward indomitable and desperate.

This is the most dangerous time for the Song army to form a large formation, and theoretically it is also the best opportunity for the Mongolian army. The success or failure of both sides depends on this wave of charge.

There are two main reasons why the Mongolian army rushed forward desperately.

One is that the combat discipline of the Mongolian army is very strict. They cannot retreat without an order to retreat. If one person retreats, the whole team will be killed.

The second reason is that there is basically only one chance to charge into the formation with cavalry.

Either break through the infantry all at once and disperse the infantry.

If it is blocked, the first wave cannot rush in, and the forwards of both sides will fall into hand-to-hand combat, and the cavalry should be used as infantry.

If you ride a horse, the mothers of the front row cavalry who can shoot the crossbow behind the Song army will not recognize them.

As long as the two sides are in hand-to-hand combat for more than 10 minutes, the people and horses fighting each other in front of the two sides, plus the dead and injured people and horses on both sides, can block the way behind.

The cavalry behind couldn't afford the speed at all, and it was impossible to break away from the infantry.

So for the cavalry, whether they can break through the Song army's infantry depends on the first wave.

Shi Tianlu fought with Shi Si at the age of 12. It is common sense to know this, so the first wave of the Mongolian army rushed fiercely.

The front row is desperately moving forward, trying to draw blood for the back and rush out of the space.

All the charging cavalry knew that once the forward was blocked and the rear lost the speed and space to attack, what was waiting for them was to be constantly consumed and killed by the Song Army's bows and arrows.

Under such a turbulent and violent impact, if it were to be replaced by Peng Yibin's soldiers and horses two years ago, they would definitely collapse in one rush, and they would be completely irresistible.

It's a pity that Shi Tianlu came two years late.

The Song army at this time should be the most disciplined army in the world, and it is the best army to maintain its formation during battles.

Rumble, bang, bang, with various sounds and screams of people and horses on the scene.

The vanguard cavalry on the opposite side rushed directly to their pikemen formation as if desperate.

But this time the person in the middle was out of luck.

Because there are thirty carriages in the middle.

But this Mongolian army is also quite fierce, and the strikers rushed forward without hesitation.

Before Song Tian walked back, he saw a war horse bumping into the carriage.

The front of the carriage was almost knocked apart, the horse fell to the ground in an instant, and the Mongolian army on the horse was knocked into the air, flipping several times in mid-air, plopping, and first fell hard on the handlebar at the rear of the carriage, Kacha, Because of the close distance, Song Tian could hear the sound of the man's waist being smashed.

Then it fell from the handlebars to the ground, and was no longer alive after landing.

Before Song Tian could react, whoosh, another figure flew over in the air.

The Meng Qi behind also hit the carriage, but this man braked desperately, the impact was not very heavy, and at the same time, he jumped directly over the carriage, and the one-step archer was raising his bow and throwing it backwards. With a splash, it hit the Song Army archer.

The two fell to the ground at the same time.

The Mongolian army rolled over and got up nimbly first, only to see the densely packed Song army all around, and was startled and frightened at once.

But this guy is also a fierce man, without saying a word, he raised his waist knife and rushed towards the archer in front of him.

I saw Song Tian suddenly appeared in three steps and two steps, and at the same time stretched out his hand to touch his waist: "Ms. Grass."

Puchi, a flying knife hit the face of the Mongolian army.

"Ah!" Meng Jun covered his face and screamed and fell to the ground.

Song Jun on the side drew his bow to shoot him an arrow.

"Get out of the way." Song Tian pushed his subordinates away, strode over, stepped on the Mongolian soldier's face, first drew out his short knife, and then slashed across the Mongolian soldier's throat.

"Wow!" Someone screamed in front of him.

With a bang, a group of Song soldiers swayed from side to side.

Song Tian looked up and saw a Song soldier in the front row was knocked down by a horse, a man and a shield.

Song Jun was still vomiting blood after he fell to the ground, obviously he was hit badly.

"Block it, stop it." Someone yelled frantically around, and the other Song soldiers hurried forward.

Song Tian cursed inwardly, these Han animals didn't fight so fiercely when they were the leaders of the local army, but now they turned to be the Mongolian army, they would be killed if they charged?
At the same time as he was cursing secretly, the Mongolian army was rushing up like a tide.

These Mongolian troops were all Han troops. They first tried to use their horses to break through the formation, but when the first wave failed to break through, they jumped off their horses one after another and fought hand-to-hand with the Song army.

Song Tian quickly raised his head and looked around. The entire Song Army formation was basically in good shape, with a few flaws.

In front of him on the right were two carriages, which were originally tied together, but were scattered by the Mongolian cavalry. Three or four Mongolian cavalry rushed in through the gap between the two carriages.

But the Song army immediately made up the formation and blocked the gap first, because there was a broken carriage blocking it, and it was difficult for Meng Qi to enter.

The bows and crossbows were connected behind, and the pikemen also surrounded them, and three or four cavalry were quickly shot down.

The worst one was knocked to the ground by seven or eight long spears, people and horses.

The Song army was very dense at the scene, and there was no room for a small group of cavalry to move in, and they were killed one after another after a while.

Song Tian's side has become the focus of the Mongolian army's attack because of its carriages and artillery.

After the Mongolian army dismounted, they began to try to climb the carriage.

But both sides of the carriage were full of pikemen, there was a Mongolian army who had just stood up, puffed up, and the pikes came from both sides, and there were already several holes in his body.

Some people climbed up with great difficulty, and suddenly an arrow hit him in the face and nailed him in the face.

Song Tian quickly turned around and called ten strong crossbowmen in Zhajia to follow him, and when he walked there, these ten strong crossbowmen followed there.

Now the Song army has reduced the number of strong crossbowmen in the army. The first battalion of Songtian has 500 people. According to Wu Lin's previous establishment, there are at least seventy or eighty strong crossbowmen. Now there are only twenty, about a quarter.

Seeing that the Mongolian army charged more fiercely and the pikemen were struggling, Song Tian immediately waved: "Shoot for me."

Fluttering, a wave of crossbow arrows shot past, and many people in the front row of the Mongolian army fell to the ground one after another.

The strong crossbowmen immediately lowered their heads and stepped on the arrows after shooting, and they had to ensure that their waists were not bent to prevent the Mongolian army from throwing shots.

"Bow your head" At this moment, Song Tian heard someone shouting behind him: "Bow your head, bow your head."

He lowered his head subconsciously.

Ding ding ding ding, there was a sound of metal knocking and screams.

A rain of arrows shot at the pikemen and infantry not far in front of him.

When Song Tian raised his head, several Song soldiers in front of him were hit by arrows.

A spearman was seriously wounded, and a straight shot from the opposite side hit him in the face.

The pikemen screamed incessantly, Song Tian rushed over and dragged him back from the dense crowd.

The pikemen were still barking.

"Old horse, old horse, hold back--" Song Tian was almost crying, and dragged him back with all his strength.

The old horse suddenly opened its eyes full of blood and stared at it. After a few breaths, a mouthful of blood spurted wildly, and died.

(End of this chapter)