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

Chapter 546 Crimes other than war
The Song army gathered less than 5,000 men and horses at this time, and there was no change in the spear and shield soldiers, even fewer than before, because many people had been killed just now.

Behind them were a thousand fusiliers.

Chen Guojun looked at the formation of the Song army, pointed to the back and said: "The Song army is pushing forward with spears and shields. Those weapons are behind and there is no way they can rush forward."

Chen Ying sneered: "Just now they stood with their backs to the river. Now you can lead the cavalry to charge their rear line, and I will lead the barracks to charge their front line? We will surely defeat them in one battle."

Chen Guojun hesitated slightly.

The Song Army's flintlock guns were all behind them. They were on the shore just now, and he had no choice. Now, could he go around behind the Song Army?

But, can you rush forward?
He is also considered a future famous general of the Vietnamese army. After all, he repelled three attacks by the Mongolian army. His mind was spinning rapidly. After thinking about it, he felt that when he just rushed up, the Song army seemed to have fought several rounds, but not many people beat them in the first few rounds. , after being held back by gun and shield soldiers, the casualties became serious.

"We just rushed up, how many rounds did the Song army fight?" he asked his subordinates.

"It looks like three rounds."

"Four wheels."

"Let's go." Chen Guojun gave the order and led the remaining thousand who could not ride around behind the Song army.

"I think there are a dozen rounds."

Chen Ying ignored him and wanted to make a contribution on his own, so he ordered an all-out charge.

The Vietnamese army's shouts of killing were loud, while the Song army's gunshots continued.

The sound of gunfire shocked Chen Guojun.

Of course, the hit rate from such a distance is not high. It may hit hundreds of people, but only two or three hundred people can be truly defeated.

Chen Guojun felt that he still couldn't charge forward, but Chen Yingdao could help them attract firepower. The Song army would either fight infantry camps or cavalry, and there would always be a chance to charge forward.

At this time, the casualties began to increase.

Chen Ying watched from behind, with disdain on his face. Chen Guojun said the Song army's weapons were so powerful, weren't they just firearms?
When he saw the white smoke coming out, he knew it was a firearm. The firearm had made a lot of noise just now, but the hit rate didn't seem to be high. Chen Ying was a little disapproving.

At the critical moment, in order to maintain their physical strength, the Vietnamese army trotted slowly instead of accelerating.

At this time, behind them, Chen Ying's tens of thousands of troops were already rushing forward like ants.

"Eight rounds."

Bang bang bang, at this time the Song army started fighting at 250 steps.

Chen Guojun didn't dare to rush, so he just watched first.

As long as this Song army is defeated, the people on the shore will not be afraid.

Three hundred steps, two hundred and fifty steps.

"Damn the Song Army." Chen Guojun found that the Song Army was really vicious. They always used spears and shields on their cavalry side. Moreover, the Song Army moved in an orderly manner and did not panic. It was obvious that the discipline and training were quite good.

The Vietnamese infantry camp rushed forward intensively.

This area is a vast area on the Red River Plain. Not far away are grain fields everywhere. Because the Vietnamese army has a large number of people and horses, the formation is wide, and one-tenth of them are running over from the grain fields.

But by the time the third round sounded, the Vietnamese army had already entered two hundred steps.

The Song army directly moved the gun and shield soldiers back. In the end, only a row of gun and shield soldiers remained in the front, and all the gun and shield soldiers in the back became fusiliers.

If Chen Guojun charged from behind the Song army at this time, he could help Chen Ying attract half of the fusiliers, but he did not dare to charge first.

Chen Guojun signaled his men to slow down and wait for the infantry to attract the firepower of the Song army first.

"Woooo" the horns of the Vietnamese army sounded soon. Basically 90% of Chen Ying's 17,000 people arrived at the scene, and there were still a few who were not physically fit enough behind.

All fusiliers faced the Vietnamese infantry camp.

Chen Guojun knew that the Song army was guarding them, so he decided to continue attacking the Song army in front of him.

Song Jun stopped calmly and stood where he was.

He didn't care, he gathered his troops and began to charge forward.

Yue Ren has always been tenacious. After hesitating, he decisively decided to rush again.

The denser the enemy troops are, the farther the Song army will attack? Chen Guojun seemed to have discovered this secret. He hurriedly said: "Quickly, inform Chen Ying and let others spread out and not be too dense."

But the subordinates went up and down very quickly, after all, they were quite close to the shore. The subordinates came back and said that there were still one or two thousand Song soldiers on the shore, and they were using boxes and other things as obstacles.

There were only a few thousand Song troops at the scene, and Chen Ying's number was three times that of the Song troops. He was quite confident and did not take the Song troops seriously at all.

When he was halfway around, he suddenly wondered if there were Song troops on the shore now. How about going directly to the shore?
He immediately called one of his subordinates: "Go to the shore and have a look." At the same time, he slowed down and the whole army slowly ran behind the Song Army. Once the Song Army had no defensive force on the shore, he rushed directly to the shore.

But it was obviously too late to notify at this time, and it was meaningless. The Vietnamese army was rushing forward, and Chen Ying would not listen to him.

Therefore, there were not many hits in the first round, and they were insignificant in front of the infantry camp of more than 15,000 people.

The subordinates were all talking, some were talking about three rounds, and some were talking about more than ten rounds. Chen Guojun felt like vomiting blood after hearing this.

Just as the Vietnamese infantry camp rushed forward, the gun and shield soldiers in front of the Song army saw the Vietnamese cavalry circling behind and began to circle back.

After hearing this, Chen Guojun sighed. He could not bear to use up his last cavalry, but he also wanted to defeat the Song army.

He stood silently, looking at the distance between the Vietnamese infantry camp and the Song army.

When their cavalry charged before, the Song army started fighting at about 200 paces. Unexpectedly, the Song army attacked earlier when they charged with the infantry camp.

When they discovered that the opposing flintlock gun was very powerful and wanted to speed up, they all entered the most effective firing range of the flintlock gun.

Chen Ying's expression soon changed, and he saw that the Vietnamese army kept falling down and down as they advanced.

There were not many who fell in the front, and they were inconspicuous among tens of thousands of people. The closer to the Song army in the back, the more they fell.

When they entered about sixty steps, gunfire rang out from the Song Army. The Vietnamese troops fell in pieces, and the Vietnamese army's formation seemed to be unable to move up, and kept going back and forth between sixty and fifty steps.

In other words, the Vietnamese army is the last batch.

"Damn it, Chen Guojun can't do it?" Chen Ying was furious, finally seeing the power of Song Jun's weapons.

Chen Guojun on the other side saw that he had no choice but to fight, otherwise Chen Ying would be angry with him. He bit the bullet and ordered again, leading the cavalry to charge towards the Song army's rear formation.

Some of the flintlock guns in the Song army immediately turned around and hit them with bang bang bang.

Chen Guojun's cavalry suffered heavy casualties after charging a hundred steps forward. If they pushed forward any further, they would be completely wiped out.

With a large number of fusiliers missing on the other side, Chen Ying's men were also unable to charge forward.

Then suddenly a group of Vietnamese troops were defeated. They turned around and ran away in the middle of the charge.

The scene collapsed instantly, the Vietnamese army turned around, and the scene seemed to collapse out of control.

These people fought against the Song Army for the first time. The last group died and were directly defeated by the Song Army. Chen Ying looked helplessly at the collapse scene, and stamped his feet one last time: "Let's go, it's not a crime of war." The Song Army's weapons were really powerful.

There was even a hundreds of years difference in weapons between the two sides. The Vietnamese army suffered a disastrous defeat. When Chen Guojun came back, there were still less than 500 cavalry.

Chen Ying's infantry camp suffered casualties of three to four thousand, and he returned with just over ten thousand.

It was also because they collapsed too early. If they tried to charge higher, they would be like Monk Greenqin of Bali Bridge who charged against the British and French forces, and the whole army would be killed.

Fortunately, after this battle, the two of them reached a unified stance. The crime of non-war was really due to the powerful firearms of the Song army.

Before dark that day, the two men fled back to Thang Long City with the remaining soldiers and the defeated general. According to them, the Song army's firearms could be fired from 500 steps away, and they would not kill them even if they hit them, and the iron armor could not stop them.

For a time, people in Thang Long City were panicked, and King Chen Yu began to panic. At this time, someone proposed peace, but it was immediately opposed by most people.

The bad habits of the Song army have been spread to Dayue for a long time. Every time they occupy a city, they will rob money and land. It is useless to negotiate peace.

What to do? Of course, it's time to trade space, let's move the capital.

On the eighth day of November, the Song army fought a battle with the Vietnamese army about ten miles outside Thang Long City. The Vietnamese army returned with a disastrous defeat. Not long after, Chen Xu immediately decided to move the capital and move it back. He used space to trade time, gathered all the troops from across the country, and occupied a favorable position. The mountainous characteristics of the Song Dynasty dealt with the Song army.

After hearing this, the courtiers went home one after another. The city was in panic. Carriages became the most sought-after supplies. All the dignitaries had to flee with their money.

However, Chen Yu and the Chen family were still relatively wealthy. At this time, their money was still outside their possessions. They only brought a small amount of money with them and immediately ran away with the royal family members.

The Song army is less than ten miles away from here, so why bother?

Chen Xuan was also a fast runner. The Chen family ran away first with more than 10,000 horses. The royal family took a boat and took the waterway, and some of the people took the land route. Many ministers and wealthy businessmen did not have time to run away and were in the process of transporting money. , the forward of the Song Army arrived outside Thang Long City.

The Song army gathered 500 cavalry from several large ships and arrived at Thanglong City first. Seeing that few people came out of Thanglong City, they immediately began to block the gate.

Some of the defenders wanted to go out to fight in the field. The Song cavalry used Mongolian tactics, direct bows and arrows and kites. The shots made the Yue people cry like ghosts and howl like wolves, and they hurried back to the city.

The next moment no one dared to leave the city, and the Yue people had no choice but to close the city gate.

When it was getting dark, the Song Army's forward 5,000-step battalion arrived outside Thanglong City and sealed several city gates to prevent large-scale escapes.

Thang Long City has two gates directly connected to the waterway, so at this time the Vietnamese could still escape from the west by boat by waterway. The rich and nobles just wanted to take the waterway.

However, the Song Army's cavalry was on both sides of the bank and kept firing rockets at the passing ships.

Except for the boat that started running fast and left, the boats behind did not dare to come out.

As soon as it came out, the sky was filled with rockets, and it was too late to put out the fire.

An hour later, around eight o'clock later, several artillery pieces from the Song Army arrived and were set up directly on the shore, facing the only waterway to the west where they could escape.

This time, the breech-loaded rifled cannon is used at close range. If the enemy's ship dares to come out, one shot will be accurate.

When the main force of the Song Army arrived that day, it was already dark. The Song Army did not attack the city, but instead surrounded it first. Early in the morning every second day, Li Tingzhi first sent people to shoot letters persuading them to surrender, and then sent people to "collect food" everywhere.

The first target of the Song Army's food requisition was the wealthy landowners near Thang Long City. The Song Army divided each capital into a team, with about ten people as cavalry, and divided them into fifty capitals.

Zhao Ping was the head of three generals, two battalions and one capital of the Hainan First Army under Li Tingzhi.

Judging from his Chinese name, he was originally a Jurchen.

After the Song Dynasty destroyed the Jin Dynasty, their family first moved to Dayuan and then to Hainan. They changed their surname to Han and became Han Chinese from then on.

When the Jin Kingdom fell, Zhao Ping was only seven years old.

Now he is only in his early twenties, and the memory of the Jin people has long disappeared in his mind. All he has recorded are his studies and training in the Song Dynasty.

There were many Han Chinese like Zhao Ping in the Song Dynasty army, in Da Yuan, Hainan, Hanzhou and other overseas garrisons, including in the Far East, Haisanwei and other places.

When the Jin Kingdom was destroyed, the Song people got at least hundreds of thousands of Jurchen people. Now, almost twenty years later, many people were born in the Song Dynasty. Like the Han people who grew up in the north after the Northern Song Dynasty was destroyed, they all think that they are (Jin people) Song people.

Zhao Ping's life trajectory is almost the same as that of most people.

The country was destroyed when he was seven years old, and then he became a high-ranking official. When he was eight years old, he was put in intensive classes to learn Chinese and Chinese characters, and was not allowed to speak Jurchen language.

At the age of eighteen, Zhao Ping was drafted into the army. Because he was literate and well-read, he participated in three months of intensive training for new recruits. When he was assigned to the local garrison, he became the deputy corps commander. His starting point was relatively high, and the imperial court reduced taxes on his family. .

In other overseas colonies of the Song Dynasty, including Persia, the starting point for taxation was 30%, while the early pioneers such as Hainan and others were taxed at 20%. If someone in the family was a soldier, the tax would be reduced by another 10%. Therefore, Zhao Ping's family tax was low. His family was very supportive of him becoming a soldier.

After joining the army, Zhao Ping participated in the battle to conquer the Balni Kingdom, was stationed in Balni, and then returned to Hainan. In a short period of time, after the Song army recruited troops and expanded its army in Balni, he also accumulated merit and became the head of the capital.

Among the more than 3,000 people in Hainan's First Army, including three generals and six battalions, there are at least dozens of Jurchens like Zhao Ping, and they are basically all grassroots military attachés, and they are only in their early twenties, and some may be only eighteen or nineteen years old. , a small number of eighteen-year-old recruits, the Kingdom of Jin was gone when they were born.

Therefore, everyone has a strong sense of identification with the Song Dynasty, and they all regard themselves as Song people.

Early that morning, Zhao Ping went to the camp to hold a meeting and immediately returned to the capital to gather his troops.

They are all over a hundred people, and only one of them is a cavalry, a sentinel cavalry.

The number of people in the Song army varied, maybe ten, maybe eleven, or maybe twelve.

It mainly depends on whether there are deputy corps commanders and how many deputy corps commanders there are.

For example, in Zhao Ping's capital sentry cavalry, there is a corps commander and a deputy corps commander, a total of eleven people.

"After receiving the order from above, we all go south to collect food." Zhao Ping gathered the corps commanders and shouted loudly.

As he spoke, he looked at his subordinates. Except for a few corps commanders from the Song Army, the rest of his soldiers were composed of a small number of Jurchens and a large number of natives.

As the head of the Jurchen capital, he was quite proud of having a Song corps leader below him.

"Liu Datou."

"exist"

"You guys should bring some incendiary bombs and bows and arrows."

"promise."

"Qi Xiaokang."

"exist"

"You Wuduo are armed with hand-beaters and flintlock guns."

"promise"

Zhao Ping ordered one by one, the sentinel cavalry team has one person and one horse, and the whole team should bring two more horses to prevent the horses from being damaged. The remaining teams have one team specially to carry incendiary bombs, one team to carry flintlock guns, and the other teams to carry cold weapons. There was a group, each of them brought a dog, and then they first went to the nearby area to collect horses and carriages, and then went south to collect grain. They were given an order to give them two days to collect at least a thousand stones of grain. The more they collected, the better. .

The Song army came by boat and did not bring many war horses, so they had to rely on them to transport the horses, mules and carriages from the local area.

Moreover, in the Red River Plain area, there are many waterways, so it can also be transported by ship, or by levying ships from the people.

(End of this chapter)