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

Chapter 579 Crush
"Damn it, why don't you hit it lower? It's better to hit the feet instead of hitting it high?" He cursed.

There are so many people in front of us, so crowded that you can hit them even if you shoot randomly.

The commander put away his knife and handed the binoculars to the person next to him: "Give me the gun."

Kakala snatched the gun from someone next to him and loaded it.

I raised it and took aim. Hey, there were people everywhere in front of me. He kept moving the muzzle of his gun around. I didn't know which one to shoot.

There are too many people, it's a bit hard to choose.

After a few seconds, he randomly chose a direction with more people rushing in, lowered the muzzle of his gun, and bang, a shot went off.

"It missed." The personal soldier beside him said with a smile while holding a telescope.

"?" The commander silently returned the gun to the other man and took the telescope: "How many steps are there?"

"We're almost three hundred steps in."

"Stop, stop, stop. Get ready."

At this time, the Song army gradually quieted down, everyone held their guns and prepared, and everyone loaded their bullets.

Three hundred steps, two hundred and fifty steps.

The shogunate army on the opposite side moved slowly because it was summer and the distance was far, which was not suitable for a charge.

But the cavalry behind the shogunate army was already speeding up.

Two hundred steps.

"Fight." The Song army waved the command flag and gave the order.

Bang, bang, bang, the Type 15 rifle can fire freely, while the other flintlock rifles are still three-stage.

This time, tens of thousands of gunshots were fired one after another. The scene was filled with continuous gunfire and the impact of the steel rain was like a wall of steel knives and a steel wall blocking the shogunate's army.

Boom, boom! People fell to the ground in front and behind.

This distance is already within the best killing range of the Song army's muskets. The hit rate at a single point may not be high, but the advantage is that the opponent has more people.

If you can't hit the front, you can at least hit the back, right?

Only then did Kublai Khan realize how powerful the Song army was. The Song army fired so many guns, and the closer the enemy got, the more they fell.

The casualties were relatively small at 200 steps, but by the time they reached 150 steps, they had increased significantly.

When they reached a hundred steps, they began to fall down in rows.

The shogunate's cavalry didn't even get started and were beaten to the ground halfway through their march.

When they advanced to eighty steps, some people in the shogunate army turned around and ran. They couldn't rush forward at all. They fell down as soon as they tried to rush forward.

Mingliu Shiguang finally witnessed the power of the Song army's firearms. He sent 10,000 vanguards forward, the farthest of which rushed within seventy steps, and then the entire army retreated. In the end, only more than 7,000 people ran back, and nearly one-third of them were defeated by the Song army.

Many of those who came back were injured, and a number of them died after the war.

"It's too fierce. The Song army's firearms are too powerful. We can't charge in at all. We can't charge in at all." Some subordinates cried.

After a moment of silence, someone proposed to negotiate peace with the Song army.

"Damn it." The famous scholar Shi Guang was furious. The Song army had stated the conditions for peace before, but that was not peace, it was surrender, the most humiliating thing.

Mingliu Shiguang gave up the fight for power with Hojo Tokirai just to prove his own ability.

It is a shame to negotiate peace after just one battle.

Mingliu Shiguang called the forwards back and asked them to talk about the Song people's firearms, because he was too far away to see clearly.

There are many different opinions, but we can still distinguish them. The ones in the middle of the Song army are more powerful and can fight continuously, while those on both sides retreat after fighting, using a three-stage attack and then changing people to attack.

Of course, the people in the shogunate couldn't tell how many strikes it would take, but it would definitely take time.

"Okay, let's focus on attacking the two wings of the Song army." Mingliu Shiguang said, "It will take time for the Song army's firearms to fire again. As long as we have enough people and everyone is not afraid of death, we can definitely charge forward. As long as we charge forward, they will be like cattle and sheep waiting to be slaughtered. We will definitely win this battle."

There were still many advocates of war around him, all shouting with him that they would win.

This time Mingliu Shiguang decided to go all in, and 150,000 soldiers rushed forward, continuously depleting the Song army. For this reason, his own foreign country's troops had to take the lead, and he even let his son Mingliu Feng bare his upper body and tie a white scarf on his head to show that he was determined to die.

The celebrity time helped boost morale a little.

A moment later, the shogunate army reorganized and nearly 150,000 people were spread across the battlefield.

With the order given, the whole land and wilderness were filled with shouts of killing, and hundreds of thousands of troops fought to the death.

Kublai Khan stared blankly at the enemy troops all over the mountains and plains in front of him through the telescope he had just obtained, with an expression of disbelief on his face.

He also realized that the shogunate army was determined to fight, and they actually charged with their entire army. The result would be either a disastrous defeat or a crushing defeat for the Song army.

Most of the Song army only had guns and were not wearing armor, so it was difficult for them to fight in close combat.

Can they charge? For some reason, Kublai Khan secretly hoped that the shogunate army would charge, but also hoped that they would not be able to charge.

The Song army was defeated, and he himself was composed entirely of cavalry, so he could also escape back to the ship, but that obviously was not what he wanted.

But as a surrendered soldier, he still wanted to see if there was any army that could defeat the strongest Song army in the world.

Charge! The entire shogunate army in front is charging forward.

This time they had experience. The Song army's previous attacks were not accurate, so they tried to move slowly and shouted loudly, but it was to boost morale.

Five hundred steps, four hundred steps, three hundred steps.

After entering three hundred steps, a small number of Song soldiers took the lead in opening fire. These people were good at shooting and relatively confident, while some were just shooting for fun.

After entering two hundred steps, many Song soldiers opened fire, but the flintlock rifles did not move.

After entering 150 steps, gunshots rang out, and the Song army launched an all-out attack.

This was a desperate charge that the Mongolian army had never made before. Kublai Khan's Mongolian army and the Song army had been fighting for many years, but had never fought like this before.

Because the Mongolian army had more cavalry, while the opponents were mostly infantry.

There is no difference between infantry charging into the flintlock rifle and committing suicide.

Although the Song army did not bring cannons, they still had grenades and Type 15 rifles.

It’s better at the back, but once you get close, the area from sixty to eighty steps is a death zone.

The shogunate troops rushed up in waves and fell down in waves. It took only a moment to watch.

Kublai Khan saw that the corpses and wounded people were slowly piling up on the ground.

The accumulation of corpses affected the charge speed of the shogunate army. The slower they moved, the more casualties they suffered.

There were constant gunshots and shouts of killing at the scene. The Song army stood there, motionless as a mountain. A small number of shogunate troops shot arrows at them, and some people were shot and fell, but it did not affect the entire formation.

It was too tragic. Kublai Khan watched for half an hour, the Shogunate army charged for half an hour, and the front row of the Song army had to rotate with the back row after several rounds of fighting, otherwise their guns would be broken.

The shogunate troops in front were littered with dead and wounded, and within fifty or sixty steps the corpses soon piled up to the knees. The shogunate troops behind had to push them aside before they could charge forward.

Kublai Khan was shocked by the firearms of the Song army, and even more shocked by the shogunate soldiers' fearless charge.

Many of the shogunate's troops were like crazy, some were naked and rushed forward with Tang swords in hand.

You know what, even the Mongolian army had never experienced such a fearless charge, and after a while, it actually showed results.

Because the Song army's front-row guns could not fire continuously, they needed to constantly rotate with the back row.

Songtian's position was not very good, as all the soldiers could not line up in a row, which resulted in about 5,000 people being shot in the front, and more than half of them being difficult to shoot in the back. If it was a slope, with the back getting higher and higher, they could shoot at the same time.

Under such circumstances, the enemy was getting closer and closer as the Shogunate army charged fearlessly.

Fifty steps.

Forty steps.

The closer they got to the front, the more casualties there were, and there were piles of corpses at every step. But at this time, many arrows had already been shot into the Song army's formation, and the Song army was also suffering casualties.

"General Song?" Kublai Khan glanced at Song Tian. Now should be the time for them to rush forward.

Song Tian originally wanted to defeat the shogunate with guns, but now he was deeply shocked to see the shogunate army acting like crazy.

The imperial court said that these people were all crazy, and it turned out to be true. Song Tian had been in the army for so many years, following the Song army from south to north and from east to west, but he had never seen such crazy and fearless people. They were completely heaping up human lives.

"Wait a little longer." Song Tian began to give orders: "Prepare the grenades."

After a while, many Song soldiers took out grenades.

These are the strong men of the Song army, who can usually throw the ball more than thirty steps away.

"Ready, throw."

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, a wave of grenades flew out from the Song army.

Boom, boom, boom! There were continuous explosions in front, and the shogunate army's offensive was hindered, but more troops rushed forward.

At this time, Mingliu Shiguang also seemed to see the hope of victory and ordered the cavalry to charge forward madly.

The Shogunate cavalry was speeding up, rushing from the back to the front.

When Song Tian saw that the shogunate cavalry was also charging, he finally nodded to Kublai Khan and said, "Go ahead."

"Woo" Kublai Khan drew out his sword, and with a rumble, the Mongolian cavalry also began to meet him.

On Song Tian's side, everyone put away their guns.

"Retreat, retreat, retreat." The Song army began to retreat in an orderly manner.

Three rows of troops were left in the front to provide cover, and the entire army retreated to the rear, increasing the distance between them and the shogunate army.

The shogunate army finally rushed within thirty or forty steps, but the Song army pulled away again, and the celebrities in the distance were simply devastated by what they saw.

"Charge, charge past the limit, charge again--" Mingliu Shiguang was shouting frantically in the distance, cheering for the Shogunate army.

Of course he knew that he couldn't let the Song army widen the distance.

But Kublai Khan's troops made him despair.

Kublai Khan's five thousand elite cavalry rushed forward.

With a crackling sound, Kublai Khan's men first fired a wave of arrows, and then rushed directly into the Shogunate army.

There was a small number of infantry in the front, who almost collapsed at the first charge, and then rushed back, and soon encountered the shogunate cavalry.

The two sides came into close combat in an instant, and boom, the horses on both sides collided fiercely.

The shogunate's cavalry was far inferior to the Mongolian army. In addition, Kublai Khan's 5,000 elite cavalry were well-trained soldiers who had fought in many battles, so the shogunate's cavalry usually did not have many battles.

There was a loud neighing of horses at the scene, and the shogunate soldiers and horses all fell down, screaming in agony.

Kublai Khan's troops charged and directly defeated the shogunate's cavalry.

Behind the cavalry was a large infantry battalion. Kublai Khan certainly would not rush forward foolishly. While hacking and killing, he led the cavalry to both sides, specifically chasing and killing the enemy cavalry, while also preparing to leave the battlefield.

His goal was to block the shogunate army and buy time for the Song army to gain distance.

The cavalry of the two armies fought fiercely in front of the battle line, and the offensive of the shogunate army was hindered.

Taking this opportunity, the main force of the Song army retreated more than 200 steps and quickly reorganized.

When Mingliu Shiguang saw this, he couldn't help but close his eyes secretly. It was over.

If the Song army keeps doing this, no matter how many troops he has, he will not be able to advance.

At this time, the battlefield was crowded with people and horses. Kublai Khan rushed left and right, and no enemy could match him.

The shogunate's troops were much shorter than Kublai's cavalry, and they did not wear heavy armor, and the shogunate's war horses were not as good as theirs.

Kublai Khan had complete advantage, as if returning to the days when the Mongol army was invincible.

The more he chopped, the more excited he became.

However, when he turned around and saw the neat and dense Song army's spear formation in the distance, his heart suddenly sank. The glory of the Great Mongol Empire was a thing of the past, and now he could only cling to the Song army.

"Kill, kill on both sides, then return." Kublai Khan roared fiercely.

Woo! The personal soldiers behind him blew the horn, and the Song army split into two groups, killing to the left and right, and the shogunate cavalry fled in all directions.

The Song army circled back and left the battlefield. After shaking off the enemy's main force, they immediately began to shoot several waves of arrows along the periphery.

This is the tactic that the Mongolian army is best at, but Kublai Khan intends to stick to the original plan and return to protect the right wing of the Song army after the battle.

But at this moment, a Song army scout came over with orders.

"General Song has ordered that General Kublai Khan stay on the periphery and follow the shogunate army to plunder and shoot. Keep your distance and harass them in the way you are best at."

"Yes, sir." Kublai Khan was overjoyed.

Originally, their Mongolian army was good at this kind of tactics, and he didn't want to follow the Song army and watch them being lined up and shot.

Kublai Khan immediately gave an order to split all the cavalry into two groups. One group followed the shogunate army from the outside to the north, and the other group followed the south. The two groups circled behind and shot at the outskirts of the shogunate.

As soon as the order was given, Kublai Khan immediately led half of the cavalry, about two thousand people, from east to west, and then around to the north.

The battlefield here was very huge, with more than 100,000 soldiers of the shogunate army crowded together and charged towards the Song army.

The Song army's spear formation had been formed again, and the Shogunate army, having lost its cavalry, had a harder time charging, with countless casualties at every step.

Kublai Khan's troops circled around the outermost part of the Shogunate's formation. They were quite brave. Seeing that the Shogunate's army did not have many archers and they were specifically designed to deal with the Song army's spear formation, they approached the Shogunate's army from about twenty steps away before firing.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, arrows rained down at the scene. Kublai Khan's troops slowly circled forward. The shogunate army was screaming everywhere on the periphery, and fell to the ground in large numbers.

This was a completely one-sided massacre.

Mingliu Shiguang was shocked and angry. He immediately ordered a part of the soldiers to go out to fight Kublai Khan, and sent out all the remaining cavalry.

These cavalrymen had been waiting for an opportunity in the back, but now they all went out into the battle.

This was exactly what Kublai Khan wanted. When the shogunate troops did not move forward, they rushed forward and shot at them. When the shogunate troops came out, they retreated as they went.

Kublai Khan's subordinates were almost all former Mongolian elites, and this tactic was very suitable for them. After a round of fighting, the shogunate army not only failed to catch up with the Mongolian army, but also suffered heavy casualties.

Within two quarters of an hour of fighting, half of the remaining cavalry were killed or wounded, and the rest were so frightened that they turned around and ran away.

At this moment, there were continuous explosions in the distance, boom, boom, boom. Kublai Khan looked up and realized that the Song army was throwing hand-held weapons.

This wave of hand-to-hand bombing caused countless casualties in the vanguard of the shogunate army, and corpses were everywhere.

"Kill" Kublai Khan felt that the shogunate army was about to collapse. Although these shogunate soldiers were brave and not afraid of death, if they kept charging forward, even those with iron wills would collapse.

Kublai Khan was right. Under the harassment of their cavalry from the periphery and the Song army's tactic of shooting in a line, the shogunate army finally could not bear it anymore. First one or two people turned around and ran back, then four or five, seven or eight, and then a dozen.

(End of this chapter)