Zhao Bing raised his hand to make everyone waive, but he was indifferent to his heart. He actually understood that the advantages of the Song army in terms of weapons and equipment would still crush the Mongolian Yuan, and this battle only verified his prediction.

In terms of artillery, both sides' equipment belongs to front-mounted smoothbore cannons. According to the development time, the Mongolian and Yuan dynasties were even ahead of the Song Dynasty. But who made Zhao Bing, a foreigner, suddenly come to the foresight and concepts that do not belong to this world, so latecomers come to develop and use artillery that appeared in the early days in the future.

After more than ten years of development, the metal cannons of the Song Dynasty have been updated many times, from the earliest bronze cannons, cast iron cannons, to the current forged iron cannons. Even though the Mongolian and Yuan dynasties started early, the development progress was basically stagnant. They only woke up after losing a series of battles. But they could only start to imitate the earliest cast iron cannons. Of course, this is not that they did not want to catch up with the Song Dynasty in one step, but that they could not.

Artillery is definitely not something that can be built. Even if there are samples in front, it involves the smelting of materials, the improvement of processing machinery, and even the design concept and the training of skilled craftsmen. After being assigned to the troops, it will still involve the formation, training and tactics of artillery, as well as the command and application.

The current artillery development of the Song army has become a series, including Weiyuan artillery used to attack and destroy enemy long-range weapons, rocket launchers that create chaos and set fire, rapid-fire cannons that specifically kill and kill live power, simple, flexible, and easy-to-operate mortars, etc. It is also equipped with solid bullets, shotguns, flowering bullets and fixed-mounted launch medicine packages for different killing targets.

The rapid-fire gun and Weiyuan gun after improving the process and using new materials can not only fire different ammunitions as needed, but also greatly increase the strength of the barrel and barrel due to the use of new materials. By modifying the gun body design, the range is extended, and the overall weight is also reduced, which improves mobility and increases the range and power.

The current ten-pound bullets fired by the heavy Weiyuan can destroy fortifications at a distance of 800 steps. The medium Weiyuan cannon weighs only more than 800 kilograms, and it is dragged with two horses and fully followed the upward marching army. The small rapid-fire cannon has a range of 300 steps and is lighter in weight. It can accompany the movement of the cavalry and provide fire support at any time.

On the other hand, the artillery designed and manufactured by the Mongolian Yuan still uses casting technology, and is only of size and has not formed a series. Of course, this is not because they do not want it, but because of the materials and craftsmanship, they cannot make it at all. Therefore, the things they made are rough and heavy, and they do not even have the most basic sights, let alone the supporting ammunition.

Therefore, the Mongolian artillery loading amount depends on guessing the drug, aiming at the target by intuition, and changing the target depends entirely on lifting. The weight is too large, which restricts the maneuverability of the artillery, making it difficult to keep up with the speed of the marching brigade, enter the battlefield slowly, have long firing speed intervals, and low hit rate, so it is impossible to provide timely fire support.

Therefore, the Song army's artillery configuration system not only surpassed the Yuan army, but also had a much stronger function than their large and small artillery combinations. It is not surprising that they were suppressed and beaten on the battlefield. In this battle, the Song army's infantry fired shotguns with just two rapid-fire cannons, which forced the enemy cavalry who wanted to implement the interlacing tactic to change directions several times, and finally gave up the attempt to divide the right wing and the central army.

The artillery is not just a strong body. It can be competent by pulling the cannon and moving the shells, but it has certain special features. In addition to the requirements for physical fitness, it also requires a certain cultural foundation, a flexible mind, and good at learning. Without a mathematical foundation, an artillery will find it difficult to calculate the shooting elements, calibrate the shooting range, and even calculate the charge amount.

However, due to the development of the times, many of the contents involved need to be learned before they can be mastered. In artillery training and command, the Song army has long since been constructed and developed for more than ten years, and has long since escaped from the stage of fighting and groping while fighting, forming an education system in which artillery schools with martial arts as the main body to train artillery officers, artillery unit teaching teams train grassroots commanders and their backbones, and specializes in cultivating artillery application talents.

Now the artillery squad leader of the most basic artillery squad can command members to maintain artillery, build artillery positions, calculate the shooting elements, and complete the shooting according to the orders. An artillery battalion commander can independently command operations according to combat orders and cooperate with other troops to complete combat tasks. As for a senior artillery commander, he can coordinate various troops to cooperate in combat operations and organize and complete combat command.

As for the commanders of various units of the Song army after training at all levels, they basically understand the application of various types of artillery, understand the firepower configuration, and be able to skillfully command artillery combat. It can be said that the Song army has formed an artillery command system and operating system from top to bottom, independently and cooperate with various types of troops to fight in concert.

Looking at the use of firearms by the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty, the generals were still immersed in the old thinking of bent bows and fast horses invincible in the world. This seriously affected the development of firearms. The combat ideas did not completely deviate from the era of cold weapons. Even the so-called new army still adopted the mixed method of cold and hot weapons, indicating that they had failed to learn from the experience of defeat in the past.

In the Mongolian and Yuan court, Zhang Gui, who was a person who was open to the world, had read the works of military strategists in the past dynasties and had studied the seven books of the Martial Arts. In fact, he had no understanding of the coordinated tactics of the cavalry, infantry and artillery of the New Song Army in previous wars in the Mongolian and Song dynasties. Naturally, he did not know the progress of weapon systems and tactical evolution, and he did not know that the Song army's operations were all organized and trained around hot weapon operations.

In this way, it would be no surprise that the new generation of leading figures in the Yuan army would be defeated again.

In actual combat, the continuous guns in the hands of the Song army soldiers were overwhelmingly superior to the range, firepower sustainability and accuracy of the Mongolian army compared with the bows, arrows, grenades and artillery in the hands of the Mongolian army. In addition, the number of projectiles and infantry projectiles was naturally at a disadvantage. I don’t know that the Mongolian cavalry he commanded lacked cavalry muskets and its combat effectiveness was far inferior to before.

In the war with Mongolia that lasted for nearly a hundred years, the Song army had always felt the huge threat from the Mongolian cavalry, which led to the formation of fields and the defense and building of the bases. After Zhao Bing was in power, he took these traditions to a new level. After surrounding Zhang Gui's troops, the Song army waved shovels and shovels to work in the ground day and night, in order to make it difficult to break through under the impact of enemy cavalry.

In the battle, in Zhang Gui's combat plan, infantry equipped with a clamp gun and a gun were fired from the front and advanced steadily. The cavalry attacked the two wings at the same time, seeking opportunities for detour and interspersion. The artillery suppressed the infantry line of the Song army, and finally the Mongolian cavalry launched the tactic of attacking from the two wings and the center.

Although it seemed that the cooperation between infantry, cavalry and artillery was achieved, it was not known that their artillery firing accuracy and intensity were not enough to suppress the artillery of the Song army, and it was even more impossible to cause substantial damage to the infantry line of the Song army. On the contrary, because the artillery was arranged at the forefront, it lost the protection of the infantry and was dispersed and destroyed during the Song army's counterattack.

During the long-term battle with the Mongolian Yuan, the Song army summarized the anti-cavalry formation, and Zhao Bing did not give any effort to improve it. In this battle, Tian Zhong adopted the defensive counterattack tactics, which was launched in advance. This phalanx consisted of battalions or larger units, with artillery on the flanks, baggage and commanders surrounded in the middle.

When encountering cavalry attacks, the scattered soldiers who came forward formed an anti-cavalry formation on the spot. The infantry used bayonet rifles to point in all directions. While shooting with continuous guns, they were supplemented with mortar support and grenades to keep the impacting enemy cavalry out of it. Facing the bayonets that were as good as walls, it was unlikely that the Mongolian cavalry would break through the opponent's defense line and could never break through their formation and had to walk around.

The Song army was already proficient in using line-line anti-cavalry tactics, and the large-formed infantry army launched infantry battle lines to form a phalanx in the face of the enemy cavalry's impact. Unlike in the past, Tian Zhong was limited to the tight force and boldly expanded the front of the infantry front with shallow depth, and used continuous guns to maximize the effect of volley firepower to block the cavalry.

With the assistance of artillery, Tian Zhong created a single-line tactic under the large-scale cavalry of the Mongolian Army. The "Sheep Red Line" composed of two rows of infantry became an insurmountable human embankment, which defeated the enemy's multiple attacks in succession, blocking the Mongolian cavalry outside the gate of victory, causing huge casualties, but failed to break through the Song army's defense line.

What's even more terrible is that the Song army's cavalry has also grown up after all wars, especially after the first Northern Expedition, the Song army obtained a large number of good horses. After absorbing the advantages of Mongolian cavalry, they combined with firearms to optimize the formation and training. The Song army's cavalry development has far exceeded the level that Mongolian cavalry can achieve.

Therefore, there is no full understanding of what tactics the Song army can use and what weapons to intercept them. Zhang Gui chose the cavalry to charge at this time, hoping to destroy the enemy formation, which can only be said to be a random attack. Although the rockets fired by the Song army may not cause significant losses to the powerful Yuan cavalry, the terrifying "sound and light effect" directly led to the Mongolian war horses falling into madness and self-disturbing formations.

After the Yuan cavalry failed to attack from the front, they tried to encircle the flanks, and were also defeated by the phalanx of the Song army's flank reserves. After failing to achieve their goal, they tried to withdraw and reassemble. At this time, the cavalry arranged by the Song army in the rear rushed out from both wings to attack them.

The Mongols equipped with the Mongol cavalry were very difficult to reinstall after firing. The range and power of the bow and arrows used as backup weapons were simply not comparable to the cavalry and guns that could be fired continuously in the hands of the Song army, and there was no support from the artillery. In the end, two-thirds of the war horses and one-third of the personnel were wiped out by the joint strike of the Song army in just half an hour, and the four cavalry teams completely collapsed.

The collapsed cavalry broke down their own array, the Song army launched a pursuit, the cavalry surrounded the two wings, the infantry chased after the ranks, and the Mongolian and Yuan army retreated ten miles in an all-out way before they could seize the foothold under the rear army. Han Zhen followed the situation and ordered the other three units to tighten the encirclement and further compress the enemy's defense depth...
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