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Chapter 151 No Man's Land (4)

The sound of "Dang Dang Dang Dang" sounded in the north that Tiellibaersi could not see. Amid the cycling of eighty Mongolian horses, Captain Tiellibaersi could barely hear the movement. At this time, his mood was as happy as if he had wings.

Like most Mongolians who could climb to this height, Tielibaersi, the captain of Yingyang Mansion, participated in the Yellow River Battle. During that battle, Tielibaersi, the captain of Tielibaersi, saw an army that would not run around in any situation, nor would it convey messages randomly.

The Song army lined up in an orderly line, facing them with a bumpy ground, as if they were flat, and the Song army's front line could still maintain a considerable level. Even the Mongolian cavalry was attacked behind them, and the soldiers who formed the Song army's phalanx also stood in rows, turned around, and then used platoons to deal with the whistling Mongolian cavalry.

Every time I think of such a terrifying enemy, Captain Tiellibaersi will feel his hair standing up. Now the Han thief army uses the traditional alert mode again, and Captain Tiellibaersi's heart completely fell back into his stomach.

When the captain led eighty Mongolian cavalry to attack from the southwest of the bandit army, he also encountered sentries from the bandit army along the way. Seeing the cavalry coming, the sentry desperately rang the iron bell, and the sound of "Dangdangdangdangdangdang" was heard far away. Tiellibaersi led the cavalry straight to the place of the bandit army. During the attack, he rode a small slope and looked down from a high point. The formation of the bandit army was already quite chaotic at this time.

When the Mongolian infantry confronted the bandit army before, the bandit army could still radiate a square formation, which was comparable to the match of the Mongolian infantry's shooting. At this time, the southeast direction of the bandit army was harassed by 120 Mongolian cavalry teams, and the position in that direction was obviously much more chaotic. At this time, the eighty Mongolian cavalry led by Captain Tiellibaersi approached from the southeast again, and the chaos in the bandit army's formation continued to deepen.

Sure enough, seeing that the time was almost ripe, Captain Tiellibasi took off the cavalry bow and held it high in his hand, urging the horse to continue moving forward. Seeing the cavalry bow raised by the captain, these Mongolian cavalry took off the cavalry bow one after another.

Seeing the Mongolian cavalry coming, the bandit army barely sent a team of infantry to resist. They were also holding long spears in their hands, but just scanning the movements of the people. Captain Tiellibaersi continued to urge the horses, turned the horse's heads at a distance of seven or eight meters away from the people, and kept a distance of seven or eight meters away from these people. At the same time, they began to shoot arrows at the bandit army.

When those Mongolian cavalry who are proficient in bows and horses use bows, they can maintain an effective range of eight steps (12 meters) on the horses. When the horses run smoothly, ordinary cavalry can maintain an effective range of five steps (8 meters). After the bow and arrow are shot out, they can hit the body of the opposite infantry. As for shooting the head or the toes, it depends on luck.

However, the five steps are also in the range that the long spear cannot attack, and people will instinctively choose to retreat and dodge when they are shot by bows and arrows. Just like the thief army in front of them, they dodged and used the long spear in their hands to block arrows clumsyly. The riding bow is relatively soft and the range is not far, so the riding bow has a rate of fire that is incomparable to the long brow. Racing past the 60 or 70 thief army, the eighty Mongolian troops fired at least four arrows on average. After the horse team ran past like a dark cloud, Captain Tiellibaersi turned his head and saw that at least half of the thief army were hit by arrows. Some bent down in pain, while others threw down their weapons and wanted to shoot their own arrows helplessly.

These situations that should have appeared made Captain Tiellibasi feel very happy. When fighting against the Song army, such a cavalry bow with a range of eight steps was useless. The effective range of the Song army's musket was more than eighty steps. From an impact of eighty steps to an eighty step, no matter how many cavalrymen were used, it would be useless.

The once invincible Mongolian heavy cavalrymen were all wearing heavy armor, and the steel equipment that could not be broken by bows and arrows and swords and guns seemed to be paper-paste in front of the Song army's artillery and muskets. The heavy cavalry fell to the ground like straw, and the array of thousands of people was quickly exhausted. Then Kublai Khan ordered the entire army to retreat, and the Battle of the Yellow River was over.

Such a scene seemed to be engraved in the eyes of Captain Tiellibaersi, which made him often wake up from his sleep and sweating heavily after waking up. Now he felt that he had finally returned to the normal battlefield and the normal world. Turning back, Captain Tiellibaersi led the Mongolian cavalry team toward the direction away from the bandit army array. After a circle, the Mongolian cavalry once again advanced towards the bandit army array from the same angle before.

The total force of the bandit army is about 2,000, and the casualties suffered by the sixty or seventy bandit army are far from enough to shake the entire army. Tiellibaersi was in a very happy mood when he saw another bandit army coming to replace the bandit army team that was heavily injured. It should be like this, it should be like this! The Mongolian army was like a sharp steel needle, continuously causing wounds to the same position of the enemy. When this hole accumulates a huge number of wounded soldiers, it is time to find a way to drive them away to disrupt the bandit army's main formation.

The Mongolian army galloped past and rode their bows to launch arrows as quickly as possible. When the cavalry broke out of contact, many casualties occurred in the new thief army of hundreds of people.

The cavalry circled around again and came back along the previous road. Captain Tielipani frowned, but saw the two teams of bandits who suffered considerable losses in front and behind began to withdraw from their own formation. A row of soldiers wearing light gray cloaks and armor came to meet the enemy. Each of them held long spears, and more than fifty people lined up in a thin line, blocking between the bandits and the Mongolian cavalry.

‘Tsk tsk!’ Captain Tiellibaersi couldn’t help but be amazed. The soldiers were the elites in the army. With their iron armor on their bodies, they dared to confront any army head-on. Seeing the metal armor covered by the thick cloaks of the people, Captain Tiellibaersi angrily scolded the treacherous state of Song in the south. Mongolia was originally a veteran of the "vassal army". They had long concluded that the so-called Red Turban Army was a vassal of Song. The thick cloaks exposed the metal luster, which was the armor that Mongolia could not equip. Where could the thief army composed of the poor ghosts of the Red Turban Army have the ability to equip such armor?

As the two teams were approaching, Captain Tiellibaersi raised his bow again and shouted, "Use iron arrow!"

The number of arrows carried by the Mongolian cavalry far exceeds that of other troops, and the arrows are divided into several types. For example, stone arrows and copper arrows. The best arrows are iron arrows. These arrows are highly hard and very sharp. When they need to break armor at close range, they use such arrows.

Seeing that both sides were about to enter the range of the bow, the soldiers led by the thief army inserted the spear in front of them, and then pulled down the protective surface on the helmet. With him, these soldiers were doing the same. After a while, the soldiers of the thief army were wrapped all behind the metal armor.

This was just the beginning, and we saw these guys taking out short crossbows from the back of the waist. They shook something, and after a moment, the short crossbows were opened.

Seeing this situation, Captain Tiellibaersi no longer dared to approach. He gestured to lead the Mongolian cavalry toward the distance. Captain Tiellibaersi glanced at the thief soldiers who had installed crossbow arrows in the short crossbow, and then pulled the springs. Then Tiellibaersi felt itchy under the left rib, and he was very surprised. He must be fifteen steps away from the thief soldiers, and such a short crossbow range was so high! The range of an ordinary short crossbow was only eight steps.

Just as the thought flashed, he heard someone screaming and horses neighing. When the cavalry team ran out of the range of the short crossbow of the bandits, Captain Tiellibaersi suddenly discovered that five horses of the eighty cavalry had been shot in front of the bandits' armored soldiers. When he gathered the cavalry, the itchy under the ribs' ribs turned into a stinging pain like a blade. He looked at himself and a short crossbow arrow shot through the leather armor under his ribs, and the sharp arrows cut through the flesh under the prison's ribs.

If you look closely, this is an unprecedented triangular arrow. The arrows polished out extremely smooth arc surfaces, and the arrow shafts were also made extremely smooth. The tails were not sticky with white feathers, but were directly carved out. The craftsmen's craftsmanship was unparalleled, and the three pieces of wood tails were exactly the same.

At this time, the other cavalrymen who were shot in the arrow couldn't help but exclaim, and the horses who were shot in the arrow also neighed. Captain Tiellibaersi hurriedly stepped forward to check, and one of the guys' left forearm was pierced by crossbow arrows. He didn't know whether he was lucky or bad. At least he cut off his head and pulled out the arrow shaft to bandage the wound. The other guys who were shot in the arrow were very unlucky, and the arrows were deeply immersed in their bodies. It became very dangerous to draw the arrow rashly.

There were thirteen injured people and horses, plus the five men and five horses that fell in front of the thief army. Tiellibasi, who suffered losses from twenty-three horses, looked at the soldiers of the thief army completely wrapped in metal armor in the distance, and said hatefully: "The injured stayed and pulled the arrows, and the others followed me to continue looking for opportunities!"

The uninjured Mongolian cavalry watched Captain Tilibaersi slightly wrap the wound and led them to continue to circle around the formation of the bandit army, and followed Captain Tilibaersi without any complaints.

This is the Mongolian cavalry. They did not rely on their blood to fight, but used their brains, their patience and hard-working Mongolian horses to deal with the enemy. The cavalry of one hundred and twenty people were forced to retreat by another team of soldiers of the thief army. They also gave up the attack and started to gallop around the formation of the thief army.

The bandits saw that there were always Mongolian cavalry behind and on both wings, and their entire momentum was much weakened. They all looked at the dust raised by the cavalry's horse hooves with fear.

Section Chief Liu Chong, who returned to the formation, couldn't help but be amazed. With such a simple battle, he had already felt why the Mongolian cavalry had such strong combat power, and also understood why the Zhao Guan family did not care about the defense of the Yellow River after the Battle of the Yellow River.

Those Mongolian cavalry as cunning as wolves did not fight head-on at all. If they dared to shoot against the soldiers' steel arm crossbows at close range, Section Chief Liu Chong felt that at least thirty Mongolian cavalry could be brought down. Unexpectedly, the Mongolian cavalry, who seemed to be showing off their power, immediately turned around when they saw that the situation was wrong. After suffering losses, they immediately adopted a battle mode to avoid expanding their losses. There was always such a team of cavalry following behind their butts in a lingering way, which was too dangerous no matter how they looked.

Seeing that Liu Chong drove away the enemy, the leaders of the Red Turban Army immediately surrounded him and asked anxiously: "General Liu, what should I do?"

"Prepare the formation and block these Mongolian cavalry. Let us put on armor and defeat or fight the Mongolian infantry in the front first." Liu Chong replied decisively. The Song Dynasty praised Zhao Jiaren and Zhao Guan family for using soldiers as if they were gods, and they also evaluated Zhao Jiaren and Zhao Guan family's military level in the military academy. However, the military academy was not the kind of compliment like a snail blowing, but made various analysis.

The magic of Zhao Guan Family's military use is that he can judge the enemy's movements and choices in advance. Just like in the Battle of the Yellow River, Zhao Guan Family can use small tricks to make the Mongolian watch the Zhao Guan Family first dig a diversion canal to the north of the old river channel. When the Mongolian army was isolated north of the diversion canal, their attention was attracted by the Song army camp north of the Yellow River. When the Mongolians felt something was wrong, the width of the diversion canal had successfully blocked the Mongolian army from the 'north of the New Yellow River'. The Song army gained full freedom of movement.

This contest really proved that a good fighter had no great achievements. As for the Zhao Guan family himself, he did not have any seemingly unparalleled personal courage. However, when the whole situation was under his control, the Song army could act as he pleased.

Looking for ideas from the level of war and practice of Zhao Guanjia, Liu Chong ordered: "Get out of the line with armor!"

Soon the armored army wearing steel armor and wart armor stood up. Liu Chong continued to shout: "The soldiers wearing wart armor return to the team!"

This Red Turban Army with more than 2,000 people was pieced together by more than a dozen Red Turban Army that had seen more combat effectiveness. Those wearing wart armor were divided into two categories. One was that the army was raised early and the family was powerful locally, so they had to buy them first. The other was that they were bloody and dared to fight. The profits of buying them were greater. In addition to being able to balance these big clans, the combat power of these people was also preferable.

"When you defend your position, even if we are surrounded by attacks, as long as we do not fire red fireworks, you don't go to rescue us. Did you hear that?" Liu Chong shouted to the Red Turban Army leaders.

"How can I not save you?" Qin Mohuan, wearing wart armor, said anxiously.

Looking at Qin Mohuan's excited and nervous expression, Liu Chong sneered and said, "We will never be surrounded to death. If we retreated from the Mongolian infantry in front and our formation collapsed, what do you want us to do?"
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