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    Tan Ma Chi flew all the way to Niu Phosphorus's camp to report the defeat. Niu Phosphorus was furious and personally led the army out in an attempt to defeat the Song army in front of him. Some senior generals reminded him that the Song army in front of him was inferior in both quantity and quality.  It should not be underestimated. It must be Zheng Yunming's main force who came to take revenge.  There are currently only 20,000 cavalry in the camp. I am afraid that it will be difficult to deal with them. The cavalry scattered in various places must be gathered together to encircle and divide the invading Song army on a large scale. Seize this opportunity for a decisive battle and defeat the Song army in one fell swoop.  The main force was defeated.  Niu Phosphorus is naturally not a fool. He understands the principle of concentrating troops in a decisive battle, but all this takes time, and fighter planes are the most precious. It is not that Niu Phosphorus has never fought against the Song Army. In his first battle,  He followed the capital marshal Chahan to attack Huaidong. At that time, the Mongolian army faced the Huaidong envoy Du Gao. This man was extremely cunning and changeable. Chahan mobilized the Song army from the city several times to prepare for siege and reinforcements, but  Every time he was resolved by Du Gao at the critical moment.  The young Niu Phosphorus concluded a truth from such repeated battles of wits. To fight the Song Dynasty, it was very difficult to gather troops and horses first, and then march separately to surround the enemy. This was based on terrain factors, rivers and mountains.  The existence of the cavalry made it take time to gather cavalry. On the one hand, the combat effectiveness of the Song Dynasty's infantry was increasing day by day. Their large square formation was difficult to break even if the Mongols had two or three times the advantage. When the Mongols took time to deploy their troops,  The Song people were also seizing the opportunity to gather their troops, but once a large-scale battle broke out between the two sides, the Mongols were not sure of repelling the Song people's large phalanx.  New Phosphorus has a new tactic to break the current deadlock, which is to use part of the main force to stick up, regardless of casualties, and stick to the Song army before it forms a large formation. While fighting, use the rest to  The powerful troops followed him, making him vulnerable from both sides.  The key to this kind of tactics lies in whether the forward troops that attract the enemy to fight can stick to the enemy and grasp the enemy firmly.  Therefore, Niu Phosphorus must personally lead the team. After the sound of Hujia three times, the 20,000 cavalry troops set off one by one. The momentum of the 20,000 sturdy Hu cavalry moving towards the ground made even the river bank tremble slightly.  The Mongolian army marched close to Bailing Village and fought with the infantry of the Song Army.  According to custom, the Song people set up antlers fortifications in front of the formation, and then the musketeers came forward to shoot at the enemy. The difference was that the Song army used new muskets and did not need to rely on the tactics of serial shooting to maintain continuous firepower, because the guns themselves were light.  Reloading is faster, thus ensuring the continuity of firepower under the three-stage salvo tactics.  Under the continuous fire attack, the dismounted musketeers of the Mongolian army were overwhelmed. They used heavy standard matchlocks copied from the Song Dynasty, which required a gun stand to fire. During the exchange of fire, they were overwhelmed by the musketeers of the Song army, but  Niu Phosphorus strictly ordered the musketeers not to retreat, and sent a personal team to supervise the battle, beheading all the musketeers who dared to escape in front of the formation. At the same time, he ordered two to three thousand heavy armored cavalry to detour from the right wing and attack the Song army's flank.  These cavalry have been equipped with two muskets. According to the pre-planned tactics, they should be divided into one hundred squads. After rushing within the range of the pistols, they should fire with two pistols, then quickly retreat, and switch to the next team to continue firing.  , and he hid at a safe distance in the distance to reload. This was a cavalry pistol round firing method commonly used by the cavalry of the Southern Dynasties in the past few years. This method of tactics, which fully exploited the advantages of new firearms, defeated the opposition of the Mongolian cavalry archers.  shoot.  But the old habits of the Mongolian cavalry could not be changed overnight. After the two muskets were fired, they threw the expensive pistols on the ground, still took out their beloved hunting bows, and shot at the Song army.  Han Feng's men were not afraid of this kind of fighting method. The methodical firing of the musketeers and the shells fired by the light cannons formed a barrage on the flanks of the army. Once the Mongolian cavalry tried to break through this barrier and fire arrows at close range, they would inevitably be met with an attack.  suffered heavy losses.  In the vision of Niu Phosphorus, his soldiers and horses fell into the dust one by one. Even if a few people rushed into the distance that bows and arrows could shoot, the Song people would immediately adjust their firepower and annihilate them.  He shouted anxiously: "The cavalry are assembled and ready to break out!" The knights in exquisite armor shouted loudly, waving the iron guns and scimitars in their hands, and began to move forward slowly, behind the musketeers.  Arranged in a horizontal formation, it was obvious that Niu Phosphorus wanted to carry forward his proud heavy cavalry breakthrough tactics. Although there was no guarantee that the Song people would be defeated with just one blow, at least they would not be devastated by the Song people's numerous muskets in a duel.  .  The heavy cavalry slowly arranged themselves in formation amidst the clanging sound of armor leaves, one row, two rows, three rows, and even more than ten horizontal rows. This layout of New Phosphorus was to increase the formation's subsequent assault power. After all,  The Song people were accustomed to setting up multiple formations. If the Mongolian formations were too few, they would easily fall into the siege of the Song infantry.  Just as the cavalry crossedThey were getting more and more concentrated, and when they were about to launch an attack, suddenly a shell flew towards them with the pungent smell of gunpowder smoke, followed by a dense rain of bullets.  While the musketeers and light artillery were blocking the Mongolian army's leading attack, Han Feng was doing one thing, concentrating the long-barreled artillery on the frontal position under the cover of the spearmen.  Forty-four long-barreled Shenwei general cannons and sixty short-barreled Zhenwei general cannons were all concentrated on the front. As the Song army's spearmen moved forward, the Mongolian army did not realize that there was a dense artillery array behind them.  When Han Feng ordered to fire, the Mongols had no time to react.  The fierce artillery fire poured into the dense formation of unprepared cavalry, and the entire formation was immediately thrown into chaos.  The Mongols were not prepared at all for this unprecedented and bold strategy of concentrating artillery for intensive bombardment.  They just instinctively turned their horses around and fled in all directions.  The flight of the forward heavy cavalry exposed the unprepared light cavalry and heavy armored cavalry in the center and rear.  Although Niu Phosphorus was angry, he was not panicked. Although the armored assault cavalry was a trump card in his army, it was not the core of his own army. Although the traditional Mongolian assault cavalry was said to be unparalleled in fighting, but as time changed,  Broadcast, the new generation of Mongolian warriors are content to live in peace and contentment. Although they can barely maintain their standard in bows and arrows, in terms of close combat, they are already at a disadvantage compared to the new generation of cavalry trained by the imperial guards and military academy systems in the Southern Dynasties.  Fortunately, the Mongolian headquarters in Mobei still maintain a simple and vigorous custom. They fight to the death to be the first and never fall behind others.  However, the number of these men and horses was limited, and many Mongolian generals had to find new strong soldiers as substitutes for the Mongolian cavalry.  When New Phosphorus followed Meng Ge on his western expedition, he once attacked the mountainous area west of the West Sea with the army. The people here called themselves Caucasians.  They rode tall Don horses, came and went like the wind, and fought no less favorably than the elite Mongolian cavalry.  These warriors held iron shields with exquisitely etched stripes in their hands, black iron hammers in their hands, and strong large leaf armor all over their bodies. It was also a heavy load, but they still walked as fast as they could after wearing it.  The New Phosphorus and the Mongolian army spent a lot of effort to conquer the villages one by one. After conquering the Caucasus tribes, the New Phosphorus immediately set out to recruit these sturdy heavy armored knights.  Like the early Mongolian armored cavalry, the Caucasus soldiers were also proficient in mounted shooting techniques. They were top-notch in both melee combat at close range and flying shooting like the Mongolian cavalry.  New Phosphorus recruited a total of 5,000 Caucasian soldiers with tall noses and deep eyes to form a group of 5,000 households directly under him. They were revered in the army and were called the West Sea Soldiers of New Phosphorus.  The Shenwu Army concentrated on using artillery to destroy the forward assault cavalry, but these Xihai soldiers were not disturbed at all. They were tightly united under the banner of Marshal Niu Phosphorus. As long as the Marshal gave an order, they immediately rushed out with their hands.  The hammer severely smashed the enemy's head.  The order for Niu Phosphorus to spread out its formation had just been issued. The large cavalry of the Song Army crossed their artillery positions, lined up neatly and began to charge in small steps.  In the past ten years, the most famous general in the Song Army was Han Feng. The unit in the Song Army that was most feared by the Mongols was the Lianghu Cavalry under Han Feng.  The cavalry force formed by the commander of the Song Dynasty was the largest and best-trained cavalry army in the Song Dynasty.  Under the command of the young general Han Feng, the reputation of this brave cavalry regiment in both North and South countries has been comparable to that of Yue Fei's Beiwei Cavalry.  But unlike the Beiwei cavalry, this cavalry is more modern, or in Kublai Khan's words, more "Zheng Yunming" characteristics.  According to Zheng Yunming's instructions, this cavalry all adopts red cavalry equipment. Because it is dressed in vermilion from man to horse, it is nicknamed the Lobster Camp in Jiangnan. Although the nickname is not very nice, once the cavalry with tens of thousands of red cavalry is dispatched.  , its momentum is spectacular.  The imperial court also spoke highly of this army, often calling them "Crimson Tiger Cavalry" and "Red Armored Pixiu".  Some admonishers have argued that the expensive cost of purchasing a full set of red uniforms is flashy and is a waste of public funds by Zheng Yunming in order to build his own ace troops.  But Zheng Yunming knew what such a huge red stream meant to the enemy on the opposite side.  He saw with his own eyes that a Mongolian Tatar cavalry collapsed without any confrontation in front of the rushing red armor wave.  This was originally a phenomenon that often happened to the Song Army in the early days of the Song-Mongolian War.  An infantry army is more valuable than strength, while a horse army is more valuable than strength.  The cavalry's gorgeous equipment seems useless, but it is actually part of the cavalry's astonishing power. Seeing the thousands of red troops coming shaking the earth, no one will really remain indifferent.
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