At the end of Song Dynasty: I want to be the master of ZTE

Chapter 351: Queuing up to be shot for the first time

Weizhou is the westernmost territory of the Song army on the south bank of the Yellow River. When the Yuan army retreated thousands of miles, they stationed heavy troops in Huaizhou on the opposite side.

Because the exits of Taihangxing and Baixing, two of the Eighth Routes of Taihang, are in Huaizhou, we must guard them to ensure the safety of Shanxi.

When Hada launched the attack, he did not mobilize troops from Huaizhou, but troops from Shanxi and Guanzhong. Among them, Ananda also sent some troops to help ease the relationship.

Therefore, Li Xiang, who was stationed in Xinxiang, did not notice the Yuan army's actions until he received Yang Zhenlong's order.

"...On the tenth day of the first lunar month, we must capture Hanoi..."

Seeing this, Li Xiang immediately summoned officers at all levels to develop and issue tasks.

I think that when he was at home, Li Xiang followed Yang Zhenlong. After Wang Yinglin surrendered to the imperial court, Li Xiang was not under Yang Zhenlong most of the time, but when Yang Zhenlong's order was handed over, he chose to execute it without hesitation.

All the generals gathered together, and Li Xiang asked: "The Tartars smuggled across the Yellow River, Mengjin Pass changed hands, the general wants to attract the Tartars into Luoyang, encircle and annihilate them, and our department needs to take Hanoi on the tenth day of the first lunar month!"

"Commander." Li Ji said: "The Xiuwu Tatar Army has [-] troops, and Huaizhou has more than [-] troops. We are in a hurry and can't get off. Do you want to ask for new artillery to help?"

Li Xiang shook his head and said: "The general emphasized that before Sichuan came to fight, we would rather lose Luoyang than expose the existence of new artillery, so we can only fight this battle by ourselves."

One division and two brigades, excluding the necessary remaining troops, can only use [-] soldiers.

"If this is the case, we can only open a passage, bypass Xiuwu, and drive directly to Hanoi!" Chief of Staff Fang Quanshui said: "As long as we break through Xiuwu's defense line, Hanoi is undefeated and can be defeated in a single battle.

If the Xiuwu Tatar army comes after them and then turns back to fight a field battle, I don't believe that our army is inferior to the Tatar army with the same strength. "

"Okay, that's it!" Li Xiang made up his mind and said: "There are [-] Tatar troops on the entire Xiuwu line, of which Wuzhi only has [-] soldiers. And the ice in this section of the river is thick enough for carriages and horses to pass, so we went to Wuzhi."

The order was issued and all armies immediately prepared.

One brigade stayed behind, and Li Ji led his 27th brigade as the forward. Li Xiang led the main force to feign an attack, creating opportunities for Li Ji.

The front lines of the Song and Yuan sides were not far apart, and the large-scale mobilization of the Song army could not be concealed at all, and the Yuan army immediately became nervous.

On the eighteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, the Song army suddenly launched an attack on Zhenhe Village outside Wuxiu City.

Ha Da crossed the river from Huaizhou, but he did not have to come back. If the war was really irreversible, he could also retreat to Guanzhong via Hangu Pass.

Therefore, Wu Xiu's defenders did not expect that Li Xiang's goal was Hanoi, and only thought it was a normal siege of the city.

Unexpectedly, on the 21st day of the twelfth lunar month, Li Jijun suddenly crossed Qinshui and launched a sneak attack on Wuzhi while it was snowing heavily at night.

Because the fighting in the direction of Xiuwu was very fierce, and the Song army was indeed at full strength, the Wuzhi defenders were unprepared and were immediately driven out.

Li Xiang received the news and immediately withdrew his troops and transferred to Wuzhi.

The general manager of Huaizhou, Hudu Tiemu'er, discovered the truth and immediately gathered an army to pursue the Song army.

Hanoi is located in the Qinshui alluvial plain. The terrain is flat and there is no danger to defend. There are not many Hanoi defenders in the rear, but it is the logistics base of the front line and cannot be lost.

Just outside Wude Town, Timur suddenly caught up with Li Xiang.

Rather than catching up, it is better to say that Li Xiang deliberately stopped and waited for him.

Eighteen thousand versus twenty-five thousand, the Song army was slightly smaller in number. Neither side had artillery, but they were also equipped with muskets and thunder.

"How brave, do you really think that the Dayuan warriors can't fight in the field?" Timur of Kudu ordered an attack.

His father, Kududa'erguan, went to Zhongshu Zuocheng. He himself was a member of Kublai Khan's personal bodyguard. He later returned from Zhenjin's Western Expedition and made outstanding military exploits.

Now that the Yuan army was also equipped with a large number of muskets, he didn't think they could beat them.

Both sides had the same purpose and immediately began to form a team.The Song Army had 2000 men per line, a total of four lines, with a large number of precision shooters interspersed in the middle. On both sides of the gun line were ring-shaped vehicle formations, with squatting tiger artillery mounted on them to cooperate with the horse army to protect the flanks.

The Yuan army also had 2000 men in a line, but they were arranged in five rows. There were horse troops wandering on the left and right sides, ready to cut into the flank of the Song army at any time.

After the formation of the team was completed, neat whistles sounded in the Song army's formation, while the sound of horns sounded in the Yuan army's formation.

The rhythm was clear, and the gunners stepped forward to keep the line stable.

At sixty steps, the precision shooters of the Song Army opened fire, knocking down hundreds of Yuan soldiers in just one round.

"Stay steady and move forward to make up your position."

"Don't panic, shoot when you get into range!"

"Those who rush into the military formation will die, those who stand still will die!"

The Yuan generals shouted loudly and tried hard to maintain their formation.

When they took another five steps forward, the Song army opened fire again, and this time nearly a thousand Yuan soldiers were overturned.

The Yuan soldiers in the rear quickly took up their positions, stood still, raised their guns and opened fire.

bang bang bang~
The front lines of both sides were instantly shrouded in white smoke. It was vaguely visible that both sides were advancing and retreating, and there were also casualties on the ground.

Suddenly, the gunfire of the Yuan army stopped, and the black soldiers rushed out of the smoke and fled back, crying and shouting.

The Song Army's whistle changed, and when the array line moved forward quickly, the army turned into more than a dozen small square formations.

"Supervise the troops, those who flee will be killed without mercy!" Timur shouted angrily.

When the supervising team raised their knives against the defeated soldiers, the defeated soldiers also raised their guns.

The pressure of shooting face to face is too much. They can't stand it. How can the supervisory team with a knife still not be able to handle it?

"Marshal, don't do anything. Return to martial arts as soon as possible." The deputy general advised.

"I am trusted by the Great Khan to guard Huaizhou, how can I let the Song army enter Hanoi?" Tamerlane, the general, was dissatisfied. When he was ordering the cavalry to charge into battle, the defeated soldiers opened fire.

In fact, only [-] or [-] soldiers fired, but the supervisory team did not dare to block the way, and most of the Yuan soldiers ran away in a swarm.

"Withdraw." No matter how unwilling Timur was, he could only order the withdrawal of troops.

Li Xiang said: "Old Fang, you lead the troops to Hanoi, and I will come after I defeat Tamerlane, the capital of Kudu."

"Okay, be careful of the Tatar cavalry raid." Fang Quanshui responded.

The two sides lined up to shoot for the first time. It was obvious that the Yuan army was weaker in its ability to withstand pressure and collapsed with only half of its casualties. However, if Kudu Timur was given a chance to breathe, this Yuan army would soon be able to regain its combat effectiveness.

Seeing that the Song army was chasing after him, Kudu Timur ordered the horse army to rush forward to block the Song army.

Li Xiang dispatched two cavalry regiments under his command.

The two sides faced each other tit for tat, and within a moment they had reached sixty steps. The Yuan soldiers opened their bows and fired arrows one after another, while the Song soldiers rushed to twenty steps despite the rain of arrows, and each raised his gun.

There were many technical problems with bolt-action rifles in later generations, but the problem of low firing rates of flintlock rifles had been overcome, so the Yuan soldiers did not see the Song army igniting the fire, so they suffered a hail of bullets.

They were originally panicking because the infantry was defeated, but after being shot, their morale immediately collapsed.

In a head-to-head confrontation, courage is definitely the first element. In this regard, Yuan soldiers are indeed much worse than Song soldiers.

(End of this chapter)