The Song Dynasty on the Sand Table

Chapter 419 The loss outweighs the gain
Meng An was completely numb, but he still had to overcome the current predicament.

The cuirassiers behind them must have already reloaded their ammunition while they were chasing, and Mengan didn't want to lead his troops to turn around and get hit by bullets, so he had no choice but to force his way through the Gray Fortress ahead.

He pointed to the vast junkyards spreading out on both sides of Gray Fortress and roared, "Charge! The only way out is through the junkyards!"

The cavalrymen were sweating profusely, but with their lives hanging in the balance, they had no choice.

He had no choice but to grit his teeth and charge headlong into the garbage dump, closing his eyes and resigning himself to fate, leaving his life and fortune to heaven.

A large herd of crippled horses charged into the garbage dump with strange cries.

The ground was littered with debris: barricades, broken statues, large stones, and broken furniture...

The warhorses tried their best to avoid the debris, but how could a galloping horse avoid it so easily? Every now and then, a horse's hoof would trip over the trash, causing it to lose its footing and tumble forward. The rider on its back would then fly forward and crash into a pile of trash, rolling several times. If they were lucky, they would only suffer minor scrapes; if they were unlucky, their heads would hit a large rock with a loud "bang," and their helmets would be knocked askew.

At the same time, a group of guards poked their heads out from Gray Castle, took out their muskets, and started firing wildly at the cavalry.

There weren't many soldiers guarding Gray Castle, only a few dozen, but they were close together, firing wildly at the cavalry from the side. Anyone would be annoyed by that, and the warhorses, disturbed by the musket fire from the side, moved even more carelessly.

A warhorse stumbled onto a broken statue of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, its forelegs buckled, and it fell heavily to the ground, throwing its rider off. The rider's head slammed into another broken statue of Guanyin Bodhisattva with a thud, splitting the Jin soldier's skull open and splattering blood all over Guanyin's face...

A warhorse, disobeying its master's commands, began to bolt. The golden cavalryman pulled hard on the reins, and the horse shook its head in dissatisfaction. But this one movement caused the horse to lose its focus on the road ahead, and with a thud, it crashed into a chevaux-de-frise, the sharp wooden spikes piercing the horse's chest.

The warhorse was instantly frozen in place, but the rider on its back was thrown off and impaled on another chevaux-de-frise with a thud.

With great difficulty, and at the cost of several lives, the cavalry finally broke out of the junkyard.

Meng'an, who was in charge, turned his head and saw that of the thousand cavalry he had brought out to harass the enemy, only five hundred remained.

This isn't harassing the enemy; it's practically throwing their lives away.

"Back to camp! This kind of harassment is not worth it, it's a waste of resources and we haven't achieved anything." Meng An gritted his teeth and obediently admitted defeat.

Yi Zhangqing and Niu Gao led their cuirassier squad to the edge of the junkyard. They didn't need to go inside; they simply gestured to the people of Gray Fortress and greeted them. Gray Fortress then opened a door, allowing them to enter through one door and exit through the other…

They easily crossed the garbage dump!
“Hey, there are still a lot of Jin soldiers’ corpses lying in the junkyard, what do we do about this?” Niu Gao couldn’t help but ask.

Yi Zhangqing: "Let the soldiers in Gray Fort handle it; that's their job."

Niu Gao looked back and saw the soldiers from Gray Fort coming out. They were cautiously observing the "corpses" of the Jin soldiers in the junkyard from a distance. Some of them even shot two arrows at the corpses from a distance, and some even took out muskets and fired another shot at the corpses at close range.

"Totally dead!"

"Alright, strip him naked and bury him!"

The soldiers happily got to work...

Niu Gao smiled and shook his head, feeling a bit pleased. Suddenly, something occurred to him: "Huh? Where's Young Master Yue? We were chasing the Jin soldiers and forgot about him."
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When the cuirassiers gave chase, Yue Wenxuan didn't keep up. He wasn't up to the task of galloping at high speed; a novice riding a fast horse would easily be thrown off and killed. He simply gave his lifelike figurine an order to ride back to camp at its own pace. Meanwhile, his own thoughts were fixed on Genghis Khan…

As soon as I got over it, I saw a beautiful scene.

Genghis Khan was seen leading eight hundred Mongol light cavalrymen in a charge towards a thousand Jin dynasty cavalrymen.

Genghis Khan's greatest strengths in warfare were speed and cunning.

His eight hundred cavalrymen had split into two groups. One group of two hundred men charged straight at the Jin soldiers, while the other six hundred men took cover behind a small hill...

The two hundred cavalry charged towards the Jin soldiers, letting out a strange cry halfway there. The Jin soldiers were somewhat bewildered: "Huh? Where did these Mongol cavalry come from?"

"Could they be soldiers borrowed by the Northern Song Dynasty from the Mongol tribes?"

"Perhaps it's a remnant of the Liao dynasty joining forces with the Song dynasty."

“Those Mongolian tribes are all people with the same surname. They follow whoever gives them food; they have no morals whatsoever.”

"Oh shit!"

The Jin soldiers cursed wildly, but they were not afraid when they saw two hundred Mongol cavalry.

With a thousand men on our side and two hundred on the other, what is there to be afraid of?

The advantage is mine!

The scuttle horses charged straight at them...

The two sides were still quite far apart, but they nocked their arrows and aimed for the shot.

We're all into mounted archery, so who's afraid of who?

Arrows flew between the two armies...

The horse cried out in pain, taking several arrows, but the Mongol cavalry performed a series of fancy horseback acrobatics, such as hiding in the stirrups and crossing iron bridges on horseback. With these fancy techniques, they managed to dodge most of the arrows.

Then, the centurion in charge roared, reined in his horse, turned around, and fled. All two hundred Mongol light cavalrymen turned and ran.

"Chase them!" Meng'an of the Jin Kingdom roared in anger: "A mere bunch of Mongol cavalry dares to provoke our great Jin Kingdom. We must teach them a lesson."

The Jin soldiers howled and chased after them...

The two hundred riders sped past the hill where Genghis Khan was hiding.

The scoundrels chased after them frantically.

Genghis Khan waved his hand: "Kill them all."

Six hundred more Mongol light cavalry immediately charged out from behind the hill, and the previous two hundred cavalry also turned back and rejoined the battle.

This was one of Genghis Khan's most effective tactics. He used this move to sweep across the world, becoming invincible. He even used it on the eastern bank of the Danube River in Europe, in the territory of Hungary, where he defeated 100,000 European troops who were crying out in despair.

The thousand Jin soldiers before them were quite fortunate to experience this move nearly a hundred years ahead of schedule. Originally, they would never have been able to experience it in their lifetime, and it could only be enjoyed by their children and grandchildren.

When the ambush troops appeared, the horseman was slightly startled!
Their morale was boosted, and then the Mongols began to truly demonstrate their archery skills. It turned out that the previous two hundred men had not used their full strength to lure the enemy, but now they were firing at full power, their combat strength increased by 32%, and they were firing arrows in rapid succession, each one a deadly weapon.

Eight hundred men shot with the force of three thousand two hundred!

The Jin army was immediately devastated.

Yue Wenxuan: "Tsk tsk! I've seen something interesting again, but it's a pity I didn't record it."

(End of this chapter)