Julu, the camp of the Ming and Tang dynasties.

The sky in the distance was already gray and began to shine. At this time, most of the soldiers and soldiers were sleeping soundly. In the past day and night, more than 90,000 Ming and Tang army, under the order of Wang Lufei, carried out the final rest before the war. Except for the 20,000 Eight Banners soldiers and a few elite Tang army soldiers, their military soldiers were not elite. Not only were the equipment and training that could not compare with the Ming soldiers, but their physical strength and spirit were also much worse than the real elite soldiers.

The two or three consecutive days of marching and construction in the snow have already made them quite tired. If they cannot hurry up and let these soldiers rest and return to their best condition before the decisive battle begins, it is really a question whether they can support the next fierce and cruel battle.

However, the soldiers could eat and drink and sleep. Wang Lufei, as the commander of the three armies, dared not close his eyes and sleep. Although he also insisted on this battle, he was really unsure of victory. His Daming Prefecture governor had great status and real power. Not only did he govern the military and civil affairs of the one government, but he also had the right to control all the garrisons and officials of the two governments of Dongping and Shunde Prefectures. It can be said that they were the commander-in-chief of the Ming army in the southern battlefield in Hebei. However, the troops under his jurisdiction were not elite Ming army, but the new army that Chen Dexing brought up during the last expedition in the south. It is quite difficult to use them as the main force now.

As for the 40,000 troops brought by Li Cuixian from Yidu, except for the one thousand Xuanjia Army, the rest of the people were just mediocre. The equipment and training level were equal to those of the Daming Prefecture Army, and the morale of the Tang army could not be compared with the Ming army.

Because the Tang army suffered heavy losses in the war over the past year, Li Yanguo fully mobilized the government soldiers in Yidu to recruit more troops. In fact, it was to overdraw the people's strength. If the Baoyingzhou I just seized was not counted, Li Yanguo had only had more than two million people on the territory controlled by Li Yanguo. Li Yan had mobilized more than 100,000 government soldiers, almost four to five percent of the total population. Li Yanguo mobilized 50,000 government soldiers on this basis, and tens of thousands of strong men were conscripted as civilians.

In other words, nearly 10% of the population has been mobilized to be used for war and agricultural production, which is naturally greatly affected. Without enough labor, the equal-field system is meaningless.

Moreover, the Tang Dynasty has now clearly lost the battle for hegemony. Without the world... Of course, the Li family cannot compensate the soldiers who fought bloodyly. The hearts of the people in the army believe that they are depressed.

For this reason, Li Cuixian, Li Xiong and Wang Lufei have been constantly inspecting various departments of the Tang army in the past few days, and making wishes to the officers and soldiers. Just now, Wang Lufei was still talking to several generals of the Tang army's Zuowu Hou Guard.

After finishing the conversation, Wang Lufei, who had almost never sleeped for a night, felt sleepy. For some reason, he suddenly felt the ground began to shake. At first, he felt very tired. So he couldn't stand firm and looked down and saw that the stones and ice cubes under his feet were trembling gently.

This is definitely not an illusion for me!

The Mongols are here!

He hurried to the nearest building, climbed up in a few seconds, raised his telescope and looked around.

In the vaguely visible sky, teams of cavalry suddenly appeared in the distance of sight. At this time, the rumbling and dull sound of horse hooves had already been heard. Needless to say, this was the vanguard of the Mongolians, used to control the battlefield and cover the cavalry and cavalry teams that were arranged in the camp.

Not only Wang Lufei, the soldiers on guard and defending the northwest of the Ming and Tang coalition camp, also discovered the arrival of a large group of Mongolian cavalry at this time. At this time, the sky had not increased in volume, and no one could see the number of Mongolian cavalry in the distance. They could only see them slowly surging like walls and forests!

It's Xu Rulin!

A sentence from Liuru Mantra in "The Art of War" popped up in Wang Lufei's heart. These Mongolian cavalry just advanced slowly, but it already made people feel breathless.

The first soldier's desolate shouts rang out: "Enemy attacks! The Tartars are here!"

More shrill shouts and sob military horns rang out immediately, and the gongs on the top of the tower were also ringing. The soldiers and generals resting in the camp were all alarmed. They all rushed out of the tent, picked up armor, and the weapons began to form a team in the open space in front of their respective tents. The officers at all levels were prepared and were making loud orders in an orderly manner. Some led their troops to the predetermined defensive positions. Some asked their subordinates to stand by. The troops guarding the northwest of the camp were soon in place. They equipped a large number of archers, and they lined up rows of archers and chest walls that were hurriedly piled up with snow. They opened their bows and arrows to prepare to face the enemy.

Wang Lufei had already reacted. He came down to look at the tower and ordered loudly with a hoarse voice due to fatigue: "Don't panic. Stay calm! Except for the Eight Banners soldiers, all bows and crossbows must not be launched without authorization, save energy, and prepare for hard battles! The reserve troops immediately dispatched troops to watch the people and prevent them from being distracted! Notify all divisions, brigades and divisions of the Tang army that today's battle will surely be a protracted hard battle! Each unit immediately prepared three days of dry food, and the troops that the troops that had not received the military order to go to battle, and continue to rest!"

The order was conveyed layer by layer. The soldiers who had originally put on the bow and arrow all released their bowstrings and took the feather arrow back into the cassette. Only a few Eight Banners soldiers wearing steel armor took their staircases to the front line and found covers, either leaning behind large wooden shields; or leaning behind a bunker made of snow; or simply going up to the lookout tower, leaning against the wooden baffle, only revealing a head with a helmet looking around.

I don’t know if it was because of the large amount of equipment of bronze cannons that allowed the Ming army to have the strongest long-range lethality of this era, and the original long-range crossbow crossbows were not valued by the Ming army. After the popularization of steel armor and phalanx tactics, because the proportion of crossbow soldiers in the Ming army's infantry was greatly reduced, even the guns and crossbows were gradually eliminated. The bow, which had a high firing rate and high requirements for the operator, gradually became the only individual projection weapon of the Ming army.

Among the Tang army, there were also few crossbow machines. The Tang army's soldiers had their own bows and arrows, and military crossbows such as the Shen'an bow were really difficult to popularize for Yidu, who had a population of only more than 2 million and his handicraft industry was not very developed.

So in this Battle of Julu, the projecting weapons of the Ming and Tang dynasties were only bows and cannons!

More than a dozen 3-inch bronze cannons were also pushed up by the artillery soldiers of the Daming Governor's Office and placed on the artillery position that had been built long ago. The shotgun was quickly filled into the cannon chamber, and the black holes pointed straight ahead.

The Mongolian cavalry seemed to know that the Ming army's cannons had been aimed at them. When they were five or six hundred steps away from the Ming and Tang coalition camp, the brigade of cavalry stopped moving forward. Some Mongolian cavalry dismounted, took out their stair bows, put them on their heads as helmets, and then dispersed their formation and slowly approached towards the Ming and Tang coalition camp. More Mongolian cavalry held horse bows and rode on horseback and waited quietly.

The Mongolian archers who had dispersed their formation soon arrived at 150 steps away from the Ming and Tang dynasties. Some people had already started shooting arrows, and they were all light arrows, and they were also thrown, so they could shoot far away. Within a hundred or dozens of steps, they could shoot feather arrows into the village wall.

"No arrows are allowed!"

"Keep calm!"

The officers of the Ming and Tang Army shouted loudly and gave orders. They all knew that the Mongols had only one purpose of shooting arrows at this distance, which was to lure their opponents to counterattack, consume their physical strength, and at the same time test the opponent's depth.

None of the scattered Mongolian archers shot about ten arrows, but the other party did not fight back with one arrow. He knew that it would be useless to shoot again. It seemed that the other party was not an expert mob. This battle was a bit troublesome.

The Mongolian archers retreated quietly, and then the Mongolian cavalry began to gallop. They did not come foolishly to rush to the village wall. There were many deer villages in front of the village wall. They could not rush hard. Instead, they rushed out of the village wall and drove horizontally, running parallel to the village wall. While galloping horses, they also set off their bows and shot arrows. They were soft bows and light arrows, which were also harassing and tempting. However, this time, the Eight Banners archers deployed on the front edge pulled their step bows and shot deadly sharp arrows!

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"These men are pretty good... they can actually hold it back!"

"Those who shoot archers should be the Eight Banners soldiers... The Mongolian warriors who can shoot down on their horses a hundred steps away... It's a pity that such warriors are actually used by Chen Dexing!"

Kublai Khan had arrived at the front line at this time, and did not shoot out the nine-white flag, nor did he rush to join him, but he only brought a few escorts, generals and counselors.

"Shan, why not let the Han army go!" Shan Siding raised his gun and whispered a suggestion, and his expression on his face was even more respectful. However, Liu Yuanzhen and Liu Yuanli, who were squeezed aside by a group of Mongolians and lustful men, turned slightly black when they heard this.

The Han army always charges ahead and enjoys it later... This life is really impossible! If it weren't for the hundreds of thousands of Mongolians and Seminar people watching him, he would have wanted to learn from Shi Tianze and Zhang Rou!

Thinking of this in my heart, the two brothers had to pretend to be extremely loyal and serious, and went up to ask for a fight. Just as they were about to drive the horse forward, they saw Liu Xiaoyuan and Liu Dashi waved their hands at them. What does this mean? Don’t ask for a fight? Can you avoid it? The two brothers looked at each other and smiled bitterly. They had a good relationship with Liu Xiaoyuan. Both of them were surnamed Liu, and they were about the same age. They were both traitors, so they naturally had a common language.

"Great Khan," Liu Xiaoyuan smiled and interrupted, speaking in Chinese, "The Great Mongolia now uses Semu to govern the Central Plains, how can it govern the Western Regions in the future?"
Chapter completed!