"Retreat!" Liu Guojie said half helplessly and half panic. Today he wanted to break through the Song army's defense line as soon as possible. When he discovered his "flaws" in defense, he launched an attack at any cost, but it was still difficult to open the gap. However, it made people feel that he could break through as long as he worked harder. As a result, nearly two thousand casualties still failed.

The huge losses made the Yidu army depressed and were already on the verge of collapse. But what made Liu Guojie collapsed was his misjudgment. When the Song army suddenly turned against the defense and attacked, he immediately understood that there were not only more than ten thousand enemy troops in this valley. It was not just coming to protect the tomb, but there was a bigger conspiracy in it. His Yidu army and Shangdu army were just their appetizers.

However, even though he regrets, Liu Guojie knew that if he retreated now, he would be wiped out if he could not do it well under the already-unveiled Song army. So he gathered all his troops to line up to meet the enemy and wait for reinforcements, and at the same time, he asked Tuman, the guy who deceived him, to block the first to win the time of formation. He felt that after all, this was still the territory of the Yuan Dynasty, and it would not take long to mobilize reinforcements. As long as he persisted until the reinforcements arrived, he would still have a chance to turn the tables, which would be considered an explanation at that time.

However, when Liu Guojie saw the Song army rolling along the miles-long front and annihilated the cavalry during the march, his heart was cold, which showed that he not only had a good defense, but also had strategies against the enemy in field battles. When attacking the formation, he saw that the Song army was still able to move forward in a neat formation without regard for casualties and maintain a neat formation.

As a veteran on the battlefield with rich combat experience, Liu Guojie has faced the enemy countless times. He has seen many troops who can advance sharply in the face of the battle. He can face the enemy's guns, keep the formation unchallenged, face the enemy's volley, move forward quickly, and fight back without firing one shot. He has never seen anyone who fired until forty steps. He knew that this not only required strict discipline, but also required that the entire army had great courage to do it.

Liu Guojie believed that his Yidu Army could not do it, but looking at the entire Yuan army, perhaps only the Khan's Qiexue Army could compete with him. The facts also proved his judgment. The Song army killed more than 20 officers below the centurion with one volley, and more than 500 ordinary soldiers. The injured were all incurred. They instantly rushed out of their positions and defeated their confidence.

Facing the soldiers who fled away from the formation, Liu Guojie killed more than ten talents in a row without breaking the formation under the continuous volleys of the Song army and step-by-step oppression. However, the Shangdu Army, which defended both wings, began to retreat first, which became the last straw that crushed them. Everyone knew that they would face the situation of being divided and defended by the Song army. Liu Guojie's mood at this moment was really indescribable. He sighed and ordered to retreat at the valley entrance to reorganize the defense line.

However, Liu Guojie no longer hoped to block the Song army in the valley, just to avoid being chased by the enemy. After all, the four-legged ones are no longer enough, and he only hopes to reduce some losses. But he forgot that his idea was based on his own losses and lack of morale. He ordered the retreat and let go of the sheep, and no one wanted to fight these perverted Song army.

At this time, the Song army no longer advanced as slowly as before, but turned into a column and quickly pursued them. They first returned to the crowd that quickly advanced with scattered soldiers, then intercepted them in a circle, cut them out of the brigade, and then followed up. If they resisted, someone would first shoot them, and then stepped forward and stab them regardless of their life or death. Those who were not dead would die.

If there are many people surrounding them, the Song army will fight in groups of three or five, and few will fight alone. When there are strong players, one will come forward to fight with them, and the other two will wait for an opportunity to attack from the side. Once the flaws are exposed, they will be stabbed under the gun. If there are disadvantages, if there are bullets in the gun, they will first kill the enemy that poses the greatest threat to them without hesitation, and then cover each other back to back to attack and defend together. However, this technique is rarely used, and it seems that as long as it is divided, most people will surrender.

"Ten thousand households, the Song cavalry was found outside the valley!" Liu Guojie was surrounded by defeated soldiers and rushed towards the valley. At this time, the personal soldiers rushed over to report with sweat.

"Where is the Shangdu Army? Didn't they intercept it?" Liu Guojie asked anxiously after hearing this.

"The Shangdu Army has been intercepted by the enemy cavalry, and both sides are fighting fiercely. Will our army help?" the personal soldiers reported.

"Help, go quickly and go back to Shaoxing!" Liu Guojie, who was already ashamed, was excited when he heard this and cursed at his personal soldiers. He knew that there was still a glimmer of life being pursued by the infantry, but if he was entangled by the cavalry, he would be dead...

After receiving the signal that he could launch an attack, Fang Sheng immediately led his troops to move out of the valley from the passage opened on the mudflat on the east side of the valley, but he did not launch an attack rashly. His Majesty's order was very clear. He should wait for the enemy cavalry to launch an attack when withdrawing from the valley, and do not fight against them. He should hold on tightly after the enemy was defeated and do not distance himself. If the enemy breaks through, do not pursue him.

At the beginning, Fang Sheng felt a little confused, thinking that His Majesty had some doubts about the combat effectiveness of their cavalry brigade, but he strictly implemented the order. After the enemy cavalry took the lead in withdrawing from the valley under the attack of the infantry, he immediately sent a regiment to start attacking immediately. They formed a miniaturized diamond formation with Dutou as a unit, leading a team as a spearhead. The other teams were regularly located in other corners of the diamond formation, one as a guard and two as a flank guard, so as to facilitate the spearhead when changing the impact direction.

Compared with the commonly used horizontal or large column teams in the past, diamond formations have a faster and more convenient mobility, which can quickly change the orientation of the entire squadron. Therefore, diamond formations are easier to concentrate their strength to break through points on the front line and expand gaps, and are more conducive to efficient distribution of troops. Of course, this also requires abnormal formation transformation.

The Yuan army cavalry also reacted very quickly. When they discovered the Song army cavalry, they immediately divided up a team of thousands to meet them. The two sides quickly collided. In fact, there would never be a long-term battle between the cavalry. The two sides often opened their formations and allowed the other to pass through and fought with the wrong horse. The dead and injured fell off the horse and died, and the alive quickly assembled and hedged again. It was not until one side's morale collapsed and retreated. The key was to see who could complete the second assembly at the fastest speed and launch another attack.

When the two armies confronted each other, Fang Sheng discovered that the perverted cavalry exercises formulated by His Majesty were really useful. They were simply practicing cavalry as infantry. They not only required tacit cooperation between men and horses, but also required the ability to complete formation transformation in complex situations. A qualified officer must be proficient in commands for various tactical actions. Sometimes a single operation requires thirty separate commands, which is simply torture. In addition, they also need to conduct frequent joint training at regiment level to cultivate organizational coordination and organizational control capabilities.

At this time, the Song army was going to defeat the Yuan army. They formed a formation to hedge through the enemy group, and then the scattered teams immediately found their own military flags, quickly integrated the team, completed the reorganization and re-entered the battle in a very short time. The situation was beyond imagination. One side had a rainbow of morale, and the other was eager to escape; and the one side with high morale was the first to complete the assembly, and the other side was still in the whole team, so the result was that the Yuan army was deported again with another impact.

The enemy's vanguard cavalry dispersed, and Fang Sheng led the second and third regiments to join the battle group in time and surrounded the Shangdu Army. The two armies rushed back and forth in the fields outside the valley, dispersed, gathered again, charged, dispersed, and assembled again. After several times, the Shangdu Army, an old powerful brigade in the Yuan army, was beaten by the infantry and cavalry of the Song army, and could no longer support it. Tu saw that it was difficult to leave the Yidu Army and led hundreds of remaining troops to break northward.

Fang Sheng did not order the pursuit, and then gathered the troops and turned to the battle to chase and annihilate the Yidu army. The addition of the cavalry made the Yidu army worse and could no longer stop its decent blocking. He fled everywhere in the mountains and fields, and was already defeated. Liu Guojie was shot dead by gunfire and his flag fell down. Seeing that there was no hope of breaking through, the remaining soldiers who had nowhere to escape abandoned their weapons and surrendered...

When the war reached Shen, the war was basically over. Zhao Bing finally received the "approval" to the frontier battlefield accompanied by Ni Liang and several guards and a team of guards. At this time, the battlefield was still basically in its original form. He had no intention of patrolling the battlefield, but he wanted to obtain practical information through close-range surveys to summarize his experience.

Zhao Bing and his group first came to the forefront of the city. They had been hit by the most violent bombardment of the stone thrower. There were stones of different sizes everywhere on them. There were traces of processing on smaller stone bullets, while large stones were all in natural states, obviously they were made locally. He picked up two stones and looked at them. There were semi-cylindrical grooves in the middle. They were put together in a complete spherical shape. Obviously, this was the stone hollow bullet equipped by the Yuan army.

"The power of the Yuan army's gunpowder is still a little worse, and the stone bullets are only cracked into two pieces!" Zhao Bing turned his face and said to everyone.

"The flowering bullets of the Tartars are indeed very powerful than those of our army's equipment. They can only be broken into four or five pieces at most, and some of them did not even explode. But at first they were still shocked!" Li Zhen, the commander of the Second Brigade, also picked up a few broken stone bullets and showed them to the little emperor.

"Oh, take one for blown to show me." Zhao Bing said after hearing this.

"Your Majesty, this... is it too dangerous?" Li Zhen said in a daze.

"What's the scary thing about a dud? Go quickly!" Zhao Bing said with a frightened face. Seeing that he was angry, everyone hurriedly went to find one, but they still soaked it in water before they dared to hand it to him.

"This..." Zhao Bing wanted to study the structure of the stone hollow bomb so that he could understand the development of the firearms equipped by the enemy. However, after a bubble of water, he could no longer see it. He smiled helplessly. He wanted to dig out the mud seal that closed the hole with a dagger, poured out the gunpowder inside, and then broke the mud seal, took out the fuse and twisted it open and took a closer look.

"Your Majesty, how about that?" Ni Liang asked.

"The fuses they used were just paper medicine twists. They may have been blown out because of the strong wind, or they may have been damp and burned incompletely, and they were extinguished before landing. The amount of the charge was not small, which shows that the gunpowder formula they used had not been improved!" Zhao Bing analyzed.

"It's best, let them master the secrets and we'll be in trouble!" Li Zhen said with a smile.

"What's going on with the gun over there?" Zhao Bing walked up to the protruding part of the edge defense line and found several muskets on the side, and asked hurriedly.

"Report, those guns cannot be fired, so I can only put them aside first and wait for repair." An officer on duty above stood attentively and reported.

"Oh, will the failure rate be so high?" Zhao Bing picked up a gun and frowned. The protrusion could accommodate a team of soldiers to defend, but there were seven or eight faults, which was beyond the ordinary. After carefully reading it, he asked, "These guns are not all the components that have problems, right?"

"What Your Majesty said is that some soldiers were nervous and did not know if the gun had started after firing, so they loaded again, blocking the barrel of the gun; some were fired after loading the bullet without taking out the entire strip, but they could not load the bullet; and then they trembled their hands and sprinkled the gunpowder, and the amount of medicine was filled was too small to fire the lead bullet, so that they could not load it again!" The officer on duty blushed and reported.

"I'm afraid there have been many empty guns!" Zhao Bing picked up two bullets on the ground and said with a smile.

"It is precisely because of panic that the projectile fell off when loading the medicine but didn't know. Some people didn't wrap the projectile and the muzzle sagged and slipped out!" said the little officer embarrassedly.

"It's forgiven for being nervous for the first time, but the same problem should not occur next time, otherwise the one who will be killed will be his own life!" Zhao Bing said with a smile.

"Yes, there will never be any other mistakes in the future!" Hearing that His Majesty had no intention of punishing him, the officer on duty quickly saluted and replied.

Then Zhao Bing asked some questions about the situation that the city was hit by a rock-throwing machine, how did they deal with it on the spot, where did the enemy choose to break through, how many people they suffered, how much ammunition they consumed, and other details. Then they boarded the Baihuling Fortification along the city wall, and they stopped at the most intense position of the battle.

Zhao Bing did not see the battle here, but when he saw the layers of enemy soldiers' bodies spread out from the front of the position to the foot of the mountain, as well as the dense arrows like thorns on the position and the frozen blood in the position, he knew the intensity of the battle here. He turned over an enemy corpse that fell in front of the position and the obviously triangular wound on the chest of the bayonet, indicating that the two sides had had close-knit fights, and the enemy broke through the firepower and rushed into the position.

"Your Majesty, we have suffered more than a hundred soldiers on this position, accounting for almost half of the casualties of the Second Brigade!" Li Zhen stepped forward and said.
Chapter completed!