When the muskets of the mad soldiers of the Western Song Dynasty fired, the Mongolian Khan Temujin, who was supervising the battle, sucked his heart.

Those were two or three thousand muskets shooting within twenty steps! Although it was night, the hit rate was still so high that it made people vomit blood.

Moreover, after the close-range volley of the musket, it was a resolute hand-to-hand assault!

Of course, Temujin Khan knew that the Western Song Dynasty musketeers were able to fight hand-to-hand assaults, and they also knew that their ability to fight hand-to-hand assaults was no less than that of the warriors of Qiexue. If the warriors were not deceived by close-range musket shooting, they would not be afraid of the enemy's hand-to-hand battle. But after a storm of gunfire, how much fighting spirit can the warriors have?

After all, they are flesh and blood, not made of iron and copper. How can they withstand such a blow?

"Father, Father Khan... the warriors were defeated!"

The voice of Tolei trembled.

That's the Qiexue Army! Every one of them is a carefully selected warrior. He was sent to the New Persian Army and could lead a team of 100 and 1000 teams... In this way, thousands of people were beaten to death?

"Let the Fifth and Sixth Thousand Men of the Qiexue Army take the lead!"

Temujin gritted his teeth and ordered.

As a great military strategist, of course he would not do a single business. The reserve team and other things were ready long ago.

On the other side of the battlefield, Yang Tiexin, who was also on the front line to supervise the battle, found that the Mongols had joined the reserve team, immediately ordered six spearmen teams to join the battle.

Of course, these spearmen did not carry spears, but went into battle with maces and torches.

It will be dark tonight and no formation battle can be fought. Formation battles must be commanded and dispatched with flags and golden drums. Thousands of people are required to cooperate with each other as if they are the same.

Now I can't see it, how can I arrange the formation? So tonight is a melee. Night melee is not something that ordinary troops can fight, that is, the Western Song army, which is now in a state of madness in the state of jun nationalism, wouldn't the Song Dynasty imperial guards who used to make a living, how could they fight such a battle?

No matter how much you give it, you won’t do it!

Now, the "gun doctor" and military households in the Western Song Dynasty were all driving them crazy. Now they didn't even talk about rewards, and they just screamed and went to the battlefield to fight the Mongolians desperately.

The spearmen who were holding the torches first threw the torches into the crowd, and then rushed up with their maces to join the battle group.

The torches they threw out before were soaked in animal fat and were not so easy to extinguish. So after they landed on the ground, they still emitted light, which provided some lighting for the dark battlefield.

However, these lighting was not prepared for the soldiers of the Mongolian and Song armies who were fighting.

The two gangs of people who are fighting are both "masters". They are nutritious on weekdays and do not have night blindness. Even if it is dark, they will not be able to find the enemy. Moreover, the military uniforms of the Song army and the Mongolians are very different, so it is impossible to recognize the wrong target. Therefore, there is no need for torches to light them.

These torches were actually prepared for the sharpshooters who were taken out by "target shooting and seizing soldiers".

A total of 500 sharpshooters, like 500 beasts, quietly approached the crowd fighting in the fire under the cover of the night. The Jinshi Master Wei Wenweng was also among them, carrying his two entourages and three rifled guns with good bullets.

The "straight-army tactic" adopted by the sharpshooters of the Western Song Dynasty, that is, they do not line up, shoot in a volley, and fight at will, and they will win by shooting.

This time, Wei Wenweng got close to about 30 steps away from the two armies' warring groups before he stopped.

At this distance, he could already see the color of the military uniforms of the soldiers on both sides fighting.

The Mongolian military uniforms were white, while the Song army was eye-catching red.

Wei Wenweng lit the fuse with a fire breaker, then raised his musket and aimed at a Mongolian hero wearing a white robe and a wielding mace. The hero had outstanding martial arts skills and had just knocked over a Song army soldier and was about to kill him with a mace hammer. As a result, with a gunshot, his head was shattered by lead bullets.

After killing the first target, Wei Wenweng was calm and without any excitement. He just threw the musket to his followers. At the same time, he took another rifled rifle, aimed at the target again, and hooked the trigger.

The gunshots are absolutely blowing!

A Jinshi killed someone, and it was indeed a matter of moving his fingers...

The gunshots like fried beans rang one after another on the battlefield, and Temujin was soon heard.

"Gun? Where to shoot?"

The Mongolian Khan suddenly became nervous.

"It seems that the Song people are shooting!" Tourei replied with a trembling voice, "They, are they crazy? It's night now!"

It's night now, and the visibility is very poor... Even if there are torches that fall on the ground, it will inevitably hurt your own people by chance.

But...most of the people who were hit were Mongolian warriors. So from a mathematical perspective, it is still a good deal to use sharpshooters in night battles, and it is very cost-effective!

The Song army sharpshooters who frequently fired in the night became the last straw that crushed the Mongolian warrior spirit! Oh, they could not be considered straw, at least a big tree, and they had to death hundreds of times as soon as they came up. Even the warriors of Qie Xue could not hold back. Starting from the sudden close-range queuing by the enemy just now, the battle tonight was a complete disaster. The losses of the troops had long exceeded the limits that these Qie Xue warriors could bear. If it weren't for the Khan's supervision, they would have collapsed long ago.

But now the enemy is actually shooting in the dark... This is using hot weapons to attack cold weapons! The warriors did not bring guns today, so how could they fight with enemies with guns?

"Defeated, defeated..."

I don’t know who made a panic cry first, but this word quickly spread around the battlefield and reached the ears of Temujin’s great knight. At the same time, the warriors on the front line suddenly avalanches and fled to their own positions.

When Temujin saw this scene, he knew that he had been defeated!

It’s not that I lost a battle, but that I lost a key battle!

And he lost to an enemy with an absolute disadvantage in the field...

Temujin gritted his teeth, "Let's retreat!"

"Father Khan..." Torei said, "Let your son take the Warriors to fight again."

"Nonsense!" Temujin scolded, "Torai, is it time to act voluntarily? Can't our Great Mongolian lose a battle?"

"Father Khan..." Tolei was scolded by Temujin and had already woken up. "The child knew he was wrong! Please ask Father Khan to leave first, and the child led his troops to cut off the rear."

Temujin nodded. His son was still able to teach him.

"Okay, I'll leave it to you, be careful." After saying that, Temujin got on the war horse and quickly evacuated the battlefield under the protection of thousands of warriors of Qiexue.

Seeing Temujin leave, Torei took a breath and turned to a thousand-house under his command and said, "Let your people get on the horse and prepare to charge!"

"Your Highness, it's evening now!"

Tolei snorted coldly: "Can the Song people shoot with muskets at night. Are our Great Mongolian warriors still afraid of riding horses at night? Remember, retreat with one blow and don't fight in a long time."

It turned out that Tolei's purpose was to create chaos and create opportunities for retreat for the defeated Mongolian soldiers on the battlefield.

Under Yilie Castle, the number of Mongolians had an absolute advantage, so the Song people did not dare to pursue and attack. As long as they stayed away from the castle, they should be able to get out of contact.

Therefore, although the battle of Yilieburg was a uglier loss, it was not a heavy loss for the Great Mongolian Kingdom. It was nothing more than the loss of more than three thousand warriors of Qie Xue, who had not had thousands of Persians before... It was indeed nothing for the army reaching 200,000.

For Temujin, the real problem is that the combat effectiveness shown by the Western Song army exceeded expectations.

It seems that he has provoked an enemy that should not be provoked!

The impact launched by the Mongolian cavalry under the night sky really showed results. Because the Song army did not plan to form a formation to fight, they did not carry long spears. They could not use the gun array to deal with the cavalry, and the short-handled mace they carried had no effect on the cavalry. Therefore, under the impact of the Mongolian cavalry, they quickly became a mess.

However, it was not only the infantry of the Song army, but also the Mongolian warriors even more chaotic. Because before the Mongolian cavalry launched an attack, the infantry of both sides was already a melee scene.

Therefore, the Mongolian cavalry launched an attack on the infantry on both sides in the melee, and their own formation was also very chaotic. After all, it was impossible to maintain the formation when it launched an attack at night.

Therefore, after the impact of the cavalry, there was a chaos on the battlefield.

At the same time, the hand-to-hand combat soldiers of both sides, who were in chaos, began to retreat to their respective positions, and Tolei's goal seemed to have achieved. However, there were many sharpshooters of the Song army on the battlefield, and they did not evacuate. Not only did they not evacuate, they also opened fire on the Mongolian cavalry shrouded in the darkness.

At this time, the fires on the grasslands and wheat fields had gradually faded, and the smoke and dust in the air were blown away by the increasingly strong northwest wind. The bright moonlight fell, providing deadly light to both sides in the night battle.

The Mongolian cavalry was wearing very bright plate armor, which could reflect the moonlight at night, which was very cool, and became the living targets of the Song army sharpshooters and were beaten to death one after another!

Now the Mongolian cavalry could not bear it anymore and retreated in chaos.

As soon as the cavalry retreated, the Song army infantry, who had already retreated, screamed and turned over and killed him. Now it is time to cut off his head and grab credit!

As soon as the Song army's infantry counterattacked, the Mongolian army seemed to collapse.

Tuolei couldn't hold back now. It was late at night, and the main force of the Mongolian army was retreating again. If the palace army collapsed, it would easily turn from retreat to collapse.

The 200,000 Mongolian army is now far away from its logistics base and is completely reliant on the large number of cattle and sheep they carry. Once it collapses, it may lose the cattle and sheep sheep they carry. This will mean that the 200,000 army must complete more than 1,000 miles without supply and return to Chachi!

This will be a disaster that will ruin the national destiny of the Great Mongolian Kingdom!

When the disaster was about to happen, Tolei did not care about the danger and immediately ordered his own Thousand Guards team to dismount, form two horizontal teams, and use a melee gun to shoot.

Although the Mongols are still proficient in riding and shooting, they do not use bows and arrows when dismounting and fighting, but use light smoothbore guns to shoot.

The reason for this is mainly because the Western Song army had a high armor rate and the quality of armor was also very good. The Western Song Dynasty is now a master in the army. Whether it is the sharpshooter who took out the target to collect soldiers or the military landlords handed down by their fathers and sons, they are all landlords. Moreover, the Western Song Dynasty court also encouraged them to bring their own weapons and armor (the court can save money). In order to increase the probability of survival on the battlefield, the men of course had to get the best equipment for themselves. Moreover, the equipment is also property, and it can be passed on to their children and grandchildren, so it is worth spending more money.

Therefore, although the metallurgical industry in the Western Song Dynasty was far inferior to that of the Great Zhou and the Eastern Song Dynasty, the plate armor carefully built by blacksmiths in the Western Song Dynasty was not much worse than that of the Great Zhou and the Eastern Song Dynasty.

Moreover, the Western Song, Eastern Song, and Great Zhou were in a cultural circle, so the metallurgical technology of the Eastern Song and Great Zhou always flowed to the Western Song Dynasty through various channels.

Therefore, folk blacksmiths in the Western Song Dynasty now mastered the crucible iron smelting method, and also removed slag and carburizing. However, the production scale is very small, the cost is relatively high, and there is no advantage of market competition.

But there is no problem in producing armor and fine smoothbore guns for a few masters.

As the enemy of the Western Song Dynasty's master soldiers, the Mongolians were certainly not fools, and they would not foolishly use bows and arrows to shoot against smoothbore guns.

Bows and arrows defeat smoothbore guns and so on... Haha, that's completely unconsidered the protection ability of plate armor and the finest products in smoothbore guns. Not all smoothbore guns have only a few dozen meters of effective range!

The best products among heavy and light muskets can have an effective range of more than 100 meters.

In the era of "queuing up" in the West in history, scattered soldiers and light infantry who fired cold guns have always existed.

Nowadays, the Western Song Dynasty's target shooting has become the soil for cultivating snipers.

So using bows and arrows to deal with the sharpshooter in the Western Song Dynasty is simply a death sentence!

The Mongols' volleyball shooting worked, because most of the Song army on the battlefield did not carry muskets and could not fight against the Mongols who fired volleyballs. They had to stop pursuing and retreat beyond the range of the opponent's muskets.

However, those sharpshooters who were born as targets were attracted by the Mongols' musket team and used loose formations to shoot against the Mongols at a long distance. After a while, some of the Song army infantry recovered the muskets and rushed back to the battlefield and participated in the long-distance musket shooting. Tolei also reorganized part of the retreating Qixue army and asked them to take the muskets and go to the battlefield again.

So the battlefield was very lively, but there were not many casualties.

After all, the distance between the two sides is very far and the sky is dark, so it’s just a sound.

But as the sky gradually brightened, the fires on the grasslands and wheat fields near Yili Fort were completely extinguished, and the visibility on the battlefield was enough to allow the musketeers to see the targets in the distance.

Therefore, the Western Song army had better marksmanship and obviously gained the upper hand, and the losses of the Mongols began to increase.
Chapter completed!