The tactics of musketeers in the era of smoothbore guns actually have two routes. One is the queuing tactics that pursue firepower density, commonly known as queuing and shooting. The other is the sniper tactics that pursue precision, also known as scattered tactics, light infantry tactics or hunting tactics.

These two routes are not opposite, but cooperate with each other. In military history, there are few strong soldiers that can be defeated by one army.

The Mongols' riding and shooting were not good, the English lobster soldiers were not good, and Napoleon's cannons were not good.

If there are only private soldiers who fire guns and no scattered soldiers who can cover the formation of private troops, then private soldiers will be easily sniped by the opponent's scattered soldiers with outstanding marksmanship.

If there were no artillery and cavalry, there would be no need to fight. Infantry who could only line up and shoot were not bombarded into scum?

As for using the superb cavalry cavalry cavalry technology to deal with a modern army composed of various types of troops, no matter how good your skills are, it will be a dead end.

The bow and arrow may be able to shoot against the private who uses ordinary smoothbore guns and has not been trained for a long time.

But if you encounter a scattered soldier equipped with high-quality smoothbore or even rifled guns and first-class shooting skills, it will be a disaster. Isn’t that a living target?

By the way, the accuracy of the smoothbore gun is not as bad as later generations imagined. According to a large number of records in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries in the West, it is not a problem to use a high-quality smoothbore gun, plus a projectile with a small gap between the barrel, a fixed gun frame, and an excellent shooter, it is not a problem to hit a single body at a distance of 170 meters.

Of course, muskets and musketeers that meet the requirements are rare and expensive!

Therefore, today's Western Song Dynasty and Great Mongolia also have a coordinated fighting style of multiple arms.

In Yili Fortress on the morning of July 17, 1217, the Western calendar, when the morning sun shone, when the smoke filled the battlefield was dispersed by the strong wind blowing from the northwest, and when the two sides in the melee on the battlefield began to retreat in the sound of golden drums, a battle of the era of alternating hot and cold weapons that cooperated with multiple arms was about to begin soon.

Tolei could have taken the opportunity of the opponent retreating a little later and evacuating the battlefield, but he was fascinated by the ghosts. He felt that it was dawn and the smoke had dispersed. The Song army left the favorable terrain and ran to the grass outside the "blouse area" to set up a formation.

Moreover, the number of Song soldiers who left the preset position and came out of the field to fight was not very large, and their formation was a little scattered... Of course, they were elite, otherwise they would not have beaten the warriors of the Great Mongolian so badly.

However, such a formation was swaggering from the "bungalow area", which obviously underestimated the enemy.

A arrogant soldier will be defeated!

Tuolei has also experienced a long battle. Seeing the Song army's loose appearance, he knew that there were still some fighting!

So he decided to fight another battle immediately... Even if he couldn't win, he could still make Temujin's main force retreat safely.

The 200,000 troops brought by Temujin this time were not all Mongolian soldiers with strong mobility, but half Mongolian soldiers and half Persian soldiers.

Now Mongolian soldiers can run away on horseback, but what should the Persians do? They can't be left behind! Temujin is now the Persian king, and the 100,000 Persian soldiers who followed him to Yilie Castle were basically loyalists of the Illuminati, which was the basis of Temujin's rule in Persia.

It is very unfavorable if the Song army pursued during the retreat is killed in large quantities.

In addition, Temujin's army also carried a large number of cattle and sheep, which could not travel more than 100 miles a day like the cavalry. If Temujin's main force was too hasty during the retreat and discarded the cattle and sheep, the troops were likely to have no food after retreating to the Suiyehe Valley.

After repeated weighing, it is obviously the best choice to seize the opponent's flaws and fight a beautiful defender blocking battle.

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July 17, 1217, the Western calendar was at 3:00.

On the grassland west of Yilie Fort, about 10,000 Western Song troops and less than 20,000 Mongolian troops have been deployed.

This grassland as the battlefield has not been set on fire, because Temujin's original formation was in this area last night. The Mongolians could not burn their sweat even if they set fire on the grassland. So this area was not too hot, and there were dead grass more than half a person tall everywhere. Such a landform is very beneficial to the Song army, which has a large number of "gun doctors".

Therefore, Yang Tiexin, the chief general of the Song army, placed his 16 teams of sharpshooters in a scattered formation in front of his main front in a scattered formation, which Tolei saw was the scattered formations that were arranged by these gun doctors.

In fact, they are just scattered and not messy at all!

Behind the scattered spear doctor, Yang Tiexin formed a traditional large square formation. That is, with the spear square formation as the core and the musketeer formation as the wings, and the artillery team was deployed in front of the spear square formation, and the cavalry were distributed on both sides of the large square formation.

This style of playing similar to the Spanish platoon in history has been popular in this time and space for decades, but it has not yet reached the point of being eliminated.

This is because the flintlock smoothbore rifle has not appeared yet, and the firing rate of the flintlock rifle is ultimately too slow in actual combat, so there is still a lot of room for rushing to the formation using a spear.

In addition, sleeve bayonets have just appeared in the east. Musketeers on the Western battlefield are still not equipped with bayonets, and they are still a combination of muskets, nail hammers and machetes.

Therefore, the musketeers' hand-to-hand combat ability and the ability to defend against cavalry are not sufficient.

On the other side of the battlefield, Tolei also completed the formation.

He had about 10,000 Mongolian soldiers, his own team of ten thousand people.

Tolei also has 10,000 Persian Immortal Army in his hands. This army used the title of the elite ace of the Persian Empire earlier. The members were composed of children of Persian nobles who believed in the God of Light. The main weapons they were equipped with were coercion guns and spears. They were commanded by Temujin's young brother Belegutai, and now they have a classic large array. But there is no gun doctor who can act as a sniper soldier.

The Mongolian soldiers led by Tolei were scattered on the flanks and rears of the Persian Immortal Army.

In addition, dozens of cannons that covered the Qiexue army's attack on the "Bingfang District" last night were not nailed to death, and they also participated in the battle on the morning of the 17th.

As usual, the battle begins with artillery battles!

As soon as Chen hour arrived, the Mongolian artillery began to roar first. Immediately afterwards, the Song army's artillery also began to fight back.

The shells of both sides were coming and going on the battlefield, falling around the spear formations or artillery positions of the other party. They stirred up waves of sand and dust, and from time to time, shells fell into the crowd, knocking down a bunch of soldiers from both sides. Round shells passed through the human body, and the bones and tendons were broken, and some people's heads and limbs were even blown up, and screams and bloody smells filled the frontiers of the battlefield.

However, shelling is ineffective against gun doctors like Wei Wenweng. They are scattered soldiers and do not have to line up against the enemy, and naturally they do not need to stand up straight and get shot. So when the cannons fired, they all changed to a half-kneeling posture, half short, hiding in the grass, not afraid of shells.

And being shot while standing is really a numb thing, but it is also very helpless.

This is because the battle sequences of both sides include not only artillery, spearmen, musketeers, but also many cavalrymen who can launch violent attacks.

Moreover, it is not easy to command a large array of spearmen and musketeers on the battlefield. There is a process of order execution, which takes a lot of time.

During this process, most of the opponent's cavalry had rushed in front of him!

Therefore, in most cases, infantry commanders are unwilling to let their subordinates squat or lie down to avoid cannons.

Of course, the lethality of cannons these days is also limited. Today, dozens of cannons on the battlefield may not necessarily kill hundreds of people for half a day. For more than 30,000 people participating in today's battle, it is really not a big number.

If one side cannot withstand the artillery battle, the textbook-style response method is to put the infantry into the attack in the era of long spear phalanxes. The first attacking side often has to withstand the volley of the shotgun fired by the opponent's artillery and the fuselage gun. It is obviously a bit of a loss.

However, if our side has a large number of people and the cavalry has an absolute advantage, the chance of attacking first is quite high.

Therefore, after discovering that his gun's firing accuracy and speed of fire were obviously not as good as the opponent, Tolei immediately ordered the Persian Immortal Army to launch an attack from the front, and at the same time ordered his Mongolian cavalry to start a detour to the opponent's wings and rear.

Although Tourei's Mongolian cavalry could not force the Song army to attack the long spear formation, such a detour would force the Song army to disperse its forces on its wings and rear. It might even form a huge hollow square formation. In this way, they would not be able to use the troops on the front, and perhaps only 2,500 people. Faced with the attack of 10,000 Persian Immortal Army, the 2,500 Song army could not withstand any of them.

But Tolei missed 2,000 gun doctors sneaking and half-kneeling in the grass.

In the daytime battle on the 17th, they once again became the factor in determining the outcome.

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When the Mongolian army attack began, the Song army's reaction seemed to follow Tolei's script. The large array indeed turned into a huge hollow square array. A small number of cavalry gathered into a large squadron and rushed towards the outer periphery of the right wing of the Mongolian cavalry. This was to let the cavalry jump to the periphery and wait for an opportunity to launch an assault on the Mongolian artillery positions or the Persian Immortal Army.

As for the cavalry duel, it was not in Yang Tiexin's plan. His cavalry had too few cavalry and only had one battalion. He was not heavy cavalry, but light cavalry who were responsible for reconnaissance missions.

Moreover, their war horses are not as generous as their opponents. They ride not short Mongolian horses (now called Xima), but Ural hippos cultivated in mixed blood of Persian horses, Arabian horses, Mongolian horses and some European high-bred horses.

The war horses used in the Western Song Dynasty were based on the Western Ji horse, the Qingtang horse (Hequ horse), and the Huashan horse was made of mixed-blooded Tianjin horses. Although they are also good-bred horses, they are still much worse than the Ural hippos.

Therefore, the cavalry of the Western Song Dynasty could only be as light as possible to ensure speed. Therefore, they were only equipped with breastplate, helmet, saber and a short-barrel smoothbore rifle. They were not the opponent of the Mongolian cavalry equipped with full-body armor, bows and arrows and spears.

Therefore, when the cavalry of the Western Song Dynasty jumped out of the Mongolian cavalry and rushed to the outside line to move, Tolei did not realize any danger at all.

He also has a Mongolian Thousands of Man team beside him, who can protect his vigor no matter how hard he is.

Therefore, Torei's attention was focused on the frontal attack launched by the Persian Immortal Army.

Now there are 10,000 people fighting more than 2,000 people, so it is impossible for them to lose, right?

...

Bang!

With a gunshot, a bearded warrior dressed in exquisite cold forged armor suddenly pounced forward in front of the Persian Immortal Army, which was more than 200 steps away from the hollow square formation of the Song army.

The Persians walking around him were stunned: What's going on? So far away, what was hit by?

Bang!

Another shot!

The rifled rifle of the murderer Wei Wenweng fired again. A few hundred steps away, an officer from the Persian Immortal Army rushed down.

It is hard to die if the Immortal Army encounters a murderer!

However, two people died, and the Undead Army did not take it seriously and continued to advance.

The Persian musketeers were at the forefront of the Immortal Army, who used heavy combs produced by Tabriz and Avas. They were imitations of the eight-year-old heavy combs. This musket uses heavy projectiles and has a theoretical range.

However, in actual use, in order to speed up the loading speed, Persians like to use projectiles with larger clearances, so there is air leakage, which reduces the effective range of the projectile to less than 50 steps.

If you use projectiles with smaller play, it is more troublesome to load them. Gun doctors can take it slowly, but the line infantry that fires the gun queuing should not be too slow.

Therefore, the projectiles and muskets used by line infantry must meet the requirements of easy loading.

The requirement for effective range is not high, usually within 50 steps, so preventing excessive shooting has always been the key to the musketeer's command.

But just when the Persian musketeers were 100 steps away from the hollow square formation of the Song army, something beyond the Persians' expectations happened.

Suddenly, fire flashed in the grass in front of him, and smoke spurted, and then a large area of ​​Persians fell down in front of the formation!

The Song people's gunman can actually hit targets that are less than 100 steps accurately!

This is not just one or two combshots firing, but nearly 2,000 combshots! Just the first wave of shooting knocked down hundreds of Persians.

The Persian Immortal Army suddenly became a mess in front of the formation.

The Song army's gun doctors quickly completed the reload, and then another wave of shooting!

The Persian Immortal Army, which was hit continuously, was completely in chaos. The frightened musketeers ignored the distance and did not know how to aim, so they blindly pulled the trigger and fired the projectiles in the smoothbore gun.

Just as the Persians were in chaos, the front of the Song army's hollow square formation suddenly began to strode forward, step by step towards the Persian Immortal Army.

At the same time, the Song army's cannons also opened fire, not on the undead army on the front, but moved to both wings to expel the Mongolian cavalry who were trying to approach.
Chapter completed!