Because the musketeers of the Song army were generally equipped with bayonets (armor-breaking cones), they had certain anti-cavalry capabilities. Therefore, their hollow square formation could be composed of musketeers alone.

On the battlefield of Yili Fort on July 17, 1217, the Western calendar, Yang Tiexin asked 1,600 Song army musketeers to form the front of the hollow square formation.

So the 1,600 musketeers approached the 9,000 Persian undead troops in the chaos.

They were divided into two rows, all carrying ammunition and igniting the fuse. The queues were neatly approaching step by step.

Due to the excessive shooting in panic, most of the Persian Immortal Army had already fired the bullets in the muskets. Seeing the Song army's musketeers approaching, they had to load them in a hurry.

During this process, the Song army's gun doctor continued to fire, and bullets hit the Persians from time to time, making them even more panic.

The Song army musketeers who were lined up quickly passed the half-kneel gun doctor.

The gun doctors' vision was blocked and they could not fire. However, they did not withdraw from the battlefield. Instead, they formed two horizontal lines amidst the whistles and began to reload.

At this moment, the roar of muskets volleys came from the front.

The musketeers of the Song army did not suddenly shoot within twenty steps of the Persians and then fired volleys like the lobster soldiers in later generations. Instead, they opened fire at a distance of forty or fifty steps, but their shooting level was good, and they knocked down more than three hundred Persians in one round of volleys.

At this time, the Persian Immortal Army had already been shot by 2,000 gunmen, and this round of musketeers' volleys. Thousands of people were killed!

However, the Persian Immortal Army is not an ordinary person, with 10% casualties and still not retreating. The Persian musketeers standing in the front row also reorganized their formation and loaded bullets under the supervision of the officers.

But just as they were about to open fire, the Song army's musketeers standing dozens of steps away suddenly became half short and all squatted down.

What's going on?

Fear of death?

No! There were two rows of musketeers more than twenty steps behind them, and they had already pointed the muskets at the Persians.

Who should I hit this...

The Persian Immortal Army was immediately confused.

"Fighting the squat..."

"Fight the standing enemy!"

Persian officers issued completely different orders because they had never encountered such a situation.

And now it is too late to ask for instructions from superiors, so the Persian musketeers on the battlefield aimed at different enemies in teams.

可以可...

The volleys of both sides began almost at the same time! The smoke of gunpowder spewed out, and the projectiles flew, sweeping through the array of both sides of the warring sides.

This time, both the Persians and the Song army suffered casualties, but the former suffered much greater losses than the latter!

Because the Song army musketeers who were closer to the Persians were squatting and had smaller targets, while the Persians were standing and had larger targets.

As for the gun doctors farther away from the Persians, they were basically outside the range of the Persian heavy smoothbore guns.

Moreover, the gun doctors fired at the Persians, and their shooting skills and muskets were the best. Although the distance was far, they could not be fired at all.

So the Persians suffered another loss when they shot each other, and nearly 200 people were shot, while the opponent's Song army musketeers fell down by only a few dozen people.

But just as the Persians were about to collapse, they were half kneeling in the grass. Guo Kang, who had just loaded the bullets, suddenly heard four rapid whistles, and then the shouts of the officers.

"Hollow square formation, camp horizontal formation, two rows!"

Guo Kang was shocked at the moment: Oh no, the Mongol cavalry is here!

It turned out that Tolei had discovered that a bunch of Persian Immortal Army had died, and if he continued to fight, he would collapse.

It seems that playing with muskets can't beat others, so it's better to transfer cavalry to charge.

However, we cannot attack the other people's spearmen, but the two teams of Song army musketeers who lost the cover of the spearmen in the middle of the battlefield.

Several Mongolian cavalry teams who received the order immediately turned the array and launched a charge.

The officers of the Song army commanding on the battlefield immediately responded, set up a hollow square formation, and used bayonets to fight against the Mongolian horse team.

However, the first thing to fight against the Mongolian cavalry was the Song army's artillery shells. The Song army's artillery has now been transferred to both sides of the large hollow quadraft (after the musketeers on the front advance, the quadrain was immediately adjusted and turned into a small hollow quadrain of number one) to drive away the Mongolian cavalry.

If the Mongolian cavalry wants to attack the Song army musketeers in the middle of the battlefield, they have to withstand the firepower of these dozens of field artillery!

The four-pound iron ball swept towards the running Mongolian horse team, and soon broke up several of them. The iron balls passed through the crowd of horses, and all of them were swept off the horses. Some Mongolians were also swept off the horses by the strong winds caused by shells.

However, some teams of hundreds rushed past the artillery blocking and rushed towards the hollow square formation of the Song people.

On the battlefield, everyone who saw this scene held their breath.

The critical moment that determines the outcome of this battle today has arrived!

Tolei had already stood up on the kickstand, holding a monocular lens, staring at one of the galloping Mongolian lancers.

They quickly approached the Song army's phalanx, and the Song people's muskets seemed to have fired, knocking down many warriors on the horse's back! The formation also had some chaos.

But the charge continues!

Tolei praised in his heart: It was indeed a warrior of the Great Mongolian...

Just as he was approving, the spears of the Mongolian cavalry had been flattened, and the war horses under their crotch also accelerated to the fastest. The entire horse team, like a projectile spewing out of the muzzle, rushed towards the hollow square formation of the Song people.

And the Song people... were not in chaos!

When Tolei saw that the Song army's array in the telescope was still the same, his heart suddenly skipped a beat.

At this moment, the collision had already happened!

The speeding war horse bumped into a musket with a long sleeve bayonet!

The bayonet (armor-breaking cone) stabbed into the horse's chest, and the horse fell down with neighing. The knight on the horse's back was thrown forward by huge inertia and landed in the hollow square formation. Immediately, a few Song soldiers waiting in the hollow square formation rushed forward and knocked with a mace!

The Song army soldiers holding muskets were also knocked out by a huge impact force and then fell heavily into the grass.

This fall is probably a broken bone and tendon...

However, the hollow square formation of the Song people was not broken by the Mongolian horse team!

How is this possible!

Tolei simply didn't believe his eyes. That was a musketeer! If a musketeer could withstand a cavalry, why would he have to a spearmen?

Just as Tolei was shocked, the impact happened again and again.

Every time there were collisions, many musketeers of the Song people were knocked away, but their hollow square formation stood firm.

Not only will it not disperse, but it can also counterattack with muskets, and the Mongolian cavalrymen who can attack will fall over and over.

Tolei, who was watching the battle behind the front line, was a little anxious. Why couldn’t even defeat the invincible cavalry of the Great Mongolian people? This is not possible!

Tolei, who was a little anxious, decided to command the cavalry assault in front of him, so he led a team of thousands of people who were guarding him to advance and ran to the right of the Persian ten thousand people who were shooting against the Song army.

At this time, the situation on the battlefield can only be described as chaos. Because the long-range shooting between the Persian Immortal Army and the Song Army's musketeers did not stop, the battlefield was filled with choking smoke. Both sides who were firing might not see the other's position clearly, and the shooting accuracy naturally decreased greatly.

At the same time, the impact of the Mongolian cavalry was also very poorly organized. Because the Mongolian cavalry were always bombarded by Song army artillery during the impact, the formation was already very scattered before they collided with the hollow square formation of the Song army.

Moreover, the musketeers who formed the hollow phalanx of the Song army were also firing desperately, causing the charge of Mongolian cavalry to overturn. By the time they collided with the Song army's phalanx, the impact force had greatly decreased, and it would not pose any threat to the Song army's phalanx.

In addition, the several cavalry teams sent by Tolei did not concentrate their efforts to attack one square formation, but attacked two Song army infantry phalanxes, dispersing the impact force.

After finding the reason for the poor impact effect, Tolei immediately issued a series of orders.

First, the musketeers of the Persian Immortal Army were ordered to retreat, the spearmen forward, and began to attack!

Secondly, he ordered all the cavalry to concentrate on the left wing of the Song army's musketeers (that is, the one that will be attacked by the Persian Immortal Army), and prepared to attack after the Immortal Army and the Song army had contact.

The Mongolian adjustments quickly attracted Yang Tiexin's attention, and he immediately began to adjust the arrangements. He ordered the spearmen to cover the artillery and move forward and merge with the "Gun Doctor" square formation. After the convergence, the spearmen formation immediately changed into a scattered formation and dispersed in front of the hollow square formation composed of spearmen.

At this moment, the spearmen of the Persian Immortal Army also rushed up with rows of muskets from the Song army, and while rushing, he also loudly recited the scriptures of the Church of Light.

These undead soldiers are all devout believers of the Light Church! Inspired by faith, they launched a desperate charge!

Guo Kang couldn't even understand a single word of the scriptures recited by the Immortal Army in Persian. But he still knew that something was wrong!

Although the hollow square formation can withstand the cavalry's charge, it does not have much resistance when facing the dense impact of spearmen.

The only hope is to use dense rain of bullets to break up the opponent's formation.

But they are now posing a hollow square formation, rather than a two- or three-row shooting formation. The musketeers are divided into four directions, with only more than three hundred smoothbore guns in each direction, which is not enough to repel the dense square formation composed of thousands of undead spearmen.

"Up the bayonet! Push down..."

When Guo Kang heard the desperate cry, his body could no longer control himself and began to tremble.

Because the enemy's spear was about to pierce his chest!

At this time, it is too late to load and shoot again, and the fierce hand-to-hand combat is about to begin!

However, this melee battle will not happen between a bayonet and a spear. A musket with a bayonet inserted into it will not be able to stab a spear more than ten feet long.

So the order issued by the officers meant to insert the bayonet with a bayonet down into the soil, thus forming a simple fence.

"Dense square array!"

The officers' orders came again in Guo Kang's ears.

These are the queue changes that you have mastered during training. After inserting the musket into the soil, you must use a short-handled mace and a dense square formation to face the enemy!

However, when the recruits were trained, Guo Kang was told that once this happened, it would be the final battle...

After completing the formation change, nearly 1,400 musketeers holding maces formed a small and tight square formation. Guo Kang stood in the first row facing the spear, holding maces in both hands, and staring at the tip of the spear that was getting closer and closer.
To be continued...