historical royal courier

Chapter 204 Showdown
"Son of a thousand gold, you can't sit still, why are you so reckless today, you came so close to the Meng Yuan army."

The army sent over to protect himself and others behind his back, Li Shimin looked at Zhu Yuanzhang with a reproachful expression.

"Haha, I was a little excited just now, but it doesn't matter, don't you see that I gave Kublai Khan a blow."

Handing over the machine gun in his hand to his guards, Zhu Yuanzhang looked refreshedly at Kublai Khan opposite with a stiff face.

You dog, you are still arrogant, let's see what you are so proud of today!
"Sure enough, the opponent does have only about 100 million soldiers, but none of these soldiers seem to be from the Song Army."

Looking at the colorful army in front of him, Kublai Khan's face was solemn. There was something wrong with the momentum of this army.

Because some of the phalanxes in so many phalanxes are even more imposing than the Mongolian and Yuan troops. Anyone who thinks about it with his ass knows that it cannot be the Song army. .

"Your Majesty, the last general is willing to be the vanguard. There are only 100 million southern barbarians facing him. Your Majesty will give the last general [-] troops. The last general will guarantee that they will fight in chaos and create an excellent opportunity for our attack."

Regarding the Song army, no one in the Mongolian and Yuan army thought that the Song army could have any fighting power. The [-] army might not be able to destroy the Song army, but everyone thought they could do it by disrupting their formation.

After all, I don't know what stupid Song Jun did this time, and dared to confront the Meng Yuan army head-on.

"Okay, then you lead your headquarters to try."

The strange behavior of this war has already made Kublai Khan very uncertain, so he agreed to the general's request, and now it is better to send someone to investigate, no matter what happens, at least he still has one road.

"Woooo."

The horn sounded, and some people gradually came out from the right wing of the Mongolian Yuan army. They gathered behind the vanguard officer and began to straighten the horses, and then looked at the Song army on the opposite side with a smile on their faces.

Fighting the Song Army, and the Song Army gathered on the ground, isn't this just harvesting the wheat in vain? If I had known that it would be like this, I would have brought my son with me when I came out, so that he could take advantage of this opportunity. Order something good and go home!

For the Mongolian people, they have grown up on horseback since birth, and it is as simple as routine for them to kill people with a knife on a horse.

Facing the harsh living environment of the grassland, a child on the grassland must start to master some necessary survival skills before reaching the age of 12, that is, looting.

If you don’t plunder, you will have no supplies, and if you don’t have supplies, you can’t survive. If you don’t plunder, you can only wait to die, because a Mongolian family will not raise a 12-year-old half-grown child in vain.

Therefore, it is a normal phenomenon in the Mongolian Yuan army that the combination of father and son soldiers goes into battle together. Sometimes the dozen or so people who get together may just happen to be a family.

"Start to rectify the phalanx and prepare to charge to the opposite side!!"

Asking the messenger to pass on his order, the vanguard officer also found something wrong at this time.

That means Song Jun on the opposite side is too steady.

Even though the Mongolian and Yuan troops started to sort out the phalanx here, they acted as if they hadn’t seen it. escaped.

But at this moment, the arrow was on the string and had to be fired. The pioneer officer gritted his teeth and waved his big hand. The soldiers behind him immediately cheered and rushed towards the Song army.

"Boom, boom, boom."

The thick horseshoe hit the ground and raised waves of dust, but before the dust in front of it floated up, another horseshoe stepped on it immediately, thickening the dust again, and finally formed a thick yellow cloud on the spot .

"First row, get ready!"

Seeing the Mongolian and Yuan soldiers becoming more and more clear in front of them, listening to the sound of horseshoes and grinning laughter getting closer and closer to their ears, the commanders of Tang Jun, Qin Jun, Ming Jun, and Song Jun did not panic at all, and raised their hands high. Lift it up, then swing it down,
"put!"

"Boom..."

"Second row, step in, third row ready!"

Looking at his orderly soldiers, Li Shimin nodded with satisfaction at them. Not bad, not bad. This "line-up and shoot method" to restrain the cavalry can indeed have a very impressive effect.

In the era of cold weapons, the cavalry is a well-deserved land overlord, and no army can compete with it, including the strongest infantry that everyone thinks, the Modao Army.

Everyone may think that in the era of cold weapons, the Mo Dao soldiers used in the Tang Dynasty can be used to restrain cavalry, but in fact this is a big misunderstanding of knowledge.

A mere Mo Dao can't stop the cavalry's attack, and the historical records about Mo Dao are the earliest about Li Cunxiao, a famous Tang Dynasty general. What are the historical records?

Facing the Mo Dao formation, the army was shattered!

Everyone thinks that this is Li Cunxiao bringing his Mo Dao soldiers to chop the enemy's cavalry into pieces, but it is not the case. We need to consider some things in context.

According to the original text, Li Cunxiao actually stood behind his own army at first, and then began to gather strength to charge like the enemy when the fight broke out. But at that time, it was not the enemy army standing in front of him, but his own people.

That is to say, Li Cunxiao used the Mo Dao to chop his own people who were blocking the way to pieces.

So the Modao Army may be very powerful, but it is not an invincible unit, as can be seen from his rapid disappearance in history.

Therefore, the land overlord still belongs to the cavalry. Until the appearance of firearms, the cavalry was not eliminated, but gradually disappeared.

When the rifles first came out, the riflemen were not the opponents of the cavalry, because the earliest rifles had to be slaughtered after facing the cavalry charge for at most two or three rounds because of their low loading efficiency and low ignition speed.

What did the rifle rely on to turn defeat into victory?
Rely on a small gadget, that is the bayonet on the front handle of the rifle.

During the medieval wars in Europe, a British officer came up with the idea of ​​installing a bayonet on his rifle. When the cavalry approached, the riflemen could use the rifle to form a horse-repelling formation, and the rifle began to turn defeat into victory.

Although the cavalry gradually lost its dominance, even though firearms were very common in World War II, the cavalry still existed. From this situation, everyone can see how powerful the cavalry is.

"What is this on the opposite side, an arquebus?"

Kublai Khan was shocked to see that his Mongolian warriors fell down row by row before getting close to the opponent, what kind of weapon is this!
In fact, firearms were gradually developed in the Song Dynasty, but Kublai Khan had seen the muskets of the Song Army. At most, he would fight the cavalry for one or two rounds, and then he could only wait for the slaughter in place. How could the cavalry stagnate like this now? Without it, this is completely impossible.

"Your Majesty, let's go quickly. The opponent's attack method is unprecedented, and Xin La is almost unable to bear it."

Seeing the rapid death of the [-] army, Kublai Khan did not hesitate any longer, and asked the herald behind to beat the drums, and the whole army set off!

"Come on, go on, kill the barbarians, grab their food, daughters and treasures, kill them!"

Hearing the beating of the trumpets and drums, the Mongolian and Yuan soldiers in place rushed over excitedly, yes, excited.

The Mongolian Yuan soldiers in the rear didn't know what happened in front. They only knew that someone from their side had just been sent out to fight the Southern Barbarians, so they were all very envious.

Hitting the southern barbarians, isn't this a good opportunity to make a fortune, why didn't it be our turn, hey!

I sat back and waited, and now I finally got the opportunity. Of course, I had to hurry up and rush forward. Otherwise, what if I got there late and didn't get it?

"Humph, Kublai Khan is not willing to die until he reaches the Yellow River. He knows that we are stronger than him, but he still dares to do this. It seems that he wants to save his life here today."

Seeing the Mongolian Yuan army rushing forward in one fell swoop, Zhu Yuanzhang put on the helmet in his hand, and then rode back to his Ming army phalanx.

"Come on, bring up all the cannons I prepared for you."

As soon as Lao Zhu finished speaking, someone immediately lifted the oilcloth on the cannons that had been prepared, revealing a hundred cannons of the same caliber.

"Where's my Shenwei cannon? Pull up my Shenwei cannon, and I'm going to send Kublai Khan's son back to the west today."

With the ear-piercing sound of metal rubbing, ten strong men, shirtless, tried their best to pull the huge caliber cannon that Zhu Yuanzhang bought specially.

"Humph, there is divine power here, I will definitely make Kublai Khan Xiaoer come and go today!"

Touching his own cannon, Zhu Yuanzhang raised his head and looked at Kublai Khan opposite him,
"What the hell, man?"

It turned out that there was only an empty marching camp left in the place where Kublai Khan used to ride his horse. Kublai Khan did not stand still as he did at the beginning.

"This guy is so cowardly, why, isn't he the founding emperor of the Yuan Dynasty?"

"It should be that he was scared when he saw our cannons. After all, Jiger was crushed into mud by Li Yi's cannons, so he knew the news in advance, so it's not surprising that he is hiding now."

After looking at Zhu Yuanzhang's cannon, Li Shimin secretly curled his lips. He really couldn't appreciate Zhu Yuanzhang's aesthetic style.

"Fuck, what's going on here? How can you behead everyone if they run away? Is it possible to send people to rush over like this? Who can rush over a large battlefield with 150 million people?"

Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to kick his cannon "Shenwei" angrily, but he couldn't bear it, so he looked around and kicked a small cannon.

"Humph, returning Kublai Khan, the founding emperor of the Yuan Dynasty, I never thought that he would be a thing of fear of death, a coward."

"Forget it, don't be angry, there is no need, you'd better let your subordinates shoot and defeat the Yuan army first, maybe it would be better if we beat him upright, right, it would be more interesting if we can catch a job at that time gone."

Thinking of this, Li Shimin suddenly really wanted to capture Kublai Khan alive, because Li Shimin was a bit vengeful and liked to humiliate the alien Khan who had a grudge against him.

For example, Jieli Khan, who was originally in the time and space of the Tang Dynasty, was captured alive by Li Shimin and taken to Chang'an City, and then stayed in the palace to let people dance and humiliate them to his heart's content.

"Hmph, let's fire. It's pointless to keep the guy on the other side. Finish the fight early, and start to recover the lost land of Da Song."

Compared with the few of them, Zhao Heng was not very concerned about Kublai Khan's life and death. For him, the biggest goal at present was to regain the Great Song Dynasty.

Because at Li Yi's current speed, it would not be long before he could get his old Zhao family together, and it would be embarrassing if future generations knew that he hadn't cleaned up the mess.

If his father and uncle found out, it would not be a shame, it would be a loss of life. He didn't want to live for dozens of years and still be beaten severely.

"Fight, fight."

After teaching the command to the artillery officers, Zhu Yuanzhang and several other emperors stood obediently and watched the battlefield, and did not end.

The few of them are smart people with self-knowledge, knowing that not only will they not be able to help, but they will also disrupt the general's arrangement on their side, and they may also be in danger, so it's better to just stay here. Forget it.

"Get ready, let go!"

Raising the muzzle high, the commander did not aim at the front of the battlefield, but tilted his anger at the Yuan army's rear troops and logistics.

Under the repeated bombardment of hundreds of cannons, the Yuan army's rear troops were disrupted, and the soldiers in front were also seriously affected.

"Hey, yes, I have an idea."

"what idea?"

Looking at Zhu Yuanzhang, Ying Zheng didn't open his mouth to ridicule. For some reason, Ying Zheng has been talking a little less recently, as if he was planning some big move.

"Isn't Kublai hiding, but you have to know that he is not only hiding from our sight, but also from their own sight."

Pushing up his Shenwei cannon, Zhu Yuanzhang pointed at Kublai Khan's Chinese army banner, and the gunner kept nodding.

"do you understand?"

"Understood, Your Majesty."

"Okay, then let's get started."

"Yes."

After some complicated operations, a huge shell was stuffed into the barrel, and after some measurements, it was aimed at Kublai Khan's Chinese army camp.

"Your Majesty, aim."

"Okay, let's fight."

At an order, a huge cannonball was shot out by the push of gunpowder. A few seconds later, only a loud bang was heard, and Kublai Khan's camp turned into a sea of ​​fire.

"Let everyone start to murmur, saying that Kublai Khan is dead, and their commander-in-chief of the Chinese army is gone."

According to Zhu Yuanzhang's order, several soldiers in the phalanx began to fight and shout, and the soldiers of the Yuan army who heard the news looked back.

My coach and emperor are really gone!

Seeing this scene, the Yuan army's momentum immediately plummeted. They no longer rushed forward like they did at the beginning, but gradually retreated to find a way out for themselves.

(End of this chapter)