Zhabal the Fire Man urged his camel, clattering through the mud, quickly gathering his men along the way.
This Huihui man had flowing white beard and hair and a tall back. His camel was also a particularly handsome Western Xia camel. So when he moved, he blocked Genghis Khan's sight.
Genghis Khan also urged his horse forward, slowly leaving the low-lying swamp. When his horse moved, thousands of Mongolian knights behind him moved at the same time, as if the large reeds in the swamp came alive. As they moved forward, some of them
Rotten weeds hung on them and their horses, giving off a rotten smell.
In order to stay hidden, the Mongolians hid deep into the Triangle Lake, with water up to their thighs in many places. Countless Mongolians waited all night in the dirty mud and sewage filled with flies. They gnawed when they were hungry.
A few sips of the dry food they brought with them, and when they were thirsty, they would drink water from the swamp. These people had been accustomed to living like beasts in extremely harsh environments since they were young. After a night like this, no one was exhausted or drunk.
Water causes diarrhea.
Even more troublesome was pacifying the war horses, but the Mongols actually did it.
So tens of thousands of people and tens of thousands of horses were distributed across the vast waters without making a single sound. Even the sentinels of the Ding Navy, many of whom had been active among the ponds and rivers for a long time, visited them several times.
Passing along the path along the edge of the swamp, no movement of the Mongols was found.
Genghis Khan himself also soaked in the water for a long time.
Since the establishment of the Great Mongol Kingdom, the relatives and nobles around Genghis Khan have become more and more powerful, and they have become more and more comfortable. Of course, Genghis Khan was also unavoidable. There were more than ten times more women in his harem than before, and Ordo had already
Ranked fourth, the bedding, ornaments and even the incense spices in the golden tent became more and more expensive.
However, when he went to the battlefield in person, Genghis Khan was still the simple and ferocious tribal leader he was before.
The hem of his robe was soaked, and his felt boots were filled with sewage, but this did not affect his vigorous and free movements on the horse. Occasionally, there were reeds blocking the front of the horse. He pulled out his knife, slashed at will, and immediately chopped it down.
Break, urging the horses to leap over.
On the left side of the battlefield, Shiji Hutuhu led five thousand troops and has accelerated. From the position of Genghis Khan, the broad fronts of the cavalry are almost in a straight line. This way they can cover the ground at the same time.
The navy formed a long and narrow queue, and then cut dozens or hundreds of gaps.
What will happen next will be a large-scale chaotic battle. In the narrow area north of Triangle Lake and west of Marco Polo River, tens of thousands of people may be divided into dozens or hundreds of scattered battlefields to fight each other.
The spectacle was a mixture of spectacular and tragic scenes, accompanied by a rain of blood.
Genghis Khan didn't want to miss this sight.
Especially now. Ding Haijun is more brave than Genghis Khan imagined, and Guo Ning is indeed, as the intelligence said, a rare and fierce general in the Kingdom of Jin. He likes to charge into battle personally. Therefore, they still try to fight back in desperate situations.
As for the target of the counterattack, it was naturally the pure white banner behind Genghis Khan.
This kid Guo Ning is really just like the legend. He likes to go straight to the enemy's general. This little pony suffered two losses because of this, once in Hebei and once in Shandong. That time in Shandong, Tuo Lei was also defeated
He was captured, which caused a lot of trouble later. Until now, he still can't hold his head high in front of his brothers.
But Genghis Khan was not worried about his own safety at all.
Tuo Lei was a little immature. He lost the initiative in the battle and was led away by Ding Haijun. Genghis Khan was just the opposite.
From Liangxiang to here, everything in Dinghai Navy was under the control of Genghis Khan. They were tired, they were loose, they were unprepared, and they could not fight against the Mongols!
What's more, the number of Mongolian troops attacking from the front of Triangle Lake was more than 5,000, and the person in charge of commanding the front team was a veteran like Zhabalhuo Zhe. Genghis Khan was convinced that they could be like an iron shield. In comparison, Ding Haijun, who was desperate to attack,
It's just a reed.
If our own side could not stop the small number of troops of the Ding Navy who were on the march, Genghis Khan would not have to think about who to conquer. It would be proper for him to immediately take his men back to the grassland to herd sheep.
The only question that needs to be asked is how Guo Ning will die. Will he charge and die? Or lead his men to be trapped in a certain place and be besieged by Mongolian warriors and die?
In order to prevent this man from jumping into the Marco Polo River and swimming away, Genghis Khan even arranged for his subordinates to bring a group of Mongolians who knew how to swim and build a raft in advance.
Genghis Khan happily thought that it would be better for him to charge bravely and die under the nine-pin white banner.
Such warriors are suitable for heroic death in battle, and only the most heroic death method is worthy of their past achievements and can comfort so many Mongolian soldiers killed by the Ding navy.
Of course, watching such warriors being slaughtered is an enjoyment that cannot be given up.
Such a hobby is a bit scary in the eyes of others.
Therefore, many people on the grassland secretly said that Genghis Khan did not regard others as the same kind, or that Genghis Khan himself was not a human being, but a demigod. He was a direct descendant of his ancestor Alan and the Golden God, and was the blood of Tengri.
, so it is natural that they will get pleasure from destruction and killing, just like ordinary Mongolians also feel pleasure when they kill cattle and sheep for meat.
Many of those rumors were released by shamans. Genghis Khan himself did not believe it. When he was young, he picked up fruits and dug grass roots in the Onan River, and was chained by people from the Taichiwu tribe.
, he still remembers it. There is no reason why the descendants of gods would suffer such hardships.
But Genghis Khan did get happiness from destruction and killing, and even enjoyed it endlessly. That's why he maintained a posture of continuous offensive after unifying the grasslands. That's why he unswervingly walked on the road of conquering everything, chasing the front.
A goal as great as anyone has ever imagined.
"Let Zabal Huo Zha slow down a little, and let the cavalry on the flanks cut the Ding Haijun's queue horizontally first!" He suddenly said.
A timid Xue immediately flew forward to deliver the order.
This is the case for large-scale battles involving tens of thousands of people. Even if the enemy's escape route has been cut off, the fight between trapped beasts is the most intense. The commander needs to clearly grasp the subtle changes on the battlefield to ensure that his own troop deployment can hit the enemy's most deadly gaps and weaknesses.
Now, the long and narrow marching column of the Ding Navy is the biggest weakness. If the Zhabal Firemen move too fast, it will not hinder the progress of the Ding Navy, but will push the Ding Navy in the opposite direction. If the enemy is pressed to the Mijie
The regiment is not suitable for the cutting and chaotic fighting of the flanking cavalry.
Genghis Khan noticed this keenly and immediately issued an order.
But after the messenger Qie Xue repeated Genghis Khan's words, Zhabalhuo shook his head repeatedly: "Go and tell the Khan, it's not that we moved quickly, we didn't move, it's that the Ding navy came very quickly! Look at them
This look is not a charge, it's a courtship of death!"
The timid Xue Lema looked ahead and couldn't help laughing: "You are really looking for death, how can you do this?"
It turned out that Ding Haijun's front team had already rushed in front of them.
There were not many in number, about three to four hundred people, and the formations were scattered and chaotic, but they were all elite soldiers wearing armor.
Apparently Guo Ning was very wary of the Mongolian cavalry attack, so he put his elite troops at the front of the army, probably with the idea of rushing to Yijin Pass if the situation was not right. But they never expected that Genghis Khan would lead the main force of the Mongolian army
Just cut across the front.
So the small group of soldiers rushing forward in a chaotic manner was no different from seeking death.
Without Zha Balu's command, the timid soldiers of Xue's army began to fire arrows. The rain of arrows was dense and sharp, but it did not do much damage to these soldiers.
These soldiers were all wearing heavy armor, maybe two layers. The arrows did not penetrate deeply or fall off the armor, so that each of them looked like a giant hedgehog. They also had some weapons in their hands.
Holding large shields to block arrows, every five people gathered together like an iron knot and moved forward quickly.
The iron knot is getting closer and closer.
The Mongolian light cavalry who fired arrows tried to fire arrows at the faces of the soldiers or the gaps in their armors, killing and wounding several people at a distance of twenty or thirty steps. But even so, the soldiers continued to move forward.
It's been a long time since I've encountered such a bold and stupid enemy. Some of the Mongolian cavalry laughed, some cursed, and everyone controlled their horses skillfully, began to put away their bows and arrows, and took out long knives, spears and other weapons.
The formations of the Mongolian cavalry have always been arranged in an unusually wide formation, which is what is called "arrangement like a sea." But since the arrows are not powerful enough, in order to deal with these iron hedgehogs, they have to gather together to slash and poke. They will follow their own rules.
Long, the centurion's shouts focused forward.
After so many years of fighting, the soldiers of the Qie Xue Army were very experienced in dealing with enemies with strong armor. So they quickly gathered two to three thousand cavalry to surround them, preparing to attack from all directions at the same time to defeat these enemies in the shortest possible time.
Kill all the soldiers, lest they rely on small formations to support each other and cause unnecessary casualties to our own side.
At a distance of twenty or thirty steps, the Mongolian cavalry roared in like a tornado.
At the same time, a large shield that was originally held flat at the top of the iron hedgehog suddenly opened.
Inside the iron hedgehog, there were people under the cover of the shield-bearing armored men. They were burly men one after another wearing only breastplates and two bare arms. They were holding up dark objects the size of wine jars with both hands. He yelled loudly, then exerted force on his waist and threw it out.
The moment it was thrown, the big men immediately leaned over, and the soldiers suddenly fell to the ground, and once again used the shields in their hands to protect their companions.
Hundreds of objects flew in the air, emitting sparks.
The smarter Mongolian knights remembered the battle three days ago and immediately reacted.
They all yelled and cursed.
Who would have thought that such a thing would happen? Ding Haijun is really looking for death. Isn't this thing used to defend the city? Last time, it was separated by the cart, but this time it exploded directly next to him? These guys are all madmen , Crazy! Don’t they want their own lives?
The frantic thoughts passed away in an instant.
With a pop-pop, the iron artillery fell to the ground one after another, making loud explosions. The Mongols' curses were covered up, their thoughts were interrupted, and their torsos flew up.
This terrible weapon once again came into play, and at this moment, the Mongols gathered in greater numbers than before, so they were killed more severely.
The ferocious wave of cavalry disappeared in an instant, replaced by clouds of blood mist. The cavalry near the explosion point of the iron artillery, both men and horses, turned into a mass of rotten meat without saying a word, while the dense cavalry behind them were destroyed. The explosive fragments of the iron cannon swept across. Almost every piece of iron fragments penetrated the bodies of at least two or three people. Further back, many knights were knocked to the ground by the impact, and many war horses neighed wildly.
Further away, there was a buzzing in the heads of many people, wildly beating their horses, and then bumping into each other. As a result, the crunching sound of broken bones could still be heard from a long distance away.
On the slope behind the Ding Navy queue, Zhang Lin asked in a voice: "Didn't it mean that small iron artillery that is light enough for soldiers to carry around and throw explosions has never been successfully developed?"
Zhang Shengzhi gritted his teeth and said solemnly: "Yes. Therefore, we can only use these big ones for the time being, and the strong men responsible for throwing need to undergo special training. Even so, they can only throw two or three feet away at most. Even if there are Protected by armor and shields...the soldiers risked their lives!"
"How many people will die? This, this is too..."
Zhang Lin's lips trembled. Halfway through his words, Chu Cai turned to Chu Cai with a tigerish face and said sternly: "This is a battlefield! From Guo Xuanshi down, everyone will risk their lives!"
He took off his civilian robe and pulled out the dagger from his waist: "What are you still doing? Come with me! The envoy has issued an order, and everyone should follow the military flag and move forward!"
Zhang Lin is right. The Ding navy officers who threw the iron artillery were indeed risking their lives.
When the Mongols around them howled miserably, the soldiers were not relaxed.
Even with the cover of thick armor and iron shields, the power caused by gunpowder is difficult to withstand after all. Everywhere in the small formations, there was constant groaning, some people remained in a crouching posture, and blood was leaking from their eyes, nostrils and mouth corners; some people's armors
It was torn apart by the fragments, and huge wounds instantly appeared on the body.
But some people pushed away their shields and stood up unsteadily.
He looked around and saw that there were probably no more than half of the navy soldiers who could persist in action like him.
The soldier suddenly turned around and vigorously shook his companions who were lying on the ground. He shook one person and then another. When he reached the third person, the person said in a weak voice: "Stop shaking, you are dizzy!"
The weak voice was clearly that of Zhao Jue, but the soldier continued to shake violently, and finally forced Zhao Jue to struggle to get up, then dropped his head and vomited repeatedly.
The soldier looked at Zhao Jue's face, stood up and looked around again, unable to help but laugh wildly.
Because the Mongols died more, these beasts with no long memory suffered a big loss again!
Amid his hoarse laughter, the red flag of the Ding Navy waved forward. The cavalry of the Ding Navy crossed from behind and slashed wildly at the Mongolians who were in chaos. Guo Ning rushed his horse, and with a slight turn, the iron bones were smashed.
The head of a Mongolian coward.
Guo Ning shouted loudly: "Can you still move?"
After asking twice in a row, the navy soldier hurriedly threw down his helmet, took out the silk stuffed in his ears and eyes, and finally heard Guo Ning's question clearly.
"It can move!" He answered in a scary voice.
"Then keep moving forward!"
"Yes!" the soldier shouted looking up to the sky.
But the navy officers rushed forward one after another. Like wolves and tigers, they shouted in unison: "Forward! Forward!"
