The Ming cavalry and the Song cavalry quickly fought. The two sides fought fiercely and fought fiercely, killing blood and blood splattering everywhere, and the battle was very fierce.

On the other hand, after the second round of artillery was over, the Song army could no longer move forward. No matter how hard the officers worked, no matter how carefully the army was trained by Li Xianzhong, they could not hold on in the face of the unknown fear.

Some people began to flee backwards, some people began to passively avoid the war, and the best military formation could not continue to advance, and all four military formations were gradually unable to maintain.

Ma Hongxing noticed this trend and immediately ordered the Ming army's phalanx to attack, the artillery retreated, and the Ming army's infantry moved forward step by step, launching an attack on the Song army formation in the chaos.

Although the Song army formation was in chaos, some troops were able to attack the Ming army with bows and crossbows, but this level of bows and crossbows could not stop the Ming army formation from attacking.

After entering the range of the musket, the massacre began.

"Let the gun be released!"

As the commander's order was issued, the musketeers pulled the trigger.

After a series of explosions, balls of white smoke rose up, accompanied by white smoke rose, and there were also a series of blood splashes and screams from the Song army formation opposite.

The front row of the sword and shield hands of the Song army did not realize what weapons the Ming army was using, and thought they also used the same conventional weapons. As a result, they realized that they had made a big mistake after the Ming army musket was fired...

It is also a firearm. The Ming army also equipped the army with individual firearms, which are as powerful as it is!

The front row of the sword and shield hands of the Song army were either hit by the body, died or seriously injured on the spot, or hit the shield in the hand. The huge impact force made the shield lose its hand. The luckier only had the fracture. The shield that was almost broken was broken, and the whole person was half dead.

After a gunshot, white smoke rose in front of the Ming army, and the front row of swords, shields and hands fell down in one row, and the spearmen behind them were also affected. Some spearmen were also affected by the shooting, either seriously injured or died on the spot, and blood splashed everywhere.

However, the Ming army musketeers did not have only one column in the firearm array, but three columns.

After the first round of shooting, the second row of musketeers stepped forward directly.

"Hold up the gun!"

There were another series of explosions, and another row of people fell from the Song army formation. This time it was a spearman.

To be fair, the armor-mounted rate of this Song army is still OK, and the armor-mounted rate of the hand-to-hand soldiers is indeed OK. However, the impact force of the Ming army's new firearm is not something that traditional armor can stop. Even if the armor is very thick, the impact force after being impacted by musket projectiles is likely to damage or shatter the internal organs.

Although there is no blood on the outside for a moment, the possibility of death is a little higher than that of those who see blood.

The Ming army's muskets were fired constantly, and people fell down on the Song army. At first, they could still deceive themselves to persevere, but when they found that they did not dare to face the rising white smoke no matter what, everything was over.

Li Xianzhong's elite 10,000 troops began to collapse completely, and the Ming army entered a full-scale pursuit.

At the same time, the Ming army's cavalry successfully annihilated the Song army's cavalry with their combat effectiveness and numerical advantages. The Song army lost its cavalry and lost its power on the battlefield, and was captured by the five thousand Ming army's cavalry.

The Ming army's iron cavalry roared, circling around the Song army's rear route from two directions, and attacked the Song army's rear and the unreorganized defeated troops from the rear.

So the rear army was not in chaos, and the defeated soldiers who had not completed the rectification were in chaos again. Behind them was the central army, because there was no way out, so they could only escape back instinctively.

It's equivalent to attacking the army.

The Ming cavalry slowly pushed forward and drove the Song army to attack the central army. Li Xianzhong was shocked and tried to stabilize the central army and sent his elite cavalry team to the battlefield to attack the Ming cavalry. However, he was at an absolute disadvantage in terms of number of people, and could not effectively hinder the Ming cavalry, nor could he curb the collapse of the rear army.

In front, he faced the relentless pursuit of the Ming army musketeers. On the wide battlefield, the Ming army musketeers fired one long white smoke after another, and a large number of soldiers from the front army were killed and dispersed.

In the rear, his cavalry was wiped out, and the rear army collapsed, and in turn attacked the central army.

He was shocked to find that just half an hour after the war started, he had fallen into a terrible situation of the collapse of the entire army.

What's even more terrifying is that he couldn't turn the situation around. He played all his cards and even sent the most important personal guards to fight hard, but there was still no way to solve the current problem.

Experienced general Lee Xianzhong now has to admit that he has faced a shameful and dangerous failure.

The root of all this is not just that the Ming army suddenly came from the north. If it were just the Ming army who came from the north, he would be confident that he would lead the main force to defeat the Ming army head-on and fight for a bloody path, just like that before.

He may not be able to defeat the Ming army, but the Ming army could not stop his retreat.

But the current situation is not like this. He cannot defeat the Ming army or retreat successfully.

The root of it lies in the strange, terrible, powerful firearm.

What exactly is that?

Why hasn't there been any news?

Although I have always heard that the Ming army's firearms are so good, no one has told him that the Ming army's firearms are so good, and there has never been any similar news before.

If he had known this news, he would not have come to attack Xiangyang without any precautions. He would definitely have to prepare the Southern Song court to deal with the Ming munitions, rather than being in a hurry and unable to provide any response measures.

Although he was very unwilling to give up, and although the central army was still intact and had the power to fight, Li Xianzhong knew that he had no hope of defeat.

His support failed, and the army of 80,000 people might not be able to save too much. The support plan of the Song army failed and the Xiangfan defender had to rely on itself...

No, how long can the Xiangfan defenders last if they use such a terrifying firearm?

If the Xiangfan defenders cannot persist in the Sichuan and Shu army coming to aid...

No, even if the Sichuan and Shu army came to help, they would not be able to cause any blow to the Ming army, and they might suffer a big loss!

Then the two reinforcements were all defeated, Xiangfan was in danger, the overall situation collapsed completely, Jinghu fell, Jiangnan West Road fell, and the Southern Song Dynasty was cut into two sections.

This almost declared the demise of the Southern Song Dynasty, right?

On the ever-changing battlefield, Li Xianzhong's empty brain did not have a solution to the problem, but thought of the situation that the Southern Song Dynasty would face after the end of this war.

His failure foreshadowed the complete failure of this battle and the demise of the Southern Song Dynasty.

And I am the sinner?

Li Xianzhong sighed long.

Yes, I am the sinner.
Chapter completed!