Although the attack was defeated, Yuxi Timuer knew that the situation was already on the string and had to fire. If he gave up the attack this time and it would be difficult to organize such an attack with his current morale, he would be waiting to die. So he forced himself to launch another attack, but the Song army has now stabilized from the original chaos, adjusted its deployment, and arranged artillery positions.

In order to open the breakthrough, the Yuan army had to use dense formations to attack the Song army's defense line, but their formation was tight. With the roar of artillery, the Mongolian Yuan army fell down with one shot; what made the Song army's soldiers laugh and cry was that the Yuan army's human sea tactics made the power of the muskets with a low hit rate to the extreme. Hundreds of muskets fired at one volley, and the Mongolian Yuan fell down in a row, which could be called a perfect shot.

The Yuan army also knew that artillery poses the greatest threat to them. Wanyan Qi led a hundred elite troops to destroy the artillery position of the Song army. He believed that as long as he could penetrate near, those unarmed artillery soldiers would definitely not be the opponent of the strong bow and long sword in his hand. As long as they were killed, the subsequent troops could break through the position of the Song army while the artillery stopped firing.

After another attack was repelled, Wanyan Qi took advantage of the smoke from the battlefield to disperse, and his vision was blocked and did not retreat, leading his troops to lurk in a depression. When the Song army took advantage of the battle to repair the fortifications and divert casualties, he suddenly rushed out and rushed into the Song army's position from a destroyed refusal. Their goal was to focus on artillery positions, so they were not willing to fight. Whenever the Song army intercepted, they sent several people to entangle with the enemy, and a large group of people tried to avoid the Song army's heavy artillery positions that rushed straight to the defense line.

Compared with the so-called heavy artillery with a range of only a few hundred steps that Zhao Bing invented, compared with the range of modern heavy artillery that is often more than ten kilometers, it is tantamount to the gap between assault rifles and toy water guns. But it is still a killer weapon on the battlefield now, and the treasures in the eyes of the generals and generals of various units. Artillery is also considered a technical force at the moment. It is not easy to cultivate a qualified artillery, so the heavy artillery positions are generally placed in a safer position in a defense line depth.

This configuration is tactical, which ensures the safety of the artillery positions and is conducive to the advantage of heavy artillery's long range and great power. However, because of this, the artillery soldiers have developed the habit of poor protection awareness. They are in the formation, with heavy troops in the rear and surrounding areas, and the enemy has no weapons to threaten them. Even if the enemy breaks through the defense line, they will be warned in advance and have time to evacuate the battlefield.

At the same time, due to the current limitations of artillery making technology and materials, the quality of the artillery is not stable. Even after being tested before leaving the factory, a chamber explosion may still occur, especially when the battle is fierce and frequent. There will be a large number of artillery shells piled up around the artillery. Once an accident occurs, it will not only destroy the artillery, but also affect the surrounding people. Therefore, no unit is willing to be neighbors, which makes the vigilance around the artillery position relatively relaxed.

It has never happened on weekdays, and it has become a habit over time. Today, the battle is fierce. After the artillery on the position is launched, some people washed the barrel of the gunpowder, cleared the residue of gunpowder, extinguished the sparks, and cooled the artillery. Some people carried shells, cleared the ground, and prepared for the next battle. Although they were not front-line combat troops and needed to charge, each artillery squad was equipped with three muskets as self-defense weapons. But everyone thought it was inconvenient to do things with muskets on their backs, so they put the gun aside.

There was a sudden riot in front of him, and the artillerymen did not agree with it, because there were often incidents where the remaining enemies failed to retreat or entered the enemy's position in a dizzy way. They thought that it must be the infantry that were chasing these enemies, so they were still busy with their own affairs and did not pay attention to it. But suddenly a few arrows flew over and shot several artillery soldiers on the side of the artillery position, and the wounded let out a shrill howl of pain.

At this time, the artillery soldiers discovered that there was an enemy attacking them, but they found that they had no weapons on their bodies and had at most a long-handled brush brush with the cannon chamber in their hands. Then they remembered to get the musket on the side. But when they ran to pick up the gun, the enemy had already rushed forward and had only time to fire a shot. There was no time to reload again. They were either injured by a bow or a knife.

Wanyan Qi rushed through the front line of the Song army, broke into the artillery position, killed the artillery soldiers with bare hands, and found that there were only more than twenty people left by his side. He knew that with their few people, he could not stop the Song army's counterattack, so he could only send a signal to let his side take the opportunity to launch an attack again, while trying to delay time.

Wanyan Qi knew that using the seized artillery to deal with the Song army was the best way, but everyone had no idea how to start with this killing weapon. They didn't know how to operate it, and it was even the first time they saw the true face of the artillery. Since they could not be used, of course they could only destroy it, making it impossible to fire and reduce the threat to their own side. However, after several slashes, only a few shallow scratches appeared on the big iron lump, and his sword collapsed.

Wanyan Qi summoned people from around him to try to overturn the cannon, but the heavy cannon body and the sand belt ballasted to reduce the impact of recoil shooting in the cannon fire caused them to fail to do it after several efforts. Just as they were helpless, a team of Song cavalry rushed towards them quickly, and he realized that the reinforcements of the Song army had arrived.

The surrounding area of ​​the cannon position was flat and empty, and there was nowhere to escape. They had entered the hinterland of the Song army's position. The pursuing Song army gathered over and had nowhere to escape. Wanyan Qi knew that the death date had come, so he shouted and greeted him with a knife. But before he could raise the knife, he saw a cavalry galloping towards him. A black-faced Song army officer with a ferocious face sat upward. His horse was still speeding, and the saber in his hand was squirting upwards. He felt a chill on his neck. The head rolling in the air clearly saw a stream of blood mist spraying from his neck.

Wanyan Qi's head was thrown to the front of the formation, but this still failed to shake Yuxi Timur's determination. He frantically ordered various troops to attack the positions of the Song army in turn. The battle lasted for a day and a night. The Mongolian and Yuan army launched more than ten charges, but they were all repelled. The bodies piled up into mountains on the river beach, and even the messy pile of corpses blocked the charge of the subsequent army, forcing them to distribute their hands to move the bodies away. However, as soon as they appeared, the Song army's platoon would shoot over, and the pile of corpses would be taller.

The next day, the troops were exhausted and unable to fight again. The two wings were also attacked by the Song army, so Yuxi Timur had to order the withdrawal from the battle. The Song army seemed to be unable to fight again and did not take the opportunity to chase him. They only restored their lost positions under the cover of artillery fire, and they returned to their original origin.

Yuxi Timuer inspected various departments. After a fierce battle of one day, his side lost more than 30,000 people and countless injured people. Among them, there were seven thousand commanders who died, including the centurion and ten commanders. Some of the 100 teams participating in the attack were less than one ten. At this time, the Nanxian Army had lost more than half, and he realized that not to mention launching another attack, he was afraid that it would be difficult to protect himself.

In the next few days, the Song army did not launch a decisive battle, but continuously compressed the encirclement through erosion tactics. Yuxi Timuer felt that the loss of troops was serious and it was difficult to maintain a long front. He had to shrink his defense and gather the remaining troops into a narrow area less than ten miles. He also realized that the Song army's move was also to avoid unnecessary casualties, and adopted the tactic of encirclement but not attacking, so as to exhaust their food and make them collapse without fighting.

The situation was over, and Yuxi Timuer was in a very bad mood. He drank all day long in the tent every day and ignored everything. However, there were still 30,000 remaining troops sleeping in the wilderness. Although it is already early spring, it is still cold. However, they were surrounded in a small area, and their supplies were exhausted and there was nowhere to replenish them. The surrounding trees had burned into ashes. In order to keep the cold, the soldiers began to demolish the tents, carts and other items to keep warm, and these things were quickly exhausted. Without food, they could kill horses to satisfy hunger, but they had no fuel and could only eat horse meat raw. In the extreme cold, people died every day.

Seeing that the sky had no way to enter the ground, the trapped Yuan army was completely out of morale and began to flee. The generals did not dare to use harsh military laws at this time, and they were also worried that they would be counter-killed. The commander was no longer in charge, but Hatusun and Sesanna were unwilling to be trapped here, so they secretly planned to break through and return to Jiangbei. They knew that Yangzhou without reinforcements must have fallen long ago, and Huaidong was probably already changed hands, and the Yangtze River Ferry was seized by the Song Navy. With their current situation, they turned back the same way and could not break through the Song army's encirclement at all. It was tantamount to seeking death.

So the two of them discussed for a long time and decided to continue to break out to the east. They knew that the court had set up thousands of households for transporting grain by sea in Jiangnan and set off from Liujiagang to sea to Zhigukou. Although they have been seized by the Song army, the port is still in use, so they wanted to break through and go to Liujiagang to obtain supplies, grab ships to go to sea, and return to the Central Plains by sea, thereby avoiding the many obstacles on the way.

The two chose to break through on the night of the Yuan Dynasty, which was an important festival in the Southern Dynasties and they must be neglected to protect themselves. They were taking the opportunity to break through. They also knew that losing the head coach would inevitably be severely punished. As long as Yuxi Timur is still alive, he can at least reduce the responsibility for defeat, so he thought of breaking through with him.

But man's plan is not as good as heaven's plan. The two of them contacted their own ten thousand households to act in a unified manner, but after their intention to break through was soon discovered, the Song army began to mobilize troops to stop them. The troops fled in chaos. They lost their way under the pursuit of the Song army and actually returned to their way. Seeing that it was dawn, they could only settle in Jiading City for the time being...
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