The tactics of the musket soldiers in the era of rifles actually have two routes, one is the pursuit of fire density gun tactics, commonly known as queuing guns.One is the pursuit of precision sniper tactics, also known as the fox tactics, light infantry tactics or hunter-hunting tactics.

These two routes are not opposites, but work together.In military history, there are few strong soldiers who can rely on a single army to fight.

The Mongols could not ride, the English lobsters could not, and Napoleon's cannons could not.

If there are only soldiers who shoot guns, and there are no scattered soldiers who can be used to cover the formation of the soldiers, then the soldiers are easily killed by the other party's scattered soldiers with excellent gun laws.

If there is no artillery or cavalry, then there is no need to fight.Only the infantry who is shot in line can't be bombed into scum?

As for the use of the superb riding technology of the Mongolian cavalry to deal with a modern army of various armies, it is also a dead end to how good your skills are.

The bow and arrow may be able to use ordinary smoothbore guns, and there is no long-term shooting training of the soldiers to shoot for a while.

But when you encounter a good quality smoothbore gun or even a line-bodied gun, shooting first-class fighters, it is tragic.Isn't that a live target?

By the way, the accuracy of the smoothbore gun is not as bad as the people of later generations think.According to a large number of records in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries in the West.If you use a high-quality smoothbore gun, plus a small gap between the barrel of the projectile, and then use a fixed rack, plus excellent shooter, in a distance of 170 meters to hit a single human body is not a problem.

Of course, muskets and muskets that meet the requirements are rare and expensive!

Therefore, today's Western Song and Greater Mongolia are also multi-army coordinated play.

In the early morning of July 17, 1217, when the morning sun shone, when the smoke pervading the battlefield was dispersed by the strong wind blowing in the northwest, when the two sides of the battle on the battlefield began to retreat in the golden drum.A battle of the alternating era of hot and cold weapons with multiple arms will soon begin.

The drag thunder could have taken advantage of the other side's opportunity to withdraw from the battlefield a little later, but he was fascinated.I felt that now it was dawn, the smoke was gone, and the Song army also left the favorable terrain and ran to the grass outside the "bungalow area".

And the number of Song soldiers who left the preset positions to come out of the field did not look much, and the formation was a little scattered... Of course, they were elite, otherwise they would not have beaten the warriors of the Great Mongolia so badly.

However, such a formation, but also swaggered out from the "bungalow area", obviously light enemy.

The proud will be defeated!

Drag Lei is also a long-term battle, see the Song army loose collapse, you know there are fights!

So he decided to fight another battle... even if he was not defeated and lost, he could make the main force of Tiegi really retreat safely.

The 200,000 troops brought by Tie Muzhen this time are not all highly mobile Mongolian soldiers, but half Mongolian soldiers and half Persian soldiers.

Now the Mongols were able to run on horse-drawn hooves, but what about the Persians?Can't leave them!Tiemuzhen is now the king of Persia, and the 100,000 Persian soldiers who followed him to Yileburg are basically loyal Guangmingists, the foundation of Tiemu Zhen's rule in Persia.

If the Song army that was pursued during the retreat was killed and killed in large quantities, it was very unfavorable.

In addition, the army of Tiemu really carried a large number of cattle and sheep, and they could not travel more than a hundred miles a day like the cavalry.If the main force of Tiemu really is too hasty in the retreat and discards the cattle and sheep, the troops are likely to cut off food after retreating to the He Valley of Broken Leaf.

Under the balance of repeated measures, it is obviously the choice to seize the opponent's flaws and play a beautiful defender.

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July 17, 1217, three minutes.

On the steppe west of Yilibao, about 10,000 Western Songs and less than 20,000 Mongolian troops have been laid out.

As a battlefield, this grassland has not been set on fire, because last night, Tiemu really was in this area.The Mongols could not burn their sweat on the grasslands.So this area has not been overheated, and there are more than half a person withered grass everywhere.Such a landscape is very beneficial for the Song Army, which has a large number of "gun doctor".

Therefore, the main of the Song Army, Yang Tiexin, placed his 16 teams of sharpshooters in front of their own main front in the formation of the slack team - the scattered formations seen by the drag mines, it was these gunmen who put it out.

In fact, they are just scattered, not at all!

Behind the scattered gun doctor, Yang Tiexin put forward the traditional big square.That is, with the long gun phalanx as the core, the musket phalanx as the wing, the front of the long gun phalanx deployed the gun, the cavalry is distributed on both sides of the large phalanx.

This kind of play, similar to the historical Spanish phalanx, has been popular for decades in this time and space, but it has not yet reached the point of being eliminated.

This is because the flint hair smoothbore gun has not yet appeared, and the fire rope gun in the actual combat is too slow, so the space to use a long gun is still quite large.

In addition, the sleeve bayonet has just appeared in the East.The muskets on the Western battlefield are still not equipped with bayonets, or the combination of muskets with nail hammers and machetes.

Therefore, the musketeers' hand-to-hand ability and the ability to defend against cavalry are insufficient.

On the other side of the battlefield, the drag also completed the laying.

He had about 10,000 Mongol soldiers, his own men's team.

In the hands of the tow mines also have 10,000 Persian Immortals, which used the elite name of the earlier Persian imperial ace.The members are composed of the sons of the Persian nobles who believe in the gods of light, and the main weapons are also fire rope guns and long guns.Commanded by the real young brother of Tiemu, Beile Gutai, now also puts on a classic big phalanx.There is no gun doctor who can act as a sniper.

The Mongols led by the drag mines were scattered on the flank and rear of the Persian Immortal Army.

In addition, dozens of cannons that covered the attack on the "bungalow area" last night have not yet been nailed to the fire gate, and they also participated in the 17th morning's engagement.

The battle begins with gunfire!

As soon as the hour arrived, the Mongol artillery began to roar first.Soon after, the Cannons of the Song army also began to return fire.

The shells on both sides, when you came and went on the battlefield, fell on the other side of the long gun or artillery positions around.Instigated a burst of dust, and from time to time, shells fell into the crowd, and the soldiers on both sides fell into a pile, and the rolling shells crossed from the human body, suddenly breaking bones, and even some people's heads and limbs were bursting, and the sound of screams and bloody smells filled the front of the battlefield.

However, the shelling is ineffective for gunmen like Wei Wen On.They are scattered soldiers, do not have to line up against the enemy, naturally do not need to stand upright and be shelled.So when the cannons were fired, they were all replaced with half-crested postures, short and half-crown, hiding in the grass, not afraid of artillery shells.

And standing shelling is really a scalping thing, but also very helpless.

This is because the battle sequence of the two sides is not only artillery, long gunmen, musketeers, but also many cavalry that can launch a fierce impact.

And in the battlefield command of the long gunmen, muskets composed of a large phalanx is not easy, the order to achieve the implementation of a process, it takes a lot of time.

In the process, most of the cavalry of the other side has rushed to the front!

So in most cases, infantry commanders are reluctant to let their men squat or hunker down.

Of course, the lethality of artillery in this year is also limited, and dozens of artillery on the battlefield today can not kill hundreds of people in the first half of the day.For the more than 30,000 people who participated in today's battle, it is not a large number.

If one side can't stand it in the gun battle, the textbook response is to put the infantry into the attack - in the long gun phalanx era, the first to attack the party, often bear the opponent's artillery shot and fire rope gun salvos.It is obviously a bit of a loss.

But if the number of their own is large, and the cavalry has an absolute advantage, the chance of launching an attack is still quite large.

Therefore, after discovering that the accuracy and speed of their artillery were obviously not as good as the other side, the drag lightning immediately ordered the Persian undead army to attack from the front, and at the same time ordered the Mongolian cavalry under his own command to start to the other side's wings and back.

Although the Mongolian cavalry of the thunderstorm could not have carried out the long gun array of the Song army, such a round-the-circulation would force the Song army to disperse its forces in its own wings and rear.There may even be a huge hollow phalanx.In this way, they can use the frontal force is insufficient, perhaps only 2,500 people, in the face of 10,000 Persian undead army attack, the 2500 Song army can not resist anyway.

But the tow mine missed 2,000 sneaky gunmen who knelt in the grass.

In the daytime battle on the 17th, they once again became the decisive factor in the decision.

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When the Mongol attack began, the reaction of the Song army seemed to follow the script of the tug of thunder.The big square really became a huge hollow phalanx.A small number of cavalry, on the other hand, gathered into a large group and rushed to the periphery of the Mongolian cavalry right wing—in order to allow the cavalry to jump on the periphery and to launch an assault on the back of the Mongol artillery positions or the Persians's undead army.

As for the cavalry showdown, it is not in Yang Tiexin's plan.His cavalry was too small, only one battalion.Nor was it a heavy cavalry, but a light cavalry for reconnaissance missions.

And their horses are not as good as their rivals, the Mongols, who are not riding on a small Mongolian horse (now called the horse), but a Ural hippo, a mixed-race breed of Persian horses, Arabian horses, Mongolian horses, and some good breeds in Europe.

The war horses used by the Western Song are based on the Western Polar Horse and Qingtang Horse (Hequ Horse), plus the Huashan Horse made of mixed-race Tianjin horses.Although it is also a good breed of horse, it is still a long way compared with the Ural hippo.

Therefore, the cavalry of the Western Song can only be worn as lightly as possible to ensure the speed.Therefore, only chest armor, helmet, sabre and a short-tube slider are equipped.It was not an opponent of the Mongol cavalry, equipped with full-body armour, bows and arrows and long guns.

Therefore, when the cavalry of the Western Song jumped out of the encirclement of the Mongolian cavalry and rushed to the outer line, the towing mine was not aware of any danger.

There is a Mongolian team next to him, and he can protect his integrity.

So the attention of the drag mine was focused on the frontal attack launched by the Persian Immortal Army.

Now 10,000 people play more than 2000 people, can't lose?

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Oh!

A shot, more than 200 steps from the hollow phalanx of the Song army before the Persian Immortal Army, a bearded warrior in a beautiful cold forged armor suddenly fell forward.

The Persians who walked around him were all in a whimper: What was the matter?Far away, what was it hit?

Oh!

Another shot!

The rifle of the slain soldier Wei Wenon was fired again, and more than a hundred steps away, an officer of the Persian Immortal Army responded.

The undead army meets the murderous sergeant, and it is difficult to think that it is impossible to die!

But there were only two people who died, and it was not a matter of death, or continued to advance.

At the forefront of the undead army were Persian musketsmen, who used heavy muskets from the Great Falls and Avass.It is a copy of the Republican eight-year-old heavy musket, which uses bullets and is theoretically not small.

However, in actual use, in order to speed up the loading speed, the Persians like to use the large clearance of the projectile, so there is a leak, so the effective range of the projectile drops to less than 50 steps.

If you use the small gap projectile, loading is more troublesome, the gun doctor can take it slowly, but the line infantry can not be too slow.

Therefore, the projectiles and muskets used by the line infantry must meet the requirements of easy loading.

The requirement for effective range is not high, usually within 50 steps, so preventing indiscriminate shooting has always been the key to the command of the musketeer.

But just as the Persian musketeers were 100 steps away from the hollow phalanx of the Song army, something unexpected happened to the Persians.

Suddenly the fire shone in the grass ahead, the smoke spit, and then the Persians threw down a large part of it!

The Song gunman was able to accurately hit a target beyond 100 steps!

This is not a two-pointed gun firing, but nearly 2,000 fire rope guns!The first wave of shooting alone killed hundreds of Persians.

Before the Persian army's undead army, suddenly became a group.

The gunmen of the Song Army quickly completed the reload, and then another wave of shooting!

The continuous attack on the Persian Immortal Army was completely in chaos, and the fear of the musketeers, regardless of the distance and did not know the sight, blindly pulled the trigger and fired the projectile in the smooth gun.

Just when the Persians were in chaos, the front of the hollow phalanx of the Song army suddenly began to stride forward, step by step to the Persian Immortal Army.

At the same time, the cannons of the Song army also opened fire, not at the undead on the front, but transferred to the two wings, firing to expel the Mongolian cavalry trying to approach.

The offensive launched by the drag mine was completely defused by the Song Army.The situation on the battlefield suddenly became extremely unfavorable to the Mongols!