The heavy infantrymen of the Song Army held their spears in their hands and looked at the charging heavy cavalry with confusion. Everyone had doubts on their faces.
Not only the infantry in front were confused, but even Jiang Wanzai, who knew the soldiers under the banner, was full of question marks.
This was the first time that the soldiers of the Song Army encountered heavy cavalry who did not carry horses and charged with muskets.
The musket was used to burn siege equipment, and it was not safe to use. The cavalry charged with it and charged directly into the gun array. Wasn't it looking for death?
When the soldiers of the Song Army were confused, the Qi Army's musketeers braved the rain of arrows and rushed within 20 steps of the spear formation.
At such a close distance, the Song Army infantry in the front row could clearly see the sharp eyes under the Qi Army cavalry masks and feel the heavy breathing of the war horses.
The heavy infantry of the Song Army didn't understand why the Qi Army's cavalry charged with muskets. They looked at the cavalry getting closer and closer, quickly stepped on the tail of the spear, held the spear with both hands, and pointed the gun head at the approaching cavalry.
Just when the Song Army's heavy spearmen thought that the spears in their hands would pierce through the cavalry and the knights above, the muskets in the Qi Army's iron cavalry suddenly made a loud "Peng" sound.
The heavy infantrymen in the front row saw the muskets in the Qi army's iron cavalry shuddering violently backwards. A foot-long orange flame erupted from the muzzle, and clouds of white smoke rose up. A black projectile was hard to see with the naked eye. At the speed of capture, it flew directly towards him.
With a "pop" sound, the projectile hit Song Jun Zhongbu's body with the help of the huge thrust generated by the gunpowder explosion. The soldier was pushed backward by the power of the projectile. The projectile violently tore open the armor in front of him and crashed into his body. .
"Ah!" With a heart-rending scream, the first row of Song soldiers stepped forward, looked down and saw the huge wound on their chest, and fell to the ground with a scream of disbelief.
The moment he fell to the ground, the Qi army's cavalry had already rushed to him, but the spear in Chongbu's hand had already fallen to the ground.
Under the flag, Shi Zhaizhi was dumbstruck with shock, and Jiang Wanzai's eyes bulged as he watched in shock as the heavy infantry in the front row of the Song army fell to the ground like mowing grass.
"What's going on?" There was a commotion among the generals of the Song Army under the banner.
"Peng!" There was another loud noise.
Before the soldiers of the Song Army could recover from the shock, the muskets in the Qi Army's iron cavalry actually made another loud noise.
This time the shooting distance was closer, and the Song Army's second platoon was also beaten backwards at the moment when the first platoon fell to the ground.
"What's going on? What is that?" The generals of the Song Army were going crazy, and the entire Song Army formation was in panic and the formation was shaking.
At this time, the Qi cavalry jumped over the corpses of the first row of Song soldiers and watched the second row of heavy soldiers fall. When the spears of the third row of heavy soldiers were about to hit the horses, the last projectile in the three-eyed musket shot out. It shot out with a "Peng" sound.
At the moment when the Qi army's horses were about to hit the spears, the projectiles directly hit the Song army's heavy infantry at close range and flew backwards, knocking down the soldiers behind them.
In the firearms workshop, Zhao Tai urged the craftsmen to make artillery, and then test-fired the firecrackers. He found that although the firecrackers were powerful, their firing rate was too slow and far less useful than the God's Arm Bow, so he ordered the firearms workshop to use the single-barreled gun. The fire gun was changed to a three-eyed fire gun, and the three-eyed gun, the iconic weapon of Guan Ning's cavalry, was obtained in advance.
The three-eyed fire gun does not have a high technical content. The key is to provide ideas and it is easy for craftsmen to make it.
Before the war began, Zhao Tai secretly trained gunboats, as well as 500 firecrackers and 1,500 firecrackers.
The Qi army had one thousand heavy cavalry, five hundred armed with horse spears, and five hundred armed with three-eyed blazing guns.
If the enemy's formation is loose, the powerful horse cavalry will rush in front. If the enemy's formation is tight, use the three-eye heavy weapon to blast away the enemy's formation at close range.
The three-eye fire gun manufactured by Zhao Tailing Firearms Factory does not throw out three projectiles at the same time, but uses a lead to control the firing time of each eye, so that the fire gun can fire three times in a short period of time, with extremely strong explosive power.
"Ah!" At the moment of the gunfire, the Song army stepped forward and directly exploded. The soldiers dropped their weapons and fled backwards in shock.
"Kill!" Wanyan Chenghu roared loudly. After firing three shots, the Qi army's cavalry directly swung the three-eyed gun and smashed the fleeing Song army.
After firing these three-eyed muskets, they were directly used as blunt weapons by the Qi army's cavalry. Against the heavy infantry, one stick after another was more effective than a sword or a gun.
Under the banner of the great banner, Jiang Wanzai saw that Zhongbu was defeated. They turned around and ran into the hands of the crossbows, causing the divine arm archers to flee, and he knew it was over.
At this time, the Qi army's cavalry rushed into the chaotic Song army's formation, smashing their three-eyed cannons and thrusting their spears. The Song army could only be massacred by the cavalry.
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Seeing the scene in front of them, the surrounding soldiers all ran away again. Shi Zhaizhi, who had been persuaded by Jiang Wanzai to run away, was so frightened that his mind went blank and his eyes were motionless.
Jiang Wanzai watched the Song army collapse, and the Qi army's cavalry knocked the Song army in front of him all the way, heading straight for Dajun, and immediately roared, "Come here, take the Prime Minister away!"
Many Song generals had been frightened for a long time. When they came to their senses, they swarmed up without any hesitation, took Shi Zhaizhi's reins, and fled westward.
"Charge!" Zhao Tai galloped on his horse and led his light cavalry into the Song Army's main camp. The cavalry rushed everywhere and rushed to the banner of the Song Army's banner. When the Song Army's general was not seen, they continued to charge.
The Qi cavalry seemed to be in a deserted situation in the Song camp. The Song soldiers were knocked away and trampled, and they were unable to organize a counterattack.
"Protect your husband!" The generals of the Song army surrounded Shi Zhaizhi and fled from the main camp to the right camp in the southern suburbs. Before they could take a breath, the right camp was broken through by the Qi army's cavalry.
"Everyone dismount! Everyone dismount!" Jiang Wanzai shouted loudly in the chaos.
Many Song generals reacted, quickly abandoned their horses, mixed in the crowd with Shi Zhaizhi, and retreated to the western suburbs.
On the battlefield, as the main camp of the Song Army was breached, the Song Army lost its command.
Those Song troops who were forced to camp could not recover and could only flee in the wilderness.
Those Song army camps that were not attacked did not receive orders and did not dare to take the initiative. They could only hold on to the camps.
Jiang Wanzai took Shi Zhaizhi and did not flee southward, but fled into the Song camp in the western suburbs.
When the Song camps in the eastern and southern suburbs suffered devastating blows, the Song army in the western suburbs camp hurriedly reinforced their camps. Staying here was much safer than fleeing south and being killed by the Qi army's cavalry.
At this time, as soon as the group entered the camp, Jiang Wanzai shouted: "Quick, set up a trap to resist the horses, dig horse pits, scatter iron pears, push the vehicles to the outside, and use all the tricks to prevent the cavalry."
The Qi cavalry lost their target and drove away the defeated army, breaking two more battalions. However, they broke through more than ten Song army camps through contact, and the heavy cavalry gradually lost strength.
Zhao Tai saw that the Song army's camp in the western suburbs was already well-defended, so he abandoned the western suburbs without attacking. He led his cavalry to chase the defeated troops south to cover up the enemy. He also broke through several temporary camps of the Song army and chased them for fifty miles before returning victoriously.
