Tuo Huan's judgment on the situation was really good. The Song army retreated and made time to relocate the defense line. However, because the defense line moved backward, the defense line became larger and the front line was extended, making the already stretched troops even scarce. The continuous impact of the Mongolian Yuan heavy cavalry on the front and right wings made the troops more dominant than the right flank, and the left wing's troops were inevitably weak.

The left wing of the defenders of the Dongcheng City was connected to the Beicheng defense line, but as the city was broken, the troops were all used to fight and control the city, which caused a gap in the junction of the two armies. As the North City was broken, the Dongcheng Gate was controlled by the royal family's Qixue army, so the fleeing people rushed to the west and south gates. In order to prevent the enemy from breaking through these two places, the Song army, which was deploying defenses outside the two gates, did not dare to rashly reinforce the East Gate. The only mobile force led by Zhao Bing was also fighting with the enemy cavalry and could not escape to support.

"Where is the father?" Whether it was Tuohuan's clever plan or by chance, although the team of thousands of people led by Lao Zhang, who was in the forefront, could not be said to be unable to exaggerate, Zhou Zhang successfully broke out of the encirclement without much effort. Lao Zhang led his troops for several miles in one go before he got rid of the pursuit of the Song army. He grabbed the horse and looked back and saw that there were still four or five hundred cavalry following behind him, but he did not see his father's men and asked frowned.

"Report to the great prince, His Highness of the King of Zhennan may have been surrounded and did not follow!" Following him, Huoerchi (the one who wears bows and arrows) of the royal palace, Heliba, the leader of the royal palace's No. 1 Qie Xue Qian, was responsible for breaking the back when breaking through. Hearing the prince's question, he hurried forward and answered breathlessly.

"How is it possible? The breakthrough has been opened and the father will not be trapped in it. Have you turned to it?" Old Zhang said authentically without trusting it.

"The big prince, the young one has been cutting off the rear. He also saw His Highness following closely behind, but when he broke through the siege, he did not see His Highness's central army." Heliba reported truthfully.

"Send someone to pick him up, we are waiting here!" Lao Zhang knew that all the property brought from the mansion was in the central army, and the load team was slow to move, and might have fallen behind. He thought about it and ordered.

"Big Prince, the Song army suddenly transferred a team of chariots to block the gap. His Highness Zhennan King failed to emerge!" After waiting for a long time, the soldiers who were scattered gathered over and asked about his highness about his situation. Some said that the King of Zhennan had broken through and rushed to the southeast under the blockade of the Song army; some said that when the King of Zhennan was about to break through, he found that the pack team was behind and turned back to respond; some said that the King of Zhennan was injured by artillery fire and fell off his horse, and he didn't know his life or death... Anyway, there was no good news, and at this time, Heliba sent a scout cavalry to return to report one after another.

"Did you see it really?" Old Zhang fell into the valley after hearing this, but he still asked in a deep voice with a hint of hope.

"The big prince, although the young man was unable to cross the Song army's defense line to investigate, he saw that the king's flag of Zhennan was still flashing in it, and the encirclement of the Song army was gradually tightening. I'm afraid..." The detective cavalry reported.

"Follow me!" Although the detective cavalry did not say it clearly, Lao Zhang already knew that something was wrong. He drew his sword and turned his head to rush to the soldiers gathered around him.

"The eldest prince, before leaving, His Highness has given instructions. No matter who breaks out of the siege, he should not take care of others and quickly go to Dadu to call the police. Besides, even if we kill back, it will be difficult for us to break through the siege and save His Highness!" Heliba knew what he was going to do at a glance, and reached out to grab Lao Zhang's horse reincarnation and said.

"My father and brothers are all trapped in it. How can I live alone? Let go!" Lao Zhang said furiously after hearing this, swung his knife to cut off the reins of the horse, and used the knife's back to hit the horse's buttocks. The war horse rushed forward in pain, and first rushed to Yangzhou City. Others could only follow up after seeing this. Of course, some people took advantage of the chaos to leave the team and fled to the distance...

Zhao Bing led the only mobile force to entangle the enemy under the city. They were at a disadvantage in terms of equipment and quantity, and the battle was extremely difficult. But they had no way out. At this time, Tuohuan had no impact on the entire strategy, but it was just a little regretful. But if the enemy troops in the city broke through, it would give the enemy a chance to breathe and affect the next battle against Huaidong.

After another desperate battle, Zhao Bing not only won time for redeployment and adjustment of defense, but also finally repelled the enemy heavy cavalry who broke through the middle. When he led his troops out of the battlefield to reorganize the formation, he was still breathing. A Mongolian Yuan light cavalry actually used the weak links of the joint of his defense line to break out. Fortunately, the personal guard regiment rushed to reinforce with the chariots, and they blocked the gap, blocked the Yuan army that broke through, and then began to arrange the chariot formation.

"Tuhuan should be still surrounded and has not escaped!" Tan Fei and several guards accompanied the little emperor to a high slope to watch the battle. He pointed at the Yuan army road surrounded by the city.

"The trapped beasts are still fighting!" Zhao Bing was about to pass the telescope and look into the encirclement circle, but saw the flag of Zhennan Wangshuo on an open space outside the moat fluttering in the wind, and the remaining enemies who failed to stand out were gathering here. The sound of gunfire and shouts of killing in the city were shocked, and fierce battles were in full swing on the east city, but the city was broken, and the morale of the Yuan army was lost, and they fled to the city one after another. The Song army's military flag had already flashed on the city. He couldn't help but feel wide open, and Tuohuan's retreat to the city was cut off, becoming a trapped beast in a cage.

"Your Majesty, have a drink of water!" The guard took off the kettle and handed it over.

"Yeah!" Zhao Bing pulled the rifle and pistol out of the saddle bag and threw it to the guards beside him to reload the bullets. He knew that although the situation was a little stable, the remaining enemies surrounded by the circle still had at least three thousand of them to fight, not the time to relax. Then he took the kettle, but his hand shook and the water sprinkled out. He couldn't help frowning, realizing that he was a little exhausted.

Zhao Bing consciously practiced good skills by a famous teacher, but when he arrived on the battlefield, he realized that there was still a big gap between practice and actual combat. On weekdays, he often practiced with the guards in the palace, but he also used wooden knives and headless spears, and had to wear armor. Although he fought fiercely, he knew that even if he was hit, he would not be injured or died. And no one dared to really hit him hard, and often he would just stop at one touch, at most he would only hurt, which inevitably made him feel that the battle was just like this.

But when you arrive at the battlefield, you will be real swords and guns, and you either die or I die, and you don’t need to be aware of the limit. Whether you hit the key points or not, you may lose your combat ability, the body you are hit may not be able to use, and even if you treat it, there is a high probability of leaving you with disabilities. The winner is often a moment. You can think about the fencing competition and kendo competition, and the winner is very fast in every game. Especially in the Olympic fencing competition, which represents the highest level in the world, ordinary people can’t even see what’s going on, and they see athletes on the side take off their masks and start cheering for victory.

So in reality, the defense will not be blocked by the opponent like in anime, and both sides will not be able to do anything to the opponent after a long time of fighting. Because it is actually quite difficult to block the opponent's attack in reality, especially continuous and fast attacks. For example, take a knife as an example. How long does it take to swing a knife from the beginning of the knife to the point of hitting the target? Even people who have not practiced it will not exceed one second? Then in less than one second, the defense must first predict the trajectory of the knife, and then face it to block.

It is not difficult to block the first shot, because the first shot is often attacked from a safe distance, and it needs to be brought closer to the attack range first. After all, no one will let the opponent reach the distance before the battle begins. As for the second attack, because both sides are already closer, the attack distance is shorter, and the reaction time is left for you.

Even when both sides are closer, your perspective may have already appeared dead corners. It takes less time to predict the opponent's angle of the knife again. It is easier to block the first stroke, but it is difficult to block the second stroke. It is luck to block the second stroke, and if you want to block the third stroke and the fourth stroke, it will be even higher. As for the starting posture that is most suitable for offense and defense on weekdays, it is purely a search for death. You must know that if you want to block again after blocking, you will have to make more moves, but the opponent will not leave you the opportunity to show off. So the old saying goes, "Let's start first."

A battle also made Zhao Bing understand a truth, why are there many martial monks in the Shaolin of Quanzhou, who have a lot of martial arts skills, and they are usually a problem to fight several times, but they are slaughtered by a thousand cavalrymen. Because the technical characteristics required for single-hand duels and melee are huge. For example, fencing, a movable track in competitive competitions developed from duels is very narrow, and it is almost impossible to move left and right to dodge. In the duel, there are actually not many opportunities to dodge left and right. And not letting multiple enemies dodge left and right is simply a death.

Similarly, the techniques required for military combat and armed fighting are obviously completely different. Readers who have carefully read the martial arts routines will find that one move is often reused, but the moves taken later are different. This is actually a move that can be played out in one move, what moves should be taken in the subsequent face of the opponent's different reactions, what moves should be taken in the opponent's dodge, what moves should be taken in the opponent's blocking, and what moves should be taken in the opponent's attack. This is how many changes are made in the so-called martial arts novels. It is calculated before the action will be taken, because you can't react when you deal with the moves on the spot.

However, no one can predict correctly in the melee of the army because the speed of human reaction is limitless. When you wait for you to see the opponent's attack trajectory clearly before reacting, you will not think of any moves. You are more of a subconscious move, and you will immediately counterattack while defending the opponent's attack, pursuing not to give the opponent the chance to attack again. Therefore, experienced people in battle have higher accuracy in prediction, which can greatly improve the winning rate, but they can never achieve a stable win.

Therefore, Zhao Bing thinks that the often-called "luck is also part of strength" in art works is not a funny line, because it does require a certain amount of luck in battle. There is always a situation where the opponent is counterattacked because of a mistake in prediction, but the probability is only very low! In the battle just now, the cavalry team led by Zhao Bing was far inferior to the Yuan army in terms of military strength, but they were able to successfully stop their attack, but they still had combat power and luck.

First, the Yuan army was unable to surge out due to the obstacles of the city gates, and could only enter the battle one after another. Invisibly, the troops of both sides were evenly matched and were killed by artillery fire. Otherwise, only three thousand heavy cavalry of the Yuan army could be removed. Furthermore, the defense line of the Song army was almost forced to the city, and the distance of less than 200 steps made the Mongolian Yuan heavy cavalry unable to increase the speed of the horse to the highest level, and the impact force was greatly reduced. Even so, it broke down the two lines of defense of the Song army.

In addition, both sides invested thousands of troops on such a narrow battlefield, with almost no room for maneuver. Moreover, the first thing the Mongol Yuan dispatched was heavy cavalry, focusing on using high protection to improve impact, which sacrificed flexibility and maneuverability. The Song army did not have the organization of heavy cavalry at all, and they were all light armored horses, and their people and horses were flexible in movement, so that they could maintain good maneuver power on the battlefield and leave with one blow, avoiding being surrounded by heavy cavalry.

Therefore, if the heavy cavalry is not very important, it is necessary to consider a variety of factors. This also shows why there are so many martial arts schools, rather than a particularly powerful school that eliminates other schools, because different schools represent a combat system under different environments and situations.

But it is not just that Zhao Bing won easily, and the price they paid was not small. The Yuan army was all wearing heavy armor and holding heavy weapons, while the Song cavalry was barely considered light cavalry, and the thin and narrow cavalry swords that were mainly stabbed were not considered long weapons. Therefore, the Yuan army did not need to use very large strength to cause fatal damage to them, and the armor on their bodies provided good protection, so they needed more skills to kill them.

It can be clearly seen that most of the cavalry reassembled again at the moment can still be combat-capable, but the temporary cavalry regiments integrated by the various units of the first army have been lost as much as half. Therefore, it makes sense that "fists are afraid of young and strong, and sticks are afraid of old men" are all the elites of the entire army, such as horses, infantry, and even water battles, and they have stronger survivability in battles. Just like an experienced and experienced old man can make predictions with higher accuracy, and even strong men with stronger combat experience have stronger strength, they have no advantages, but are full of disadvantages.
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