Chapter 392: The soldiers are divided into two groups
As night falls, Tangqi are scattered on the edge of the battlefield, their torches reflecting the stars in the sky.
The hustle and bustle of the fighting did not end until dark, but the siege of the vehicle formation on the battlefield disappeared.
The father and son, National Advisor Khan and Dorji Taiji, used the same carbine tactics on different battlefields at the same time.
At the beginning of Liu Chengzong's change of formation to counter the siege, Guoshi Khan ordered the entire army to overlap and retreat 200 steps eastward, risking his left and right flanks being cut off by Zuo Guangxian and Wei Qian'er's cavalry.
This retreat was exquisite.
When the left and right flanks of the national adviser Khan were level with the central army, the army formed a large horizontal formation that ran three miles from north to south and was six rows deep. The six rows of troops were divided into two horizontal formations three rows deep. The rear team stood ready to meet
To defeat the enemy, the front team then retreated in formation.
During the retreat, jagged protrusions formed on the front.
The enemy retreated, and the troops of the Marshal's Mansion naturally pushed forward. Since the soldiers of the Marshal's Mansion were generally armored and were often victorious, it is not surprising to see the enemy constantly retreating during a confrontation.
So much so that the frontline troops were not aware of it, and Liu Chengzong himself only felt that the enemy was retreating steadily.
At first, he was happy to see the enemy retreat. The enemy retreated and the infantry caught up. The Lion Artillery Team originally located on the front line of the conflict was saved, and the heavy artillery team located in the central army could also mount pack horses and maneuver.
It wasn't until he was pushed out for nearly a hundred steps that Liu Chengzong suddenly realized...this was a premeditated temptation.
His army is fighting in the west. The Chinese army can rely on the eastern part of the car formation to maintain a larger width with a small number of soldiers. The left and right wings in the north and south use cavalry to fight, and the width is also larger.
But when they came out of the vehicle formation, as the enemy stabilized the front line and began to see-saw, more and more soldiers on both wings chose to dismount and fight, and the width was reduced; the Chinese army came out of the vehicle formation again, and the width also had to be reduced.
But no one of the frontline generals wants to be smaller than the enemy, otherwise they will be divided and surrounded. People invariably choose to spread their troops as much as possible to fill the front.
The problem is that in this duel, he is the weaker side.
The difference between the two armies is that Liu Chengzong's disadvantage in terms of military strength was further expanded as the battle progressed. In order to avoid being surrounded, he used 8,000 soldiers to maintain a front with the same width as nearly 20,000 enemy troops. His horizontal line was only three meters deep.
Row.
Even if Liu Shizi discovered a problem, he could only push forward two hundred steps.
Because he can't go back.
There are rules for attacking and retreating. Generally, it is a formation, which means overlapping. The left side advances first, the right side advances again, the rear side advances first, and the front side advances again. The same is true for retreat.
Liu Chengzong's troops were stretched thin and could only be divided into left and right sides, but not front and rear, and could not retreat using stacked formations.
Standing still is not an option. Although his army can take advantage of the long-range advantage of firearms, it will also give the enemy cavalry the opportunity to collide. Three thin rows and more than a dozen armored cavalry fight to the death.
A collision will inevitably tear them apart.
This disadvantage of insufficient troops to barely increase the width cannot be changed. All Liu Chengzong can do is not to give the enemy a chance to collide and defeat the enemy as soon as possible.
Therefore, he ordered Huang Shengxiao to carry all the light and heavy artillery, detour to the left wing, go around the enemy's flank in the north, and directly destroy the enemy's right wing with the advantage of heavy artillery.
While the artillery team was moving slowly, the figure of Liu Chengzong appeared in the telescope of the Imperial Guard Khan.
In fact, Liu Chengzong's location is particularly easy to find. Although nightfall makes it difficult to find the general, following the direction of the messengers, it is easy to guess the approximate location. As long as you search in that area, you can always see rows of preparations.
Armor-piercing hoplite.
Liu Chengzong's front line was thin, with only chariots and soldiers deployed in that direction, so naturally, the coach was there.
But the Imperial Guard Khan could not find the commander. Although he saw Liu Chengzong, he did not think he was the commander of the Han army.
All the soldiers wore red cloth-covered iron armor, and it was difficult to distinguish between ranks. Others led the tall and strong Hequ war horses and pack mules. Only Liu Chengzong did not lead the horses. He stood behind the formation, looking left and right, and kept eating.
When the national counselor Khan saw him, he gave the order to the front line to be alert to the enemy's heavy cavalry charging into the formation... He must be a general who was preparing to lead his troops into the formation. He was like a starving ghost who was reincarnated and kept eating for fear of not having another meal.<
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The Imperial Guard Khan originally wanted to send heavy infantry to clear the way for the heavy cavalry to break the formation as soon as he discovered the location of the Han army commander, and use the heavy cavalry to crush the Chinese army commander. However, because Liu Shishi had eaten a few more mouthfuls, he stood still and waited.
The Han army rushed into battle.
However, the Han army did not.
The more Turubaihu waited, the more anxious he became, not only because his soldiers had difficulty gaining an advantage in the line duel, but more importantly, he had to win quickly.
There are many reasons.
For example, the major reason is the worry that the arrival of reinforcements from the Marshal's Office will cause problems, and the secondary reason is the lack of food and grass supplies in Oirat.
There is even the darkest psychological reason: after pulling Liu Chengzong's army formation 200 steps eastward, the National Preceptor Khan discovered that the corpses of mules, horses and camels that had died in the entire war were all wrapped up in the backs of the Han army, which made him feel distressed.<
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There is no winner tonight, so the meat will belong to the Han army.
It was a pity that Liu Chengzong, who was on the opposite side, also discovered the National Preceptor Khan, and he also saw the heavy-armored cavalry prepared beside the Imperial Preceptor Khan.
At this time, both of them saw that the other party had a big card in their hand, and they were both waiting for this card to be played before launching a counterattack, otherwise they would suffer a loss.
Neither of them wants to suffer a loss, so they are waiting for the other to make the first move.
The difference is that Liu Chengzong is not in a hurry, he is even willing to wait a little longer, wait for Huang Shengxiao to arrive on the flank, use artillery to attract attention for a while, and then launch the attack.
However, neither the Imperial Preceptor Khan nor Liu Chengzong knew that an army of more than 500 people, only two miles southeast of the battlefield, did not dare to raise fire, so they wrapped their horses' hooves and quietly walked north.
The dusty Bee Tail needle lay on the hill and looked to the west. Under the dark night, the two fronts were like entangled boas... He had never seen two armies fighting like this in his life. Slowly
Swallowing his saliva, his words trembled unconsciously. He turned his head and looked to his side: "Brother Zhao, do you really want to charge into the battle?"
Zhao Fuzhu was two years younger than Bee Tail Needle, but he was already used to being called that. It was not convenient for him to lie on the ground with one hand, so he just half-crouched next to him, looking at the entangled outlines of the two armies and letting out a slow breath. The situation was pretty much what he expected.
Zhao Fuhuang pointed at the enemy formation with his arm covered with arm guards and said firmly: "It's not dangerous."
Bee Tail Needle's mouth went dry just by watching. He crawled backwards from the sand dune. When his body was covered by the sand dune, he spat out, raised his foot and wiped it with the sole of his boot.
Without such a large military formation, how many people are there?"
Zhao Fuhui looked at him, knowing that his old partner was panicking and couldn't rush into the battle without the determination to win.
He didn't answer the question and just sat down on the back of the sand dune. His eyes reflected the moon and the stars in the sky, as bright as a wolf. He asked nonchalantly: "Do you know about Cao Yao, Yang Yao, Wang Wenxiu?"
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Bee Tail Needle glanced at Zhao Fufan. How could he not know these people? They were generals of the Marshal's Mansion.
Zhao Fuhu snorted and said: "We are both from the 100-year-old management team. Who is better than the other? I just saw that there are at least five rows in front of the enemy's formation. Calculating from this, there are at least 15,000 people in the formation.
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"The army of thousands is held back by the handsome man. Our opponent only has a few hundred people from the Chinese army, so my plan is to divide the troops into two groups."
Bee Tail's eyes widened. He really wanted to believe what Zhao Fan said, but no matter how he heard it, it was just the words of a madman. He could only look in disbelief: "There are only five hundred people, and the troops are divided into two groups?"<
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"Are you afraid of breaking out? We only attacked the few groups of the Chinese Army and killed the Imperial Guards. We were already gone before the front line came over."
Bee Tail Needle asked: "Then why are the troops divided into two groups and one team to respond?"
"No need to support, I will take 200 cavalry to assassinate the national army, you take 300 cavalry, select some veterans who can speak Mongolian language, cover the central army on both sides, kill the messengers, kill the officers, kill all the ones who can move, and then head north and south after killing them.
Running on both sides, shouting that the Khan is dead, even if there are 100,000 of them, they will still be paralyzed here."
Zhao Fushu said, nodding his head one after another, and said: "Even if the imperial master is not killed, it is still a great achievement to disrupt the enemy army."
In fact, all Bee Tail Needle did was convince himself that everyone was already here, and the more than 500 riders under his command were all heroes eager to make meritorious deeds. He knew that he could not look back.
"Then I will assassinate the Imperial Guard. You can speak Mongolian and go and kill the messenger." Bee Tail Needle felt that it was still too dangerous to rush into the formation and assassinate the Imperial Guard, so he said to Zhao Fu: "We will meet at the Commandery Center."<
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Zhao Fu knew what he was thinking and smiled softly without responding.
He stood up and patted the dust on his body, walked to his horse, called a soldier to help him put on the cloth armor, tightened his waist protector, hung his belt on the right side, and mounted the horse with difficulty with the coordination of his hands and wrists.
The unhealed fracture in his right forearm felt excruciating pain. With a ferocious look on his face, he took the spear with the square flag hanging from the hands of his soldiers, clamped the spear under his ribs, his right upper arm and his right forearm, and bit it.
Use the bandage you carry to wrap the teeth tightly little by little until the flag spear is fixed on the right side of the body.
He looked at the bee-tailed needle and asked very seriously: "Even if you lose your right hand, do you really think those Wala Tatars can beat one of my hands?"
Bee Tail Stitch, who was standing under the horse, sighed, and the expression on his face was self-explanatory: "There are many people who can fight, but survival may not depend on being able to fight."
Zhao Kuang sneered when he heard this, his shoulders sank slightly, his flag spear swung slightly, and he said: "After I kill the imperial master, I will ask the best craftsman in Hehuang to make a wooden hand and install it with a three-eyed gun!"
At this moment, more intense shouts of killing suddenly came from the distance. The sentries who were watching the formation on the sand dunes ran down and hurriedly reported: "General Zhang, General Zhao Bai, the enemy's Chinese army is heavy
Riding into the formation!"
Zhao Shuhuan hurriedly marched forward, and with just one glance, he saw rows of black figures breaking through the central army of the Marshal's Mansion under the reflection of the campfire.
Suddenly, a flash of light broke out in the darkness in the north of the battlefield. It was the sound of an artillery lurking on the edge of the battlefield.
The sound of this cannon was so sudden that it stunned Zhao Fuhui on horseback. He frowned and looked to the north for a long time. After a brief pause, he saw a series of red lights flashing in the north, and a series of gunshots.
It's like rolling thunder rolling across the sky.
No one knew where the shells landed, only that the evenly matched battlefield suddenly became chaotic.
"It's the handsome man's cannon!"
This made him not surprised but overjoyed. He reined up his horse and turned around and said: "Okay! The opportunity has come. The enemy's commander and his guards have lost most of their troops...Zuosi Huben's hundreds of headquarters followed me on horseback to charge into the battle. I will make great contributions and kill the king of captives."
Today!"
Bee Tail Needle also raised his fists to encourage himself, and then he got on his horse with gritted teeth, pulled out the spear stuck in the sand, and said to the left and right: "Brothers on the left, middle and right, please listen, follow me to mount the horse to disrupt the enemy. See you.
Kill everyone and leave no one alive!"
On the front line of the battle formation, the Heshuote heavy infantry in full iron armor formed a column. They did not dodge the arrows and thrust spears, and rushed into the battle line with shields and short soldiers.
At this moment, the power that Heshuote had accumulated for a long time was completely released in front of the formation. The heavy column was like a door hammer, relying on brute force to smash a gap in the formation, and then separated to the left and right sides, sweeping the formation. p>
The low sound of Mongolian horns mixed with the overtones hovered over the battlefield. The herdsmen on the front were inspired almost at the same time, and they attacked fiercely, trying to overwhelm the Han army's front line on the opposite side.
For a time, Liu Chengzong's line was cut off in the middle by heavy troops, and each department was in danger under the attack with twice his own strength.
After the gap opened by heavy troops, the sound of horse hooves thundered, and the heavy cavalry with armored men and horses galloped in like monsters in the shadows, directly hitting the second line of defense.
The second line of defense is the reserve team composed of 120 soldiers from the 100th Corps.
Seeing the fierce heavy cavalry rushing towards him, Han Shipan immediately ordered shooting. People did not care about the drill of taking turns, and guns were fired randomly for a while.
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Then the guards with five-foot-long spears in the front row formed a horizontal formation, with their spears propped on the ground in the middle to meet the impact, and the left and right wings moved forward to launch a countercharge in an attempt to surround the stagnant enemy troops.
The horse whose owner was shot down by a musket turned around and hit his own heavy cavalry. However, the heavy cavalry formed a column of four horses in a row with one step apart. The cavalry in the front row fell off their horses, but the back row could still rush out through the gap and hit the enemy hard.
Enter Wang Chengen’s horizontal team.
The spear is broken, the horse is thrust over.
The ferocious heavy armored cavalry fell to the ground like huge boulders, rolling and knocking over the soldiers. Then the two sides pulled out short soldiers and even wrestled with their bare hands.
The two-wing guards who rushed out more than ten steps had no time to change their formation, so they jabbed their spears diagonally at the heavy cavalry galloping from behind. Some of the blocking was effective, but more spears were thrust into the air. All they could do was watch the cavalry carrying their muskets.
The line of soldiers carrying guns dispersed and continued to attack the Chinese army.
But a brief delay works just as well.
Liu Chengzong and more guards had already mounted up behind the second line of defense. The guards lined up in horizontal formations, holding spears, and charged again and again at the charging Heshuote heavy cavalry.
On the military position in the Marshal's Mansion, there were everywhere the sounds of broken spears and the neighing of fallen horses, mixed with the sound of metal and stone clashing with armor.
At this moment, a continuous stream of Mongolian language suddenly came from the east side of the battlefield. Groups of cavalry rushed left and right behind the battlefield. People shouted the same: "The Great Khan is dead! The Great Khan is dead!"
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The shouts one after another made Liu Chengzong, who was holding a spear and preparing to lead the crowd to fight, stunned for a moment, until he saw a commotion along the enemy's front from south to north, and even those Heshuote heavy cavalry who were rushing into the formation began to turn back to their own side.
After charging in front of the formation, he suddenly came back to his senses.
The situation on the battlefield was instantly reversed. Liu Chengzong suddenly reined in his horse and ordered to his left and right: "Give me the order, beat the drum and march!"
The drumsticks crashed down, and the huge war drum echoed and made a loud noise, like hitting everyone's heart. There were two more bangs. The soldiers on the front line could hear it clearly this time. The soldiers holding spears to stabilize the line moved forward together.
Take a step forward and strike with a spear.
The panicked Heshuote herdsmen then retreated, and the Marshal's Army took another step forward. They took another step back until someone was stabbed over while retreating, or tripped over their own legs and feet. They got up and fled backwards, throwing away their weapons.
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One roll contains ten rolls, and a group of ten rolls. Under the impact of the news of the death of the national army Khan, groups of Heshuote herdsmen lost their courage and abandoned the front, and fled towards the Yellow River under the cover of night.