On Hui'an Fort, red-shirted Army scout Guo Xu put down his telescope and said to the flag officer behind him: "The Mongols are about to launch a fire attack. Act according to plan." The flag officer took the order, and Guo Xu smiled at him.
The trembling master of Hui'an Fort next to him said: "Don't worry, the Mongols can't get in."
The owner of Hui'an Fort is an old man in his sixties. This fort is the only way from the Hetao area to Guanzhong. It is also an oasis in the desert. He and the fort residents make a living by receiving merchants.
, there has been no business in the past six months, but they still stick to this place. At least it is far away from the war and there will be no fear of life until the war is over.
They could still continue to do their business, but they didn't expect that this unknown fort would become the center of the war. The Ming army and the Xixia army met here. A bloody battle was inevitable. The Mongols were powerful, and the more than fifty people in the fort
There is no way a Han in red clothes could be their opponent. I really don't know where this young Han general got his confidence.
Guo Xu is from Shandong. He is 21 years old this year. He is a standard officer trained by the Red Shirt Army. He joined the army at the age of 18 and joined the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division in the capital. Because of his outstanding performance, he was selected to be sent to the Red Shirt Army training team.
Later, he entered the short-term training class of the Martial Arts Hall of the Capital as a student soldier, and all he experienced was formal firearms warfare training.
He has no rigid thinking of the cold weapon army, and this young sentry officer is also a fanatical supporter of Zhenwuhou. In the minds of him and his brothers, Zhenwuhou is the combination of Wusheng and Wenquxing.
Without the commander, they would not be where they are today. They fight purely for the commander's loyalty.
The officers of the Red Shirt Army had all taken classes before going out and knew the Mongolian tactics. Now the enemy's numbers greatly exceeded ours, and they had suffered a big loss just now, so they would never retreat easily.
There will be bloody revenge. Now I light the torch just to launch a fire attack.
If they guessed correctly, they would rush to the wall of Hui'an Fort and take turns throwing torches into the city. Although Hui'an Fort is made of rammed loess, there is a lot of hay and debris stored in it, and there are still a lot of flammable things.
Yes, if they are allowed to succeed, they will definitely cause huge losses.
Guo Xu had only about fifty people under his command, but all of them were heroes who had experienced hundreds of battles. Three thousand Mongolians surrounded Hui'an Fort, but everyone just held cigarettes in their mouths and crossed their legs indifferently.
They looked at each other with cold eyes. Although the enemy had strong troops and many men, in everyone's eyes they were nothing more than chickens and dogs, because behind this scout team there was a powerful backing - the airship army.
The flag officer stood on the top of the fortress and turned his hand-operated signal light into the air several times. After receiving the signal, the airship started its rubber band-powered propeller and silently and slowly moved towards the Mongolian assembly area.
There are no electric lights on the boat, and the boat is painted with gray-black paint. If you don't pay attention, it will be difficult to spot it on the ground.
Gu Lunmu waved his hand, and the army surged forward. The knights waved torches, roared, and rushed forward. Thousands of horses stampeded on the ground and made a roar. People in the fortress could feel the ground shaking. They were horrified.
He squatted on the ground holding his head, waiting for the end to come.
But a moment later, the thunderous sound of horse hooves caused chaos. With the earth-shattering explosions, people outside the fort shouted and the horses neighed in chaos. The fort residents looked up and saw those men in red clothes holding each other in their arms.
Biaozi looked on coldly and did not take action at all. Only then did the fort residents realize that their reinforcements were coming.
The bombs carried on the airship are not grenades used by infantry, but real heavy bombs. The big fat pig-like cast iron bombs are filled with high-explosive **. This is not some old-fashioned black nitrate, disulfide, and charcoal.
The gunpowder was a serious nitrocellulose powerful gun. The warhead was equipped with a thunder mercury fuse. It fell into a dense group of cavalry in a free fall. It exploded with a bang. The huge force tore the cast iron shell into pieces and shattered it into pieces.
Thousands of sharp pieces of steel slag were brutally harvesting the defenseless cavalry. People who were closer to the explosion center were directly thrown dozens of feet away by the air waves. They were covered in blood and flesh in a radius of more than ten feet, and it was impossible to distinguish the human corpses.
And the horse body.
The Mongolian cavalry who suffered a sudden attack panicked. Many of them hid in stirrups and tried to use their horses to cover themselves according to experience. However, this effort was obviously in vain. Even steel plates and brick walls were defenseless in front of the bomb, let alone flesh and blood.
After all, Xue's army was elite. After being attacked by bombs, they still did not collapse. They continued to gather in groups to observe the situation on the battlefield. There was no moon in the dark night. Only the torches in each other's hands could illuminate the blood and panic on their faces. In the end,
Where did the attack come from? The soldiers asked each other anxiously.
Suddenly someone pointed to the sky and exclaimed: "Look! The gods have descended to earth." Everyone looked up and saw three huge behemoths floating in the sky. It was so dark that they couldn't see their faces, but it was obvious that they had launched the attack just now.
, the Mongolian cavalry is not afraid of heaven and earth, but they are still timid in front of ghosts and gods. Since the gods have come down to earth to help the enemy, how can we start this battle?
Gu Lunmu also saw the monster in the sky. The war-experienced Lord Wanfu was beating a small drum in his heart. This was definitely not the god of our Mongols, but the God worshiped by the Hui people. He shouted:
"Retreat!" He left the corpses on the ground and fled.
The airship was not as fast as the cavalry, and because of the darkness, it did not pursue Gu Lunmu's troops, but quietly stopped in the sky to guard Hui'an Fort. The fort residents who witnessed all this knelt on the ground and chanted
According to the Koran, they also thought that God came down to earth to save them.
When the sky dimmed, people who had been awake all night discovered that the gods in the sky were just industrial products of the Han people in the Central Plains. The huge black boat was painted with dark golden dragons and numbers. There were people in the cabin below waving to the bottom.
Indicate.
The sun rises from the east and shines on the battlefield littered with casualties. The summer temperature on the plateau is very high, and soon the corpses begin to smell rotten. However, no one cleans the battlefield. A few Gurungmu scouts left behind to observe the situation quietly.
He crawled out from the pile of dead people, crawled a long distance before jumping on his horse and driving away. The observer on the airship saw all this and just smiled.
Gu Lunmu's troops experienced this night's battle and lost more than a thousand people. They did not withdraw too far, but camped thirty miles away, waiting to receive a report from the scouts that the monsters at night were not gods.
When it turned out to be a trick of the Han people, Gu Lunmu's confidence was suddenly restored. He immediately sent a horse to Lingwu to mobilize reinforcements. Not only Lingwu's soldiers were mobilized, but also the Qingxue army from Ningxia City.
Because Gu Lunmu knew very well that if the Han people did not move, they would launch a massive attack. Those who occupied Hui'an Fort were only the vanguard troops. There was no telling how many troops were behind them. Instead of waiting for them to reach the gates of Ningxia City, it was better to reject them.
The enemy is in this wilderness.
Gu Lun Mu's guess was correct. A few hours later, the Red Shirt Army's brigade arrived around Hui'an Fort, and tens of thousands of new auxiliary troops urgently dispatched by Gu Lun Mu also began to arrive one after another. A big war was about to break out.