The battle outside Anping Town entered a new climax with the arrival of the Tatar cavalry!
Faced with the flanking attack from both sides, the Tang Army did not lose its position. The main force of the strategic reserve, the Guards and the 9th Infantry Division, which had been prepared long ago, immediately set up a dense square formation and hollow squares on the west side of the battlefield.
phalanx!
They hold their heads high and their chests high!
They confidently formed a phalanx to face the possible attack by the Tatar cavalry!
At the same time, in the center of the battlefield, the Sixth Infantry Division almost overwhelmingly destroyed the right wing of the Ming Army. They defeated the Ming Army's formations one after another, and the Ming Army on the opposite side was almost unable to fully resist.
Even though the right wing of the Ming army was reinforced by 20,000 troops from the center of the Ming army, the 20,000 Ming army did not change the collapse of the right wing of the Ming army!
That's not to say that they had no effect at all. At the very least, they blocked the 6th Infantry Division for a moment, prolonging the collapse of the Ming army's right wing a little longer.
but!
However, the right wing of the Ming army still inevitably collapsed!
In the head-on confrontation between the two sides, the Ming Army's right wing of about 20,000 people, plus the subsequent reinforcements of 20,000 people, were successively defeated by the Tang Army's left wing with the Sixth Infantry Division as the core!
In this direction, the Ming army clearly concentrated at least twice the strength advantage, but it still could not stop the Tang army's attack!
this!
This is the strength gap between the two sides!
Emperor Zhengde knew this gap in advance and had heard it said by countless people, but before that, he still had a certain illusion. He believed that even if the combat effectiveness of his own troops was inferior, but in the
In this kind of head-on confrontation, if you invest twice as many troops, you should at least be evenly matched.
However, reality slapped him mercilessly!
The right wing of the Ming army!
collapsed!
At first there were more than 20,000 people, and then there were more than 40,000 people. They were completely defeated by the Tang army's left wing with wave after wave of ferocious attacks, leaving them no chance to reorganize their formation and stabilize their front!
The three main infantry regiments of the Sixth Infantry Division even began to disperse, and then each pursued the Ming army. In front of each main infantry regiment, there were at least twice as many Ming army soldiers!
All over the mountains and plains!
Looking up, the mountains and plains are filled with fleeing Ming army soldiers!
Tens of thousands of people are running in the wilderness without any organization and without any hope. They don't even know where they should run. They just run headlong, towards poetry and the distance!
Because behind them, the fierce-looking Tang Army was chasing them!
The right wing of the Ming Army completely collapsed, and the center and left wing of the Ming Army are now facing the most severe test!
The left wing is better, because the terrain here is relatively complex, and the Ming army occupied several low hills to set up defense lines, so this is not the main attack direction of the Tang army.
The main offensive and defensive line of the Tang Army was undoubtedly the right wing of the Ming Army at the beginning, but now, taking advantage of the complete collapse of the Ming Army's right wing, the main force of the Chinese Army directly attacked and launched an attack on the main force of the Ming Army. At the same time, the third
The Sixth Infantry Division and other left-wing troops also gave up pursuing the defeated Ming army and began to make a sharp turn.
Then advance quickly in opposing columns!
If the 6th Infantry Division on the left wing of the Tang Army completes its turn and then launches an attack on the flank of the Ming Army's central army, then it will basically be the end of the Ming Army's central army!
It was already very difficult for them to deal with the main attack of the Tang Army's Central Army, especially the artillery of the Tang Army's First Artillery Group, which always fired ahead of the Ming Army's key troop gathering points!
At this moment, the First Artillery Group and the artillery positions of the Chinese Army had at least 150 artillery pieces pointed at the Ming Army's Center Army, putting the Ming Army's Center Army under tremendous pressure!
And this kind of pressure is something they have never endured before!
It is not that the Ming army had not endured more violent bombardment by the Tang army. In the Battle of Yangzhou, the defenders in the city had withstood the indiscriminate bombardment of more than 200 artillery pieces, and the bombardment at that time lasted for several days.
However, the city defenders at that time were protected by city fortifications. Although the Tang army's artillery fire was fierce, it could only cause damage to the defensive forces at the top of the city, while more Ming troops could hide behind the city wall.
But today!
What they were fighting was a field battle!
If the artillerymen of the Explanatory Army can still fire safely in the constructed artillery positions, but if the infantrymen are listed in huge and dense phalanxes, they can only endure the fierce artillery bombardment!
They have no fortifications to rely on, and even if they do, they cannot huddle behind the fortifications, let alone lie down!
Because there is an equally large Tang army on the opposite side, and their dense phalanx is continuing to advance. You ran away and got down to avoid the bombardment, but how can you form a formation to fight?
Nowadays, this kind of frontal confrontation of infantry phalanxes is almost unimaginable without phalanxes. By that time, the Ming army's central army, which has tens of thousands of people, will probably be defeated directly without artillery fire, and it will still be
The kind that breaks down at the first touch.
Therefore, although the Ming army suffered casualties from the shelling, they still did not dare to disperse!
Instead, they began to take the initiative to push forward, trying to change the current disadvantage!
The current situation on the battlefield is almost on the verge of complete collapse for the Ming army!
And what are the Tatars doing? What are the Anta Khan doing?
On the west side of the battlefield, Ada Khan is meditating!
He felt that today's battle was too weird. It had been beyond his expectations since the morning!
In the morning, he thought that the Ming army and the Tang army should be able to defeat both sides. However, two hours later, others told him that the Ming army was almost doomed.
Then he led the cavalry to attack, but he did not order any cavalry to attack. Instead, he stayed a thousand meters away after arriving on the battlefield, because he saw that the Tang army had already dispatched at least 30,000 people in formation.
Meet yourself.
Seeing this scene, he knew that his goal had been achieved, because the Tang army sent 30,000 people to fight against him, which meant that he had successfully contained at least 30,000 Tang soldiers!
In this way, the pressure on the Ming army will be greatly reduced!
But the next scene made him frown!
Those damn Ming troops were like shit. They had pinned down at least 30,000 Tang troops for them, but the hundreds of thousands of Ming troops still couldn't stop the attack of the Tang troops, which numbered less than 70,000!
OMG!
Zhengde Lao'er had a double strength advantage, but he was completely defeated. The left wing of the Ming army collapsed so fast that Anda Khan even looked at him with suspicion.
Bastard, when did these Ming troops become so weak? Aren't they quite capable of fighting with me in the past few years? Why did they immediately turn into weaklings when they met the Tang army?
I don't understand!
In fact, he was completely unable to understand the battle in front of him!
While the Tang army divided its 30,000 troops to prepare for its own cavalry, the remaining 60,000 to 70,000 men were able to overwhelm the 11,200,000 Ming army!
Could it be that I saw it wrong?
Is the Ming army on the opposite side?
If this continues, I'm afraid the Ming army will be completely doomed.
Even though the distance was a bit far away, he could still see that the Ming army's central army was already crumbling.
If this continues, the central army of the Ming Army will be completely destroyed. When the central army is destroyed, will the left wing of the Ming Army still be able to survive? Just kidding, I estimate that the left wing of the Ming Army will collapse without fighting.
We can't continue to wait like this, otherwise, after the Ming army collapses, Ada Khan will have no choice but to lead his cavalry back to the grassland in despair, and then loot again on the way back.
By then, let alone going south to occupy the Central Plains, even the several important cities in Jiubianli that were forcibly taken over from the Ming army will probably be given away, because Anda Khan knows very well that there is no Ming army blocking the front, and with his
The cavalry is absolutely unable to defend those cities.
And how it will develop in the future can be imagined with your toes!
He will return to the grassland, and the Tang army will regain the border towns and cities, and then form a large-scale cavalry to attack the grassland, repeating the tradition of thousands of years in the past: when the Central Plains dynasty is strong, it will always take the initiative to attack the grassland forces!
Can't wait any longer!
Anda Khan will never be willing to go back in such a dejected state!
This opportunity to go south can be said to be the best and only opportunity for grassland people to go south to the Central Plains in the past two hundred years. He, Anda Khan, is not willing to give up just like that!
so!
He drew his machete!
He raised his machete!
Then he pointed to the Tang Army's formation in front: "The whole army attacks and tears through the Tang Army's defense line!"
Anda Khan, as the most outstanding hero of the Mongolian grasslands in recent decades, no one dares to disobey his orders!
Ever since, countless Tatar cavalry began to roar out!
Because of the large number of Tatar cavalry, it was naturally impossible to charge forward all at once. They were divided into three armies, left, right and center. The left army, with about 20,000 cavalry, rushed towards the western frontal defense line of the Tang Army in front, which was the direction of the Guards.
formation, and behind the Guards is the 6th Infantry Division and other left-wing troops of the Tang Army, including the First Artillery Group. At this moment, the Tang Army's left wing and the First Artillery Group are fiercely attacking the flank of the Ming Army's center, trying to cooperate
The Central Army of the Tang Army completely established a victory
The other army, the right army, with about 10,000 cavalry, rushed towards the west and slightly south of the Tang Army. That was the direction of the 9th Infantry Division, and behind the 9th Infantry Division, the Tang Army
The real rear area is the rear camp of the Tang Army, and it is also where the main artillery position is located!
And Anda Khan personally led 20,000 Chinese cavalry to follow slowly from the rear!
Just looking at Anda Khan's arrangement, we know that his main attack direction is the Guards, trying to defeat the Guards, and then flank the Tang Army's left wing to save the Ming Army from a dangerous defeat!
But, will Anda Khan's arrangement be successful?
Can the Guards stop the attack of 20,000 Tatar cavalry?