Dead Life (6)

Arhan retreated decisively and quickly. There was no time to entangle with Wang Laoshi, he had to hurry back to report the information to Ali Hague and stop Ali Hague's further attacks. Before returning with enough cavalry to break through the interception of the Breakers and destroy the artillery group, all head-to-head encounters with the Breakers must be stopped.

When he rushed back to the frontal battlefield again, the frontal battlefield had become hell.

The second wave of Ali Hague's attack had already begun, and the second intensive fire of the artillery group of the Broken Army had also begun. Hundreds of meteors dragged the tail of the flame across the smoke-blackened sky, falling one after the other. Where it lands, it is all scorched earth.

In the firelight, Arakhan saw the horse that had lost its owner and fled for its life in grief. The originally leveled battlefield was full of craters, and around each crater, there were corpses.

It was the Mongolian elite cavalry that once swept across the Central Plains. And today, they didn't even see the face of their opponents, and they returned to the embrace of Immortal Heaven.

"Stop the attack, retreat, retreat!" Arhan shouted hoarsely as he rode his horse.

No one heard his voice, and the whole heaven and earth were filled with war drums, trumpets, and cannonballs.

"Retreat, retreat, if you don't pay any more money, our Mongolian army will be finished!" Arakhan jumped off his horse, separated the surrounding soldiers, rushed to Ali Hague, and grabbed Ali Hague's arms as he was beating drums.

Ali Hague twisted his body, threw Arhan aside, his eyes red, and raised the drum hammer again.

Arhan put his hands on Ali Hague's arms and shouted angrily, "Deputy marshal, you can leave some seeds for us Mongols!" Please! ”

Ali Hague, who raised his arms high, finally saw clearly the tragic state of Arakhan covered in blood, and also understood why the contact horn sounded for so long, the opponent's artillery was still firing, and the drum hammer fell weakly from his hand, but his eyes stared at Arahan's back and shouted, "Retreat, look at it, they retreat, can they still call the Mongols?" ”

Arhan turned his head and looked into the distance.

Tens of thousands of Northern Yuan soldiers threw their knives and patrolled outside the artillery landing point. They did not dare to return, nor did they dare to rush forward, and they were dazed, like a flock of lambs waiting to be slaughtered.

This is the look that Song Jun can only see after the city is broken, and for a moment, Ah Rahan's heart is like a hole in the ice.

If they lose the courage to fight, can the Mongols still be called Mongols?

The shelling stopped abruptly, and the artillery group, which had successfully separated the Yuan attacking force into two sections, began to rest and prepare for the next round of fighting.

The Mongol soldiers who hovered outside the smoke of gunpowder were like frightened lambs. Behind the smoke of gunpowder, the shouts of killing were faint, and the sound of horns everywhere was desolate and tragic.

Behind the impenetrable smoke of gunpowder by Arakhan and Ali Hague, the Northern Yuan soldiers who had already rushed through the salvo area of the artillery group rushed to the army chariot formation in despair.

In fact, because of the loose formation, the casualties caused by this salvo of the Breaker artillery were not as great as they were during the first impact. But the sight of hundreds of shells exploding around deeply shocked the Yuan army and made them lose confidence in victory.

In the past, whether it was a bow or arrow, a sword or a gun, no matter how urgent or dense it was, you had a chance to dodge and escape. Fight it with skillful combat skills and a strong physique.

But the cannonball can't do it, as long as it falls on you, it is doomed to the end of your life. This is a force that cannot be countered by manpower, and under this force, all formations, coordination, and combat skills are useless.

When you find that the other person's power is beyond your comprehension. That kind of despair will flood all reason.

The Northern Yuan soldiers who rushed through the artillery-covered area, whether they were Mongols, Han Chinese, or Western Regions, had only one word in mind at the moment, death.

Before dying, if you can pull a few Song soldiers on your back, it will be worth dying.

Those who have given up hope of survival will burst out with great attack power in an instant. But those who have lost hope of survival will never think about formation coordination, single-point breakthroughs, and combat skills.

All they think about is working hard, and the car formation arranged by Zhang Tang is the last thing they are afraid of is people coming up and working hard.

Hiding behind shields and wagons, crossbowmen with a ratio of more than 60% are divided into rows and take turns shooting crossbow arrows. Each row of steel crossbows can harvest hundreds of people.

The Beiyuan soldiers who rushed up in the first row were shot down and scattered.

The second platoon of soldiers rushed up.

The second platoon of soldiers was shot down and scattered.

The third platoon of soldiers rushed up.

Like the tide, wave after wave. Crashed into the car formation.

In this inevitable attack, Ali Hague invested 30,000 troops, excluding those who were isolated outside the artillery coverage area and those who were killed by shells, the number of soldiers who rushed to the front of the car formation at this moment still exceeded 15,000.

If there was a Northern Yuan general with high prestige standing in front of the car formation at this moment and organizing these soldiers who had crossed the artillery coverage area together, there was every chance to cause a single point breakthrough in the car formation.

However, the surviving Northern Yuan generals did not think of this. They were stunned by the shells, and half of the three Zhongwan households and five thousand commanders who set off at the same time were killed on the road. The remaining 10,000 households were Han Chinese, and they could not command the Mongol army and the Tanma Red army. Each of the three commanders belonged to one clan, and no one could mobilize anyone. And several people were injured one by one, and they were so affected by the pain and the tragic scene in front of them that they had lost their ability to think.

The Northern Yuan soldiers were brave, but the brave blind assault could only make the opponent's skillful and coordinated killings more precise.

In a matter of moments, more than 2,000 people fell in front of the army chariot array. The soldiers who followed refused to slow down in the slightest, shouting, scolding, and swarming.

Several Tanmachi sergeants worked together to overturn a carriage, creating a gap in the cart formation at the cost of their lives. Zhang Tang hurriedly dispatched the ironclad army to plug the gap, and even sent a reserve team to prepare for a hard fight. To his surprise, the surrounding Yuan troops did not rush in from the gap, but only cared about fighting separately, allowing the broken soldiers to firmly seal the gap.

A Mongol warrior dressed in a centurion suit jumped into the carriage, and the crossbow team swept over and pierced him with four or five arrows. The centurion's body shook, but he didn't die, and he raised his head to the sky and let out a wolf-like trombone, and jumped into the formation of the broken military chariot.

A few knives quickly ended his life. The centurion, whose body had been pierced into a sieve, was facing the sky on his back, his eyes were as wide as cowbells, and he was full of unwillingness and despair.

Inside and outside the formation, the corpses of the soldiers were piled up in a layer. The ground was soaked in blood and slippery to the point that it was almost impossible to stand. A northern Han soldier stepped on the corpse of his companion and crossed into the chariot formation, and was stabbed down with a spear by a broken sergeant. The nearby soldiers tried to capture him alive and shouted "Surrender or die!" The Yuan soldier, who understood Chinese, rolled on the spot and swept the steel knife towards the opponent's calf.

"Ahh The soldier of the Broken Army who was slashed by the blade fell down with his leg in his arms, and a few spears stepped forward, but the Yuan army who resisted to the end was stubborn.

The wounded sergeant's face quickly turned pale due to excessive blood loss. Half of his leg was hung from his knee by chain mail, and blood gushed out like a fountain of his leg.

One of the sergeants closest to him crouched down and stabbed the soldier in the left chest with his saber. Then he stood up and shouted, "In the car formation, only kill and not take prisoners!" ”

"In the car formation, only kill but not capture!" A few corporals nearby, quickly passed the sergeant's order out. When the soldiers of the other teams around heard this, they also quickly carried out this order.

Rush up and die in battle. Rush up and die in battle. Under the warm sun, the Yuan army attacked blindly and endlessly. The Broken Army Formation is like a huge killing machine, running efficiently, not in a hurry.

Cang Tian no longer seemed to bear to watch such a bloody scene continue, and a gust of wind blew out, diluting the gunpowder smoke that permeated the battlefield and making it transparent.

Ali Hague and Arakhan simultaneously saw the desperate attack of their loyal men and gave the order to retreat.

"Mingjin, Mingjin!" Arakhan shouted, ignoring Ali Hague's opinion no longer. From the cessation of the artillery bombardment by the captives to the dilution of gunsmoke on the battlefield, it took only half an hour.

But this half an hour is as long as a lifetime in Arakhan's heart. In all of his fighting career since, Arhan has not launched a dense formation attack like this. Outflanking, sneak attack, ambush, and night battle have become his magic weapons. Even so, years later, whenever he woke up from a nightmare, Arhan's eyes shook in front of his eyes when he faced the artillery cluster for the first time.

"Blow the trumpet and order the brethren to disperse and retreat. The cavalry went to flank and detoured to prevent the captives from taking advantage of the situation to chase and kill! Ali Hague shouted with red eyes.

The sound of gongs and trumpets intertwined with the sound of the Yuan army's main formation, and the Northern Yuan soldiers who had been killed in front of the broken army vehicle formation ran to the main formation as if they had been amnestied.

The bows and arrows pursued by the Breakers, and the interceptor artillery that exploded again, could not stop them from escaping.

In less than an hour and a half, Ali Hague and Arkhan lost nearly 20,000 horses. And judging by the two of them, the loss of the broken army on the opposite side was less than one-tenth of their own.

In this kind of hard collision with no chance of victory, Alahai Hague and Alahan did not dare to continue, and slowly retreated in the direction of Qingyangzhai with the remaining more than 40,000 brothers.

The battle was almost a complete defeat, and the only thing that made Ali Hague and Arahan feel relieved was that the Breaker Army did not pursue, and stopped at the foot of Anxi City.

"If they wave their troops to chase after them, we can use the cavalry to kill a horse pistol, and rush into their home camp before the artillery has time to fire and the chariot formation has not been set off!"

In the late afternoon, Ali Hague, who had recovered from the blow of defeat, said to himself.

In this battle, he was not reconciled to defeat. Repeatedly considering the details of the battlefield at that time, the Yuan army was not without a chance of victory. If they collect the troops and go back to see Zhang Hongfan like this, the two of them really have no face.

"This opportunity is difficult to grasp, from five hundred to a thousand steps, it is within the range of artillery strikes. If we want to win, we must suddenly attack when the two armies are about three miles apart. And this captive army is extremely combative, even if the cavalry rushes closer, it may not be able to break up its formation! Arahan understood Ali Hague's thoughts and replied in a low voice.

He didn't care how to face Zhang Hongfan. Rather than being reprimanded by Zhang Hongfan, he cared more about how to improve the morale of the Mongolian army. If the shadow of the artillery bombardment is left in the ranks, whenever the enemy encounters the captives in the future, as long as the opponent's artillery is fired, the morale of his side will definitely be low.

The two of them had their own hearts and minds, and they thought about their previous combat experience, but they still couldn't think of a safe way. When he arrived in Shen, he camped by Xixi. While ordering the medical officer to treat the wounded, the gang slaughtered the horses to improve the food for the soldiers, and sent scouts to find out the movements of the captive army.

When the sun set, the scouts rushed back and reported that the Breaker Army was still staying in Anxi to repair. The two commanders, Ali Hague and Arakhan, put their hearts back in their stomachs, gathered the generals and cronies on the left and right, and carefully discussed the plan to defeat the enemy.

Both of them are battle-hardened generals, although they have been defeated a little badly during the day. But this defeat did not dampen the courage of the two to strive for victory.

There were many ways for the Mongols to deal with the Song army, and light cavalry charging was only one of them, and it became the most important tactic in the middle and late stages of the war. This is because the elite of the Song army at this moment is exhausted, and no matter the level of equipment and soldier training, it has not caused much loss to the Mongolian cavalry. At the beginning of the Yuan and Song wars, the combat effectiveness of the Song army was much stronger than that of the later period, with archers accounting for more than sixty percent of the army, heavy infantry, and bed crossbow teams also accounting for a large proportion of the army. In the face of the Song army, which was equipped with long-range strike power, the Yuan army usually did not engage it head-on, but used the method of detouring or luring the enemy into the depths, allowing the Song army to jump into the trap by itself.

The greatest advantage of the Yuan army is that it has many war horses, and it has the ability to maneuver that the Song army cannot match.

Taking advantage of their own mobility, the Yuan army could send some soldiers to confront the Song army at risk, and then send light cavalry to outflank the Song army in a roundabout way, cutting off the Song army's baggage and grain routes. The Song army, which was cut off from the grain route, dispersed after a long time, and no matter how great the general's ability was, it could not save the defeat.

This is one of the classic tactics. But this method is ineffective against the broken army in front of them. Both Ali Hague and Arakhan knew that the combined number of the captives who fought against them during the day did not exceed 30,000. Although it was defeated by such a small number of broken captives, it made people feel a little embarrassed to mention it. But both frankly admitted that it was unrealistic to have such a small number of soldiers and horses by cutting off the grain routes. Moreover, with the attack power of this broken army, there is no danger, and it can last for three days before their artillery is fired.

In the process of retreating, the generals controlled the distance from the Song army, and then suddenly reflexively charged back with cavalry, which was another wonderful way to crack the Song army's foot and shoot mixed phalanx, known as the horse pistol. Ali Hague wanted to try, but Arakhan disagreed. Judging from the skillfulness of the coordination of the opponent's artillery and infantry during the day, Arakhan believed that the generals who commanded this broken army had a very high grasp of the fighters, and if the distance between them was not well controlled, I am afraid that the opponent's artillery would have already bombarded before the Mongol army counterattacked.

The third strategy proposed by the staff is to divide the troops. One part of the men and horses continued to retreat to Qingyang Village as planned, and the other part of the men and horses made a feint in the direction of Yongchun County in the northwest. The forces of the Breakers who are fighting with their own side are small, and they will inevitably not dare to divide their forces. No matter which team they chase, the other team can quickly pounce behind him. Under the combined attack of the two armies, the infantry of the captive army was no longer able to protect their artillery, and they could only be captured.

"Good plan! Early tomorrow morning, I will retreat to Qingyang, and my brother will attack Yongchun! Ali Hague slammed his fist on the table, almost breaking the table with the map in two.

"Tomorrow, let's see through the movement of the captive army, if he doesn't come to chase, you and I will not divide the troops. lest they be divided too early and be seen by others. If we come to chase, you and I will divide our forces and retreat, no more than twenty miles apart from each other, and we will shoot back when we hear the sound of cannons......." Arahan nodded, expressing support for Ali Hague's decision. At this time, the number of soldiers and horses in the hands of the two was still nearly twice that of the enemy, or perhaps more than twice that of the enemy, and they would not fight again, and they were really unwilling.

The next day, it was not until the afternoon that the scouts sent the news that the captives had left Anxi. Arakhan and Ali Hague were overjoyed and immediately divided their forces as planned.

When Zhang Tang learned that the Yuan army had split into two routes, he immediately stopped advancing. He set up a large camp twenty miles northeast of Anxi City.

Ali Hague and Arakhan's wishful thinking failed, and they were half angry, so they had to set up camp and wait for further action from the captive army.

One wait, another night.

The third day was a sunny day, and early in the morning, Zhang Tang ordered the battalion to be pulled out, and led the first standard and artillery division to slowly press towards the Ali Hague department.

Overjoyed upon hearing the news, Arakhan quietly reversed the direction of his team, sending a large number of rangers to intercept all the Breaker scouts while rushing behind the Breakers.

He didn't dare to let the soldiers and horses go too fast, he was waiting, waiting for the artillery of the Broken Army to roar again. At that time, his cavalry suddenly appeared behind the flank of the Breaker Army, and he was defeated in one battle.

In that way, even if there are losses in the shelling, it is only the stupid Ali Hague who suffers. And he, Arakhan, is a hero who turns the tide. Of course, it would be better if he could meet the young general of the Broken Army who had set up an ambush to intercept him again. Arakhan wants to take a look, at this moment, he has more than 20,000 horses, who still has the ability to intercept it head-on.

"Boom!" The long-awaited sound of artillery bombardment finally sounded, and Arhan drew his scimitar, let out a cry, and rushed up the hill with his cavalry.

The dark green meadows, dazzling in the sun, quickly raised the battle flag of Arahan on the hills. The distance and time were just right, and Wu Xizao's artillery division was placed on another hill two miles away from him. Standing in the sunlight, Arakhan could even see the light of fire erupting from the muzzle of the cannonball as it was fired.

Under the rising sun, Arhan raised his scimitar high like a golden-armored god of war. Countless Mongolian, Western Regions, and Han knights pulled the reins, waiting for the moment when the scimitar fell back.

The bright blade was so piercing at the moment.

Arakhan was frozen in the action of preparing to start, and time seemed to have stood still around him. In his desperate eyes, he saw the big flag guarding outside the artillery group, as well as the more than 30,000 soldiers under the big flag.

The big Chinese character of "Chen" flutters in the wind.

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