Chapter 154: Fierce Battle
The Mongol leaders also showed shock, and they left thousands of people in Dongjiakou. How could Qi Jiguang know that their main force had been transferred here? Could it be that he opened his eyes and couldn't do it?
"Taiji, what should I do? Do you want to switch to war? The crowd asked in a trembling voice.
"Turn to a fart...... Dong Fox snorted coldly: "I understand, this is a suspicious plan!" Qi Jiguang is not here at all, nor is he in Dongjiakou. He's just letting his men pretend to be him and scare us......"
"Oh, that's cunning...... the Mongol chiefs suddenly realized that this explanation was very reasonable. couldn't help but rejoice: "Fortunately, Taiji is here, so I can see through his tricks!" ”
In fact, Dong Fox himself doesn't believe this, how can the marshal flag of the three armies be like child's play? The Ming army is not a three-year-old child, what is the use of only erecting a flag when he can't see the coach? And once the handsome flag is taken away, the Ming troops from all walks of life in Jizhen will immediately have no fighting spirit, and they will only be invincible.
But he had no choice but to do so. There is a way that is exhausted after one blow, and the heart will be dispersed again, so you can only attack hard.
And it is estimated that if you go to Qinglongkou or somewhere else, you can still meet Qi Jiguang's handsome banner.
But this time, the battle situation is different.
Chang bald brandished a scimitar, driving away the Mongols all over the mountains, and rushed towards the Shijiayu defense line with a strange scream.
But Shi Jiayu is a bell mouth in front of him, even if he only invests 10,000 people, he can't open it under the fortress.
So Dong Fox ordered Subahai and Fried Flower to lead 4,000 people each to climb the two mountains, and at the same time attack the side wall and enemy tower of the Ming army on the mountain. Once captured, you can condescendingly shoot arrows at the fortress, isn't it beautiful?
The battle started one after another in the fortress and on both wings, and the Ming army in the front fortress had firearms, crossbow arrows, rolling stones, and wood, and with the two-zhang high city wall, they were not afraid of the Mongol attack at all.
On the contrary, the battle situation on the mountains on both sides is very tight. The side walls were only one zhang high, and could not effectively block the Mongols' bows and arrows; And the side wall is only two meters wide, so there is no way to deploy too many troops, and there is no way to place artillery, and the defenders can only adopt the tactic of adding fuel.
It is because every time the Mongols invaded, they broke through the side wall, and never really broke through the fortress of the Ming army.
Holding their rudimentary wooden shields aloft, they rushed to the side wall against the arrows of the defenders on the side wall, throwing the sandbags on their shoulders between the outer parapet and the side wall. Then he dodged to the side, took his bow and arrow from his back and shot at the wall, covering his fellow who threw sandbags behind.
Last year, the Mongols suffered a great loss in the face of such two walls, and after they climbed over the parapet wall, they found that the ground was full of thorns and could not stand on it at all, and they could not retreat if they wanted to, so they could only let the Ming army on the side wall shoot them.
It was this time that Dong Fox asked everyone to prepare cloth bags, and packed the soil and carried them under the parapet wall before going into battle. In this way, the ants moved like a mountain.
Of course, the Ming troops on the side wall and the enemy platforms on both sides could not let them succeed, and they hid behind the battlements and opened their bows and raised their guns to shoot at the Mongols. Under the wall is densely packed with human heads, there is no need to aim at all, and you can even shoot through two with one shot.
However, the Mongols' bows and arrows were not vegetarian, and the accuracy of such a close distance was extremely high, and they could even shoot their bows and arrows into the battlements and kill the Ming troops on the side walls. From time to time, the Ming army screamed and fell to the side wall......
The Ming troops on the side walls and enemy platforms were limited in number, and despite their brave killing, they were unable to stop the Mongols. An hour later, the enemy had piled up a small hill outside the left flank wall, which not only completely submerged the parapet, but also left the top of the hill just over a meter from the side wall.
Dong Fox, who had been closely observing the situation on the battlefield, couldn't help but feel excited when he saw this, and immediately ordered to blow the horn again, and replace it with a living force to step up the attack on three sides. He wants to contain the Ming army in the middle and on the right flank, so that they can't rescue the left flank!
Seeing the Mongols who came up like a tide again, Qi Jiguang under the Shuai banner did not move at all. His generals were battle-hardened, and their soldiers were well-trained, so they didn't need him as a commander to overstep his authority.
The guerrilla who guarded Shi Jiayu was called Tong Ziji, the younger brother of Tong Ziming, the beloved general of Qi Jiguang, and the elder brother of Director Tong of the Tamluo Garrison District. At the beginning, the three brothers all participated in the Qi family's army, and they had no calculation and outstanding achievements. The eldest brother Tong Ziming has grown into a general who can take charge of himself.
In the forty-third year of Jiajing, Tong Ziming was ordered by Qi Jiguang to return to Yiwu to recruit volunteers and rush to rescue Xianyou. He personally led the team to drive forward, but because of the traitor's betrayal, he was ambushed by thieves in the territory of Xianyou. Tong Ziming bravely faced the battle, braving like rain arrows, although he killed the leader of the Japanese Bandits, but he could not kill the encirclement, and he was exhausted after a long battle, and died on the Tiger Roaring Pond. Later, the imperial court posthumously presented Dr. Jingo.
After the victory of the anti-Japanese war, Qi Jiguang was ordered to go north, and the remaining brothers were combined, and it was unpredictable to go to the north, the eldest brother was gone, and we couldn't all go. So when the second brother left the little brother in Yiwu to support the old man, he followed the handsome to Beijing.
However, Tong Zigong had nothing to do after returning home, and couldn't help but join the security team of Jiangnan Group again...... At that time, he really thought he was just going to work as a security guard. This is also the reason why Jinke Wang Rulong has always arranged for him to be in charge of the training of newcomers and never let him go to the battlefield.
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Speaking of Tong Ziji, he is actually responsible for recruit training in Jizhen, but this battle cannot be lost, Qi Jiguang replaced the important passes on the front line with his old subordinates. He just got a chance to show his face.
The marshal was watching from behind, of course he couldn't drop the chain, seeing this, he hurriedly waved the command flag in his hand, and the chariot soldiers hidden in the two hollow enemy platforms on the right side of the fortress pushed the wheelbarrows onto the enemy platform.
The cars were loaded with wooden crates. Three soldiers took care of the car, stopped it and opened the front guard, revealing a dense cluster of arrows. There are as many as thirty-two arrows in each cabinet!
The Tartars were still excitedly rushing towards the side wall, unaware of the danger coming.
Fifty steps, twenty steps, ten steps......
"Shoot!" The flags on the two enemy towers shouted the order at the same time, and the chariot soldiers lit the fuse behind the car.
As the front Tartars began to climb the hill with sandbags and corpses on both sides, the first arrow, with its long tail flame, roared into the enemy line!
When he landed, he shot through three Mongol soldiers like a sugar gourd......
Then there was a bang, a second, a third...... Countless long arrows with tail flames shot down from the wooden cabinets one by one.
Each arrow is four feet two inches long, and there is a four-inch long gunpowder cartridge under it, which can shoot more than 300 steps under the thrust of gunpowder, and the force can penetrate the revolution.
And the enemy tower is less than a hundred steps away from the enemy, and it is a condescending shot, and each arrow can penetrate two or three enemies! He even shot directly through their rudimentary wooden shields, shooting them to the ground with their shields.
Fierce arrows crossfired, raining down on the Tartar's head. In particular, the enemy soldiers who rushed up the hill were all shot into hedgehogs!
There was a space in front of the side wall, and the Tartars were suffocated, frightened by the terrible rain of arrows, and the shouts of killing stopped.
Dong Fox saw that there was an empty piece in front of the side wall, he had been dealing with the Ming army for a long time, and he knew that this thing was called 'a swarm of bees'. The Ming army now relied more and more on firearms, but the flaws were great. For example, although such things shoot fiercely, they do not last. And it's too cumbersome to reload, and it's useless to shoot once.
"Don't panic!" He quickly shouted loudly. "They can only shoot once, hold it off for me!"
The Tartars were relieved, and rushed forward with a scream.
As a result, a second volley was fired......
Although Qi Jiguang doesn't know anything about quantitative management, he is a natural Virgo. From the amount of charge of the bird gun to the number of 'swarms' launched, he calculated them precisely.
He found that in the case of crossfire, only four 'swarms' on the left and right were needed to block the enemy's attack, and any more was a waste.
And each enemy platform can open up to eight cars......
"Don't be afraid, they won't have any more!" Dong Fox, who was slapped in the face, roared angrily: "This must be the rest of the round just now!" ”
The bloody battlefield like the Shura field of "Whoop Whoop ......" has made the Mongols forget their fears, lose their ability to think, and only know that they have rushed to rush.
'Whoosh, swish...... third wave of 'swarms' shot again as scheduled.
It turned out that after the first round of shooting, the cavalry immediately pushed the four rocket carts that had been shot to the other side of the enemy platform. The four cars that had been waiting there filled their seats......
Eight vehicles were parked in half of the enemy's platform, and the entire enemy's platform was naturally 16 vehicles......
The fourth wave of 'whooshing ......' attacks was repelled by 'a swarm of bees'.
Only then did the Tartars remember that they were afraid, and the people in front of them began to hesitate.
"Attack, keep attacking! Otherwise, they'll reload! Then die in vain! Looking at the tragic situation of corpses all over the side wall, Dong Fox's eyes were torn, and he knew that retreating at this time was tantamount to giving up his previous efforts. Hoarse roared:
"Whoever dares to retreat and kill! I can't believe how many of them are swarming! ”
His men shot arrows at the end of the line, forcing the Mongols to continue their attack.
However, at this time, the Ming army had already pushed down the original four rocket carts and replaced them with four new ones.
What is a management genius? It's that others can only shoot one shot and pull down, but he can keep shooting through clever organization!
As a result, it took eight rounds of firing to wipe out all 32 rocket vehicles in the enemy's Taichung before stopping the swarm of firing.
In total, more than 2,000 four-foot arrows were fired, killing and wounding nearly 2,000 Mongol soldiers......
With such a tragic sacrifice, if it had been changed to previous years, the mentality of the Mongols would have collapsed long ago. But if you can't grab something this year, you'll die if you go back. It is with the support of this mentality that they can continue to fight.
This is also the reason why Qi Jiguang was reluctant to fight this year, the so-called trapped beasts are still fighting, and the Tartars at this time are the most dangerous. If they had waited another year, they would have knelt directly outside the Great Wall and asked for surrender......