Chapter 759: Recovering Turpan
In the Ming army camp, dense muskets rang out, and rows of Yarkand cavalry who broke through fell one after another.
They couldn't break through, and the Ming army didn't seem to be in a hurry.
Sima Yi seemed to have guessed the purpose of the Ming army, the Ming army wanted to encircle the point and send reinforcements, with the camp as the center, to attract all the Yarkand troops outside to eliminate them one by one, and in the end, the isolated Yarkand had only a dead end.
Sima Yi guessed correctly, this is indeed Zhou Yuji's plan.
Although Turpan is only an earthen city, not as tall and strong as the city of Nanjing, but this is a fortress mainly for military defense, if you forcibly attack the city, you will inevitably kill 1,000 enemies and lose 800.
The army of the Ming Dynasty is so precious that it cannot be sacrificed by soldiers in vain because of this earthen city.
To destroy the living forces of the Yarkand army, it is a good way to encircle the points and send reinforcements.
Yaolevas's breathless tentative move made Zhou Yuji's confidence a little stronger, as long as he eliminated the enemy troops who came to help, let them break their muscles and bones, and the loss of breaking the city would be minimized.
Outside the camp, the iron hooves rumbled, and 20,000 Yarkand cavalry quickly reinforced the stealing camp, wanting to take advantage of the chaos of the Ming army's camp to break down one by one.
Yaolevas personally led the troops to the battle, and the emotions he had been holding back for half a year exploded at this moment.
"Rush up and crush them!"
On the horse, Yaolevas shouted with a red face, and directly ordered the whole army to charge.
20,000 war horses galloped on the empty plain, and most of the war horses of many varieties in the Western Regions were mediocre and had strong explosive power, and they sprinted up and rolled up bursts of yellow sand, and the momentum was very shocking.
Bang bang bang......
When he was still two hundred steps away from the camp, Zhou Yuji gave the order to shoot.
The double-layer shooting taken by the Ming army seemed to be without any intervals, and the soldiers maintained similar movements one by one.
Reloading, shooting, reloading, shooting, the action is seamless and seamless, and it looks like the Yarkand army, which has a strong impact, is instantly blocked from attacking.
The cavalry in front had just fallen, and the ones behind didn't know what was going on, one by one, and if they wanted to turn around and escape in time, they had no chance, and they turned around to be their companions, which caused chaos in the charging array.
Platoon shooting is a good name for the infantry array line in later generations, but it is indeed so lethal at this moment.
The Dingwu army only fired freely at the enemy who entered the range on the wall, relying on the powerful firepower of the Heding rifle, and firmly nailed the Yarkand cavalry to a position 100 steps away from the camp.
"Taiji, something is wrong."
It was really wrong, Yao Levas himself felt it, if it was a successful night attack, it would definitely not be limited to just one area, and the entire Ming military camp would fall into chaos.
Just listening to the sound in the Ming army camp, the defense of the Ming army is very layered, and there is no sign of chaos, unless something happens.
Yaolevas looked at the Ming army camp from afar, and suddenly said: "Follow me around the front camp!" ”
He made a decisive order for his soldiers to pull down the wall, so that the Yarkand cavalry trapped inside could break out.
Although the wall is strong, it can't withstand the drag of 10,000 war horses, and within a few strokes, the wooden wall falls down in pieces, revealing a huge gap.
Herovas saw hope, and in such a short period of time, countless warriors fell, which really distressed him.
Seeing that the Yarkand army was approaching, Zhou Yuji issued a sonorous and powerful military order: "Destroy the remnants of the enemy in the camp, the cavalry will go out of the village, and charge!" ”
The big fish have been hooked, and the use value of the bait is not high.
Listening only to the loud rumbling sound, the remnants of the Yarkand in the village immediately exploded, and the cavalry array, which had been organized with great difficulty, was chaotic again, and I don't know how many people were killed by the explosion.
In a panic, Yarkand Khan's youngest son, Sima Yi, was first blown off an arm, then a bullet pierced through the head, and he couldn't die anymore.
"Kill slaves!"
More than 10,000 cavalry soldiers of the Ming army were divided into two roads, one left and one right, shouting and charging the Yarkand cavalry outside.
Obviously, the Ming army didn't want to have a life-and-death fight with the Yarkand army, they were equipped with revolvers, so why make senseless sacrifices if they had a weapon advantage?
Therefore, when the cavalry of the Ming army charged, they initially chose to destroy the enemy with handcuffs.
After the Ming cavalry left the camp, the scene was greatly reversed, and the Yarkand army, which had never seen such a posture, did not know how to deal with it at all.
Although they have seen Russian firearms, they have never seen such a short firecracker, and the firepower is still so great......
This charge can be described as a massacre more appropriately.
The commander of the Yarkand army, Yaolevas, watched this scene blankly, and was completely beaten without the will to fight.
"Retreat!" Elovas roared.
Yarkand is worthy of growing up on horseback, and every warrior is too skilled in horse control technology compared to the people of the Central Plains, and in such a crowded situation, he can easily turn the horse's head and run to Turpan without looking back.
Obviously, this stealing camp that Yaolvas thought had a great chance of winning would be recorded as a great strategic operation in the history of Yarkand, and it ended in disgrace.
They were chased by the Ming army to the city of Turpan and poured into the city in a crowd.
The reason why Zhou Yuji delayed attacking before was very simple: he was sharpening his knife and sharpening the enemy's patience.
The longer you sharpen, the sharper the knife becomes, the easier it is to chop people, and the greater the lethality.
Zhou Yuji put away the sharpened knife, and in such an excellent opportunity, he immediately made a decision and ordered the whole army to attack and attack the city!
At dawn, 3,000 siege pioneer death squads, riding ladders, launched an attack on the Tucheng of Turpan.
Jiang Zhu, the deputy governor of the Chinese Military Governor's Office, personally copied the banner of the Ming army and commanded the vanguard death squad to attack the city.
During the Liaodong War, the Qing army bypassed Jinzhou and raided Songshan, the heavy grain and grass of the Ming army, Jiang Zhu, who was the deputy general of Liaodong at the time, followed Wang Tingchen, the general soldier of Liaodong, and killed the Qing army's cavalry captain Dandai, the staff leader Zhangkushan, and the third-class guard Bo Shuodai in the north of Songshan City.
During Zhu Cihong's Northern Expedition, the Qing army went south to Liaodong, Wu Sangui shaved his head, and Jiang Zhu led his troops to Shanhaiguan to attach Mao Yuanyi, the general of Zhenbei, to help him guard Shanhaiguan.
In the Battle of Guanjin, Jiang Zhu led 6,000 Ming troops to attack the Qing army camp at night, killing the Qing general Huilan, Wen Cha, the commander of the escort army, Qixinlang Maitu and others.
After the end of the Northern Expedition, Zhu Cihong made him a viscount, belonged to the Dingwu Army, and served as the deputy governor of the Western Army Governor's Office.
This nine-sided veteran whose ancestral home is Huguang has fought with Yuan Chonghuan, Zu Dashou, Jin Guofeng, and Hong Chengchou, and has fought for a lifetime, and has also suffered for half a lifetime.
He had never felt so much as he did today, under the leadership of Emperor Tianwu and under the command of Zhou Yuji, the Marquis of Dingxi, fighting such a cool battle!
The heroic behavior of the deputy governor greatly encouraged the Ming army during the period, and the soldiers fought bravely to be the first.
The Yarkand soldiers could not have imagined that the Ming army, which had not moved on weekdays, suddenly turned into a tiger, and such a fierce attack, coupled with the defeat of the stealing camp, completely collapsed the defense line of Turpan City, and the defenders scattered and fled.
The city wall fell, the Yarkand army completely lost the courage to resist, and the Ming army conquered the city of Turpan in one fell swoop.
The fighting spread to the inner city, and the defenders of the city were so frightened that they turned around and fled.
"Surrender or die!"
It's not just a lovely angel who shouted such a sentence at the right time at this time, but it was still in Chagatai Uyghur, and the army of Yarkand seemed to hear the sound of heaven, and the collapse was even more powerful.
Without much hesitation, they threw away their weapons and lay motionless on the ground, fearing that they would become the ghosts of this terrible army.
The chair under the buttocks of Yaolevas, who had just escaped, had not yet been warmed up, and when he heard that the Ming army had entered, he hurriedly fled west with his subordinates in a panic.