Chapter Thirty-Eight: The Beginning
After sending Princess Izumo away, Duan Chong counted his last thoughts, and with the Dali messenger bringing the news of Duan Zhuang's death at the same time, it also brought the information of the war, Duan Zhong took Princess Izumo from Dengzhou City to Kaifeng Mansion, it took two days to go back and forth, and after returning to Dengzhou City, Duan Chong immediately gave an order to start the whole army to rebuild, and a day later began to march into Kaifeng Mansion, and in Dengzhou City, three thousand Dali soldiers were left to guard, so that Even if the troops under the command of Duan Chong are only 26,000 even if they add 2,000 "poison daggers", but with nearly 1,000 cannons around him, Duan Chong did not have the slightest worry, and at the same time, Duan Chong also knew that the 140,000 troops in Xuzhou had also begun to assemble and march towards Kaifeng Mansion.
On the other hand, on the side of the Northern Liang and Southern Liang coalition forces, stationed in Kaifeng Mansion is the army of 140,000 Southern Liang migrated over, plus the Northern Liang Meng Chao General personally commanded the 80,000 Northern Liang army, and the consensus of 220,000 troops greeted each other, and the strength was only a lot more, this Liang Wu Emperor Xiao He also knew very well that as soon as the Kaifeng Mansion was broken, Yanjing was exposed to Dali's sword, and there was no basis for it, and it would directly undergo the baptism of Dali's artillery fire, and it was obvious that Xiao He, Emperor Wu of Liang, did not want this Yanjing to become the second Nanjing City, Therefore, a large army was sent to defend Kaifeng Mansion to the death.
In the face of more than 200,000 Liang troops, Dali's soldiers showed no fear, but in fact, they were all Daliang's soldiers who were afraid, because the soldiers of Daliang did not know when the cannon fire would land on their bodies, which was originally an uneven battle.
After Duan Chong assembled his troops, he sent troops directly from Dengzhou City, leading 26,000 men and horses to Kaifeng Mansion, and because Duan Chong went back and forth between Kaifeng Mansion and Dengzhou for two days, plus Dengzhou and Xuzhou are a little farther away than Kaifeng, so it is that Emperor Kang's army will arrive at Kaifeng Mansion first, and between Kaifeng Mansion and Xuzhou, there is also a Songzhou City, which is regarded as the barrier of Kaifeng Mansion, and only after Duan Chong led the troops for a day, after walking half the distance, he received a flying pigeon message, Knowing the news that the Songzhou city has been successfully captured by Dali, Dali did not spend a single soldier, only a few cannons, nearly 10,000 Northern Liang soldiers in the city abandoned the city and fled, and the vigorous army entered the Songzhou city to station.
And at this moment, Duan Chong was sitting on the war horse, frowning slightly and looking at the letter from the flying pigeon, the will to resist shown by the Northern Liang and the Southern Liang was very strong, but why did the soldiers of the coalition army abandon the city and flee as soon as the Dali army arrived? As usual, if you want to resist desperately, you have to hold on for a while, otherwise when you get to the city of Kaifeng Mansion, won't you also abandon the city and flee, so what is the use of these 220,000 troops? Therefore, Duan Zhong smelled an extremely strange aura, which was not at all logical.
Duan Chong thought as he rode on the war horse and led the team forward, the speed of the entire army was not fast, but it was orderly, and when Duan Chong's mind was still running rapidly, the scouts in front of him had already rushed over with shouts: "Urgent, urgent!" When he rode a horse and rushed in front of Duan Chong, he didn't even care about the horse, and he didn't salute, but said directly to Duan Chong in an almost shouting voice: "General, there are a large number of troops with big beams ten miles ahead!" ”
Duan Zhong was taken aback for a moment: "What's the situation, how could Daliang's army suddenly appear here, there is no warning at all, how many enemies are there!" ”
The scout hurriedly said: "The army of the Great Liang is black and oppressive, there is no end in sight, there are at least 100,000 of them, and most of them are cavalry, the impact is extremely strong, and the speed is extremely fast, these cavalry of the Great Liang are all wrapped in cloth hooves, and the sound of running is very small, so we only notice it when we are ten miles away!" ”
When Duan Chong heard this, he suddenly felt a cold wind behind him, and a chill on his back, this cold sweat had been flowing continuously, if it was really according to what this scout said, I was afraid that the entire army of Kaifeng Mansion was coming to his side, and he was prepared, Duan Chong's brain immediately rotated at a high speed, and he immediately understood that this Liang army was making a desperate bet and playing a great ...... Gambling.
There is no doubt that if it is to defend the city, in the face of hundreds of cannons, no matter how many troops the Liang has, it is useless, the reason why the Southern Liang is destroyed is because there is too much panic in the face of this unknown cannon, and he does not dare to attack rashly, only dare to defend the city, so it will incur a devastating blow from the cannon, and the only possibility for the Liang to defeat Dali's army is to carry out a rapid cavalry raid on the way of the Dali army, and rush into the range of the cannon before the Dali army notices the abnormality, After the cannon was ready, he had already rushed to the front of the battle for hand-to-hand combat, so that there was a glimmer of hope for victory, and there was no doubt that the general of this beam had anticipated this, so he chose to fight in this way, choosing to fight a sports war rather than a positional war.
And the reason why Duan Chong felt cold sweat was because the army of the Great Liang came too quickly, and the number was too much, and at this moment, Duan Chong finally knew why this Songzhou City was easily breached, Kaifeng Mansion was already an empty city, and the generals of the Great Liang Coalition Army really played an empty city plan for Emperor Kangdi and the 140,000 soldiers of Dali, at this moment, the soldiers of Dali are probably still oiling the barrels of the cannons, preparing for a large-scale attack? But I didn't know that when it was time to attack, there would be no one to resist at all...... Because the entire army of the Great Liang is here in Duanzhong.
When this scout found the Great Liang army, it was already ten miles away, counting the time to rush back, I am afraid that the army of the Great Liang was only less than five miles away at most, and it was already within the range of the cannon, even if the cannon was erected at this time, it had already missed the best time to bombard, and there would definitely be a large number of Great Liang soldiers who had already rushed through the blockade of the first artillery fire, and the nearly 1,000 cannons on Duan Chong's hand could not completely cover all the troops of the Great Liang in a hurry, so Duan Chong's eyebrows became more and more wrinkled.
And just in an instant, Duan Chong had already completed his judgment of the situation, knowing that this battle was probably a tough battle, and it had to be done with a real sword, the commander of the Great Liang Coalition Army must have seen that Duan Chong led very few troops, and he couldn't move to Emperor Zhengkang's army for a while, so he naturally had to pick up the soft persimmons first, so Duan Chong immediately made a decision, and directly shouted: "The soldiers of the whole army are ready to fight, all the cannons are set up, and they are ready to fire in the Chinese army, the archers are prepared in the play, and all the soldiers are ready to fight." ......”
At the same time that Duan Zhong finished giving the order, a deafening shouting of killing had already sounded not far away, and the army of Daliang was no longer silent, and directly rushed towards Dali's army, and Duan Chong took the command flag from the commander without hesitation, pointing in the direction where the shouting and killing came from: "Fire!" ”
I only heard the sound of countless cannons, fireworks continued to rise between the mountains and forests in the distance, and at the same time there were countless screams, and nearly a thousand guns on Duan Chong's hand were powerful at the same time, and a large number of Liang soldiers were thrown into the dust in an instant, and when the first round of artillery fire was poured and the second round of shells were still being filled, the eyes of the Dali soldiers had already appeared in the eyes of the first Liang army.
What this Liang took was the impact of the cavalry, and Dali because of the existence of artillery, it was only possible to fight positional warfare, and for such a situation, as long as the cavalry rushed into the Dali army, it would inevitably have an impact on Dali's army, and the formation would be separated, as long as the Liang's army arrived, his 30,000 troops would be defeated, and in the face of such a situation, Duan Zhong did not have any reaction, and still watched the enemy's war horse rush with cold eyes.
In the blink of an eye, there were countless Liang's troops rushing up, and standing in the front row of Dali's soldiers was the most elite two thousand poisonous daggers on Duan Chong's hand, there is no doubt that the soldiers of this Daliang saw that they had broken through the artillery fire line, and the cavalry was about to rush to the enemy's camp, all of them saw the hope and dawn of victory, and their confidence suddenly skyrocketed, but soon, this skyrocketing confidence was beaten down by Daliang's army one by one.
The two thousand "poison daggers" standing at the front are the trump card in Duan Chong's hands, and they were sent to the battlefield at the first time, this is because Duan Chong also knows how crucial this sudden battle is, and this "poison dagger" is much higher than ordinary sergeants in terms of combat effectiveness and the range of arrows, so Duan Zhong needs his elite troops to give the enemy the most lethal blow at the longest distance, not to mention that these "poison daggers" are also equipped with powerful improvised bombs.
Seeing that the cavalry of this big beam was getting closer and closer, the "poisonous dagger" standing at the front suddenly threw out countless small black round balls, and these small and heavy round balls soon became life-threatening sparks, which exploded in an instant, taking the lives of the Liang soldiers who rushed to the front, and this was just the beginning, and when the first row of cavalry arrived, it was followed by endless dark arrows and poison darts, and finally survived the attack of these two thousand "poisonous daggers", after falling two or three thousand soldiers, But it entered the range of Dali's bow and arrows, and then there was a rain of arrows in the sky, and countless soldiers ...... again Fell down.
The cannon is still roaring, whether it is in front of the battle or behind the battle, there are countless Liang soldiers who lose their lives every moment, and the soldiers who rush to the front have only one belief: rush to the enemy's camp and destroy the enemy's artillery fire, only in this way can they survive.
The real battle has just begun.
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