Chapter 707: Listen to the roar of my cannon!
Xu Huizu, who has been defeated, probably didn't expect that he would be evaluated as "God's Forbearance" by later generations because of the continuous defeat of this battle, in all the history books of later generations, there was no clear communication between Xu Huizu and Zhu Di about this battle, but Xu Huizu perfectly understood Zhu Di's intentions, and he had been forbearing his strength, and chose to retreat from defeat to attract Arutai's attention.
His foresight and forbearance, as well as his fearless courage to face defeat and be dealt with by military law, made later generations of military scholars unable to help but be amazed.
Of course, what surprised later generations was not only Xu Huizu's defeat and victory, but also his magical "closed flower" tactics after forming a siege - later generations believed that this was the ultimate embodiment of the battlefield general's control over the heroes under his command, and it would never be seen again throughout the ages.
Because of the previous rout, the 70,000 troops under Xu Huizu's command had long been scattered by the Arutai people, and they were scattered and irregularly "exiled" in the Bahl and Stan regions.
When the news of Zhu Di's attack on Sa'erdu came out, Xu Huizu finally showed his fangs.
In just one day, more than 50,000 troops scattered in the Baal and Stan areas were waiting for news from the bloody scouts: attack according to the plan!
Just to convey the news, the scouts sent out by Xu Huizu died nearly three hundred people.
And then......
The "remnant army" of the Ming Dynasty, which belonged to Xu Hui's ancestral department, after enduring it for a month or two, started a battle under the leadership of Li Yuan and Huo Zhen when the grain and grass were about to be exhausted.
The Bar and Sta areas are full of smoke.
Looking down from the ground, you will be surprised to find that the scattered troops under Xu Huizu's command seem to be unconsciously fleeing, but in the end, the foothold is connected, like the petals of a huge remnant flower, which just seals the route of the Tatar army to the depths of the western steppe.
Especially after the encirclement, these more than 50,000 troops are like shy grass flowers, and when they are touched, they immediately begin to close the petals, and quickly open channels between each other to connect together, forming an impregnable defense line.
If Arutai attacks on a large scale, it may also destroy this layer of defense, but it will give Zhu Di, Qiu Fu, and Zhu Gaoxu time to attack from behind.
Xu Huizu's tactics can be called the god of soldiers!
And Zhu Di, who was in the middle of the war, probably didn't expect that his big detour this time would leave a high evaluation in the history books as high as "burning red cliffs"? It has become a model of roundabout warfare in later generations.
Troop pindown? The elite sharp knife is blocked and obliquely inserted, which seems simple? But how to use it flexibly on the battlefield? Changing the situation is not as simple as it seems.
However, Zhu Di's move was very risky? Because it is to use the blood of tens of thousands of Ming soldiers on the left wing to create the final encirclement advantage and lay the foundation for total annihilation? Dare to lay it out like this? You need to have absolute confidence in the combat effectiveness of your own heroes.
Of course, Zhu Di is confident.
But the encircled Arutai has not yet discovered that he has become a caged bird and can no longer fly high, and after his cavalry is surrounded, he has lost its strategic depth? It's like a goshawk that has lost its wings and leaves the sky and falls to the ground.
But he soon knew.
The 20,000 cavalry led by Bagen and Lost Digan went straight to the cavalry led by Zhu Di? Confidence is bursting, the Ming cavalry led by Zhu Di is less than 10,000 people, and it is a tired division, and the combat strength of the Ming cavalry is not as good as the grassland iron cavalry, which is a well-known fact.
Twenty thousand dozen eight thousand? Crush in minutes.
Bagan and Lost Gun are divided into two lines, each with 10,000 iron horses? In the direction of the horns, you want to smash the Ming cavalry? At the same time, Zhu Di was not given space and time to evacuate.
It's normal that everything is more.
Except that Zhu Di's arrangement is incomprehensible, if you follow previous experience? Bagen and Lost Pinching Gan think that Zhu Di will choose to contain it with a small number of troops? A large army withdrew in the direction of the reinforcements of Chufo? Avoid the battle and wait for reinforcements, while at the same time continuing to maintain the general trend of encircling your own rear.
But Zhu Di didn't.
Zhu Di actually set up a formation, 8,000 people are like bull's horns, and that's it, after all, with a small number of troops to meet the superior forces, the horn-type point-breaking formation is indeed easy to chisel through the enemy's offensive line, but Zhu Di's cavalry is extremely weird.
Spread out!
It's like a web full of holes, which makes the second monk scratch his head.
It's all about looking for death.
Bagen and Lost Pinching didn't have time to think so much, for the sake of the hundreds of thousands of sons behind them, they had to break through the encirclement of Zhu Di's cavalry in order to survive in a desperate situation.
Zhu Di and Zheng Heng are each in front of a bull's horn.
Behind Zhu Di was the cavalry of the Shenji Battalion that spread out in formation, each holding a firearm in his hand and carrying a firearm - in order to achieve stronger combat power, before the great detour, nine thousand firearms were called from the foot soldiers, but unfortunately, because of the long-distance attack, hundreds of people were reduced in non-combat.
The formation behind him is strange, with staggered canine teeth.
Seeing a group of black-pressed iron horsemen rushing up, the sound of the earth was like thunder, the turf was flying, the mud was shooting, and there was a desolation between heaven and earth, Zhu Di felt his blood boiling for no reason.
The feeling of being lost in a long time came to my heart, so familiar.
But Zhu Di didn't move.
Although he could already see the cavalry of the Iron Cavalry on the opposite side at this moment, with a bow and arrow, and would fire a volley when they reached a similar distance, he was not in a hurry, but just waved his hand and motioned for the son behind him to make a design gesture.
Seeing that the enemy army was getting closer and closer, approaching about 800 steps, Zhu Di shouted to the herald beside him, "Open the cannon!" ”
At the same time as the big detour, Zhu Di transferred the cannon to this side, as far away from the enemy scouts as possible under the cover of his own foot soldiers, so he also took a lot of detours, and the non-combat attrition reached a terrifying 20%.
After all, it was too difficult to transport artillery.
It was precisely because the artillery had been placed that Zhu Di dared to unscrupulously lead 8,000 iron cavalry to block the rear retreat of Arutai.
The herald immediately turned around and waved the red and yellow flag in his hand to wave the flag.
After a dozen breaths, a deafening sound sounded behind the cavalry of the Shenji Battalion, smoke rose, the smell of gunpowder wafted with the wind, and even the Tatar cavalry charged in the lineup burst of fire, and the explosion burst the eardrums.
People turn on their backs!
In an instant, he rushed towards Zhu Di's 10,000 Tatar iron horsemen, losing hundreds of people.
At this moment, the Tatars were still five or six hundred steps away from charging to a position where they could shoot on horseback, and they could not fight back, so they could only continue to charge against the artillery of the Da Ming Xiong Division.
The artillery is still roaring.
Red flowers continued to bloom in the lineup of the Tatar cavalry, and people continued to fall off their horses, either killed on the spot or trampled into flesh by the iron horsemen behind.
It is absolutely impossible for anyone to be injured and alive after falling off the horse.
The only way for those in front of the cavalry to survive is to crash through the enemy formation, and at the same time pray that they will not be killed by the enemy in the collision.
The cruelty of war was evident in this moment.