Chapter 785: Battle
Gu Damai led his men and horses and walked eastward to Qiuzi, and when the army marched here, he had already received news that all the land east of Qiuzi had been occupied by the army of the Great Yan Kingdom.
Gu Damai could only garrison the army under the city of Qiuzi, and he was ready to work here and wait for the Central Plains army to come.
Huang Baifeng really lived up to Gu Damai's wishes, and without more than 10 days of hard work, he took his men and horses to the city of Qiuzi.
Gudamai knew that the other party had arrived, and he didn't want to give the other party any chance to rest, so he lined up on the second day of the other party's arrival, and took more than 300,000 horses to call for battle at the gate of Huangbai Peak Dazhai.
Huang Baifeng knew that the other party had already lined up the formation, so naturally he didn't have the courage to take the men and horses out of the camp.
Gudamai did not know that the Central Plains army had changed its combat methods, and thought that the two sides would split into a large formation and charge each other as before.
Seeing that the Central Plains army had finished arranging, Gudamai immediately sent his generals to the front of the battle to ask for the enemy's battle.
Huang Baifeng watched the other party rush out of a fierce general, just glancing at his mouth, when has this been, and he is still fighting alone in front of the battle.
Huang Baifeng didn't pay attention to the other party's arrogance in front of the battle, but looked at his own soldiers next to him.
The soldier immediately understood what Huang Baifeng meant, and immediately took off the Minnie gun from behind, aimed carefully, and suddenly banged, and the general who was showing off his might in front of the other party immediately fell off his horse with a gun in his eyebrows.
This can scare Gudamai behind the battle, what's going on? Could it be that there is a wizard in the opposing array who is good at making thunder?
Otherwise, if there is a thunderous sound, his general will fall off his horse.
Huang Baifeng was quite satisfied with killing the opponent's general, and sounded the horn to order the infantry to move forward slowly.
These hundreds of thousands of infantry lined up in a neat line, slowly approaching the black-clothed army.
After Gu Damai looked carefully after the battle, he found that the Central Plains troops were not holding swords and guns, but holding burning sticks one by one, and he didn't know what was going on.
But now he could not afford to be cranky, so Gudamai blew his horn and ordered his army to move forward.
The armies of the two sides slowly approached in this way, and when the two sides approached about 200 paces, the army of the Central Plains stopped advancing, lined up one by one, and aimed the Minnie guns in front.
And the troops in black didn't know what the hell the Central Plains army was doing in front of them, they only knew that they were holding shields and holding knives and guns, and they were slowly approaching.
When they were getting closer and closer to the Central Plains troops and were about to enter the range of bows and arrows, Huang Baifeng immediately beat the war drums behind the formation.
As the drums sounded, the troops of the Central Plains also began to form three rows and began to fire ammunition at the other side.
When the Great Yan Kingdom army began to shoot, it immediately killed and wounded the black-clothed Great Food troops on the opposite side.
Although they saw their comrades falling down continuously, they still gritted their teeth and desperately approached the Central Plains army, wanting to engage the other side and slash and kill them.
Their ideas are wonderful, but the truth is cruel.
No matter how they ran, they couldn't get within 100 paces of the Central Plains army.
100 steps ahead of the Central Plains army, there seemed to be an invisible barrier, blocking the approach of the entire army of the black-clothed Great Food.
Gudamai saw his warriors behind the formation, falling row by row, advancing row after row, but still unable to get close to the Central Plains army formation.
He knew that if he didn't take measures now, his army would soon collapse, so he no longer had any reservations, and immediately ordered the 100,000 cavalry behind the formation to move forward and attack the large formation of the Central Plains army from both sides.
After Huang Baifeng fought again, he saw that the people in the opponent's formation were shouting and neighing, and he didn't know that the opponent's cavalry was about to be dispatched, but Huang Baifeng didn't have any idea of changing his tactics.
Because this tactic of the other party is the same as when they fought against the Tatars.
The cavalry of the black-clothed master came to the front of the formation, and immediately divided into two steps, bypassing the infantry in front of him, and charging towards the infantry phalanx of the Central Plains Dynasty from both sides.
Huang Baifeng saw that the opposing cavalry was really coming, so he ordered to blow the horn immediately and let the infantry in front change formation.
It is very dangerous to change formations in the middle of a big war, and it cannot be done without strict discipline.
And the army under Jia Ke's command has undergone strict training and has reached this standard in terms of discipline.
With the change of the formation of the troops in front, there were two more barriers on both sides of the troops, which were just the route to resist the advance of the opposing cavalry.
The black-clad cavalry paid no attention to the thin two layers of obstacles ahead, and they urged the Arabian horses under their crotch to charge forward desperately.
As they got closer, at 200 paces, the infantrymen who were blocking them in front began to fire their guns.
With the sound of gunfire, the black-clothed cavalry in front fell in rows, and the cavalry in front of the formation fell, which immediately became an obstacle to the advance of the cavalry behind, and as the cavalry behind began to slow down, they immediately became the target of the Central Plains army.
With the black-clothed cavalry, there are more and more casualties, these cavalrymen are all from noble backgrounds, but there is no concept of infantry who will not retreat, they are already concerned about their own lives.
So the cavalry turned their horses around and began to retreat, and when they returned to the rear of the formation, they counted the 100,000 cavalry that had assaulted, and only 60,000 returned.
Gu Damai was also a little scared when he saw this fiasco, he didn't expect that the soldiers of the Central Plains were all like fire gods, and the burning rod in his hand kept spraying flames outward.
Gudamai felt that this battle could not be fought, and if it continued to fight, he was afraid that the whole army would be wiped out, so it was better to retreat to the city of Qiuzi, refuse to defend the city, and see what the other party could do to him.
So Gu Tamai immediately ordered the cavalry to retreat to the city first, and then began to order the infantry to retreat step by step, wanting to completely break away from contact with the Central Plains army.
But his idea is so beautiful that Huang Baifeng can't let him realize it no matter what.
After the battle, Huang Baifeng saw that the opponent's army had begun to retreat, and knew that the other party did not want to fight and wanted to retreat to Jiancheng.
So at this time, Huang Baifeng sent his killer weapon, the cavalry of 80,000 Eight Banners.
This time the cavalry attacked, but it was different from the last time, which only delayed the opponent's retreat.
As soon as the Eight Banners cavalry came out of the rear of the formation, they divided into two parts and went straight to the opponent's rear camp.
At this time, the army of the black-clothed master was retreating, and it was a complete mess, and he didn't expect the opponent's cavalry to raid at all.
When Gudamai realized that something was wrong, it was too late, so he could only retreat into the city with some of the infantry that had been pushed to the city gate, and the rest of the people could not be controlled.
Huang Baifeng saw that most of the opponent's men and horses had retreated into the city, so he ordered the Eight Banners cavalry to start walking back and forth under the city to prevent the other party from sneaking attack, and the remaining infantry rushed up to encircle and suppress those troops left outside by Gudama.
This battle lasted from dawn to midnight, and Huang Baifeng completely wiped out all the black-clothed master infantry left outside the city by Gu Damai.
Huang Baifeng returned to the camp and ordered to clean up the battlefield and count the losses.
The reported results made Huang Baifeng overjoyed, and in this battle, they eliminated the opponent's horse cavalry, a total of 200,000.
The losses on his side were only about 1,000 people, and these people were all lost in a melee when they were chasing each other.
Huang Baifeng is now more confident in defeating the black-clothed master, because from the report he received, the other party is in the Western Regions, and the total army is only 500,000, and now he has been wiped out by himself about 200,000, and the remaining troops are almost the same as his own men and horses, plus the generation difference in their weapons, he will definitely be able to wipe out the black-clothed army in this battle.
Huang Baifeng did not immediately attack the city after winning this battle, but ordered the troops to rest for three days, and only on the fourth day did the whole army attack, forming a formation under the city of Guizi.
After receiving the news that the Central Plains army wanted to attack the city, Gudamai immediately came to the city wall, and saw that the enemy army was already lined up, but did not attack immediately, but launched hundreds of black iron barrels behind the battle.
Gu Damai didn't dare to despise these big black iron buckets pushed out as much as before. Immediately order the troops to prepare, and at the same time order the trebuchets in the city to prepare, as soon as the opponent approaches, immediately start bombarding.
But his idea was so beautiful that Huang Baifeng couldn't let it come true, and stopped advancing when the artillery approached the opponent's city wall 800 paces.
This distance is exactly the limit of the catapult's shooting, that is, the catapult can throw so far and has no accuracy, and the strength is also weak, which has no effect on the artillery unit.
After Huang Baifeng's artillery was ready, he didn't give any hint and fired directly.
With this cannon, bricks and tiles immediately flew on the city wall, and cracks appeared in the city wall.
Gudamai now also feels that his eyes are black, he has been fighting for so many years, he has never seen such a weapon as the Central Plains, when the field battle is in the hands of the other party's burning stick keeps radiating flames, and the infantry who fight him can't approach at all, and when it comes to the siege battle, the other party has a large fire barrel, and it seems that the city wall can't last long.
Gu Damai frowned and racked his brain, but he couldn't think of a way to break the enemy, and in the end he could only think that he would withdraw from Guizi City first, and then make plans, otherwise he would be wiped out in this city.
So Gudama ordered the soldiers of Guizi, who had surrendered, to go up to the city wall to resist, while his own black-clad troops quietly withdrew from the wall and headed for the west gate.
And those turtle soldiers at the head of the city are not stupid, the general who led it saw that the black-clothed food could not resist, and let himself be cannon fodder, but they fled.
So he immediately ordered people to stop resisting, and at the same time raised the white flag, ready to surrender to the Central Plains army outside the city, after all, he knew the magnanimity of the Central Plains people, as long as they surrendered, the women and children and wealth of the family could still be preserved, unlike the surrender of black clothes and food, wealth and women will be plundered by the other party, and they can only save their own lives.