Chapter 617: Capture Andingwei
The war at sea was over for the time being, and all that remained was to sign a treaty with the Dutch and continue to develop naval power.
Liu Juntao turned his attention to the current battle in the northwest, at this time, the various units of the Tiance Army had been stationed in the mountains of Dangjin Pass for a period of time, and the Tartars in the Acropolis still did not find any trace of the Tiance Army.
The 20,000 Tartars in the city set up a lot of military tents around Andingwei, and dressed Andingwei, who did not look like a city in the first place, more like a huge camp.
At this time, the rear was already stable, and Liu Juntao convened the commanders of the Tiance Army to discuss the matter, and immediately ordered an attack on Andingwei.
Late at night the next day, Sun Xu, the chief officer of Pingyang Town, led the Tiger Ben Army from Dangjin Pass and went straight west to the Acropolis of Anding.
At the same time, Chen Ziping, the chief military officer of Zezhou Town, led the Vietnamese cavalry to make a detour to the north and rush to the north of the Acropolis;
Gao Ran, the chief officer of Lu'an Town, led the soldiers of the Zhichong Army to approach the Acropolis of Anding from the southwest; Liu Juntao personally led the Long Xiang army to follow.
60,000 or 70,000 soldiers of the Tiance Army drove into the night, and soon disappeared without a trace.
In the early hours of the morning, settle the Acropolis.
Several of the soldiers of the Grakli were on duty at night, when the night before dawn was the most maddening, and they were all drowsy and unable to keep up their spirits.
The darkness of the night was terrifying, and one of the soldiers looked at the vast night, wondering why his heart was always uneasy.
"What's going on tonight? I'm always unsure! ”
Another soldier said listlessly: "You just make excuses to let you eat a big meal and go to sleep, and you will be sure!" ”
The rest of the people also sneered, not caring at all.
"I mean really!"
The soldier came to his senses and continued: "I am the most famous hunter in Hami, and my hunch has always been accurate! Tonight, I feel unsteady, as if I have been targeted by a pack of wild wolves, which makes people feel empty! ”
"Wolves? Or a group? ”
"Haha!"
Now everyone came to their senses, and they all laughed.
"There is not even a ghost shadow for dozens of miles around Anding City, where is the wild wolf? There are hundreds of sentinels patrolling outside the city, can you still let the wild wolves take you away! ”
"But what if it's an enemy army?"
"Are you the Clarion Army? Now the Ming army is storming the Acropolis of Shazhou, attacking against the leader's hundreds of thousands of troops, how could they suddenly come here? ”
"That's it! Even if the Ming army attacks, those sentry riders outside the city will send an alarm in advance! ”
The soldier still didn't give up, and continued: "But if the Ming army is coming, then the hundreds of sentinels may be wiped out directly, how can they warn?" ”
Everyone was slightly stunned, and they all felt incredible, it must be this soldier who was in the way of face, and he was arguing with strong words, so they stopped paying attention to him, and relied on the surrounding carts and wooden fences on their own, preparing to continue to suffer until dawn, only the thin soldier who had been uneasy was still staring at the night.
Suddenly, the thin soldier stood up sharply, pointed to the night in the distance, and said, "There is movement! ”
The rest of the crowd didn't pay any attention, thinking he was making excuses.
"Listen! The sound of insects chirping in the distance is gone, and something is coming, and there are a lot of them! ”
Hearing this, these soldiers got up one after another, and when they heard carefully, sure enough, the sound of insects was gone, and all of them cheered up, staring into the distance without saying a word, their eyes full of worry.
"It can't really be an enemy army, right?"
No one answered.
"Boom! Boom! Boom! ”
"Boom! Boom! Boom! ”
Suddenly, the war drums of the Ming army sounded, and suddenly tore a hole in the night, and then, countless torches suddenly lit up in the dark night east of Andingwei, showing a huge and majestic military array!
"It's the Ming Army!"
"Enemy attack!"
These soldiers were suddenly heartbroken, and countless Ming troops actually took advantage of the dark night to touch within three miles of the Acropolis, which was incredible! Could it be that the hundreds of sentinels were really killed silently?
In the blink of an eye, the entire Acropolis of Anding was blown up, and the 20,000 Tartar army rushed out of their respective military tents in a chaotic manner and began to assemble in the roar of Shangguan.
But the incident happened suddenly, the hearts of these Tartar soldiers fluctuated, not so much the assembly of the army, but the bombing of the battalion, at best only a few thousand of the most elite soldiers and horses of the 20,000 soldiers and horses completed the assembly, and the remaining more than 10,000 people were still wandering around the city.
At this moment, Sun Xu, the chief officer of Pingyang Town, had already led the soldiers of the Tiger Ben Army to advance within one mile east of the Anding Acropolis!
"Artillery battalion! Put! ”
Sun Xu roared loudly, and the artillery team in front of the military formation opened fire together, and the divine machine gun carriage and all kinds of artillery took turns to exert their might, and immediately covered most of the buildings on the east side of the Anding Acropolis, and all of them were pulled into the sea of fire!
"South!"
"There's an enemy over there, too!"
The Tartar soldiers and horses in the Acropolis of Anding were baptized by the artillery fire of the Tiger Army, and suddenly found that the war drums of the Ming Dynasty also appeared in the south of the Acropolis, and then, countless artillery fires roared out from the night, smashed into the city, and pulled most of the Tartar soldiers into the endless abyss.
Gao Ran, the chief officer of Lu'an Town, led the soldiers of the Zhichong Army to arrive!
And just behind the two soldiers of the Zhichong Army and the Tiger Ben Army, Liu Juntao had also led the soldiers of the Longxiang Army to stop, and they stopped four miles away from the Acropolis.
Looking at the firelight in the dark night in the distance, Liu Juntao breathed a sigh of relief, since this battle has begun, it is equivalent to the end of the battle, and the 20,000 Tartar soldiers and horses in the Acropolis are not his opponents at all, they can only consume some supplies for the army.
Sure enough!
In less than half an hour, the soldiers of the Tiger Ben Army and the Zhichong Army rushed into the Acropolis, and under the fierce baptism of artillery fire of the two armies, the 20,000 Tartar troops in the city were killed and wounded, and at least more than 3,000 Tartar soldiers died in the artillery fire.
And the commander of the Tartar army in the city also died in the artillery fire, just hit by a cannonball, and there was no place to bury.
The rest of the Tartar generals were even more frightened, and fled north with their defeated soldiers, wanting to flee back to Shazhouwei.
In this regard, the soldiers of the Tiger Ben Army and the Zhichong Army did not stop them, but continued to encircle and annihilate the rout troops in the Acropolis, and began to maintain order and seize all kinds of materials in the city.
Listening to the sound of fighting in the distance gradually becoming smaller, Liu Juntao ordered the Long Xiang army to rush to the city, and I am afraid that the Long Xiang army is not needed as a reserve in this battle.
Settle north of the Acropolis.
Nearly 10,000 Tartar soldiers and horses fled from the Acropolis of Anding in a chaotic manner, fled for their lives on the steppe that was about to be brightened, and continued to flee northward, and many wounded Tartar soldiers were pushed aside by their companions, or even trampled to death directly, the scene was very chaotic.
Suddenly, a rapid war drum sounded, and then a huge army appeared on the grassland in the distance, and the dense Ming army soldiers were fully armored and in strict formation, which suddenly made the fleeing Tartar rout heart and gall.
Chen Ziping, the chief military officer of Zezhou Town, had already led the soldiers of the Vietnamese cavalry army to block the road leading to Shazhou Wei. Put! ”
"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ”
"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ”
"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ”
The fierce artillery fire suddenly swept away the Tartar rout, nearly 10,000 Tartar rout soldiers were in chaos, only two rounds of artillery fire, they bombarded and killed thousands of soldiers and horses, and the remaining Tartar soldiers trampled on each other, and fled in embarrassment in front of the Vietnamese cavalry formation, and no one charged forward!
Chen Ziping, the chief military officer of Zezhou Town, also laughed when he saw this, if the hundreds of thousands of troops led by Gaslan were all of this kind of goods, this battle would be easy to fight, even if Gaslan had millions of troops, it would not be a big deal!
Seeing that the Tartar rout in front had no room to fight back, Chen Ziping ordered the artillery to stop the bombardment, and then ordered the left and right battalions to move forward, and ordered the cavalry officers and men to cut off the rear road of the Tartar rout, and prepare to gather and annihilate the less than 10,000 rout troops as soon as possible!
"Forward!"
"Tiger! Tiger! Tiger! ”
More than 16,000 soldiers roared in unison, and the soldiers killed the Tartar rout in three ways. He was immediately killed and retreated, and in a blink of an eye, he was surrounded.
A massacre without suspense~ The slaughter immediately began, and the soldiers of the Vietnamese cavalry army ended the battle in less than half an hour, and nearly 10,000 Tartar soldiers were wiped out in one fell swoop.
When Chen Ziping, the chief military officer of Zezhou Town, led the soldiers of the Vietnamese cavalry army to the Acropolis, Liu Juntao had already commanded the rest of the soldiers to clean up the battlefield, and then stationed in the city.
In this battle, Liu Juntao commanded all units of the Tiance Army to raid the Acropolis, annihilated 20,000 Tartar troops, and occupied the city; And the casualties of the officers and men of the Tiance Army are less than 100!
On the same day, Liu Juntao ordered the army to rest for a day in the Acropolis of Anding, and sent out the night Bushu to block the news of the capture of the Acropolis of Anding, and prepared to go north to Shazhou Wei the next day.
Although there will definitely be people who escape from the Tartar rout, and the news of the capture of the Acropolis of Anding will definitely not be hidden, but a day's time can still be earned, after all, at this time, the iron cavalry of the Tiance Army is wandering around, and those who escaped are too late to hide, where will they run out and rush to Shazhou Wei?
At the same time, Liu Juntao also received a battle report from Niu Linghe, the new commander-in-chief of Shaanxi Town.
At this time, the 40,000 troops of Shaanxi Town fought several battles with the Tartar army under the command of Jiaslan, and had been at the disadvantage of passive defense, and had lost thousands of soldiers and horses, but it could withstand it for the time being, and was stationed forty miles east of the Shazhou Acropolis to confront the Tartar army.
Seeing this, Liu Juntao nodded and said to Xiang Qun, the minister of the military department: "It seems that the soldiers and horses in Shaanxi Town are still capable of fighting, at least the toughness is enough!" ”
Xiang Qun also said affirmatively: "That's right, in the face of several times the enemy army, you can still fight to the death and not retreat, and this new chief military officer of Shaanxi Town is also very good!" ”
"Good! Next, let's send troops to Shazhou Guard! ”