Chapter 362: Burning the Company Camp (2)
That night, Warat Khan was also depressed in the Chinese army's tent thinking about the battle situation, and the confrontation in the past few days made him physically and mentally exhausted, and the morale of the army under his command continued to be low.
At this time, I also couldn't understand in my heart, why did Liu Juntao lead the army to kill thousands of miles away, was it just to stare at himself here?
also discussed with his younger brother Saikan Wang first, and the two planned whether to mobilize troops and horses to forcibly attack Liu Juntao's battalion, so as to break the current deadlock.
But then the two gave up this idea, after all, Liu Juntao's firearms are sharp, if it is a field battle, the Wara army can also compete with fast horses and strong bows, once it enters the positional battle of attacking the camp, the Wara soldiers and horses will definitely suffer a big loss, and the gains outweigh the losses!
Therefore, he had no choice but to continue to confront the Ming army, and he sent tens of thousands of soldiers to call for battle, but after a few times, there was nothing to gain except to make the Wara army sleepy and lacking.
That night, the king of Saikan came to the big tent of the Chinese army and said to Yexian: "Great Khan, it can't go on like this, now we have gathered 200,000 troops, plus the women and children in the tribe who came with the army, but there are 300,000 mouths and hundreds of thousands of war horses to eat and drink!" If it continues to be consumed, we can't support it! ”
is also obviously worried about this, if it weren't for the fact that the Wara army had looted around Datong Town for a long time and seized a lot of money, grain, and baggage, it is estimated that it would have been unable to hold on at this time.
"Perhaps, then Liu Juntao just wants to drag us out of food!"
After listening to the words of the king of the journal, he first nodded in agreement, and then said: "It's really not good, let's withdraw for the time being, maybe the battle situation will change!" ”
The king of the journal also breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly said, "Okay! Then I'll give the order right away! ”
As soon as the words fell, I only heard a "boom" outside, and I don't know where a deafening explosion sounded from somewhere, followed by a series of explosions one after another, and the fire broke out in the Wara camp, almost illuminating the Chinese army's tent as if it were day!
"What's wrong!"
He also stood up in anger first, picked up the scimitar next to him and rushed out of the big tent, and the king of the journal followed closely behind.
At this time, the entire Warat camp has been completely chaotic, the Warat camp that stretches for more than ten miles is full of explosions, everywhere are panicked and fleeing soldiers and war horses, everywhere is the fierce burning flames, everywhere is the mess after being bombarded!
At this time, a disheveled horse of ten thousand captains arrived, and when he got closer, he rolled off his horse and dismounted, and said loudly: "Great Khan! The Ming army suddenly shelled the camp of our army! ”
"Shelling!"
also glanced at the king of the journal first, and both of them had incredible looks in their eyes.
Looking at the scene in front of him, the number of artillery mobilized by the Ming army must be very large, so how did Liu Juntao unknowingly keep the artillery and army in front of him?
I didn't have time to think about it, so I immediately asked the king of Saikan to reorganize the soldiers and horses of the Chinese army, and launched a counterattack against the Ming army in the north within half an hour.
The king of the journal didn't say much, and immediately went to dispatch troops.
The first one immediately left the Chinese army and rushed to several large battalions in the south, preparing to mobilize as many troops and horses as possible to launch a counteroffensive.
At the same time, two miles north of the Warat camp, Liu Juntao led more than 10,000 soldiers of the Chinese military camp to stand by.
In front of the large army formation, there are the middle army battalion, the vanguard battalion, the front battalion, the rear battalion, the left battalion, and the right battalion mobilized by Liu Juntao, all the artillery pieces of these six battalions, a total of 120 guns, lined up, and are constantly bombarding the Wara battalion!
Prior to this, Liu Juntao had already commanded the horse teams attached to each battalion to attack and clear the sentinels in and around the Warat battalion.
The rest of the battalions of soldiers and horses, except for the soldiers of the rear battalion led by General Yan Hu to sit in the Ming army camp, all attacked according to Liu Juntao's deployment.
The guerrilla general Bai Yuxing looked at the flickering fires in front of him, and said excitedly to Liu Juntao: "General Town! I think we can also inflict heavy casualties on Warat just by bombarding like this! ”
Liu Juntao also smiled, but he knew in his heart that the artillery at this time was shooting solid bullets, and before the flowering shells appeared and matured, it was impossible to directly end a battle under heavy shelling, at best, it was just to kill and injure as many enemy troops as possible and disintegrate the enemy's morale and formation.
Therefore, Liu Juntao said with a smile: "Warat has a strong army, let's just taste some sweetness tonight, then we are not good at it first!" ”
After speaking, Liu Juntao took out the clairvoyant mirror, looked at the Wara camp for a while, and said, "Okay! The Warat army is ready to attack, so let's withdraw too! ”
Bai Yuxing muttered when he heard this: "It's cheap for these tartars!" ”
After speaking, Bai Yuxing immediately commanded the army to retreat, Tao Jixin also commanded the gunners to withdraw immediately, and the one hundred and twenty artillery pieces were too late to be transported away, and all of them were left.
However, the barrels of these 120 guns are specially treated, all of them are clamped with steel rings the thickness of an adult's arm, and then wedged into the ground with large steel nails, so that, combined with the weight of the guns themselves, can be said to be immovable.
Even if those Warat soldiers use war horses, they can't be transported away in a short time.
Soon, the king of Saikan led the 30,000 iron cavalry of the Chinese army to roar and kill, but by the time the army arrived at the Ming position, it was empty except for 120 cannons firmly fixed to the ground.
The king turned over and dismounted, looked at the cannons that were still smoking, his face was full of excitement, and he hurriedly ordered his men and horses to drag the cannons away.
However, the thousands of Warat soldiers and horses dragged the cannons, and they were busy for half an hour, but they still could not drag the one hundred and twenty cannons.
Suddenly, there was a roar around, and the king of Saiban was taken aback, this sound was the sound of a large number of iron cavalry charging, and at this time, the 30,000 Wara soldiers had no formation, many people were pointing around the artillery, and at this time they were attacked by the Ming army's iron cavalry, and the army must have suffered heavy casualties!
"Withdraw to the camp!"
The king of the race flew on his horse, roaring loudly while leading the army back.
At this time, the general Zhou Zongsheng led more than 6,000 soldiers of the Iron Cavalry Army to kill out of the night, and directly rushed into the 30,000 Vara Iron Cavalry that was scattered in a scattered formation, and immediately rushed them to the back of their horses, and in a blink of an eye, they killed thousands of Vara soldiers in the north with heavy casualties.
Seeing this, the king of Saikan was immediately furious, but he also knew that the army could not meet the battle at this time, so he could only give up the soldiers and horses that had been chaotic in the north, and led the remaining more than 20,000 iron horsemen to withdraw to the camp.
Zhou Zongsheng pursued for a while, then laughed and led the army to retreat, unloading one hundred and twenty artillery pieces with the special equipment provided by the baggage battalion, and swaggering to the north.
At the same time, the entire Warat battalion was already in chaos due to the bombardment of 120 artillery pieces, and they also hurried north after gathering 40,000 iron cavalry in several camps to the south.
At this time, the staff general Zhang Xiaojun, the staff general Chen Ziping, the staff general Gao Ran, and the staff general Sun Xu each led their headquarters to launch a fierce attack on the large camps in Wara from east to west.
For a time, on a distance of more than ten miles, tens of thousands of birds and guns of the Ming army continued to bombard, and countless earth-shattering thunderbolts exploded in the Wara camp, which made the Warat army even more chaotic, and even many Warat soldiers trampled on horses and killed and injured countless people in the chaos!
When he first led 40,000 iron cavalry back to the camp of the Chinese army, he was furious at the scene in front of him, and immediately commanded the army to kill the nearest general, Chen Ziping.
Seeing this, Chen Ziping was also not in a hurry, and immediately released the cannon, and the staff general Zhang Xiaojun, the staff general Sun Xu, and the staff general Gao Ran immediately led their troops to move closer to Chen Ziping's department, preparing for a decisive battle with the first department!
At the same time, Liu Juntao also led the Chinese military camp to hurry from the north!