Chapter 573: The Battle for Water (3)
At the same time, Liu Juntao led the most elite Longxiang army, together with the soldiers of the Zhichong army, to the south of Lingji Spring.
I saw that the 100,000 Tatar army launched a charge in a cone-shaped formation, and rammed against the phalanx of the Longxiang army and the Zhichong army.
However, the nearly 30,000 soldiers of the Longxiang Army and the Zhichong Army were not afraid, and after the artillery of the two armies began to roar, more than 20,000 bird-gunners also began to fire a salvo, and the fierce fire quickly delayed the offensive of the Tatar Iron Cavalry.
And when the hundreds of divine artillery carriages equipped by the two armies began to roar, the 100,000 Tatar Iron Cavalry Army, which had already suffered huge casualties, was immediately broken through from it, and the huge casualties suddenly caused a gap in the array of the Iron Cavalry Army that was charging.
Seeing this, Xiao Lai, who was commanding the army to fight on the hill of Lingji Spring, was immediately shocked and roared loudly on the hill: "Hit the two wings of the Ming army hard, hit the ...... hard."
The sound of the horn was terrible, and the tens of thousands of Tatar iron horsemen in front of the battlefield were staring at the blood-red eyes, and they bravely pounced on the sides of the Longxiang army and the army like evil wolves.
I saw countless war horses soaring into the air, and their huge bodies rushed fiercely towards the phalanx of the Long Xiang Army and the Zhichong Army.
However, as the two armies continued to fire volleys, the heavily armored soldiers of the Tatar division were caught off guard, and many of them flew upside down and fell heavily to the ground after being shot.
However, at the same time, under the onslaught of 100,000 Tatar iron cavalry troops, the soldiers of the two armies were constantly shot by the rain of arrows, and the Tatar iron cavalry that rushed to the front of the formation in the rain of bullets and bullets constantly collided with the upper formation, knocking the soldiers of the Tiance Army out one by one, and the battle entered a white-hot battle for a while.
Seeing this, Bai Yuxing, the guerrilla general of the Longxiang Army, and Tao Jixin, the guerrilla general, rushed forward with their personal guards, and each of them led a soldier to defend the phalanx, leading the soldiers of the Longxiang Army to fight to the death with the Tatar Iron Cavalry Army.
Gao Ran, the general of the Zhichong Army, also led the guerrilla general Chang Hongdao and the guerrilla general Yu Ming to fight on the front line, and in the bloody battle, the guerrilla general Yu Ming took the lead and led dozens of guards to kill the hundreds of Tatar iron cavalry that broke through the phalanx, and the two sides immediately started a bloody battle.
At this time, under the supervision of the Great Khan, under the danger of the tribe on the verge of extinction, the Tatar army all broke out with amazing combat power, all of them fought to the death, and miraculously withstood the powerful firepower of the two soldiers of the Tiance Army, and after paying the price of at least 10,000 casualties, they finally rushed to the front of the Tiance military array and began to attack the phalanx, and for a time there were many places that were in danger!
The guerrilla general Yu Ming roared, cut down a war horse with a knife, and then sealed the throat of the fallen Tatar soldiers with a knife, and then rushed into the Tartar soldiers, leading the guards to rush left and right, as if entering a no-man's land.
On the side, several Tatar iron horsemen also had red eyes, roaring angrily and riding their horses to kill, and they didn't flash the fire guns and swords shot by the soldiers of the Tiance Army around them, and directly crashed into Yu Ming and the others, ready to die together!
"Boom!"
After a loud bang, these Tartar soldiers collided with Yu Ming and the others, and everyone suddenly fell into a snow mist.
The surrounding soldiers were stunned for a moment, and then, whether it was the soldiers of the Folding Rush Army or the Tatar Iron Cavalry, they all rushed towards each other as if they had gone crazy.
"Avenge the General!"
"Kill!" When General Gao Ran heard that Yu Ming had died, his eyes were red, and he shouted loudly: "Get on the bayonet!" Get on the bayonet! Kill me! ”
The guerrilla general Chang Hongdao directly commanded the gunners, filled several artillery pieces with scattered bullets, aimed them at the fighting field in front, and shouted: "Fire!" ”
The general on the side exclaimed: "General! There's our brother up ahead! ”
Chang Hongdao pointed at the Tatar iron cavalry in front of him who were constantly rushing into the phalanx, and shouted: "Fire at me!" ”
Before the words fell, a roar came, and the gap in front was suddenly washed by an iron curtain, including more than a dozen soldiers of the Tiance Army who had been surrounded by the Tatar Iron Cavalry, hundreds of people fell here, and the momentum of the Tatar Iron Cavalry rushing in was suddenly dispersed, and the guerrilla general Chang Hongdao immediately mobilized troops and horses to block the gap.
At the same time, Liu Juntao, who was watching the battle in the Chinese army, suddenly saw the battle flag of the guerrilla general Yu Ming falling, and his heart couldn't help but feel a pain, and then a monstrous anger surged in his heart: "Order! The Changshui Army attacks and flanks the enemy! ”
After receiving the order, the general Zhou Zongsheng also roared angrily, and the horse led the army to charge, and the 12,000 iron cavalry of the Changshui Army drew an arc on the battlefield, and collided directly with the 30,000 Tatar iron cavalry array in the east of the battlefield.
I saw that the general Zhou Zongsheng's spear flew up, killing three Tatar iron horsemen who were rushing in a row, and kept yelling in his mouth: "Quick, speed up...... Accelerate ......"
Like a bloody sword, the Iron Cavalry slashed down at the Tatar Iron Cavalry Army, instantly throwing the Tatars into chaos.
At the same time, the general Sun Xu was also like thunder, commanding the soldiers of the Tiger Ben Army to form a formation to resist the enemy, and for a time the sound of fire was loud, and the oncoming 30,000 Tatar iron cavalry were beaten very embarrassed, and they could not rush to the front of the Tiger Ben army formation, plus the officers and soldiers of the Changshui Army suddenly attacked sideways, and they were suddenly in chaos.
However, after all, the 30,000 iron cavalry army is the elite soldiers and horses of the Tatar department, after a short period of chaos, it still stabilized the morale of the army, and began to divide 10,000 iron cavalry to counterattack, and the Changshui army soldiers to hedge, the remaining more than 10,000 iron cavalry began to ride and shoot, around the Tiger Ben military array continued to throw arrow rain, the eastern battlefield began to fall into a stalemate.
"Woo~Woo~Woo~"
At this moment, a low horn sound came from the direction of Lingji Spring, which was an order for death battle from the Tatar army.
From this order, the Tatar iron cavalry on the battlefield on the middle road battlefield and the east road battlefield knew that the Chinese army soldiers and horses had gradually become unable to hold on, and ordered all units to start fighting to the death and never retreat!
For a time, the Tatars on both battlefields fell into madness.
At this time, he almost lost his mind, and the 50,000 iron cavalry army in his hands lost nearly 20,000 horses in just half an hour of fighting!
Although the casualties of the Tiance Army Eagle Yang Army and the Vietnamese Cavalry Army were also not small, the two armies together are estimated to be only one or two percent of the Tatar casualties.
What's even more deadly is that now the two divisions of the Tiance Army, the Eagle Yang Army and the Yue Cavalry Army, have successfully converged, [ ] are advancing from the northwest direction of Lingji Spring, and the brave Tatar Iron Cavalry is retreating step by step!
No matter how they commanded, no matter how the Tatars were not afraid of death, they could only be killed and retreated step by step in the face of absolutely superior firearms. In the face of the current situation, he had no choice but to order the soldiers and horses of the remaining two battlefields to fight to the death to prevent the rest of the Tiance Army from coming over, and at the same time ordered the remaining more than 20,000 iron cavalry around Lingji Spring to shrink intensively and gradually retreat to the hills around Lingji Spring.
Xiaolai prepared to take advantage of the terrain and dense long arrows to crush the Eagle Yang Army and the Yue Cavalry Army under the hill.
Who knew that the attack launched by the Tiance army became more and more fierce, and the staff general Yan Hu and the staff general Chen Ziping were the first soldiers, and the two of them raised their shields and fought bravely under the protection of the guards.
Fan Jing, the commander of the left battalion of the Eagle Yang Army, took the opportunity to organize a team of 300 bird-gunners, rushed to the junction of the two armies at the risk of death, and opened fire on the unsuspecting Tatars, shooting hundreds of people at once, and then Fan Jing led everyone to rush up, and 300 people firmly occupied this breakthrough point with bayonets. The Tatars counterattacked several times, and were killed by Fan Jing and the soldiers several times.
However, there are more and more Tatars around, and there are fewer and fewer soldiers around Fan Jing, and it didn't take long for there to be only more than a hundred of the three hundred soldiers left, and the Tatars around him are still increasing!
Seeing this, Fan Jing yelled at the bottom of the hill: "Open the cannon!" Open fire! ”
At the foot of the hill, the artillery team of the Eagle Yang Army looked at this side and was also anxious, seeing one soldier after another lying in a pool of blood, and the surrounding comrades were blocked by the Tatars, unable to kill for a while, and kept roaring in a hurry.
When Fan Jinghe and the last twenty or so soldiers were overwhelmed by the tide of Tatars, the artillery commander shouted: "Fire!" Run out of shells! ”
"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ”
"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ”
More than 30 artillery pieces opened fire continuously, covering a radius of dozens of paces in an instant, and the bodies of Fan Jing and other soldiers, along with hundreds of Tatars, turned into gunsmoke!
After this round of artillery fire, the Tatar defense line could no longer hold on, and began to retreat, and one of the commanders was stabbed in the thigh with a bayonet, only to see him endure the pain in his heart, and raised his hand and shouted: "Blow the trumpet, ask the Great Khan for help, ask for help......"
On the battlefield in the south of Lingji Spring, Liu Juntao led the Longxiang army and the Zhichong army to continuously counterattack, and tens of thousands of Tatar cavalry were evenly matched.
After receiving a request for help from the northwest, he also thought about transferring men and horses from other battlefields, but looking at the chaos of the middle and east battlefields, he immediately gave up this idea.
At this time, the Captain of the East is in an urgent situation on the hills, and the Captain of the West is also in an urgent situation for help, and if he continues to fight like this, it will not be long before his 180,000 army will be eaten by the Tiance Army!
"Order: All departments are intensively shrinking and holding on to Lingji Spring!"
As long as he supports himself until dark, the Tiance army will inevitably withdraw and repair, then he can lead the army to retreat at night, return to the city of Hara Mang, and join the 100,000 iron cavalry army there, and continue the bloody battle with the Tiance army!
And the Tiance army will suffer heavy casualties in the continuous bloody battles, and will gradually lose its support in the vast desert, and then it is the time for the Tatars to launch a counteroffensive!