Chapter 371: This Is Hell (3)
Because the previous waves of attacks were repeatedly blocked, the Great Khan of Warat also discussed some countermeasures with the general Ara, such as having the soldiers of the army carry sacks and baskets from the bottom of the mountain, and with great difficulty filling these trench traps.
It's just that there are too many traps and too long trenches, and if the Warat army wants to fill them all, it will be a very huge project, and on the way, they will have to be terrified to prevent the attacks of poisonous soot bombs, bird guns, and earth-shaking thunder on the mountain.
These surfaces have been difficult to walk, so many Warat soldiers and horses are crowded on the southeast side of the Yanghepo defense line, and in the northeast, there are ten flat passages specially set aside on each slope.
These passages were not trapped, the road surface was gentle, and it was comfortable to walk, and naturally they were also the key places for the tribes to pass and attack, and they also used shield carts to cover before attacking.
It's just that in the passage in front of me, not to mention the corpses, there are still scattered everywhere, or various wooden shields that have been split and burned, and many wooden shields are still burning, seriously hindering the passage of the army.
Therefore, those Warat soldiers and horses had to be cleaned up before the main force passed.
In between, the artillery on the mountain from time to time bombarded with gray shells and cannons, accurately bombarding the wooden shields and in the dense crowd.
The smoke of death in the air caused many soldiers to struggle and scream each time, and at the same time, despair surged in their hearts, which is an ordinary mountain range in this Yang and Slope defense line, it is clearly a corpse mountain hell!
The 20,000 remaining Warat soldiers and horses were forced to the first wave of low walls and trenches, and a deep sense of powerlessness floated in the hearts of these Warat soldiers, and they understood the fear in the hearts of those small tribesmen and horses before.
In front of them was a low wall, which was not high, about the height of each person's chest, but it was very strong.
This is nothing, the point is that there is a slope in front of the low wall, counting the slope waves, the wall is actually as high as two feet.
Blood had congealed on the slope in front of them, and it was obvious that it would not be easy for these Warat soldiers to climb up the slope to the low wall.
Moreover, before this low wall, there are three trenches, the first two trenches are okay, although the width is half a zhang, the depth is half a zhang, and the bottom is also full of sharp wooden thorns, the key is the third trench, which is as deep as one zhang and as wide as one zhang, and is full of spikes, not to mention, in front of the trench, there are all layers of rejecting horses and deer, and if you want to move the rejecting horses under the nose of the Ming army in Yanzhou Town, just think about it......
In fact, between these three trenches, there were already dense corpses with strange expressions, spreading horizontally and vertically along the trenches into the distance.
Not only that, but as the Tartars saw, behind this low wall, there are two low walls, and one layer is higher than the other, each wall is only a few steps apart, at most ten steps, listen to those who are abnormal, the small tribes who attacked the mountains before said that such a low wall, there are two waves and six roads behind, and finally it is the defense line of the Ming army made of mountains and stones.
Those damn Ming troops, the arrangement of troops is also as damned as them, sometimes their own soldiers storm, their first wave of low walls is unstoppable, they retreat to the second wave, at this time their strength, is the combination of two waves, sometimes retreat to the third wave, at this time their strength, is the combination of three waves, firepower is more fierce.
In between, the Warat soldiers attacking the mountain also had to prevent the long knife soldiers and mine-throwers of the Yanzhou Zhenming Army from attacking and counterattacking from time to time, and if they were not careful, the big guy had to retreat to the front of the first wave of low walls and trenches, and so on repeatedly, the blood of the 30,000 Wara army was constantly sprinkled on this ordinary mountain range until it was sprinkled!
Once, Gong Adai, the general of Warat, led his subordinates to attack before the middle army of the Ming army, which was the most glorious attack of the soldiers and horses of Warat.
However, before Gong Adai led his troops to force the Ming army into the middle army, in the face of the taller and thicker, concave and convex stone walls of the Ming army, as well as the dense towers, these warriors chose to retreat, and left a corpse meaninglessly.
Since the front of the Ming army's defense line was difficult to attack, those Warat soldiers and horses divided part and went around to the northeast of the mountain range, wanting to attack the mountain along the river.
It's just that there are also many low walls and ditches here, and the mountains are even more rugged, so the strength of the Warat army can't be used at all, and it's even more difficult to fight here.
Some people even wanted to go around the mountain, but it was full of cliffs, and many Warat soldiers fell to their deaths on the way up......
In the face of such a defensive line as the Yanzhou Zhenming Army, whether it was the Wara soldiers, or Yexian, Arazhiyuan and others, there was a feeling of powerlessness in their hearts.
However, since the battle had reached its current situation, there was no reason for a halfway truce, so the horn sounded again in the army of Yamashita Warat, and the order to attack began.
Since he also ascended to the throne first, the military discipline of Warat has been extremely strict, as long as the attack order is reached, the Warat soldiers must have no hesitation, the horn of the Chinese army is tight, these desperate Warat soldiers in the banner under the loud encouragement of the generals at all levels in the banner, burst out with hoarse shouts, to the low wall in front, especially the ten passages.
Seeing them coming, Liu Juntao held the clairvoyant mirror and saw it clearly, and he understood that another wave of brutal fighting had begun.
At this time, Liu Juntao's eyes flashed with a cold light, since these Tartars do not give up, let them shed blood and squeeze flesh and blood on their own strong defense line!
The surging flow of people in the Tartars spread all over the hillside, especially between the ten passages of the mountain, it was crowded with people, and in between, there were dense wooden shields, the closer they were, they soon entered within a hundred steps, Liu Juntao suddenly ordered to attack!
The shrill swan sound of the Chinese army sounded, and it instantly spread throughout the entire mountain.
More than 20,000 bird guns on the defense line continued to hear the sound of unison, the first wave of low walls, three dense white smoke rose, hundreds of watts of Tartars stirred up blood mist, howling and rolling to the ground, each low wall is good, and except for the passage, there are few Tartar soldiers covered by wooden shields, and the results are obvious.
The first wave of thousands of bird-slewn-hand on the three low walls continued to shoot in a volley, and the thunder-throwers behind the third low wall threw out the raindrop-like earth-shaking thunder, accompanied by the sound of bird-fired, the explosion of the earth-shaking thunder was also continuous, and the explosion made those Wara Tartar soldiers cry wolf.
It was only at this time that this wave of Warat soldiers attacking the mountain understood what they meant by the previous incoherent defeated and retreating companions, and what they meant when they said that the three low walls of the Ming army in Yanzhou Town were also difficult to fight.
It's just that the poor language of these Warat soldiers is not enough to describe the actual situation of the defensive fortifications on the mountain, and only the follow-up soldiers and horses continue to come to the battlefield in person can understand the strangeness of the three firepower points up and down between each wave of low walls of the Yang and Slope defense lines.
Some of the Tartars pressed to the front of the trench and aimed at the Ming soldiers behind the first low wall, but before they could shoot arrows, they were shot in vain, and they fell on the slope without seeing what they wanted.
After some people woke up, they aimed at the last two low walls to prevent the Ming soldiers behind the first low wall, often ignoring their heads and not paying attention, and behind the third low wall, there were a few iron bumps, and even hundreds of stones were thrown to blow them up alive, or stone them to death!
The three-dimensional firepower network of the Yanghepo defense line, accompanied by the constant bombardment of earth-shattering thunder and birds, coupled with the constantly roaring artillery array on the top of the mountain, especially those concave and convex low walls, the Warat soldiers facing the low walls and trenches felt as if they had nowhere to hide, they were scurrying around like rats, just hoping to find a safe place.
And on the mountainside and in the rear, the artillery array on the mountain at this time is still bombarding from time to time ~ cannons and gray bullets, which adds to the chaos of the Warat army.
The ninety cannons took turns emitting cannons accompanied by thick smoke, and countless earth smoke and dust continued to explode on the slope, and bursts of blood mist also erupted from behind the wooden shields, like the wind blowing rice waves, and the wooden shields continued to fall backwards.
These rough wooden shields made by the Warat army improvised could not withstand the bombardment of the Ming army's sophisticated artillery, and in the blink of an eye, the Warat soldiers at the passages were killed and wounded.
Originally, in these places, there were already various postures to knock down the corpses of the Varat soldiers, and the flesh and blood stumps were scattered everywhere, and the Ming soldiers deliberately did not clean up the corpses of these Varat soldiers to deter the Tartar soldiers who came to attack in the future.
This trick was very effective, the morale of the Warat army attacking the mountain was greatly moved, and many soldiers and horses were defeated with a disastrous face, if it were not for the fear of military punishment, it is estimated that they would have been dispersed on the spot.