Chapter 303: The Battle of Beijing (2)
Two days later, the weather suddenly changed, and the wind was blowing for more than ten miles around Beijing, and even many houses were overturned by the strong wind, and the wilderness was also flying sand and rocks, and the vision was not clear.
The Warat Taishi also took the opportunity to lead 270,000 Warat Iron Cavalry to attack and directly kill the area around Deshengmen.
Yu Qian, the secretary of the military department, and Shi Heng, the governor of the right capital, learned the news successively, and the two reached an agreement after discussion, both of them believed that just defending the city was tantamount to winning the war, and if they could not take a long time to attack and Tokhtar first, they would definitely lead the army to withdraw directly, so that the power of the Wara army was still there, and they could enter the Kou again at any time!
Therefore, Yu Qian and Shi Heng both believed that the most important thing in this battle was that it was necessary to kill and wound as many Warat troops as possible, so that the Warat army would lose its troops and be unable to fight again, so that the Ming Dynasty could completely reverse the situation!
Therefore, Yu Qian and Shi Heng deployed a large number of elite Ming soldiers in the private houses outside the Desheng Gate, and the private houses in the area outside the city gate, these Ming soldiers are all the remaining soldiers of the Shenji Battalion in the capital, they are all the elite of the elite, and the firearms equipped are very sophisticated, and the combat power is definitely not under Liu Juntao's soldiers!
After that, Shi Heng mobilized a group of iron cavalry soldiers to take the initiative to attack, facing the 270,000 troops of Yexian and Tokhokbuhua, preparing to feign defeat to lure the Tartars into the encirclement.
At the same time, Yu Qian also sent someone to inform Liu Juntao, who was stationed at Changyi Gate, to guard the camp and cover the area around Changyi Gate and Xizhi Gate to prevent the Wara army from dividing troops to attack.
After Liu Juntao received the order, he also immediately ordered the soldiers of each battalion to prepare for the battle, and after Zhang Xiaojun and Chen Ziping's battalion commanders returned to the army to prepare for the battle, Liu Juntao sat alone in the big tent and sighed: "The battle to defend Beijing has finally begun!" ”
An hour later, the 3,000 Ming army iron cavalry sent by Shi Heng went northbound for seventeen miles, and encountered the 10,000 vanguard iron cavalry of the Wara army, and the two sides immediately started a bloody battle!
This Ming army iron cavalry was originally the elite soldiers of the 3,000 battalions of the Beijing camp, and was responsible for staying in Beijing City when the orthodox emperor drove the expedition himself, and was used by Shi Heng to lure the enemy at this time.
After all, if you don't spend some money, it is impossible to take the bait with the cunning of taking off first!
So as soon as this encounter began, the two sides went completely crazy!
Although there were only 3,000 soldiers in the Ming army, all the soldiers were experienced in a hundred battles, and the whole army was wearing iron armor, carrying spears and strong bows, and the formation of the charge was unstoppable.
And the 10,000 Vara Iron Cavalry was also extremely brave, and in the face of the rain of arrows thrown by the Ming soldiers, they didn't dodge at all, and directly shouted angrily and collided with a formation, and at the cost of sacrificing hundreds of people, the charging speed of the Iron Cavalry Army was increased to the maximum!
"Boom!"
The two sides collided violently!
Due to the large number of Warat soldiers and the high-speed charge of the entire cavalry formation, the lethality has also reached the maximum.
Although the soldiers of the Ming army used two rounds of arrows to kill and injure thousands of kilowatts of iron cavalry, they also did not increase the speed of the cavalry formation to the maximum, so they suffered a big loss when the two sides were hedging!
With just one face, the three thousand iron cavalry soldiers of the Ming Army lost one-third!
Thousands of soldiers of the Ming army spilled their blood on the battlefield, and the remaining more than 2,000 soldiers were still roaring and charging, no one was afraid or retreated!
The Wara army continued to charge, like a raging bison, constantly hitting the Ming army's cavalry array with its horns, and finally broke the Ming army's iron cavalry at the cost of hundreds of lives, and the Ming soldiers were immediately divided and surrounded by the Wara army.
"Withdraw!"
Seeing this, the chief general of the Ming army's iron cavalry roared loudly, led the main force of more than 1,000 iron cavalry soldiers to fight hard, and finally fought a bloody way from the west of the battlefield and retreated towards Desheng Gate.
The hundreds of Ming soldiers who were surrounded by the Wara army were desperate, and after a while, all the soldiers were martyred, and the noisy battlefield immediately fell silent.
At this time, there were still about 8,000 Warat iron cavalry on the battlefield, and when they saw a Ming army iron cavalry fleeing south, they immediately launched a pursuit.
At the same time, the commander of the army sent a fast horse to report that he would not spend money on the first and the detachment.
According to the report, the vanguard army defeated the 3,000 battalions of the Ming army, which is the elite soldiers and horses of the Ming army!
For a while, the morale of the Wara army was greatly boosted, and the first and Tokhok Buhua also reached an agreement, and the two immediately supervised the army and prepared to converge the vanguard soldiers and horses to start a pursuit, and even imagined that they could chase behind the ass of the Ming army, and rush into Beijing in one fell swoop!
Along the way, he secretly planned in his heart, in order to monopolize the credit for himself, so as to occupy the first place in the future power struggle, he assigned his younger brother Polo and Pingzhang Mao Na to lead an army of 30,000 to go first, and together with the vanguard army, they stormed Deshengmen.
In this regard, the Great Khan did not stop it, after all, he was willing to use his own soldiers and horses to explore the way for the army, and he couldn't ask for it, and it was not his subordinates who died anyway!
It didn't take long for Polo and Pingzhang Mao to lead 30,000 light cavalry all the way away, and soon caught up with the 8,000 iron cavalry of the vanguard.
The 38,000-kilowatt iron cavalry chased behind more than 1,000 soldiers of the 3,000-battalion Ming army, and slaughtered towards Deshengmen with great momentum.
At this time, the 30,000 elite soldiers of the Ming Army outside the Ambush Desheng Gate had already received the news in advance.
Among the Ming army soldiers hidden in the houses outside the Desheng Gate, there are more than 2,000 soldiers of the Shenji Battalion, at this time all the soldiers have been ambushed on the roofs of the houses, in the houses, and in the yards, and all the houses have been set up around the tripping horses, horse stakes, and tens of thousands of Ming army soldiers and young men are ambushed in them.
The soldiers waited quietly for the arrival of the Warat army, and it was not long before the soldiers saw the smoke and dust billowing from the north.
In the blink of an eye, more than 1,000 soldiers of the 3,000 battalion galloped past and rushed directly into the Desheng Gate, and the Desheng Gate was closed again with a bang.
And when more than 38,000 Tile Thorn Iron Cavalry arrived, Polo and Ping Zhangmao, who led the army of the Tile Thorn army, did not think much about it, and immediately commanded the army to attack.
After all, at this time, Deshengmen was already close at hand, and the counterattack of the Ming army stationed at the head of the city was weak, and it was obvious that the Ming army was already frightened.
Polo and Pingzhang Mao even felt that this short distance could be solved by just a charge, and it would be easy for nearly 40,000 iron horsemen to break into the Desheng Gate!
However, when the 38,000 kilowatts of iron horses rushed into the large number of houses outside the Desheng Gate, the Ming soldiers at the head of the Desheng Gate immediately opened fire with all their might, and the entire Wara army was hit by a fierce rain of arrows and firearms!
At the same time, in the houses outside the Desheng Gate, countless firearms emitted angry flames, and rockets were fired into the Warat army like locusts.
The soldiers of the Shenji Battalion in the ambush were not only equipped with a large number of sophisticated firearms, but also rockets such as Shenhuo Flying Crows and Ten Thousand Tigers Rushing Together.
The leading Polo and Ping Zhangmao were dumbfounded when they saw this, the two never expected that the Ming army would deploy troops and horses outside the Desheng Gate, and they had the courage to take the initiative to attack, and they would fight a decisive battle with their own army of nearly 40,000 under the city!
At this time, the Wara army outside the Desheng Gate has been completely disorganized, under the Ming army's head and outside the city, the casualties of the army have risen sharply, and it may be completely defeated at any time.
Polo said loudly to the boy of Pingzhang Mao: "The army must be withdrawn and reorganized, first clear the Ming army outside the city, and then reorganize the army to attack the city!" ”
But the kid looked at the battlefield filled with gunpowder with some fear, and said, "Withdraw? Now that it's like this, how can the Warriors pull down? ”
Polo was also stunned when he heard this, then gritted his teeth and said fiercely: "You must withdraw, otherwise the casualties of the warriors will be too great!" In this way, after I lead my troops to break off, I will fight with the Ming army outside the city gate, and you will first command the main army to withdraw, and then counterattack immediately after reorganizing the formation! ”
At this time, the child couldn't think of any other way, so he nodded and agreed, and the two immediately led their own guards into the battlefield filled with gunpowder.