Chapter 153: Outflanking the Wings
"Smash their catapults."
When Wang Zezhi saw the catapult, he didn't wait any longer.
The heralds waved their flags, and the red-coated cannons were in full swing.
"Boom, boom!"
The Tartar catapult was destroyed before it could be used, and it was like a signal.
Behind the catapults, the cavalry, who were waiting for the enemy, instantly launched a charge.
They were going to rush over in the interval when the redcoat cannon was reloaded, so that the array would not be impacted.
The Tartar infantry had already bulldozed eight lines of defense, and at this moment the cavalry charged, and the infantry removed the shield carts and trench carts, revealing one route after another.
Eight lines of defense, this distance is exactly the range of the attack of the Franc cannon.
Next to each of the Furlong bronze cannons were two gunners, and these gunners were the best of the best, and they were not at all worried about their skills.
"Fire!"
The king gave the order, and the heralds waved their flags.
The Furlong gunners began to wield their might.
The Fran cannons opened fire in turn, and the shells whistled out from the top of the city, smashing into the Tartars outside the city.
Even if the shield charioters and trench fillers overthrew the eight lines of defense, the Tartar cavalry still could not easily break through the ninth line of defense.
Barbed wire and trenches were a cavalry nightmare.
The cavalry, who charged to the ninth line of defense, rode their horses and leaped up, and the barbed wire scraped the bellies of the horses.
The horse's momentum waned, and he fell with his cavalry into a trench full of spikes.
The Tartar cavalry screamed in despair, and was crushed under the trench by the cavalry rushing from behind.
In three breaths, the ninth and tenth lines of defense were filled with the carcasses of the Tartars and the carcasses of the horses.
They're within range of the Rumpy.
"Fireman, fire!"
With Wang Zeyi's order, the musketeers were divided into three groups to shoot in turn.
With the guns and the Furlong cannons, the Tartars, who rushed under the eleventh line of defense, became struggling.
Human corpses mixed with horse corpses formed a hill there.
The cavalry rushing from the rear did not receive the order to retreat, and still charged fearlessly.
They rushed up the mountain of corpses and jumped up, directly across the three lines of defense, and rushed to the fourteenth line of defense.
However, there was still only a dead end waiting for them, and because of the excessive momentum, they could not even scream, and even fell to their deaths on the defensive line with men and horses.
His charge was like a leader on the edge of a cliff, and the cavalry behind him did the same, leaping forward one by one.
As a result, they were either scraped to death by barbed wire, or fell into the trench and were stabbed to death.
But there are too many tartars.
Even if the Furlong cannon kept firing and Lu Mi kept firing, it still couldn't stop their charge.
Soon the fourteenth line of defense was filled with the corpses of the Tartars, and the Tartars who rushed from the rear dismounted and cut the barbed wire, while bending their bows and arrows to shoot at the musketeers on the city wall.
At present, this situation is not allowed by Wang Zezhi.
The Musketeers split up in a squad to shoot the Tartars under the tenth line of defense.
However, more and more Tartars rushed over, and they filled the fourteenth line of defense with their own lives and launched an attack on the fifteenth line.
There are not many defenses under Yunchuan City.
"Bang! Yes! ”
The Franc cannon overheated and blew up one, and the gunners around this gun were hit and died instantly.
Wang Ze's heart sank, and he shouted: "The wounded are pulled down for treatment." ”
In fact, they are dead, but Wang Zezhi can't say.
If he said it, the other gunners would be afraid and would not dare to continue to operate the guns.
Wang Zezhi really couldn't understand how these Tartars had become so desperate.
In fact, what he didn't know was that the first batch of Tartars to charge were the deserters he had defeated under the mouth of the tiger.
Although these deserters were called back, they did not dare to become deserters again.
If they become deserters again, they will be punished with incomparably cruel punishment.
On that day, after they fled, they went to join the right-wing tribes, who would have thought that these tribes were all frightened by Lin Dan Khan, and none of them dared to take them in.
The whole steppe is so big that there is no place for them.
Therefore, these people no longer dared to break and flee, but fought desperately.
"My lord, there are only three lines of defense."
The herald panicked, and if there were three more lines of defense, the Tartar cavalry rushed to the city, and then the entire small city of Yunchuan would not be able to hold it.
But that's exactly what Wang Zezhi needs.
Because Wang Zezhi's plan looks simple, in fact, the most difficult thing is the accuracy and coordination of the execution and coordination of various armies.
If the attack on the defenders is too fierce, the Tartars are likely to retreat directly, and he will lose the possibility of encirclement.
If the cavalry on both flanks attacked too early, it was likely that Lin Dan Khan would see through the intentions.
or if the two sides attack too far apart, they may be countered by the Tartar cavalry due to their numerical inferiority.
In either case, the entire Tartar army is likely to retreat successfully, and Wang Zezhi will face a difficult siege battle.
The current situation is that the feint attack on the defense of the city successfully attracted the full attention of Lin Dan Khan, creating conditions for the outflanking cavalry to successfully penetrate the defenders' ribs and behind.
"Signal."
"Order."
"Huh~bang!"
Fireworks signals representing the attack were raised at the same time on both sides of Uncheon Castle.
"The red-coated artillery is full of fire, attacking the enemy's cavalry in the middle and rear army."
"Order."
The artillerymen received the order, adjusted their orientation, and launched an attack on the middle and rear troops of the Tartar cavalry.
"Boom, boom!"
The middle and rear armies of the Tartar cavalry were attacked by artillery, and the formation was immediately disorganized.
At the same time, the cavalry, which had outflanked the rear army of Lin Dan Khan, launched a charge.
The rain of arrows struck, the wings were outflanked, and Lin Dan Khan's Daxu was taken.
The battlefield is the place where the warrior's skills can be exercised, and the sergeants who have experienced the strangulation of Lin Dan Khan's cavalry have been able to use it flexibly and play it perfectly.
Especially the steel-armored heavy rider among them.
Faced with the artillery attack and the assault of the ambushed cavalry, Lin Dan Khan's rear army was suddenly panicked.
Their bows and arrows were not as good as Kaiyuan's bows, and they were already a little tired after a long run.
And the two cavalry ambushed by Wang Zezhi waited for the rabbit to wait for work.
The two wings were quickly outflanked in place, and the rain of arrows broke the protection of the two wings of Lin Dan Khan's rear army.
The steel-armored heavy cavalry rushed into the cavalry formation and opened fire.
Lin Dan Khan was in a panic, he didn't even want Da Xu, and took the elite horses under his account to the north.
The outflanked cavalry deliberately left a gap in the north so that he could escape.
The king understood the principle of trapped beasts fighting, so he specially ordered them to leave a gap.
The siege forces were blocked, the Chinese army was bombarded by artillery, and the rear army was routed by cavalry.
At this time, leaving a gap in the outflanking north, the Tartar army found hope of escape, and had no intention of fighting, scrambling to flee north, and many soldiers even threw down their weapons and fled.
The besieging troops had already attacked the city and threw off the sky hook to prepare to enter the city, but the middle and rear armies had been defeated.
The outflanked cavalry held its flanks, the light cavalry continued to rain arrows, and the heavy cavalry began to turn around and charge, slashing the middle army and the Tartar front that rushed to the city.
Datong Zhongyi Battalion, Yang Guo, his eyes were sharp, and he discovered Lin Dan Khan's Daxu for the first time.
He took the cavalry of the Zhongyi Battalion, slashed desperately, and got Lin Dan Khan's Daxu.
"Lin Dan Khan is defeated, Lin Dan Khan is defeated."
Yang Guo held his sword high and shouted loudly.
The Tartars, who were fighting desperately, saw Lin Dan Khan's Daxu being held in the hands of a Ming army, and their morale was devastated.
The Tartar infantrymen could not run, and one by one they fell to their knees and began to beg for mercy.
The Tartar cavalry, however, would not sit still, and they scattered in panic and fled in all directions, not in formation.
won, Wang Zezhi won.