Chapter 379: Blocking (4)
Seeing this, General Fan Jing immediately shouted: "Long knife hand!" Kill me! ”
At the same time, the bird-gunners of this section of the line also shouted in unison: "Bayonets! Kill! ”
In the roar of the Ming soldiers, countless footsteps came and went, blood and sweat swayed on the chaotic battlefield, these hundreds of soldiers and horses were not afraid of death, and the Ming soldiers stationed here would never retreat, for a time the two sides could not hold each other, and the flesh and blood on the battlefield were flying!
But it was only a moment, and then dense footsteps came from the left and right sides of this defense line and the rear, and the reinforcements of the Ming army arrived in time, and in the blink of an eye, these hundreds of soldiers and horses were surrounded on all sides.
At this time, the bayonets and long knives on the battlefield were rapidly harvesting lives, hundreds of Warat soldiers continued to fall, and the situation on the battlefield began to turn around rapidly.
Perhaps at this time, the Arazhiyuan, who was angry at the bottom of the mountain, didn't know that he had unknowingly invented the pig rush tactic......
On the mountainside, General Sun Xu and General Yan Hu saw the strangeness of the Wara army from afar, and they also sneered in their hearts.
At this time, most of the Warat soldiers and horses were fleeing under the counterattack of the Ming army, while the small centaurs in the rear were still continuing to rush forward, which was clearly a gesture of death.
In the blink of an eye, General Fan Jing found that there were only a dozen Warat soldiers left in the encirclement, and they were soon slaughtered by the angry Ming soldiers.
After that, Fan Jing turned his head to look at his subordinates, and in this battle, more than 40 people fell, and he couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart.
In the distance, the general Yan Hu also found that in various parts of the defense line, even if the Warat soldiers who rushed up were bombarded by flowering shells, there were still many people and horses rushing up, but fortunately, the reinforcements from all sides came quickly, and before they entered the white-knuckle battle, the Warat soldiers and horses in front of them were defeated.
In this wave of attacks, the army of more than 20,000 Walat lost thousands of soldiers, and the army was defeated again in the blink of an eye.
The general under the mountain, Arazhiyuan, still refused not to give up, although this time the attack was still repelled by the Ming army, the army finally bit the defensive line, which made him even more convinced that his tactics were correct.
So, after a short rest, in the afternoon, the Arazhiyuan transferred another 10,000 fresh troops, together with the 30,000 or 40,000 remnants of the Ming army's positions before, and reorganized the army of more than 50,000 again, ready to continue to take turns to fight.
However, this time, the Arazhiyuan learned from the experience of the morning, and no longer organized the dense crowd, and no longer only stared in three directions, but scattered the army of more than 50,000 people into seven or eight roads, and attacked all sections of the Ming army's defense line at the same time.
In this regard, the Great Khan did not interfere at first, since his subordinates began to work hard, then he must fully support it!
Now that the commander of the army has changed his strategy, the generals such as the Centurion and the Commander of the Thousand Commanders who commanded the front line have also responded, and they are no longer leading their troops to rush stupidly, but leaping forward in waves, and even dragging a large number of heavy shields as a cover to protect thousands of archers and the Ming army to launch a confrontation.
At this time, not only did the Warat people learn from experience, but the Ming soldiers of each section of the defense line were also adjusting their tactics, and the bird gunners no longer specialized in fighting the Warat generals, but concentrated on the shield players in the Warat army, and the thunder cannons also began to echo each other, focusing on covering key areas, and specifically killing and injuring a large number of archers of the Warat army.
In this way, the two sides once again started a battle to the death, for a time the Ming army defense line in front of the killing sound shook the sky, the lead bullets of the birds, and the shells of the cannonballs continued to whistle in the sky, and the arrow rain of the Wara army was also miserable across the sky, smashing into the Ming army's defense line.
However, the more than 20,000 soldiers of the Ming army stationed in the defense line did not retreat, and the two waves of the Vara army organized in the afternoon were repulsed, but because these two charges were no longer attacked by the sea of people, the losses of the Vara army this time were much less.
In this regard, Ah Razhiyuan's heart was also relieved, and at the same time, he felt that his own capital was sufficient, and he continued to fight.
Soon, another wave of Warat soldiers was in position half a mile away, ready to attack again, and they had already figured out the defensive routine on the side of the Ming army:
As long as you rush to within 200 paces, there will be earth-shaking thunder and flowering bombs, and within 100 paces, there will be a platoon of guns to bombard, but as long as you rush for a while, and then lie down for a while, the casualties of the army can be reduced a lot.
The Warat soldiers and horses had attacked several times before, and several sections of the defense line had been rushed into by them, but there were not enough people to keep up, so they couldn't stand their ground.
According to this routine, more than 50,000 dug up the army and divided it into seven or eight roads, and the Arazhiyuan made up his mind to press all the soldiers and horses, and soon approached within 100 steps of the defense line.
These Warat soldiers and horses were about to shout in unison and press forward with a rapid attack, when suddenly the flowering bombs and earth-shaking thunder bombarded by the Ming army suddenly increased, and the eyes of these Warat soldiers were suddenly filled with smoke and dust.
Just after the sound of the artillery dissipated, I saw more than 10,000 bird-to-gun men in the front and rear camps of Yanzhou Town gradually approaching with neat steps.
These birds are in a row of three or four hundred people, and several rows of horizontal formations are gathered in a gradually clear vision.
Subsequently, the long knife men and thunder throwers in the two battalions followed in formation, and more than 20,000 soldiers of the Ming army almost went out to launch a counterattack against the Wara army!
For a while, the emotions of the Warat soldiers and horses split into two extremes, and many generals were in ecstasy, and the Ming army actually rushed out by themselves, from behind the damn low wall! This is a great time to defeat them!
But those Warat soldiers were frightened and rushed out, but looking at this momentum, those Ming troops seemed to be even more impregnable than the low wall.
The Warat army fell into chaos for a short time, not knowing whether to rush or retreat, and at this time the Ming army soldiers had approached within sixty or seventy paces.
Without waiting for the Warat army to continue to adjust, a low horn sounded, and more than 10,000 Ming soldiers stood still almost at the same time, and then the deafening sound of birds filled the hearing, and the battlefield was once again covered with smoke, almost completely covering the 20,000 Ming troops.
Almost in the blink of an eye, the Ming army's bird gunners fired out four rounds of guns in succession, and the crowd of the Wara army was like mowing grass, combed out of strips of hollows, and the morale of the entire army was suddenly hit by a huge blow.
Seeing this, the general under the mountain, Arazhiyuan, suddenly had bloodshot eyes, his face turned iron blue, and his hands clenched into fists and rattled.
And the Great Khan in the distance was also so angry that he wanted to vomit blood at this time, and the Warat warriors who once ran rampant in the desert turned into lambs in front of the Ming army at this time!
At this time, tens of thousands of Warat troops attacked many times in vain, and the morale of the army was already extremely low, and countless generals no longer had any will to fight, and many soldiers and horses on the front line suddenly scattered like birds and beasts.
"Defeated ......"
The Great Khan also sighed first, as if he vented all the grief and anger in his heart, and then sent someone to send an order to the general Arazhiyuan: immediately reorganize the soldiers and horses to hold in place, and must block this counterattack of the Ming army!
I also knew in my heart that if I couldn't stop the counterattack of the Ming army this time, the hundreds of thousands of Warat troops would collapse in a battle, and in the blink of an eye, they would be chased and slaughtered by 20,000 Ming troops!
After receiving the order, the general Arazhiin was also ruthless, commanding the reserves around him to suppress the defeated soldiers, and on the other hand, he tried his best to transfer troops and horses and began to reassemble the army.
At the same time, General Sun Xu and General Yan Hu also discovered the movement of the Warat army, and the two knew very well that it was impossible to defeat the more than 100,000 Warat army with this counterattack alone, and at best, it would only expand some results.
So, the two gave the order for the whole army to retreat.
At this time, the Wara army has been regarded as a loss of troops, and the rest of the main army has also begun to assemble and prepare for battle, and the Ming army will become a frontal decisive battle if the Ming army rushes down, and the Ming army has 20,000 horses against more than 100,000 enemy troops, and the odds of victory are not very large.
During this time, in order to attack the Ming army's defense line, the general Arazhiyuan can be said to have exhausted his means, and his 60,000 troops died more than 10,000 people, and if you count the wounded, you can lose one-third.
The losses of the army are so large, at this time, the Warat army has no intention to take the initiative to attack, so there is no need for the staff general Yan Hu and the staff general Sun Xu to fight hard, as long as they drag the Wara army.