When formulating the strategic plan of "closing the door and fighting the dogs", General Li Dingbei put forward a suggestion on how to annihilate the Hu people hiding in the city in one fell swoop: force the Hu people into the inner city, and then use cannons equipped with floor guns to continuously carry out sweeping bombardment of the inner city, first use artillery fire to cause a large number of casualties to the main force of the Hu people, and finally send soldiers into the battlefield to destroy the remaining enemy.

In this way, while minimizing the casualties of the officers and soldiers of the Northwest Army, the Hu people in the city can be completely wiped out.

After listening to this suggestion, Chi Fei felt that the tactics proposed by General Li were somewhat similar to the modern US military's way of fighting.

Because of the small number of people and the high cost of life, and because the modern US military has learned the painful lessons of the Korean War and the Vietnam War, it often does not directly send ground troops into the battlefield when fighting a war.

Enemy bases and cities are usually mutilated with missiles or bombers, and then ground troops are sent to clean up the battlefield. In this way, the number of casualties of the American army will be much less.

In the same way, in the face of the cross-era firearm of the floor cannon, the Hu people have no ability to resist at all. In addition, the ancient houses were basically brick bungalows, and a few shells could often easily blow up the entire house.

The Hu people almost didn't even have a place to hide, so they could only let the Northwest Army bomb at will.

As long as the number of shells is sufficient, this method of operation is indeed feasible.

However, the disadvantage is that it will cause great damage and casualties to the buildings and personnel in the inner city, and it is very likely that the inner city will be blown into ruins.

Although this method was feasible, Chi Fei could see that his father-in-law, Ning Zhiyuan, seemed to be quite hesitant about this suggestion.

Chi Fei thought about it carefully for a while, and soon understood his father-in-law's concerns.

It is not unreasonable for the Xie family to set Jinling Mansion as the new capital of Great Wei.

This is the central hinterland of the Jiangnan region, with waterways running through the north and south, and the transportation is extremely convenient. It is very easy to transport grain or troops, and it is more conducive to the rapid transmission of imperial decrees from the central government to various regions.

Since Jinling Mansion is so good, it is possible that after the Ning family establishes a new dynasty in the future, it is possible that this place will be designated as the national capital.

If General Li Dingbei's suggestion is adopted, how to rebuild the inner city of Jinling Mansion, which was bombed into ruins, after the annihilation of the Hu people in the city, will be a major project that consumes extremely manpower, material and financial resources.

This is to fight rats, but also not to hurt the jade bottle. That's why my father-in-law was hesitant to make this suggestion.

Today's Ning Zhiyuan has begun to consider problems from the perspective of a monarch.

What he was thinking about now was not how to exterminate the Hu people in the city, but how to win the battle with as few casualties and losses as possible without destroying the city.

After thinking about his father-in-law's concerns, Chi Fei thought about it again and again, and finally put forward his own idea: maybe he could use the musket array to fight a street battle with the Hu people.

Chi Fei's idea is very simple, if both sides have the same weapons, if they really want to fight in the streets, the victory rate of both sides will only be five or five.

However, at this time, the Hu people only had traditional cold weapons such as bows and arrows and scimitars, while the Northwest Army had a series of cross-era firearms such as muskets and flowering bullets, and the strength was more than double that of the Hu people.

At this time, if the two sides start a street battle, it will not be a five-five battle, but a unilateral crushing opponent by the Northwest Army.

In addition to the absolute superiority of the Northwest Army in terms of weapons and equipment, there is another advantage of street fighting: terrain.

What is the biggest advantage of the Hu people? Of course, it is accurate archery and a war horse with high-speed movement.

However, archery has basically lost its effect in the face of muskets with longer range.

Therefore, to deal with the Hu people, we have to find a way to restrain their war horses.

The most hated terrain of the cavalry, elected forest area.

The trees crisscross the cavalry and cause a great obstacle to the movement of the cavalry.

Of course, there are not so many trees in the city, but the streets and alleys crisscrossing the city will also have a great impact on the Hu cavalry.

At least as far as the charge is concerned, in the narrow streets, no matter how many people there are in the Hu people, each time they charge, the upper limit of the number of people in each row has almost been set, and the narrow terrain will invisibly limit the number of people who can charge in parallel.

What would happen if there were neatly arranged musket formations waiting for rabbits in the streets and alleys in front of you, behind, left, and right at this time?

And compared to the floor guns, which can cause great damage to the surrounding environment, the musket array obviously has a much less impact.

After listening to Chi Fei's explanation, Ning Zhiyuan's eyes lit up on the spot, and he quickly made up his mind to use the musket array to fight in the streets with the Hu people.

In order to fight this street battle well, Ning Zhiyuan sent more than 32,000 musketeers from the Shenji Battalion.

Let them divide into multiple squads and brigades and lie in ambush in the streets and alleys near the north gate, waiting to wipe out the Hu people and encircle and annihilate them.

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Seeing that there were musketeers from the Northwest Army in front and behind, all the Hu people knew that they had fallen into the trap of the Han people, and they were immediately shocked and anxious.

"Your Highness, let's rush over. Now we have no other way to go but to rush forward. Dutong Akay looked at the eldest prince with a grim face and said.

Although the other Hu generals did not speak, they also showed the same expression as Akayi.

The eldest prince Arobu also knew that there was no other choice but to continue to rush forward.

Since the Ning family had already laid this trap, from the moment they came out of the inner city, they would no longer give them a chance to go back.

And even if they could go back to the inner city, they would only be waiting to die.

Rather than this, it is better to directly fight a bloody path.

After looking around at his subordinates, and then at the Northwest Musket Formation waiting a hundred paces away, the eldest prince Arobu finally turned his heart sideways, pulled out the golden knife studded with gems on his waist, and then said loudly in Hu language: "Our warriors of the Great Turks have never died in battle, not surrendered.

Today, let's kill all these Han dogs in front of us, and let them see the might of our great warriors.

Listen to my orders, charge the whole army, and kill! With that, he waved the golden knife in his hand forward, and launched the charge order.

"Kill all these dogs!"

"Kill them all!"

"Kill!"

As soon as the order to charge was issued to the whole army, the Hu people immediately began a big charge.

A thousand-man commander at the front of the team shouted and led his cavalry to rush over with great momentum.

The others followed, raising their scimitars.

However, due to limited street space, only two dozen cavalry per row were able to move side by side.

This can only be done if the streets are wider, and if you switch to other narrower streets, there will be fewer cavalry who can charge side by side.

In this crucial street battle, the commander of the Shenji Battalion, Meng Ping, did not fake his hands, but took the lead in standing on the front line to command the operation.

In the face of the Hu cavalry that kept rushing over, Meng Ping, who had rich combat experience, was very calm and calm, but he was silently counting the distance of the enemy in his heart.

One hundred and eighty steps...... One hundred and sixty ...... One hundred and forty ...... One hundred and twenty ...... One hundred and ten......

"The first row is ready, and the muzzle of the gun should be aimed at the war horse of the Hu people.

Fire! When the cavalry had just stepped into a distance of about a hundred paces, Meng Ping decisively ordered to open fire.

At his command, the first row of fifty musketeers pulled the trigger almost simultaneously.

"Canopy, canopy, canopy......" rang out with a muffled sound, the fire was everywhere, and smoke rose from among the soldiers.

As the smoke rose, fifty black lead bullets flew towards the Huren cavalry in the front row at a speed that was difficult to catch with the naked eye, and soon hit eight war horses.

"Neigh, neigh, neigh......" The eight war horses immediately let out a mournful roar at the moment when the lead bullet entered the body, and then they fell to the ground and couldn't get up again, and they also threw off the Hu man on their backs.

The space of this street was originally limited, and the war horses themselves were huge, and eight war horses fell at once, and suddenly tripped over a dozen Hu cavalry who were also riding horses, and the scene was chaotic.

"The second platoon is ready, first hit the horses and then the people, and open fire!"

With Meng Ping's second order, the second wave of attacks soon came.

"Canopy, canopy, canopy......" Another series of muffled sounds sounded, and in the light of fire and smoke, fifty black lead bullets once again flew together at a speed that was difficult for the naked eye to catch, and the dozen or so Hu cavalry who were still rushing in.

This wave of shooting caused nine horses to fall to the ground, and less than five cavalrymen were left to rush over like crazy.

At this time, the distance between the two sides was close to seventy paces.

Without waiting for Meng Ping's order, the second-row musketeers who had finished firing the second shot had already consciously gone around to the back of the line and gave up their positions to their comrades in the third row.

As soon as the third platoon of musketeers got the opportunity, they immediately raised their guns and aimed them at the horses of the five cavalrymen.

Although the distance between the two sides was getting closer and closer, Meng Ping still gave the order unhurriedly: "The third platoon is ready and fires." ”

"Canopy, canopy, canopy......" As these monotonous and repetitive muffled sounds sounded again, the remaining five cavalry were finally drowned under the barrage of the third wave.

This time, it was not only the war horse that died, but also the five Hu soldiers who wanted to rush over after landing on the horse. These Hu soldiers were almost beaten into a sieve, and they died a terrible death.

At this point, the second charge came again.

More than 20 Hu cavalry rushed over the corpse of the war horse on the ground with great difficulty.

Meng Ping is still the same, let his subordinates beat horses first and then people.

After only two rounds of volleys, the ground was already full of wounded horses, and many of them neighed in pain, one after another.

The reason why Meng Ping prioritized his attack power on the war horses was to make these wounded and fallen war horses the biggest obstacle to the Hu cavalry.

The so-called shooting a man first shoots a horse, and catching a thief first captures the king, this is a very wise idea of fighting a war.

The biggest advantage of cavalry is the ability to charge quickly and move quickly. In this case, as long as this advantage is destroyed, the role of cavalry will be lost.

Prioritizing the enemy's horses can not only deprive the enemy cavalry of the tools to charge and move quickly, but also make the large corpses of the horses become natural obstacles to the enemy's activities, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone.

In the Northwest War that year, the decisive battle between the large musket array of the Northwest Army and the cavalry charge array of the Wei Army has well verified this.

Especially in today's narrow streets, the carcasses of twenty or thirty fallen horses straddling the ground are enough to bring an entire army to a standstill, and it is better than any tripwire.

The reason why Chi Fei proposed to fight in the streets with the Hu people was because of his intention.

Sure enough, after several waves of charges, as more and more war horses fell to the ground after being shot, the already relatively narrow streets were piled up with wounded war horses and the corpses of war horses, which suddenly made the Hu people feel that it was difficult to move an inch.

At this time, it is difficult to step over the corpses of war horses all over the ground, let alone launch a charge.

Seeing that the Hu people could no longer charge, Meng Ping issued a new order: "From now on, directly hit the Hu Dog."

Herald, trumpet! Launch a general attack! ”

When the long horn sounded, the encirclement and suppression operation finally began.

Including the thousands of musketeers commanded by Meng Ping, more than 32,000 musketeer brigades and squads scattered in various streets and alleys began to fire at the Hu people.

"The first platoon is ready, fire!"

"The third platoon is ready, fire!"

"The second platoon is ready, fire!"

"Fifth platoon ready, fire!"

The sound of orders continued to sound in the streets and alleys, and the large and small musketeers hiding inside began to attack all the Hu people they could see indiscriminately.

The whole street was filled with fire and smoke.

The Hu people, who had no way to escape, had no power to resist in the face of the constantly flying lead bullets, and many Hu people fell directly from their horses after being shot, bleeding all over the ground.

More Hu people chose to pick up their bows and arrows to counterattack the musketeers in front, but unfortunately the two sides were too far apart, and the musketeers were all wearing armor and helmets, and these bows and arrows were not lethal to them at all.

In the face of the epochal thermal weapon of the musket, the traditional bow and arrow has completely lost its effect.

"Your Highness, if we continue like this, we will be wiped out, let's get off our horses and kill them." Seeing that the musket array was so powerful, Tun Akay was shocked and angry.

The eldest prince Arobu, who was escorted in the crowd, saw that the ground in front of him was full of the corpses of war horses, and he had no choice but to accept this suggestion, "Okay, you guys quickly send someone to rush over." ”

"Yes, Your Highness.

Ba Zhen, I order you to take 10,000 people to kill all the Han dogs in front of you, go quickly. ”

"Yes, Totong.

If you want to stay alive, rush forward with me, kill! "As soon as the 10,000-strong man named Ba Zhen dismounted, he immediately rushed towards the musket array in front of him with his tens of thousands of men.

Although the ground was full of horse carcasses, people were still relatively nimble, and many people were able to step directly on the horse carcass.

Looking at these Hu people who were holding scimitars and shouting loudly, Meng Ping sneered: "It's a good time, I want you Hu dogs to see what it means to be a moth to a fire and kill yourself."

The third platoon is ready, fire! ”

"Canopy, canopy, canopy......"

Fifty buckshot shot out in an instant, and swooped down on those Hu soldiers.

"Poof......

The Hu people who were shot on the spot only heard a muffled sound from their bodies, and then a powerful impact knocked them to the ground.

Immediately afterward, a large amount of blood poured out of the sudden wound, causing them to lose their ability to move almost instantly.

In this round of firing alone, more than 20 Hu people were hit, and all those who were shot fell to the ground without exception.

"Fourth platoon ready, fire!"

Before the Hu people could react from their horror, another wave of attacks began, or rather, the slaughter began.

After each shot, the musketeers immediately retreated to the end, then reloaded with familiar and rapid movements.

By the time it was their turn, they had already reloaded.

So they did as the commander instructed, aimed their guns at the enemy in front of them, and fired a volley of lead bullets.

As for whether they hit the enemy or not, they don't care anymore, they continue to re-circulate, restart reloading ammunition, and the cycle continues.

is such a monotonous and boring repetitive operation, but it is like harvesting wheat stubble after stubble to harvest the lives of Hu people.

At this time, the nearest Hu people were only less than forty steps away from the musket array, but this short distance became a gap of life and death that the Hu people could not cross.

Countless Hu people died like moths to a fire on the way forward, and almost all of them died without blinking an eye.

So what, in the face of the epochal thermal weapon of the musket, life is so fragile.

It's only been an hour, and the whole street is already full of corpses of Hu people.

None of the charges launched by the Hu people had any effect, and everyone was harvested by waves of lead bullets on the way.

Those who are unlucky will die under the first wave of barrage, and those who are lucky may be able to survive the second wave, but in the end, they will all die on the way to the charge.

Faced with one futile charge after another, the Hu people finally began to despair.

But now what else can they do but keep rushing forward?

Surrender?

It's useless, the Northwest Army will not let them go, and surrendering is just sending them to death.

But what is the difference between doing so now and sending it to death?

For a while, a strong sense of despair and powerlessness shrouded the hearts of every Hu person.

Their only hope now is to wait for the Northwest Army to run out of ammunition, so that they will have a glimmer of life.

But the truth is far more cruel than they imagined.

The reason why Chi Fei arranged three musket teams in each street and alley was to let these three musket teams take turns to fight.

Moreover, there are special soldiers nearby who will replenish ammunition, flint, food, water and other items for the replacement musketeers in time, and there is no situation where ammunition and food are exhausted.

What the musketeers had to do was to use the muskets in their hands to keep harvesting the lives of the Hu people until all the Hu people fell.

In fact, it was here, on the street near the North Gate, that there was a public execution ground dedicated to the collective execution of this Hu army.

And that's not all, the large and small musket arrays scattered in the streets and alleys are only the first line of defense of the Northwest Army.

In addition to the musket array, Ning Zhiyuan also sent more than 200,000 troops to surround the entire area, among which the grenadiers who were specially responsible for throwing flowering bombs were also among the army.

If the Hu people really broke through the musket array with that unique bit of luck, then what greeted them next would be an even more terrifying flowering hell and the all-out encirclement and suppression of more than 200,000 Northwest Army.

The net laid by the Ning family has only one purpose, that is, to ensure that the Hu people will not have any chance to escape from the city.

That's what it's like to really shut down the door. Now, it's finally time to close the net.