Chapter 779: Capture the Village

Na Heyan Zhen tried to try to redeem the defeat of the counterattack, and when he rode out of Yangwuyu at 2,000 paces, more than 300 steps away from the two flanks of the Liang army's forward defense line, he was disintegrated by a salvo of light smoothbore artillery, leaving behind more than 300 corpses of men and horses, among which there were many wounded soldiers and horses who were destined to die more and less to live.

Na Heyan really didn't dare to go out to counterattack again, but with the defense system to the west of Yangwuyu, under the bombardment of seventy or eighty heavy artillery, how long could he hold out without collapsing?

After the heavy smoothbore gun is calibrated, the shell can be accurate enough to hit the main wall, as long as there is no ricochet, a solid bullet can not kill or injure many people.

However, after the shells hit the main wall and even the houses built of bricks and stones behind the wall, they caused countless bricks and stones to splash, and the power was not slightly weaker than the scattered stone shells thrown by the whirlwind cannons.

At this time, Liang Jun on the forward line took advantage of the gap between shots to clear the passage close to the wall step by step.

"Yan Jiang is dead! We can't hold Yangwuyu, let's withdraw! Wearing a silver armor and holding a halberd and shield to guard against flying bricks and stones, Na Heyan Yun climbed the wall, grabbed Na Heyan Zhen and roared.

"Why did Yan Jiang die, didn't the others go to the tooth tent just now?" Na Yan Zhen woke up in shock, and asked in a trembling and sharp voice.

"An iron bullet pierced through the wall, and Yan Jiang's waist was broken in two, which was miserable!" Na He Yanyun shouted sadly, "The Liang army has the help of an artifact, and the heavens have abandoned the Usu clan and the Nahe clan, and if you don't leave, you won't be able to leave!" ”

That Heyan is really confused, he was pulled down the wall by that Heyanyun, and the left and right guards can't take care of them, and now escaping will inevitably lead to the collapse of the whole army in the village, if you don't escape at this time, what can you do?

In less than half an hour, more than 1,600 soldiers in the village of 6,000 defenders were killed or seriously wounded, and the Liang army was still uninjured - and at this time, the Liang army's forward soldiers and horses, in addition to laying the passage near the wall, even dragged several large iron pipes that fired solid iron bullets to a low slope on the northwest side, obviously trying to take advantage of the height of the place, condescending, so as to more accurately shoot the iron bullets to kill the generals in the village.

The stockade is three or four hundred paces square, but there are more than 6,000 generals and a similar number of war horses, and the number of men and horses is unimaginably dense, and every iron bullet shot into the village may bring casualties.

Before the war, in order to prepare catapults and swirling artillery, they were used to strengthen the fence walls and wooden sheds of the barracks, but at this time, they were easily pierced by solid iron bullets, and did not have the desired effect.

The defenders had almost collapsed, they couldn't hold it down, they didn't leave, and when the Liang army came in from the western wall, they could not escape the tragic end of the annihilation of the whole army; Escaping at this time may be able to save the last bit of vitality for Nahe's ......

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Seeing that the main general Na Heyan Zhen was the first to flee to the east, the last bit of resistance of the defenders in the village suddenly collapsed completely at this moment, and thousands of people and horses immediately became a mess, scattering and howling and fleeing for their lives.

Yangwuyu only has two gates in the east and west, and the east gate is less than two zhang wide when it is all opened - after all, it is a mountain village and a wild village, and the walls of the village are still strengthened by Li Yan after leading his troops to station, and it took more than a month to requisition thousands of people nearby.

The four or five thousand men and horses of the Mongolian army, plus a large number of looted property and women, all rushed to escape through such a narrow exit for a while, you can imagine what it would be like to be crowded!

People are roaring, and the north wind is blowing!

Yang Yan, the commander of the battalion, held the horizontal knife with his mouth, climbed the ladder to climb the west wall, and saw the eastern half of the village turned over on his back, as if the black mud tide was intercepted by the embankment, and could not be discharged.

"Yang Manzi, don't make a mistake!" The cavalry of Shen Pingshan shouted under the wall to remind Yang Yan.

Dozens of generals directly turned over and slid into the wall against the slightly inclined and cracked stone wall, raised their knives and fell, killed the wounded soldiers abandoned by the enemy in the wall along the way, and rushed to the direction of the wall.

In order to gain time to flee to the east, the enemy general Na Heyan Zhen piled up obstacles such as horses and antlers with a large amount of firewood and grass into the door hole, and set it on fire, which was burning at this time.

The dozens of generals who first turned into the village had to find a way to extinguish the fire, and then they had to clear the obstacles before they could open the gate of the Baotie Zhai and let their own soldiers quickly break into the city.

In a hurry, there was no manpower to catch and take care of the prisoners, and they were afraid that these wounded soldiers would burst out and hurt people, so there was no safer than the dead, so they killed them with a straightforward sword, and the remaining wounded soldiers fled east in fear and did not chase and kill.

"Spread out, don't stand behind the gate!"

At this time, the four bottles of light smoothbore guns were dragged to the front of the gate by mules and horses.

Seeing the waving military flag signaling this side to dodge, Yang Yan shouted, commanding the generals who had entered the village first to leave from behind the gate of the village, and they also moved twenty or thirty steps to the side.

The cannon barrel burst into flames, and a shaking vibration was heard under his feet.

The power of the light smoothbore cannon was weaker, but the four volleys at a distance of fifty paces still knocked down the thick wood-clad iron gate in an instant.

Surrounded by dozens of generals, several iron-wrapped chariots waiting outside the gate of the village, directly blasted open the gate of the village, regardless of the raging fire, and rushed into the doorway, directly knocking away the obstacles, firewood and grass that were piled up behind the gate of the village.

The flames splashed everywhere, repeated more than a dozen times, and a large pile of burning obstacles, firewood and grass were knocked away and knocked away, and soon extinguished, and the passage into Yangwuyu was completely opened.

The brigade commander Li Yan and Shen Pingshan wore armor and entered the village as soon as possible to direct the follow-up battle to seize the village.

As a trapping team, Yang Yan led more than 200 soldiers to be the first batch of soldiers and horses in the raid village, but Li Yan did not let Yang Yan directly lead his troops to chase and kill along the main street of paving to the east, but asked them to spread out on both sides of the main street.

"Or do you want to hit the fuck with a fire crossbow first?" Yang Yan picked up the horizontal knife and walked out, and asked the brigade generals Li Yan and Shen Pingshandao.

The Xizhai Gate is open, 320 steps from the long street to the Dongzhai Gate, crowded with Mongolian generals who fled for their lives, but there is no building to obstruct it.

At this time, if you don't drag the smoothbore cannon up and bombard it from west to east, will it be possible to use human lives to intercept the rebel army?

Countless men and horses crowded in front of the long street, desperately trying to seize the door and flee, but they were blocked by the narrow gate, and four light smoothbore cannons fired directly, and a solid iron bullet at such a close distance almost had to tear ten or twenty people and horses in a row before losing kinetic energy.

In complete chaos, people and horses trampled, ghosts cried wolves, and occasionally a few red-eyed Mongolian soldiers held swords and shields, wanting to take advantage of the gap between the firing of smoothbore cannons to counterattack, Yang Yan led his troops to swarm up at this time and intercept these enemy soldiers; There is also a gap where the armor slid through the breech and entered the walled through the gate.

After the smoothbore cannon was loaded, and seeing the military flag on the wall, Yang Yan and the others retreated while fighting, retreated to the two wings, and made way for the middle firing channel.

"Launch!" The team waved the command flag, and a new round of eight-bottle light smoothbore guns once again passed through the Zhaimen Cave, and fired a salvo at a small angle to the east along the long street to the east, with an almost straight trajectory.

At this time, Chen Kun personally rushed to the front to supervise the battle, rode on horseback, and looked coldly at the Shura field in the village, every salvo can be described as flesh and blood flying in the real sense.

After the enemy's will was completely destroyed, a group of foot riders rushed into the village.

To the east of Yangwuyu, there are two large camps of the Mongolian army, with a total of 12,000 soldiers, and there is also an enemy camp on the west side of the capital ridge, with 2,000 soldiers.

In order to successfully realize the "closed door" battle plan, it is necessary to at least defeat the two enemy camps located at Heishiao at the eastern foot of the Elephant Trunk Ridge and Tianzigou on the west side of the Ducheng Ridge before the enemy's main force retreats.

There are 80,000 main forces of the Mongolian army, distributed in the vertical and horizontal area of seventy or eighty miles south of Changyuan Mountain, and no one knows when they will withdraw.

In the shortest possible time, it is necessary to completely control Yangwuyu, and then clear out the passage for the infantry and cavalry to send troops from Yangwuyu and turn northeast to kill the enemy camp at Heishiao in the east of Elephant Trunk Ridge.

Except for those enemy soldiers who put down their weapons, fell to the ground with five bodies, and lay on the ground to completely give up resistance, those who showed the slightest sign of resistance, and even hesitated to put down their blades and surrender, they didn't give time to think about it at all, and directly killed them with swords, spears, bows and crossbows.

The dead are always safest.

Before Li Xiu's ban was introduced to the village, most of the defeated soldiers in the village had already died under the sword, bow, spear and crossbow.

Sima De and Cao Zhe, accompanied by Wen Ruilin, entered Yangwuyu at noon, looking at the bloody flesh and blood of the corpses of the people and horses who were dragged to both sides, and at the large pieces of bloodstains, broken flesh and broken armor that were splashed on the walls along the street, their faces turned pale.

At this time, the last batch of four heavy front-loading smoothbore guns and four ammunition trucks, under the traction of more than 30 military horses, crossed the long street, followed the soldiers and horses who had set off again, and went to the eastern wilderness to kill.

What a terrible weapon of mass destruction!

Sima De's expression was better, Sima Shi almost made up his mind to return to Luoyang's arms, he just wanted to bargain in his heart, seeing the scene in front of him, it was nothing more than that there was no longer room for bargaining, so let's join it honestly, is it difficult to live a long time?

Cao Zhe's face was a little ugly.

Liang and Shu belong to two countries, even if the Liang army has shown absolute strength after the victory of Yiguan, the recovery of Guanzhong and the victory of Fanchuan River, but before Cao Zhe sent Luoyang this time, everyone in Shu still wanted to maintain independence, and at most they would pay tribute to Liang.

In half an hour, the will and intention of the enemy army to try to resist were completely defeated, and the military fortress guarded by 6,000 elite soldiers was completely captured in one hour.

In half a day, more than 3,5600 enemy soldiers were killed, more than 1,000 prisoners were captured, and less than 1,000 enemy soldiers fled eastward, while the casualties of the Liang army may not exceed 100 people.

Even if it's 6,000 pigs, it's not that easy to kill!

It was a total one-sided massacre!

Before such a big killing, did Shu still have the qualifications to refuse the unification of the world and retain the status of a vassal state?

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"At first glance, the Liang Army's new weapon is just an ordinary cast iron long pipe, and when it is launched, the fire erupts, the thunder explodes, and the iron pellets the size of fists or sea bowls shoot out, and the masonry cracks suddenly, the flesh and blood cannot be stopped, and the armor is also torn apart!"

Na Heyan Yun led the remnants of the army to retreat to the north of Heishiao for rectification, and Naheyan Zhen entered the camp of Heishiao with several horsemen at noon, and rushed to see the main general Wusu Zongshu here.

When he talked about the situation of the fiasco in Yangwuyu, he was unwilling in his heart, his expression was hideous, and his eyes were about to split, but when he thought of the salvo of artillery, he couldn't suppress the trembling in his heart, and when he spoke, his hands and feet couldn't help but tremble slightly.

It was like a nightmare, from which he hadn't woken up yet.

Zong Shu frowned, his expression was solemn, although several generals under his command were very disdainful of Na Heyan Zhen's performance at this time, and felt that Na Heyan Zhen was too exaggerated, but he knew that Na Heyan Zhen was not a cowardly person.

The six thousand elites defended the danger, and in less than half a day, they were killed by the Liang army and almost wiped out!

What kind of terrifying weapon is Liang Junxin's use?

"How do you stop it?" Zongshu's face was like a jujube, and he asked in a deep voice.

"Flesh and blood are unstoppable, and the lonely village is even more undefendable," Na Heyanzhen muttered, "You should immediately abandon this place and retreat to the wilderness and snow fields east of Jinquan Mountain. This kind of weapon is made of cast iron, which is quite cumbersome, and it must be slow to be dragged through the snow fields by military horses instead of the existing post roads! ”

"General Yan Zhen, do you know that fleeing without a fight is a crime of death without forgiveness?" Na Heyan really suffered a defeat, not to mention, he actually ran over to persuade them to abandon the camp and flee north, and someone reminded him dissatisfied.

Zong Shu glared at the general who was talking nonsense, and asked Na Yan Zhendao: "Can you fight with the Liang army if you deploy soldiers and horses outside the village?" ”

"If the cavalry can't avoid the direction of the Liang army's new weapons, don't charge in a dense array!" Na He Yanzhen tried his best to suppress the fear in his heart, recalling the many situations when Yang Wuyu was bombarded, and said, "In addition to the power of the iron pill piercing through more than a dozen people and horses, it can even bounce up many times after touching the ground, the array is too dense, and when it is bombarded, it is often eroded, and the generals are terrified, and they can't ......fight anymore."

It is necessary to attack in a roundabout way, and to avoid dense charges as much as possible......

Tens of thousands of Liang troops were surging towards Heishiao, and Wusu Zongshu quickly summed up several key points of contact and battle with the Liang army from Na Yanzhen's fairly organized words, and the generals immediately conveyed it, and immediately pulled the 4,000 cavalry out of the camp and pulled them to the open area east of Heishiao to set up a formation.

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"The Mughung general is really not bad, he hasn't been killed yet!"

Li Yan restrained his horse, stood side by side with Su Lie, and looked at the Mongolian cavalry troops in the north, as if the dragons in the snow were scattered in all directions, and the six thousand defenders of Yangwuyu were almost wiped out by them in less than half a day.

The enemy generals at Heishiao not only had the courage to go out of the camp to fight, but seeing their cavalry leave the camp and enter the open area and disperse in formation, it can be seen that they have already summed up their initial experience in dealing with smoothbore artillery bombardment in such a short period of time.

It is said that the Muguls are brave and good at fighting, and this moment is even more impressive.

"Over the years, the Muguls have not stopped fighting in the south and the north, there are many experienced generals and military attaches in the army, and the clansmen are also brave and good at fighting, but after this battle, it can almost fundamentally destroy its will!" Su Lie said indifferently.

Su Lie can be said to be from an old-style clan of lords, and he joined forces with Han Donghu to secretly recruit the Chishan army to launch a rebellion against Fuyu Mountain, but Han Qian stopped him, and since then he has been attached to Xuzhou, and it has been thirteen years now.

In the past thirteen years, he has also grown from the leader of the Chishan Society to a senior general at the level of the deputy capital of Daliang, and he has also cultivated absolute self-confidence in the southern and northern wars.

If you want to say regret, that is, he was proud of himself with a double halberd in his early years, and in recent years, he has no chance to take the lead and charge into battle, and when the single soldier ambushes the fire crossbow into actual combat, there is probably no chance for personal martial arts to show on the battlefield, right?

He also acknowledged that the Mughal soldiers and civilians were extremely brave and adaptable, but this did not reverse their doomed defeat.

Chen Kun sat on horseback and looked into the distance, watching nearly 4,000 enemy cavalry come out of the enemy camp in several teams, while also occupying the wilderness to the east as much as possible.

To the west of Black Rock Pass, there is a trail that passes through Elephant Trunk Ridge and connects the east and west wings of Elephant Trunk Ridge.

According to the current situation, and considering the mobility of the enemy's cavalry in the open snow, Chen Kun thought that they should give up the idea of completely annihilating the enemy at Heishigao, and instead ensure that they would first capture the enemy camp at Heishiao, and then build a defense according to the extension of the Elephant Trunk Ridge to the east, so as to completely seal the gap between the Elephant Trunk Ridge and the Ducheng Ridge for about 178 miles.

Only in this way can we completely annihilate the nearly 200,000 Mughur soldiers and civilians in Zezhou and truly realize the operational intention of completely defeating the Muguls in one battle.

Li Xiu stayed in Yangwuyu to preside over the overall situation of the battlefield on the northern front, and the forward soldiers and horses advancing to the enemy camp in Heishiao were led by Su Lie, Chen Kun, and Li Yan.

The enemy cavalry used a scattered charge formation, intending to outflank and reduce the casualties of the artillery to the dense formation, but in addition to the smoothbore guns, the soldiers and horses of the girder soldiers and horses fought in tandem with the elite soldiers and horses, and were not afraid of the enemy's cavalry in the open wilderness.

Su Lie, Chen Kun, Li Yan and others adjusted their combat plans in a timely manner, and decided to disperse a dense array of infantry and cavalry to the flanks to guard and cover the main force of the artillery brigade to unswervingly advance to the enemy camp in Heishi'ao, so as to ensure that the enemy's battalion in Heishi'ao, which was only defended by 2,000 infantry soldiers, would be destroyed and captured before dark.

Although the enemy army at Heishi Pass had a good will to fight and pulled the cavalry troops out of the camp in advance, its cavalry troops were only more than 4,000 people.

Before the reinforcements arrived, Su Lie, Chen Kun, and Li Yan left 2,000 elites on the southeast side of the east entrance of Yangwuyu as flank guards and horses to intercept enemy reinforcements that might go north from the eastern foot of Changyuan Mountain, and at the same time led a total of more than 12,000 infantry cavalry and artillery troops, like a raging river, along the Elephant Trunk Ridge to the north, and were not afraid that the enemy cavalry would dare to entangle and engage in a melee battle.

The enemy's cavalry frequently launched from the flank, doing everything possible to contain it, which greatly slowed down the advance of the forward soldiers and horses, but out of the east entrance of Yangwuyu, along the Elephant Trunk Ridge to the north, only thirteen miles away was the enemy camp at Heishi Pass.

Two battalions of light and heavy breech guns, totaling 36 bottles, were escorted by 2,000 armor guards and entered the predetermined position at 2 o'clock in time to launch an artillery bombardment of the enemy camp at the high ground of Heishi's Col.

The Mongolian army reinforced the soldiers and horses, even if it opened the passage to the south to meet the northward retreat of the Jincheng army and civilians, in a hurry, they could only use the camps abandoned by the Liang army along the way to set up camp and fortify, and then strengthen the defense because of the simplicity.

These camps are extremely cramped, due to the inconvenience of the transfer of heavy cyclone cannons - after all, it is difficult to move the whole body of heavy cyclone cannons, which are often three or four feet high, and even if the parts are assembled directly before arriving at the enemy camp, the situation on the perimeter of the enemy camp needs to be completely controlled first.

Therefore, as far as short-term stay is concerned, the camp is narrow, which is not a fatal weakness.

However, in the face of smoothbore guns, the narrow but large garrison camp is too old.

There was no weapon in the enemy village that could be used to counter, and the enemy army had no deployment of solid bombardment before the war - for example, digging more trenches and potholes that could hide people, piling up a layer of thick soil on the top of the barracks, reinforcing the interior with wood, and covering the outside of the wall with thick clay as much as possible to attract the impact of artillery shells and prevent masonry from splashing and injuring people, etc., all of which directly determined the stubborn resistance of Usu Zongshu in the corner of Heishi Pass, which could not support much time at all.

Thirty-six light and heavy smoothbore guns were deployed in the open area between 1,200 and 1,500 paces in front of the enemy camp, and the left and right cavalry relied on heavy shields and crossbows and hundreds of chariots to form a formation to escort them.

Every quarter of an hour, there is a salvo; Every four rounds of salvos are suspended for a while.

Half an hour later, the wall built with stones on the south side of the Black Stone Pass was blown down into a huge gap. The vast majority of casualties among the enemy soldiers on the wall were caused by the splashing of stones shattered by solid bullets.

The enemy guards in the camp had no experience in guarding against and dodging solid bullets, and their vision was blocked by the wall, and the casualties were even more tragic.

With the bravery and ferocity of the Mongolian army, if the two thousand infantry armor fought in a regular and familiar battle, resulting in four or five hundred casualties, they might still be able to grit their teeth and not collapse their morale.

However, under the intensive artillery bombardment that they were not familiar with, in such a short period of time, even most of the soldiers did not see the faces of the generals of the Liang army on the other side, which killed more than 20% of the troops, how could this battle be fought?

The only thing they are lucky for is probably that the Heishiao Village faces the mountain, and there are passages in the north and east to escape from it, so that there are almost three or four thousand defenders in Yangwuyu who are directly annihilated in the village......