Chapter 456 Siege on three sides
Despite all the arrangements made by Liu Renyu, only two or three minutes had passed, and at this time, the chariot unit of the Jingbianbao Army had already stopped its own chariots, and the artillerymen were nervously loading gunpowder and shells, preparing to bombard the enemy with artillery.
At this time, the distance between the chariots has been stretched wide, and the artillery fire will definitely not have the effect of dense fire, but as long as the cannon can sound, it can still have the effect of killing the enemy.
In addition to the cannons, Li Jiye also pulled a lot of fire guns under Wang Zuohang's men and archers under Zhang Tieniu's hands to help.
The musketeers and archers stood on the roof of the chariot as instructed, staring at the enemy, ready to attack. Li Jiye was not enough to bring in musketeers and archers, and he specially ordered his own artillery to abandon the artillery as long as they found that the enemy was approaching, and instead bombarded the enemy army at close range with 10,000 enemies.
Li Jiye was concentrating on how to maximize the combat effectiveness of his own tank troops, while Liu Renyu wanted to supplement the formation, and there were still many gaps between the next tanks.
"Renjie, go and tell the baggage soldiers, let them drive the baggage wagons between the chariots, and fill the gaps between the chariots." Liu Renyu ordered at Liu Renjie.
"Yes, Marshal." Liu Renjie got the order, so he went to pass the order again.
"Desheng, your troops and horses block the entrance of our army's formation, place the horses, sprinkle the iron thistle, and you guard the front." Liu Renyu ordered at Yang Desheng.
"Yes, Marshal." Yang Desheng took the order and left.
"Where's the left hanging?" Liu Renyu called out loudly.
"The end will be." Wang Zuohang replied loudly.
"At present, the enemy army is mainly attacking the left and right flanks and the rear of our army, and the pressure on the front is not great, so I specially order you to bring firearms to defend the two flanks." Liu Renyu ordered.
"Yes, Marshal." Wang Zuo took the order and left.
"Where's the Iron Bull?" Liu Renyu called.
"Tie Niu is here," Zhang Tie Niu replied.
"Ask your men and horses to assist the artillery in defending the left and right flanks, and shoot the enemy fiercely, do you understand?" Liu Renyu said solemnly.
"Don't worry, as long as the archers of the Iron Bull are there, only prisoners or corpses can come in." Zhang Tieniu responded arrogantly.
"Ha, if it's really as you said, what's the use of other troops, it's just that, I appreciate your heroic appearance, you go." Liu Renyu smiled at Zhang Tieniu and smiled.
"Yes, Marshal." Zhang Tieniu bowed, and then led his men and horses to run onto the chariots on both wings, preparing to defend the Chahar army that was about to attack.
When Liu Renyu stopped all the arrangements, the Chahar troops and horses were already approaching!
"Damn, in the blink of an eye, the north is only a hundred steps away from us, I'm afraid that we can only shoot a few cannons, forget it, pass the order, bomb a cannon, the artillery seals the splint, ready to throw 10,000 enemies, and then use the fire gun to fight." Li Jiye gave orders to his own side.
"Yes, General Lee." When the herald received the order, he waved the command flag and gave repeated orders to the chariots everywhere.
When the commander of each chariot received the order, he directed the artillery in his chariot to aim at the enemy and open fire.
At this time, the Chahar cavalry was charging rapidly according to the orders of Lin Dan Khan, so as to receive as little artillery fire as possible from the Ming army, and then rushed into the Ming army through the gap between the chariots.
I saw Huluk and Tashhai each with 20,000 people, rushing straight towards the Ming army.
"Ready, fire." The commander of a chariot of the Jingbianbao Army saw that the soldiers and horses in the north were relatively dense, and he did not aim anymore, as long as he made sure that he could hit the enemy, he ordered the artillery to be fired.
The artillerymen of the Jingbian Fort Army received the order and immediately ignited the fire rope with torches, which burned out at a speed visible to the naked eye, and then with a bang, the shells shot out and went straight into the enemy array.
The iron projectile rushed straight towards the Chahar cavalry with huge kinetic energy, and everywhere they went, the Chahar cavalry, whether men or horses, were torn apart, and their limbs flew sideways.
The mystery of Franco's point is that the guns can be fired one after another, and the artillerymen of the Jingbianbao Army, who are usually trained, were stunned to fire a full four cannons before the Chahar cavalry approached.
More than 400 artillery pieces, firing four cannons in a row, what a mighty way it was, and everywhere its shells went, it set off a bloody storm and tore all the creatures in the trajectory to pieces.
The power of the cannon is so powerful. Fortunately, at this time, the cavalry of the Chahar Department was not far from the chariot formation of the Jingbianbao army, only sixty paces away, and the artillerymen felt that this distance was already a little close, so they hurriedly dragged the cannon into the chariot and sealed all the splints.
"Brothers, put on your armor and prepare to go out and throw ten thousand enemies." The commander of the chariot stood on the roof of the chariot and shouted at his brothers through the staircase.
"Yes, Captain." When the artillerymen received the order, they helped each other, put on their armor, and then each carried two thousand enemies and prepared to go up and drop bombs.
When the cannon is fired, it is artillery, and when the cannon is not fired, it is a grenadier.
Besides, those cavalry of the Chahar Department were easily subjected to the shelling of the Jingbian Fort Army, and they waited for the shooting of the archers of the Jingbian Fort Army.
I saw some of the archers under Zhang Tieniu's command pulling the bowstring and sending out a series of feather arrows in their hands.
You must know that the archers of the Jingbian Fort Army are first-class strong soldiers who have been trained in hell for a long time, and the tradition of only three arrows in the face of the enemy is not applicable to them, even the worst archers of the Jingbian Fort Army can also use the standard one-stone strong bow in the army to release more than ten feather arrows. A natural marksman like Fan Ambition, firing ten arrows in a row is just the beginning.
The super attack power of the archers of the Jingbian Fort Army is reflected in the reality that the heads of the cavalry of the Chahar Division seem to have a dense rain of arrows, which is really impenetrable, and there are few cavalry of the Chahar Department within the range of the arrow rain who do not hit the arrow.
The Jingbian Fort army is good at shooting, but the Mongols in the Chahar Department are not vegetarians, they have always been famous for their mounted archery, and when they encounter such a situation, they will of course fight back.
That is, in the blink of an eye, the cavalry of the Chahar Department immediately attacked the Jingbian Fort army with rockets and feather arrows.
This arrow flew all over the sky, and when it met the Ming army, it was naturally mostly blocked by thick armor, if there was a rocket piercing the baggage carriage, or the chariot, there were idle baggage soldiers carrying buckets to extinguish the fire.
The cavalry of the Chahar Department and the Jingbian Fort Army fought for a while, and naturally the Jingbianbao Army wearing heavy armor had the advantage, while on the side of the Chahar cavalry, except for the Chinese army led by Lin Dan Khan himself, which was protected by iron armor and had fewer casualties, the casualties of the remaining tens of thousands of soldiers and horses were far more than those of the Ming army.
After paying a large number of casualties, the cavalry of the Chahar Department had rushed close to the distance of 20 paces of the Ming army, and when they arrived here, the archers of the Jingbianbao army began to shoot freely according to their own abilities, and those with insufficient arm strength went down first to accumulate strength, preparing to release a few more arrows after a while, and those who still had strength continued to shoot at the Chahar army.
At this time, the Jingbian Fort arms stood up to take over the battle.
"Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang" The sound of fried bean-like gunfire rang out one after another, lead bullets flew sideways, and the Chahar army was covered with holes, and tens of millions of drops of blood were spilled.
The chariot was so small that the three-section shots could not be extended, so the musketeers only fired a single shot and then retreated to make room for the grenadiers.
The Chahar soldiers were about to dismount and rush into the enemy's formation, but they did not expect that the Ming army still had grenadiers.
Li Jiye's artillerymen set fire to 10,000 enemies, and then threw them into the crowd of Chahar troops who were pouring in like a tide.
"Ten thousand enemies .......!"
Frightened cries followed.
Boom
The sound of explosions sounded everywhere on the battlefield, and a large number of iron nails and steel balls among the 10,000 enemies flew everywhere, hitting people, all of them brought a burst of blood mist and a big black hole, even the Jingbian Fort Army's own chariots were also damaged by the pond fish, and were hit by several holes in the iron nails and steel balls.
Fortunately, at this time, all the artillery had already climbed onto the roof of the chariot, and there were no Jingbian Fort troops in it, so no one was injured or killed by their own weapons.
As soon as the 10,000 enemies came out, a buffer zone was immediately cleared between the Jingbianbao chariot and the Chahar army, and the Mongols in this buffer zone were either dead or wounded, stumps and broken arms could be seen everywhere, and the red blood almost gathered into a stream.
It was so miserable that before touching the edge of the Ming army's formation, hundreds of people were killed and wounded.
Lin Dan Khan's eyes were broken!
"Sure enough, it's a bit powerful, if this strong army has been in Shaanxi, my Chahar Department can have a way to live, Gui Yingcha, the left and right wings have been warned, and the attention of the enemy army has been attracted to the two wings, you take the strongest army of my Chahar Department, attack with all your might, only fight the middle army of the Ming army, if you can kill Hong Chengchou, even if this army can't be taken by our army, the Emperor of the Ming Kingdom will kill the generals of this army, do you understand?" Lin Dan Khan said to Guiying.
"Great Khan, you are relieved, I will definitely bring the head of Hong Chengchou to you." Guiying just got the order, so he took his 6,000 ironclad soldiers to only fight the Jingbianbao army and the Guyuan army and left.
The artillery of the Jingbianbao Army each threw out 20,000 enemies, and even if the task was completed, they immediately retreated, took the arquebuses issued to them by Liu Renyu, and began to reload, ready to shoot at the enemy.
The artillerymen of Jingbian Fort usually mainly train how to improve the speed and accuracy of firing artillery, but in order to cope with such close combat situations, sometimes they also have to practice firearms, although the speed and accuracy of their guns are not as good as the professional firecrackers of Wang Zuohang's department, but they are also better than the ordinary Ming army.
When the artillery of the Jingbianbao army went to reload their guns, the guns of Wang Zuojiao's headquarters, which had retreated before, had already loaded their ammunition, and after the artillery retreated, they immediately filled the gaps in the artillery and attacked the Chahar army with dense firepower.
The power of the guns was still far from being able to catch up with the 10,000 enemies, and the Chahar army was forced to assault the enemy's military formation under the fire of the Jingbian Fort troops.
The Chahar army had already seen clearly that although there was a large gap between the enemy's chariots, they were all filled by other carriages, and the horses could not rush in at all, and even if they rushed in, in such a small space, where there was a place to move and move, they naturally dismounted and attacked on foot.
The chariot of the Jingbianbao army was three meters high, and it was difficult to climb up, but the baggage carriage was only about one meter eight, and the bounced Chahar army could jump up as much as possible.
After a short time, the Chahar army poured into the military formations of the Jingbianbao army and the Guyuan army from the gaps on the left and right flanks like a tide.
The time has come for hand-to-hand combat.
After the last shot was fired, the firecracker inserted his sword into the mouth of the firebolt and tightened it, and then shouted and raised his gun to kill the Chahar army.
After resting for a while and recuperating their strength, the archers continued to shoot at the enemy with their feathered arrows.
In a short period of time, there were more and more Chahar troops, and all the firearms of Wang Zuohang's department had already met them, and on the archers' side, except for a few sharpshooters such as Fan Xiongxin, the rest of the archers also drew their Yanling knives and threw themselves into the battle.
"There are more and more enemy troops on both flanks, Renjie, General Li, the cavalry of the two of you will immediately join the battle group and block the enemy troops on the left and right flanks." Seeing that the pressure on the left and right wings was huge, Liu Renyu and Li Mingzhe ordered Liu Renyu and Li Mingzhe to lead troops to help the two wings.
"Yes, Marshal." Liu Renjie and Li Mingzhe received the order, so they each took their subordinates, abandoned their horses, and dismounted to fight.
"Hey, the strong army led by Lin Dan Khan has not yet attacked, it seems that he wants to wait until the two wings of our army are in an emergency before attacking the rear of our army, so that I can calculate, I will meet you with the pikemen with the most rigorous training and the strongest combat effectiveness, so that you can know what despair is." Liu Renyu looked at Ke Zhihong's flag on the hot air balloon and said with a smile.